Lucasta

1649

Richard Lovelace's 1649 volume of Cavalier verse, assembled while the poet was imprisoned for his royalism: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, To Althea, from Prison with its stone walls do not a prison make, and the songs, sonnets, and epodes around them.

Introduction
Biographical Notice
To My Dear Friend the Author
Upon My Noble Friend Richard Lovelace, Esq., His Being in Holland. An Invitation
Additional Notes
Verses Addressed to the Author
On the Poems
Carmen Eroticum
To My Noble and Most Ingenious Friend, Colonel Richard Lovelace, upon His "Lucasta."
Another, upon the Poems
To His Much Honoured Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, on His Poems
To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, upon His Poems
To Colonel Richard Lovelace, on the Publishing of His Ingenious Poems
To the Honorable, Valiant, and Ingenious Colonel Richard Lovelace, on His Exquisite Poems
To His Honoured and Ingenious Friend, Colonel Richard Lovelace, on His "Lucasta."
To My Dear Brother, Colonel Richard Lovelace
To My Much Honored Cozen, Mr. Stanley, upon His Poems Set by Mr. John Gamble
De Domino Richardo Lovelacio, Armigero Et Chiliarcha, Viro Incomparabili
Ad Eundem
Song. Set by Mr. John Laniere. To Lucasta. Going to the Warres
A Paradox
Song. Set by Mr. Henry Lawes. To Amarantha; That She Would Dishevell Her Haire
Sonnet. Set by Mr. Hudson
Ode. Set by Dr. John Wilson. To Lucasta. The Rose
Love Conquer'd. A Song. Set by Mr. Henry Lawes
A Loose Saraband. Set by Mr. Henry Lawes
Orpheus to Woods. Song. Set by Mr. Curtes
Orpheus to Beasts. Song. Set by Mr. Curtes
Dialogue. Lucasta, Alexis. Set by Mr. John Gamble
Sonnet. Set by Mr. William Lawes
Lucasta Weeping. Song. Set by Mr. John Laneere
To Lucasta. From Prison an Epode
Lucasta's Fanne, with a Looking-Glasse in It
Lucasta, Taking the Waters at Tunbridge
To Lucasta. Ode Lyrick
Lucasta Paying Her Obsequies to the Chast Memory of My Dearest Cosin Mrs. Bowes Barne[s]
Upon the Curtaine of Lucasta's Picture, It Was Thus Wrought
Lucasta's World. Epode
The Apostacy of One, and but One Lady
Amyntor from Beyond the Sea to Alexis
Calling Lucasta from Her Retirement. Ode
Amarantha. A Pastorall
To Ellinda, That Lately I Have Not Written
Ellinda's Glove. Sonnet
Being Treated. To Ellinda
To Ellinda. Vpon His Late Recovery. A Paradox
To Chloe, Courting Her for His Friend
Gratiana Dauncing and Singing
Amyntor's Grove, His Chloris, Arigo, and Gratiana. An Elogie
The Scrutinie. Song. Set by Mr. Thomas Charles
Princesse Loysa Drawing
A Forsaken Lady to Her False Servant That Is Disdained by His New Mistriss
The Grassehopper. To My Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode
An Elegie. On the Death of Mrs. Cassandra Cotton, Only Sister to Mr. C. Cotton
The Vintage to the Dungeon. A Song. Set by Mr. William Lawes
On the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Filmer. An Elegiacall Epitaph
To My Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly: on That Excellent Picture of His Majesty and the Duke of Yorke, Drawne by Him at Hampton-Court
The Lady A. L. My Asylum in a Great Extremity
A Lady with a Falcon on Her Fist. To the Honourable My Cousin A[nne] L[ovelace.]
A Prologue to the Scholars. A Comaedy Presented at the White Fryers
The Epilogue
Against the Love of Great Ones
To Althea. From Prison. Song. Set by Dr. John Wilson
Sonnet. To Generall Goring, After the Pacification at Berwicke. A La Chabot
Sir Thomas Wortley's Sonnet Answered
The Answer
