Metaphysical poets, selected poems Contents

• Author(s)
  • Donne, John
  • John Donne's early life
  • John Donne - from Catholic to Protestant
  • John Donne's marriage and its aftermath
  • John Donne - The Reverend Dean
  • Herbert, George
  • George Herbert - The would-be courtier
  • George Herbert - The country priest
  • Crashaw, Richard
  • Richard Crashaw - The university scholar
  • Richard Crashaw - The Catholic exile
  • Vaughan, Henry
  • Henry Vaughan's Early Life
  • Henry Vaughan - Nature poet and mystic
  • Marvell, Andrew
  • Metaphysical Poet Andrew Marvell - Early Life
  • Andrew Marvell's changed sympathies
  • King, Henry
  • Lovelace, Richard
  • Cowley, Abraham
  • Philips, Katherine
  • Cleveland, John
• Aire and Angels
• A Hymn to God the Father
• A Hymn to God, my God, in my Sicknesse
• A Nocturnall upon St. Lucies day
• At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• A Valediction: of Weeping
• Batter my heart
• Death be not Proud
• Elegie XIX: Going to Bed
• Elegie XVI: On his Mistris
• Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
• Lovers' Infiniteness
• Oh my blacke Soule!
• Satyre III: 'On Religion'
• Show me Deare Christ
• Since She Whom I Lov'd
• Song: Goe, and catche a falling starre
• The Anniversarie
• The Dreame
• The Extasie
• The Flea
• The Good-morrow
• The Sunne Rising
• This is my playes last scene
• Twicknam Garden
• What if this present
• Aaron
• Affliction I
• Death
• Discipline
• Easter Wings
• Jordan I
• Jordan II
• Life
• Love II
• Man
• Prayer I
• Redemption
• The Church-floore
• The Collar
• Vertue
• Hymn in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
• Hymn to St Teresa
• St Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper
• To the Countesse of Denbigh
• Ascension - Hymn
• Man by Henry Vaughan
• Regeneration
• The Night
• The Retreate
• The Water-fall
• A Dialogue between Soul and Body
• On a Drop of Dew
• The Coronet
• The Definition of Love
• The Garden
• The Mower Against Gardens
• The Mower to the Glo-Worms
• The Mower's Song
• The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun
• The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
• To his Coy Mistress
• Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax
• An Elegie upon the Death of the Deane of Paul's Dr John Donne
• To a Lady that Desired I would Love her
• The Exequy
• To Althea, from Prison
• The Grasse-hopper: Ode
• Ode: Of Wit
• To my Lucasia in defence of declared friendship
• To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship
• Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising