I iiiiiiiif |i!iniPI!l|lli|S|i|H!lHr|iii;'' ''1 1 1 ill 1'^''^^' lii 141 ■ lillii'^ - •'«■ >^ % ^■\ •/. A oV , V Oo. . * .Cj^ ^ ''/.*s'" i'"^ .. ,^> ■^ .^ V V ■\ ,-y .0 .1\^ -'c ^^ "^^^ ' o"^ ^^^.. '^. *..^^^-^0^ .^.<, •^^ , s • \ O ^ <, V PARNASSUS ^ EDITED BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON "Oh, how fair fruit may you to mortal man From Wisdom's garden give!" — Gascoignb* ,^^ti- /^^ JAN 22 1897 *] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY Cfjc iaiberiStlfc IBrciSEi, Camftrtlrgc Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by KALPH WALDO EMERSON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ^ Trangftr Jo ^s PREFACE. This volume took its origin from an old habit of copying any poem or lines that interested me into a blank hodli. In many years, my selections filled the volume, and required another ; and still the convenience of commanding all my favorites in one album, instead of searching my own and other libraries for a desired song or verse, and the belief that what charmed me proba- bly might charm others, suggested the printing of my enlarged selection. I know the convenience and merits of the existing anthologies, and the necessity of printing in every collection many masterpieces which all English-speaking men have agreed in ad- miring. Each has its merits ; but I have found that the best of these collections do not contain certain gems of pure lustre, whilst they admit many of questionable claim. The voluminous octavos of Anderson and Chalmers have the same fault of too much mass and too little genius ; and even the more select "Golden Treasury " of Mr. Palgrave omits too much that I can- not spare. I am aware that no two readers would make the same selection. Of course, I shall gladly hail with the public a better collection than mine. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in pro- portion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. It requires that splendor of expression which carries with it the proof of great thoughts. Great thoughts insure musical expressions. Every word should be the right word. The poets are they who see that IV PKEFACE. spiritual is greater than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. The great poets are judged by the frame of mind they induce ; and to them, of all men, the severest criticism is due. Some poems I have inserted for their historical importance ; some, for their weight of sense ; some, for single couplets or lines, perhaps even for a word ; some, for magic of style ; and I have admitted verses, which, in their structure, betray a defect of poetic ear, but have a wealth of truth which ought to have created melody. I know the peril of didactics to kill poetry, and that Wordsworth runs fearful risks to save his mental experiences. Some poems are external, like Moore's, and have only a superficial melody : others, like Chaucer's, have such internal music as to forgive a roughness to the modern ear, which, in the mouth of the bard, his contemporaries probably did not detect. To Chaucer may be well applied the word of Heraclitus, that "Harmony la- tent is of greater value than that which is patent." There are two classes of poets, — the poets by education and practice, these we respect ; and poets by nature, these we love. Pope is the best type of the one class : he had all the advantage that taste and wit could give him, but never rose to grandeur or to pathos. Milton had all its advantages, but was also poet born. Chaucer, Shakspeare, Jonson (despite all the pedantic lumber he dragged with him), Herbert, Herrick, Collins, Burns, — of the other. Then there are poets who rose slowl}', and wrote badly, and had yet a true calling, and, after a hundred failures, arrived at pure power ; as Wordsworth, encumbered for years with childish whims, but at last, by his religious insight, lifted to genius. Scott was a man of genius, but onlj- an accomplished rhymer (poet on the same terms as the Norse bards and minstrels) , admir- able chronicler, and master of the ballad, but never crossing the threshold of the epic, where Homer, Dante, Shakspeare, and Milton dwell. PREFACE. y The task of selection is easiest in poetry. What a signal con- venience is fame ! Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best ? No ; but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best. Chaucer fulfils the part of the poet, possesses the advantage of being the most cultivated man of his time, and so speaks always sovereignly and cheerfully. Often the poetic nature, being too susceptible, is over-acted on by others. The religious sentiment teaching the immensity of every moment, the indifference of mag- nitude, the present is all, the soul is God; — this lesson is great and greatest. Yet this, also, has limits for humanity. One must not seek to dwell in ethereal contemplation : so should the man decline into a monk, and stop short of his possible enlarge- ment. The intellect is cheerful. Chaucer's antiquity ought not to take him out of the hands of intelligent readers. No lover of poetry can spare him, or should grudge the short study required to command the archaisms of his English, and the skill to read the melody of his verse. His matter is excellent, his story told with vivacity, and with equal skill in the pathos and in triumph. I think he has lines of more force than any English writer, except Shakspeare. If delivered by an experienced reader, the verses will be found musical as well as wise, and fertile in invention. He is always strong, facile, and pertinent, and with what vivacity of style through all the range of his pictures, comic or tragic ! He knows the language of joy and of despair. Of Shakspeare what can we say, but that he is and remains an exceptional mind in the world ; that a universal poetry began and ended with him ; and that mankind have required the three hun- dred and ten years since his birth to familiarize themselves with his supreme genius? I