The sun upon the lake is low (Datur Hora Quieti)
Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright (To a
Lock of Hair)

Waken, lords and ladies gay (Hunting Song)
Where shall the lover rest

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191

'Why weep ye by the tide, ladie' (Jock o' Hazeldean) 183
SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES (1639 ?-1701)

Ah, Chloris! that I now could sit (Child and
Maiden)

SEWELL, GEORGE (- --1726)

Why, Damon, with the forward day (The Dying
Man in his Garden)

166

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Being your slave, what should I do but tend
(Absence)

7

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Come away, come away, Death (Dirge of Love).
Crabbéd Age and Youth (A Madrigal}

Farewell thou art too dear for my possessing
Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Fidele)

Full fathom five thy father lies (4 Sea Dirge)
How like a winter hath my absence been
If thou survive my well-contented day (Post
Mortem)

It was a lover and his lass

Let me not to the marriage of true minds (True
Love)

15

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled
shore (Revolutions)

19

No longer mourn for me when I am dead (The
Triumph of Death)

30

O me! what eyes hath love put in my head (Blinà
Love)

24

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming (Carpe
Diem)

17

On a day, alack the day (Love's Perjuries).

O never say that I was false of heart (The Un-
changeable)

9

Poor Soul, the centre of my sinful earth (Soul and

Body)

38

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (To his
Love)

12

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless

sea (Time and Love)

3

Take, O take those lips away (Madrigal)
Tell me where is Fancy bred (Madrigal)

23

30

That time of year thou may'st in me behold
They that have power to hurt, and will do none
(The Life without Passion)

18

20

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (The
World's Way)

To me, fair Friend, you never can be old

Under the greenwood tree

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
(Time and Love)

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5

3

When icicles hang by the wall (Winter)
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Å
Consolation)

When in the chronicle of wasted time (To his Love)
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Re-
membrance)

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792-1822)

Ariel to Miranda :-Take (To a Lady, with a Guitar)
Art thou pale for weariness (To the Moon)
A widow bird sate mourning for her love
Best and brightest, come away (The Invitation)
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit (To a Skylark)

I arise from dreams of thee (Lines to an Indian
Air)

I dream'd that as I wander'd by the way (A
Dream of the Unknown)

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden
I met a traveller from an antique land (Ozymandias
of Egypt)

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277

Life of Life! thy lips enkindle (Hymn to the Spirit
of Nature)

Many a green isle needs must be (Written in the
Euganean Hills)

Music, when soft voices die

Now the last day of many days (The Recollection)
On a poet's lips I slept (The Poet's Dream)
One word is too often profaned

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being
(Ode to the West Wind)

O World! O Life! O Time! (A Lament).
Rarely, rarely, comest thou (Invocation)

201

295
308

225

Swiftly walk over the western wave (To the Night) 188
The fountains mingle with the river (Love's Philo-

sophy).

185

The sun is warm, the sky is clear (Stanzas written
in dejection near Naples)
When the lamp is shattered (The Flight of Love). 195
SHIRLEY, JAMES (1596-1666)

227

The glories of our blood and state (Death the
Leveller)

61

Victorious men of earth, no more (The Last
Conqueror)

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his (A
Ditty)

16

SMITH, ALEXANDER (1830-1867)

On the Sabbath-day (Barbara).

SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

It was a summer evening (After Blenheim)
My days among the Dead are past (The Scholar)

SPENSER, EDMUND (1552 ?-1599)

Calm was the day, and through the trembling air
(Prothalamion)

SUCKLING, SIR JOHN (1609-1642)

Why so pale and wan, fond lover (Encouragements
to a Lover)

453

213

228

32

83

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837-1909)

Here, where the world is quiet (The Garden of
Proserpine)

In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland
(A Forsaken Garden)

Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow (Itylus)
Who may praise her (Olive)

SYLVESTER, JOSHUA (1563-1618)

Were I as base as is the lowly plain (Love's Omni-
presence)

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD (1809-1892)

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As thro' the land at eve we went

362

Break, break, break

360

Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain
height

365

Come into the garden, Maud

367

Deep on the convent-roof the snows (St. Agnes'
Eve)

