The Metaphysical Poets

Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Vaughan — the seventeenth-century poets who yoked passion to argument and made the lyric think.

Wit, faith, and the conceit

In this collection

• Conflict of Wit and Beauty
• To my Quick Ear the Leaves Conferred
• Isabel
• Mirage
• Such Help for Singing
• Of Two Dwellings
• If I were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun
• The Christmas Child
• Judging by Looks
• To_ -- -- (a Threefold Cord)
• The Man he Killed
• Is It Done?
• Here and There
• The March
• The Olive Bough
• A Maid who Died Old
• The Ocean of Song
• Ichabod
• Lines on Beachville
• Fighting for Conquest
• Rake-Hell Muses
• A Mystery
• Evening on the Potomac
• The Old Scottish Cavalier

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