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Thomas Flatman
- Close sectionPoems and Songs
- On the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory
- To the Memory of the Incomparable Orinda
- The Review
- To my Reverent Friend, Dr. Sam Woodford, On his Excellent Version of the Psalms
- On the Death of the truly valiant George Duke of Albemarle
- The Retirement
- Translated out of a Part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon
- A Thought of Death
- Psalm xxxix. Verse. 4, 5
- Hymn for the Morning
- Anthem for the Evening
- Death
- The Happy Man
- On Mr. Johnson's Several Shipwrecks
- An Explanation of an Emblem Engraven by V. H.
- For Thoughts
- Against Thoughts
- A Dooms-Day Thought
- Virtus sola manet, caetera mortis erunt
- Translated
- Psalm xv. Paraphrased
- Job
- Nudus Redibo
- An Elegy on the Earl of Sandwich
- An Epitaph on the Earl of Sandwich
- Pastoral
- On the Death of Mr. Pelham Humfries
- The Mistake
- The Incredulous
- Weeping at Parting
- The Desperate Lover
- The Fatigue
- The Resolve
- Love's Bravo
- The Expectation
- Coridon Converted
- The Humorist
- Fading Beauty
- A Dialogue
- A Dialogue
- The Bachelor's Song
- The Second Part
- An Appeal to Cats in the business of Love
- Advice to an Old Man of sixty-three, about to Marry a Girl of sixteen
- The Slight
- The Penitent
- The Defiance
- The Surrender
- The Whim
- The Renegdao
- Phyllis withdrawn
- The Malcontent
- The Indifferent
- The Harbour
- The Unconcerned
- The Immovable
- The Wish
- The Cordial. in the year 1657
- Celadon on Delia singing
- The Advice
- To Mr. Sam. Austin of Wadham Coll. Oxon, On his most unintelligible Poems
- To my ingenious Friend Mr. William Faithorne on his Book of Drawing, Etching, and Engraving
- On the Commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc
- A Character of a Belly-God
- The Disappointed
- On Mrs. E. Montague's Blushing in the Cross-Bath
- Il Infido
- Il Immaturo
- On Mrs. Dove, Wife to the Reverend Dr. Henry Dove
- Lucretius
- Paraphrased
- On the Eminent Dr. Edward Browne's Travels
- On Poverty
- Urania to her Friend Parthenissa
- On the Death of the Earl of Rochester
- In obitum illustrissimi ingeniosissimique Joannis, Coitis Roffensis,
- On Dr. Woodford's Paraphrase on the Canticles
- Laodamia to Protesilanus
- To the Excellent Master of Music, Siginor Pietro Reggio, on His Book of Songs
- Epitaph on the Incomparable Sir John King in the Temple-Church
- On the Death of my dear Brother Mr. Richard Flatman
- Coridon on the death of his dear Alexis, ob. Jan 28, 1682/3
- A Song on New-Year's-day before the King, Car. 2.
- On the King's return to White-hall, after his Summer's Progress, 1684
- To Mr. Isaac Walton, on his Publication of Thealma
- Pastoral Dialogue
- Castabella Going to Sea
- On the Death of my worthy friend Mr. John Oldham
- On Sir John Micklethwaite's Monument
- Heic Juxta Jacet Thomas Rock Armg. Salopiensis, Vitâ Functus Januarii 3. Aetat. 62. 1678. En Lector!
- On the Death of the Illustrious Prince Rupert
- Poema in Obitum Illustrissimi Principis Ruperti
- On the much lamented Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles II. of Blessed Memory
- To His Sacred Majesty King James II
- Close sectionOdes of Horace
- Book II. Ode XIX. Being Half Foxed He Praiseth Bacchus
- Book III. Ode VIII. to Maecenas
- Book III. Ode IX. Horace and Lydia
- Book III. Ode XII
- Book III. Ode XVII. to Aelius Lamia
- Book III. Ode XIX. to Telephus
- Book III. Ode XX. to Pyrrhus
- Book III. Ode XXI. to His Wine-Vessels
- Book III. Ode XXII. Upon Diana
- Book III. Ode III. to Venus
- Book IV. Ode I. to Venus
- Book IV. Ode X. to Ligurinus, a beauteous Youth
- Book IV. Ode XI. to Phyllis
- Epode III. to Maecenas
- Epode VI. Against Cassius Severus, a revileful and wanton Poet
- Epode X. Against Maevius, a Poet
- Epode XI. to Pettius his Chamber-fellow
- Epode XV. to his Sweetheart Neaera
- Epode XVII. to Canidia
- Canidia's Answer
- Close sectionPoems not included in the Editions of 1682 but added in reissue of 1686
- Upon a Chine of Beef
- On the Death of the Eminently Ennboled Charles Capell, Esq.;
- On the Picture of the Author, Mr. Sanderson
- On the noble Art of Painting
- On Mistress S.W., who cured my hand by a plaster applied to the knife which hurt me
- Song.
