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GAVIN DOUGLAS (1474/5-1522) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid

'The Rubric' / 'Aeneas (with Achates) meets his Mother, Venus' / 'The Building of Carthage' / 'The Wooden Horse is brought into Troy' / 'Aeneas' Image of War' / 'The Sybil' / 'Dido's Suicide' / 'Charon' / 'Turnus summons his Allies' / 'Turnus and the Courser' / 'The Defeat of Turnus'

WILLIAM TYNDALE (?1494-1536) : FROM THE HEBREW ; The Bible

Genesis 27: 27-9 / Numbers 6: 24-7 / Numbers 24: 5-9 / Exodus 15: 1-8 / Deuteronomy 32: 9-15

MILES COVERDALE (1488-1568) : FROM THE HEBREW ; The Bible

Psalm 8 / Psalm 19 / Psalm 23 / Psalm 90 / Psalm 133 / Psalm 137

SIR THOMAS WYATT (?1503-1542) : FROM THE LATIN VULGATE AND OTHER SOURCES ; Penitential Psalms

from Psalm 6 / from Psalm 102 / Psalm 130

FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II

FROM THE ITALIAN OF PETRARCH ; Rime 49 / Rime 57 / Rime 134 / Rime 140 / Rime 189 / Rime 190 / Rime 269

FROM THE ITALIAN OF SERAFINO ; 'He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall' / 'What nedeth these thretning wordes and wasted wynde?'

FROM THE ITALIAN OF BONIFACIO ; 'Madame, withouten many wordes, '

FROM THE ITALIAN OF ALAMANNI ; Satires, X HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (?1517-1547) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid

'Laocoon' / 'Dido to her Sister Anna' / 'Dido by Night'

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book X, 47

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book II, 10

FROM THE ITALIAN OF PETRARCH ; Sonetto in Vita 113 / Sonetto in Morte 42 / Rime 140

JASPER HEYWOOD (1535-1598) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Hercules Furens, Act IV / Chorus from Thyestes, Act II / Chorus from Thyestes, Act III

JOHN STUDLEY (?1545-1590) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Medea, Act III / Chorus from Medea, Act IV / Chorus from Hercules Oetaetus, Act II

RICHARD STANYHURST (1536-1618) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid

'Now manhood and garbroyls I chaunt' / 'Aeneas sails from Crete' ARTHUR GOLDING (?1536-?1605) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses

'Daphne and Apollo' / 'Address to Bacchus' / 'Proserpine and Dis' / 'Medea's Incantation' / 'Daedalus and Icarus' / 'Atalanta' / 'Atalanta and Hippomenes' / 'Polypheme woos Galatea' / 'The Conclusion'

GEORGE TURBERVILLE (?1540-?1610) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Heroides

from Oenone to Paris

EDMUND SPENSER (?1552-1599) : FROM THE FRENCH OF DU BELLAY ; Antiquitez de Rome

'Thou stranger, which for Rome in Rome here seekest, ' / 'Who list the Romane greatnes forth to figure, '

FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO ; from Gerusalemme Liberata

'The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay;

SIR WALTER RALEGH (?1552-1618) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V. 4-6

FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; from The Aeneid

'The heaven, the earth, and all the liquid mayne, '

FROM THE LATIN OF LUCAN ; from Pharsalia

'O wastfull Riot, never well content'

FROM THE LATIN OF AUSONIUS ; Epigrams, CXVIII SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'My muse, what ails this ardour?'

FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LXX

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book II

FROM THE HEBREW via other sources ; Psalm 11 / Psalm 13 / Psalm 17 / from Psalm 19

MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1561-1621) : FROM THE HEBREW via other sources ; Psalm 52 / from Psalm 55 / from Psalm 72 / from Psalm 78 / from Psalm 139

GEORGE CHAPMAN (?1559-?1634) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad

'The Greeks like Bees' / 'The Greeks like the Sea, the Trojans like Ewes' / 'The Greeks like Clouds' / 'Men like Leaves' / 'Paris and the Courser' / 'Jove's cold-sharpe javelines' / 'The two Ajaxes compared to Oxen' / 'Paris and Menelaus' / 'The old Trojan Chiefs see Helen' / 'Hector's Child and the Plume' / 'Night Piece: the Trojans outside Troy'

The Odyssey

'Mercury is sent by Jupiter to Calypso' / 'Ulysses builds his Ship' / 'The Wrecking of the Ship' / 'The Garden of Alcinous' / 'Ulysses and his Mother's Spirit' / 'Penelope fetches Ulysses' Bow' / 'The Flight of the Wooers' / 'Pallas glorifies Ulysses' SIR JOHN HARINGTON (1561-1612) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF ARIOSTO ; Orlando Furioso

'Alcyna leads astray Rogero' / 'The Archangel Michael sets out' / 'Ariosto celebrates the Martyrdom of Isabella'

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Elegies, Book I, 5 / Elegies, Book I, 13 / Elegies, Book II, 1 / Elegies, Book III, 6 / Elegies, Book III, 13

THOMAS UNDERDOWNE (fl. 1566

1587) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; from Invective against Ibis

THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1619) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V / Carmina, VIII

IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF PROPERTIUS ; Carmina, II

THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE BIBLE (1611) : FROM THE HEBREW ; 2 Samuel 1: 19-27 / Job 3: 3-26 / Job 14 / Job 38 / Job 39 / Job 40 / Job 41 / Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 / Ecclesiastes 11: 1-8 / Ecclesiastes 12: 1-8 / The Song of Solomon 1 / The Song of Solomon 2 / The Song of Solomon 5 / Isaiah 11: 1-II / Isaiah 35 / Isaiah 40: 1-8 / Jeremiah 4: 3-31

FROM THE HEBREW VIA THE GREEK ; Ecclesiasticus 14: 17-18 / Ecclesiasticus 43: 13-26 / Ecclesiasticus 44: 1-15

FROM THE GREEK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT ; Matthew 5: 3-16 / Matthew 6: 24-9 / Mark 4: 26-32 / Luke 1: 46-55 / Luke 12: 32-40 / John 15: 1-8 JOHN DONNE (1572-1631) : FROM THE LATIN OF GAZAEUS ; Vota Amico Facta, Fol. 160

FROM HIS OWN LATIN ; To Mr. George Herbert

EDWARD FAIRFAX (d. 1635) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO ; The Recoverie of Jerusalem

'Armida sets out to undo the Crusaders' / 'In Armida's Garden'

BEN JONSON (1572-1637) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V / Carmina, V and VII

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epodes, II / Odes, Book IV, 1

Ars Poetica

'Words like the Woods'

FROM THE LATIN ASCRIBED TO PETRONIUS ; 'Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; '

FROM THE LATIN OF LUCAN ; from Pharsalia

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book X, 47

ADAPTED FROM THE GREEK OF PHILOSTRATUS ; To Celia

SIR JOHN BEAUMONT (1582-1628) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; Eclogues, IV

DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN PASSERAT ; Song

ANONYMOUS (published 1588) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; Idylls, XX ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) : FROM THE GREEK ; Anacreontea

The Wounded Cupid. Song / The Cheat of Cupid: or, The Ungentle Guest

FROM THE GREEK OF MELEAGER ; Upon a Maid that Dyed the Day She Was Marryed

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book III, 9

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book XI, 16: 9-10

THOMAS CAREW (?1598-?1639) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI ; A Ladies prayer to Cupid

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVAN BATTISTA MARINO ; Lips and Eyes

WILLIAM STRODE (?1600-?1645) : FROM THE LATIN OF FAMIANUS STRADA ; The Nightingale

SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE (1608-1666) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 / Odes, Book I, 8 / Odes, Book I, 9

OUT OF THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book X, 47

FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF LUIS VAZ DE CAMOENS ; The Luciad

'Dione and the Sea-Nymphs' / 'The Moors of Melinde welcome the Portuguese'

