ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING; WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER. COME! fill a fresh bumper, for why should for why should we go decoction Pour out the rich juices still bright with the sun, The purple globed clusters their life-dews have taste sugar of lead How sweet is the breath of the fragrance they shed! rank poisons wines !!! For summer's last roses lie hid in the wines That were garnered by maidens who laughed scowl howl scoff sneer Then a smile, and a glass, and a teast, and a cheer, strychnine and whiskey, and ratsbane and beer For all the good wine, and we've some of it here! Down, down with the tyrant that masters us all! Long live the gay servant-that-laughs-for-us all! OLIVER WENDELL HOLmes, SNEEZING. WHAT a moment, what a doubt! All my thrilling, tickling caustic, logwood Wants to sneeze and cannot do it! How it yearns me, thrills me, stings me, While the neoter still reddens our cups as they How with rapturous torment wrings me! flow? Now says, "Sneeze, you fool, - get through it." 26 Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yet ill able 18 With a leap and a bound the swift Anapæsts throng; One syllable long, with onc short at each side, macer Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud highbred racer. Sheeshee -oh! 't is most del-ishi SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. LEIGH HUNT, TO MY NOSE. KNOWS he that never took a pinch, ALFRED A. FORRESTER (Alfred Crowquill). INDEX OF FIRST LINES. A baby was sleeping....... Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!). Above the pines the moon................ A brace of sinners for no good ... A fellow in a market-town.. A flock of merry singing-birds... A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by... A footstep struck her ear..... Again the violet of our early days.. A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine. A girl who has so many willful ways.. A good wife rose from her bed one morn A happy bit hame this auld world would be..... Ah! little they know of true happiness. Ah! my heart is weary waiting. Ah, my sweet sweeting.. Ah, sweet Kitty Neil !... 973 Ah, then, how sweetly closed those crowded days.. 87 Ah, yes,—the fight? Well, messmates, well. .... ... .... EL ‘All quiet along the Potomac”....... All the world's a stage.. A jolly fat friar loved liquor good store... A life on the ocean wave...... A lighter scarf of richer fold...... A light is out in Italy. All day long the storm of battle through the start led valley swept.. All grim and soiled and brown with tan.......... All hail! thou noble land 953 Along the frozen lake she comes. 339 Although I enter not.. 741 A man there came, whence none could tell... 551 A mighty fortress is our God.......... 482 | A mighty hand, from an exhaustless urn.. 233 103 991 A Monk, when his rites sacerdotal were o'er... 246 475 279 763 And hast thou sought thy heavenly home.. 478 648 373 421 | And now behold your tender nurse, the air.... ... 431 827 And now, unveiled, the toilet stands displayed............. 713 And said I that my limbs were old.... 130 202 220 And there two runners did the sign abide...... 164 117 And thou hast walked about... 717 907 And wilt thou leave me thus ?.... 240 155 194 And ye sall walk in silk attire. 711 145 An exquisite invention this.......... 195 556 A nightingale, that all day long.. 863 439 419 Announced by all the trumpets of the sky.. 229 202 Appeared the princess with that merry child...... 172 Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?..... 550 612 | A ruddy drop of manly blood.......... 364 112 577 946 As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping....... 187 270 87 790 958 As into blowing roses summer dews.. 630 As it fell upon a day..... 480 .. 819 521 103 458 454 267 233 237 768 477 718 598 136 499 934 755 523 600 As, rising on its purple wing.. .... ... 81 As Memnon's marble harp renowned of old............ A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers.. A song for the plant of my own native West. As ships becalmed at eve, that lay All hail to the ruins, the rocks, and the shores !..... 608 83 All in the Downs the fleet was moored. A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent..................... 235 A swallow in the spring 524 A sweet disorder in the dress 711 As when, on Carmel's sterile steep.. At Bannockburn the English lay. At early dawn I marked them in the sky.. 264 By the rude bridge that arched the flood....... 779 161 413 126 861 772 Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer. 864 955 Child of the later days!.......... 625 Chilly Dovebber with its boadigg blast... 620 A violet in her lovely hair....... Awake, awake, my Lyre . A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright... A weary weed, tossed to and fro . A well there is in the West country. 290 414 153 628 992 76 749 662 .1016 192 359 117 Clear and cool, clear and cool........... 448 Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake... 531 Bachelor's hall, what a quare-lookin' place it is!...1003 Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight.. 222 Balow, my babe, ly stil and sleipe !....... 