should like to have the Academy of Letters propose a prize for an essay on Shakspeare's poem, " Xe? y^ PREFACE. the bird of loudest lay" and the " Threnos " with which it closes ; the aim of the essay being to explain, by a historical research into the poetic myths and tendencies of the age in which it was writ- ten, the frame and allusions of the poem. I have not seen Ches- ter's ^''Love's Martyr," and "the Additional Poems" (1601), in which it appeared. Perhaps that book will suggest all the expla- nation this poem requires. To unassisted readers, it would appear to be a lament on the death of a poet, and of his poetic mistress. But the poem is so quaint, and charming in diction, tone, and allusions, and in its perfect metre and harmony, that I would gladly have the fullest illustration yet attainable. I consider this piece a good example of the rule, that there is a poetr}^ for bards proper, as well as a poetry for the world of readers. This poem, if published for the first time, and without a known author's name, would find no general reception. Only the poets would save it. To the modern reader, Ben Jonson's pla^s have lost their old attraction ; but his occasional poems are full of heroic thought, and his songs are among the best in the language. His life interests us from the wonderful circle of companions with whom he lived, — with Camden, Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Bacon, Chapman, Herbert, Herrick, Cowley, Suckling, Drayton, Donne, Carew, Sel- den, — and by whom he was honored. Cowley tells us, "I must not forget Ben's reading : it was delicious : never was poetry mar- ried to more exquisite music : " and the Duchess of Newcastle relates, that her husband, himself a good reader, said he " never heard any man read well but Ben Jonson." Spence reports, that Pope said to him, " Crashaw is a worse sort of Cowley: Herbert is lower than Crashaw," — an opinion which no reader of their books at this time will justif3\ Crashaw, if he be the translator of the ' Sospetto d'Herode,' has written masterly verses never learned from Cowley, some of which I have transcribed ; and Herbert is the psalmist dear to all who love PREFACE. vii religious pootiy with exquisite refinement of thought. So much piety was never married to so much wit. Herbert identifies, him- self with Jewish genius, as Michael Angelo did when carving or painting prophets and patriarchs, not merely old men in robes and beards, but with the sanctity and the character of the Penta- teuch and the prophecy conspicuous in them. His wit and his piety are genume, and are sure to make a lifelong friend of a good reader. Herrick is the 13'ric poet, ostentatiously choosing petty subjects, petty names for each piece, and disposing of his theme in a few lines, or in a couplet ; is never dull, and is the master of miniature painting. On graver themes, in his " Sacred Numbers," he is equally successful. Milton's " Paradise Lost " goes so surelj^ with the Bible on to every book-shelf, that I have not cited a line ; but I could not resist the insertion of the " Comus," and the " Lycidas," which are made of pure poetry, and have contented myself with extracts from the grander scenes of " Samson Agonistes." The public sentiment of the reading world was long divided on the merits of Wordsworth. His early poems were written on a false theory of poetry ; and the critics denounced them as childish. He persisted long to write after his own whim ; and, though he arrived at unexpected power, his readers were never safe from a childish return upon himself and an unskilful putting-forward of it. How different from the absolute concealment of Shakspeare in all his miraculous dramas, and even in his love-poems, in which, of course, the lover must be perpetually present, but always by thought, and never by his buttons or pitifulness ! Montaigne is delightful in his egotism. B^Ton is always egotistic, but inter- esting thereby, through the taste and genius of his confession or his defiance. Wordsworth has the merit of just moral perception, but not that y^^^ PREFACE. of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at sucK slipshod newspaper style ! Many of his poems, as, for example, "The R3'lstone Doe," might be all improvised: nothing of Mil- ton, nothing of Marvell, of Herbert, of Dryden, could be. These are verses such as many country gentlemen could write ; but few would think of claiming the poet's laurel on their merit. Pindar, Dante, Shakspeare, whilst they have the just and open soul, have also the e3'e to see the dimmest star, the serratm-es of every leaf, the test objects of the microscope, and then the tongue to utter the same things in words that engrave them on the ears of all mankind. The poet demands all gifts, and not one or two only. Like the electric rod, he must reach from a point nearer to the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the wet soil, or neither is of use. The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses. His words must be pictures : his verses must be spheres and cubes, to be seen and handled. His fable must be a good storj', and its meaning must hold as pure truth. In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons, " what that meant, and whether a man should have a public reward for writing such stuff?" — Homer, Horace, Milton, and Chaucer would defy the coroner. Whilst they have wisdom to the wise, he would see that to the external they have external meaning. Coleridge rightly said that " poetrj^ must first be good sense, as a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house." Wordsworth is open to ridicule of this kind ; and j-et, though satisfied if he can suggest to a sympathetic mind his own mood, and though setting a private and exaggerated value on his compositions, and taking the public to task for not admiring his poetry, he is really a master of the English language ; and his PEEFACE. ix best poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight. But his capital merit is, that he has done more for the sanity of his generation than any other writer. " Laodamia" is almost entitled to that eminence in his literary performance which Landor gave it when he said, that "Words- worth had now written a poem which might be fitly read in Elj'sium, and the gods and heroes might gather round to listen." I count that and the " Ode on Immortality " as the best. Wordsworth has a religious value for his thoughts ; but his inspirations are casual and insufficient, and he persists in writing after they are gone. No great poet needs so much a severely critical selection of the noble numbers from the puerile into which he often falls. Leigh Hunt said of him, that "he was a fine lettuce with too man}- outer leaves." Byron's rare talent is conspicuously partial. He has not sweet- ness, nor solid knowledge, nor lofty aim. He had a rare skill for rhythm, unmatched facility of expression, a firm, ductile thread of gold. His rh;yTnes do not suggest any restraint, but the utmost freedom, as the rules of the dance do not fetter the good dancer, but exhibit his natural grace. In his isolation he is starved for a purpose ; and finding no material except of romance, — first, of corsairs, and Oriental robbers and harems, and, lastly, of satire, — he revenges himself on society for its supposed distrust of him, by cursing it, and throwing himself on the side of its destro3^ers. His life was wasted ; and its only result was this brilliant gift of song with which he soothed his chosen exile. I do not know that it can retain for another generation the charm it had for his cori* temporaries ; but the security with which he pours these perfectly modulated verses to any extent, without any sacrifice of sense for the sake of metre, surprises the reader. J. PREFACE. Tennj'son has incomparable felicity in all poetic forms, surpass- ing in melody also, and is a brave, thoughtful Englishman, un- matched in rhythmic power and variety. The thoroughness with which the fable has been thought out, as in the account of the supreme influence of Arthur on his knights, is onl}- one of his tri- umphs. The passion of love in his " Maud" found a new cele- bration, which woke delight wherever the English language is known ; the ' ' Dirge of Wellington " was a more magnificent monument than any or all of the histories that record that com- mander's life. Then the variety of his poems discloses the wealth and the health of his mind. Nay, some of his words are poems. The selections from American writers are necessarily confined to the present century ; but some of them have secured a wide fame. Some of them are recent, and have 3'et to earn their lau- rels. I have inserted onty one of the remarkable poems of For- ceythe Willson, a j^oung Wisconsin poet of extraordinar}- promise, who died very soon after this was written. The poems of a lady who contents herself with the initials H. H. in her book published in Boston (1874) have rare merit of thought and expression, and will reward the reader for the careful attention Avhich thc}^ require. The poem of " Sir Pavon and Saint Pavon," by another hand, has a dangerous freedom of style, but carries in it rare power and pathos. The imagination wakened brings its own language, and that is always musical. It may or may not have rhyme or a fixed metre ; but it will alwaj's have its special music or tone. Whatever lan- guage the bard uses, the secret of tone is at the heart of the poem. Every great master is such b}^ this power, — Chaucer and Shak- speare and Raleigh and Milton and Collins and Burns and BjTon and Tennyson and Wolfe. The true inspiration always brings it. Perhaps it cannot be analyzed ; but we all jdeld to it. It is the life of the good ballads ; it is in the German hymns PREFACE. ^j which Wesley translated ; it is in the " Marseillaise " of Rouget de Lisle ; it gave their value to the chants of the old Romish and of the English Church ; and it is the only account we can give of their wonderful power on the people. Poems may please by their talent and ingenuity ; but, when they charm us, it is because they have this quality, for this is the union of nature with thought. R. W. E. CONTENTS NATURE. Land. — Sea. — Sky. Argument of his Book Herrick . At Sea J. T. Trowbridge Barberry-Bush, The Jones Very . Bird, The . .■ W. AiUngham . Birds of Killiiigworth, The Longfellow • Blossoms, To Herrick Bothie of Tober na Vuolich, From the . . . Clough . Boy Poet, The Wordsworth Breeding Lark Arthur Boar . Cave of Staffa Wordsioorth Cloud, The Shelley . Coral Grove, The J. G. Percival . Coriuna's going a-Maying Herrick . Country Life, The Herrick Dawn Shakspeare . Daffodills, To Herrick . Daffodils Wordsworth . Death of the Flowers, The Bryant Death of the Old Year, The Tennyson Diamond, The J. J. O. Wilkinson Dover Cliffs Shakspeare . Drop of Dew, A A. Marvell Eagle, The Tennyson . Earth-Spirit, The Channing . Evening, Ode to Collins . Evening Star, To the Wordsworth First of May Wordsworth . Flight of the Wild Geese Channing . Flowers Shakspeare . Flowers at Cave of Staffa Wordsworth Fox and Cock Chaucer Fringed Gentian, To the Bryant Garden, The Marvell . Grasshopper, The Richard Lovelace Haze H. D. Thoreau Herb Rosemary, To the H. K. White . Hillside Cot, The Channinq Hope Campbell . Joanna, To Wordsioorth II Penseroso . MUtnii Lachin y Gair Byron . L'Allegro Milton Landscape Tennyson Liberty Wordsworth Lost in the Snow Thomson Mav Ben Jonson Milky Way, The Chaucer . Mist Thoreau . Moonlighj; Shakspeare Morning Shakspeare Morning in the Mountains Wordsworth . xili Page. 3 48 32 36 11 33 20 27 36 42 46 39 10 15 5 33 33 29 24 34 8 47 38 27 43 44 9 37 29 42 16 30 25 16 48 32 7 45 17 18 26 4 9 ST' 23 9 45 48 43 6 8 XIV CONTENTS. Mountain, The . . . . Nature Nature Niglit and Death NiL'ht Night Nightingale, The . . . , Nightingale .... Nightingale, The . . . . Nightingale's Death-Song, The Nightingale's