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI ; Il Pastor Fido

'The Speech of Corsica' / 'Kissing Chorus' / 'Corsica encourages Amarillis to love' / Chorus

FROM THE SPANISH OF GONGORA ; A Great Favorit Beheaded JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) : FROM THE HEBREW ; Psalm 2 / Psalm 3

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5

SIR MATTHEW HALE (1609-1676) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II

RICHARD CRASHAW (1612/13-1649) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V

FROM THE LATIN OF THOMAS OF CELANO ; The Day of Judgment

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVAN BATTISTA MARINO ; from The Massacre of the Innocents / Madrigal XI

SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1669) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Illiad, Book XII

Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus

FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid

The Destruction of Troy / The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book XI, 104

SIR EDWARD SHERBURNE (1616-1702) : FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book XII, 17

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XIII / Carmina, LXIX / Carmina, LXX / Carmina, LXXII / Carmina, LXXXV

FROM THE LATIN OF AUSONIUS ; 'On the Sicilian strand a Hare well wrought' ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667) : TRANSLATED PARAPHRASTICALLY FROM THE GREEK ; Anacreontea

Love / Drinking / The Grasshopper / from The Epicure

IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Ode: Acme and Septimius

IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 / from Odes, Book III, 1 / Satires, Book II, 6

FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II

IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book V, 59

FROM THE LATIN OF CLAUDIAN ; The Old Man of Verona

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II

HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; from Tristium, Book V, Elegy 3 / De Ponto, Book III, Elegy 7 / from De Ponto, Book IV, Elegy 3a / from Tristium, Book III, Elegy 3a

FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from Satires, X

FROM THE LATIN OF BOETHIUS ; from The Consolation of Philosophy THOMAS STANLEY (1626-1678) : FROM THE GREEK ; Anacreontea

Beauty / The Grasshopper / 'Young Men Dancing'

FROM THE LATIN (ANONYMOUS) ; from Venus Vigils

FROM THE LATIN OF JOHANNES SECUNDUS ; Basia, VIII

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIROLAMO CASONE ; Time Recover'd

FROM THE SPANISH OF JUAN PEREZ DE MONTALVAN ; The Self-Deceaver

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad

'The Invocation' / 'Achilles, threatened by Agamemnon' / 'Achilles' Wrath' / 'The Sacrifice to Apollo' / 'Thetis asks Jove to revenge her Son Achilles'

FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; Idylls, XXVII

FROM THE LATIN OF LUCRETIUS ; De Rerum Natura

'Delight of Humane kind, and Gods above' / 'Against the Fear of Death'

FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid

'Arms, and the Man I sing, who, forc'd by Fate, ' / 'The Building of Carthage' / 'Fame' / 'Charon' / 'Diomede mourns his Fate' / 'Turnus and the wanton Courser' / 'Turnus and the Stone'

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 9 / Odes, Book III, 29

FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses

'Jove looses the South Wind' / 'Deucalion and Pyrrha' / Baucis and Philemon / 'Iris descends to the Cave of Sleep' / 'Of the Pythagorean Philosophy'

FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from Satires, VI / from Satires, X

FROM THE MIDDLE ENGLISH OF CHAUCER ; from The Cock and the Pox WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMMON (?1633-1685) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 22

THOMAS FLATMAN (1635-1688) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epodes, III

PHILIP AYRES (1638-1712) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; The Death of Adonis

FROM THE SPANISH OF QUEVEDO ; The Fly

ANTHONY HORNECK (1641-1697) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1648-1680) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; The Latter End of the Chorus from Troas, Act II

NAHUM TATE (1652-1715) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LV and LVIIIb

JOHN OLDHAM (1653-1683) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; from The Art of Poetry

IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH OF BOILEAU ; from Satires, VIII

THOMAS CREECH (1659-1700) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; from Idylls, II

FROM THE LATIN OF LUCRETIUS ; De Rerum Natura

'The Elements Changeable'

