Sedley, Sir Charles (1639—1701), cviii. cix.
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), v. x. xxvi. xxxi.
xxxvi. xc. xci. xcii. xciii. xciv. cxxxii. cxxxiii. cxxxiv.
clxxiii. clxxiv. clxxxv. cclvi. cclxxix. cclxxxii. ccxcv.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), xv. lxxvii. lxxxii.
cli, clii. cliii. ccxvii. ccxl.

Shenstone, William (1714-1763), lxiii. lxxxix.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816), cciv.
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), cxxx. ccv.
Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678), ccxxiv.

Suckling, Sir John (1609-1641), xi. xii. lviii. cxxviii.

ccvi.

Surrey, Henry, Earl of (1515-1547), lxxxix.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (b. 1837), lxxxviii. clxxxiv.
clxxxix. cclxv. cclxxxviii.

Tennyson, Alfred (b. 1809), xix. lxix. lxxi. lxxii. lxxiii.
lxxxi. clxiv. clxvi. cxciv. cxcix. ccxc.

Terry, Rose, lxvii.

Thomson, James (1700-1748), xlvii. lxiv. ccxviii.
Tytler, C. C. Fraser, xxi.

Waller, Edmund (1605-1687), xxxii. cx. cxi. clxix.

Walsh, William (1663-1687), ccxix.

Warren, Hon. John Leicester, cxxii. ccl. cclxvi. cclxvii.
Webster, Augusta, xxxv.

Williams, Sarah, clix.

Wither, George (1588-1667), cc. ccii.

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), cxviii. clxxix.
ccxcvi.

Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1636), xcviii. ccxii.
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542), liii. lv. ccxx.

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INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

Absence, hear thou my protestation (Anon) .
A cup for hope, she said (C. Rossetti)
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever (Burns)
Ah, Chloris, could I now but sit (Sedley)
Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh (Scott)
Ah, how sweet it is to love (Dryden)
Ah, love, but a day (R. Browning)
Ah, what avails the sceptred race (Landor)

Alas, how easily things go wrong (MacDonald)
A little while a little love (D. G. Rossetti)

All June I bound the rose in sheaves (R. Brown-
ing)

All my past life is mine no more (Rochester).

All's over, then does truth sound bitter (R.
Browning).

All thoughts, all passions, all delights (S. T.
Coleridge)

Amaryllis I did woo (Wither)

Among my fancies tell me this (Herrick)
And wilt thou leave me thus (Wyatt)

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An hour with thee !-when earliest day (Scott)

Ask me no more. The moon may draw the sea
(Tennyson).

Ask me no more where Jove bestows (Carew)
Ask me why I sent you here (Carew)
Ask what you will, my own and only love (Pal-

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Ask why I love the roses fair (Locker) .

As late each flower that sweetest blows (S. T.
Coleridge).

A sweet disorder in the dress (Herrick)

A trinket made like a heart, my dear (A. A.

Procter)

At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping,
I fly (Moore)

Awake, awake, my lyre (Cowley)

Away, delights, and seek some other dwelling
(Beaumont and Fletcher)

A weary lot is thine, fair maid (Scott)

Ay, I saw her ;—we have met (Ingelow)

Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead (R. Browning)
Before our lady came on earth (Morris)

Being your slave, what should I do but tend
(Shakespeare)

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Better to sit at the water's birth (MacDonald)
Bid me to live, and I will live (Herrick)
Blame me not, love, that I do wear (Roscoe).
Bright Star, would I were steady as thou art
(Keats)

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry (Herrick)

Chloe found Amyntas lying (Dryden)

Choose me your Valentine (Herrick)

Come away, come away, Death (Shakespeare)
Come into the garden, Maud (Tennyson)

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Come, let us leave; have no smooth words, but go
(Warren).

Come, let us now resolve at last (Buckingham)

Come, live with me and be my love (Marlowe)
Come to me in my dreams, and then (Arnold)
Come to me in the silence of the night (C. Rossetti) 130
Cupid and my Campaspe played (Lyly)

Down in yon garden sweet and gay (Anon.).

Do you ask what the birds say? (S. T. Coleridge).
Drink to me only with your eyes (Jonson)

Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (King)

Each in his own strict line we move (Arnold)
Earl March looked on his dying child (Campbell).
Escape me? (R. Browning) •

Fair Amoret has gone astray (Congreve)

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Fair amorist, what dost thou think (Sidney) .
Fair is the night, and fair the day (Morris)
Fair, sweet, and young, receive the prize (Dryden)
Fair was the morn to-day; the blossom's scent
(Morris)

False though she be to me and love (Congreve)
First shall the heavens want starry light (Lodge)
Follow a shadow, it still flies you (Jonson)
For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove (Thomson)
Forget not yet the tried intent (Wyatt).

Free love, free field, we love but while we may
(Tennyson).
From you I have been absent in the spring
(Shakespeare)

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (Herrick).
Gem of the crimson-coloured even (Campbell)
Give me more love or more disdain (Carew).
Give place, ye lovers, here before (Surrey)
Go, lovely rose (Waller)

Go not, happy day (Tennyson)

Good night? Ah no, the hour is ill (Shelley)
Go, tell Amynta, gentle swain (Dryden)

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Hard is the fate of him who loves (Thomson)
Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
(Shakespeare)

Hear, ye ladies that despise (Beaumont and
Fletcher)

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He that loves a rosy cheek (Carew)

Honest lover, whosoever (Suckling)

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How blest the youth whom fate ordains (Cowper). 134
How delicious is the winning (Campbell)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (E.
B. Browning)

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How ill doth he deserve a lover's name (Carew) ΙΟΙ
How like a winter hath my absence been (Shake-

How many times do I love thee, dear? (Beddoes). 115
How should I your true love know (Shakespeare)
How sweet the answer Echo makes (Moore).

I arise from dreams of thee (Shelley)

I asked my fair, one happy day (Coleridge)

I cannot change, as others do (Rochester)

I dare not ask a kiss (Herrick)

I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair (Aytoun)
If all the world and love were young (Raleigh)
If doughty deeds my lady please (Graham)
I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden (Shelley)
If love were what the rose is (Swinburne)
If thou wilt ease thine heart (Beddoes) .
If to be absent were to be (Lovelace)

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If women could be fair and yet not fond (Oxford)
If you must love me, let it be for nought (E. B.
Browning).

I give thee treasures hour by hour (Terry)

I loved thee once: I'll love no more (Aytoun)
I love thee! I love thee! (Hood)
In a soft-complexioned sky (D. G. Rossetti)

In Celia's face a question did arise (Carew)

I ne'er could any lustre see (Sheridan) .

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son)

In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours (Tenny-

In vain you tell your parting lover (Prior)

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I prithee send me back my heart (Suckling).