Song, The Ocean Ocean Osniunda Regalis, The . Out anil Inward Bound Pass of Kirkstone, The . Primrose, The . . . . Kainbow, To the Ilaiubow, The . . . . Rivulet, The .... Sea Charming . Ben Jonson . James Beattie . J. Blanco White Beattie Shahspeare . Keats Thomson B. Barnefield . Hemans T. H. Bayly . Charles Sprague Pollok Wordsworth . Shakspeare Wordsivorth . Herrick Campbell Byron Bryant . Sea-Shell, Inscription on a . Sea Song Sea Song September, 1819 Skating -Skylark, To a Skylark, To the Smoke Snow Solitude Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda Song of the Stars Sonnet : " Full many a glorious morning ' Storm, The Sunflower, The Sunset Swimming Tacking Ship oflE Shore . . . . Tintern Abbey Trees . ." Waterfowl, To a Winter : a Dirge Winter Night, A Yew- Trees ..... . . Landor . Channing . A. Cunningham Wordsworth Wordsworth . Shelley Wordsworth . Thoreau . Wordsworth . Byron Marvell . Bryant Shakspeare . Byron W. Blake Byron Byron . Walter Mitchel Wordsivorth . Spenser . Bryant . Burns Burns . Wordsworth . 6 3 3 44 3 34 34 34 35 35 35 38 38 32 40 28 32 46 46 25 39 40 38 39 34 22 36 36 47 22 28 41 44 6 42 29 42 21 40 29 30 37 22 24 31 HUMAN LIFE. Home. — Woman. ■ Love. — Friendship. — Manners. — Holy Days.— Holidays. Anathemata Apology for having loved before Ariadne Athulf and Ethilda Babe, The Beauty Bride, The Bride, The .... Charmer, My Child, To a .... Children's Hour, The . Common Sense Corinne, To Cotter's Saturday Night, The Divided Duchesse Blanche . Ecstasy, The Elizabeth of Bohemia . Freedom in Dress .... F. B. Sanborn E. Waller . Chaucer . Henry Taylor Sir Wm. ^ones (Trans.) Spenser . Spenser . Suckling Waller' . N. P. Willis Lonqfellow Shakspeare . Mrs. Hemans Burns . Jean Ingelow Chaucer- John Donne Wotton . Ben Jonson CONTENTS. XV Genevieve Gentility Girdlo, On a Give me the Old Home Honoria Hymn to the Graces If TIioii wert by my Side, my Love . I'll never love thee more .... Inborn Royalty Lady's Yes, The Last Farewell, The Lily of Nithsdale, The Lines on leaving Europe .... Love Love against Love Love at First Sight Lucasta, To Lucy Maud My Mother's Picture Othello's Defence Outgrown Peasant's Return, The .... Playmate, My Pilot's Daughter, The Poetry of Dress, The Portrait, The Qua Cursum Ventus Queen, The Rosaline Rose of the World, The .... Sentences She walks in Beauty Silvia, To Song : " See the Chariot at hand " . Song : " How near to Good is what is Fair " Sonnet: "How oft when thou" Sonnet : " Let me not to the Marriage " Sonnet: " So am I as the Rich " Sonnet: " To me Fair Friend " . Sundered Sympathy Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie . Tribute, The True Love • Una and the Lion Venus, To Viola disguised, and the Duke Virginia When I do count the Clock .... Woman Wood-Fire, The Coleridge Chaucer . Waller . Messinger Wordsivorth . Coventry Patmore Herrtck . Heber Montrose Shakspeare E. B. Brotvning , Emerson . A. Cunningham . JN: p. Willis . Donne . D. A. Wasson . Beaumont and Fletcher Lovelace . Wordsworth . Tennyson . Cowper . Shakspeare Julia R. C. Dorr . William Barnes Whittier Allingham Herrick Heywood . Clough . Patmore . T. Lodge Patmore . Patmore Byron Herrick . Ben Jonson Ben Jonson . Shakspeare Shakspeare . Shakspeare Shakspeare . Sidney If. Morse Thoreau A. CunningJiam Coventry Patmore Shakspeare Spenser .... Beaumont and Fletcher Shakspeare . Chaucer . Shakspeare . Prof. Wilson (Trans.) E.'S.H. INTELLECTUAL. Memory. ■ Inspiration. — Imagination. — Fancy. — Music. — Art. Beauty. — Moods. ^olian Harp Allingham Alexander's Feast Dry den . Art and Nature Shakspeafe Cathedral Congreve Compliment to Queen Elizabeth .... Shaksjieare Comus : a Mask Milton . Critic, To the Tennyson . Cuckow and the Nightingale Chaucer Dsedalus Sterling . Dreams Scott Fantasy Ben Jonson XVI CONTENTS. Fairies Fame Flower, The Foresight .....•••• Harp, To the Hurts of Time Inspiration Inspiration Kilmeny King Lear Kubla Khan Loclcsley HaJl Memory Memory Moods Morning Muse, The Music, To Music Music Mythology Not Every Day Fit for Verse .... Ode to Himself Orpheus with his Lute Passions, The : an Ode for Music Phoenix and Turtle Dove Pleasures of Imagination Poet, The Poet, The Poet's Mood . . . Praise of Homer, The Prayer to Apollo Queen Mab Questionings Kabia Borneo's Presage Scale of Minds Ships at Sea Socrates Song from Gypsies' Metamorphoses Song of Fionnuala, The Sonnet: " O how much more doth " Sonnet: " From you have I been " . Sonnet on First Looking into Chapman's Homer Soul's Errand, The St. Cecilia's Day Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways Supplication, A Thought Ulysses Under the Portrait of Milton .... White Island, The Outline Writing Verses Warton . Ben Jonson . George Herbert Shakspeare . Drayton . Byron . Burns Thoreau James Hogg Shakspeare Coleridge . Tennyson Tennyson . Channing Sir J. Suckling Allingham . Oeorge Wither Mrs. Hemans Keats W. Strode . Coleridge . Herrick . Ben Jonson ' . Shakspeare . Collins Shakspeare . Akenside . C.S.T. Chaucer . Beaumont and Fletcher George Chapman Chaueer . Shakspeare F. H. Hedge . J. F. Clarke {Trans Shakspeare , Wordsworth R. B. Coffin Yoking Ben Jonson Moore Shakspeare Shakspeare Keats Raleigh . Dry den . Wordsworth Cowley . H. H. Tennyson Dry den Herrick . Wordsworth Bums . CONTEMPLATIVE. —MORAL. —RELIGIOUS. Man. — ViETUE. — Honor. — Time. — Fate. — Sleep. — Deeams — Death. — Immoktalitt. — Hymns and Odes Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt Affliction Herbert . Angels, The Drummond An Honest Man's Fortune John Fletcher Before Sleep Sir T. Browne . Burning Babe, The Southwell Celinda Lord Herbert , Character Coleridge Church Porch, The Herbert Christmas Tennyson Christmas Carol, The ...,,.. Wordsworth . CONTENTS. xvii Christmas Hymn Milton 187 Come Morir S. O. W. . . . . 166 Confession Herbert 150 Consolers. The S. G. W. . . . . 150 Death's Final Conquest James Shirley . , . 167 Dependence Cowper 182 Destiny Chaucer .... 