TOM BROWN (1663-1704) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XCII

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book I, 32

GEORGE STEPNEY (1663-1707) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book III, 7 WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1708) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LXXII

MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721) : FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS ; Cupid a Plowman

FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XXII

FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; Adriani Morientis ad Animam Suam. Imitated

FROM THE FRENCH OF DE GOMBAULD ; Epigram

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XCII

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; from Odes, Book III, 2 / Part of the 9th Ode of the 4th Book of Horace

FROM THE IRISH OF HUGH MACGOWRAN ; The Description of an Irish-Feast

FROM THE FRENCH (ANONYMOUS) ; Epigram on Fasting

WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad

Andromache's Lamentation / Helen's Lamentation

FROM THE GREEK (formerly ascribed to Homer) ; The Hymn to Venus

'Venus goes after Anchises' / 'Venus tells Anchises the Story oj Aurora and Tithonus' JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses

'Apollo, Phaeton, and the Chariot oj the Sun'

NICHOLAS ROWE (1674-1718) : FROM THE LATIN OF LUCAN ; Pharsalia

'The Rivalry between Caesar and Pompey'

ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) : IMITATED FROM THE HEBREW ; Psalm 90: 1-5

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718) : FROM THE GREEK (formerly ascribed to Homer) ; from The Battle of the Frogs and Mice

ELIJAH FENTON (1683-1730) : FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigram (ascribed) / Epigrams, Book X, 47

JOHN GAY (1685-1732) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses

'Arachne challenges Athene'

WILLIAM DIAPER (?1686-1717) : FROM THE GREEK OF OPPIAN ; Halieutica

'Eels' / 'The Lampreys' / 'The Slime-Fish'

ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 4 / Odes, Book I, 31 ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad

'The Greeks like the Sea, the Trojans like Flocks' / 'The Greeks and the'embattel'd Clouds' / 'Like Leaves on Trees...' / 'Paris and the wanton Courser' / 'The Watch and the Dogs' / 'Stones and Snow' / 'Hector and the Stone' / 'Ajax and his Brother' / 'The Wasps' / 'Hector flees before Achilles' / 'Paris and Menelaus' / 'The old Trojan Chiefs see Helen' / 'Night Piece: the Trojans outside Troy' / 'The Destruction of the Grecian Fort' / 'The Speech of Sarpedon' / 'Hector, recovered, renews the Attack' / 'Vulcan forges the Shield of Achilles' / 'River Scamander attacks Achilles'

The Odyssey ; 'Jupiter sends Hermes to Calypso' / 'Ulysses builds his Raft' / 'The Wrecking of the Raft' / 'Ulysses in the Sea' / 'Ulysses finds Shelter' / 'The Garden of Alcinous' / 'In the Cave of Polyphemus' / 'Elpenor' / 'Penelope fetches Ulysses' Bow' / 'Ulysses (disgUised) takes up the Bow' / 'The Punishment of the Women and of Melanthius' / 'The Descent of the Suitors' Shades' SOAME JENYNS (?1703/4-1787) : FROM THE LATIN OF PETRONIUS AFRANIUS ; The Snow-ball

PHILIP FRANCIS (?1708-1773) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 25

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad, Book VI, 146

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 22 / Odes, Book IV, 7

FROM THE LATIN OF BOETHIUS ; The Consolation of Philosophy

Book II, 2 / Book III, 9 / from Book III, 12

THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) : FROM THE WELSH OF ANEIRIN ; from The Gododdin

ANONYMOUS (published 1717) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, IV

CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771) : FROM THE HEBREW (via the Prayer Book) ; Psalm 8 / Psalm 114 / from Psalm 148

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 / Odes, Book I, 38 / Odes, Book II, 18

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad

'The Greeks like Fire, Birds, Flies' / 'The two Ajaxes like Oxen' / 'As when an architect...' / 'The Trojans outside Troy' / 'Patroclus spears Thestor'

The Odyssey ; 'Jove sends Hermes to Calypso' / 'Scylla and Charybdis'

FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY ; An Epitaph / By Heraclides / To the Swallow / On Late-Acquired Wealth

FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 38 / Odes, Book II, 10

FROM THE LATIN OF VINCENT BOURNE ; The Snail THE YOUNG GENTLEMEN OF MR RULE'S ACADEMY (published 1766) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 25

WILLIAM GIFFORD (1756-1826) : FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from Satires, IV / from Satires, X

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850) : FROM THE GREEK OF SIMONIDES ; Thermopylae

JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE (1769-1846) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, IV / Carmina, X

FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; 'Aesop's Fable of the Frogs'

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V

FROM THE ITALIAN OF MICHELANGELO ; 'Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep pace, '

FROM THE LATIN OF THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER ; 'Come, gentle Sleep, Death's image though thou art, '

SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) : FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE ; The Erl-King

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) : FROM THE GERMAN (ANONYMOUS) ; Westphalian Song

FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHILLER ; The Visit of the Gods WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864) : EXPANDED FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Mother, I cannot mind my wheel; '

FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V

Carmina, XXXIX

Carmina, LXXV

Carmina, LXXXV

FRANCIS HOWES (1776-1844) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; from Epistles, Book I, 7

LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO ; Aminta, Chorus I

FROM THE ITALIAN OF FRANCESCO REDI ; from Bacchus in Tuscany

LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON (1788-1824) : A BURLESQUE FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES ; The Nurse's Dole in the Medea

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book I, 1

FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; Hadrian's Address to his Soul when Dying

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) : FROM THE GREEK (formerly ascribed to Homer) ; from Homer's Hymn to Mercury

FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO ; To Stella / Kissing Helena

FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY ; Spirit of Plato

FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS ; 'Pan loved his neighbour Echo-' / 'When winds that move not its calm surface sweep'

FROM THE ITALIAN OF CAVALCANTI ; Sonnet: Guido Cavalcanti to Dante

FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ; Sonnet: Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti / The First Canzone of the Convito / from The Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII

FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE ; Faust

The Chorus of the Archangels / Shelley's' literal' version of the above JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) : FROM THE FRENCH OF RONSARD ; 'Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies, '

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849) : FROM THE GERMAN OF WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE ; Song

ELIZUR WRIGHT (1804-1885) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; The Wolf and the Dog / The City Rat and the Country Rat / The Man and his Image / The Eagle and the Beetle

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; Idylls, XI

FROM THE GERMAN OF HEINRICH HEINE ; 'My child, we were two children, '

EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF OMAR KHAYYAM ; from The Rubtiiyat

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad

Book IV, 446-56 / Book VI, 503-14 / Book VIII, 542-63 / Book XVIII, 202: Achilles Over the Trench

FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON ; Battle of Brunanburh

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863) : PARAPHRASED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 38 SIR THEODORE MARTIN (1816-1909) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epistles, Book I, 19

BRANWELL BRONTE (1817-1848) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 21 / Odes, Book I, 23

JOHN CONINGTON (1825-1869) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epistles, Book I, 5 / Epistles, Book I, 14

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI ; Cantica: Our Lord Christ: of order

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO GUINICELLI ; Canzone: Of the gentle Heart

FROM THE ITALIAN OF PIER MORONELLI DA FIORENZA ; Canzonetta: A bitter Song to his Lady

FROM THE ITALIAN OF NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI ; Prolonged Sonnet

FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ; Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni

FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS VILLON ; The Ballad of Dead Ladies

GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) : FROM THE GERMAN OF EDUARD MORICKE ; Beauty Rohtraut

CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY (1831-1884) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; The Fishermen

FROM THE GERMAN OF HEINRICH HEINE ; 'I crave an ampler, worthier sphere; '

WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) (with Eiriks Magnusson) : FROM THE OLD NORSE ; The Elder Edda

