They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were
dead (Heraclitus)

You promise heavens free from strife (Mimnermus
in Church)

COWLEY, ABRAHAM (1618-1667)

Awake, awake, my Lyre (A Supplication)
COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800)

I am monarch of all I survey (The Solitude of
Alexander Selkirk)

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162

Mary! I want a lyre with other strings (To Mary
Unwin)

164

Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade
(To a Young Lady)

129

The poplars are fell'd; farewell to the shade (The
Poplar Field)

140

The twentieth year is well-nigh past (To Mary
Unwin)

Toll for the Brave (Loss of the Royal George).
CRASHAW, RICHARD (1613 -1649)

Whoe'er she be (Wishes for the Supposed Mistress)

CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN (1784-1842)

A wet sheet and a flowing sea

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night

22

DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846)

It is not Beauty I demand (The Loveliness of Love)

74

DEKKER, THOMAS (1570 ?-1641 ?)

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers (The
Happy Heart)

37

DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (1824-1874)*

The murmur of the mourning ghost (Keith of
Ravelston)

445

DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887)*

DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES (1810-1888)
Last night, among his fellow roughs (The Private of
the Buffs)

DRAYTON, MICHAEL (1563-1631)

It was the calm and silent night (A Christmas
Hymn)

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
(Love's Farewell)

23

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM (1585-1649)

Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move
My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow (To
His Lute)

40

24

My thoughts hold mortal strife (Madrigal)

27

Of this fair volume which we World do name (The
Lessons of Nature)

40

Phoebus, arise (Summons to Love)

1

The last and greatest Herald of Heaven's King
(Saint John Baptist)

41

This Life, which seems so fair.

38

DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony (Song
for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687).

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

105

ELIOT, GEORGE (MARY ANN CROSS) (1819-1880)
O may I join the choir invisible

401

ELLIOT, JANE (1727-1805)

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

120

330

O fair and stately maid, whose eyes (To Eva):

331

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882)

If the red slayer think he slays (Brahma)

FITZGERALD, EDWARD (1809-1883)

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

FLETCHER, JOHN (1579-1625)

Hence, all you 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)

342

86

124

131

128

132:

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

161

139

109

115

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

145

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

112

158

Spring)

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

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

HAWKER, ROBERT STEPHEN (1803-1875)

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

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)

133

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see (To Daffodils)
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree (To Blossoms)

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)

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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)

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

Jenny kissed me when we met (Rondeau)

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)

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)

191

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)

169

248

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

193

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (Ode to
Autumn)

261

Terror of Death)

Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon

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

KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875)

Souls of Poets dead and gone (The Mermaid
Tavern)

229

198

of Dee)

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

403

403

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

LAMB, CHARLES (1775-1834)

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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 SAVAGE (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, 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)

220

237

234

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317

317

319

318

319

152

10

121

337

340

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

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

323

MACKAY, CHARLES (1814-1889)

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

(1804-1866)

With deep affection (The Shandon Bells)

133

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MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE (1803-1849)

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

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593)

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

MARVELL, ANDREW (1621-1678)

How vainly men themselves amaze (Thoughts in
a Garden)

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)
MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674)

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)

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

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

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

Hence, loathed Melancholy (L'Allegro)
Hence, vain deluding Joys (Il Penseroso)
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son (To Mr.
Lawrence)

This is the month, and this the happy morn (Ode
on the Morning of Christ's Nativity)
When I consider how my light is spent (On his
Blindness)

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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more
(Lycidas)

55

MOORE, THOMAS (1779-1852)

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
(Pro patria mori)

MORRIS, WILLIAM (1834-1896)

Had she come all the way for this (The Haystack
in the Floods)

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

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

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

NAIRNE, CAROLINA, LADY (1766-1845)

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

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

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