269 Clime of the unforgotten brave !..... Beat on, proud billows, Boreas, blow... 731 | Cling to thy home! if there the meanest shed................... 225 Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead... 284 Close his eyes; his work is done!... Beautiful, sublime, and glorious. 607 Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise. Beautiful was the night....... 432 Come a little nearer, doctor... 144 Come, all ye jolly shepherds. 791 Come as artist, come as guest. 143 Come, brother, turn with me from pining thought. 368 157 Come, dear children, let us away. 588 541 163 925 827 112 Because I breathe not love to everie one Behold the mansion reared by dædal Jack. 98 748 296 Bird of the wilderness ... Birds, the free tenants of land, air, and ocean.. Blessings on thee, little man... Break, Fantasy, from thy cave of cloud... But chief-surpassing all-a cuckoo clock. ... 675 But now our quacks are gamesters.. 573 480 120 877 Come, dear old comrade, you and I... .1011 Come! fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go..1015 610 Come from my first, ay, come !............. 920 422 Come, gentle sleep, attend thy votary's prayer................ 761 761 | Come here, come here, and dwell..... Come hither, Evan Cameron. Come, hoist the sail, the fast let go !... 835 877 666 .. 152 152 457 410 Come in the evening, or come in the morning. 406 Come, let us plant the apple-tree. 638 157 Come, listen to me, you gallants so free.. 835 445 371 Come, O thou Traveller unknown. 153 Come, rest in this bosom.. 185 473 554 761 184 Come, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace .......... 762 457 Come then, my friend! my genius! come along.... 911 316 Come to me, dearest.. 247 223 214 | Dark as the clouds of even............ 506 Dark fell the night, the watch was set. ... 573 Come to me, O my Mother!.... 475 Come to these scenes of peace.. 272 Cromwell, our chief of men... 484 Cupid and my Campaspe played... 717 Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow.... Daughter of God! that sitt'st on high. Day is dying! Float, O song.. Day set on Norham's castled steep.. Der Noble Ritter Hugo..... Die down, O dismal day, and let me live..... Dies iræ, dies illa!............. Dip down upon the northern shore.......... Does the road wind up-hill all the way?......... Do you ask what the birds say ?... Duncan Gray cam' here to woo........ Down deep in a hollow so damp.. Down, down, Ellen, my little one.. Down swept the chill wind from the mountain .... Each day, when the glow of sunset.......... Every day brings a ship. Fair ship that from the Italian shore... Fair stood the wind for France.. False diamond set in flint!.. ..... Faintly as tolls the evening chime... Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth !. • Fair insect, that, with thread-like legs. ... False world. thou ly'st; thou canst not lend. 534 Father! thy wonders do not singly stand.. First time he kissed me, he but only kissed. 459 Fled now the sullen murmur of the north...... 283 226 388 277 201 624 368 301 519 190 403 553 Flowers are fresh, and bushes green... 261 Flowers to the fair: to you these flowers I bring........ 128 365 151 250 908 627 389 161 883 573 768 447 114 572 775 949 "Fly to the desert, fly with me". 1000 For close designs and crooked councils fit.. 627 For England when with favoring gale. 419 Forget thee? If to dream by night. 953 For many, many days together.. 418 For Scotland's and for freedom's right.. 363 For why, who writes such histories as these..... 694 Fresh from the fountains of the wood... Friend after friend departs. 776 Friends! I came here not to talk... Give me more love or more disdain.. Give me my scallop-shell of quiet.. Give me three grains of corn, mother.... Give place, ye lovers... "Give us a song!" the soldiers cried.. God makes sech nights, all white an' still.. God of the thunder! from whose cloudy seat.... God shield ye, heralds of the spring. Go, feel what I have felt.... Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand.... 19. 581 290 | Good night!............ 502 Good people all of every sort... 166 Good people all, with one accord......... 743 Go, patter to lubbers, and swabs, do ye see.. Go, soul, the body's guest... Go to thy rest, fair child....... Go where glory waits thee... Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!........... 321 239 Guvener B. is a sensible man.. 819 746 624 85 From harmony, from heavenly harmony. 318 From his brimstone bed at break of day. 996 From the desert I come to thee... 474 From the recesses of a lowly spirit.. 125 Full knee-deep lies the winter snow.. 360 Gamarra is a dainty steed... 196 Garçons et filles, venez toujours. Gather ye rosebuds as ye may. Farewell, life! my senses swim Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.. 737 .... Farewell, thou busy world, and may Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell, my Jean....... 237 Ha! bully for me again when my turn for picket is | Father of all! in every age. 370 525 over....... 467 993 754 478 142 187 144 361 338 127 123 155 993 466 372 635 421 111 546 189 754 85 125 932 546 744 294 477 558 948 949 615 745 282 237 610 937 191 485 891 994 |