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Godiva

Hero to Leander
"Home they brought her warrior dead"
(Princess)

In Memoriam, Selections from
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Locksley Hall

Lullaby (Princess)
May Queen, The.

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

Mort d'Arthur .

113

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483

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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.

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

TERRETT, WILLIAM B.
Platonic

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE.
WILLIAM MAKEP
England, 1811-1863.
Age of Wisdom, The
Church Gate, At the
End of the Play, The
Little Billee

Mahogany Tree, The

Mr. Molony's Account of the Ball Sorrows of Werther.

THAXTER, MRS. CELIA.

Isles of Shoals.

THOMSON, JAMES. Scotland, 1700-1748.

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The Sandpiper.

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

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THEOBALD, LEWIS.

England, 1691 – 1744.

From:-The Double Falsehood THOM, WILLIAM. Scotland, 1799-1850.

The Mitherless Bairn

Angling (The Seasons: Spring) Bathing (The Seasons: Summer)

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Castle of Indolence, The (From Canto I.) Connubial Life (The Seasons: Spring) Domestic Birds (The Seasons: Spring). Hymn on the Seasons

315

449 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.

Concord, Mass., 1817–1862.

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Mist.
Smoke

Publishers: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER. England, 1828-1877.

The Jester's Sermon

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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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702 235

292

290

267

254

81

327

183

642 752

171

392 315

174

446

168

418

393 926 80

470 417

Plea for the Animals (The Seasons: Spring) 783 Rule Britannia (Alfred)

693

119

202 132

344

971

117

1002

972

482

812

91

669

669

831

214

576 469

659 499

439

691 691

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388

769 WASSON, DAVID A.

Love against Love

745

251 | WASTELL, SIMON. 547 England, d. 1623. Man's Mortality WATSON, JAMES W.

America.

142 291

149

274

925

VINCI, LEONARDO DA.
Italy, 1452-1519.

Perseverance (W. W. Story's Translation). 781
VISSCHER, MARIA TESSELSCHADE.
Holland, 1594 – 1649.

The Nightingale (Sir John Bowring's Trans.) 479 WALLER, EDMUND. England, 1605 - 1687. Girdle, On a

Go, Lovely Rose !

125 125

Old Age and Death (Upon his Divine Poesy) 755 From: Divine Love, 399; On the King's Return, 798; To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing, 134; Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace's De Arte Poetica, 806; Verses upon his Divine Poesy, 794; "While I listen to thy voice," 399.

433 403

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Portugal, 1482-1537

The Nightingale (Sir John Bowring's Trans.) 479

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WALTON, IZAAK. (See also JOHN CHALKHILL.) England, 1593–1683.

The Angler's Wish

WARTON, THOMAS.
England, 1728-1790.
Retirement

Beautiful Snow Wounded to Death.

WATTS, ISAAC. England, 1674-1749.

England, 1817. (Called "The Lancashire Poet.") "The dule 's i' this bonnet o' mine"

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Cradle Hymn, A
Insignificant Existence
Summer Evening, A

ce.

From: Divine Songs, 395, 398; Funeral Thought, 308, 310; Glory to the Father and Son, 394; Horæ Lyricæ, 807; Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 794, 799; Sluggard, The, 815; Song XVI., 108; Song XX., 108. WAUGH, EDWIN.

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WEBSTER, JOHN.

England, about 1600.

From: - Duchess of Malfy, 121, 232; The White Devil, 495

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WESTWOOD, THOMAS.

England, b. 1814. Little Bell "Under window" my WHEWELL, WILLIAM. England, 1795 – 1866. Physics

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995 WOLCOTT, OR WOLCOT, JOHN (Peter Pindar).
England, 1738 - 1819.
Chloe, To

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

461 550

692

470

275

596

536

99

III

599

914

935

937

609

929

597

158

378

436

455

459

600

375

488

743

472 701 881

333

1001

523

776

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

692

884

WOLFE, CHARLES.
Ireland, 1791 - 1823.

Burial of Sir John Moore.
WOODWORTH, SAMUEL.
Scituate, Mass., 1785-1842.

The Old Oaken Bucket WOOLSEY, SARAH CHAUNCEY (Susan Coolidge). New Haven, Conn. Now living. In the Mist

When?

Publishers: Roberts Brothers, Boston.

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM.
England, 1770-1850.

Cuckoo, To the
Daffodils

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Hart-leap Well

Highland Girl at Inversneyde, To

Inner Vision, The

Lucy

Milton, To
Rainbow, The

"She was a phantom of delight ”

Skylark, To the
Sleeplessness

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Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge Sonnet, The "There was a time "" time

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The world is too much with us "Three years she grew Tintern Abbey

To a Child

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England, 1503-1542.

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Earnest Suit, An

356 WYATT, SIR THOMAS.

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376 XAVIER, ST. FRANCIS.

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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.

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Toussaint l'Ouverture, To
Unknown Poets (Excursion)

921

766

Walton's Book of Lives (Eccles. Sonnets) 908 87

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192

953

954

761

920

100

823 381

472

464

660

Character of a Happy Life, The

In Praise of Angling

To his Mistress

124

From: The Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife 312 WROTHER, MISS.

From: - The Universal Songster

105

767

104

907

432

128

474

763

678

907

757

403

103

403

89

736 667

271

240

France, 1506-1552.

"My God, I love thee" (Caswall's Trans.). 360

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Loveliness of Love, The

141

"Love me little, love me long"
"Love not me for comely grace

141

141

IOII

Modern House that Jack built, The
My Love

1012

My sweet Sweeting (temp. Henry VIII.).

123

Not one to spare

230

Nursery Rhymes.

993

Old-School Punishment
Origin of the Opal

99 865

Parting Lovers, The (W. R. Alger's Trans) 236

362

Passage in the Life of St. Augustine
Praxiteles (From the Greek).
Remonstrance with the Snails
Revelry of the Dying
Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale

Sea Fight, The
Seaside Well, The

Siege of Belgrade
Silent Baby
Skater Belle, Our
Skeleton, To a
Somebody

Somebody's Darling (South Songs)

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Stormy Petrel, Lines to the

Summer Days

Swell's Soliloquy

Tell-tale, The

They are dear fish to me"`
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Useful Plough, The.
Vicar of Bray, The

"Waly, waly, but love be bonny""
"When I think on the happy days
"When shall we all meet again?"

"Where are you going, my pretty maid?”
White Rose, The

"Why, lovely charmer" (The Hive)
Wife to her Husband, The

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187

269

638

972

Woman. From: Battle of the Boyne, The, 602; Epigram on Matrimony, 232; On Tobacco, 814.

77

220

903

486

898

638

612

739

1013

78

670

761

170

531

483

160

1001

476

282

194

551

945

268

247

322 958

123

146

244 975

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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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