Poetry Codex

Metaphysical & Cavalier

Richard Lovelace

1617–1657

Richard Lovelace (1617–1657) was an English Cavalier poet who fought and was imprisoned for the Royalist cause.

Best remembered for ‘To Althea, from Prison’ and ‘To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,’ his posthumous Lucasta volumes appeared in 1659.

Poems (153)

  1. Lucasta laughing.
  2. SONG.
  3. In allusion to the French-Song▪ N' entendez vous pas ce language.
  4. Night. To Lucasta.
  5. Love Inthron'd.
  6. Her Muffe.
  7. A Black patch on Lucasta's Face▪
  8. Another.
  9. To Lucasta.
  10. To Lucasta.
  11. Lucasta at the Bath.
  12. The Ant.
  13. The Snayl.
  14. …
  15. Courante Monsieur.
  16. A loose Saraband.
  17. The Falcon.
  18. Love made in the first Age: To Chloris.
  19. To a Lady withchild that ask'd an Old Shirt.
  20. SONG.
  21. Another.
  22. ODE.
  23. The Duell.
  24. CUPID far gone.
  25. A Mock-Song.
  26. A Fly caught in a Cobweb.
  27. A Fly about a Glasse of Burnt Claret.
  28. Female Glory.
  29. A Dialogue.
  30. A Mock Charon.
  31. The Toad and Spyder.
  32. The Triumphs OF PHILAMORE and AMORET.
  33. Advice to my best Brother. Coll: Francis Lovelace.
  34. An Anniversary On the Hymeneals of my noble Kinsman Tho. Stanley Esquire.
  35. Paris's second Iudgement, Vpon the three Daughters of my Dear Brother Mr. R. Caesar.
  36. Peinture.
  37. To my Dear Friend Mr. E. R. On his Poems Moral and Divine.
  38. To my Noble Kinsman T. S. Esq On his Lyrick POEMS composed by Mr. J. G.
  39. On the Best, last, and only remaining Comedy of Mr. Fletcher.
  40. To Dr. F. B. On his Book of Chesse.
  41. To the Genius of Mr. John Hall On his exxct Translation of Hierocles his Comment upon the golden Verses of Pythagoras.
  42. On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Eligiack Hexastick of The City.
  43. TRANSLATIONS Sanazar's Hexastick.
  44. (untitled)
  45. Upon the Posthume and precious Poems of the nobly extracted Gentleman Mr. R. L.
  46. AN ELEGIE, Sacred to the Memory of my late Honoured Friend, Collonell Richard Lovelace.
  47. AN ELEGIE.
  48. To his noble friend Capt. Dudl…y Lovelace upon his Edition of his Brothers Poems.
  49. On the truly Honorable Coll. Richard Lovelace, occasioned by the Publication Of his Posthume-Poems.
  50. On My Brother.
  51. On the Death of my Dear Brother.
  52. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
  53. To Althea from Prison
  54. To Lucasta, on Going Beyond the Seas
  55. Song: Amarantha, sweet and fair
  56. The Merit of Inconstancy
  57. The Dedication. To the Right Hon. My Lady Anne Lovelace
  58. A Paradox
  59. Depose your finger of that ring
  60. Ode. To Lucasta. The Rose
  61. Love Conquer'd. A Song
  62. A Loose Saraband
  63. Orpheus to Woods. Song
  64. Orpheus to Beasts. Song
  65. Dialogue. Lucasta, Alexis
  66. When I by thy faire shape did sweare
  67. Lucasta Weeping. Song
  68. To Lucasta. From Prison an Epode
  69. Lucasta's Fanne, with a Looking-Glasse in it
  70. Lucasta, Taking the Waters at Tunbridge
  71. To Lucasta. Ode Lyrick
  72. Lucasta Paying her Obsequies to the Chast Memory of my Dearest Cosin Mrs. Bowes Barne[s]
  73. Upon the Curtaine of Lucasta's Picture, it Was Thus Wrought
  74. Lucasta's World. Epode
  75. The Apostacy of One, and But One Lady
  76. Amyntor from Beyond the Sea to Alexis. A Dialogue
  77. Calling Lucasta from her Retirement. Ode
