Margaret Ferguson - The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition

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English poetry. 2. American poetry. I. Ferguson, Margaret, W., 1948 II. III. III.

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Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W I T 3QT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Contents M D M O N ' S HYMN (translated by John Pope) 1 From BEOWULF (translated by Seamus Heaney) 2 R I D D L E S (TRANSLATED B Y R I C H A R D H A M E R ) 1 0 1 ("I am a lonely being, scarred by swords") 2 ("My dress is silent when I tread the ground") 10 3 ("A moth ate words; a marvellous event") 11 THE WIFE'S LAMENT (translated by Richard Hamer) 11 THE SEAFARER (translated by Ezra Pound) 12 The Cuckoo Song 15 Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt? 16 Alison 18 Fowls in the Frith 19 I Am of Ireland 19 G E O F F R E Y C H A U C E R (ca. 1343-1400) 19 T H E CANTERBURY T A L E S 1 9 The General Prologue 19 The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 39 T R O I L U S AND C R I S E I D E 6 7 Cantus Troili 67 LYRICS AND O C C A S I O N A L V E R S E 6 8 To Rosamond 68 Truth 69 Complaint to His Purse 69 To His Scribe Adam 70 WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330-ca. 1400) 7 1 Piers Plowman, lines 1111 71 v i / C O N T E N T S PEARL, 1-5 (1375-1400) CHARLES D'ORLEANS (1391-1465) The Smiling Mouth 77 Oft in My Thought 78 A N O N Y M O U S LYRICS O F THE F I F T E E N T H C E N T U R Y Adam Lay I-bounden 79 I Sing of a Maiden 79 Out of Your Sleep Arise and Wake 80 I Have a Young Sister 81 I Have a Gentle Cock 82 Timor Mortis 82 The Corpus Christi Carol 83 Western Wind 84 A Carol of Agincourt 84 The Sacrament of the Altar 85 See! Here, My Heart 86 WILLIAM DUNBAR (ca. 1460-ca. 1517-1547) 137 The Soote Season 137 Love, That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought 137 Wyatt Resteth Here 138 So Cruel Prison 139 ANNE ASKEW (1521-1546) 140 The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate 140 When I Was Fair and Young 142 [The Doubt of Future Foes Exiles My Present Joy] 142 [Ah Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid] 143 And If I Did, What Then? 144 For That He Looked Not upon Her 144 Gascoigne's Lullaby 145 A S W E E T NOSEGAY 1 4 6 A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will 146 From The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing 147 CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE (d. 1586) 1128 [My Prime of Youth Is but a Frost of Cares] 151 v i i i / C O N T E N T S SIR WALTER RALEGH (ca. 1552-1618) 151 A Vision upon the Fairy Queen 151 The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 152 The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage 153 The Lie 154 Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk 156 If Cynthia Be a Queen, a Princess, and Supreme 157 [Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love] 158 E D M U N D S P E N S E R (1552-1599) 159 T H E S H E P H E A R D E S C A L E N D E R 1 5 9 Aprill 159 T H E F A E R I E Q U E E N E 1 6 5 Book 1, Canto 1 166 Book 1, Canto 2 179 A M O R E T T I 1 9 0 Sonnet 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands") 190 Sonnet 8 ("More then most faire, full of the living fire") 190 Sonnet 15 ("Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle") 191 Sonnet 23 ("Penelope for her Ulisses sake") 191 Sonnet 54 ("Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay") 192 Sonnet 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace") 192 Sonnet 68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day") 192 Sonnet 70 ("Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king") 193 Sonnet 71 ("I joy to see how in your drawen work") 193 Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand") 194 Sonnet 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it") 194 Sonnet 81 ("Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares") 194 Sonnet 89 ("Lyke as the Culver on the bared bough") 195 Epithalamion 195 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628) 206 C A E L I C A 2 0 6 4 ("You little stars that live in skies") 206 39 ("The nurse-life wheat within his green husk growing") 206 JOHN LYLY (1554-1606) 207 Cupid and My Campaspe 207 Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary 207 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) 208 Ye Goatherd Gods 208 What Length of Verse? 210 The Nightingale 211 Ring Out Your Bells 212 C O N T E N T S / i x A S T R O P H I L AND S T E L L A 2 1 3 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") 213 14 ("Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend") 213 21 ("Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame") 214 25 ("The wisest scholar of the wight most wise") 214 31 ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies") 214 39 ("Come sleep, Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace") 215 47 ("What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?") 215 48 ("Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me") 216 49 ("I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try") 216 52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love") 216 63 ("O Grammar rules, o now your virtues show") 217 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know") 217 72 ("Desire, though thou my old companion art") 218 Fourth Song ("Only joy, now here you are") 218 Seventh Song ("Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays") 219 90 ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame") 220 107 ("Stella, since thou so right a princess art") 220 GEORGE PEELE (1557-1596) 221 His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned 221 Hot Sun, Cool Fire 221 THOMAS LODGE (1558-1625) 222 Rosalind's Madrigal 222 ROBERT SOUTHWELL (ca. 1561-1595) The Burning Babe 223 New Heaven, New War 223 Psalm 58: Si Were Utique 225 Psalm 114: In Exitu Israel 226 To the Thrice-Sacred Queen Elizabeth 226 D E L I A 2 3 0 1 ("Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty") 230 2 ("Go wailing verse, the infants of my love") 230 6 ("Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair") 231 36 ("But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again") 231 37 ("When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass") 231 49 ("Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night") 232 50 ("Let others sing of knights and paladins") 232 53 ("Unhappy pen and ill accepted papers") 233 Ulysses and the Siren 233 Are They Shadows 235 x / C O N T E N T S MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631) 235 A Roundelay between Two Shepherds 235 IDEA 2 3 6 To the Reader of these Sonnets 236 6 ("How many paltry, foolish, painted things") 237 14 ("If he from heaven that filched that living fire") 237 61 ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part") 238 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593) 238 Hero and Leander 238 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 256 W I L L I A M S H A K E S P E A R E (1564-1616) 257 S O N N E T S 2 5 7