45
The Seasons 45
May Day Customs 46
Birds in May 46
Music on the Thames 47
A Concert of Birds 47
Flowers 48
Morning 48
Night 49
A Pleasant Grove 50
An Angler 51
A Rill 52
"Glide soft, ye silver floods" 52
"Venus by Adonis' side" 53
A Song: "Gentle Nymphs" 54

Spring Morning. I. From _The Shepherd's Pipe_ 54
" " II. " " 55
A Round 56
"Welcome, welcome, do I sing" 57
Autumn. From _The Shepherd's Pipe_ 58
The Siren's Song. From _Inner Temple Masque_ 59
The Charm. From _Inner Temple Masque_ 59
Caelia: Five Sonnets--"Lo, I the man" 60
"Why might I not for once" 60
"Fairest, when by the rules" 61
"Were't not for you" 61
"Sing soft, ye pretty birds" 62
Visions: Four Sonnets--"I saw a silver swan" 62
"A Rose, as fair as ever" 62
"Down in a valley" 63
"A gentle Shepherd" 63

Epitaphs: In Obitum 64
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke 64

Prefatory Note

There are few issues attended with greater uncertainty than the fate of
a poet, and of the three represented herein it may be said that they
survive but tardily