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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

Robert Herrick

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 676 pages

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers gathers Robert Herrick's lyric poetry: the secular Hesperides, with poems on love, nature, flowers and the passing of time, and the devotional Noble Numbers. This two-volume edition, edited by Alfred Pollard with a preface by A. C. Swinburne, invites listeners into the quiet music and warmth of a 17th-century English parson-poet.

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ROBERT HERRICK
THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE
NUMBERS: EDITED BY
ALFRED POLLARD
WITH A PREFACE BY
A. C. SWINBURNE
VLjƯ. I.    VLjƯ. II.
REVISED EDITION
LONDON:
LAWRENCE &
BULLEN, Ltd.,
16 HŧƿǡƗŧǵǵĵ Sǵǡŧŧǵ,
W.C.
1898.
NEW YORK:
LAWRENCE &
BULLEN, Ltd.,
153-157 FƗżǵƒ
A΄ŧƿǼŧ
1898.
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
EDITOR'S NOTE.
PREFACE.

LIFE OF HERRICK.
NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.
HESPERIDES.
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DEDICATION.
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1. THE ARGUMENT OF HIS BOOK.
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2. TO HIS MUSE.
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3. TO HIS BOOK.
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4. ANOTHER.
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7. TO HIS BOOK.
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8. WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ.
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9. UPON JULIA'S RECOVERY.
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10. TO SILVIA TO WED.
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11. THE PARLIAMENT OF ROSES TO JULIA.
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12. NO BASHFULNESS IN BEGGING.
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13. THE FROZEN HEART.
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14. TO PERILLA.
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15. A SONG TO THE MASKERS.
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16. TO PERENNA.
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17. TREASON.
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18. TWO THINGS ODIOUS.
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19. TO HIS MISTRESSES.
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20. THE WOUNDED HEART.
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21. NO LOATHSOMENESS IN LOVE.
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22. TO ANTHEA.
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23. THE WEEPING CHERRY.
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24. SOFT MUSIC.
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25. THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT KINGS AND SUBJECTS.
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26. HIS ANSWER TO A QUESTION.
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27. UPON JULIA'S FALL.
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28. EXPENSES EXHAUST.
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29. LOVE, WHAT IT IS.
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30. PRESENCE AND ABSENCE.
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31. NO SPOUSE BUT A SISTER.
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32. THE POMANDER BRACELET.
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33. THE SHOE-TYING.
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34. THE CARCANET.
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35. HIS SAILING FROM JULIA.
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36. HOW THE WALL-FLOWER CAME FIRST, AND WHY SO CALLED.
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37. WHY FLOWERS CHANGE COLOUR.
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38. TO HIS MISTRESS OBJECTING TO HIM NEITHER TOYING OR
TALKING.
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39. UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESSES.
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40. THE DREAM.
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42. TO LOVE.
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43. ON HIMSELF.
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44. LOVE'S PLAY AT PUSH-PIN.
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45. THE ROSARY.
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46. UPON CUPID.

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Contents

  1. ROBERT HERRICK
  2. THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS: EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD WITH A PREFACE BY A. C. SWINBURNE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ROBERT HERRICK THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS: EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD WITH A PREFACE BY A. C. SWINBURNE
  5. EDITOR'S NOTE.
  6. PREFACE.
  7. LIFE OF HERRICK.
  8. NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.
  9. HESPERIDES.
  10. NOTES.
  11. NOTES.
  12. ROBERT HERRICK THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS: EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD WITH A PREFACE BY A. C. SWINBURNE
  13. HESPERIDES.
  14. HIS NOBLE NUMBERS: OR, HIS PIOUS PIECES.
  15. POEMS NOT INCLUDED IN HESPERIDES.
  16. NOTES.
  17. NOTES.
  18. NOBLE NUMBERS.
  19. NOTES TO ADDITIONAL POEMS.
  20. APPENDIX I. HERRICK'S POEMS IN WITTS RECREATIONS.
  21. APPENDIX II. HERRICK'S FAIRY POEMS AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THE KING AND QUEENE OF FAYRIES PUBLISHED 1635.
  22. APPENDIX III. POOR ROBIN'S ALMANACK.
  23. INDEX TO PERSONS MENTIONED.
  24. INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
  25. APPENDIX OF EPIGRAMS, etc.
  26. NOTE.
  27. APPENDIX OF EPIGRAMS.
  28. NOTES TO APPENDIX.
  29. INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
  30. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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