| The Poems, 1624-68 | |
| Thomas St. Nicholas, 1602-98 | |
| The Birmingham Manuscript (MS BUL 5/iv/23) | |
| The Present Edition | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Upon the Exercise of Poesy at Vacant Hours | p. 3 |
| [Epitaph from the Memorial Stone of Samuel, Son of Thomas St. Nicholas by Elizabeth His Wife; Died October 1624] | p. 5 |
| [Epitaph from the Memorial Stone of Elizabeth, Late Wife of Thomas St. Nicholas; Died 9 March 1631] | p. 6 |
| Upon an Ironwork | p. 7 |
| Upon a Desire to Be at Home | p. 8 |
| Upon Hosea 14.8 | p. 10 |
| A Piece of a Dialogue between Probus and Echo at the First Sitting Down of the Parliament, 1640 | p. 11 |
| Upon the Death of My Much Honoured Uncle, Sir George Croke, Knight, One of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, Who Departed this Life 1641 | p. 12 |
| Or Thus | p. 12 |
| Of Meekness | p. 13 |
| Pontefract Castle, July 1643 | p. 14 |
| For My Son | p. 15 |
| Of Drinking Healths | p. 29 |
| Upon a Desire after News | p. 31 |
| Upon the Slight of a Mouse, Taken by a Samson's Post, under Sir Walter Ralegh's History | p. 32 |
| A Farewell to the Provost-Marshal of Pontefract Castle upon His Journey Homewards, September 18, 1643 | p. 33 |
| An Anagram on the Name of the Most Currish and Covetous Provost-Marshal | p. 33 |
| Or Thus | p. 34 |
| Upon the Sight of My Bedfellow in Pontefract Castle Lying Every Night with His Head Wrapped in His Doublet and Jerkin | p. 35 |
| Upon My First Observation of the Pulling Down of the Great Cross in Cheapside near Peter's Wood Street, and Paul's Cross | p. 36 |
| A Meditation on the Way towards York cross Marston Moor after the Great Battle There, July 16, 1644, Being the Day of the Rendition of York to the Lord Fairfax | p. 37 |
| Of Games, and of the Game at Chess. Upon the Way between Sherburn and York, June 1st, 1646 | p. 38 |
| Ad Hiberniam, August 2, 1646 | p. 40 |
| Upon a Guinea-Pig that in the Night Ran Squeaking up and down My Chamber in Warwick, Where some Years before My Fancy Had Wrought upon the Brook | p. 41 |
| Upon Two Pictures, of Peace and Plenty, which I Found Hanging in Ny Chamber at the Swan in Mansfield, September 26, 1646 | p. 42 |
| Upon the Picture of Bacchus Which Hung Next the Two Former There | p. 42 |
| Upon a Fall from an Horse over a Narrow Bridge Covered with Waters. Being Shifted and Got to Bed, Sic Cogitavi | p. 43 |
| An Hymn of Praise by Occasion of the Great Victory God Was Pleased to Give the English over the Dutch at Sea, February 18, 19, 20, 1652 | p. 44 |
| In prelium illud navale inter classes Anglorum et Batavorum, Feb. 18, 19, 20, 1652. Octasticon | p. 46 |
| From My Daughter to Her Brother at School | p. 47 |
| The Recreation of an Accountant at the Grand Audit of England in some Intervals of that Affair in Hilary Term, 1662; Being some Broken Meditations on that Arithmetic of Moses, Psalm 90.12, 'So Teach Us, O Lord, to Number Our Days, that We May Apply Our Hearts to Wisdom' | p. 48 |
| Upon the Pulling Out of a Loose Tooth, February 15, 1662 | p. 62 |
| A Caveat Touching an Eagle Tied in a Friend's Garden, May 11, 1663 | p. 63 |
| Upon the Declaring and Passing My Accounts, May 21, 1663 | p. 64 |
