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

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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)

FITZGERALD, EDWARD (1809-1883)

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
(Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám)

FLETCHER, JOHN (1579–1625)

Hence, all yoù vain delights (Melancholy)

GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)

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

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1728-1774)

When lovely woman stoops to folly
GRAHAM, ROBERT (afterwards CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM)
(1735 -1797)

If doughty deeds my lady please
GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

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

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132

Now the golden Morn aloft (Ode on the Pleasure
arising from Vicissitude)

Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours (Ode on the
Spring)

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'Twas on a lofty vase's side (On a favourite cat,
drowned in a tub of gold fishes)

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

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers (Ode on a
distant prospect of Eton College)

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)

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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)

133

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may (Counsel to Girls)
Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes (To
Dianeme)

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

Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (1809-1894)

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

HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845)

I remember, I remember (Past and Present)
One more Unfortunate (The Bridge of Sighs)
We watch'd her breathing thro' the night (The
Death-Bed)
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD (1809–
1885)

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I know not that the men of old (The Men of Old)
HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)

354

Jenny kissed me when we met (Rondeau)

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INGELOW, JEAN (1820-1897)

Playing on the virginals

407

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)

KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821)

Bards of Passion and of Mirth (Ode on the Poets)
Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Ever let the Fancy 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 travell'd in the realms of gold (On
first looking into Chapman's Homer)
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (Ode
to a Nightingale)

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248

'O_what can ail thee, knight-at-arms' (La Belle
Dame sans Merci)

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (Ode to
Autumn)

261

Souls of Poets dead and gone (The Mermaid

Tavern)

229

When I have fears that I may cease to be (The
Terror of Death)

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KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875)

Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon

403

O Mary, go and call the cattle home' (The Sands

of Dee)

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Welcome, wild North-easter (Ode to the North-
east Wind)
When all the world is young, lad (Young and Old) 406

LAMB, CHARLES (1775–1834)

I have had playmates, I have had companions
(The Old Familiar Faces)

Come to me, O ye children (Children)

220

I saw where in the shroud did lurk (On an Infant
dying as soon as born)

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When maidens such as Hester die (Hester).
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864)

234

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

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I strove with none, for 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 smiled

LINDSAY, LADY ANNE (afterwards BARNARD) (1750-
1825)

When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at
hame (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)

This is the Arsenal.

From floor to ceiling (The

Arsenal at Springfield)

339

LOVELACE, RICHARD (1618-1658)

If to be absent were to be (To Lucasta, on going
beyond the Seas)

83

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind (To`Lucasta, on
going to the Wars)

72

When Love with unconfinéd wings (To Althea
from Prison)

82

LYLY, JOHN (1554 ?-1606)

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd (Cupid and
Campaspe)

31

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD (1800-1859)
Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the
North (The Battle of Naseby)

323

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)

To my true king I offered free from stain (ả
Jacobite's Epitaph)

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MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE (1803-1849)

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

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593)

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

4

How vainly men themselves amaze (Thoughts in
a Garden)

MARVELL, ANDREW (1621–1678)

The forward youth that would appear (Horatian
Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland)
Where the remote Bermudas ride (Song of the
Emigrants in Bermuda)

MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS (1735-1788)

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

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103

Avenge, O Lord! Thy slaughter'd Saints, whose
bones (On the late Massacre in Piedmont)
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy (at
a Solemn Music)

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104

Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in arms (When the
Assault was intended to the City)

62

Cyriack, whose grandsire, on the royal bench (Tỏ
Cyriack Skinner)

67

Daughter to that good Earl, once President (To
the Lady Margaret Ley)

Hence, loathéd Melancholy (Ľ’Állégro)
Hence, vain deluding Joys (Il Penseroso)
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son (To Mr.
Lawrence)

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This is the month, and this the happy morn (Ode
on the Morning of Christ's Nativity)

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)

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

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

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How sweet the answer Echo makes (Echoes)
Oft in the stilly night (The Light of Other Days)
When he who adores thee has left but the name

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(Pro patria mori)

215

MORRIS, WILLIAM (1834-1896)

Had she come all the way for this (The Haystack

in the Floods)

459

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips
(Summer Dawn)

463

There were four of us about that bed (Shameful
Death)

457

You must be very old, Sir Giles' (Oid Love)

NAIRNE, CAROLINA, LADY (1766-1845)

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

NASH, THOMAS (1567-1601)

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant
king (Spring)

NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (afterwards
LADY STIRLING-MAXWELL) (1808-1877)

I do not love thee !-no! I do not love thee
O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR (1844-
1881)

We are the music-makers (Ode)

PATMORE, COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON (1823-1896)
My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes
(The Toys)

Why, having won her, do I woo (The Married
Lover).

PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE (1785-1866)

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I dug, beneath the cypress shade (The Grave of

Love)

Seamen three ! What men be ye (Three Men of
Gotham)

322

PHILIPS, AMBROSE (1675 ?-1749)

The mountain sheep are sweeter (The War Song
of Dinas Vawr)

320

Timely blossom, Infant fair (To Charlotte Pulteney)

113

POPE, ALEXANDER (1688-1744)

Happy the man, whose wish and care (The Quiet
Life)

Mine be a cot beside the hill (A Wish)
Sleep on, and dream of Heaven awhile (The Sleep-

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ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA (1830-1894)

Does the road wind up-hill all the way (Up-hill)
My heart is like a singing bird (4 Birthday)
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes (Rest)
Oh roses for the flush of youth (Song)

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

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ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)

The blesséd damozel leaned out (The Blessed
Damozel)

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SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832)

Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh (A Serenade)
A weary lot is thine, fair maid (The Rover)
He is gone on the mountain (Coronach)

O Brignall banks are wild and fair (The Outlaw)
O listen, listen, ladies gay (Rosabelle)
O lovers' eyes are sharp to see (The Maid of Neid-
path)
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu (Gathering Song of Donalà
the Black)

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