The First Lay of Gudrun / Part of the Lay of Sigrdifa / from The Short Lay of Sigurd ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909) : FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS VILLON ; The Ballad of Villon and Fat Madge / The Complaint of the Fair Armouress / The Dispute of the Heart and Body of Francois Villon

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 38 / Odes, Book III, 1

ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN (1859-1936) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book IV, 7

POEMS FROM THE AMERICAN INDIAN

DANIEL G. BRINTON (1837-1899) : FROM THE DELAWARE ; from Walam Olum or Red Score

WASHINGTON MATTHEWS (1843-1905) : FROM THE NAVAJO ; Magpie Song / Song to Promote Growth / The Song of Bekotsidi

FRANCES DENSMORE (1867-1957) : FROM THE CHIPPEWA ; Song / The Sky Clears / Spring Song / The Noise of the Village / Song of the Thunders / Song of the Trees / The Approach of the Storm / A Loon I Thought It Was

FROM THE PAPAGO ; Healing Song

FROM THE PAWNEE ; Dream Song

FROM THE ACOMAN ; Butterfly Song

FROM THE YUMAN ; 'The water bug...'

FRANK RUSSELL (1868-1903) : FROM THE PIMAN ; Song of the Fallen Deer / Foot Race Song THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; Sapphic Fragment

FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XXXI

LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY (1859-1932) : FROM THE IRISH ; The Hag of Beare

DOUGLAS HYDE (1860-1949) : FROM THE IRISH ; The Roman Earl

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) : ADAPTED FROM THE GREEK OF SOPHOCLES ; From Oedipus at Colonus

FROM THE LATIN OF JONATHAN SWIFT ; Swift's Epitaph

ARTHUR SYMONS (1865-1945) : FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL VERLAINE ; A la Promenade ; Cortege ; Femme et Chatte

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) : FROM THE GREEK OF POSEIDIPPOS ; Doricha

SIR EDWARD MARSH (1872-1953) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; The Hag and the Slavies

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN LE ROY ; 'I feel an. apparition, '

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Peer of the gods is that man, who' EZRA POUND (1885-1973) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI ; Sonnet VII

FROM THE PROVENCAL OF ARNAUT DANIEL ; Alba

FROM THE CHINESE OF WU-TI ; Liu-Ch'e

FROM THE CHINESE ; Cathay

Song of the Bowmen of Shu (Anon.) / The Beautiful Toilet (Anon.) / The River Merchant's Wife: a Letter (Li Po) / Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin (Li Po) / The Jewel Stairs' Grievance (Li Po) / Lament of the Frontier Guard (Li Po) / South-Folk in Cold Country (Anon.)

A TRAVESTY OF PROPERTIUS' LATIN ; Homage to Sextus Propertius

A CONDENSATION OF HOMER ; from The Odyssey, Book XI

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI ; Donna Me Prega

FROM THE CHINESE BOOK OF RITES ; 'Know then:'

FROM THE CHINESE OF THE CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS ; 'Pine boat a-shift' / Pedlar / 'Wide, Ho?' / Toujours la Politesse / Fraternitas / 'Pick a fern...' / 'Fine fish to net, ' / 'For an officer' / 'For deep deer-copse beneath Mount Han' / 'Full be the year, abundant be the grain, '

FROM THE GREEK OF SOPHOCLES ; Choruses from Women of Trachis

FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LXXXV HILDA DOOLITTLE (1886-1961) : FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES ; Chorus from Iphigeneia in Aulis

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; The Fox and the Crow / The Wolf and the Stork / The Donkey and the Lapdog / The Rat and the Elephant

ELIZABETH DARYUSH (1887-1977) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF JALAL UD DIN RUMI ; 'I am your mother, your mother's mother, '

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965) : FROM HIS OWN FRENCH ; Death by Water

FROM THE FRENCH OF SAINT-JOHN PERSE ; Anabasis, IV

ARTHUR WALEY (1889-1966) : FROM THE CHINESE (ANONYMOUS) ; The Ejected Wife ; 'Yellow dusk: messenger fails to appear.' ; 'In her boudoir, the young lady...' / Plucking the Rushes

