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| Preface | |
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| Beowulf Poet (8th Century) | |
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| Grendel Attacks | |
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| Battle with Grendel | |
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| Beowulf's Burial | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) | |
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| General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales | |
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| Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale | |
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| Merciless Beauty | |
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| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) | |
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| The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love | |
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| Stand Whoso List | |
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| They Flee from Me | |
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| Whoso List to Hunt | |
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| Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) | |
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| FROM Amoretti | |
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| The Rolling Wheele that Runneth often Round (#18) | |
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| Like as a Huntsman After Weary Chase (#67) | |
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| One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand (#75) | |
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| Prothalamion | |
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| Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) | |
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| FROM Astrophil and Stella | |
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| Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show (#1) | |
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| With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Skies (#31) | |
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| Come Sleep, Oh Sleep, the Certain Knot of Peace (#39) | |
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| Leave me, O Love | |
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| My True Love Hath My Heart | |
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| Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) | |
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| Elegia V | |
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| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
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| Faustus to Helen of Troy (FROM Doctor Faustus.) | |
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| The End of Doctor Faustus (FROM Doctor Faustus.) | |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
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| When daisies pied and violets blue | |
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| When icicles hang by the wall | |
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| Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (#18) | |
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| When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (#29) | |
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| When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (#30) | |
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| Not marble, nor the gilded monuments (#55) | |
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| That time of year thou mayst in me behold (#73) | |
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| Let me not to the marriage of true minds (#116) | |
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| My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (#130) | |
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| When my love swears that she is made of truth (#138) | |
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| Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth (#146) | |
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| Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun | |
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| Full fathom five thy father lies | |
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| John Donne (1572-1631) | |
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| Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You | |
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| Death be not proud | |
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| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
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| At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners | |
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| The Ecstasy | |
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| The Flea | |
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| Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star | |
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| The Good-Morrow | |
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| Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe | |
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| Ben Jonson (1572-1637) | |
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| Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears | |
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| On My First Son | |
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| Still to Be Neat | |
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| To Celia (Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes) | |
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| Song: To Celia (I) | |
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| Mary Sidney Wroth (1587?-1623?)from Urania | |
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| Am I Thus Conquer'd?In This Strange Labyrinth | |
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| When Night's Blacke Mantle | |
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| You Blessed Stars | |
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| Robert Herrick (1591-1674) | |
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| Corinna's Going A-Maying | |
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| Delight in Disorder | |
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| Upon Julia's Clothes | |
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| To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing | |
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| To Virgins to Make Much of Time | |
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| George Herbert (1593-1633) | |
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| Affliction (IV) | |
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| The Collar | |
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| Easter Wings | |
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| Love (III) | |
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| The Pulley | |
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| Virtue | |
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| John Milton (1608-1674) | |
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| Lycidas | |
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| On Shakespeare | |
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| When I consider How My Light is Spent | |
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| Methought I saw My late EspousTd Saint | |
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| Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) | |
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| The Author to Her Book | |
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| Before the Birth of One of her Children | |
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| To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
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| Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) | |
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| The Definition o | |