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Poetry of Witness POETRY OF WITNESS The Tradition in English, 1^,00—2001 EDITED BY Carolyn Forche AND Duncan Wu W. W. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK • LONDON Contents Introduction by Duncan Wu i Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art by Carolyn Forche 17 A Note on Texts 27 Acknowledgments 29 I • THE ACE OF TYRANNY 31 St. Thomas More (1478-1535) 34 Lewis the Lost Lover 35 Davy the Dicer 35 Sir Thomas Wyatt (c. 1503-1542) 36 Sometime I fled the fire that me brent 37 Who list his wealth and ease retain 37 In court to serve, decked with fresh array 38 The pillar perished is whereto I leant 39 The flaming sighs that boil within my breast 40 Sighs are my food, drink are my tears 41 Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley (b. in or before 1509, d. 1549) 41 Forgetting God 42 John Harington (c. 1517-1582) 43 A Sonnet Written Upon My Lord Admiral Seymour 43 viii • Contents Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517-1547) 44 So cruel a prison how could betide, alas 45 Hi' Assyrians' King, in peace with foul desire 47 Psalm 55 48 The storms are passed, these clouds are overblown 49 Anne Askew (c. 1521-1546) 5o Ballad Written in Newgate 5i Elizabeth I (1533-1603) 53 Writ With Charcoal on a Shutter at Woodstock 54 Written With a Diamond on a Window at Woodstock 54 Sir Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) 55 The Faerie Queene Book 5, Canto 12 (extract) 56 Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) 64 My body in the walls captived 65 The End of the Books of the Ocean's Love to Cynthia, and the Beginning of the 22nd Book, Entreating of Sorrow 66 What Is Our Life? 67 Even such is time, which takes in trust 67 Chidiock Tichborne (1558-1586) 68 My prime of youth is but a frost of cares 69 Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612) 69 Of the Wars in Ireland 70 Of Treason 71 A Groom of the Chamber's Religion in Henry VIII's Time 71 St. Robert Southwell, SJ (1561-1595) 72 The Burning Babe 72 Times Go by Turns 74 Decease Release 75 I Die Alive 76 I Die Without Desert 77 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 78 Hamlet Act I, scene v (extract) 80 Sonnet 107 83 Contents • ix Christopher Marlowe (bap. 1564, d. 1593) 84 Edward II (extract) 85 • Hero and Leander (extract) 89 Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) 92 To Mr. John Donne 93 Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset, Then Falling From Favor 94 John Donne (1572-1631) 95 To Mr. Henry Wotton ("Here's no more news than virtue") 96 To Mr. Henry Wotton ("Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls") 97 The Anniversary 99 Batter my heart, three-personed God 101 Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward. 101 BenJonson (1572-1637) 103 Volpone Act I, scene i (extract) 104 On Sir John Roe 107 To William, Lord Monteagle 108 Inviting a Friend to Supper 108 On Something That Walks Somewhere no On Spies no II • THE CIVILWAR m Edward Herbert, first Baron Herbert of Cherbury and first Baron Herbert of Castle Island (i582?-i648) 114 14 October 1644 114 George Wither (1588-1667) 115 Britain's Remembrancer Canto 2 (extract) 116 Canto 4 (extract) 118 Campo-Musae (extracts) 120 Robert Herrick (bap. 1591, d. 1674) 123 Farewell the Frost, or Welcome the Spring 124 His Cavalier 124 x • Contents To the King Upon His Coming With His Army Into the West 125 The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 125 To the King, Upon His Taking of Leicester 126 Upon Mr. William Lawes, the Rare Musician 126 His Loss 127 His Return to London 127 Francis Quarles (1592-1644) 128 Know then, my brethren, heaven is clear 128 Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (1602-1666) 131 To Prince Charles 131 To the People of England 132 Edmund Waller (1606-1687) 133 To Chloris 134 Go, lovely rose! 134 John Milton (1608-1674) 135 When the Assault Was Intended to the City 136 On the Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing Certain Treatises 137 On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester 138 To the Lord General Cromwell 139 To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 139 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 140 Sir John Suckling (bap. 1609, d. 1641?) 141 Against Fruition 141 'Tis now since I sat down before 143 The Invocation 144 Gerrard Winstanley (bap. 1609, d. 1676) 145 The Diggers' Song 146 The winter's past, the springtime now appears 148 Thomas Fairfax, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1612-1671) 148 On the Fatal Day, 30 January 1649 149 Upon the New Building at Appleton 149 Shortness of Life 150 Contents • xi James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) 150 On the Faithlessness and Venality of the Times 151 Can little beasts with lions roar 152 Upon the Death of Charles I 152 On Hearing What Was His Sentence 152 Anne Bradstreet (1612/13-1672) 153 A Dialogue Between Old England and New (extracts) 154 Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616—1704) 156 Loyalty Confined 157 Richard Lovelace (1617-1657) 160 To Althea From Prison 161 To Lucasta From Prison 162 To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 164 Sing out, pent souls, sing cheerfully! 165 Sonnet 165 Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) J66 The Civil War Book III (extracts) 167 Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) 169 Epitaph on Colonel John Hutchinson 170 Upon Two Pictures: One, a Gallant Man Dressed up in Armor; the Other, the Same Honorable Person Looking Through a Prison Grate and Leaning on a Bible 171 Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) 172 An Elegy on the Death of Mr. RW, Slain in the Late Unfortunate Differences at Rowton Heath, Near Chester, 1645 173 Misery 176 The Retreat 180 Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) 181 The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn 182 An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland 185 Upon Appleton House (extracts) 190 . The Garden 200 XII • Contents Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Upon Tyne (i623?-i673) 202 A Description of Civil Wars 204 John Bunyan (bap. 1628, d. 1688) 205 The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I The Authors Apologyfor His Book (extract) 206 The Pilgrims Progress, Part II (extract) Apples were they with which we were beguiled 206 He that is down needs fear no fall 207 Who would true valour see 207 III o THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY 209 John Dryden (1631-1700) 213 Absalom andAchitophel (extracts) 214 Katherine Philips (1632-1664) 217 A Retired Friendship. To Ardelia. 218 On 3 September 1651 219 Upon the Double Murder of King Charles I, in Answer to a Libelous Copy of Rhymes by Vavasor Powell 220 On the Numerous Access of the English to Wait Upon the King in Flanders 222 Aphra Behn (?i640-i689) 223 On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks 224 Song to a New Scotch Tune 227 John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) 228 The Disabled Debauchee 229 A Ramble in St. James's Park 231 Upon Nothing 236 Daniel Defoe (i66o?-i73i) 238 Reformation of Manners: A Satire (extract) 238 A Hymn to the Pillory (extracts) 240 Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) 242 The Change 242 The Loss 244 A Song on Grief 244 A Nocturnal Reverie 245 Contents • xm Matthew Prior (1664-1721) 247 True Statesmen 247 IV • REVOLUTIONARY UPHEAVAL 249 John Newton (1725-1807) 254 Amazing Grace! 254 Joseph Mather (1737-1804) 255 God Save Great Thomas Paine 256 The Norfolk Street Riots 258 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) 260 • On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792 261 The Rights of Woman 262 Hannah More (1745-1833) 264 Slavery: A Poem (extract) 265 Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797) 266 Miscellaneous Verses 267 James Field Stanfield (1749-1824) 271 The Guinea Voyage, Book 3 Slaves in the Hold (extracts) 271 Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) 273 The Emigrants, Book 2 (extracts) 274 John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) 277 The Deserter's Meditation 278 Cushla-Ma-Chree 279 Philip Freneau (1752-1832) 279 The British Prison-Ship Canto III (extract) 280 To Sir Toby 282 Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) 284 On Being Brought From Africa to America 284 To the Rt. Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America 285 xiv • Contents William Drennan (1754-1820) 286 Erin 287 The Wake of William Orr 289 Ann Yearsley (1756-1806) 291 A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (extract) 292 William Blake (1757-1827) 294 The Little Black Boy 295 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (extract) A Song of Liberty 296 London 298 John Marjoribanks (1758/1759-1796) 298 Slavery: An Essay in Verse (extract) 299 Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) 300 Lines by Roucher 301 Lines by a Young Man to His Mistress 302 John Thelwall (1764-1834) 304 The Source of Slavery 305 Stanzas on Hearing for Certainty That We Were to Be Tried for High Treason 305 The Cell 306 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 307 Descriptive Sketches (extract) , 308 September 1st, 1802 311 The Prelude Book 6 (extract) 311 Book 9 (extracts) 314 Book 10 (extracts) 315 James Orr (1770-1816) 323 Donegore Hill 324 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 329 Kubla Khan 330 Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue 332 The Devil's Thoughts (co-authored with Robert Southey) 336 Contents • xv Robert Emmet (1778-1803) 339 'Arbour Hill 340 • Hie Exile 341 Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) 342 The Star-Spangled Banner 342 Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 344 To Hampstead ("Sweet upland, to whose walks with fond repair") 345 • To Hampstead ("The baffled spell that bound me is undone") 345 To Hampstead ("As one who after long and far-spent years") 346 Eliza Lee Follen (1787-1860) 346 For the Fourth of July 347 Children in Slavery 348 The Slave Boy's Wish 349 Samuel Bamford (1788-1872) 350 The Lancashire Hymn 352 The Song of the Slaughter 354 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 356 The Mask of Anarchy 357 Ode to the West Wind 370 England in 1819 373 Song to the Men of England 373 John Clare (1793-1864) 375 The Village Minstrel (extract) 376 The Moors 377 I dreaded walking where there was no path 379 John Keats (1795-1821) 380 Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles's Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing 381 Written on the Day That Mr.
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