//75 Book. r .^o / ^ r^9 Ai •4 COPTRIGHT DEPOSIT HARPER'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH AJSTD AMERICAN POETRY EDITED BV EPES SARGENT NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE ^-n 0^^ ^l"^ Copyright, iS8., 1000, by Harper & Brothlrs. All rights reserved. LIBRARY o( CONGRESS Two Copies Received APR 2 1«09 - Copynn^l Entry CLASS «^ )tXc. No, 2-51 "i"^^ COPY li. 6/f ? PREFACE. Poets have multiplied during the present century as at no previous period. Never was the accomplishment of verse so general as now. "Weren't we in the luck of it," said Scott to Moore, "to have come before all this talent was at work?" If the remark was apt in their dav, how much more so is it at the present time ! Works in verse, tliat M'ould have made a reputation a century ago, fall now almost unnoticed from the press. It is hard for the most diligent critic to keep pace with the fertility of our poets. The present compiler had despaired of doing this long before he had .proceeded far in his labors. The consequence is that there liave been omissions for which no better reason can bo given than that they were unavoidable. An apology under such circumstances would bo out of place. It cannot be overlooked, too, that much of the best poetry of recent times has been .the product of feminine genius. The progress of women in enlarging the sphere of tfieir occupations, and competing with the employments of the stronger sex, is repre- sented in no department of intellectual work more signally than in verse. Ever}- month new poetry, far above mediocrity, if not of really superior quality, is sent forth. This is a sign to be welcomed. True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations. It cannot be poetry if it conflict with these. Its cultivation, therefore, apart from all calculations of profit or of reputation — since few can now realize their dream of fame — must always be an elevating pursuit. There are some great truths for the expression of which the speculative understanding is less fitted than that which is the issue of right feelings and noble impulses. That poets have not always practised what they have preached, only shows how hard it is for a man to act up to his best ideals. It is profoundly true that poetry is to be found nowhere, unless we liave it within us. Here, as throughout all nature and all art, we receive but what we give. And so it is that great poets like Goethe — of whom it was said that his praise of some of the younger poets of his day was " a brevet of mediocrity " — often detect in what PREFACE. may strike an inferior judge as commonplace, sometliing to which the broad poetical nature may respond. In poetry, as in other forms of art, tastes must differ widely, not only among dif- ferent persons, but among the same persons at different periods of their lives. The youth, in whose estimate the verse of Byron once had the highest place, often finds liimself, as he grows older, transferring his affections to Coleridge or Wordsworth. Then, too, it frequently happens that our fondness for a certain j^oeni may lie uncon- sciously in some early association with it, or in the fact that it was admired by some one near and dear to us. "We shut our eyes to minor flaws, and are "pleased we know not why and care not wherefore," — wholly regardless of the critic's shrug or even the grammarian's objection. All, then, that the compiler can do is, while admitting largely what he may regard as best and highest, to remember still that in the exercise of his individual taste he must not arbitrarily rule out the representation of any legitimate style or topic. Some of our best humorous poems, like Thackeray's " Ballad of Bouilla- baisse," have in them an element of pathos M'hicli redeems their character as poetry. There are many minor poets who, by some felicity of subject or of treatment, have produced one successful piece, but never repeated the achievement. Like the boy who shot an arrow through a ring, but would not make a second trial lest he should fail, they have been constrained to rest their fame on the one little waif by which they have been made known. This class, and such anonymous writers as have produced pieces that the world does not allow to become obsolete, are largely repre- sented in the present volume; and our Index of First Lines will be found a conven- ient concordance for the discovery of many a poem which everybody remembers, but few know where to find. In the introductor}' notices of poets, in reference to the most distinguished, the aim has been to condense, or to sum up briefly, the most interesting incidents of their lives, and the choicest characteristics of their writings. In doing this, occasional forms of expression, not designated by quotation-marks, have been adopted, with alteration or abridgment, from biographer or critic; but credit has been given in cases of any im- portance. Original matter has been largely introduced; but, inasmuch as the license of a compiler has been used to enrich the work with all that is most apt in the way of facts and of criticism, whether new or old, no pretensions to nniform originality in these respects are made. t^ o '■ • LpES bAEGENT. Boston, Dreemher, 1880. PUBLISHER'S NOTE. The concluding pages of this volume were put in type only a few days before the genial and cultured editor passed away from the scene of his labors. It was the crowning work of a life devoted to literature. Projected several years ago, it en- grossed Mr. Sargent's thoughts and time almost to the very last day of his life, and every page passed under his careful supervision. Although lie did not live to see it published, he had the pleasure of putting the final touches to it, and of knowing that his work was finished. Mr. Sargent was eminently fitted for the preparation of a work of this kind. Few men possessed a wider or more profound knowledge of English literature, and liis judgment was clear, acute, and discriminating. lie designed tliis volume especially for household use; and he could have desired no kindlier remembrance than that associ- ated with the innocent pleasure and refining influence it will carry to many a domestic fireside. Harper it BKOTnj:Rs. Franklin Square, New York, Febnmry 22, 1881.' iin^de:x of ^xjthohs, W^ITH CONTEjSTTS. Adams, John Quincy. r*GE To a Beicaved Mother 535 Adams, Sarah Flower. Nuaier, my God, to Thee 608 The World may Change (from Schiller) 609 Thy Will, not Miue OOa Addison, Joseph. Hymn 137 Ode from the Nineteenth Psalm 1-8 Paraphrase on Psalm sxiii 128 Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul. 139 Ode : How are Thy Servants Blest 139 Aiken, Berkeley. Uncrowned Kings 553 Ainslie, Hew. Sighings for the Sea-side 441 The Ingle-side 443 Aird, Marion Paul. Far, Far Away 733 Aird, Thomas. The Swallow 580 Akeuside, Mark. The Soul's Tendencies to the Infinite 186 The High-born Soul 187 Mind, the Fount of Beauty 187 The Ascent of Being 187 Through Nature up to Nature's God 188 Akin, Mary Elizabeth. Psalm cxxxvii .568 Alden, Henry M. The Ancient " Lady of Sorrow" 881 Aldrich, James. A Death-bed 691 To One Far Away 691 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Lines on Brownell 773 Piscataqua River 867 Before the Rain 868 After the Rain 868 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. page Unsung 868 Sounet 868 Alexander, Mrs. Cecil Frances. The Burial of Moses 836 Alexander, Joseph Addison. The Power of Short Words 667 Alexander, William. Waves and Leaves 797 Jacob's Ladder 797 Alford, Henry. A Memory 693 Alison, Richard. Hope 32 Cherry-ripe 22 Allen, Elizabeth Akers. RocU Me to Sleep 8.50 Till Death 8.50 Allingham, William. Sing 825 The Touchstone 835 Autumnal Sounet 835 Allston, Washington. Sonnet on Coleridge 350 America to Great Britain 3.50 Anonymous and Miscellaneous Poems of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Chevy Chase 63 Sir Patrick Spens 65 Give Place, Tou Ladyes All 66 Tak' Your Auld Cloak About Ye 67 The Heir of Linne 68 The Nut-brown Maide 71 Sir John Barleycorn 75 Truth's Integrity 75 The Twa Sisters o' Binnorie 76 Dowie Dens o' Yarrow 78 Robin Hood's Rescue of Will Stutly 79 Begone, Dull Care 80 Man's Mortality, by Simon Wastell 81 Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale 81 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH COXTIUXTS. Anonymous and Miscellaneous— Cunfi'nHfd. page ^Vul y, Willy S3 Edward '. . . . 83 Love Me Little, Love Me Long 83 True Loveliuess 84 Lines by One in the Tower, by Cliidiock Tychbom 84 Honnie George Campbell 84 Silent Music, by Tlioraas Cumptou 85 Tlie Jleavenly Jerusalem 85 Helen of Kirk(*BueU 86 Anonymous and Miscellaneous Poems of the ■17th and 18th Centuries. The Lincolniliire Poaeher The Twa Corbies Still Water, by Thomas D'Urley The Jovial Beggars, by Richard Brome Harvest-home Song Time's Cure " When Shall We Three Meet Again ?" God Save the King Winifreda Why Should We Quarrel for Riches The Fairy Queene The Maiden's Choice, by Henry Fielding The White Rose From Merciless Invaders Willie's Visit to Melville Castle Our Gude-man Jock o' Hazelgreen Love Not Me for Comely Grace How Stands the Glass Around ? Ye Gentlemen of England Annie Laurie, by Douglas of Fingland The Soldier's Glee England's Vote for a Free Election Anonymous and Miscellaneous Poems of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Merry May tlie Keel Row Oh Saw Ye the Lass ? The Pauper's Drive, by Thomas Noel Sonnet: December Morning, by Anna Seward... Song of Birth Song of Death Young Airly Love's Remonstrance, by James Kenney Sonnet ; Comparison The Crocus's Soliloquy, by Miss H. F. Gould The Managing Mamma A Riddle on the Letter H, by Miss Catherine M. Fanshawe Sweet Tyrant, Love, by James Thomson The End of the Drought Three Kisses of rarcwell The Sailor's Consolation, by William Pitt Where is He ':' by Henry Xrele Heaving of the Lead Coming Through the Rye Oh ! Say Not Woman's Heart is Bought, by Thomas Love Peacock Love and Age, by Thomas Love Peacock Go, Sit by the Summer Sea 156 156 156 157 157 1.57 158 158 158 159 1.59 160 160 160 160 161 162 163 163 164 164 164 685 527 527 .527 .528 528 528 529 .529 .530 .530 .530 530 .531 531 532 .532 533 .533 533 534 .534 534 Anonymous and Miscellaneous— Condniierf. page To a Bereaved Mother, by John Quincy Adams.. 535 Again 535 Never Despair 536 My Philosophy 536 Progress 536 Reliqui* 537 Faith 537 Genius 537 Deirdre's Farewell to Alba 538 The Mystery of Life, by John Gambold 538 Fame (from the German of Schiller) 539 The Clown's Song 539 The Song of the Forge 540 Sunrise Comes To-morrow 540 Where Are Ye ? 541 Come, Sunshine, Come ! (from the French of Charles Vincent) 543 When the Grass Shall Cover Me 543 Battle Hymn and Farewell to Life (from the Ger- man of Theodore Korner) .542 The Going of My Bride 543 Erin, by Dr. Willinra Drennan 543 The Swans of Wilton 544 Hymn to the Stars 544 Summer Days 545 With a Rose in Her Hair 545 A Huudrcd Years to Come, by William G. Brown. 546 Lines on a Skeleton ' 546 Sonnet: The Seen and the Unseen 546 Thou Wilt Never Grow Old, by Mrs. Howarth... &t7 Happiest Days 547 I Am the Lord ; I Change Not, by Arrali Leigh.' .547 Invocation of Earth to Morning 548 Ode to Washington, by Mrs. A. B. Stockton .549 Requiescam, by Mrs. Robert S. Howland 549 The Departed Good, by Isaac Williams 549 A Spring Song, by Edward Youl 550 My Treasures 550 "I Would Not Live Alway," by Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg 5.51 The Beautiful, by E. H. Burrington 551 The Joy of Incompleteness 552 Uncrowned Kings, by Berkeley Aiken 553 Wonderland, by Cradoek Newton 5.52 Alischicvous Woman, by "The Ettrick Sliepherd." 5.53 The Water-drinker, by Edward Johnson, M.D. .. 