FROM THE CHINESE OF PO CHU-I ; Lazy Man's Song / Starting Early from the Ch' U-Ch'eng Inn / Eating Bamboo-Shoots / Invitation to Hsiao Ch'U-Shih / The Cranes

FROM THE CHINESE OF SU TUNG-P'O ; On the Birth of his Son

JOHN PEALE BISHOP (1892-1944) : FROM THE GREEK OF EUENOS ; To a Swallow HUGH MACDIARMID (1892-1978) : FROM THE GERMAN OF RUDOLF LEONHARD ; The Dead Liebknecht

FROM THE CRETAN ; Under the Greenwood Tree / The Robber

BASIL BUNTING (1900- ) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF FIRDOSI ; 'When the sword of sixty comes nigh his head'

FROM THE PERSIAN OF RUDAKI ; 'Came to me-'

ROY CAMPBELL (1901-1957) : FROM THE SPANISH OF SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ ; Upon a Gloomy Night / from Coplas about the soul..

FROM THE FRENCH OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ; The Giantess / The Seven Old Men

JAMES BLAIR LEISHMAN (1902-1963) : FROM THE GERMAN OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN ; Half of Life / Ripe, Being Plunged into Fire..

FROM THE GERMAN OF RAINER MARIA RILKE ; Annunciation / Sonnets to Orpheus: Second Part

STEVIE SMITH (1903-1971) : FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; The Emperor Hadrian to his Soul

FRANK O'CONNOR (1903-1966) : FROM THE IRISH OF BRYAN MERRYMAN ; from The Midnight Court

CELIA and LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (the latter 1904-1978) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, VIII / Carmina, XL

KENNETH REXROTH (1905- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; '...about the cool water'

FROM THE GREEK OF ANYTE ; 'I, Hermes, have been set up'

FROM THE GREEK OF ANTIPATER OF SIDON ; 'Never again, Orpheus'

FROM THE GREEK OF SIMONIDES ; 'Stranger, when you come to'

FROM THE GREEK ; The Last Utterance of the Delphic Oracle SAMUEL BECKETT (1906- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE ; My Cousin Agueda / The Malefic Return

FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL ELUARD ; Lady Love

EDWARD MERYON WILSON (1906- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF LUIS DE GONGORA ; The First Solitude

'The Young Pilgrim finds Refuge with the Goatherds' / 'The River compared to an Oratorical Sentence' / 'The Wedding Feast'

WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (1907-1973) (with Paul B. Taylor) : FROM THE ICELANDIC ; from The Words of the All-Wise

ROBERT GARIOCH (1908- ) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIUSEPPE BELLI ; Campidoglio / Judgment Day / Sanct Christopher II

A. L. LLOYD (1908- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ; from Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM (1911- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SKYTHINOS ; 'And now you're ready...'

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book II, 5

FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; 'My little soul, my vagrant charmer'

FROM THE LATIN OF JANUS VITALIS PANORMITANUS ; Rome

FROM THE LATIN OF GEORGE BUCHANAN ; 'The Pope from penance purgatorial' / 'Neaera when I'm there is adamant, ' CZESLAW MILOSZ (1911- ) : FROM THE POLISH OF ZBIGNIEW HERBERT ; Elegy of Fortinbras

GEORGE JOHNSTON (1913- ) : FROM THE ICELANDIC ; The Saga of Gisli

'Wife, land of the wave fire, ' / 'Goddess of threads gladly'

CHARLES H. SISSON (1914- ) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Carmen Saeculare

DOUGLAS YOUNG (1913- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Minnie, I canna caa my wheel, ' / 'Caller rain frae abune' / 'Deid sail ye ligg, and ne'er a memorie'

FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL VALERY ; from The Kirkyaird by the Sea

SIDNEY GOODSIR SMITH (1915- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF TRISTAN CORBIERE ; from 'The Gangrel Rymour and the Pairdon of Sanct Anne'

