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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.
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