First-Line Index to the 1633 Edition of Poems, by J.D.
Donne Variorum siglum A
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identified by (a) Donne Variorum short form (noncan = noncanonical), (b) heading plus first line, and (c) location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.).
This index was last modified on February 28, 2003.
INFINITATI SACRUM etc. (Epistle to Metem) A3-A4 THE PRINTER TO THE UNDERSTANDERS. A1-A2 (second sig. A) Hexastichon Bibliopolae%L [I see in his last preached] -- Jo. Mar. A2v Metem Metempsychosis ["I sing the progress of a deathless soul"] 001-27 HOLY SONNETS./La Corona. (a Heading) 028 Cor1 "Deign at my hands" 028 Cor2 Annunciation ["Salvation to all that will is nigh"] 028-9 Cor3 Nativity ["Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb"] 029 Cor4 Temple ["With his kind mother who partakes thy woe"] 030 Cor5 Crucifying ["By miracles exceeding power of man"] 030-1 Cor6 Resurrection ["Moist with one drop of thy blood"] 031 Cor7 Ascension ["Salute the last and everlasting day"] 031-2 HSDue "As due by many titles" 032 HSBlack "O my black soul" 033 HSScene "This is my play's last scene" 033-4 HSRound "At the round earth's imagined corners" 034 HSMin "If poisonous minerals" 035 HSDeath "Death be not proud" 035-6 HSSpit "Spit in my face" 036 HSWhy "Why are we by all creatures" 037 HSWhat "What if this present" 037-8 HSBatter "Batter my heart" 038 HSWilt "Wilt thou love God" 039 HSPart "Father part of his double interest" 039-40 Hero Hero and Leander ["Both robbed of air"] 040 Pyr Pyramus and Thisbe ["Two by themselves each other"] 040 Niobe Niobe ["By children's birth and death"] 040 Ship A Burnt Ship ["Out of a fired ship"] 041 Wall Fall of a Wall ["Under an undermined and shot-bruised wall"] 041 Beggar A Lame Beggar ["I am unable, yonder beggar cries"] 041 SelfAc A Self Accuser ["Your mistress, that you follow whores"] 041 Licent A Licentious Person ["Thy sins and hairs"] 042 Antiq Antiquary ["If in his study"] 042 Disinher Disinherited ["Thy father all from thee"] 042 Phrine Phrine ["Thy flattering picture, Phrine"] 042 Philo An Obscure Writer ["Philo with twelve years' study"] 042 Klock Klockius ["Klockius so deeply hath sworn"] 042 Martial Raderus ["Why this man gelded Martial"] 043 Merc Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ["Like Aesop's fellow slaves"] 043 Ralph Ralphius ["Compassion in the world again is bred"] 043 ElJeal Jealosy ["Fond woman which would'st have thy husband die"] 044-5 ElAnag The Anagram ["Marry and love thy Flavia"] 045-7 ElChange Change ["Although thy hand and faith"] 047-8 ElPerf The Perfume ["Once and but once found in thy company"] 049-51 ElPict His Picture ["Here take my picture"] 051-52 Sorrow Elegia ["Sorrow, who to this house"] 052-3 ElServe "Oh, let me not serve so" 053-5 ElNat "Nature's lay idiot" 055-6 Storm The Storm ["Thou which art I"] 056-9 Calm The Calm ["Our storm is past"] 059-61 HWKiss To Sir Henry Wotton ["Sir, more then kisses"] 061-3 Cross The Cross ["Since Christ embraced"] 064-6 Mark Elegy on the Lady Markham ["Man is the world"] 066-8 BoulRec Elegy on Mrs. Boulstred ["Death, I recant"] 069-71 HG To Sr. Henry Goodyere ["Who makes the past a pattern"] 072-4 RWThird To Mr. R. W. ["Like one who in her third widdowhood"] 074-5 HWNews To Sir Henry Wotton ["Here's no more news"] 076-7 BedfReas To the Countess of Bedford ["Reason is our soul's left hand"] 077-79 BedfRef To the Countess of Bedford ["You have refined me"] 079-82 EdHerb To Sir Edward Herbert ["Man is a lump"] 082-4 BedfWrit To the Countess of Bedford ["To have written then"] 084-7 BedfTwi To the Countess of Bedford: On New-Year's Day ["This twilight of two years"] 087-90 HuntMan To the Countess of Huntingdon ["Man to God's image"] 090-3 TWHail To Mr. T. W. ["All hail sweet poet"] 093-4 TWHarsh To Mr. T. W. ["Haste thee harsh verse"] 095 TWPreg To Mr. T. W. ["Pregnant again"] 095-6 TWHence "At once, from hence, my lines and I depart," (printed as if a continuation of TWPreg) 096 CB To Mr. C. B. ["Thy friend whom thy deserts"] 097 SB To Mr. S. B. ["O