Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
| John Milton. 1608–1674 | 307. | Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity |
| 308. | On Time |
| 309. | At a Solemn Musick |
| 310. | L’Allegro |
| 311. | Il Penseroso |
| 312. | From ‘Arcades‘ |
| 313. | From ‘Comus’ i |
| 314. | From ‘Comus’ ii |
| 315. | From ‘Comus’ iii |
| 316. | From ‘Comus’ iv |
| 317. | Lycidas |
| 318. | On His Blindness |
| 319. | To Mr. Lawrence |
| 320. | To Cyriack Skinner |
| 321. | On His Deceased Wife |
| 322. | Light |
| 323. | From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i |
| 324. | From ‘Samson Agonistes’ ii |
| Sir John Suckling. 1609–1642 | 325. | A Doubt of Martyrdom |
| 326. | The Constant Lover |
| 327. | Why so Pale and Wan? |
| 328. | When, Dearest, I but think of Thee |
| Sir Richard Fanshawe. 1608–1666 | 329. | A Rose |
| William Cartwright. 1611–1643 | 330. | To Chloe |
| 331. | Falsehood |
| 332. | On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries |
| 333. | On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman that died suddenly |
| James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. 1612–1650 | 334. | I’ll never love Thee more |
| Thomas Jordan. 1612?–1685 | 335. | Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant |
| Richard Crashaw. 1613?–1649 | 336. | Wishes to His Supposed Mistress |
| 337. | The Weeper |
| 338. | A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa |
| 339. | Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa |
| 340. | Verses from the Shepherds’ Hymn |
| 341. | Christ Crucified |
| 342. | An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife |
| Richard Lovelace. 1618–1658 | 343. | To Lucasta, going to the Wars |
| 344. | To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas |
| 345. | Gratiana Dancing |
| 346. | To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair |
| 347. | The Grasshopper |
| 348. | To Althea, from Prison |
| Abraham Cowley. 1618–1667 | 349. | Anacreontics 1 |
| 350. | Anacreontics 2 |
| 351. | Anacreontics 3 |
| 352. | On the Death of Mr. William Hervey |
| 353. | The Wish |
| Alexander Brome. 1620–1666 | 354. | The Resolve |
| Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678 | 355. | An Horatian Ode |
| 356. | A Garden |
| 357. | To His Coy Mistress |
| 358. | The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers |
| 359. | Thoughts in a Garden |
| 360. | Bermudas |
| 361. | An Epitaph |
| Henry Vaughan. 1621–1695 | 362. | The Retreat |
| 363. | Peace |
| 364. | The Timber |
| 365. | Friends Departed |
| John Bunyan. 1628–1688 | 366. | The Shepherd Boy sings in the Valley of Humiliation |
| Anonymous: Ballads. | 367. | Thomas the Rhymer |
| 368. | Sir Patrick Spens |
| 369. | The Lass of Lochroyan |
| 370. | The Dowie Houms of Yarrow |
| 371. | Clerk Saunders |
| 372. | Fair Annie |
| 373. | Edward, Edward |
| 374. | Edom o’ Gordon |
| 375. | The Queen’s Marie |
| 376. | Binnorie |
| 377. | The Bonnie House o’ Airlie |
| 378. | The Wife of Usher’s Well |
| 379. | The Three Ravens |
| 380. | The Twa Corbies |
| 381. | A Lyke-Wake Dirge |
| 382. | The Seven Virgins. |
| 383. | Two Rivers |
| 384. | Cradle Song |
| 385. | The Call |
| 386. | The Bonny Earl of Murray |
| 387. | Helen of Kirconnell |
| 388. | Waly, Waly |
| 389. | Barbara Allen’s Cruelty |
| 390. | Pipe and Can |
| 391. | Love will find out the Way |
| 392. | Phillada flouts Me |
| William Strode. 1602–1645 | 393. | Chloris in the Snow |
| Thomas Stanley. 1625–1678 | 394. | The Relapse |
| Thomas D’Urfey. 1653–1723 | 395. | Chloe Divine |
| Charles Cotton. 1630–1687 | 396. | To Coelia |
| Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’). 1631–1664 | 397. | To One persuading a Lady to Marriage |
| John Dryden. 1631–1700 | 398. | Ode |
| 399. | A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 |
| 400. | Ah, how sweet it is to love! |
| 401. | Hidden Flame |
| 402. | Song to a Fair Young Lady, going out of the Town in the Spring |
| Charles Webbe. c. 1678 | 403. | Against Indifference |
| Sir George Etherege. 1635–1691 | 404. | Song |
| 405. | To a Lady asking him how long he would love her |
| Thomas Traherne. 1637?–1674 | 406. | News |
| Thomas Flatman. 1637–1688 | 407. | The Sad Day |
| Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset. 1638–1706 | 408. | Song |
| Sir Charles Sedley. 1639–1701 | 409. | To Chloris |
| 410. | To Celia |
| Aphra Behn. 1640–1689 | 411. | Song |
| 412. | The Libertine |
| John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. 1647–1680 | 413. | Return |
| 414. | Love and Life |
| 415. | Constancy |
| 416. | To His Mistress |
| John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. 1649–1720 | 417. | The Reconcilement |
| 418. | On One who died discovering her Kindness |
| Thomas Otway. 1652–1685 | 419. | The Enchantment |
| John Oldham. 1653–1683 | 420. | A Quiet Soul |
| John Cutts, Lord Cutts. 1661–1707 | 421. | Song |
| Matthew Prior. 1664–1721 | 422. | The Question to Lisetta |
| 423. | To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty |
| 424. | Song |
| 425. | On My Birthday, July 21 |
| 426. | The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus |
| 427. | A Letter |
| 428. | For my own Monument |
| William Walsh. 1663–1708 | 429. | Rivals |
| Lady Grisel Baillie. 1665–1746 | 430. | Werena my Heart’s licht I wad dee |
| William Congreve. 1670–1729 | 431. | False though She be |
| 432. | A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret |
| Joseph Addison. 1672–1719 | 433. | Hymn |
| Isaac Watts. 1674–1748 | 434. | The Day of Judgement |
| 435. | A Cradle Hymn |
| Thomas Parnell. 1670–1718 | 436. | Song |
| Allan Ramsay. 1686–1758 | 437. | Peggy |
| William Oldys. 1687–1761 | 438. | On a Fly drinking out of his Cup |
| John Gay. 1688–1732 | 439. | Song |
| Alexander Pope. 1688–1744 | 440. | On a certain Lady at Court |
| 441. | Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady |
| 442. | The Dying Christian to his Soul |
| George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. 1691?–1762 | 443. | Shorten Sail |
| Henry Carey. 1693?–1743 | 444. | Sally in our Alley |
| 445. | A Drinking-Song |
| William Broome. ?–1745 | 446. | The Rosebud |
| 447. | Belinda’s Recovery from Sickness |
| James Thomson. 1700–1748 | 448. | On the Death of a particular Friend |
| George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton. 1709–1773 | 449. | Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love |
| Samuel Johnson. 1709–1784 | 450. | One-and-Twenty |
| 451. | On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic |
| Richard Jago. 1715–1781 | 452. | Absence |
