Vorwort
Die englische Lyrik: ein ganz kurzer Überblick

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42)
1 "They flee from me that sometime did me seek"
2 "Who so list to hunt, I know where is an hind"

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47)
3 "The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings"

Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)
4 "When I was fair and young, and favour gracèd me"

Edmund Spenser (1552?-99)
5 "Like as a ship that through the ocean wide"
6 The Faerie Queene (III,6,41-49)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)
7 "With how sad steps, o Moon, thou climb'st the skies"
8 "Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace"
9 "Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust"

Henry Constable (1562-1613)
10 "My lady's presence makes the roses red"

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
11 "Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable night"

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
12 "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part"

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
13 "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow"
14 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
15 "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"
16 "Full many a glorious morning have I seen"
17 "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments"
18 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore"
19 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
20 "They that have power to hurt and will do none"
21 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
22 "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame"
23 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
24 "It was a lover and his lass"
25 "Full fathom five thy father lies"
26 "The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I"

Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
27 Amaryllis
28 Corinna

John Donne (1572-1631)
29 The Sun Rising
30 The Flea
31 "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you"
32 Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
33 To Celia

George Herbert (1593-1633)
34 The Pulley
35 Love III

John Milton (1608-74)
36 Lycidas
37 To the Lord General Cromwell
38 "When I consider how my light is spent"
39 Paradise Lost (I, 1-26)

Richard Crashaw (1613?-49)
40 The Flaming Heart

Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
41 To his Coy Mistress
42 The Garden

John Dryden (1631-1700)
43 A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
44 An Essay on Criticism (I, 68-91)
45 Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation
46 Epitaph. On Mr. Gay. In Westminster-Abbey
47 Epitaph. On Himself

Anonymous
48 Lord Randal
49 Sir Patrick Spens

James Thomson (1700-48)
50 Rule, Britannia!

Thomas Gray (1716-71)
51 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Collins (1721-59)
52 Ode to Evening

William Blake (1757-1827)
53 The Lamb
54 Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence)
55 Holy Thursday (Songs of Experience)
56 The Tyger
57 London

Robert Burns (1759-96)
58 A Red, Red Rose
59 To a Mouse

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
60 "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
61 Resolut