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TALHAIARN OF WALES.

"Where are the men?" (Oliphant's Trans.)

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TANNAHILL, ROBERT.

Scotland, 1774-1810.

Flower o' Dumblane, The

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"The midges dance aboon the burn"

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Disappointed Lover, The (Triumph of Time) 611

TAYLOR, BAYARD.

Kennett Square, Pa., 1825-1878.

Miller's Daughter, The (Miller's Daughter)

Mort d'Arthur .

New Year's Eve (In Memoriam)

"O swallow, swallow, flying south" (Princess) "O, yet we trust that somehow good" (In Memoriam)

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Retrospection (Princess)

Sleeping Beauty, The (The Day Dream) Song of the Brook (The Brook: an Idyl) Song of the Milkmaid (Queen Mary) Spring (In Memoriam)

Strong Son of God, immortal Love" Memoriam).

Victor Hugo, To

"What does little birdie say?" (Sea Dreams) From: Aylmer's Field, 810; Fatima, 205; In Memoriam, 309, 311, 345, 394, 397, 399, 797, 803, 807; International Exhibition Ode, 541; Land of Lands, The, 603: Miller's Daughter, 814; "Of old sat Freedom on the heights," 602; On the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 940; Princess, The, 493, 721, 807; Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, 721; To the Queen, 632.

TENNYSON, FREDERICK.

England. (Brother of the preceding.)
Blackbird, The

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Bedouin Love-Song

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King of Thule (From the German of Goethe) 862 Possession

218

TERRETT, WILLIAM B.

Rose, The (Hassan Ben Khaled)

464

Platonic

693

119

Song of the Camp

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From: National Ode

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THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE.
WILLIAM MAKEP
England, 1811-1863.

Publishers: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston.

Age of Wisdom, The

TAYLOR, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

Church Gate, At the

Lowville, N. Y., b. 1822.

End of the Play, The

Northern Lights, The

409

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THAXTER, MRS. CELIA.

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Isles of Shoals.

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Songsters, The (The Seasons: Spring) Stag Hunt, The (The Seasons: Autumn) War for the Sake of Peace (Britannia) Winter Scenes (The Seasons: Winter). From: - Britannia, 541; Castle of Indolence, 489, 539, 814, 816; Coriolanus, 812; Seasons, The Spring, 107, 489, 492, 672, 799,- Summer, 204, 490, 631, 719, Autumn, 492, 795, Winter, 310, 672, 806; Song, 205.

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Bugle, The (Princess)

"Come into the garden, Maud

Dead Friend, The (In Memoriam) Death of the Old Year, The

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Enid's Song (Idyls of the King).

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The Jester's Sermon

449 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Concord, Mass., 1817–1862.

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Publishers: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.

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From: Christmas, 816; The Shepherd's Hunting, 803.

995 WOLCOTT, OR WOLCOT, JOHN (Peter Pindar).

415

England, 1738 - 1819.

Chloe, To

Pilgrims and the Peas, The. Razor-Seller, The

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WOLFE, CHARLES.

Ireland, 1791 - 1823.

Burial of Sir John Moore.

WOODWORTH, SAMUEL.

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Scituate, Mass., 1785-1842.

The Old Oaken Bucket

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lessly rocking ")

Publisher: Chas. P. Somerby, New York.

WHITNEY, ADELINE D. TRAIN.
Boston, b. 1824.

Jack Horner (Mother Goose for Grown Folks) 973

Publishers: Roberts Bros.

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF.

Haverhill, Mass., b. 1807.

Absent Sailor, To her (The Tent on the Beach) 241

Agassiz, Prayer of

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WOOLSEY, SARAH CHAUNCEY (Susan Coolidge).

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Tintern Abbey

To a Child

Toussaint l'Ouverture, To

Unknown Poets (Excursion)

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Walton's Book of Lives (Eccles. Sonnets) We are Seven From :- Character of the Happy Warrior, 540; Dion, 868; Early Spring, 492, 495; Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 809, 939; Ellen Irwin, 311; Excursion, The, 309, 396, 397, 398, 399, 494, 631, 793, 798, 801, 806, 808, 867; Expostulation and Reply, 397; Extempore Effusion on the Death of James Hogg, 309; Influence of Natural Objects, 672; "I wandered lonely," 813; Laodamia, 203, 206, 399; Lines added to "The Ancient Mariner," 108; Lines written in Early Spring, 492, 495; Miscellaneous Sonnets, 489;" My heart leaps up," 107: Nutting, 490; Ode to Duty, 797; Old Cumberland Beggar, 489; On the Subjugation of Switzerland, 493; Personal Talk, 805; Peter Bell, 490, 495; Poems dedicated to National Independence, 602; Poems in Summer of 1833, 495; Poet's Epitaph, 205; Prelude, The, 490; Resolution and Independence, 807; Sky Prospect, 491; Sonnet composed at Castle, 494; Sonnet XXXV., 398; Sparrow's Nest, The, 231; Tables turned, The, 494; Thoughts suggested on the Banks of Nith, 398; To, 206; To a Butterfly, 108; To the Daisy, 495; To Sir G. H. B., 348; To a Young Lady, 311, 723; Triad, The, 721; Written in London, September, 1802, 814; Yarrow Unvisited, 493. WOTTON, SIR HENRY.

England, 1786– 1869.

Woman (From Sanskrit of Calidasa)

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"Rock of Ages,” p. 367, in a previous edition indexed as Anonymous, was written by Prof. EDWARD H. RICE, Springfield, Mass. 'The Babie,” on p. 79, in former editions ascribed to HUGH MILLER, is by Rev. J. E. RANKIN, Washington, D. C., b. New Hampshire, 1828.

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.

So large a collection of poems as this demands of its compiler an extensive familiarity with the poetic literature of our language, both of the early and the later time, and withal so liberal a taste as not to exclude any variety of poetic merit. At the request of the Publishers I undertook to write an Introduction to the present work, and in pursuance of this design I find that I have come into a somewhat closer personal relation with the book. In its progress it has passed entirely under my revision, and, although not absolutely responsible for the compilation or its arrangement, I have, as requested, exercised a free hand both in excluding and in adding matter according to my judgment of what was best adapted to the purposes of the enterprise. Such, however, is the wide range of English verse, and such the abundance of the materials, that a compilation of this kind must be like a bouquet gathered from the fields in June, when hundreds of flowers will be left in unvisited spots as beautiful as those which have been taken. It may happen, therefore, that many who have learned to delight in some particular poem will turn these pages, as they might those of other collections, without finding their favorite. Nor should it be matter of surprise, considering the multitude of authors from whom the compilation is made, if it be found that some are overlooked, especially the more recent, of equal merit with many whose poems appear in these pages. It may happen, also, that the compiler, in consequence of some particular association, has been sensible of a beauty and a power of awakening emotions and recalling images in certain poems which other readers will fail to perceive. It should be considered, moreover, that in poetry, as in painting, different artists have different modes of presenting their conceptions, each of which may possess its peculiar merit, yet those whose taste is formed. by contemplating the productions of one class take little pleasure in any other. Crabb Robinson relates that Wordsworth once admitted to him that he did not much admire contemporary poetry, not because of its want of poetic merit, but because he had been accustomed to poetry of a different sort, and added that but for this he might have read it with pleasure. I quote from memory.

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