- Epitaph on his eldest Son, Thomas, 1682
- Lines to John Northleigh
- Lines to Archbishop Sancroft
- On the Death of His Grace, James, Duke of Ormond: A Pindaric Ode
- Job, Chapter xxVII. Paraphrased
George Saintsbury (ed.), Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol. 3: John Cleveland, Thomas Stanley, Henry King, Thomas Flatman, Nathaniel Whiting
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Facsimile frontispieces
- INTRODUCTION TO JOHN CLEVELAND.
- CONTENTS
- Further
- Close sectionPoems
- To the State of Love
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress
- Upon Sir Thomas Martin
- On the memory of Mr. Edward King, drowned in the Irish Seas
- Upon a Hermaphrodite
- Th Author's Hermaphrodite (Made after Mr. Randolph's death, yet inserted into his Poems.)
- To the Hectors
- Square-Cap
- Upon Phillis walking in a morning before sun-rising
- Upon a Miser that made a great feast, and the next day died for grief
- A Young Man to an Old Woman courting him
- Stay, should I answer, Lady, then
- A Fair Nymph scorning a Black Boy
- A Dialogue between two Zealots upon the &c. in the Oath
- Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines
- The Mixed Assembly
- The King's Disguise
- The Rebel Scot
- The Scot's Apostasy
- Rupertismus
- Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford
- An Elegy upon the Archbishop of Canterbury
- On I. W. A. B. of York
- Mark Antony
- The Author's Mock Song to Mark Antony
- How the Commencement grows new
- The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbyter
- The Antiplatonic
- Nature's Confectioner, the Bee
- An Elegy upon Doctor Chadderton, the first Master of Emanuel College in Cambridge
- Mary's Spikenard
- To Julia to expedite her Promise
- Poems in 1677 but not in 1653.
- Upon Princess Elizabeth
- The General Eclipse
- Upon the King's Return from Scotland
- Poems certainly or almost certainly Cleveland's but not included in 1653 or 1677.
- An Elegy on Ben Jonson
- News from Newcastle: Upon the Coal-pits about Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- An Elegy upon King Charles the First
- Facsimile frontispieces
- INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS STANLEY
- Close sectionPoems not printed after 1647
- Close sectionPoems printed in 1647 and reprinted in 1656 but not in 1651
- Close section1651 Poems
- The Dedication
- The Glow-worm
- The Breath
- Desiring her to burn his Verses
- The Night
- Excuse for wishing her less Fair
- Changed, yet Constant
- The Self-deceiver
- The Cure
- Celia Singing
- A la Mesme
- The Return
- Song.
- The Sick Lover
- Song.
- Song.
- Delay
- Commanded by his Mistress to woo for her
- The Repulse
- The Tomb
- The Enjoyment
- To Celia Pleading Want of Merit
- Love's Innocence
- The Bracelet
- The Kiss
- Apollo and Daphne
- Speaking and Kissing
- The Snow-ball
- The Deposition
- To his Mistress in Absence
- Love's Heretic
- La Belle Confidente
- La Belle Ennemie
- The Dream
- To the Lady D.
- Love Deposed
- The Divorce
- Time Recovered
- The Bracelet
- The Farewell
- Claim to Love
- To his Mistress, who dreamed he was wounded (Guarini)
- The Exchange
- Unaltered by Sickness
- On his Mistress's Death
- The Exequies
- The Silkworm
- A Lady Weeping
- Ambition
- Song.
- The Revenge
- Song.
- Song.
- To a Blind Man in love
- Answer
- Song.
- The Loss
- The Self-Cruel
- Song.
- Answer
- The Relapse
- To the Countess of S. with the Holy Court
- Song.
