HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE
EDWARD S. HAKES ESTATE

1943

Press of J. J. Little & Co.,

Astor Piace, New York.

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

The Dean of St. Paul's

The Reverie of Poor Susan

Expostulation and Reply

16

The Tables Turned .

17

Lines composed near Tintern Abbey

18

Lines written in Early Spring

23

A Poet's Epitaph

24

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

26

Lucy

28

The Two April Mornings

30

The Fountain. A Conversation

32

There was a Boy

34

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the

Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth .

35

The Green Linnet

37

Yew Trees

38

To a Highland Girl

39

The Solitary Reaper.

41

Yarrow Unvisited

42

To the Cuckoo.

44

At the Grave of Burns

45

Thoughts suggested the day following

•She was a Phantom'

• I wandered lonely'

51

Ode to Duty

52

The Nightingale

53

The Mountain Echo.

54

Ode. Intimations of Immortality

55

Laodamia .

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To [Miss Blackett) on h r first Ascent to the Summit of Hel-

vellyn

66

Evening Voluntary

67

Extracts from the Prelude :

(Apparition on the Lake)

70

[Morning after the Ball]

72

[Defile of Gondo)

73

(Ascent of Snowdon)

73

Extracts from the Excursion :

[Twin Peaks of the Valley]

76

Mist opening in the Hills!

77

(Among the Mountains]

78

[The Moon among Trees]

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i The Sea Shell] .

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Sonnets :

[The Gains of Restraint]

[On the Beach at Calais)

82

Composed upon Westminster Bridge .

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

Milton

[The World's Ravages)

The Throne of Death]

[The Shock of Bereavement)

After-Thought

86

Mutability

86

To Lady Fitzgerald

87

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford to Naples

[Past Years of Home]

88

SAMUEL ROGERS (1763-1855)

Sir Henry Taylor 89

Extract from The Pleasures of Memory

92

Human Life

93

Italy

94

Ginevra

95

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)

Austin Dobson

99

Sonnets :

Written at Ostend

Influence of Time on Grief

November 1793

Bereavement

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)

Walter H. Pater 102

Time, Real and Imaginary

115

Love

115

Sonnet

118

The Eolian Harp

119

Frost at Midnight

Dejection. An Ode .

123

Sonnet. Composed on a Journey Homewards

127

First Part of Christabel

128

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

136

ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)

Sir Henry Taylor 155

Extract from Roderick

165

Thalaba

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Kehama

170

Ode, written during the Negociations with Buonaparte

172

Funeral Ode on the Death of the Princess Charlotte .

176

The Holly Tree

180

The Battle of Blenheim

182

Stanzas written in his Library

184

WALTER SCOTT (1771-1836)

Goldwin Smith 186

The Last Minstrel (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel)

The Camp (from Marmion)

197

Battle of Beal' an Duine (from The Lady of the Lake)

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The Buccaneer (from Rokeby)

Lake Coriskin (from The Lord of the Isles)

209

The Eve of St. John

211

Edmund's Song (from Rokeby)

218

County Guy (from Quentin Durward)

The Violet

220

JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)

A. Mary F. Robinson 221

The Chough and Crow

223

Fisherman's Song

223

Song.

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Song

225

JAMES HOGG (1770-1835)

Prof. Minto 227

A Boy's Song

228

THOMAS CAMPBELL (1777-1844)

Sir Henry Taylor 229

Hohenlinden

233

Ye Mariners of England

234

Battle of the Baltic

The Oneyda's Death Song

237

JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE (1769-1846)

Austin Dobson 240

Extract from 'The Monks and the Giants

241

LORD BYRON (1788-1824)

7. A. Symonds 244

When we two parted

256

And thou art dead, as young and fair

257

Extract fro'n The Bride of Abyd s

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Extracts from The Hebrew Melodies :

She walks in beauty

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Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom

260

Extract from Parisina

261

Stanzas for Music

261

Stanzas for Music

262

Fare Thee Well

263

Stanzas to Augusta

265

Epistle to Augusta

266

The Dream

270

Extracts from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:

Harold the Wanderer

276

Night and Tempest

281

Ocean

284

Prometheus

286

Sonnet on Chillon

288

Stanzas for Music

288

So we'll go no more a roving

289

Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa

289

Stanzas

290

Extracts from Don Juan :

Donna Julia's letter

291

First Love

292

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The Isles of Greece

294

Haidee and Juan

297

Invocation to the Spirit of Achilles (from The Deformed Transformed) 305

On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year

302

WILLIAM TENNANT (1786-1848)

Prof. Minto 304

Rab the Ranter's Bag-pipe Playing (from Anster Fair)

306

THOMAS Moore (1779-1852)

Edmund W. Gosse 309

Extracts from Lalla Rookh :

The Light of the Haram

313

The Fire-Worshippers

314

When he, who adores thee

315

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms

By that lake, whose gloomy shore

Lesbia hath a beaming eye

317

At the mid hour of night

319

The Young May Moon

319

The time I've lost in wooing

320

Dear harp of my country

321

Echo

321

Oft in the stilly night (from National Airs)

322

CHARLES WOLFE (1791–1823)

Edmund W. Gosse 323

The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna

324

Song

325

CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)

Prof. Dowden 326

Hester

The Old Familiar Faces

The Grandame

329

On an Infant dying as soon as born

331

Work

332

Parental Recollections

333

TELICIA HEMANS (1793-1835)

A. Mary F. Robinson 334

A Ballad of Roncesvalles

336

A Dirge

Casabianca

A.EIGH Hunt (1784-1859)

Prof. Dowden 340

A Garden and Summer House (from The Story of Rimini)

343

Rondeau

To the Grasshopper and the Cricket .

The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822) Frederick W. H. Myers 348

Stanzas-April 1814 .

357

Extract from Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude

358

Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples

374

Ode to the West Wind

375

Extracts from Prometheus Unbound :

Semichorus I of Spirits

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