thou which to search"] 098 BB To Mr. B.B. ["Is not thy sacred hunger"] 099-100 RWSlumb To Mr. R. W. ["If as mine is thy life a slumber be"] 100-01 ILRoll To Mr. I.L. ["Of that short roll"] 101-2 ILBlest To Mr. I.P. ["Blest are your north parts"] 102 ED To E. of D. with Six Holy Sonnets ["See, Sir, how as the sun's"] 103 HWVenice To Sir H. W. at his Going Ambassador to Venice ["After those reverend papers"] 104-5 MHPaper To Mrs. M. H. ["Mad paper stay"] 106-08 BedfHon To the Countess of Bedford ["Honor is so sublime"] 108-10 BedfDead To the Countess of Bedford: Begun in France ["Though I be dead and buried"] 111 Carey A Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Rich ["Here where by all"] 112-5 Sal To the Countess of Salisbury ["Fair, great, and good"] 115-18 EpEliz An Epithalamion . . . on the Lady Elizabeth ["Hail, Bishop Valentine"] 118-22 Eclog Eclogue at the Marriage of the Earl of Sommerset ["Unseasonable man, statue of ice"] 123-35 EpLin Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn ["The sunbeams in the east"] 135-8 Har (Ltr) To the Countesse of Bedford. [Madame,/ I have learn'd etc.] 139 Har Obsequies to the Lord Harrington ["Fair soul, which wast not only"] 140-48 ElComp The Comparison ["As the sweet sweat of roses in a still"] 149-50 ElAut The Autumnal ["No spring nor summer beauty"] 151-2 Image "Image of her whom I love" 153 Henry Elegy on the untimely Death of . . . Prince Henry ["Look to me, Faith"] 154-7 noncan Davison's "Psalm 137" ["By Euphrates flowry side"] 157-61 Res Resurrection imperfect ["Sleep, sleep, old sun"] 161-2 Ham An Hymn to the Saints and to the Marquis Hamilton ["Whether that soul which now comes"] 162-3 Ham ltr "S%+IR, / I%+ Presume you rather try what you can doe in me, then what [164] 148 noncan Basse's "An Epitaph upon Shakespeare" ["Renowned Chaucer lie a thought more nigh"] [165] 149 Sappho Sappho to Philaenis ["Where is that holy fire"] 166-68 Annun Upon the Annunciation and Passion ["Tamely frail body"] 168-69 Goodf Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ["Let man's soul be a sphere"] 170-71 Lit A Litany ["Father of heaven and him"] 172-85 Mess The Message ["Send home my long strayed eyes"] 186 Noct A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day ["'Tis the year's midnight"] 187-88 Witch Witchcraft by a Picture ["I fix mine eye on thine"] 189 Bait The Bait ["Come live with me"] 190-91 Appar The Apparition ["When by thy scorn"] 191 Broken The Broken Heart ["He is stark mad"] 192-3 ValMourn A Valediction Forbidding Mourning ["As virtuous men pass mildly away"] 193-4 GoodM The Good Morrow ["I wonder by my troth"] 195 SGo Song ["Go, and catch a falling star"] 196-7 WomCon Woman's Constancy ["Now thou has loved me one whole day"] 197-8 Under The Undertaking ["I have done one braver thing"] 198-9 SunRis The Sun Rising ["Busie old fool, unruly sun"] 199-200 Ind The Indifferent ["I can love both fair and brown"] 200-01 LovUsury Love's Usury ["For every hour that thou wilt spare me"] 201-2 Canon The Canonization ["For God's sake hold your tongue"] 202-4 Triple The Triple Fool ["I am two fools, I know"] 204-5 LovInf Lovers' Infiniteness ["If yet I have not all thy love"] 205-6 SSweet Song ["Sweetest love, I do not go"] 206-8 Leg The Legacy ["When I died last"] 208-9 Fever A Feaver ["Oh do not die"] 209-10 Air Air and Angels ["Twice or thrice had I loved"] 211-12 Break Break of Day ["'Tis true, 'tis day"] 212 Anniv The Anniversary ["All kings and all their favorites"] 213-14 ValName A Valediction of my Name in the Window ["My name engraved herein"] 214-17 Twick Twickenham garden ["Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears"] 218-19 ValBook A Valediction of the Book ["I'll tell thee now"] 219-21 Commun Community ["Good we must love"] 222 LovGrow Love's Growth ["I scarce believe my love to be so pure"] 223-4 LovExch Love's Exchange ["Love, any devil else but you"] 224-5 ConfL Confined Love ["Some man unworthy"] 226 Dream The Dream ["Dear love, for nothing less"] 227-8 ValWeep A Valediction of Weeping ["Let me pour forth"] 228-9 LovAlch