- Drawn for Valentine by the L. D. S.
- The Modest Wish
- E Catalectis Veterum Poetarum
- On the Edition of Mr. Fletcher's Works
- To Mr. W. Hammond
- On Mr. Shirley's Poems
- On Mr. Sherburn's Translation of Seneca's Medea, and Vindication of the Author
- On Mr. Hall's Essays
- On Sir John Suckling his Picture and Poems
- The Union
- The Union: the Answer
- Pythagoras, his Moral Rules
- Close sectionPoems only appearing in the Edition of 1656
- Facsimile frontispiece
- INTRODUCTION TO HENRY KING.
- Table of Contents.
- The Publishers to the Author.
- Close sectionPoems, Elegies, Paradoxes and Sonnets
- Sonnet. The Double Rock
- The Vow-Breaker
- Upon a Table-Book presented to a Lady
- To the same Lady upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy
- The Farewell
- A Blackmoor Maid wooing a fair Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds
- The Boy's Answer to the Blackmoor
- To a Friend upon Overbury's Wife given to her
- Upon the same
- To A. R. upon the same
- An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone
- Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet. To Patience.
- Silence. A Sonnet.
- Love's Harvest
- The Forlorn Hope
- The Retreat
- Tell me, you stars that our affections move. Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- Sonnet
- To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed
- To his Friends of Christ Church upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Arts acted at Woodstock
- The Surrender
- The Legacy
- The Short Wooing
- St. Valentine's Day
- To his unconstant Friend
- Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favour'd Choice
- The Defence
- To One demanding why Wine sparkles
- By occasion of the Young Prince his happy Birth
- Upon the King's happy return from Scotland
- To the Queen at Oxford
- A Salutation of His Majesty's ship The Sovereign
- An Epitaph on his most honoured friend, Richard, Earl of Dorset
- The Exequy
- The Anniversary. An Elegy
- On Two Children, dying of one disease, and buried in one grave
- A Letter
- An Acknowledgement
- The Acquittance
- The Forfeiture
- The Departure. An Elegy.
- Paradox
- Paradox
- The Change
- To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry
- An Elegy upon the immature loss of the most vertuous Lady Anne Rich
- An Elegy upon Mrs. Kirk, unfortunately drowned in the Thames
- An Elegy upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt
- To my dead friend Ben Jonson
- An Elegy upon Prince Henry's death
- An Elgey upon S. W. R.
- An Elegy upon the L. Bishop of London, John King
- Upon the death of my ever desired friend, Doctor Donne, Dean of Paul's
- An Elegy upon the most victorious King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus
- To my Noble and Judicious Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage
- To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys
- The Woes of Esay
- An Essay on Death and a Prison
- The Labyrinth
- Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of candle which offended me, I thus thought
- Sic Vita
- My Midnight Meditation
- A Penitential Hymn
- An Elegy occasioned by Sickness
- The Dirge
- An Elegy, occasioned by the loss of the most incomparable Lady Stanhope, daughter to the Earl of Northumberland
- Close sectionPoems not included in the Edition of 1657 but added in reissue of 1664
- Close sectionPoems in Manuscript
- Facsimile frontispiece
- INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS FLATMAN.
- Facsimile frontispiece
- To the Reader.
- Commendatory poems
- The Contents.
- Close sectionPoems and Songs
- On the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory
- To the Memory of the Incomparable Orinda
- The Review
- To my Reverent Friend, Dr. Sam Woodford, On his Excellent Version of the Psalms
- On the Death of the truly valiant George Duke of Albemarle
- The Retirement
- Translated out of a Part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon
- A Thought of Death
- Psalm xxxix. Verse. 4, 5
- Hymn for the Morning
- Anthem for the Evening
- Death
- The Happy Man
- On Mr. Johnson's Several Shipwrecks
- An Explanation of an Emblem Engraven by V. H.