553 Glenlogie 554 The Place to Die,'by Michael Joseph Barry 554 To My Wife, by William Smith 555 Love and Absence, by James Ashcroft Noble 5.55 Dreams 5.55 Epigram, by S. T. Coleridge .5.55 The First Spring Day, by John Todhunter .5.56 Unbelief 556 On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman Who Died Suddenly, by William Cartwriglit 556 The Way, by William S. Shurtleff 556 Anster, John. The Fairy Child 442 The Days of Youth (from Goethe) 442 The Soul of Eloquence (from Goethe) 443 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Armstrong, Edmund. From Darkness to Light , Arnold, Edwin. After Deatli in Arabia A Ma Future PAGE . 913 Arnold, George. In the Dark Cui Bono ? A Summer Longius . Arnold, Mattheiv. Lines on Byron Self-Depcndence A Wish Dr. Arnold Austerity of Poetry. . 851 851 858 858 859 394 783 783 784 Askew, Anne. From "The Figlit of Faith". Aubanel, Theodore. Tliirteen (translated by Miss Harriet W. Preston). Austin, Arthur Williams. From " The Greek Anthology " Austin, Mrs. Sarah. The Passage (from the German of Uhland) . Ayton, Sir Robert. On Woman's Inconstancy Aytoun, "William Edmondstoune. The Old Scottish Cavalier Bailey, Philip James. Love, the End of Created Being. Thoughts from "Festus" Ballantine, James. Its Ain Drap o' Dew. Baillie, Joanna. To a Child Fame Ballou, Maturin M. Flowers Banim, John. Soggarth Aroon From "Damon and Pythias," Act V. Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Lile Lines written at the Age of Eighty-three Years Wliat do the Futures Speak of ? The Death of the Virtuous The L^uknown God For Easter Sunday 919 641 451 35 713 734 735 643 266 266 504 505 236 236 227 227 327 228 Barbour, John. Freedom PAGE . 3 Barham, Richard Harris. The Jackdaw of Rheims 405 Song 407 Barker, David. The Covered Bridge ! 743 The Under Dog in the Fight «.- 743 Barker, James Nelson. Little Red Riding-IIood 373 Barlow, Joel. From "The Hasty Pudding" ^6 Barnard, Lady Anne. Auld Robin Gray 336 Barnes, William. Plorata Veris Lachrymis 673 Sonnet : Rural Nature 673 Barr, Mary A. White Poppies 939 Out of tlie Deep 939 A Harvest-homo 939 Barr, Matthias. God's Flowers 848 Only a Baby Small 848 Barry, Michael Joseph. The Place to Die 554 Barton, Bernard. To a Grandmother 368 Farewell 369 A Winter Niglit 369 Bates, Charlotte Fiske. Satislied 923 After reading Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamns." 923 Woodbines in October 923 Evil Thought 933 The Power of Music 923 Sonnet : To C. F 923 Tlie Telephone 934 Hopes and Memories 924 Baxter, Richard. Thy Will Be Done. 106 Bayly, Thomas Haynes. The Soldier's Tear 501 I'd be a Butterfly 503 She Wore a Wreath of Roses 503 The Premature White Hat 503 Beattie, James. Nature and Her Votary 218 Life and Immortality 219 IXDEX OF A UTHOBS, WITH CONTENTS. Beattie, James. 1'*°= Moruiug Melodies 219 Arraigameut of Providence 320 Beaumont and Fletcher. Mchmclioly 46 Coesar's Lamentation ovei- Pompey's Head 40 Song from " Valentinian " 47 On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, by Francis Beaumont 47 Invocation to Sleep 47 Song from " Rollo, Dulie of Normandy " 47 From "The Humorous Lieutenant" 47 From "Tlie Maid's Tragedy" 4« From " The Custom of the Country " 48 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. To Sea ! Beers, Mrs. Ethel Lynn. The Piclietguard Beers, Henry Augustin. Psyche Car^amon Bell, Henry Glassford. From "Tlie End" Cadzow Bello, Emilio (Spanish\ Meeting (translated by Mrs. Conant). Bennett, William Cox. A May-day Song A Thought 501 818 <.»30 930 609 609 895 Beranger, Pierre Jean de (French). Popular Recollections of Bonaparte (translated by Francis Mahony) 599 Berkeley, George. Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America 139 Bethune, George Washington. It is not Death to Die 610 Sonnet, introducing " Lays," etc 610 Blackie, John Stuart. The Hope of the Heterodox Beautiful World To the Memory of Sydney Dobell. Blair, Robert. Death of the Strong Man Blake, William. Night The Tiger On Another's Sorrow Introduction to "Songs of innocence' 666 666 667 1.55 250 250 2.50 351 Blamire, Susanna. p-»ce The Siller Croun 233 Blanchard, Laman. The Eloquent Pastor Dead 581 The Bird-catcher .583 Souuet : Hidden Joys 583 Sonnet : Wishes of Youth 582 Blood, Henry Ames. Pro Mortuis 897 The Last Visitor 897 Bloomfield, Robert. The Soldier's Home 271 Boker, George Henry. Dirge for a Soldier 791 Bonar, Horatius. How to Live 650 The Inner Calm 6.50 Botta, Mrs. Anne (Lynch). Love Wins Love 770 In the AdirondacliS 770 The Lesson of the Bee 770 Bourdillon, Francis W. Light Ctcli 938 938 The Home of My Heart 938 The Difference 938 Let us Love 938 Bowles, William Lisle. 1 he Touch of Time 3()5 The Bells of Ostend 365 Sonnet : October, 1792 265 Sonnet : On the River Rhine 265 Bowring, Edgar Alfred. What Songs are Like (from Goethe) 818 Youth and Age (from Goethe, ^t. 77) 818 Bowring, John. Ode to God (from the Russian of Gabriel Romano- witch Derzluwin) 439 Wisdom and Wealth (from the Russian of Khem- nitzcr) 440 True Courage 440 Brainard, John Gardiner Caulkins. The Sea-bird's Song 4l>4 Stanzas 484 To the Daughter of a Friend 4a5 The Falls of Niagara 485 Brome, Richard. The Jovial Beggars 1.57 Bronte, Anne. If This Be All 744 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, UlTH COKTENTS. Bronte, Charlotte. Life From '• Tlie Teacher's Moiiolos'iie ". Bronte, Emily. From "Anticipation'' .V Death Scene Brooks, Charles Timothy. Such is Life Tlie Two Grenatliei's (from the German of Heine). Alabama Brooks, James Gordon. 743 743 743 74:3 711 711 712 (irt Brooks, Mrs. James Gordon. Psalm cxx.xvii Brooks, Maria (Gowen\ Lilies to Soutlicy Son;; of E"la Brown, Frances. Losses Brown, 'William Goldsmith. A Hundred Years to Come... Browne, Sir Thomas. The Night is Come Browne, 'William. .Shall I tell Yuii whom I Lovi The Siren's Son"; Brownell, Henry Howard. .\t Sea : A Fiagmeiit From "The Bay Fi<;ht" The Burial of the Dane Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnet : Cheerfulness Taught by Reason . Cowper's Grave The Sleep A Woman's Question Souuet : Futurity Sonnet : Insufficiency Four Sonnets from the Portuarnese 568 568 475 47? 741 546 53 54 t to 77o 775 668 668 669 670 670 670 670 Brow^ning, Robert. How they Brought the Good News from Ghent. The Freuch at Ratisbon Meeting at Night Evelyn Hope Lines on Alfred Domett 709 710 710 710 734 Bruce, Michael. Fioni ail "EUsry Written in Spring Bryant, John Howard. The Valley Brook The Little Cloud Sonnet : Autumn 231 636 627 627 Bryant, 'William Cullen. pace November : a Sonnet 463 The Antiquity of Freedom 463 Tlianatopsis 464 Summer Wind 465 The Future Life 465 Meeting of Hector aud Achilles 4y 404 From " The Prophecy of Dante " 405 Calderon, Don Pedro (Spanish^ Lines translated by Mrs. Conant 895 Callanan, Joseph Jeremiah. The Virgin Mary's Bank 409 Calverley, Charles Stuart. Lines Suggested by the Fourteenth of February. 844 Calvert, George Henry. On the Fifty-Bfth Sonnet of Shakspearc 591 Campbell, Thomas. Ye Mariners of England 332 Lochicl's Warning 333 Hallowed Ground 333 Song of the Greeks 334 Lord Ullin's Daughter 335 Hohenliuden 335 Freedom and Love 336 The Soldier's Dream 336 Valedictory Stanzas to John Philip Kcmblc, Esq. 337 Exile of Erin 3.37 Adelgitha 338 Battle of the Baltic 338 The Parrot 339 To the Rainbow 339 Hope's Kingdom 340 Unbelief in Immortality 340 Campion, Thomas. Silent Music 85 Canning, George. i"-»oe The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder : A Parody on Southey's Lines, "The Widow".. 375 On the Death of His Eldest Sou 276 Song by Eogcro 276 Care-w, Thomas. Disdain Returned .52 On Returning Her Letters 52 Mediocrity in Love Rejected .53 Song : Ask Me No More .53 Carey, Henry. Sally in Our Alley 165 Carleton, Will. Over the Hill to the Poor-house 928 Carlyle, Thomas. Cui Bono ? 475 To-day 470 Carrington, Noel Thomas. The Pixies of Devon 341 Cartwright, William. On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman 5.56 Cary, Alice. Alice's Last Hymn 768 Thou that Drawest Aside the Curtain 769 Cary, Phoebe. Tliou and 1 769 Nearer Home 769 Chadwick, John White. Auld Lang-sync 901 By the Sea-shore 902 Carpe Diem 902 Channing, William EUery. To My Companions 744 A Poet's Hope 744 Channing, William Henry. Mignon's Song (from Goethe) 079 Chapman, George. Of Sudden Death 19 The Highest Standard 19 Give Me a Spirit 19 Charles I., King. A Royal Lamentation 86 Charlton, Robert M. The Death of Jasper. 622 Chatterton, Thomas. The Bristow Tragedy; or. The Death of Sir Charles Bawdin 2."9 On Resignation 243 IXDES OF AUTHOMS, WITH CONTENTS. Chaucer, Geoffrey. ^acb Au EurUily Paradise 1 To his Empty Purse 2 The Parson 3 Good Counsel of Chaucer 3 Cherry, Andrew. The Bay of Biscay. 263 Child, Lydia Maria. Lines on Whitticr 634 Chorley, Henry FothergiU. The Brave Old Oalc (U2 Churchill. Charles. Remorse .' 207 From "The Kosciad :" Sketches of Yates, Foote, Murphy, Mrs. Clive, Mrs. Pope, Quin, and Gar- i-ick 207, 208, 209 Gibber, Colley. The Blind Boy . 127 Clare, John. On an Infant Killed by Lightning 452 The Thrush's Nest : a Sonnet 4.52 Spring Flowers 452 Lines iu a Lucid Interval 4.53 Clark, James Gowdrey. Leona Clark, Willis Gaylord. " They that Seek Me Early shall Find .Me 834 iJ'M Clarke, James Freeman. Pr.ayer of Mary Queen of Scots 677 The Rule with no Exception (after Goethe) 678 White-capped Waves 678 A Reminiscence (after PaiUeron) 678 The Perfect Whole (after Geibel) 679 Clarke, Miss Lilian. A Slielter against Storm and Rain (after the Ger- man of Ruekert) 678 Clemmer, Mary. Waiting 889 A Perfect Day Nantasket Alone with God 890 Clive, Mrs. Archer Wigley. The Wish 891 569 Clough, Arthur Hugh. I will not Ask to Feel Thou Art 753 Consider it Again 7.53 Qui Laborat, Orat 753 Dulce et Decornm Est Pro Patria Mori 754 Qua Cursum Ventus 754 In a Gondola 755 Cockburn, Alicia Rvitherford. Tlie Flowers of the Forest PAGE . 194 Coffin, Robert Barry. Ships at Sea 815 Coleridge, Hartley. Still I am a Cliild 496 Song: She is not Fair to Outward View 490 No Course I cared to Keep 497 Sonnet to Wordsworth 497 The Flight of Youtli 497 November : a Sonnet 497 Wisdom the Gray Hairs to a Man 497 Sonnet to Shakspeare 497 Liberty : a Sonnet 498 No Life Vain 498 The Waif of Nature 498 To a Newly-married Friend 498 The Same, and Not Auotlier 498 On Receiving Alms 498 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Love 306 Hymn before Sunrise in tlie Vale of Cliamouni.. 307 Complaint 808 Human Life 308 Fancy in Nubibus ; or, The Poet in tlie Clouds.. 308 Love, Hope, and Patience in Education 309 From " Dejection : an Ode" 309 Death of Max Piccolomiui 309 Epitaph on an Infant 309 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 310 To the Author of "The Ancient Mariner" 317 Epigram on Poetasters 555 Coleridge, Sara. Sonnet on Blanco White 325 Collier, Thomas Stephens. ■ A Windy Evening 917 A Sea Echo 918 Collins, Mortimer. First of April, 1876 817 In View of Death 817 The Positivists 817 Collins's Last Verses 817 Collins, William. Ode, Written in the Tear 1740 188 Ode to Evening 189 Ode on the Death of Thomson 189 The Passions : an Ode for Music 190 Collyer, Robert. Saxon Grit 79:! Colman, George, the Younger. Sir Marmaduke 263 Colton, Caleb C. Life s a52 INDEX OF AUTHORS, KITH COSTENTS. Conant, Helen S. pioE From the Spanish of Calilerou 895 Ahis ! (fioni the SpauisU of Heredia) 895 Spanish Song 895 Meeting (from tlie Spanish of Emilio Bcllo) 895 German Love Song 895 Conant, Samuel Stillman. Release ; 880 A Vigil 880 The Saucy Rogue (from the German) 880 Conrad, Robert T. From "My Brother" 611 Constable, Henry. Diaphenia 40 Cook, Clarence. Abram and Zimri •. 