THE FLOWER OF THE MIND
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Cruel now, and then as kind?
If he be amongst ye, say;
He is Venus' run-away";


from Francis Davison:


"Her angry eyes are great with tears";


from George Wither:


"I can go rest
On her sweet breast
That is the pride of Cynthia's train";


from Cowley:


"Return, return, gay planet of mine east"!


The poems in which these are cannot make part of the volume, but
the citation of the fragments is a relieving act of love.

At the very beginning, Skelton's song to "Mistress Margery
Wentworth" had almost taken a place; but its charm is hardly fine
enough.

If it is necessary to answer the inevitable question in regard to
Byron, let me say that in another Anthology, a secondary Anthology,
the one in which Gray's Elegy would have an honourable place, some
more of Byron's lyrics would certainly be found; and except this
there is no apology. If the last stanza of the "Dying Gladiator"
passage, or the last stanza on the cascade rainbow at Terni,


"Love watching madness with unalterable mien,"


had been separate poems instead of parts of Childe Harold, they
would have been amongst the poems that are here collected in no
spirit of arrogance, or of caprice, of diffidence or doubt.

The volume closes some time before the middle of the century and
the death of Wordsworth.

A. M.

[As there would be considerable overlap between the poems in this
book and those already released by Project Gutenberg the text of
the poems is not included in this eText. The poems that Alice
selected are shown below and are followed by her comments on them.-
-DP]


Anonymous.
The first carol
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
Verses before death
Edmund Spenser (1553-1599)
Easter
Fresh spring
Like as a ship
Epithalamion
John Lyly (1554?-1606)
The Spring
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
True love
The moon
Kiss
Sweet judge
Sleep
Wat'red was my wine
Thomas Lodge (1556-1625)
Rosalynd's madrigal
Rosaline
The solitary shepherd's song
Anonymous
I saw my lady weep
George Peele (1558?-1597)