- For Thoughts
- Against Thoughts
- A Dooms-Day Thought
- Virtus sola manet, caetera mortis erunt
- Translated
- Psalm xv. Paraphrased
- Job
- Nudus Redibo
- An Elegy on the Earl of Sandwich
- An Epitaph on the Earl of Sandwich
- Pastoral
- On the Death of Mr. Pelham Humfries
- The Mistake
- The Incredulous
- Weeping at Parting
- The Desperate Lover
- The Fatigue
- The Resolve
- Love's Bravo
- The Expectation
- Coridon Converted
- The Humorist
- Fading Beauty
- A Dialogue
- A Dialogue
- The Bachelor's Song
- The Second Part
- An Appeal to Cats in the business of Love
- Advice to an Old Man of sixty-three, about to Marry a Girl of sixteen
- The Slight
- The Penitent
- The Defiance
- The Surrender
- The Whim
- The Renegdao
- Phyllis withdrawn
- The Malcontent
- The Indifferent
- The Harbour
- The Unconcerned
- The Immovable
- The Wish
- The Cordial. in the year 1657
- Celadon on Delia singing
- The Advice
- To Mr. Sam. Austin of Wadham Coll. Oxon, On his most unintelligible Poems
- To my ingenious Friend Mr. William Faithorne on his Book of Drawing, Etching, and Engraving
- On the Commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc
- A Character of a Belly-God
- The Disappointed
- On Mrs. E. Montague's Blushing in the Cross-Bath
- Il Infido
- Il Immaturo
- On Mrs. Dove, Wife to the Reverend Dr. Henry Dove
- Lucretius
- Paraphrased
- On the Eminent Dr. Edward Browne's Travels
- On Poverty
- Urania to her Friend Parthenissa
- On the Death of the Earl of Rochester
- In obitum illustrissimi ingeniosissimique Joannis, Coitis Roffensis,
- On Dr. Woodford's Paraphrase on the Canticles
- Laodamia to Protesilanus
- To the Excellent Master of Music, Siginor Pietro Reggio, on His Book of Songs
- Epitaph on the Incomparable Sir John King in the Temple-Church
- On the Death of my dear Brother Mr. Richard Flatman
- Coridon on the death of his dear Alexis, ob. Jan 28, 1682/3
- A Song on New-Year's-day before the King, Car. 2.
- On the King's return to White-hall, after his Summer's Progress, 1684
- To Mr. Isaac Walton, on his Publication of Thealma
- Pastoral Dialogue
- Castabella Going to Sea
- On the Death of my worthy friend Mr. John Oldham
- On Sir John Micklethwaite's Monument
- Heic Juxta Jacet Thomas Rock Armg. Salopiensis, Vitâ Functus Januarii 3. Aetat. 62. 1678. En Lector!
- On the Death of the Illustrious Prince Rupert
- Poema in Obitum Illustrissimi Principis Ruperti
- On the much lamented Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles II. of Blessed Memory
- To His Sacred Majesty King James II
- Close sectionOdes of Horace
- Book II. Ode XIX. Being Half Foxed He Praiseth Bacchus
- Book III. Ode VIII. to Maecenas
- Book III. Ode IX. Horace and Lydia
- Book III. Ode XII
- Book III. Ode XVII. to Aelius Lamia
- Book III. Ode XIX. to Telephus
- Book III. Ode XX. to Pyrrhus
- Book III. Ode XXI. to His Wine-Vessels
- Book III. Ode XXII. Upon Diana
- Book III. Ode III. to Venus
- Book IV. Ode I. to Venus
- Book IV. Ode X. to Ligurinus, a beauteous Youth
- Book IV. Ode XI. to Phyllis
- Epode III. to Maecenas
- Epode VI. Against Cassius Severus, a revileful and wanton Poet
- Epode X. Against Maevius, a Poet
- Epode XI. to Pettius his Chamber-fellow
- Epode XV. to his Sweetheart Neaera
- Epode XVII. to Canidia
- Canidia's Answer
- Close sectionPoems not included in the Editions of 1682 but added in reissue of 1686
- Upon a Chine of Beef
- On the Death of the Eminently Ennboled Charles Capell, Esq.;
- On the Picture of the Author, Mr. Sanderson
- On the noble Art of Painting
- On Mistress S.W., who cured my hand by a plaster applied to the knife which hurt me
- Song.
- Epitaph on his eldest Son, Thomas, 1682
- Lines to John Northleigh
- Lines to Archbishop Sancroft
- On the Death of His Grace, James, Duke of Ormond: A Pindaric Ode
- Job, Chapter xxVII. Paraphrased
- Close sectionThe Pleasing History of Albino and Bellama
- Close section End Matter
