Godiva Hero to Leander In Memoriam, Selections from Lullaby (Princess) Miller's Daughter, The (Miller's Daughter) Mort d'Arthur . 113 753 483 777 754 New Year's Eve (In Memoriam) "O swallow, swallow, flying south" (Princess) "O, yet we trust that somehow good" (In Memoriam) Retrospection (Princess) Sleeping Beauty, The (The Day Dream) Strong Son of God, immortal Love" 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. TERRETT, WILLIAM B. THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Mahogany Tree, The Mr. Molony's Account of the Ball Sorrows of Werther. THAXTER, MRS. CELIA. Isles of Shoals. THOMSON, JAMES. Scotland, 1700-1748. The Sandpiper. Publishers: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. 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) 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. Mist. Publishers: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER. England, 1828-1877. The Jester's Sermon 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. 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 · 748 388 769 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. Perseverance (W. W. Story's Translation). 781 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. 433 403 368 Portugal, 1482-1537 The Nightingale (Sir John Bowring's Trans.) 479 WALTON, IZAAK. (See also JOHN CHALKHILL.) England, 1593–1683. The Angler's Wish WARTON, THOMAS. Beautiful Snow Wounded to Death. WATTS, ISAAC. England, 1674-1749. England, 1817. (Called "The Lancashire Poet.") "The dule 's i' this bonnet o' mine" Cradle Hymn, 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. WEBSTER, JOHN. England, about 1600. From: - Duchess of Malfy, 121, 232; The White Devil, 495 WESTWOOD, THOMAS. England, b. 1814. Little Bell "Under window" my WHEWELL, WILLIAM. England, 1795 – 1866. Physics 995 WOLCOTT, OR WOLCOT, JOHN (Peter Pindar). Pilgrims and the Peas, The. 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. Burial of Sir John Moore. The Old Oaken Bucket WOOLSEY, SARAH CHAUNCEY (Susan Coolidge). New Haven, Conn. Now living. In the Mist When? Publishers: Roberts Brothers, Boston. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Cuckoo, To the Hart-leap Well Highland Girl at Inversneyde, To Inner Vision, The Lucy Milton, To "She was a phantom of delight ” Skylark, To the Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge Sonnet, The "There was a time "" time "} The world is too much with us "Three years she grew Tintern Abbey To a Child England, 1503-1542. Earnest Suit, An 356 WYATT, SIR THOMAS. 376 XAVIER, ST. FRANCIS. 193 186 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. Toussaint l'Ouverture, To 921 766 Walton's Book of Lives (Eccles. Sonnets) 908 87 192 953 954 761 920 100 823 381 472 464 660 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 Loveliness of Love, The 141 "Love me little, love me long" 141 141 IOII Modern House that Jack built, The 1012 My sweet Sweeting (temp. Henry VIII.). 123 Not one to spare 230 Nursery Rhymes. 993 Old-School Punishment 99 865 Parting Lovers, The (W. R. Alger's Trans) 236 362 Passage in the Life of St. Augustine Sea Fight, The Siege of Belgrade Somebody's Darling (South Songs) Stormy Petrel, Lines to the Summer Days Swell's Soliloquy Tell-tale, The They are dear fish to me"` Useful Plough, The. • "Waly, waly, but love be bonny"" "Where are you going, my pretty maid?” "Why, lovely charmer" (The Hive) 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 (C "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. |