823 Cook, Eliza. The Old Arm-chair 746 Cooke, John Esten. May 838 Cooke, Philip Pendleton. Florence Vano 736 Cooke, Rose Terry. Trailing Arbutus 819 Indolence 819 Corn-wall, Barry (see Procter, Bryan Waller'. Cotton, Charles. No Ills but wliat we Malic 114 Cotton, Nathaniel. To-morrow 175 Cowley, Abraham. My Picture 109 Tentanda Est Via 110 A Happy Life (from Martial) 110 Marie tlial Swift Arrow 110 On the Death of Crashaw Ill From " Tlie Wish " lU Co-wrper, William. Rural Sounds 210 Aflectatiou 310 Industry in Repose 211 Welcome to Evening 211 An Ode : Boadicca 211 A Winter Evening in the Library 213 On tlie Receipt of My Mother's Picture 213 Loss of the. liiiyal George 213 To Mary Unwin 214 Character of Lord Chatham 214 The Diverting History of John Gilpin 214 Cox, Christopher Christian. One Year Ago 737 Haste Not, Rci^t Not (after Schiller) 7:37 Coxe, Arthur Cleveland. pace Watchwords 7.50 Matin Bells 730 Crabbe, George. The Sea in Calm and Storm 345 The Pilgrim's Welcome 345 . It is the Soul that Sees 346 Craik. Mrs. Dinah Mulock. To a Winter Wind 813 Ton Late 812 Pliilip, My King 813 Cranoh, Christopher Pearse. Sonnet , 714 Gnosis .' 714 From an '-Ode" on Margaret Fuller Ossoli 715 Crasha-w, Richard. In Praise of Lcssius's Rule of Ilealtli 101 From "Wishes to his Snpi'osed Mistress" 101 Two went up to the Temple to Pray 103 Croly, George. Tlie Death of Leonidas 3.56 Tlie Seventh Plague of Egypt a57 Catiline's Defiance to the Roman Senate 358 Cross, Marian Evans (George Eliot\ Oil, may I Join tlie Choir Invisible 771 Day is Dying 771 Cros^well, William. Drink and Away 603 De Profiindis 1104 Cunningham, Allan. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 366 It's Hamc, and It's Hame 366 Tlie Spring of the Tear 367 Cunningham, John. May-eve ; or, Kate of Aberdeen 204 Curry, Otway. Kingdom Come 605 Curtis, George William. Egyptian Serenade r.'. 794 Pearl Seed 794 Ebb and Flow 794 Major and Minor 794 Music i' tlie Air 794 Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson. A Poem for the Hour (ISGl) 846 Cutter, George Washington. Song of Steam 732 Dale, Thomas. Stanzas for Music 499 Dirge 499 lyDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTEJ^TS. Dana, Charles Anderson. fioE Sonnet : Manhood 756 Sonnet : Via Sacra 757 Sonnet : To R. B 757 Dana, Richard Henry. Immortality -383 Wasliington Allstou 383 Tlie Island 3.'*i Tlie Pirate 384 Daniel, Samvtel. Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland 20 Fail- is ni}' Love 21 Early Love 21 Darley, George. Fi-oni " The Faiiic.s" 378 Tlie Queen of the May 379 Suicide 379 Darwin, Erasmus. Tlie Goddess of Botany 206 Eliza at the Battle of Minden 206 Davenant, Sir William. Th3 Soldier Going to the lield 87 To the Queen 87 Davidson, Lucretia Maria. To my Sistei- 613 Prophecy : To a Lady 644 Davidson, Margaret Miller. Dedication of "Lenore"" Joy. 644 644 Introduction to " Lenore " 64.5 From "Lines to Lucretia" 646 Davies, Sir John. The Soul's Aspirations 45 Myself 46 Davis, Thomas Osborne. The Welcome 719 Davy, Sir Humphry. Written after Recovery from a Dangerous Ill- ness 341 Life 342 Thought 342 Dawes, Rufus. To Genevieve 589 Love Unchangeable 589 De Kay, Charles. The Blush 933 Fingers 933 On Revisiting Statcn Island 933 Denham, Sir John. Description of the Thame 104 Derzhavin, Gabriel R. pace Ode to God (Bowring's translation; 4'.9 De Vera (see Vere). Dibdin, Charles. Poor Jack 228 Dickens, Charles. The Ivy Green 706 Dimitry, Charles. Viva Italia 886 Dimond, William. The Mariner's Dream. .350 Doane, George Washington. What is that, Mother ? 518 Dobell, Sydney Thompson. How's my Boy? 794 Sonnet : America 795 Dobson, Austin. '• More Poets Yet !" 89() The Prodigals 8iHi You bid me Try 890 A Song of the Four Seasons 890 Chansonctte 897 The Child Musician 897 Doddridge, Philip. Ye Golden Lamps 171 Awake, Ye Saiuts 173 Epigram 173 Hark, the Glad Sound 173 Dodge, Mary Mapes. In the Canon 903 Shadow Evidence 904 The Two Mysteries 904 Now the Noisy Winds are Still 905 Domett, Alfred. A Christmas Hymn. 734 Donne, Dr. John. Sonnet 43 The Soul's Flight to Heaven 42 Elegy on Mistress Elizabeth Drury 42 Dorr, Mrs. Julia C. Quietness 80S Heirship 808 To-day : a Sonnet 809 Somewhere 809 Twenty-one 809 Doten, Lizzie. " Gone is Gone, and Dead is Dead " 829 Doubleday, Thomas. Sonnet : The W.illflowcr 413 INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH COXTESTS. Douglas of Fingland. Anuie Laurie . PAGE . 164 Dowden, Edward. Aboard the Sea-swalluii} 931 Oasis 931 Wise Passiveness 933 Tlie Inner Life 933 Two Infinities 933 Drake, Joseph Rodman. He put his Acorn Helmet on 473 Tlie American Flag 473 Ode to Fortune 473 The Gathering of the Fairies 473 Drayton, Michael. A Parting 34 The Ballad of Agincourt 34 Drennan, William. Erin .543 Elliot, Miss Jane. The Flowers of the Forest . PAGE . 193 Drummond, William. The Universe 49 Man's Strange Ends 50 The Hunt 50 Dryden, John. Alexander's Feast 115 Veui Creator 117 Shaftesbury Delineated as Achitophel 113 Buckingham Delineated as Zimri 118 Eujoy the Present US Dufferin, Lady. Lament of the Irish Emigrant (571 D'Urfey, Thomas. Still Water 150 Durivage, Francis Alexander. All "37 Chez Brebant 737 Jerry 737 Dwight, John Sullivan. Translation from Friederike Brun 306 True Rest 717 Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas ! (from Goethe) 71S Dyer, Sir Edward. My Mind to me a Kingdom is 8 Dyer, John. Grougar Hill 170 Eastman, Charles Gamage. Scene in a Vermont Wiuter 738 Thanatos 739 Eliot, George (see Cross, Marian Evans). Ellet, Elizabeth Fries. Sonnet : O Weary Heart 749 Elliott, Ebenezer. Epigram 360 Farewell to Riviliu 360 From "Lyrics for ray Daughters" 360 Hymn 361 Not for Naught 361 Spring : a Sonnet 361 The Day was Dark 363 A Poet's Epitaph 362 Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Snow-storm 593 Goodbye, Proud Worid ! -593 Sursura Corda 593 To the Humblebee 593 The Soul's Prophecy 593 The Apology 593 Concord Monumental Hymn 594 English, Thomas Dunn. The Old Mill 768 Everett, Alexander Hill. The Young American 413 Everett, Edward. Alaric the Visigoth 4.59 Ewen, John. O Weel may the Boatie Row 334 Faber, Frederick William. '1 he Life of Trust 7.33 Harsh Judgments 733 Fairfax, Edward. Rinaldo at Mount Olivet 37 Falconer, William. From "The Shipwreck" 305 Fane, Julian. Three Sonnets, "Ad Matrem " 833 Fanshawe, Catherine M. A Riddle on the Letter H 530 Fawcett, Edgar. - Criticism 930 Fenner, Cornelius George. Winnipiscogee Lake 779 Gulf-weed 780 Ferguson, Samuel. The Forging of the Anchor Fielding, Henry. The Maiden's Choice 611 160 Fields, James T. Last Words in a Strange Land 748 Agassiz 74S IXDEX OF AVTUOBS, WITH CONTENTS. Finley, John. Bacheloi-'s Hall. PAGE . 503 Fletcher, John (see Beaumont and Fletcher). Fletcher, Maria Jane (Jewsbury). Birth-day Ballad Ford, John. Musical Contest with a Niirhtini;ale 56S 49 Foster, Stephen Collins. Old Folks at Home Freneau, Philip. May to April Frere, John Hookham. The Proem Whistlecraft and Murray . Frisbie, Levi. A Castle in the Air Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon. The Sight of the Blind O Gott, Du Frommer Gott ! Fuller, Margaret (Marchioness Ossoli). Sonnet : Orpheus Sonnet : Beethoven On Leaving the West. Gall, Richard. .My only Jo and Dearie O. Gallagher, William D. From "My Fiftieth Year" Lines The Laborer From " Miami Woods" Gambold, John. The Mystery of Life Gannett, William Channing. Listeuing for God Garrison, William Lloyd. The Guiltless Prisoner Freedom of the Mind To Benjamin Lundy Sonnet 810 344 aid 374 369 445 440 677 677 677 330 6.51 6.51 &51 653 538 898 614 614 614 615 Gasooigne, George. The Lullaljy Gay, John. Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan... The Hare and many Friends Gibson, William. From the "Hymn to Freya" 151 153 798 Gifford, William.. taue To a Tult of Eariy Violets 34.S From " The Baviad " 349 Gilbert, William Schwenck. To the Terrestrial Globe 871 Mortal Love STl Gilder, Richard Watson. The River ;)24 A Thought 934 Song 934 O Sweet Wild Roses that Bud and Blow 9ri4 Call me not Dead 935 My Songs are all of Thee 935 Gillespie, William. The Highlander 331 Gilman, Mrs. Caroline. From " The Plantation " 4.58 Annie in the Graveyard 458 Glen, William. Wae's me for Prince Charlie. Glover, Richard. Admiral Hosier's Ghost 411 179 Goethe, John Wolfgang von. The Days of Youth (Anster's translation) 443 The Soul of Eloquence (Anster) 443 The Rule with no Exception (Clarke) 678 Mignon's Song (Channing, W. H.) 679 Vanitas ! Vanitatum Vanitas ! (Dwight) 718 What Songs are Like (Bowring) 818 Youth and Age (Bowring) 818 Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village 195 From " The Traveller ; or, A Prospect of Society " 199 Retaliation ■ 3U0 Good, John Mason. The Daisv 369 Goodale, Dora Reed. Ripe Grain 943 April ! April ! are you here ? 943 What is Left ? 943 Goodale, Elaine. Papa's Birthday {141 Ashes of Roses 943 Gosse, Edmund W. Villanelle 920 The God of Wine :— Chant Royal 937 Gould, Hannah Flagg. The Crocus's Soliloquy .530 Gower, John. Medea gathering Herbs 3 IXDEX OF AUTBOBS, WITE CONTESTS. Graham, James (Marquis of Montrose\ paoe I'll never Love Thee more 103 Graham, Robert. Oil, Tell me how to Woo Thee 235 Grahame, James. Subb;Uh Mornin;;- 269 A Winter Sabbath Walk 370 A Present Deity 370 Grant, Mrs. Anne (of Laggan). Oh, Where, Tell me Where ? ai7 Grant, Mrs. (of Carron). Roy's Wife of Aldivalloeli 225 Grant, Robert. Whom have I in Heaven but Thee? 378 Gray, David. Wintry Weather 888 Die Down, O Dismal Djiy 889 If it Must Be •. 889 An October Musing 889 Gray, Thomas. Elesy Written in a Country Chureh-yard 183 Ode on a Distant Prospeet of Eton College 184 Green, Matthew. From " The Spleen " 154 Greene, Albert Gorton. Old (jrimcs 578 Greene, Robert. A Death-bed Lament 19 Greg, Samuel. Pain Beaten! Beaten!. 600 (iOl Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke\ Reality of a True Religion. 18 From "Lines on the Death of Philip Sidney"... 18 Griffin, Edmund D. Lines on Leaving Italy . 004 Griffin, Gerald, Song: A Place in Thy Memory, Dearest 586 Adare .586 The Bridal of Malahide 586 Gustafson, Zadel Barnes. Zlobane 906 The Factory Boy 907 Habington, William, Nomine Labia Mea Aperies. Hageman, Samuel Miller. Stanzas from " Silence" ... . 88 933 Hall, Joseph. f aoe Anthem for the Catliedral of Exeter 40 On Love Poetry 41 Hall, Mrs. Louisa Jane. Grow not Old 580 Waking Dreams 580 Hall, Samuel Carter. Nature's Creed 571 Hallam, Arthur Henry. Three Sonnets 695 To Alfred Tennyson 695 Halleck, Fitz-Greene. On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake 476 Marco Bozzaiis 470 Burns 478 Alnwick Castle 479 Halpine, Charles Graham. Janctte's Ilair 833 Hamilton, Elizabeth, My Aiu Fireside .^ 2.53 Hamilton, William. The Braes of Yarrow 173 Hamilton, William Ro-wan. A Prayer fii:! To Adams, Discoverer of the Planet Neptune 613 Harney, William Wallace. Jimmy's Wooing S.^ Harris, Thomas Lake. The Spirit-born 785 Harte, Bret. Dow's Flat 877 Jim 878 Hawker, Robert Stephen. Song of llic Cornish Men .584 "Are They not all Ministering Spirits?" 585 Hawthorne, Juliaii. Freewill 939 Hay, John. A Triumph of Order 893 My Castle in Spain 894 Hayley, William. The Departing Swallows. 230 Hayne, Paul Hamilton. From the Woods 848 Lyric of Action 849 Sonnet , &49 IXDEX OF AUTHOES, WITH CONTENTS. Heber, Reginald. pace From Bishop Heber's Journal 363 The Widow of Naiii 363 Missionary Hymn 364 Cliristnias Hymn 364 Early Piuty .'.364 Tlie Moonlight March 364 M;iy-day 365 Hedderwick, James. First Grief. 739 Hedge, Frederic Henry. Tlie Crucifi.xion 615 Questiouim^s 615 Heerman, Johann (GermanV Hymn (translated by Frothiugham) 446 Heine, Heinrich (German\ Sie Haben Mich Gequalet (Martin's translation). 