| An Hymn of Praise Occasioned by an Eminent Deliverance of Seven Persons in a Coach from the Danger of an Extraordinary Sudden Flood at a Place Called Pinshook about Two Miles beyond Weedon in Northamptonshire, May 6, 1663 | p. 66 |
| Upon a Very Late, Cold, and Wet Spring, 1663 | p. 71 |
| An Echo to 'An Hymn of Praise'; And for the Deliverance, May 6, 1663 | p. 73 |
| A Return to the Echo | p. 76 |
| Upon My Retiring into the Country after I Had Stated My Accounts | p. 79 |
| A Return to the Last Friend's Lines | p. 81 |
| Upon the Going of some Gentlewomen and Others Five or Six Miles Purposely to Gather Variety of Little Shells by the Seaside | p. 83 |
| Upon Genesis 3.19 | p. 84 |
| God Speed the Plough | p. 86 |
| Upon a Very Seasonable Harvest after a Very Wet Summer, 1663 | p. 90 |
| Upon the Imprisonment of Mr Charles Nichols, September 21, 1663, For Preaching at a Private House the Day Before, Who Was, at the Time of His Interruption, Discoursing Upon Mark 10.38, 'Can Ye Drink of the Cup that I Drink Of', etc | p. 93 |
| Upon the Hen and Chickens Said to Be Hatched in the Pulpit of a Country Church Where a Court Chaplain Was Parson, 1663 | p. 97 |
| Upon Mr Benchkin, the Curate of Ash, His Presentment of Me to the Consistory Court at Canterbury for Helping to Lay My Poor Old Nurse, the Widow Solly, in Her Grave as soon as She Was Brought Thither and the Coverings, without Noise or Disturbance, Taken off. August 10, 1664 | p. 99 |
| Upon the Prison Mediation and Essays of My Dear Friend Mr. Praise-God Barebone Touching the New Heavens and the New Earth | p. 101 |
| On the Great Prelate's Reading the Common Form of Burial at the Solemnity in Henry VII Chapel, Where Was a Coffin with a Log in It Laid into the Grave, in Honour of the Lord Muskerry, Whose Body Was Interred before that in the Queen's Chapel, As Is Said | p. 102 |
| Micah 6.9; The Voice of the Rod, 1665 | p. 104 |
| Advice to a New Married Couple Lately Parted | p. 122 |
| Divertisement from Study | p. 124 |
| Upon Perusal of My Ancient Evidences | p. 126 |
| The Voice of the Rod, 1666: Upon the Burning of the City of London | p. 130 |
| Upon the Translation of the Body of O[liver] C[romwell] from H[enry] VII's Chapel to Tyburn | p. 135 |
| On the Reservation of a Peppercorn | p. 136 |
| Paradoxes, Truths: Gravia Sursum, Levia Deorsum | p. 137 |
| Upon Loquacity | p. 138 |
| Upon a Snake Found Lodged in an Hedge in Winter | p. 143 |
| An Officer of Dover Castle Being at the George in Lydd upon Public Affairs, One Spying Me Come in Said, 'There's Old Mr. St. Nicholas Come in'. The Officer Replied, 'Then There's an Old Parliament Dog Come in'. Thereupon Sic Cogitavi | p. 144 |
| Of Sickness | p. 146 |
| [actual symbol not reproducible] | p. 148 |
| An Hymn of Praise upon My Recovery out of a Dangerous Sickness in the Sixty-fifth Year of Mine Age | p. 151 |
| Upon the Crowing of a Cock | p. 154 |
| Upon the Vain Humour of Fine Clothes and Building | p. 156 |
| Upon the One Thing Necessary | p. 161 |
| Upon My Shaking Palsy | p. 163 |
| Commendable Chemistry | p. 165 |
| My Ultimum Vale | p. 167 |
| Upon Relapses | p. 177 |
| Commentary | p. 179 |
| Index to the Commentary and Introduction | p. 471 |
| Short Titles and First Lines | p. 489 |
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