Love's Alchemy ["Some that have deeper digged"] 229-30 Flea The Flea ["Mark but this flea"] 230-1 Curse The Curse ["Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams"] 231-2 Praise To the Praise of the Dead and the Anatomy (by Joseph Hall) ["Well died the world"] 233-5 FirAn The First Anniversary. An Anatomy of the World ["When that rich soul"] 235-51 FunEl A Funeral Elegy ["'Tis lost to trust a tomb"] 252-55 [256 blank] Harb The Harbinger to the Progress (by Joseph Hall) ["Two souls move here"] 257-9 SecAn The Second Anniversary. Of the Progress of the Soul ["Nothing could make me sooner"] 260-77 Ecst The Ecstasy ["Where, like a pillow on a bed"] 277-80 LovDeity Love's Deity ["I long to talk with some old"] 280-81 LovDiet Love's Diet ["To what a cumbersome unwieldiness"] 281-82 Will The Will ["Before I sigh my last gasp"] 283-5 Fun The Funeral ["Whoever comes to shroud me"] 285-6 Blos The Blossom ["Little thinkest thou"] 286-7 Prim The Primrose ["Upon this primrose hill"] 288-9 Relic The Relic ["When my grave is broke up again"] 289-90 Damp The Damp ["When I am dead"] 290-1 Dissol The Dissolution ["She is dead"] 291-2 Jet A Jet Ring Sent ["Thou art not so black"] 292-3 NegLov Negative Love ["I never stooped so low"] 293 Prohib The Prohibition ["Take heed of loving me"] 294 Compu The Computation ["For the first twenty years"] 295 Expir The Expiration ["So, so, break off"] 295 BoulNar Elegy upon the Death of Mrs. Boulstred ["Language thou art too narrow"] 296-98 BedfShe Elegy to the Lady Bedford ["You that are she"] 298-9 ElExpost The Expostulation ["To make the doubt clear"] 300-02 Para The Paradox ["No lover saith, I love"] 302-3 Christ A Hymn to Christ at the Author's Last Going into Germany ["In what torn ship soever"] 304-5 Lam The Lamentations of Jeremy ["How sits this city"] 306-23 Sat1 "Away thou fondling motley humorist" 325-28 Sat2 "Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate" 329-32 Sat3 "Kind pity chokes my spleen" 333-96 Sat4 "Well, I may now receive and die" 337-45 Sat5 "Thou shalt not laugh in this leaf, Muse" 346-49 Father A Hymn to God the Father "[Wilt thou forgive"] 350 [Prose letters follow] HEN. GOODEERE. [Etiam vulgari lingua scriptae] 351-52 To Sir H. G. [I send not my Letters as tribute] 353-55 To Sir H. G. [Sir,/ Nature hath made all bodies like] 356-58 To Sir H. G. [Sir,/ This Tuesday morning, which hath brought] 359-61 To Sr H. G. [Sir,/ In the history or stile of friendship] 362-63 To Sr H. G. [Sir,/ It should be no interruption to your pleasures] 364-66 To the Countesse of Bedford [Happiest and worthyest Lady,/ I do not remember that] 367 To Sr H. G. [Sir,/ Because I am in a place and season] 368-69 To Sir H. G. [Sir,/ I hope you are now welcome to London] 370-72 [Elegies on the Author follow] To The Memorie of My Ever Desired Friend Dr. Donne. [To have liv'd eminent] --by H.K. 373-75 To the deceased Author etc. [When thy Loose raptures] -- by Tho: Browne. 376 On the death of Dr DONNE. [I Cannot blame those men] -- by Edw. Hyde. 377 On Doctor Donne, by Dr C. B. of O. [Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee] 378 An Elegie upon the incomparable Dr DONNE [All is not well etc.]--HEN. VALENTINE. 379-81 An Elegie upon Dr Donne. [Is Donne, great Donne deceas'd?] --IZ. WA. 382-84 An Elegie upon the death....By Mr. Tho: Carie. [Can we not force] 385-88 An Elegie on Dr. DONNE: By Sir Lucius Carie. [Poets attend, the Elegie I sing] 389-92 On Dr. DONNES death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford. [Who shall presume] 393-96 Vpon Mr J. Donne, and his Poems. [Who dares say thou art dead] --Arth. Wilson. 397-99 In memory of Doctor Donne: By Mr R. B. [Donne dead? 'Tis here reported] 400-03 Epitaph [Heere lies Deane Donne] 403-04 Epitaph upon Dr. DONNE, By Endy: Porter. [This decent Urne a sad inscription] 405-06 FINISH heading A3v-A4 = EPISTLE. " A1v-A2 = The Printer/ to the Reader. Note: running head pp. 2-323, 350 = Poems " " pp. 325-49 = Satyres " " pp. 351-72 = Letters " " pp. 373-405 = Elegies (v)/ upon the Author (r) heading p. 406 = Elegies &.