740 The Excellent Man (Martin's translation) 740 Hemans, Felicia. Calm on the Bosom of Thy God 447 The Graves of a Household 447 The Pilgrim Fathers 448 The Home of the Spirit 448 Casablanca 448 Sonnet on Grasmere 449 The Messenger-bird 449 Le.iTC Me Not Yet 4.50 Evening Song of the Tyrolese Peasants 4.50 Hymn of the Mountaineers 4.50 The Greelc Islander in Exile 451 Sunday in England 451 Henryson, Robert. A Vision of j-Esop 5 Heraud, John Abraham. The Emigrant's Home 519 Herbert, George. Man 60 The Elixir 61 Sweet Day 61 Heredia, Jose Maria (Spanish). Alas ! (translated Ijy Mrs. Couant) 895 Herriok, Robert. To Dattbdils .54 Not a Prophet Every Day 54 Ode to Ben Jonson 54 Litany to the Holy Spirit 55 Night-piece to Julia 55 To Blossoms 55 To Corinna, to Go a-Maying 56 To Dianeme 56 Prayer to Ben Jonson 57 The Primrose 57 Herschel, Sir John. Throw Thyself on Thy God 441 c Hervey, Thomas Kibble. paue Hope 601 To One Departed 602 Cleopatra Embarking on the Cydnus 602 To Ellen— Weeping 603 Hey~wood, Thomas. Fantasies of Drunkenness 30 Song : Pack Clouds Away 37 Search after God 37 Higginson, Mary Thaoher. Gifts 791 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. "I will Arise and go to my Father" 791 Decoration : 792 The Reed Immortal 792 Hill, Thomas. The Bobolink ._ 751 Antiopa 751 The W'inter is Past 753 Hillhouse, James Abraham. Interview of Hadad and Tamar 410 Hirst. Henry B. Parting of Dian and Endymion 718 Hoffman, Charles Fenno. Monterey 617 Hogg, James. Bonny Kilmeny 277 The Skylark 381 When Maggy Gangs Away 281 Mischievous Woman 553 Holoroft, Thomas. Gafler Gray 229 Holland, Josiah Gilbert. Gradatim 766 Wanted 766 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Bill and Joe 6.58 Old Ironsides 653 Kudolph, the Headsman 654 Nearing the Snow-line 654 The Chambered Nautilus 654 The Two Streams 655 To James Freemau Clarke 655 Contentment 655 The Voiceless 6.56 L'Inconnue 656 Holyday, Barten. Distichs 59 Home, John. The Soldier-hermit 193 ISUEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Home, F. Wyville. f^cE A Choice 937 From "Ode to the Viuc" 937 Hood, Thomas. Sonnet on the Countin2;-house 507 The Briclii-e of Sighs 508 Tlie Song of the Sliirt 509 I remember 510 Fair Ines 510 Farewell, Life 511 The Monkey-martyr : a Fahle 511 The Lee Shore 513 To Charles DicUcns, Esq 513 Ruth 513 A Parental Ode to My Son 513 The Impudence of Steam 514 Tlie Death-bed 514 Hooper, Lucy Hamilton. On an Old Portrait 876 In Vain '. 87(5 The Kinir's Ride 877 Hopkinson, Joseph. Hail, Columbia ! 295 Home, Richard Hengist. Morning 581 Summer Noon 581 Hosmer, William Henry Cuyler. Blake's Visitants To a Long Silent Sister of Song 731 731 Houghton, Lord (see Milnes). Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey). How No Age is Content 6 Howarth, Mrs. Thou Wilt Never Grow Old 547 Howe, Julia Ward. Battle Hymn of the Reiniblic 7.58 Speak, for Thy Servant Ileareth 758 Howells, William Dean. Thanksgiving 871 Tlie Mysteries 871 Howitt, Mary. New-yc 594 The Fairies of Caldon-Low 590 The Spider and the Fly 597 CornheUls 598 Howitt, William. Hoarfrost : a Sonnet 483 The Wind in a Frolic 483 Howland, Mrs. Robert S. Retinicscam 549 Hoyt, Ralph. Stanzas from "New' r.iGE . 073 Hume, Alexander a560-1609'. The Story of a Summer Day Hume, Alexander (1809-1851). My Wee, Wee Wife Hunt, Leigh. To T. L. II., Six Years Old, during Sickness. Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel An Italian Morning in May Thoughts on the Avon, Sept. 28, 1817 May and the Poets Death Jenny Kissed Mc Hunter, Mrs. Anne. Indian Death-song.. Huntington, Frederic Dan. A Supplication Imlah, John. The Gathering .' From "There Lives a Young Lassie' 35 058 370 371 371 371 371 373 225 700 5-36 526 Ingelow, Jean. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571). Inglis, Mrs. Margaret Max^vell. From "Lines on the Death of Hogg" 840 Jackson, Helen Fiske. The AVay to Sing March 324 843 843 Thougbt 843 October 844 Jackson, Henry Rootes. My Fatlier 776 The Live-oak 776 My Wife and Child 777 James I. of England. Sonnet : To Prince Henry 38 James I. of Scotland. 1 lie Captive King 5 James, Paul Moon. The Beacon 355 Jenks, Ed'vyard Augustus. Going and Coming 840 Jerrold, Douglas. The Drum 584 Johnson, Edward. Tlie AVater-drinker 553 I^WEX OF AUTBOKS, WITH CONTENTS. Johnson, Samuel. p-ioe Charles XII, of Sn-cden 178 On the Deatli of Mr. Robert Levett 178 Cardinal Wolsey 179 Nor Deem Rcligioix Vain 179 On Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician in Wales. 179 Jones, Sir William. A Persian Song of Hafiz 233 Tetrastich (from the Persian) 233 An Ode in Imitation of Aieicus 333 Jonson, Ben. To the Memory of Sh;ikspeare 43 See the Chariot iit Hand 43 The Song of Hesperus 44 On a Portrait of Sliakspcare 44 An Ode : To Himself. 44 Epitaph on tlie Countess of Pembroke 45 The Sweet Neglect 45 Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H 45 Song to Celia 45 Good Life, Long Life 45 Joyce, Robert Dwyer. F.air Gwendoline and her Dove 883 The Banks of Anner 883 Glenara 883 Judson, Mrs. Emily. Watching ■ 747 Keats, John. Sonnet 18 The Eve of St. Agnes 48B Ode 490 Beauty 491 La Belle Dame Sans Merci 491 Sonnet 493 Sonnet to a Young Lady 493 Sonnet in a New Form 493 On the Grasshopper and Cricket 493 Keats's Last Sonnet 493 Fairy Song 493 Fancy 493 Ode to a Nightingale 494 Ode to Autumn 495 Ode on a Grecian Urn 495 Keble, John. Morning 436 Evening 437 Address to Poets 438 A Thought 438 Kemble, Frances Anne. Lines Written in London. 694 Written after leaving West Point G94 Ken, Thomas. From the " Evening Hymn " 130 Kennedy, William. Lines on Motherwell .' 530 A Thought 530 Kenney, James. tage Why are You Wandering Here? .3.59 Love's Remonstrance .539 Kenyon, John. Champagne Rose . SG(1 Keppel, Lacly Caroline. Robin Adair 230 Key, Francis Scott. Tlie Star-spangled Banner 343 The Worm's Death-song 343 Kimball, Harriet McEwen. The Guest S.57 The Crickets 857 Longing for Rain 8.58 All's Well 858 King, Henry. From the " E.xequy on liis Wife' Sic Vita 58 59 Kingsley, Charles. The Three Fishers 765 Tlie World's Age 705 The Sands of Dee 705 A Farewell 705 Kinloch, Lord. The Star in the East 570 Kinney, Coates. From " The Mother of Glory " 810 Rain on the Roof. 811 Knowles, Herbert. Lines Written in a Cliurch-yard . 504 Knowles, James Sheridan. From the last Act of " Virginius " 4.56 Tell among tlie Mountains 457 The Actor's Craft 457 Knox, Isabella (Craig). The Brides of Quair 845 Knox, William. Oh! why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud? 410 Korner, Theodore (German). Battle Hymn and Farewell to Life 543 Lacoste, Marie R. Somebody's Darling 915 Laighton, Albert. Under the Leaves 837 To My Soul 837 The Dead 837 Laing, Alexander. The Happy Mother 383 IXDEX OF A I'THORS, WITH CONTENTS. Lamb, Charles. tage The Old Familiar Faces 327 Lines Written in inv own Album 327 To James Sheridan Kiiowles 327 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (Mrs. Maclean). Success Alone Seen 577 Death and the Youth 57S Landor, Walter Savage. To the Sister of "Elia" (Charles Lamb) 339 Julius Hare 339 Rose A.vlmer 339 Death 339 Langhorne, John. From "Owen of Carron" 218 Lanier, Sidney. A Rose-moral 916 Evening Song - 910 The Harlequin of Dreams 917 From the Flats 917 Larcom, Lucy. Uaunah Binding Shoes 814 Lathrop, George Parsons. Musie of Growth 937 Sonnet : The Lover's Tear 937 The Sunshine of Thine Eyes 937 Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr. Look Aloft 626 Leigh, Arrah. I Am the Lord; I Change Not 547 Leighton, Robert. Ye Three Voices 785 Books 786 Leland, Charles Godfrey. Mine Own 796 Lewis, Matthew Gregory. Lines to a Friend S2S The Helmsman 328 A Matrimonial Duet 328 Leyden, John. Ode to an Indian Gold Coin 326 Sonnet on the Sabbath Morning 336 Lilly, John. Cupid and Cainpaspe 40 Linton, William James. From " Definitions" 703 Real and True 704 Labor in Vain 704 Poets 704 A Prayer for Truth 704 Lippincott, Mrs. Sarah Jane. page The Poet of To-day 790 Locker, Frederick. St. George's, Hanover Square 777 The Unrealized Ideal 778 Lockhart, John Gibson. Captain Patou's Lament 453 Beyond 4.54 Lamentation for Celin 455 Logan, John. Ode to the Cuckoo 234 Tlie Braes of Yarrow 3.34 Lombard, James K. "Xut as Though I had Already AtUiined" 853 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Killed at tne Ford C29 The Launch 639 The Arrow and the Song 630 Revenge of Rainin-the-Facc 630 The Rainy Day 031 Rain in Summer 631 Sonnet : The Poets 633 Phantoms 6.33 Sonnet : Nature 632 Excelsior 633 Hawthorne 633 The Bells of Lynn, heard at Nahant 634 Longfellow, Samuel. April 766 November 766 Lovelace, Richard. To Althea (from Prison) 109 To Lucasta (on Going to the Wars) 109 Lover, Sam.uel. Rory O'More ; or. Good Omens 507 The Angel's Whisper 507 Lowell, James Russell. Auf Wiedersehen ! 763 A Day hi June 763 To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 763 Longing 704 "In Whom We Live and Move " 7M She Came and Went 704 Lowell, Robert Traill Spence. Love Disposed Of 741 Ludlow, Fitz-Hugh. Too Late 883 Lunt, George. From " The Pilgrim Song" 631 The Haymakers 631 The Comet 621 Requiem 633 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITR COXTENTS. Lunt, "William Parsons. Tlie Americau Flair PAGE . 613 Luttrell, Henry. The Xovembcr Fog of London 297 Lydgate, John. From the Ballad of "London Lyekpcnny" 4 Lyle, Thomas. Kelvin Grove 419 Lyte, Henry Francis. Hymn: "Abide With Me" 44.5 From Lines on "Evening" 445 Lytle, William Haines. Autony to Cleopatra 814 Lyttelton, George (Lord). Tell Me, My Heart 177 Lytton, Lord (Edward Bulwer). Caradoc, the Bard to the Cyrarians 606 A Spendthrift 606 The Guardian Angel 606 To the King 606 Is it all Vanity ? 607 Invocation to Love 607 Epigrams from the German 607 Lytton, Edward Robert (Lord). Leoline 845 Macaulay, Thomas Babington. From the Lay of " Horatius" 5.57 The Battle of Naseby 561 The Armada .563 Tlie Battle of Ivry 563 McCarthy, Denis Florence. Summer Longings 749 Mace, Frances Laughton. Easter Morning 866 Indian Summer 866 Only Waiting 867 McCord, Mrs. Louisa S. What Used to Be 675 Tliy Will Be Done 675 Passages from " Caius Gracchus " 676 Dedication of " Caius Gracchus " 676 Macdonald, George. Baby 797 "Lord, I Believe; Help Thou Mine Unbelief".. 798 McGee, Thomas D'Arcy. Cathal's Farewell to tlie Rye. 805 Mackay, Charles. Tlie Watcher on the Tower 724 The Good Time Coming 725 Nature and her Lover 726 McKnight, George. pa^'K "Tliougli Naught Tlicy May to Others Be" 891) Perpetual Youth S99 Scorn 899 Opportunity 899 Triumph 899 In Unison 900 "The Glory of the Lord siiall Endure Forever" 900 Tlie Test of Truth 900 Euthanasia 9U0 Consummation 900 Clear Assurance 90O Live While You Live 901 Memento Mori 901 Gifts 901 Kinship 901 Maclagan, Alexander. "Dinna Ye Hear It?". McCIellan, Isaac. The Notes of the Birds. McMaster, Guy Humphrey. Carmen Bellieosum Brant to the Indians Macneil, Hector. JIary of Castle-Cary . Macnish, Robert. My Little Sister 008 093 830 Sol 230 573 Macpherson, James. Ossiau's Address to the Sun. The Song of Colma Maginn, William. The Irishman Mahony, Francis (Father Prout'. Poetical Epistle from Father Prout to Boz (Charles DieUens) The Bells of Shandon. Popular KecoUeetions of Bonaparte (after Be- ranger) Mangan, James Clarence. The JIariner's Bride The Nameless One From " Soul and Country " Marlowe, Christopher. The Death of Faustus The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. Answer to the Same Marston, John. The Scholar and his Spaniel To Detraction I Present my Poesie. Marston, Philip Bourke. From Far 598 590 599 589 .590 590 ■■io 26 41 41 916 IXVEX OF A UTHOHS, WITH COXTEXTS. Martin, Theodore. page Napoleon's Mklniglit Review (from the Germnn of Baron Joseph Christian von Zedlitz) 739 Sie Haben Mich Gequalet (from Heine) 740 Ihe Excellent Man (fi-om Heine) 740 Marvell, Andrew. Sons of the Emigrants in Bermuda Ill Cour.nge, my Soul ! 