A Little Book of
Old Time Verse

Old-fashioned Flowers
Gathered by

Gladys Sidney Crouch

Published by
P. F. Volland Company
NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO

Copyright, 1917
P. F. Volland Company
Chicago

To My Father

That the verses in this little book will bring back sweet memories of the long ago to every reader, as they do to me, is the earnest wish of the humble gatherer of these old-fashioned flowers. G. S. C.

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS

Sir Edward Dyer. (Born 1550—Died 1607.)
    To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess

Sir Philip Sidney. (Born 1554—Died 1586.)
    A Ditty

John Lyly. (Born 1554—Died 1606.)
    Appelles' Song

Thomas Lodge. (Born 1556—Died 1625.)
    Love's Wantonness

Thomas Campion. (Born (unknown)—Died 1619.)
    Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air
    Come, O come, my life's delight

Robert Green. (Born 1560—Died 1592.)
    Content

Christopher Marlowe. (Born 1562—Died 1593.)
    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

William Shakespeare. (Born 1564—Died 1616.)
    O Mistress Mine, Where are you Roaming

Ben Jonson. (Born 1573—Died 1637.)
    To Celia

John Donne. (Born 1573—Died 1631.)
    Song

Francis Beaumont. (Born 1584—Died 1610.)
    Fie on Love

George Wither. (Born 1588—Died 1667.)
    The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet

Thomas Carew. (Born 1589—Died 1639.)
    Song
    A Fragment
    Truce in Love Entreated
    Phillida Flouts Me

Robert Herrick. (Born 1591—Died 1674.)
    A Hymn to Love
    To Anthea
    To Daffodils
    To Electra
    To his Mistress
    To his Mistress, Objecting to his Neither Toying nor Talking
    To the Virgins, to make much of Time

Henry King. (Born 1592—Died 1669.)
    On the Life of Man

Thomas Bateson. (Born 1600—Died (no record).)
    Her hair the net of golden wire

Sir William D'Avenant. (Born 1605—Died 1668.)
    The Lark now Leaves his Watr'y Nest

Edmund Waller. (Born 1605—Died 1687.)
    Song: Go Lovely Rose
    Song to Flavia

Sir John Suckling. (Born 1609—Died 1641.)
    Why so pale and wan, fond lover
    Song: O pr'y thee send me back my heart
    The Constant Lover

Richard Lovelace. (Born 1618—Died 1658.)