DAVID GASCOYNE (1916- ) : FROM THE GERMAN OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN ; Patmos

TOM SCOTT (1916- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS VILLON ; Ballet O the Leddies O Langsyne / Ballat O the Hingit

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) : FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from The Vanity of Human Wishes

FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ; Brunetto Latini, 'Inferno, ' Canto XV

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIACOMO LEOPARDI ; Saturday Night in the Village

FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL VALERY ; Helen MARTIN BELL (1918- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JULES LA FORGUE ; Winter Coming On

EDWIN MORGAN (1920- ) : FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF SANDOR WEORES ; from The Lost Parasol

DONALD DAVIE (1922- ) : FROM THE POLISH OF ADAM MICKIEWICZ (via the prose version of George Rapall Noyes) ; The Year 1812

FROM THE FRENCH OF STEPHANE MALLARME ; Prose for Des Esseintes

MICHAEL HAMBURGER (1924- ) : FROM THE GERMAN OF PAUL CELAN ; Your Hand Full of Hours / Psalm / ...plashes the fountain / Thread Suns / Etched Away From / Leap-Centuries / Irish

ALAN NEAME (1924- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN COCTEAU ; from Leoun

PETER WHIGHAM (1925- ) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Attis

CHRISTOPHER LOGUE (1926- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; from Patrocleia (The Iliad, Book XVI)

CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON (1926- ) : FROM THE GERMAN OF PAUL CELAN ; The Jugs / Fugue of Death OMAR POUND (1926- ) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF IBN HAZM AL-ANDALUSI ; Twice times then is now

GUY DAVENPORT (1927- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Come out of Crete' / The Marriage of Hector and Andromache' / [ ]

FROM THE LATIN OF ARCHILOCHUS ; 'This island, ' / 'Like Odysseus under the ram' / 'Decks awash, ' / 'May he lose his way on the cold sea'

WILLIAM S. MERWIN (1927- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE ; The Mirabeau Bridge

FROM THE RUSSIAN OF OSIP MANDELSTAM (with Clarence Brown) ; Batyushkov / Ariosto

CHARLES TOMLINSON (1927- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF ANTONIO MACHADO (with Henry Gifford) ; Lament of the Virtues and Verses on Account of the Death of Don Guido

FROM THE ITALIAN OF LUCIO PICCOLO ; Veneris Venefica Agrestis

FROM THE SPANISH OF OCTAVIO PAZ ; Landscape

JOHN MONTAGUE (1929- ) : (after Kuno Meyer) FROM THE IRISH ; The Vision of MacConglinne

PETER PORTER (1929- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF LUCILIUS ; 'Lean Gaius, who was thinner than a straw'

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book I, 43 / Epigrams, Book II, 52 / Epigrams, Book IV, 18 ELAINE FEINSTEIN' (1930- ) (with Angela Livingstone) : FROM THE RUSSIAN OF MARINA TSVETAYEVA ; from The Poem of the End

TED HUGHES (1930- ) (with Janos Csokits) : FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF JANOS PILINSZKY ; The Desert of Love / Fable

JON STALLWORTHY (1935- ) (with Peter France) : FROM THE RUSSIAN OF ALEXANDER BLOK ; A Red Glow in the Sky / from Dances of Death

CHRISTOPHER PILLING (1936- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF TRISTAN CORBIERE ; from Litany of Sleep

KEITH BOSLEY (1937- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF STEPHANE MALLARME ; The Glazier / Album Leaf

TONY HARRISON (1937- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF PALLADAS ; 'Loving the rituals that keep men close, ' / 'Racing, reckoning fingers flick' / 'Poor devil that I am, ...' / 'Grammar commences with a 5-line curse:' / 'When you send out invitations, ...'

JAMES GREENE (1938- ) : FROM THE RUSSIAN OF OSIP MANDELSTAM ; Notre Dame / 'Phaedra' / 'Not yet dead, not yet alone, '

MICHAEL ALEXANDER (1941- ) : FROM THE EARLY ENGLISH ; The Seafarer