113 A Drop of Dew 113 Thoughts in a Garden 113 Marzials, Tlieophile. Carpe Diem ; Kundcan 936 Mason, Caroline Atherton. Not Yet 788 Beauty for Ashes 7S8 An October Wood Hymn 788 Mason, William. Epitnph on Mrs. Mason, in the Cathedral of Bristol 193 Massey, Gerald. Little Willie 826 Massinger, Philip. Waiting for Death 48 From "A New Way to Pay Old Debts" 48 Mayne, John. Logan Braes 263 Meek, Alexander Beaufort. Balaklava 731 Mellen, Grenville. Tlie Bugle 52.5 Meredith, George. Love within tlie Lover's Breast 826 At the Gate 826 Merivale, Jolm Herman. " Evil, be Thou my Good" 343 Reason and Understanding 344 From the Greek Anthology 344 Merrick, James. The Chameleon 185 Messinger, Robert Hinckley. A Winter Wish C93 Mickle, William Julius. The Mariner's Wife 217 Miller, Abraham Perry. A Summer Afternoon 885 The Divine Refuge 885 Turn to the Helper 885 The Disappointed Lover 886 Keep Faith iu Love 886 Miller, Elizabeth Henry. i-age Now and Ever Wl Miller, Joaquin. Longings for Home 914 Palatine Hill 914 Love Me, Love 914 Miller, Robert. Where are They? 691 Miller, Thomas. Evening Song 658 Miller, William. Willie Winkle 692 Milliken, Richard Alfred. The Groves of Blarney 272 Milman, Henry Hart. The ApoUo-Belvidere 417 Stanzas on Sophia Loekhnrt 417 The Love of God : Two Sonnets 418 Milnes, Richard Monckton (Lord Houghton\ All Things Once are Things Forever 6.59 The Worth of Hours 659 Youth and Manhood 6.59 I AVandercd by the Brook-side 660 From " The Long-ago " 6(;0 Milton, John. L' Allegro 90 n Penseroso 91 Lycidas 93 The Messenger's Account of Samson 95 Scene from "Coraus" 96 Satan's Encounter with Death 96 Adam and Eve's Morning Hymn 97 One First Matter All 98 What is Glory? 98 Epitajih on Shakspeare 99 On his being arrived to the Age of Twcuty-three. 99 To the Lord-general, Cromwell 99 To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 99 On his Blindness 99 To Mr. Lawrence 100 To Cyriac SkinhCH- 100 On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thom- son, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646. 100 Song : On May Morning lUO From the Spirit's Epilogue in "Comus" 100 Mitchell, Walter. Tacking Ship Off Shore 813 Mitford, Mary Russell. Rienzi's Address to the Romans 882 Song 383 Moir, David Macbeth. Langsyue 500 I\DEX OF A UTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Montgomery, James. fage The Common Lot , . . . 303 ForeTcr with the Lord 303 Touth Renewed 304 Lift lip Tliine Eyes, Afflicted Soul 304 Sonnet : The Ci-ueitixion ._ 304 Humility .' 305 Moore, Clement C. A Vifit from St. Nicholas. 351 Moore, Thomas. Yet, yet forgive Me, O ye Sacred Few ! 34.5 The Meeting of the W.iters 345 Believe Me, if all those Endearing Young Charms. 345 The Turf shall be my Fragrant Shrine 34n Oh! Breathe not his Name 846 The Harp that once through Tara's Halls 346 Oft, in tlie Stilly Night .346 Those Evening Bells 347 Farewell ! — but, whenever you 'Welcome the Hour. 347 Oli, could We do with this World of Ours 347 Remember Thee 347 Thou art, O God 348 The Last Rose of Summer 348 The Modern Puffing System ;>iS I saw from the Beach 349 Love's Young Dream 349 Oh, Thou who Dry'st the Mourner's Tear 349 Come, ye Disconsolate 349 To Greece we give our Shiuing Blades 350 More, Hannah. The Two Weavers 239 Kindness in Little Things 230 More, Henry. The Pre-cxisteucy of the Soul 105 From "The Philosopher's Devotion" 100 Morris, Lewis. It Shall be Well 8.53 Dear Little Hand 8.54 The Treasure of Hope 854 Morris, William. March 802 Motherwell, William. The Cavalier's Song 499 Jeanie Morrison 500 Lines Given to a Friend 501 Motley, John Lothrop. Lines Written at Syracuse 723 Moulton, Ellen Louise. Alone by tlie Bay 863 lu Time to Come 803 Moultrie, John. "Forget Thee?" 515 Here's to Thee, my Scottish Lassie 515 Mowatt-Ritohie, Mrs. Anna Cora. "ge To a Beloved One 770 Muhlenberg, William Augustus. "I Would Not Live Alway" 551 Mulock, Dinah M. (see Craik\ Munby, Arthur. Autumn 881 Doris : A Pastoral 884 Nairne, Carolina (Baroness). Tlie Land o' the Leal 271 AVould you be Young again ? 271 Nash, Thomas. Spring 38 The Coming of Winter 38 The Decay of Summer 39 Neal, John. Goldau 443 Neele, Henry. Where is He ? , 5.33 Newman, John Henry. Flowers without Fruit 571 A Voice from Afar 572 Guardian Angel 572 Newton, Cradock. Wonderland 552 NiooU, Robert. People's Anthem 720 Life in Death 720 Niles, Nathaniel. The American Hero 223 Noble, James Ashcroft. Love and Absence 555 Noel, Thomas. The Pauper's Drive .527 Norris, John. The Aspiration 123 Superstition 122 Norton, Andrews. Scene after a Summer Shower 381 Trust and Submission 3S1 Norton, Caroline. Bingen on tlie Rhine (>46 The Child of Earth 647 To my Books 648 Love Not 648 The King of Denmark's Ride 648 Noyes, Charles H. The Prodigal Son to tlie Earth 934 My Soldier 934 JXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITS CONTENTS. O'Brien, Fitz-James. Elislui Kent Kane PAGE . 833 O'Keefe, John. I am a Fi uir of Orders Gray 233 O'Reilly, John Boyle. Western Australia 9313 Forever 933 At Best 923 Osgood, Frances Sargent. "Bois Ton Sang, Beaumanon-" 707 Little Things 708 Laborarc est Orare 708 An Atlantic Trip 708 The Author's Last Verses 70S Osgood, Kate Putnam. Driving Home the Cows. 905 Otway, Thomas. From " Venice Preserved " 121 Page, Emily R. The Old Cauoe. 887 Pailleron, Edouard (French). A Reminiscence (translated by J. F. Clarke) 678 Paine, Robert Treat, Jr. Ode : Adams and Liberty 318 Palgrave, Francis Turner. Faith and Sight : In the Latter Days 796 To a Child 797 Pardoe, Julia. The Beacoudight . 630 Parker, Martyn. Ye Gentlemen of England 164 Parker, Theodore. Three Sonnets 689 Hymn 690 Parnell, Thomas. The Hermit 133 Parsons, Thomas 'William. Saint Peray 759 In St. James's Park 760 Partridge, Samuel 'William. " Not to Myself Alone " 674 Patmore, Coventry. From " Faithful Forever" 790 The Toys 790 Payne, John Howard. Home, Sweet Home ! ... 439 Pajme, John. page I!ond(;au Redouble 918 Villanelle 918 Peabody, Ephraim. To a Child From "The Backwoodsman' Peabody, Everett. Soug of the Cadets 623 623 523 Peabody, O. "W. B. Visions of Immortality 523 To a Departed Friend 534 The Disembodied Spirit 524 Peabody, "W. B. O. The Autumn Evening .523 The Alarm 523 Nature and Nature's God 523 Hymn of -Nature 535 Peacock, Thomas Love. Oh! say not Woman's Heart is Bought .534 Love and Age 534 Penney, 'William (Lord Kinloch). The Star in the East 570 Percival, James Gates. Elegiac : From " Classic Melodies" 481 To Seneca Lake 483 The Coral Grove 483 Sonnet on Emilic Marshall 483 May 483 A Vision 483 Percy, Thomas. The Friar of Orders Gray 202 Perkins, James Handasyd. On Lake Michigan The Upriglit Soul 688 689 Perry, Nora. In the Dark 920 In June 920 Riding Down 921 Some Day of Days 921 Pfeiffer, Emily. Summer-time : Villanelle 920 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Apple Blossoms 925 On the Bridge of Sighs 925 Philips, Ambrose. A Fragment of Sappho 126 To Miss Georgiana Carteret 126 Philips, John. From "The Splendid Shilling " 131 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Phillips, Katherine. pace To Jlrs. M. A., at Parting 119 On Couti'oversies in Kclij;ion 110 Piatt, John James. The First Tryst 864 The Morning Street 804 Piatt, Mrs. J. J. The Gift of Empty Hands 865 Pickering, Henry. Tlie House in whieli 1 was Born 303 Pierpont, John. The Pilsfrim Fathers 3T0 From "The Departed Child " 3S0 What Blesses Now Must Ever Bless 3S0 Pike, Albert. Buena Vista 657 Pinkney, Edward Coate. A Health 5T2 Song : We Breali the Glass 573 Pitt, William. The Sailor's Consolation 533 Plimpton, Floras Beardsley. Tell Her. 833 Poe, Edgar Allan. To Sarali Helen Wliitnian 661 The Bells 663 The Raven 603 To Fiances Sargent Osgood 605 Pollok, Robert. Invocation (from "The Course of Time") 510 Pride the Cause of Sin (from "The Course of Time") 516 True Happiness (from "The Course of Time").. 517 Holy Love (from "The Course of Time") 517 A Moonlight Evening (from "The Course of Time") 517 Poole, Hester M. An October Scene 943 A Little While 943 Pope, Alexander. Lines on Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford 133 Ode on Solitude 143 From " The Essay on Criticism " 143 To Henry St. John (Lord Bolingbroke) 143 From the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" 144 From " The Rape of the Locli" 145 The Universal Prayer 146 Tlie Dying Christian to bis Soul 146 From " Eloisa to Abelard" 147 Conclusion of the "Essay on Man" 147 Of tlie Cliaracters of Women 149 Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of "Cato".. 1.50 Tlie Moon (translated from Homer) 1.50 From "The Temple of Fame" 1.50 Lines on Addison 151 Conclusion of " The Dunciad" 151 Powers, Horatio Nelson. paoe From "Memorial Day" 810 A Rose-bud 816 Praed, Winthrop Mackworth. My Little Cousins 574 Where is Miss Myrtle ? 574 Tell Him I Love Him Yet 575 April-fools 575 Good-night 576 Charade on Campbell 570 I Remember, I Remember 577 Prentice, George Denison. To an Absent Wife 578 Lookout Mountain 579 Preston, Harriet W. Thirteen (after Theodore Aubanel) 919 Preston, Margaret Junkin. Dedication 837 Tlie Tyranny of Mood .837 Saint Cecilia 837 Pringle, Thomas. Afar in the Desert 407 The Emigrant's Farewell 408 Prior, Matthew. A Simile 123 To a Child of Quality 133 Procter, Adelaide Anne. Ministering Angels 805 The Lost Chord 8(16 Strive, Wait, and Pray 800 Procter, Bryan 'Waller (Barry Cornwall). The Sea 385 The Return of the Admiral 385 Sonnet to Adelaide 386 A Petition to Time 380 Softly Woo Away Her Breath 386 Life 386 Proctor, Edna Dean. From " The Return of tlie Dead " 838 Take Heart 839 Heaven, O Lord, I Cannot Lose 839 Prout, Father (see Mahony, Francis). Quarles, Francis. The Vanity of the World .~7 Delight in God Only .58 Raleigh, Sir Walter. Tlie Lie 14 Tlie Silent Lover 15 My Pilgrimage 10 Ramsay, Allan. The Clock and Dial 1.39 Farewell to Locljaber 139 INDEX OF AUTHORS, Tl'ITB C02f TENTS. Randall, James Ryder. Marvkmd PAGE . 893 Read, Thomas Buchanan. Drifting 7S0 SUeridim's Ride 781 Tlie Closing Scene 782 Reade, John Edmund. The Colosseum 610 Realf, Richard. My Slain 8.59 Symbolisms 800 Robbins, Samuel Dowse. Euthanasia 707 Lead Me 707 Rockwell, James Otis. The Lost at Sea Rodger, Alexander. Behave Youi-sol' Before Folk 638 36S Rogers, Samuel. The Old Ancestral Mansion 207 Hopes for Italy ogg Venice 308 Roman Relics 308 Rosooe. William. To My Books 244 Roscoe, William Caldwell. Sonnet: To a Frieud 787 Roscommon, Earl of. Poctie Inspiration 120 Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Consider 834 Beauty is Vaiu 834 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Lost Days : Sonuet 822 From "The Portrait" 823 Riiokert, Friedrich (German). A Shelter (translated by Miss Clarke) 678 Russell, Thomas. To Valelusa ogg Sonnet 207 Sands, Robert Comfort. From " Yamoydcn " 520 1 he Dead of 1832 .521 Sargent, Epes. Evenini; in Gloucester Harbor. Sunrise at Sea A Life on the Oceau Wave 710 710 710 Sargent, Epes. page Linda's Song 717 Soul of My Soul 717 Sonnet: To David Friedrich Strauss 717 Webster 717 Sargent, Horace Binney. After "Taps " 77s Sargent, John Osborne. Death of Henry Wolilleb (fjora the German of Von Auersperg) 703 Savage, Minot Judson. Life from Death 909 Life in Death 910 Light on the Cloud yio Saxe, John Godfrey. The Superfluous Man 73.5 Justine, You Love Me Not ! 730 Schiller, J. C. F. von (German). Fame 539 Haste Not, Rest Not (translated by C. C. Co.x).. 