The Restoration Poets

By Andrew Marvell

In the years between 1660 and 1700 much upheaval took place in English politics. To mirror this rising on the artistic scene were the Restoration Poets – Dryden, Milton, Bunyan, Marvell, D’Avennat, Cowley …. are but a select few from this momentous movement in our Poetical History. Poets of courage, ambition and vigour, with the strength of words and vision to record for history this tumultuous phase.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781783947836

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The Restoration Poets

In the years between 1660 and 1700 much upheaval took place in English politics. To mirror this rising on the artistic scene were the Restoration Poets – John Dryden, John Milton, John Bunyan, Andrew Marvell, William D’Avennat, Abraham Cowley …. are but a select few from this momentous movement in our Poetical History. Poets of courage, ambition and vigour. With the strength of words and vision to record for history this tumultuous phase.

Index Of Poems

A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body by Andrew Marvell

A Life of Sabbaths Here Beneath by Thomas Traherne

In Making Bodies Love Could Not Express by Thomas Traherne

Love Still Has Something Of The Sea by Sir Charles Sedley

Phyllis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley

Child and Maiden by Sir Charles Sedley

Against Love by Katherine Phillips

To One Persuading A Lady To Marriage by Katherine Phillips

To My Young Lover by Jane Barker

The Careless Good Fellow by John Oldham

A Supplication by Abraham Cowley

Hymn To Light by Abraham Cowley

Absent of Thee I Languish Still by Lord John Wilmot

My Light Thou Art by Lord John Wilmot

To This Moment a Rebel by Lord John Wilmot

The Angler's Ballad by Charles Cotton

The Libertine by Aphra Behn

Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn

The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn

The Royalist by Alexander Brome

The Anti-Politician by Alexander Brome

On a Sunbeam by Thomas Heyrick

False Though She Be by William Congreve

A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret by William Congreve

He That Is Down Needs Fear No Fall by John Bunyan

On The Rising Of The Sun by John Bunyan

Dreams by John Dryden

Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden

How Soon Hath Time by John Milton

Light by John Milton

A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine by Charles Sackville, Earl Of Dorset

The Sad Day by Thomas Flatman

Funeral Tears Upon The Death Of Captain William Bedloe by Richard Duke

A Quiet Soul by John Oldham

Praise and Prayer by Sir William Davenant

To a Mistress Dying by Sir William Davenant

Hymn For St. John's Eve, 29th June by John Dryden

Of Holiness Of Life by John Bunyan

Upon The Sacraments by John Bunyan

On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity by John Milton

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day by John Dryden

At a Solemn Music by John Milton

Nymphs And Shepherds by Thomas Shadwell

Music's Empire by Andrew Marvell

ASTRÆA REDUX. A Poem, on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty, Charles the Second by John Dryden

A Song. If Wine And Music Have The Power by Matthew Prior

Prepare, Prepare by Thomas Shadwell

Verses to Her Royal Highness the Duchess, on the Memorable Victory Gained by the Duke Against the Hollanders, June 3rd, 1665 by John Dryden

Dear Pretty Youth by Thomas Shadwell

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Go, Lovely Rose! By Edmund Waller

Of English Verse by Edmund Waller

Ladies In Arms by Sir William Davenant

The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley

A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body by Andrew Marvell

Soul

O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise

A Soul inslav'd so many wayes?

With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd stands

In Feet ; and manacled in Hands.

Here blinded with an Eye ; and there

Deaf with the drumming of an Ear.

A Soul hung up, as 'twere, in Chains

Of Nerves, and Arteries, and Veins.

Tortur'd, besides each other part,1

In a vain Head, and double Heart.

Body

O who shall me deliver whole,

From bonds of this Tyrannic Soul?

Which, stretcht upright, impales me so,

That mine own Precipice I go;

And warms and moves this needless Frame:

(A Fever could but do the same.)

And, wanting where its spight to try,

Has made me live to let me dye.

A Body that could never rest,

Since this ill Spirit it possest.

Soul

What Magic could me thus confine

Within anothers Grief to pine?

Where whatsoever it complain,

I feel, that cannot feel, the pain.

And all my Care its self employes,

That to preserve, which me destroys:

Constrain'd not only to indure

Diseases, but, whats worse, the Cure:

And ready oft the Port to gain,

Am Shipwrackt into Health again.

Body

But Physick yet could never reach

The Maladies Thou me dost teach;

Whom first the Cramp of Hope does Tear:

And then the Palsie Shakes of Fear.

The Pestilence of Love does heat :

Or Hatred's hidden Ulcer eat.

Joy's chearful Madness does perplex:

Or Sorrow's other Madness vex.

Which Knowledge forces me to know;

And