17. blind and stifled: 'hard to find and choked with weeds.' 41. handfast in: 'bound up in.' 395 From Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889), where it appears without the preliminary inscription. 38. save haply one: I would conjecture that Swinburne means Blake, whose Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) contain some wonderful lines about children, which might well have found a place in the Golden Treasury. Palgrave's omission of Blake is as remarkable as his inclusion of John Collins and Rogers. 6 69. pass on pass reach: attain to summit after summit.' 396 ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-81) was engaged at the British Museum, first in the literary, and afterwards in the natural history department. He wrote four volumes of poems, of which Music and Moonlight, from which the following 'Ode' is taken, appeared in 1874. 1. We the poets. 22. the old . the new: i.e. the Past and the Future. 397 WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903), poet, editor, and critic, collaborated with Stevenson in writing three plays, and published several volumes of verse. These splendid lines, written in 1875, when he had lain for months in Edinburgh Infirmary, were printed in his first work, A Book of Verses (1888). In a later edition they are headed ' I.M. [in memoriam] R. T. HamiltonBruce (1846-99).' INDEX OF WRITERS WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH, FIRST LINES ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, EARL OF STERLINE (1567 ?— O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm (To ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888) A wanderer is man from his birth (The Future) PAGE 15 423 435 Come, dear children, let us away (The Forsaken 413 Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill (The 427 Hark! ah, the nightingale (Philomela) 425 Others abide our question-Thou art free (Shake- In the deserted moon-blanch'd street (A Summer 419 419 Strew on her roses, roses (Requiescat) 426 Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts (The 417 We cannot kindle when we will (Morality) 422 Come hither, Evan Cameron (The Execution of 391 BACON, FRANCIS, LORD VERULAM (1561-1626) 39 BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA (1743-1825) 168 BARNES, WILLIAM (1801–1886) Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce (The Wife 328 The primrwose in the sheäde do blow (Blackmwore Maidens) BARNFIELD, RICHARD (1574–1627) As it fell upon a day (The Nightingale) 326 21 BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1584-1616) Mortality, behold and fear (Ón the Tombs in West- BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806–1861) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways PAGE 60 336 335 334 334 Instrument) Yet love, mere love, is beautiful indeed BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889) Escape me? (Life in a Love) spice) Fear death?-to feel the fog in my throat (Pro- Give her but a least excuse to love me 390 373 384 Let's contend no more, Love (A Woman's Last Just for a handful of silver he left us (The Lost 373 376 Let us begin and carry up this corpse (4 Gram- 378 Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West The rain set early in to-night (Porphyria's Lover) This is a spray the Bird clung to (Misconceptions). Whither, midst falling dew (To a Waterfowl) Duncan Gray cam here to woo (Duncan Gray) 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 156 149 150 O saw ye bonnie Lesley (Bonnie Lesley) 149 The lovely lass o' Inverness (Lament for Culloden) 119 151 Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie (To a BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD (1788-1824) Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind (On the Castle of Chillon) O snatch'd away in beauty's bloom (Elegy) O talk not to me of a name great in story (All for She walks in beauty, like the night 199 209 233 173 177 176 PAGE 221 190 There's not a joy the world can give like that it When we two parted CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777-1844) A Chieftain to the Highlands bound (Lord Ullin's Earl March look'd on his dying child (The Maid of Gem of the crimson-colour'd Even (To the Evening How delicious is the winning (Freedom and Love) Star that bringest home the bee (To the Evening The more we live, more brief appear (The River of Life) 307 When first the fiery-mantled Sun (Ode to Winter) 262 CAMPION, THOMAS (- -1619) There is a garden in her face (Cherry-Ripe) CAREW, THOMAS (1598 ?-1639 ?) 204 He that loves a rosy cheek (The True Beauty) 75 126 CAREY, HENRY (1693 ?-1743) Of all the girls that are so smart (Sally in our CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757) CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861) As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay (Qua cursum Say not, the struggle naught availeth' COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849) O say what is that thing call'd Light (The Blind She is not fair to outward view 178 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834) All thoughts, all passions, all delights (Love) 171 301 COLLINS, JOHN (1742 ?-1808) In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining 167 COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721 ?-1759) How sleep the Brave who sink to rest (Ode written 119 If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song (To Evening) 143 CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562–1613) Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly (Diaphenia) CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892) Somewhere beneath the sun (Amaturus) |