POEMS NOT INCLUDED IN 1633
AltVic A Letter Written by Sir H. G. and J. D. Alternis Vicibus ["Since every tree begins"]
Amic Amicissimo et Meritissimo Ben Jonson ["Quod arte ausus es hic tua"]
AutHook Ad Autorem ["Non eget Hookerus"]
AutJos Ad Autorem ["Emendare cupis Joseph"]
BedfCab Epitaph on Himself: To the Countess of Bedford ["That I might make your cabinet"]
Cales Cales and Guiana ["If you from spoil"]
Coryat Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities ["Oh to what height"]
EG To Mr. E. G. ["Even as lame things"]
EgDD Epigraph from Death's Duel ["Corporis haec animae"]
Elegies:
ElBed Going to Bed ["Come, Madam, come"]
ElBrac The Bracelet ["Not that in color it was like thy hair"]
ElFatal On His Mistress ["By our first strange and fatal interview"]
ElPart His Parting From Her ["Since she must go"]
ElProg Love's Progress ["Whoever loves, if he do not propose"]
ElVar Variety ["The heavens rejoice in motion"]
ElWar Love's War ["Till I have peace with thee"]
EtAD Epitaph on Ann Donne ["Annae Georgii More de filiae"]
EtED Epitaph on Elizabeth Drury ["Quo pergas, viator"]
EtRD Epitaph on Robert Drury ["Roberti Druri/ quo vix alter"]
EtSP Epitaph in Saint Paul's ["Ioannes Donne/ Sac: Theol: profess:"]
Fare Farewell to Love ["Whilst yet to prove"]
Faust Faustinus ["Faustinus keeps his sister"]
Gaz Translated out of Gazaeus ["God grant thee thine own wish"]
GHerb To Mr. George Herbert With One of My Seals ["Qui prius assuetus serpentum"]
Heart "When my heart was mine own"
Holy Sonnets:
HSLittle "I am a little world"
HSMade "Thou hast made me"
HSShe "Since she whom I loved"
HSShow "Show me dear Christ"
HSSighs "O might those sighs"
HSSouls "If faithful souls"
HSVex "O to vex me"
HuntUn To the Countess of Huntingdon ["That unripe side of earth"]
HWHiber H. W. in Hibernia Belligeranti ["Went you to conquer?"]
Ignatius, verse from
IgAver "Aversa facie Janum referre"
IgFeath "Feathers or straws swim on the water's face"
IgFlow "As a flower wet with last night's dew"
IgLark "The lark by busy and laborious ways"
IgNoise "With so great noise and horror"
IgOper "Operoso tramite scandent"
IgPiece "That the least piece which thence doth fall"
IgPlum "Aut plumam, aut paleam"
IgQual "Qualis hesterno madefacta rore"
IgResemb "Resemble Janus with a diverse face"
IgSport "My little wandering sportful soul"
IgTanto "Tanto fragore boatuque"
InAA Inscription in Corvinus' Album Amicorum ["In propria venit"]
InLI Inscription in Bible at Lincoln's Inn ["In Bibliotheca Hospitii"]
Jug The Juggler ["Thou callest me effeminate"]
Lect A Lecture upon the Shadow ["Stand still and I will read"]
Liar The Liar ["Thou in the fields walkest"]
Libro De Libro Cum Mutuaretur ["Doctissimo Amicissimoque v. D. D. Andrews"]
Macaron In Eundem Macaronicon ["Quot, dos, haec, linguists"]
MHMary To the Lady Magdalen Herbert, of St. Mary Magdalen ["Her of your name"]
RWEnvy To Mr. R. W. ["Kindly I envy thy songs"]
RWMind To Mr. R. W. ["Muse not that by thy mind"]
RWZeal To Mr. R. W. ["Zealously my muse"]
SelfL Self Love ["He that cannot choose but love"]
Sickness A Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness ["Since I am coming"]
Sidney Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney ["Eternal God, (for whom who ever dare...)"]
Stat Stationes (from Devotions) ["Insultus morbi primus"]
Tilman To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders ["Thou whose diviner soul"]
Token Sonnet. The Token ["Send me some token"]
Walton's Lives, verse from WaltDeo "Deo opt. max. benigno"
WaltMult "Multiplicate sunt super"
WaltQuid "Quid habeo quid non acceppi"
Wing Sir John Wingfield ["Beyond th'old pillars"]