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17. blind and stifled: 'hard to find and choked with weeds.'

41. handfast in: 'bound up in.'

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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.

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69. pass on pass reach: attain to summit after summit.'

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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.

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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
OF THE POEMS, AND TITLES

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

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

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ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)

A wanderer is man from his birth (The Future)
Coldly, sadly descends (Rugby Chapel)

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435

Come, dear children, let us away (The Forsaken
Merman)

413

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

427

Hark! ah, the nightingale (Philomela)

425

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

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

419

419

Strew on her roses, roses (Requiescat)

426

Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts (The
Song of Callicles on Etna)

417

We cannot kindle when we will (Morality)
AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE (1813-1865)

422

Come hither, Evan Cameron (The Execution of
Montrose)

391

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

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

168

BARNES, WILLIAM (1801–1886)

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

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-
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

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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-

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Give her but a least excuse to love me
Grow old along with me (Rabbi Ben Ezra)

390

373

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

Just for a handful of silver he left us (The Lost
Leader)

373

376

Let us begin and carry up this corpse (4 Gram-
marian's Funeral)

378

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)

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

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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

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O saw ye bonnie Lesley (Bonnie Lesley)

149

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

119

151

Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon

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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)

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

She walks in beauty, like the night
There be none of Beauty's daughters

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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)

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)

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

Life)

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When first the fiery-mantled Sun (Ode to Winter) 262
Ye Mariners of England

CAMPION, THOMAS (- -1619)

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

CAREW, THOMAS (1598 ?-1639 ?)

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He that loves a rosy cheek (The True Beauty)

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CAREY, HENRY (1693 ?-1743)

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

CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757)

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861)

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

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Say not, the struggle naught availeth'
Where lies the land to which the ship would go.

COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)

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

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She is not fair to outward view

178

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834)

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

171

301

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)

CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562–1613)

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Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly (Diaphenia)

CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892)

Somewhere beneath the sun (Amaturus)

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