152 Divine Love Wesley (Trans.) . . . 177 Duty, Ode to Wordsworth .... 149 Easter Herbert 192 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . . . Gray 169 Elixir, The Herbert .... 181 English Ohaimel Wordsworth .... 144 Eton College Gray 148 Euthanasia Henry More .... 173 Forecast Chaucer .... 153 Forecast Bailey 153 Good Omens Shakspeare .... 152 Gratefulness Herbert 184 Hamlet's SolUoquy Shakspeare .... 160 Happy Life, The Wotton 146 Honest Poverty Bums 147 Honor Wordsworth .... 144 Humility B. M. Milnes . . . 145 Hymn to Christ, A . . . .... Donne . . . . ' 180 Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness . . . Bonne 188 Hjinn : " Lord, when I quit this Earthly Stage " . Watts 185 Hyperion: " As Heaven and Earth are Fairer " . Keats 143 Immortality Wordsworth .... 173 Immortal Mind, The Byron 172 Inscription on Melrose Abbey Anonymous .... 161 Inscription on a WaU in St. Edmund's Church, in Lomb.ard St., London Anonymous .... 102 Inscription in Marble in the Parish Church of Faver- sham, in Agro Cantiano Anonymous .... 162 Joy H.H. 157 Laodamia Wordsworth . . . 162 Life Herbert 151 Life Mrs. Barbauld . . . 169 Life Longfellow .... 149 Life and Death Shakspeare .... 161 Life and Death Shakspeare .... 161 Litany to the Holy Spirit Herrick 186 Love and Humility Henry More .... 176 Man Herbert 143 Matins Herrick 185 Moravian Hymn John Wesley . . . 178 My Legacy H.H. 176 My Mind to Me a Kingdom is Byrd 154 Karayena: Spirit of God Sir. Wm. Jones (Trans.) . 180 New "Prince, New Pomp Southwell .... 191 Old Man's Funeral, The Bryant 167 Orthodoxy W. Blake .... 158 Peace Herbert 157 Penitence Young 180 Pilgrimage -Sir W. Raleigh . . . 160 Poet's Hope, A Channing . ... 153 Praise to Grummond .... 196 Shield, The S. G. W. 150 xvm CONTENTS. Sin . Sing unto the Lord Skeptic, Tlie . Skull, The . Sleep . . . Sleep Stauzas written in the Churchyard of Richmond Yorkshire Star-Song, The Strangers, The Sun-Dial Thanatopsis That Each Thing is hurt of Itself .... The Spacious Firmament on High .... Tithonus To Be no More Touchstone, The Two went up into the Temple to pray Undertaking, The Virtue Waj'farers Wisdom Herbert Sir Philip Sidney Wordsworth Byron . Shakspeare Young . Herbert Knowles HerricJc . Jones Very Montgomery . Bryant Anonymous . Addison . Tennyson Milton Allingham . Richard Crashaw Donne . Herbert E.S.H. . Coventry Patmore HEROIC. Patriotic. — Historic, — Political. Abraham Lincoln Antony over the Dead Body of Caesar . Ariadne's Farewell Bannockbum Bard, The Battle Hymn of the Republic .... Battle of the Baltic Battle on St. Crispian's Day .... Bay Fight, The Boadicea Bonduca Bunker Hill Cassius Chicago Chivalry . . . . . Christian Militant Commemoration Ode Constancy Coronation Cromwell and King Charles Cumberland, The Defiance Entrance of Columbus into Barcelona . Epistle to a Friend to persuade him to the Wars Flag, The George Washington Greeting to " The George Griswold " Happy Warrior, The Henry V.'s Audience of French Ambassadors Heroism Hohenlinden Hotspur's Quarrel with Henry IV. Hotspur Ichabod Indians In State In the Fight Jephthah's Daughter John Brown of Osawatomie .... King Richard's Soliloquy Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, The Lochiel's Warning , . Lost Leader, The Loyal Woman's No, A Tom Taylor Shakspeare . H.H. ... Bums .... Gray .... Julia Ward Howe Campbell . Shakspeare . H. H. Brownell Cowper . Beaumont and Fletcher G. Mellen Shakspeare Bret Harte Ben Jonson Herrick Lowell Herbert . H.H. Marvell . Longfellow Scott . . G. Mellen Ben Jonson . Julia Ward Howe Punch Wordsworth . Shakspeare Coleridge {Trans.) Campbell . Shakspeare . Shakspeare Whittier Charles Sprague Forceythe Willson Tennyson Byron E. C. Stedman Shakspeare . Mrs. Hemans . Campbell Robert Browning Lucy Larcom . CONTENTS. XIX Maryland Mason and Slidell Master Spirit, The Miirat Never or Now Ode on Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Sol- diei-s Old Ironsides . On the Late Massacre in Piemont .... Port Koyal, At ^ . Prayer. The Itequieni lioyalty ■ Samson Agonistes Schill Scotland Song of Saul before his Last Battle .... Sonnet: "Alas! what hoots the long " . So7inet: " It is not to be thought of that " Speech of the Dauphin Sunthin in a Pastoral Line Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzer- land Vision, The Warden of the Cinque Ports, The .... Washers of the Shroud, The Waterloo Westward the Star of Empire What the Birds said Ye Mariners of England J. R. Randall Lowell . George Chapman Byron . O. W. Holmes Henry Timrod O. W. Holmes Milton . Whittier . Tennyson George Lunt D. A. Wasson Milton Wordsworth Bums Byron . Wordsworth Wordsworth Shakspeare Lowell . Wordsworth Bums . Longfellow Lowell . Byron G. Berkeley Whittier . Campbell PORTKAITS. — PERSONAL. — PICTURES. Addison, Portrait of Pope Agassiz, Fiftieth Birthday of Longfellow A King Robert Browning . Alexander Pope, Lines to David Lewis . Ben Jonson, Ode to Herrick . Black Prince, The Shakspeare Burial of Moses Mrs. C. F. Alexander Campbell, To . . . Moore Caliph's Encampment, The Moore . Cleopatra Shakspeare Coriolanus Shakspeare . Coriolanus at Antium Shakspeare Countess of Rutland, To the Beyi Jonson . Cowley's Epigram on Sir Francis Drake . . . Ben Jonson (Trans.) Destruction of Sennacherib, The .... Byron . Elegy on Mistress Elizabeth Drury .• . . . Donne Entrance of Bolingbroke into London . . . Shakspeare . Epigram Ben Jonson Epitaph on Shakspeare Milton . . . . Epitaph : " Underneath this sable hearse " . . Be7i Jonson Epitaph: "Underneath this stone doth lye" . . Ben Jonson . Execution, The Byron Fare Thee Well Byron . . . Fop, The Shakspeare Forging of the Anchor, The S. Ferguson George Peabody, To O. W. Holmes . Gladiator, The Byron ... Henry V Shakspeare Ice Palace, The Cowper . . . . Lines in a Lady's Album Daniel Webster Love of England Byron . . . . Lucy, Countess of Bedford, On Ben Jonson Man of Ross The Pope . . . , Milton, To Wordsworth Mountain Daisy, To a Burns . Mouse, To a Bums Nebuchadnezzar Gower . . Nestor to Hector Shakspeare XX CONTENTS. No More Byron . On his Blindness Milton Outward Bound Byron . Palm and Pine Milnes Prayer to Ben Jonson Herrick . Prisoner of CluUon, Tlie . . . . . . Byron Rob Roy's Grave Wordsworth Santa FOomena Longfellow Siege of Corinth Byron . Sir Henry Vane, To • . Milton Sir Philip Sidney Matthew Hoyden Soldier's Dream, The Campbell . Sonnet : " O for my sake do you with fortune chide ! " Shakspeare . Sonnet, on his being arrived to the age of twenty- three Milton Spenser at Court Spenser . Stanzas, " Though the day of my destiny's over " Byron To live Merrily and to trust to Good Verses . . Herrick . Wants of Man, The J. Q. Adams When the Assault was intended to the City . . Milton . William Sidney on his Birthday, To . . . Ben Jonson NARRATIVE POEMS AND BALLADS. Alfred the Harper Alice Brand Allen-a-Dale Amy Wentworth Auld Robin Gray Battle of Harlaw _ . Boy of Egremond, The . . . 7 . . Braes of Yarrow, The Bristowe Tragedy Bruce and the Abbot Child Dyring Cliildren in the Wood Chimney-Sweep, The Crowning of Arthur, The Drowned Lovers, The Duchess May, Rh3rme of Earl o' Quarterdeck, The Fair Annie Fair Helen Fidelity Fitz Traver's Song Friar of Orders Gray Garci Perez de Vargas Gate of Camelot, The Gay Goss-Hawk, The George Nidiver Glenara Glenlogie Graeme and Bewick Griselda Heir of Linne, The Helvellyn High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, The . House of Busyrane How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix Island, The King John and the Abbot of Canterbury . ' . Kinmont Willie Lady Clara Vere de Vere Lady Clare Lady Geraldine's Courtship Lake of the Dismal Swamp, The Lochinvar Mass, The CEnone ; or, the Choice of Paris Relief of Luckuow, The Rhotruda Sterling . Scott . Scott . Whittier Lady Anne Lindsay Scott . Wordsworth W. Hamilton T. Chatterton . Scott Scott . Anonymous . E. S.H. . Tennyson Anonymous E. B. Browning . George MacDonald Scott Scott . Wordsworth . Scott . Scott Lockhart . Tennyson Scott E.H. . Campbell . Smith's Scottish Minstrel Scott . Chaucer Percy's Reliques Scott . Jean Ingelow . Spenser . Robert Brovming Byron . Percy's Reliques Scott Tennyson . Tennyson E. B, Broioning Moore . Scott . Scott . Tennyson . Robert Loioell Tuckerman CONTENTS. XXI Rosabelle Sally from Coventry, The . Sea-Cavo, The Skipper Ireson's Rido .... Siege and Conquest of Alliama Sir Andrew Barton .... Sir Patrick Spens .... Sir Pavon and St. Pavon Song of the Tonga-Islauders . Svend Vonved Telling the Bees .... Vision of Belshazzar .... Waly, Waly, but Love be Bonny . Wild Huntsman, The .... William of Cloudesl6 Winstanley Wreck of " The Grace of Sunderland' Scott .... G?. W. Thombury . Byron .... Wkittier . . . , Byron .... Anonymous Anonymous . Sara H. Palfrey . Anonymous . George Borrow (Trans.) Whittier Byron . . . . Anonymous . Scott (Trans.) . Anonymous . Jean Ingelow . Jean Ingelow SONGS, Althea, To . . ■ Lovelace . Araby's Daughter Moore . Ariel's Song Shakspeare Auld Lang Syiie Burns . A Weai-y Lot is Thine Scott . Banks of Doon, The Bums . Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind Shakspeare Boatie Rows, The Anonymous Bonny Dundee Scott . Britlal of Audalla, The Lockhart Brignall Banks Scott . Bugle-Soug, The Tennyson Canadian Boat-Song Moore Celia, To Ben Jonson Ceres, Song to Leigh Hunt Clan- Alpine, Song of Scott Come Away, Come Away, Death .... Shaksjjeare County Guy Scott Disdain Returned Thomas Carew Dying Bard, The Scott Full Fathom Five thy Father Lies .... Shakspeare Garden Song Tennyson Goldilocks Jean Ingelow . Go, Lovely Rose ! Waller . Hark, Hark, the Lark ! Shakspeare Hero to Leander Tennyson Jeanie Morrison Motherwell John Anderson, My Jo Bums . Love Samuel Daniel Love's Young Dream Moore Manly Heart, The G. Wither Marj' Donnelly Allingham . Masque of Pleasure and Virtue .... Ben Jonson Night Piece : to Julia Herrick . Night-Sea, The Harriet Prescott Spofford Of A' the Airts Bums . Oft in the Stilly Night Moore O my Lhve's like a Red, Red Rose .... Bums . Pibroch of Donuil Dhu Scott . River Song F. B. Sanborn Rose, To the Herrick Sailor, The Allingham . Song of Echo Ben Jonson Song Milton . Song from Jason William Morris Song from Neptune's Triumph Ben Jonson . Song: " Shake off your heavy trance " . . . Beaumont and Fletcher Song: " When Daisies Pied " Shakspeare . Take, O Take Those Lips away Shakspeare xxu CONTENTS. Tell Me where is Fancy Bred S haJc spear e. . Thekla's Song Anonyimus ( Trans.) The Harp that once through Tara's Halls . . . Moore .. There's Nae Luck about the House . . . . W.J. Miclcle . Under the Greenwood-Tree Shakspeare . DIKGES AND PATHETIC POEMS. Braes of Yarrow, The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, The . Coronach Departed Deserted House, The Dion Dirge for Dorcas Dirge: "He is gone — is dust" Dirge in Cynibeline Epitaph from Simonides Fear no More the Heat o' th' Sun .... He's Gane Hosea Biglow's Lament Laborer, The Lachrimas; or, Mirth turned to Mourning . Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring Lines written at Grasmere on Tidings of the Approach- ing Death of Charles James Fox .... Lycidas Lykewake l>irge Murdered Traveller, The Nymph Mourning her Fawn, The .... Ode: " How sleep the brave who sink to rest" . Ode on the Death of the Didie of Wellington Ode on the Death of Thomson Ode on the Consecration of Sleepy-Hollow Cemetery On Sir Philip Sidney On the Loss of the " Royal George " ... Othello's Last Words Sleepy Hollow Thyrsis Winding-Sheet, To his J. Logan . Charles Wolfe Scott . Wordsworth Tennyson . Wordsworth Herrick Coleridge {Trans.) Collins Anonymous Shakspeare Burns Lotnell . John Clare Herrick . Burns Burns Wordsioorth Milton . Anon. Bryant . Marvell Collins . Tennyson . Collins . F. B. Snnbnrn . Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke Cowper .... Shakspeare . Channing . Matthew Arnold -Herrick COMIC AND HUMOROUS. Satirical. Atheism Clough Chiquita Bret Harte . Collusion between a Alegaiter and a Water-Snaik . J. W. Morris Contentment Holmes . Cosmic Egg, The Anonymous Dorothy Q Holmes Fight over the Body of Keitt, The .... Punch . Her Letter Bret Harte His Answer to " Her Letter " Bret Harte . Holy Willie's Prayer , . Burns Jove and the Souls Swift Mignonette G.B. Bnrtlett Old Cove, The H. H. Brownell Origin of Didactic Poetry, The Lowell Plain Language from Truthful James . . . . Bret Harte Puritans Butler Rudolph, The Headsman Holmes . Tam O'Shanter Bums The Courtin' Lowell . The Deacon's Masterpiece; or. The Wonderful One- Hoss-Shay Holmes CONTENTS. XXIU The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder . Canning To the Devil Bums To the Unco Guid ; or, the Rigidly Righteous . . Bums . Witch of rife, The Hogg . 504 483 482 487 POETRY OF TERROR. Apparition, The Byron . Clarence's JJreani Shakspeare Corsair, The Crime Hesitation Incantation from Manfred I see Men's Judgments are Macbeth is ripe for shaking Manfred Byron Merciful Heaven Shakspeare Remorse Shakspeare .... Song of the Parcre Goethe trans, by Frothingham Thea Keats Byron Shakspeare Shakspeare Byrmi Shakspeare Shakspeare The Gods are Just This Army led by a Delicate and Tender Prince Tiger, The . .• . . ^ . To begiule the time Turner When we in our viciousness grow hard Shakspeare Shakspeare . William Blake Shakspeare . J. J. G. Wilkinson . Shakspeare . 514 511 512 510 512 512 511 510 513 511 510 510 509 511 512 509 509 510 ORACLES AND COUNSELS. Good Counsel. — Supkeme Hours. Antony and the Soothsayer Shakspeare Beware Scott Cleopatra's Resolution Shakspeare Courage Shakspeare Each and all Shakspeare Faith Mrs. Kemble Firmness Shakspeare Good Heart Burns . Guidance Shaks2)eare Human Life Shakspeare If men be worlds Donne Knowing the heart of man Daniel . Mine honesty and I begin to square .... Shakspeare Mother's Blessing Shakspeare O how feeble is man's power Donne Opportunity Shakspeare Saturn Keats The flighty purpose never is o'ertook .... Shakspeare The Nobly Born E. S. H. . The recluse hennit Donne . There is a history Shakspeare There is a mystery Shakspeare True Dignity Wordsworth Trust . . • Wordsworth Ulysses and Achilles Shakspeare 519 517 521 520 520 518 521 518 521 521 517 517 521 520 517 517 518 520 518 517 517 517 520 521 SIS Il^DEX OF AUTHOES. Adams, John Qoincy. Bom in Quincy, Mass., 1767; died ISiS. Tlie Wants of Man 280 Addison, Joseph. Bom in Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; died 1719. The Spacious Firmament . . .180 Akenside, Mark. Bom in Nev)castle-upon-Tyne, 1721 ; died 1770. Pleasures of Imagination . . .99 AliEXANDEB, MBS. C. F. Burial of Moses 290 Allingham, William. Bom in Ireland. Mary Donnelly 434 Morning 94 ^olianHarp 130 The Bird 36 The Pilot's Daughter , ... 77 The Sailor 436 The Touchstone 158 Arnold, Matthew. Bom in England, 1822. Thyrsis 471 BARBAULD, A.NNA L^TITIA. Born in Leicestershire, Eng., 1743; died 1825. Lire 169 Praise to God 183 Bailey, Philip James. Bom in Nottingham, Eng. , 1816. Forecast 153 Baknefield, Kiohaed. Bom in England. The Nightingale 35 Barnes, William. Bom in Dorsetshire. The Peasant's Return . . . . 75 Bartlett, George B. Mignonette 605 Bayly, Thomas Haynes. Bom near Bath, Eng., 1797 ; died 1839. Nightingale's Song 35 Beattie, James. Bom in Scotland, 1735 ; died 1803. Nature 3 Night 3 Beaumont and Fletcher. Francis Beaumont horn in Leices- tershire, 1586; died 1616. John Fletcher horn in Northampton- shire, 1576 ; died in London, 1625. Bonduca 213 Love at First Sight 71 Poet's Mood 138 Song : " Shake ofC your heavy trance," 433 To Venus 72 Berkeley, George. Bom in Ireland, 1684 ; died 1573. Verse: "Westward the Star of Em- pire " 225 Blake, William. Born in London, 1757 ; died 1828. Orthodoxy 158 The Sunilower 29 The Tiger 509 Boar, Arthur. The Breeding Lark .... 36 Borrow, George. Bom in England, 1803. Svend Vonved 328 XXV XXVI INDEX OF AUTHORS. Browne, Sir Thomas. Born in London, 1605 ; died 1682. Before Sleep 185 Bbownell, Henry Howard. Bom in Connecticut, 1820 ; died 1872. The Bay Figlit .... The Old Cove .... 248 502 Browning, Elizabeth Bajrrett. Bom in London, 1809 ; died in Florence, 1861. Lady GeralcUne's Courtship . . .366 Rhyme of the Duchess May . . 404 The Lady's Yes o"* Browning, Robert. Born in Camberwell, near London, 1812. A King 282 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 355 The Lost Leader ''^■* Bryant, William Cullen. Born in Cummington, Mass., 1794. Death of the Flowers ... Song of the Stars Thanatopsis The Murdered Traveller . The Old Man's Funeral . The Rivulet To a Waterfowl .... To the Fringed Gentian Burns, Robert. Bom near Ayr, Scotland, 1759; died 1796. Auld Lang Syne .... Banks of Doon Bannockbum He's Gane Holy Willie's Prayer Honest Poverty Inspiration John Anderson, my Jo . . . • Lament for James, Earl of Glencaim Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots Of a' the Airts the Wind can Blaw Oh, my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose . Scotland Tarn O' Shanter . • . • • The Cotter's Saturday Night . The Good Heart The Vision To a Mountain Daisy . . • • To a Movise To the Devil To the Unco Guid . . . • Winter Winter Night Writing Verses 29 44 168 457 167 25 37 30 439 447 219 458 481 147 95 438 458 456 442 443 . 220 484 . 53 518 . 219 279 . 278 483 . 482 22 . 24 95 Butler, Samuel. Born in Worcestershire, 1612; died in London, 1680. Bykd, William. Born in England, about 1540; died 1623. 1 My Minde to me a Kingdom is . . ^^ ■ Byron, George Gordon (Lord). ■ Born in London, 1788 ; died in • Greece, 1824. Destruction of Sennacherib . . .282 Fare Thee Well f Hurts of Time. ■ ,- , • • • 1% Incantation, from Manfred . . o\i Island (The Sea Cave) . . . • ^' » Jephthah's Daughter ••''%% Lachin y Gair -fo Love of England ^' ' Manfred ^i^ Murat 22^ No More ^^° Outward Bound ■''^ She Walks in Beauty . . • ■ • Yn Siege and Conquest of Alhama . . ^i" Siege of Corinth -^^J Solitude . . • . -T lo ;*i • on? Song of Saul before his Last Battle . 