BY JOHN KEATS:-- Ode to a Nightingale 83 From The Eve of St. Agnes 87 BY ROBERT BURNS:-- The Cotter's Saturday Night 97 To a Mountain Daisy 107 For a' that and a' that 109 BY WILLIAM COWPER:-- Boadicea 113 On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture 115 Epitaph on a Hare 120 BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH:-- The Village Parson 124 The Village Schoolmaster 125 BY THOMAS GRAY:-- The Bard 129 BY ALEXANDER POPE:-- From the Essay on Criticism 141 Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 147 BY JOHN DRYDEN:-- Alexander's Feast 159 The Fire of London 169 Reason and Religion 174 BY JOHN MILTON:-- On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 177 Wordsworth's Sonnet to Milton 196 BY ROBERT HERRICK:-- To Phillis 197 The Mad Maid's Song 199 A Thanksgiving to God 200 BY EDMUND WALLER:-- Song: Go, lovely Rose 203 Of English Verse 204 On a Girdle 205 BY BEN JONSON:-- An Ode to Himself 207 To Cynthia 209 To the Memory of William Shakespeare 210 Herrick's Ode for Ben Jonson 214 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:-- Venus's Advice to Adonis on Hunting 217 A Morning Song for Imogen 219 Sigh no more, Ladies 220 Sunshine and Cloud (Sonnet xxxiii.) 220 The World's Way (Sonnet lxvi.) 221 BY EDMUND SPENSER:-- The Cave of Mammon 223 Prothalamion; or, a Spousall Verse 235 BY THOMAS WYATT:-- A Love Song 247 The Courtier's Life 248 BY THE EARL OF SURREY:-- From Virgil's Æneid 249 Sonnet: Geraldine 250 On the Death of Sir Thomas Wyatt 251