Vol. 40
- Introductory Note Editor
Editorial apparatus
- The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Nun's Priest's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Traditional Ballads
- Balow; The Old Cloak; Jolly Good Ale and Old
- A Supplication; The Lover's Appeal
Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover Being upon the Sea; The Means to Attain Happy Life
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- A Lover's Lullaby
George Gascoigne
- Phillida and Coridon
Nicholas Breton
- A Sweet Lullaby; Preparations; The Unfaithful Shepherdess
- Beauty Bathing
Anthony Munday
- Amantium Irae
Richard Edwardes
- Poems
Sir Walter Raleigh
- My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
Sir Edward Dyer
- Cupid and Campaspe; Spring's Welcome
John Lyly
- Poems
Sir Philip Sidney
- Rosalind's Madrigal; Rosaline; Phillis
Thomas Lodge
- Paris and Oenone
George Peele
- The Burning Babe
Robert Southwell
- Beauty, Time, and Love: Sonnets; To Sleep
Samuel Daniel
- Agincourt; To the Virginian Voyage; Love's Farewell
Michael Drayton
- Diaphenia
Henry Constable
- Poems
Edmund Spenser
- To Roses in the Bosom of Castara; Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam
William Habington
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love; Her Reply
Christopher Marlowe
- Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby
Richard Rowlands
- In Time of Pestilence; Spring
Thomas Nashe
- Songs and Sonnets
William Shakespeare
- Content
Robert Greene
- The Nightingale
Richard Barnfield
- Poems
Thomas Campion
- A Passion of My Lord of Essex
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
- Elizabeth of Bohemia; Character of a Happy Life
Sir Henry Wotton
- A Renunciation
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
- Poems
Ben Jonson
- Poems
John Donne
- Love's Omnipresence
Joshua Sylvester
- To Aurora
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
- Farewell, Rewards and Fairies
Richard Corbet
- Pack, Clouds, Away
Thomas Heywood
- Country Glee; Cold's the Wind; O Sweet Content
Thomas Dekker
- On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey; Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson
Francis Beaumont
- Aspatia's Song; Melancholy
John Fletcher
- Call for the Robin-Redbreast
John Webster
- Waly, Waly; Helen of Kirconnell; My Love in Her Attire; Love Not Me
- Poems
William Drummond
- I Loved a Lass; The Lover's Resolution
George Wither
- On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
William Browne
- Poems
Robert Herrick
- An Ecstasy
Francis Quarles
- Poems
George Herbert
- Beyond the Veil; The Retreat
Henry Vaughan
- Life
Francis Bacon
- The Glories of Our Blood and State; The Last Conqueror
James Shirley
- Poems
Thomas Carew
- The Constant Lover; Why So Pale and Wan
Sir John Suckling
- Dawn Song
Sir William D'Avenant
- To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars; To Althea from Prison; To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas
Richard Lovelace
- On a Girdle; Go, Lovely Rose!
Edmund Waller
- On the Queen's Return from the Low Countries
William Cartwright
- My Dear and Only Love
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
- Wishes for the Supposed Mistress; Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa
Richard Crashaw
- Let Us Drink and Be Merry
Thomas Jordan
- Poems
Abraham Cowley
- The Resolve
Alexander Brome
- Poems
Andrew Marvell
- Love Will Find Out the Way; Phillada Flouts Me
- Epitaph on Charles II
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- Chloris; Celia
Sir Charles Sedley
- Poems
John Dryden
- Poems
Matthew Prior
- True Greatness
Isaac Watts
- Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee
Lady Grisel Baillie
- Hymn
Joseph Addison
- Peggy
Allan Ramsay
- Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing; Black-Eyed Susan
John Gay
- Sally in Our Alley
Henry Carey
- Solitude; On a Certain Lady at Court; Essay on Man
Alexander Pope
- To Charlotte Pulteney
Ambrose Philips
- The Blind Boy
Colley Cibber
- Rule, Britannia; To Fortune
James Thomson
- Poems
Thomas Gray
- Shorten Sail
George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe