"BLESSINGS BE WITH THEM, AND ETERNAL PRAISE,
WHO GAVE US NOBLER LOVES, AND NOBLER CARES,
THE POETS!" - Wordsworth.
LONDON:
WHITTAKER & CO., AVE MARIA LANE.
LIVERPOOL: EDWARD HOWELL, CHURCH STREET.
HARVARD COURSE LIBRARY
GIFT OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MAR 28 1939
“POETRY IS THE RECORD OF THE BEST AND HAPPIEST MOMENTS OF THE
HAPPIEST AND BEST MINDS."
D. VARPLES, PRINTER, LIVERPOOL.
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
The Lord of Burleigh, . . . , Tennyson, . 3
She was a Phantom of Delight, . . . WORDSWORT), ..
Love,
COLERIDGE, .
Cupid and Campaspe, . . . , John Lyly, . . 11
Resignation, . . . . . . LONG FELLOW, . 12
The Snow Storm, . . . . . EMERSON, . . 14
The Reward of Virtue, (from the “Essay on Man,”') POPE, . 15
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel, . . Leigh Hunt, 17
The Exile of Cloudland, . . . . MACKAY,
Gather ye Rose-buds, . . . . . HERRICK, . .
20
Field Flowers, . . . .
CAMPBELL,
Life, (from “ Human Life,”
. Rogers, ..
To Autumn, . . .
KEATS,
The Cry of the Children, . . ELIZABETH Barrett BROWNING, 25
Lowly Pleasures, .
. BARRY CORNWALL, .
Mary Morison, . . . . . . Burns, . .
A Psalm of Life, .
LONGFELLOW,
The Cypress Wreath,
· Scott, . .
36
Ruth, . . . . ; . Thomas Hood, . 37
To a Sky-lark, . . . . . . SHELLEY, , ,
Hester, . . .
CHARLES LAMB, . 43
Auld Robin Gray, . . . . . LADY ANNE BARNARD, 44
Ode to Evening,
. COLLINS, . 46
A Satyr presenting Fruit to a Shepherdess, FLETCHER, , ,
The Bride, (from “ A Ballad upon a Wedding,”') SUCKLING,
The Poet's Bridal-Day Song,
Allan CUNNINGHAM, 51
The Grasshopper, (Anacreontic,) . . COWLEY, .
Death's Final Conquest, . . . . SHIRLEY, . . 55
Youth and Age, . . . . . COLERIDGE, . 56
Sonnet, ( 29,) . . . . . . SAAKSPEARE, . 58
Stanzas for Music, . . . . . Byron, . . 59
Lucy Gray; or Solitude, . . . . WORDSWORTH, . 60
Song. On May Morning, . . . Milton, , . 62
Song, (from "As you like it,”) . . . SHAKSPEARE, .
The Romance of the Swan's Nest, . ELIZABETH B. BROWNING,
Music, (from “ The Faerie Queen,”) . . SPENSER, . .
A Pastoral Evening, : :
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. FLETCHER, . .
Bermudas, . . . . .
ANDREW MARVELL,
To Althea, (from Prison) . . RICHARD LOVELACE,
To Daffodils, . . . . . ..
HERRICK, .
Song,
. THOMAS CAMPBELL, 74
Dirge, (from “The Broken Heart,”). . John Ford, ..
The Past, . . . . . . . BARRY CORNWALL, . 76
Home-thoughts, from Abroad, . . . ROBERT BROWNING, 78
Ode to a Nightingale, . . . . John KEATS, · · 79
Early Morning, . . . . . . FLETCHER, , . 82
Flowers, . . . . . . • LONGFELLOW, .
Spring, · · · · ·
· WILLIS, . . 85
To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down
. BURNS, •
with the plough, in April, 1786,
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Winter in Scotland, (from “Marmion,”). Scott, . . .
The Garden of Adonis, (from “The Faerie Queen,”) SPENSER, .
From the Passionate Pilgrim, . . . SHAKSFEARE, . 91
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket, . . Leigh Hunt, 92
Morning; its Music, (from “ The Minstrel,”') BEATTIE, . . 93
The Procession of the Seasons, (from "The Faerie Queen,") SPENSER, 94
The Ivy in the Dungeon, . . . . CHARLES MACKAY, , 95
La Belle Dame sans Merci, . . . . KEATS, . . . 98
Dirge in Cymbeline, . . . . . SHAKSPEARE, . . 100
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