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'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won (Alexander's
Feast).

105

401

ELIOT, GEORGE (MARY ANN CROSS) (1819-1880)

o may I join the choir invisible
ELLIOT, JANE (1727-1805)

I've heard them lilting at the ewe-milking (Lament

for Flodden)
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803–1882)

If the red slayer think he slays (Brahma)
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes (To Eva)

120

330
331

FITZGERALD, EDWARD (1809-1883)

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night

(Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam)
FLETCHER, JOHN (1579–1625)

Hence, all yoù vain delights (Melancholy).

342

S6

GAY, JOHN (1685–1732)

All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd (Black-eyed
Susan)

124
GOLDSMITH, 'OLIVER (1728–1774)
When lovely woman stoops to folly

131
GRAHAM, ROBERT (afterwards CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM)
(1735 ?-1797)
If doughty deeds my lady please

128
GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake (The Progress of Poesy) 132
Daughter of Jove, relentless. power (Hymn to
Adversity)

161
Lot where the rosy-bosom'a Hours (Ode on the
Spring)

139
Now the golden Morn aloft (ode on the pleasure
arising from Vicissitude)

109
'Ruin seize thee, ruthless King: (The' Bard) 115
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Elegy
written in a Country Church-yard)

145
'Twas on a lofty vase's side (On a favourite cat,

drowned in a tub of gold fishes)
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers (ode on å
distant prospect of Eton College)

158

11.2.

331

476

64

HAWKER, ROBERT STEPHEN (1803-1875)

A good sword and a trusty hand (And shall Tre-

Tawny die ?)
HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849–1903)

Out of the night that covers me
HERBERT, GEORGE (1593–1633)

When God at first made Man (The Gifts of God)
HERRICK, ROBERT (1591-1674)

A sweet disorder in the dress (The Poetry of Dress)
Bid me to live, and I will live (To Anthea who may

command him any thing)
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see (To Daffodils)

Fair pledges of a fruitful tree (To Blossoms)
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may (Counsel to Girls) 72
Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes (To
Dianeme)

76
Whenas in silks my julia goes (The Poetry of Dress) 79
HEYWOOD, THOMAS ?-1650)

(
Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day

31
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (1809-1894)

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign (The
Chanzbered Nautilus)

353
HOOD, THOMAS (1799–1845)
I remember, I remember (Past and Present)

223
One more Unfortunate (The Bridge of Sighs)

230
We watch'd her breathing thro' the night (The
Death-Bed)

235
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD (1809-
1885)

I know not that the men of old (The Men of old) 354
HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
Jenny kissed me when we met (Rondeau)

320

407

INGELOW, JEAN (1820–1897)

Playing on the virginals
The old mayor climbed the belfry tower (The High

Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571)

408

JONSON, BEN (1573 ?-1637)

Drink to me only with thine eyes (To Celia)
It is not growing like a tree (The Noble Nature)
Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair (Hymn to

Diana)

77
64

67

169
197
278

307

191

169

24S

KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821)

Bárds of Passion and of Mirth (Ode on the Poets)
Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Ever let the Tancy roam (The Realm of Fancy).
Four seasons fill the measure of the year (the

Human Seasons)
In a drear-nighted 'December (Happy Insensi-

bility)
Much have I travella in the realms of goia con

first looking into Chapman's Homer)
My heart aches, and a drorvsy numbness pains (ode

to a Nightingale)
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms; ('Le Belle

Dame sans Merci)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness iode to

Autumn)
Souls of Poets dead and gone (The Mermaid

Tavern)
When I have fears that I may cease to be (The

Terror of Death)
KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819–1875)

Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon
"O Mary, go and call the cattle home. (The Sand's

193

261

229

198

403

403

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Welcome, wild North-easter (Ode to the North-
cast Wind)

404
When all the world is young, lad (Yoing and oiaj 406

220

237
234

317

317
317
319

318
319

152

LAMB, CHARLES (1775–1834) )

I have had playmates, I have had companions

(The Old Familiar Faces)
I saw where in the shroud did lurk (on an Infant

dying as soon as born)

When maidens such as Hester die (Hester) :
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGL (1775-1864)

Ah what avails the sceptred race (Rose Aylmer)..
I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone (The

Maid's Lament)
I strove with none, för none was worth my strife
Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak
There is delight in singing, tho' none hear (TO

Robert Browning)

Well I remember how you siniled
LINDSAY, LADY ANNE (afterwards BARNARD) (1750–
1825)
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at

hamo (Auld Robin Gray)
LODGE, THOMAS (1558 ?-1625)

Like to the clear in highest sphere (Rosalynde)
LOGAN, JOHN (1748-1788)

Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream' (The Braes

of Yarrow)
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (1807-1882)

Beside the ungathered rice he lay (The Slave's

Dream)
Come to me, o ye children (Children)
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling (The

Arsenal at Springfield)
LOVELACE, RICHARD (1618-1658)

If to be absent were to be (To Lricasta, on going

beyond the Seas)
Tell me not, Sweet, i am unkind (To Lucasta, on

going to the Wars)
When Love with unconfined wings. (To Althea

' ·
from Prison)
LYLY, JOHN (1554 3–1606)

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd (Cupid and

Campaspe)

10

121

337
340

339

83

72

82

31

323

323

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD (1800-1859)

Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the

North (The Battle of Naseby)
To my true king I offered free from stain (Å

Jacobite's Epitaph)
MACKAY, CHARLES (1814–1889)

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might (Tubal Cain)
MAHONY,
FRANCIS SYLVESTER ( Father Prout')

'
(1804-1866)
With deep affection (The Shandon Bells)

397

332

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MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE (1803-1849)

, ;
Roll forth, my song, like the rushing river (The
Nameless One)

329
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564–1593)

Come live with me and be my Love (The Passionate
Shepherd to his Love)

4
MARVELL, ANDREW (1621-1678)

How vainly men themselves amaze (Thoughts in
a Garden)

92
The forward youth that would appear (Horatian
Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland)

51
Where the remote Bermudas ride (Song of the
Emigrants in Bermuda).

103
MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS (1735–1788)

And are ye sure the news is true (The Sailor's Wife) 154
MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674)

Arenge, O Lord! Thy slaughter'd Saints, whose
bones (On the late Massacre in Piedmont)

51
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy it
a Solemn Music)

104
Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in armis (when the
Assault was intended to the City)

62
Cyriack, whose grandsire, on the royal bench (Tö
Cyriack Skinner)

67
Daughter to that good Earl, once President (tö

the Lady Margaret Ley)
Hence, loathéd Melancholy (L' Allégro)

94
Hence, vain deluding Joys (71 Penseroso)

98
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son (l'o Mr.
Lawrence)

66
This is the month, and this the happy morn (odė
on the Morning of Christ's Naiivity)

42
When I consider how my light is spent (on his
Blindness)

63
Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more
(Lycidas)

55
MOORE, THOMAS (1779-1852)

As slow our ship her foamy track (The Journey
Onwards)

220
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping,
I fly

199
How sweet the ans.rer Echo makes (Echoes) 186
Oft in the stilly night (The Light of Other Days)

224
When he who adores thee has left but the name

ame
(Pro patria 370ri)
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1834-1896)

Had she come all the way for this (The Haystach:
in the floods)

459
Pray but one prayer for nie 'twixt thy closed lips
me

463
There were four of us about that bed (Shamefui
Death)

457
*You must be very old, Sir Giles' (oia Love) 455
NAIRNE, CAROLINA, LADY (1766-1845)

I'm wearing awa', Jean (The Land of the Leal) 157

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NASA, THOMAS (1567-1601)

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant

king (Spring)
NORTON, CAROLINE ELİZABETH SARAH' (afterwards
LADY STIRLING-MAXWELL) (1808–1877)
I do not love thee 1920! I do not love thee

34.1
O'SHAUGANDSSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR (1844–
1881)
We are the music-makers (Ode)

474
PATMORE, COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON (1823-1896)

My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes
(The Toys)

444
why, having won her, do I woo (i'ne Married
Lover)

443
PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE (1785–1866)

I dug, beneath the cypress shade (The Grave of
Love)

322
Seamen three i What men be ye (Three men of
Gotham)

322
The mountain sheep are sweeter (The War Song
of Dinas V awr')

320
PHILIPS, AMBROSE (1675' 3–1749)

Timely blossom, Infant fair (To Charlotte Pulteney) 113
POPE, ALEXANDER (1688-1744)
Happy the man, whose wish and care (The Quiet

110
PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)
The merchant, to secure his treasure .

130
ROGERS, SAMUEL (1763–1855)
Mine be a cot beside the hill (A Wish)

143
Sleep on, and dream of Heaven awhile (The Sleep-
ing Beauty)

129
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA (1830–1894)

Does the road wind up-bill all the way (Up-hill) 451
My heart is like a singing bird (A Birthday)

452
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes (Rest)

450
Oh roses for the flush of youth (Song)

452
Remeinber me when I am gone away (Remember)
When I am dead, my dearest (Song).

450
ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)

The blessed damozel leaned out (The Blessed
Danozel)

446
SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832)

Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh (A Serenade) 186
A weary lot is thine, fair maid (The Rover)

194
He is gone on the mountain (Coronach)

235
O Brignall banks are wild and fair (The Outlaw) 174
O listen, listen, ladies gay (Rosabelle)

236
o lovers eyes are sharp to see (The Maid of Neid-
path)

196
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu (Gathering Song of Donală
the Black)

202
Proud Maisie is in the wood (The Pride of Youth) 229