737 Scott, John. Ode on Hearing the Drum 20.5 Scott, Lady John. Lammermoor 740 Ettriek 740 Scott, Sir Walter. Loehinvar 298 Scene from " Marmiou ■' 298 Allen-a-Dale 299 Ilelvellyn 300 Jock of Hazeldean gOO Coronach 301 Pibroch of Donuil Dim 301 Border Ballad 301 Rebecca's Hymn goi Song: The Heath this Night must be My Bed.. 302 Nora's Vow 302 Sears, Edmund Hamilton. Christmas Song 079 The Angel's Soujj. OSO Sewall, Mrs. Harriet Winslow. Why Thus Longing ? 757 Special Provideuces 7,58 Seward, Anna. Sonuet : December Morning 528 Shairp, John Campbell. Sonnet : Relief 708 Shakspeare, William. Silvia 28 Sigh No More 28 Ariel's Song 28 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Shakspeare, William. page Man's Ingratitude 28 Dirge of Imogen 29 Tlie Song of Winter 29 Cloten's Serenade 39 Sonnets: xviii., xxx., sxxiii., liv., Iv., Ix., xc, xcviii., ex., cxi., cxvi., exlvi., cxlvii 29, 30, 31 Ulysses's Advice to Aeliillcs 31 Tlie Quality of Mercy 33 Moonliglit and Musie 32 England 33 Song from " Twelfth Night" 33 Henry IV.'s Soliloquy on Sleep 33 Detached Passages from the Plays 33 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Lines on Horace SmiUi 3.52 The Cloud 431 Stanzas, Written in Dejection, near Naples 433 The Fugitives 433 To a Skylark 433 Ode to the West Wind 43.5 I Arise from Dreams of Thee 436 Invocation 436 Good-night 436 One Word is Too Often Profaned 437 A Lament 437 On a Faded Violet 437 Adonais : An Elegy on the Death of Jonn Keats. 437 Invocation to Nature 433 Sonnet 433 Dedication to His Wife 431 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 43.5 Lines to a Reviewer 436 Shenstone, William. From "The School-mistress". Written at an Inn at Henley . 181 183 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed.- 237 Song, from " The Duenna " 337 Shirley, James. Death's Conquests. fiO ShurtlefT, William S. ■ The Way 556 Sidney, Sir Philip. On Dying 16 True Beauty Virtue Is 17 Eternal Love 17 On Obtaining a Prize at a Tournament 17 Invocation to Sleep 17 A Ditty 17 Sigourney, Lydia Huntly. August 11 : The Blessed Rain 418 Indian Names 419 Sillery, Charles Doyne. She Died in Beauty 639 Simmons, Bartholcmew. Song of a Returned E.\ilc From "Stanzas on Tliomas Hood' From "The Mother of the Kings' 698 699 700 Simms. William Gilmore. The First Day of Spring 618 Freedom of the Sabbath 618 Solace of the Woods 618 Simpson, Mrs. Jane Cross. Go when the Morning Shineth . 700 Smith, Alexander. A Day in Spring 835 A Day in Summer 835 Her Last Words 835 Smith, Mrs. Charlotte (Turner). To Fortitude 2.35 To a Young Man entering the World 235 The Cricket 235 Smith, Elizabeth Oakes. Sonnet : The Unatlained 619 Sonnet : Poesy 619 Sonnet: Faith GIU Smith, Horace. Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition. 3.53 Moral Cosmetics 3.53 Sonnet 354 The First of March 3.54 Hymn to the Flowers 354 Smith, James. Epigram 339 The Theatre 330 To Miss Edgeworth 330 Smith, Mrs. May Riley. If Smith, William. To My Wife 915 555 Smollett, Tobias George. The Tears of Scotland 191 Ode to Leven-water 193 Sotheby, William. Staffu— Visited 1839. 349 Southey, Caroline Bowles. Lines on Her Father 387 The River 388 To Little Mary 388 "Sufficient unto the Day is the Evil thereof".. 389 The Pauper's Death-bed 391 To a Dying Infant 391 Oh, Fear Not Thou to Die 393 Sonnet : To the Mother of Lncretia and Margaret Davidson 643 XXVlll INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Southey, Robert. riOE Iiifcription liir the Apartment in Chepstow Castle. 37.5 The Battle of Blenheim 3li0 Imnioi'tility of Love 320 A Beautiful Day in Autumn 3'2l The Holly-tree 331 My Libraiy 331 Night in the Desert 333 The Dead Friend 333 Imitated from the Persian 323 The Morning Mist 333 Reflections 323 To William Wordsworth 333 Southwell, Robert. Love's Servile Lot 33 Times Gu By Turns 33 Spencer. Hon. "William Robert. To the Lady Anne Hamilton 3y.5 Beth Gelert; or, The Grave ot the Greyhound... 39.5 Spenser, Edmund. From " The Epithalamion "' 10 Una and the Lion 11 Prince Arthur 13 The Ministry of Angels 13 From the " Hymn in Honor of Beauty " 13 j Easter Morning 13 Miseries of a Court-life 13 Stoddard, Mrs. R. H. On the Campagna Spofford, Harriet Prescott. A Four-o'clock 863 Sprague, Charles. The Winged Worshippers 41.5 The Fourth of July 415 From '' The Shakspeare Ode" 415 I See Thee Still 416 Stanley, Thomas. The Deposition. . .. 114 Stedman, Edmund Clarence. Provencal Lovers 854 How Old Browu took Harper's Ferry 855 Sterling, John. To a Child 019 The Man Survives 630 Prose and Song 030 Stockton, Mrs. Annis Boudinot. Ode to Washington .549 Stoddard, Mrs. Lavinia. The Soul's Defiance 387 Stoddard, Richard Henry. Songs Uusung 803 From the "Proem to Collected Poems" 803 How arc Songs Begot and Bred ':' 803 The Country Life 804 PAGE . 804 story, William "Wetmore. Lines on John Lothrop Motley 723 The Unexpressed 7.53 Wetmore Cottage, Nahant 7.53 Sto-we, Harriet Beecher. The Other World 706 Street, Alfred Billings. The Nook in the Forest 701 A Forest Walk 701 The Bluebird's Song 703 Music 703 Strode, 'William. Music 61 Suckling, Sir John. Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? 103 Swain, Charles. What it is to Love .585 The Beautiful Day .585 Swift, Jonathan. From " The Death of Dr. Swift" 134 Stella's Birthday, 1720 135 Swinburne, Algernon Charles. An Interlude 873 Love and Death 873 A M.atch 873 Sylvester, Joshua. Plurality of Worlds 33 Love's Omnipresence 33 Symonds, John Addington. In the Mentone Graveyard 910 Seven Sonnets on Death 911 The Will 912 Beati Illi 913 Talfourd, Thomas Noon. To the South American Patriots 470 Love Immortal 470 Verses on a C'hikl 471 An Act of Kindness 471 Sonnet on Wordsworth 472 Tannahill, Robert. The Flower o' Duniblane 324 The Braes o' Bahiuhither S'24 Taylor, Bayard. Storm-song .....' 807 A Crimean Episode 807 The Fight of Paso Del Mar 807 Taylor, Jane. Teaching from the Stars., 365 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTEXTS. Taylor, Jeremy. Thy Kiiii;"duin Ciniie. Taylor. Sir Henry. PAGE . 10.5 On Edward Ernest Villiers 56.5 What Makes a Hero ? 5B5 Extract from "Philip Van Artevelde" 5(iH Greatness and Success 507 Artevelde's Soliloquy 567 Artevelde and Eleua 567 Taylor, Thomas. Ode to the Risin"; Sun 351 Tennant, William. Description of Maggie Lauder . 307 Tennyson, Alfred. From the Lines on Bulwer 605 Edward Gray 680 (io Not, Happy Day 681 Welcome to Alexandra 681 Ask Me No More CSI To , after Reading a Life and Letters 083 Garden Song 083 l)e Profundis 683 Bugle Song 683 Tlie Foolish Virgins 681 Charge of the Light Brigade 084 Turn, Fortune, Turn Thy Wheel Osi Stanzas from " In Memoriam " GS5 Tears, Idle Tears 088 From " The Golden Year" OSS Tennyson, Charles (see Turner). Tennyson, Frederick. Tlie Blackbird 610 Sounet 617 Thackeray, William Makepeace. Little Billee .' 696 At the Church Gate G',16 The Ballad of Bouillabaisse 090 The Mahogauy-tree 097 Thaxter, Mrs. Celia. Song S(;3 The Sand-piper 863 Thorn, William. The Mitherless Bairn 409 Dreamiugs of the Bereaved 409 Thompson, John Randolph. Music in Camp Thomson, James. Lines Written at the Age of Fourteen 789 166 The Approach of Spring 166 Sunrise in Summer 167 Hymn on the Seasons 167 The Bard's Song 168 Rule, Britannia ! 169 Love of Nature 169 Sweet Tyrant, Love 581 Thoreau, Henry David. page Smoke in Winter 745 LTpon the Beach ■ 745 Thornbury, Walter. How Sir Richard Died 824 The Old Grenadier's Story 834 Thorpe, Mrs. Rosa Hartwiok. Down the Track "Curfew Must Not Piing To-night' 935 935 Thurlo'w, Edward Hovel (Lord). Sonnet to a Bird 359 Song to May 359 Tickell, Thomas. On the Death of Addison 141 Tighe, Mrs. Mary. On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon 317 Written at Killaruey 318 Tilton, Theodore. Sir Marmaduke's Musings 864 Timrod, Henry. Hark to the Shouting Wind 838 Ode 828 A Common Thought 838 From " A Southern Spring " 838 Sonnets 839 Timrod, William H. Lines to Harry 420 Tobin, John. The Duke Aranza to Juliana 275 Todhunter, John. The First Spring Day : Sonnet 5.56 Toplady, Augusttis Montague. Deathless Principle, Arise ! 234 Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me 334 To'wnshend, Chauncy Hare. "Judge Not" 587 " What God hath Cleansed," etc 587 " His Banner over Me was Love " 588 "■In My Father's House are many Mansions"... 588 An Evening Thought 5S8 On Poetry 588 May 588 Concluding Sonnet 588 Trench, Richard Chenevix. Our Fatlier's Home 640 Be Patient 640 Sonnet: On Prayer 610 Spring 641 Trowbridge, John Townsend. Beyond 820 The Vagabonds 820 n IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Trumbull, John. ''*<;'= From "il'Fin-ul" 337 Tucker, St. George. Days of My Youth 238 Tuckerman, Henry Theodore. Sonnet : Freedom T15 Tupper, Martin Farquhar. Carpe Diem 691 Turner, Charles (Tennyson). Lines on "In ilemoriam " 049 Morning 040 Tlie Lattiee at Sunrise 049 A Brilliant Day 049 Letty's Globe 650 Tuttle, Mrs. Emma. Tlie First Flwlgling 893 Tychborn, Chidiock. Lines by One in tlie Tower 84 Uhland, Johann Ludwig (1787-1862). Tlic Passage (translated by Mrs. Austin) 4.51 Vandyne, Mary E. Wlien I went Fishing with Dad 940 Vaughan, Henry. Tlie Retreat 107 The Rainbow 107 They Are All Gone ! 107 The Request 108 Like as a Nurse 108 Vaux, Thomas (Lord). Of a Contented Mind 7 Vere, Sir Aubrey de. Cianmer 393 Sonnet : Time Misspent 393 Three Sonnets on Columbus 393 Diocletian at Salona 394 Glengariff 394 Vere, Aubrey Thomas de. The True Blessedness 728 Adolescentulffi Amaverunt te Nimis 738 Sonnet: How All Things Are Sweet 738 Very, Jones. The Bud Will Soon Become a Flower 713 Home and Heaven 713 The Spirit-land 713 Nature 713 Our Soldiers' Graves 713 Villiers, George (Duke of Buckingham\ E|iUaph on General Fairfax 503 Vincent, Charles (French). Come, Sunshine, Coine ! 543 Wakefield, Nancy Priest. tace Over the River 801 From " Heaven " 801 Walker, William Sidney. The Voice of Other Years To a Girl in Her Thirteenth Year. 409 409 Wallace, Horace Binney. Ode on the Rhine's Returning into Germany from France 746 Waller, Edmund. The Message of the Rose. On a Girdle 88 88 Waller, John Francis. Kitty Neil 074 Ware, Henry. A Thanksgiving Song 4.59 Resurrection of Christ 459 Warton, Thomas. To Mr. Gray 204 To the River Lodon 204 Wasson, David Atwood. Ministering Angels to the Imprisoned Soul 786 All's Well 787 Wastell, Simon. From ''Man's Mortalitv' 81 Watts, Alaric Alexander. A Remonstrance 518 Forever Thine 519 Watts, Isaac, D.D. True Riches 130 Earth and Heaven 130 From All That Dwell 131 Joy to the World 131 Webster, Mrs. Augusta. To Bloom is then to Wane 913 The Gift 913 Webster, John. A Dirge 34 From " The Duchess of Malfl " 34 Weeks, Robert Kelly. Winter Sunrise 898 Ad Fincm 898 Welby, Amelia B. Twilight at Sea ; A Fragment 779 The Golden Ringlet 779 Wentz, George. "Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer" 903 No Death '. 903 INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Wesley, Charles. face The Wn'stler ^ 175 Come, Let Us Anew 176 The Only Light 177 Wesley, John. Commit Tlioii .411 Thy Griefs (from tlie German of Paul Gerhardt) 173 Westwood, Thomas. The Pet Lamh 739 Little Bell 730 White, Henry Kirke. Time 377 Concluding Stanzas of "The Christiad" 377 To an Early Primrose 877 White, Joseph Blanco. Xiillit and Death : Sonnet 325 Sonnet, on Hearing Myself for tlic First Time called an Old Man, ^t. 50 325 Whitman, Sarah Helen. Lines on Edgar A. Poe 583 Tlic Last Flowers .583 Sonnets to Edgar A. Poe 583 Whitman, Walt. From " Tlie Mystic Trumpeter " 755 Williams, Isaac. pace The Departed Good: Sonnet 54y Passages from "Leaves of Grass' 756 Whitney. Adeline D. T. Behind tlie Mask 795 Whittier, John Greenleaf. Mand Mnller 634 Barbara Frietchie 636 Mr. Whittier to His Friends 637 My Two Sisters 637 The Poet's Portrait of Himself 638 The Eternal Goodness 638 Whytehead, Thomas. The Second Day of Creation 761 Wilooz, Carlos. A Late Spring in New England 461 A Vision of Heaven 461 September 463 Wilde. Lady. Tlie Voice of tlie Poor S42 Wilde, Richard Henry. Sonnet : To the Mocking-bird 412 Stanzas 412 Willard, Mrs. Emma C. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep 384 Williams, Helen Maria. Sonnet to Hope _ 262 Trust in Provideuco 262 Williams, Richard Dalton. From the "Lament for Clarence Mangan" 767 Willis, Nathaniel Parker. Saturday Afternoon 024 Thirty-iive 625 Tlie Spring is Here 625 Acrostic Sonnet on Emilie Marshall 625 To a City Pigeon 625 Willson, Foroeythe. From Lines to His Wife 874 The Old Sergeant 874 Wilson, John (Christopher North). From "Address to a Wild-deer" 374 Hymn 374 The Evening Cloud 375 The Shipwreck 375 Wilson, William. Sabbath Morning in the Woods 570 Winchelsea, Countess of. From " A Wished-for Retreat " 140 Winter, William. The Ballad of Constauce 860 Orgia S6 Was lint. 2 nnd not 3 Line of imperfi-ct meaeiire in the copies. Some editors in- sert tlie e|)illiet rjUutsmne. * Had nut been able. ^ Breaiith. fl Overgrown. ' Srarcely. ** Arbor. e Timt went round about. 1' Eghiuluie, or (accordin;^ to Warton) sweetbrier. TO HIS EMPTY PUKSE. To you, my purse, aud to none other wight Complaiuo I, liir ye be my lady dere ; I am sorry now that ye bo light. For certes yo now make me heavy cheer ; Me were as lefe laid upon a here For which uuto your mercie thus I crie, Be heavy agaiue, or els mote I die. Now vouchsafe this or it be night. That I of you the blissful sowue may here, Or see your color like the 8unn6 bright, That of yelowness had never pere. Ye be my life, ye be my hort(S's store, Queeue of comfort aud of good companie. Be heavy agaiue, or els mote I die. Now purse that art to me my liv<)'s light Aud saviour, as downe iu this world here. Out of this towu6 helpe me by your might, Sith that you woll not be my treasure. For I am shave as uere as any fiere, But I pray unto yonr curtesie, Be heavy againe, or els mote I die. THE PARSON. A good man there was of religioun, That was a poor(5 Parson of a town ; But rich he was of holy thought aud work, He was also a learned man, a clerk. That Christ(?s gospel trudly would preach ; His parishens devoutly would he teacb. Benign he was and wonder diligent. And iu .adversity full patient; And such he was y-prov<5d' oft(5 sith^s,' Full loth were him to curson for his tithes;' But rather would he given, out of doubt, Unto his poord p.arishens about, Of his offring and eke of his substance ; He couth in little thing h.ave suffi.sauce. Wide was his parish, aud houses far asunder; But ho ne kfte not, for rain nc thunder, In sickness nor in mischief to visite The furthest in his parish, much and lite,* > ris the old English prefix of the past participle ; Saxon and German fje. 2 Oftentimes. 3 Theeor iof the plural in old poetry is always sounded when the verse requires it. « Great and small. GEOFFREY CHA VCEn.—GOWER.—BARBOVIi.—LYDGATE. Upon his ft-et, mid iu liis liaiid a staff. This uoble eiisavuple to his sheep lie gaf/ That first he wrought and afterward he tanght. Out of the gospel he the wordes caught, And this figure he added eUe thereto, — That, if gold rustf, what should irou do ? For, if a priest be foul on whom we trust. No wonder is a lew&P man to rust. » * * * ^ * Ho was a shepherd, and no mercenary ; And, though ho holy were and virtuous. He was to sinful man not dispitous,^ Ne of his speeche dangerous ue digue,* But ill his teaching discreet and benign. To draweii folk to heaven by fairness By good eiisample, this was his business. But, it were any person obstinate. What so ho were, of high or low estate. Him would he snibben^ sharply for the noniSs." A better priest I trow there uowhcro none is. He waited after no pomp ue revereuce, Ne maU^d liim a spiced' conscience ; But Clii'ist«5s lore and his apostles twelve He taught, but first he followd it liiiiiselve. GOOD COUNSEL OF CHAUCER. In one of the Cottoiiian MSS. (junon^ those destroyed by fire) tills poem was described .is m:\de by Cliaucer " uptm llis deatli- iied, iu his great anguish." The versions differ considei'abiy. Fly fro the i)ress and dwell with soothfastuess;' Suffice unto thy good though it be small: For hoard hath hate, aud climbing tickleness,'' Press h.ath envy, and weal is blent'" over-all. Savour no more than thee bchovd." shall. Kcde'^ well thyself that other folk canst redo ; And Truth thee shall deliver, it is no drede.'^ PaiiiiS thee uot each crooked to redress In trust of her that turueth as a ball ; Great rest standcth in little bii.syness. Beware also to spurn against an a« 1 ; Strive not as doth a crockd" with a wall ; Deemd'' thyself that deemest others' deed ; And Truth thee shall deliver, it is uo drede. ' Gave. 3 Lay, nnlennied. 3 Without pity. * Domineering nor disdainful. * Chccl^, reprove, s?iMb. ^ For Ihe nonce. ' Disguised, as food by spices. * Truth. = Instability. lo Blind. '1 Thau shall be for thy good. 12 Counsel. 13 Doubt. " Piece of china. >* Judge. That thee is sent, receive iu biixomness;' The wrastliug of this world asketh a fall. Here is no home, here is but wilderness. Forth, pilgrim! Forth, beast, out of thy stall I Look up on high, and thauk6 God of all. \Vaiv4^ thy lusts, and let thy ghost thee lead ; Aud Truth thee shall deliver, it is uo drede. ©otucr. — Caibour. — Cjibgatc. Contemporary with Chaucer, but several years his junior, was John Gower (132.5-140S), a wealthy "es- quire" of Kent. The grave and sententious turn of his poetry won for him from Chaucer and others the appella- tion of tlie " Moral Gower," which has become almost a synoii}me for dulncss. He gives little evidence of the genuine atflatus. The Scottish poet, John Barbour, horn about the year 1310, grew up in the midst of exciting political events. He was archdeacon of Aberdeen, and in 137.5, when Rob- ert ni. had been king five years, he was occupied iu writ- ing a metrical history, c.illed "The Bruce," of Robert I. It is in the octosyllabic rhymed couplet of the old ro- mances, and is ranked as authentic history. The most notable of Chaucer's younger contempora- ries was John Lydgate (13T3-14C0). He was named from his birth in Sutfolk, at the village of Lydgate, and became a Benedictine monk. His "Ballad of London Lyckpen- ny," relating the ill success of a poor countrymau iu the London Courts of Law, is a remarkable specimen of hu- morous verse. Both Gray and Coleridge seem to have been impressed by the merits of Lydgate. MEDEA GATHERING HERBS. Gower. Thus it fell upon a night, When there was naught but starrie light, She was vanished right as she list. That no wight but herself wist, Aud that was at midnight tide. The world was still on every side. With open hand and foot all bare ; Her hair too spread, she 'gau to fare ; Upon her clothfe girt she was. And spechelcss, upon the gra.ss, She glode forth, as an adder doth. FREEDOM. Bakuour. Ah, Freedom is a nolde thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking f ' Cheerfulness, 2 Cast away. 3 Enjoyment. CYCLOPJEDIA OF BEITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY. FreecTom all solace to man gives ; He lives at ease that freely lives ! A noble heart may have naue ease, Ne ellis nocht' that may liira please, Gif freedom failetli ; for free liking Is yearned" o'er all other thing ; Nor he that aye has lived free May nocht know well the property,' The anger, ne the wretched doom That is coiiplit to foul thirldom. But, gif he had assayed it. Then all perqnere'' he should it wit. And should think freedom mair to prize Thau all the gold in the warld that is. FEOM THE BALLAD OF '-LONDON LYCK- PENNY." Lydg.vxe. To Loudon once my steps I bent. Where truth in nowise should be faint; To Westminster-ward I forthwith went. To a Man of Law to make complaint, I said, "For Mary's love, that holy saint. Pity the poor that would iiroceed !" But for lack of Moucy I could not speed. And as I thrust the press among. By froward chance my hood was gone, Yet for all that I stayed not long Till to the King's Bench I was come. Before the Judge I kneeled anon, And prayed him for God's sake take heed. But for lack of Money I might not speed. Beneath them sat Clerks a great rout. Which fast did write by one assent ; There stood up one and cried about "Richard, Robert, and Jolm of Kent!" I wist not well what this man meant, He cried so thickly there indeed. But he that lacked Money might not speed. Unto the Common Pleas I yode^ tho, WluTe sat one with a silken hood ;° I tlid him reverence, for I ought to do so, And told my case as well as I conld. How ray goods were defrauded me by falsehood. 1 Nor anything else. 3 The kind of cxisteuce. ' Went. Desired. Perfectly. B.adge of a 6erge(iut-at-law. I got not a mum of his mouth for my lueed. And for lack of Money I might not speed. Unto the Rolls I gat me from thence. Before the clerkes of the Chaucerie, Where many I found earuing of peuee, But none at all ouce regarded me. I gave them my plaint ui>on my kuee ; They liked it well when they had it read, But lacking Money I could not be sped. lu Westminster Hall I fouud out one Whicli went in a long gown of ray;' I crouched and kneeled before him ; anou. For Mary's love, for help I him jiray. "I wot not what thou meau'st," gau he say; To get me thence he did mo bedc ; For lack of Money I could not speed. Within this Hall, neitlier rich nor yet i)oor Would do for me aught although I should die : Which seeing, I got me out of the door Where Flemings began ou me for to cry, "Master, what will you copen^ or buy? Fine felt hats, or spectacles to read ? Lay down your silver, and here you may speed." Then I conveyed mc into Kent ; For of the law would I meddle no more. Because no man to mo took intent, I dight me to do as I did before. Now Jesus, tliat in Bethlehem was bore. Save Loudon, and send true lawyers their meed I For wlioso wants Money with them shall not speed. ilames 5. of Scotlanii. This Scottish prince (1394-1437) was intercepted at sea, and made prisoner by Henry IV. in 140.5. Durinj;' his captivity he produced one of the most graceful poems that exist in old English. The "King's Quhair" (tliatis, quire, or little book) has for its main incident the discov- ery of a lady walking in the prison garden, to whom lie becomes attached. This beauty is supposed to have been Lady J.ine Beaufort, who became his wife, and eventually Queen of Scotland, and mother of the royal line of the subseciueut Stuarts. King James returned to Scotland after the death of Henry V.,was crowned at Scone in 1434, and was for twelve years a wise ruler, endeavoring to establish law and order among turbulent nobles, aud to assure the rights and liberties of his people; but his firm upholding of justice led to his assassiuatiou at Perth in 1437. ' A r.iyed or striped cloth. = (Dutch "kooiien"),bny. ROBERT UENRTSOX. THE CAPTIVE KING. Wliorcaa in ward fall oft I would bewail My deadly life, full of paiu aud penance, Saying right tbus, '■ What liave I guilt' to fiil My froedoui iu this world, aud luy pleasauce ? Siu every wight has thereof suffisauce That I behold, aud I a creiiture Put from all this, hard is ruiue aveiiture! '•The bird, the beast, the fish eke in the sea. They live iu fiecdoui, ever}- iu his kind, Aud I a man, aud lacketh liberty ; What shall I sayn, what reason may I find, Tliat Fortune should do sof" Thus iu my mind My folk^ I would argiie, but all for nought ; Was none that might that on my paines rought!' Hobcrt (^tni'Mson. Henryson (cinn 1425-1507) was the oldest of an im- portant group of Seottisli poets, who, at the close of the tiftcentli :uid beginning of the sixteenth centuries, *' were tilling the North country with music." Admitted iu 1403 to the newly-founded University of Glasgow, he be- came notary public and school-m.ister at Dunfermline. In his lifetime the iirt of printing first came into use in Enillnnd. He was a writer of ballads ; and his "Robin and Mawkiu" is one of the best early specimens of pas- toral verse. He also wrote a metrical version of ..Esop's Fables. A VISION OF ^SOP. In mids of June, that jolly sweet seasouu, When that fair Phoebus with his beam^s bricht Had dryit up the dew frao dale aud down, And all the land made with his gleaui^s licht. In ane morning, betwixt mid-day and uicht, I rase, aud jmt all sloth and sleep aside, .