A Guiltlesse Lady Imprisoned: After Penanced. Song. Set by Mr. William Lawes
To His Deare Brother Colonel F. L. Immoderately Mourning My Brothers Untimely Death at Carmarthen
To a Lady That Desired Me I Would Beare My Part with Her in a Song. Madam A. L
"To His Fairest Valentine Mrs. A. L
Valiant Love
A La Bourbon. Done Moy Plus De Pitie Ou Plus De Creaulte, Car Sans CI Ie Ne Puis Pas Viure, Ne Morir
The Faire Begger
[a Dialogue Betwixt Cordanus and Amoret, on a Lost Heart
Commendatory and Other Verses, Prefixed to Various Publications Between 1638 and 1647
Clitophon and Lucippe Translated. To the Ladies
To My Truely Valiant, Learned Friend; Who in His Booke Resolv'd the Art Gladiatory into the Mathematicks
To Fletcher Reviv'd
Lucasta
London
The Dedication
Sir
Dudley Posthumus-Lovelace
Her Reserved Looks
Lucasta Laughing
Night
Love Inthron'd
Her Muffe
A Black Patch on Lucasta's Face
To Lucasta
Lucasta at the Bath
The Ant
Chorus. Then Understand You Not (Fair Choice) This Language Without Tongue or Voice?
Courante Monsieur
A Loose Saraband
The Falcon
Love Made in the First Age
Song
Ode
The Duell
Cupid Far Gone
A Mock Song
A Fly Caught in a Cobweb
A Fly About a Glasse of Burnt Claret
Female Glory
A Dialogue. Lute and Voice
Cha. W
The Toad and Spyder
The Snayl
The Triumphs of Philamore and Amoret
Being at Berisford, at His House in Staffordshire. From London
Advice to My Best Brother, Coll: Francis Lovelace
Paris's Second Judgement
Peinture
An Anniversary on the Hymeneals of My Noble Kinsman, Tho. Stanley, Esquire
On Sanazar's Being Honoured with Six Hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for Composing an Eligiack Hexastick of the City
Commendatory Verses, Prefixed to Various Publications Between 1652 and 1657
On the Best, Last, and Only Remaining Comedy of Mr. Fletcher
To My Noble Kinsman Thomas Stanley, Esq. On His Lyrick Poems Composed by Mr. John Gamble
To Dr. F. B[eale]; on His Book of Chesse
To the Genius of Mr. John Hall. On His Exact Translation of Hierocles His Comment upon the Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Translationes / Translations
Sanazar's Hexastick
In Virgilium. Pentadii
De Scaevola
De Catone
Of Cato
Item
Another
Pentadii
Ad M. T. Ciceronem. Catul Ep. 50
To Marcus T. Cicero. In an English Pentastick
Ad Juvencium. Cat. Ep. 49
To Juvencius
De Puero Et Praecone. Catul
Catul
Portii Licinii
Senecae Ex Cleanthe
Quinti Catuli
Floridi. De Ebrioso
Of a Drunkard
De Asino Qui Dentibus Aeneidem Consumpsit
The Asse Eating the Aeneids
Ausonius Lib. Epig
Ausonius Lib. I. Epig
A La Chabot
To the Same Ayre in English, Thus
Theophile Being Deny'd His Addresses to King James, Turned the Affront to His Own Glory in This Epigram
Lineally Translated Out of the French
Ausonius
Auson[ius]
Ausonius Epig
Ad Fabullum. Catul. Lib. I. Ep. 13
Mart. Lib. I. Epi. 14
Mart. Epi. XLIII. Lib. I
Mart. Ep. XV. Lib. 6
Mar. Lib. IV. Ep. 33
In English
Mart. Lib. VIII. Ep. 19
In an English Distick
In Rufum. Catul. Ep. 64
To Rufus
Catul. Ep. 71
Female Inconstancy
Ad Lesbiam, Cat. Ep. 73
In Lesbiam Cat. Ep. 76
Ad Quintium. Cat. Ep. 83
To Quintius
De Quintia Et Lesbia. Ep. 87
De Suo in Lesbiam Amore. Ep. 88
Ad Sylonem. Ep. 104
Englished
Elegies
Upon the Posthume and Precious Poems of the Nobly Extracted Gentleman Mr. R. L
An Elegie
To His Noble Friend Capt. Dudley Lovelace upon His Edition of His Brothers Poems
On the Truly Honourable Coll. Richard Lovelace, Occasioned by the Publication of His Posthume-Poems
On My Brother
On the Death of My Dear Brother