INDEX OF WRITERS

WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH, FIRST LINES
OF THE POEMS, AND TITLES

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, EARL OF STERLINE (1567 ?-
1640)

O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm (To
Aurora)

ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)

A wanderer is man from his birth (The Future)
Coldly, sadly descends (Rugby Chapel)
Come, dear children, let us away (The Forsaken
Merman)

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413

Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill (The
Scholar Gipsy)

427

Hark! ah, the nightingale (Philomela)

425

In the deserted moon-blanch'd street (A Summer
Night).

419

Others abide our question—Thou art free (Shake-
speare)

419

Strew on her roses, roses (Requiescat)
Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts
Song of Callicles on Etna)

426

(The

417

We cannot kindle when we will (Morality)
AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE (1813-1865)
Come hither, Evan Cameron (The Execution of
Montrose)

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391

BACON, FRANCIS, LORD VERULAM (1561-1626)
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man (Life)

39

BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA (1743-1825)
Life! I know not what thou art

As it fell upon a day (The Nightingale)

Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce (The Wife
A-lost)

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BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1584-1616)

Mortality, behold and fear (On the Tombs in West-
minster Abbey)

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806–1861)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
If thou must love me, let it be for naught

I thought once how Theocritus had sung
What can I give thee back, O liberal
What was he doing, the great god Pan (A Musical
Instrument)

Yet love, mere love, is beautiful indeed

BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889)

Escape me? (Life in a Love)

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Fear death ?to feel the fog in my throat (Pro-
spice)

390

Give her but a least excuse to love me
Grow old along with me (Rabbi Ben Ezra)
Just for a handful of silver he left us (The Lost
Leader)

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Let's contend no more, Love (A Woman's Last
Word).

376

Let us begin and carry up this corpse (A Gram-
marian's Funeral)

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Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West
died away (Home-Thoughts, from the Sea)
Oh, to be in England now that April's there
(Home-Thoughts, from Abroad)

The rain set early' in to-night (Porphyria's Lover)
The year 's at the spring

This is a spray the Bird clung to (Misconceptions)

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878)

Whither, midst falling dew (To a Waterfowl)
BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796)

Duncan Gray cam here to woo (Duncan Gray)
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine (A Farewell)
John Anderson my jo, John

Of a' the airts the wind can blaw (Jean)

O Mary, at thy window be (Mary Morison)

O my Luve's like a red, red rose

O saw ye bonnie Lesley (Bonnie Lesley)

The lovely lass o' Inverness (Lament for Culloden)
Ye banks and braes and streams around (IIighland
Mary)

382

talk not to me of a name great in story (All for
Love)

Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie (To a
Mouse)

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD (1788-1824)
And thou art dead, as young and fair (Elegy on
Thyrza)

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind (On the Castle
of Chillon)

O snatch'd away in beauty's bloom (Elegy)

There's not a joy the world can give like that it

takes away (Youth and Age)

When we two parted

CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777-1844)

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A Chieftain to the Highlands bound (Lord Ullin's
Daughter)

Earl March look'd on his dying child (The Maid of
Neidpath)

Gem of the crimson-colour'd Even (To the Evening
Star)

How delicious is the winning (Freedom and Love)
Of Nelson and the North (Battle of the Baltic)
On Linden, when the sun was low (Hohenlinden)
Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had
lower'd (The Soldier's Dream)

Star that bringest home the bee (To the Evening
Star)

The more we live, more brief appear (The River of
Life)

When first the fiery-mantled Sun (Ode to Winter)
Ye Mariners of England

CAMPION, THOMAS (——— -1619)

There is a garden in her face (Cherry-Ripe)

CAREW, THOMAS (1598 ?-1639 ?)

He that loves a rosy cheek (The True Beauty)

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CAREY, HENRY (1693 ?-1743)

CIBBER, COLLEY (1671–1757)

Of all the girls that are so smart (Sally in our
Alley)

126

O say what is that thing call'd Light (The Blind
Boy)

111

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861)

As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay (Qua cursum
ventus)

Where lies the land to which the ship would go

COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)

She is not fair to outward view

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834)

All thoughts, all passions, all delights (Love)
Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying (Fouth and
Age)

COLLINS, JOHN (1742 ?-1808)

In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining
(To-morrow)

167

COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721 ?-1759)

How sleep the Brave who sink to rest (Ode written
in 1746)

119

If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song (To Evening) 143
When Music, heavenly maid, was young (The

Passions)

136

CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562–1613)

Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly (Diaphenia)

CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892)

Somewhere beneath the sun (Amaturus)

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441

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were
dead (Heraclitus)

You promise heavens free from strife (Mimnermus
in Church)

COWLEY, ABRAHAM (1618-1667)

Awake, awake, my Lyre (A Supplication)
COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800)

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I am monarch of all I survey (The Solitude of
Alexander Selkirk)

162

Mary! I want a lyre with other strings (To Mary
Unwin)

164

Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade
(To a Young Lady)

129

The poplars are fell á; farewell to the shade (The
Poplar Field)

140

DANIEL, SAMUEL (1562-1619)

The twentieth year is well-nigh past (To Mary
Unwin)

Toll for the Brave (Loss of the Royal George) ·
CRASHAW, RICHARD (1613 ?-1649)

Whoe'er she be (Wishes for the Supposed Mistress)

CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN (1784-1842)

A wet sheet and a flowing sea

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night

DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846)

DEKKER, THOMAS (1570 ?-1641 ?)

It is not Beauty I demand (The Loveliness of Love)

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Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers (The
Happy Heart)

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DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (1824-1874) ̊

DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887)'

The murmur of the mourning ghost (Keith of
Ravelston)

445

DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES (1810-1888)
Last night, among his fellow roughs (The Private of
the Buffs)

It was the calm and silent night (A Christmas
Hymn)

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DRAYTON, MICHAEL (1563-1631)

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
(Love's Farewell)

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DRUMMOND, WILLIAM (1585-1649)

Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move
My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow (To
His Lute)

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My thoughts hold mortal strife (Madrigal)

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Of this fair volume which we World do name (The
Lessons of Nature)

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Phoebus, arise (Summons to Love)

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The last and greatest Herald of Heaven's King
(Saint John Baptist)

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This Life, which seems so fair

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DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony (Song
for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687)

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