  78. Amarantha. A Pastorall
  79. To Ellinda, that Lately I Have Not Written
  80. Ellinda's Glove. Sonnet
  81. Being Treated. To Ellinda
  82. To Ellinda. Vpon his Late Recovery. A Paradox
  83. To Chloe, Courting her for his Friend
  84. Gratiana Dauncing and Singing
  85. Amyntor's Grove, his Chloris, Arigo, and Gratiana. An Elogie
  86. Princesse Loysa Drawing
  87. A Forsaken Lady to her False Servant that is Disdained by his New Mistriss
  88. The Grassehopper. To my Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode
  89. An Elegie. On the Death of Mrs. Cassandra Cotton, Only Sister to Mr. C. Cotton
  90. The Vintage to the Dungeon. A Song
  91. On the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Filmer. An Elegiacall Epitaph
  92. 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
  93. The Lady A. L. my Asylum in a Great Extremity
  94. A Lady with a Falcon on her Fist. To the Honourable my Cousin A[nne] L[ovelace]
  95. A Prologue to the Scholars. A Comaedy Presented at the White Fryers
  96. The Epilogue
  97. Against the Love of Great Ones
  98. Sonnet. To Generall Goring, After the Pacification at Berwicke. A La Chabot
  99. The Answer
  100. A Guiltlesse Lady Imprisoned: After Penanced. Song
  101. To his Deare Brother Colonel F. L. Immoderately Mourning my Brothers Untimely Death at Carmarthen
  102. To a Lady that Desired Me I Would Beare my Part with her in a Song. Madam A. L
  103. Valiant Love
  104. La Bella Bona Roba. To my Lady H. Ode
  105. I cannot tell, who loves the skeleton
  106. A La Bourbon. Done Moy Plus De Pitie Ou Plus De Creaulte, Car Sans Ci Ie Ne Puis Pas Viure, Ne Morir
  107. The Faire Begger
  108. A Dialogue Betwixt Cordanus and Amoret, on a Lost Heart
  109. An Elegie. Princesse Katherine Borne, Christened, Buried, in One Day
  110. Clitophon and Lucippe Translated. To the Ladies
  111. To my Truely Valiant, Learned Friend; Who in his Booke Resolv'd the Art Gladiatory Into the Mathematicks
  112. To Fletcher Reviv'd
  113. To Lucasta. Her Reserved Looks
  114. In Virgilium (Pentadius)
  115. De Scaevola
  116. Of Cato (I)
  117. Of Cato (II)
  118. Of Cato (III)
  119. Of Cato (IV)
  120. Pentadii
  121. To Marcus T. Cicero (Catullus, Ep. 50)
  122. To Juvencius (Catullus, Ep. 49)
  123. De Puero et Praecone (Catullus)
  124. Portii Licinii
  125. Senecae ex Cleanthe
  126. Quinti Catuli
  127. Of a Drunkard
  128. The Asse Eating the Aeneids
  129. Ausonius: Trinarii quodam
  130. Ausonius: Polla, potenta
  131. Ausonius: Thesauro invento
  132. A la Chabot
  133. Theophile Being Deny'd his Addresses to King James
  134. Ausonius: Vane, quid affectas
  135. Ausonius: Toxica zelotypo
  136. Ausonius: Emptis quod libris
  137. Avienus, Ad Amicos
  138. Ad Fabullum (Catullus, Ep. 13)
  139. Martial, Lib. I. Epig. 14
  140. Martial, Lib. I. Epig. 43
  141. Martial, Lib. VI. Epig. 15
  142. Martial, Lib. IV. Epig. 33
  143. Martial, Lib. VIII. Epig. 19
  144. Out of the Anthologie
  145. To Rufus (Catullus, Ep. 64)
  146. Female Inconstancy (Catullus, Ep. 71)
  147. Ad Lesbiam (Catullus, Ep. 73)
  148. In Lesbiam (Catullus, Ep. 76)
  149. To Quintius (Catullus, Ep. 83)
  150. De Quintia et Lesbia (Catullus, Ep. 87)
  151. De Suo in Lesbiam Amore (Catullus, Ep. 88)
  152. Ad Sylonem (Catullus, Ep. 104)
  153. The Scrutinie

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