\nd to a wood I went alone, but guide.* Sweet was the smell of flowers white aud red, The noise of bird^s richt delicious ; The bonghi^s bloomed broad above my head. The ground growaud with gersses gracious: Of all pleasauee that place wers plenteous, With sweet odors and birdes harmony. The morning mild, my mirth was mair forthy.' > Dune guilty. a My nttendants. 3 Th:it if, "No one tnnk pity on my suffeiiii^'s." Itought, |):i«t tense uf rue, in care for. • Without a guide. 6 Therefore. Me to conserve then frae the sunnds heat, Under the shadow of ane hawthorn green I leanit down amaug the flowers sweet ; Syne cled my head aud closed baitli my een. On sleep I fall amaug these bonghds been ; And, in my dream, methocht come through the shaw The fairest man that ever before I saw. His gown was of ane elaith as white as milk. His chimeris' was of chambelote purple-browu : Plis hood of scarlet bordered weel with silk, Unheckdd-wise,'' untill his girdle doun ; His bonnet round aud of the anld fiissoun ; His beard was white, his ecu was great and grey, With locker' hair, whilk over his shoulders lay. Ane roll of paper iu his hand he bare. Alio swan6s pen stickaud under his ear, Ane ink-horn, with ane pretty gilt peunair,' Ane bag of silk, all at his belt did bear; Thus was he goodly graithit' iu his gear. Of stature large, and with a fearfuU face, Even where I lay he come ane sturdy pace; And said, "God speed, my son;" and I w.as fain Of that couth word, ami of his company. With reverence I saluted him again, " Welcome, father ;" and lie sat down mo by. "Displease you nocht, my good raaister, though I Demand your birth, your faculty, aud uanie, Why ye come here, or where ye dwell at hamo ?" "My sou," said he, "I am of gentle blood. My uative land is Kome withouteu nay ; And iu that town first to the schools I gaed, III civil law studied full many a day, Aud now my wouniug' is in heaven for aye. ^Esop I hecht ;' my writing and my wark Is couth' and kend" to moiiy a cunning clerk." "O maister .Ssop, poet laureate! God wot ye are full dear welcome to me ; Are ye nocht he that all those Fables wrate Which, in eft'ect, suppose they feigndd be. Are full of prudence aud morality ?" "Fair son," said he, "I am the sauiiu man." God wot gif" that my heart was merry than. ' Sliort li,2:ht gown. ^ Arrjyed. ' Am Ciilled. - Uiifasteued-wiee. * Pen-holder. « Dwelling. ^ Known. Known (other form of same verb). '» God knows if. CYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH AND AMERICA}f POETRY. Sir ii[l)oinas lUjiatt. Among the piincipal successors of Uenryson were Wil- liam Dunbar (circa 14C0-15-'0|, Jobn Skeltou (1400?-1539), (iavin Douglas ( 1475 - 15:.'2 ), Sir David Ljndsay (1490- 1557), and Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), who translated many of the Sonnets of Petrarch. He became M.A. of Cambridge at seventeen ; was made a gentleman of King Henry VIII. *s bedchamber; was knighted in 1537; and went as ambassador to the Emperor Charles V. in Spain. In the winter of 1540-'41 he was in tlie Tower, cliarged with treasonable correspondence with Cardinal Pole. Acquitted in 1541, he was again befriended by the king; but in the autumn of 1543 he died of a fever, caught in riding fast through bad weather to meet au ambassador from Charles V. PLEASURE MIXED WITH PAIN. .Venomou,s thorns that are so sharp and keen Bear llowers, we see, full fresh ami fair of hue. Poisou is also imt in medicine, And unto man his health doth oft renew. The tire that all things eke coiisnnieth clean May hurt and heal ; then if that this bo true, I trust sometime my harm may be my liealtli, Siuce every woe is joined with some wealth. OF DISSEMBLING WORDS. Tlironghout the world, if it were sought, Fair words enough a man shall find: Tliey be good cheap; they cost right nought; Their substance is but only wind. But well to say, and so to mean, That sweet accord is seldom seen. FREE AT LAST. Tangled I was in Loves snare. Oppressed with pain, torment with care, Of grief right sure, of joy full bare. Clean in despair by cruelty : But ha! ha! lia! full well is nie. For I am now at liberty. The woful days so full of pain. The weary night all spent iu vain. The labor lost for so small gain, To write them all it will not be : But ha! ha! ha! full well is me, For I am now at liberty. * # * # # With feigned words which were but wind, To long delays I was assigned ; Her wily looks my w its did blind ; Tims as she would I did agree: But ha! ha! ha! full well is me. For I am now at liberty. Was never bird tangled iu lime That brake away iu better time Thau I, that rotteu boughs did climb. And had no hurt, but scaped free: Now Iia! ha! ha! full well is me. For I am now at libertv. l)cnrji C)Ott)iavLi, (Ptavl of Surrcn. The son of the Duke of Norfolk, the victor of Flodden in 1513, Henry Howard (circa 1517-1.546), was from his youtli associated with the Court of Henry VIII. in the capacity of companion to the Duke of Richmond, a nat- ural son of that prince. He was subsequently employed in high military commands. But the whole family of Howard fell under Henry's hatred, after the execution of Queen Catharine, Surrey's sister. He and his father wcrv tlirown into the Tower, and eondcnuied on frivolous ac- cusations. He was executed in 1.546, the warrant for his death being one of the latest signed by Henry VIII., then upon his deatli-bed. Surrey was the first translator in blank verse of tlie .^neid of Virgil ; he likewise intro- duced the Petrarchan sonnet into English literature. HOW NO AGE IS CONTENT. Laid in my quiet bed, In study as I were, I saw within my troubled bead A heap of thoughts appear; And every thought did show So lively iu niiue eyes, That now I sighed, and then I smiled, As cause of thought did rise. I saw- the Jittle boy. In thought how oft that he Did wish of God to 'scape the rod, A tall young uiau to be : The young mau eke, that feels His bones with pains opprest, How he would be a rich old man. To live and lie at rest. The rich old mau that sees His cud draw on so sore, How he would bo a boy again, To live so much tho more ; TBOilAS, LORD VAUX.—ANNE ASKEW. Whereat full oft I smiled, To see how all these three, From hoy to man, from mau to boy, Would chop and chauge degree. And musing thus, I think The case is very strange, Tliat mau from weal to live iu woo Doth ever seek to chauge. Whereat I sighed and said : "Farewell, my wouted joy; Truss up thy pack, and trudge from me To every little boy ; And tell them thus from me, Their time most happy is. If, to their time, they reasou had To know the truth of this." itijoinas, Cori) llaiu-. Thomas, Lord Vaux (ciVc-u 1510-15.57) of HaiTOwden, in Northiimptoushirc, was Captain of the Isle of Jersey imder Henry VIII. Tlic following lines were tirst print- ed in "The Paradise of Dainty Deviecs," 1576. In neat- ness and literary skill they are far above most of the contemporary productions. OF A CONTENTED MIND. When all is done and said, Iu the end thus shall you find. He most of all doth bathe in bliss, That hath a quiet mind; Aud, clear from worldly cares. To deem cau be content The sweetest time iu all his life, In thinking to be speut. The body subject is To fickle Fortune's power. And to a million of mishaps Is casual every hour : Aud Death in time doth chauge It to a clod of clay ; When as the mind, which is divine, Runs never to decay. Companion none is like Unto the mind alone ; For many have been harmed \>y speech. Through thinking, few or none. Fear oftentimes restraineth words, But makes not thought to cease ; Aud he si>eaks best that hath the skill Wheu for to hold his peace. Our wealth leaves us at death ; Our kinsmen at the grave ; But virtues of the miud unto The heavens with us we have. Wherefore, for virtue's sake, I cau be well content. The sweetest time of all my life To deem in thinking spent. vlnne 3skcui. If her poetry be not of the first order, Anne Askew (burned at the stake, 1546) deserves to be enrolled amoui;- the poets for showing tliat she could practise, in a heroic death, wliat she had preached iu verse. She was cruelly toi'tured by the minions of Henry VIII. for denying the real presence in the eucharist. Prevailed on by Bonner's menaces to make a seeming recantation, she qualified it with some reserves, which did not satisfy that zealous prelate. She was thrown into Newgate, and there wrote her poem of " The Fight of Faith." She was condemned to be burned alive ; but being so dislocated by the rack that she could not stand, she was carried to the stake in a chair, and there burned. Pardon had been offered her if she would recant ; this she refused, and submitted to her fate with the utmost intrepidity. FROM "THE FIGHT OF FAITH." Like as the arm^d knight, Appointed to the field. With this world will I fight. And faith shall he my shield. Faith is that weapon strong. Which will not fail at need ; My foes therefore among Therewith will I proceed. Thou sayst. Lord, whoso knock. To them wilt thou attend. Undo, therefore, the lock, And thy strong power send. More enemies now I have Thau hairs uiiou my head ; CYCLOPEDIA OF BKITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY. Lot them not mo deprave, But ligbt thou iu my stead. Not oft I use to writo In inose, uor yet iu rhyme; Yet will I show one sight, That I saw iu my time : I saw a royal throne, Where Justice should have sit ; But iu her stead was one Of moody, cruel wit. Absorpt was rightwisness, As by the raging flood ; Satan, iu his excess. Sucked up the guiltless blood. Then thought I, — Jesus, Lord, When thou shalt judge us all. Hard is it to rect>r(l On these men what will fall! Yet, Lord, I thee desire, For that they do to me. Let them not taste the biro Of their iniquity. Sir ([rbiuorb Dncr. Born in the reigu of Henry VIII. {clvca 1.540-1607), Dyer livctl till some ycai's after King James's aocessiou to tlie English throne. He was a friend of Sir Plnliii Sidney, wlio, in his verses, celebrates their intimacy. Dyer was educated at Oxford, and was employed in several foreign embassies by Elizabeth. He studied elieniistry, and was thought to bo a Rosicrueiau. Pnttenham, in his "Art of English Poesie" (1589), commends "Master Edward Dyer for elegy most sweet, solemn, aiul of high conceit." The popular poem, " My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is," with additions, is credited in some collections to William Byrd (1543-1023), an eminent composer of sacred music, lud who published in 1588 a volume of "Psalms, Son- nets," etc. Botli Byrd and Josliaa Sylvester seem to iiave laid claim to the best parts of Dyer's poem. A col- lection of Dyer's writings was printed as late as 1872. MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. My mind to me a Ivingdom is! Such iH'eseut joys therein I find. That it excels all otlicr bliss That earth afl'ords or grows Ijy kind: Thongh nnieh I want which nuist would have, Tet still my min