Great Relatives Poetry Schoolbook

40 The Unfaithful Shepherdess The fortieth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "By its style this beautiful example of old simplicity and feeling may be referred to the early years of Elizabeth. Late forgot: lately."

39 Blind Love The thirty-ninth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "censures: judges"

38 To His Lute The Thirty-Eighth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "ramage: confused noise."

37 Love's Farewell

36 Madrigal The thirty-sixth poem in the collection.

35 Care-charmer Sleep The thirty-fifth poem in the collection.

34 The Nightingale The thirty-fourth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "Pandion in the ancient fable was father to Philomela."

33 The Lovers Appeal The thirty-third poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "grame: sorrow. It was long before English Poetry returned to the charming simplicity of this and a few other poems by Wyat."

32 The Life Without Passion The thirty-second poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "With the tone of this Sonnet compare Hamlet's "Give me that man That is not passion's slave," etc. Shakespeare's writings show the deepest sensitiveness to passion:—hence the attraction he felt in the contrasting effects of apathy."

31 Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing The thirty-first poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "upon misprision growing: either, granted in error, or, on the growth of contempt."

30 Revolutions The thirtieth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "Nativity once in the main of light: when a star has risen and entered on the full stream of light;—another of the astrological phrases no longer familiar. Crooked eclipses: as coming athwart the Sun's apparent course. Wordsworth, thinking probably of the "Venus" and the "Lucrece," said finely of Shakespeare "Shakespeare could not have written an Epic; he would have died of plethora of thought." This prodigality of nature is exemplified equally in his Sonnets. The copious selection here given (which from the wealth of the material, required greater consideration than any other portion of the Editor's task) contains many that will not be fully felt and understood without some earnestness of thought on the reader's part. But he is not likely to regret the labour."

29 Remembrance The twenty-ninth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "expense: waste."

28 That time of year thou may'st in me behold The twenty-eight poem in the collection.

27 Winter The twenty-seventh poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "keel: skim"

26 Carpe Diem The twenty-sixth poem in the collection.

25 Love's Omnipresence The twenty-fifth poem in the collection.

24 A Ditty The twenty-fourth poem in the collection.

23 True Love The twenty-third poem in the collection. (* additional details below) *NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "the star... Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken; apparently, Whose stellar influence is uncalculated, although his angular altitude from the plane of the astrolabe or artificial horizon used by astrologers has been determined."

22 To Aurora The Twenty-Second poem in the collection.

21 A Supplication The twenty-first poem in the collection.

20 Loves Perjuries The twentieth poem in the collection.

19 To His Love Nineteenth in the collection.

18 To His Love The eighteenth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "that fair thou owest: that beauty thou ownest."

17 Colin The seventeenth poem in the collection.

16 Rosalynde The sixteenth poem in the collection. (* additional details below; after my initial, un-schooled, interpretation) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "Readers who have visited Italy will be reminded of more than one picture by this gorgeous Vision of Beauty, equally sublime and pure in its Paradisaical naturalness. Lodge wrote it on a voyage to "the Islands of Terceras and the Canaries"; and he seems to have caught, in those southern seas, no small portion of the qualities which marked the almost contemporary Art of Venice,—the glory and the glow of Veronese, or Titian, or Tintoret, when he most resembles Titian, and all but surpasses him. The clear: is the crystalline or outermost heaven of the old cosmography. For resembling other copies give refining: the correct reading is perhaps revealing. For a fair there's fairer none: If you desire a Beauty, there is none more beautiful than Rosalynde."