I come from haunts of coot and hern (The Brook)
In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours
It is the miller's daughter (The Miller's Daughter)
My good blade carves the casques of men (Sir
Galahad)

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white
O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky (In Memoriam)
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean
The splendour falls on castle walls

THOMSON, JAMES (1700-1748)

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove

When Britain first at Heaven's command (Rule,
Britannia)

THOMSON, JAMES (1834-1882)

As we rush, as we rush in the train

TONY, THE SHEPHERD (? ANTHONY MUNDAY: 1553-

Happy those early days, when I (The Retreat)
VERE, EDWARD, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604)
If women could be fair, and yet not fond (A Re-
nunciation)

65

26

WALLER, EDMUND (1606–1687)

Go, lovely Rose

76

That which her slender waist confined (On a Girdle)

79

WEBSTER, JOHN. (1580 ?-1625)

WHITMAN, WALT (1819-1892)

WITHER, GEORGE (1588-1667)

Shall I, wasting in despair (The Manly Heart)

Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren (A Land
Dirge).

29

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done

406

85

WOLFE, CHARLES (1791-1823)

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note (The

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216

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850)

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by (To Sleep)
And is this-Yarrow ?-This the Stream (Farrow

275

Visited)

266

A slumber did my spirit seal

181

256

255

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight
appears (The Reverie of Poor Susan)
Behold her, single in the field (The Reaper)
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed (The
Green Linnet)

Degenerate Douglas! O the unworthy lord (Com-
posed at Neidpath Castle, the property of Lord
Queensberry, 1803).

Earth has not anything to show more fair (Upon
Westminster Bridge)

246

252

250

From Stirling Castle we had seen (Farrow Un-
visited)

Ethereal minstrel pilgrim of the sky (To the
Skylark)

242

264

In the sweet shire of Cardigan (Simon Lee the olà
Huntsman)

I heard a thousand blended notes (Written in Early
Spring)

282

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free (By the
Sca)

I travell'd among unknown men

I wandered lonely as a cloud (The Daffodils)
I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile (Nature
and the Poet)

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour
(London, 1802)

Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes (The Inner
Vision)

My heart leaps up when I behoid

O blithe new-comer! I have heard (To the Cuckoo)
O Friend! I know not which way I must look
(London, 1802)
Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee (On the
Extinction of the Venetian Republic)

210

210

She dwelt among the untrodden ways (The Lost
Love)

179

She was a phantom of delight

178

207

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God (Ode to Duty)
Surprised by joy-impatient as the wind (De-
sideria)

Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower (To the High-
land Girl of Inversneyde)

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense (Within
King's College Chapel, Cambridge)
There is a flower, the Lesser Celandine (4 Lesson)
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
(Ode on Intimations of Immortality)

The world is too much with us; late and soon. 300

Three years she grew in sun and shower (The
Education of Nature)

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Two Voices are there, one is of the Sea (England
and Switzerland, 1802)

209

We talk'd with open heart, and tongue (The
Fountain)

We walk'd along, while bright and red (The Two
April Mornings)

When I have borne in memory what has tamed.
When Ruth was left half desolate (Ruth)
Where art thou, my beloved Son (The Afliction

of Margaret)

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283

239

Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant (To à
Distant Friend)

189

With little here to do or see (To the Daisy)

260

Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye (Admoni-
tion to a Traveller)

252

WOTTON, SIR HENRY (1568-1639)

How happy is he born or taught (Character of a
Happy Life).

63

You meaner beauties of the night (Elizabeth of
Bohemia)

WYATT, SIR THOMAS (1503 ?-1542)

And wilt thou leave me thus (The Lover's Appeal)
Forget not yet the tried intent (4 Supplication).

UNKNOWN

Absence, hear thou my protestation (Present in

As I was walking all alane (The Twa Corbies)
Down in yon garden sweet and gay (Willy
Drowned in Yarrow)

I wish I were where Helen lies (Fair Helen)
Love me not for comely grace

My Love in her attire doth shew her wit (The
Poetry of Dress) ·

Over the mountains (The Great Adventurer)
O waly waly up the bank (The Forsaken Bride)
While that the sun with his beams hot (The Un-
faithful Shepherdess)

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