203 Stanzas : ' ' Though the day of " . 2*6 Sunset St Swimming ^\^ The Apparition . ... • • ^^ The Corsair °}^ The Execution ^°* The Gladiator f°^ The Immortal Mind . . • • ]±i The Island . • . ■ • • iii The Prisoner of Chillon . . . • ^»^ The Rainbow ^° The Sea ,^^ The Skull "J, The Stomi *^ Vision of Belshazzar . . • • *iS Waterloo ^^^ Calidasa. Supposed to have lived about 50 B. C. The Babe (Sir William Jones's trans- lation) ...•••"" Woman (Prof. Wilson's translation) ''° 58 Puritans 501 Campbell, Thomas. Bom in Glasgoio, 1777; died in Boulogne, 1844. Battle of the Baltic ■ • • ■ HI Glenara ^"^ Hohenlinden '^^^ Hope . - : „,7 Lochiel's Warning • • * ' ii To the Rainbow ^» The Soldier's Dream .... -»» Ye Mariners of England . . . • "i Canning, George. Bom in London, 1770 ; died in Chis- wick, 1827. The Knif e-Grinder .... 504 Carew, Thomas. Bom in Devonshire, Eng., 1589; died 1639. Disdain Returned **6 INDEX OF AUTHORS. XXVll Chaining, William Ellery. Bom in Boston. Memory 92 Sea Song 38 Sloei>y Hollow 460 The Eartb-Spirit 27 The Flight of the Wild Greese . . 37 The Hillside Cot 7 The Mountain 6 The Poet's Hope 153 Chapman, George. Bom in England, 1557 ; died in London, 1634. The Master Spirit 198 The Praise of Homer . . . .93 Chatterton, Thomas. Bom in Bristol, Eng., 1752; died 1770. Bristowe Tragedy 343 Chaucer, Geoffrey. Bom in London, 1328 ; died 1400. Ariadne 75 Destiny 152 Duchesse Blanche 60 Forecast 153 Fox and Cock 16 Gentility 83 Griselda 385 Prayer to Apollo 96 The Ciickow and the Nightingale . . 97 The Milky Way 45 The Poet 96 Virginia 67 Clare, Johk. Bom in England, 1793; died 1864. The Laborer 456 Clajrke, James Freeman. Born in Boston. Rabia (translation) 140 Clough, Arthttb Hugh. Bom in Liverpool, 1819 ; died in Florence, 1861. Atheism 497 Bathing ; from The Bothie of Tober na Vuolich 20 Qua Ciirsum Ventus . . . .82 Coffin, R. B. Bom in America. Ships at Sea 122 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Bom in Devonshire, Eng., 1772; died 1834. Character .... . . 154 Dirge : He is gone — is dust (trans, from Schiller) 459 Gene-\-icve 73 Heroism (trans, from Schiller) . . 195 Kubla Khan 126 Mythology (trans, from Schiller) . 120 Collins, William. Bom in Chichester, Eng,, 1720 ; died 1756, Dirge in Cymbeline 460 Ode: " How sleep the brave " . . 459 Ode on the Death of Thomson . . 462 Ode to Evening 43 The Passions 128 CoNGREVE, William. Boni near Leeds, Eng., 1670; died 1729. The Cathedral 133 Cowley, Abraham. Bom in London 1618 ; died 1667. A Supplication 129 Epigram on Drake (trans, by Ben Jouson) 268 CowPER, William, Bom in Hertfordshire, Eng., 1731; died 1800. Boadicea . . . . . . . 212 Dependence 182 Loss of " The Royal George " , . .463 My Mother's Picture . . , . 52 Providence , 182 The Ice Palace 288 Crashatv, Richard. Boiii in England ; died 1650. Satan 179 Two went up in to the Temple to Pray . 180 Cunningham, Allan. Bom in Blackwood, Scotland, 1784; died 1842. SearSong: "A wet sheet and a flowing sea " 39 The Lily of Nithsdale .... 75 Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie, 66 Daniel, Samuel. Bom in Taunton, Eng., 1562; died Knowing the Heart of Man is set to be, 517 Love 446 Donne, John. Bom in London 1573; died 1631. Elegy on Mistress Elizabeth Drury . 273 Ecstasy 70 Hymn'to God, my God, in my Sickness, 186 Hymn to Christ 180 If " Men be Worlds .... 517 Love 62 Oh, how feeble is Man's Power . . 517 The recluse Hermit .... 517 The Undertaking 154 XXVIU INDEX OF AUTHORS. Dorr, Julia C. R. Bom in America. Outgrown 64 Drayton, Michael. Bom in England, 1563; died 1631. The Harp 130 Drummond, William. Bom in Scotland, 1585 ; died 1649. The Angels 190 The Shepherds 190 Dryden, John. Born in Northamptonshire, Eng., 1631; diedXlOO. Alexander's Feast . . . .130 St. Cecilia's Day 127 Under the Portrait of Milton , . 99 Emerson, Edward Bliss. Born in Boston, 1805 ; died in Porto Rico, 1834. The Last FareweD 51 Ferguson, Samuel. Bom in Ireland, about 1805. Forging of the Anchor . . . 287 Fkothingham, N. L. Bom in Boston, 1793 ; died 1870. Translation of Goethe's Song of the ParcsB 510 Gower, John. Bom in England, 1320; died 1402. Nebuchadnezzar 265 Gray, Thomas. Born in London, 1716 ; died 1771. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 169 Eton CoUege 148 The Bard 215 Gbeville, Fulke (Lord Brooke). Bom in England, 1554; died 1628. On Su- Philip Sidney . . . .467 Hamilton, William. Bom in Bangowr, Scotland, 1704; died 1754. Braes of YaiTOw 412 Harte, Bret. Chicago 261 Chiquita 502 Her Letter 495 His Answer to her Letter . . . 496 Plain Language from Truthful James 504 Heber, Reginald. Bom in Cheshire, Eng., 1783; died 1826. If thou wert by my side, my Love . . 53 Hedge, Frederic H. Bom in Cambridge, Mass., 1805. Questionings 91 Hemans, Felicia. Bom in Liverpool, Eng., 1794; died 1835. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers . . 225 Music 130 Nightingale's Death Song . . .35 To Corinne 51 Herbert, George. Bom in Wales in 1593; died 1632. Affliction 184 Confession 150 Constancy 195 Easter 192 Gratefulness 184 Life 151 Man 143 Peace 157 Providence 182 Sin 159 The Church Porch 145 TheEUxir 181 The Flower 95 The Pulley 144 The Quip 147 Virtue 147 Herbert, Edward (Lord of II Cherbury). * Bom in London, 1591 ; died 1648. Celinda 172 Herbick, Robert. ■ Born in London, 1591; died 1674. ■ ' Argument of his Book ... 3 Christian MUitant . . ^. . .198 Corinna's going a-Maying ... 10 Countiy Life 15 Dirge for Dorcas 461 Hymn to the Graces . , . .86 LachiiniEe ; or, Mirth turned to Mourn- ing 455 Litany to the Holy Spirit . . .186 Matins 185 Night Piece to Julia .... 445 Not Every Day fit for Verse , . .93 Ode to Ben Jonson .... 270 Prayer to Ben Jonson .... 269 Poetry of Dress . . " . . . 87 Star Song 190 The Primrose 32 The Rose 443 The Wliite Island .... 123 To Blossoms 33 To Daffodills 33 To his Winding Sheet . . . .458 To Live Menily and to Trust to Good Verses ... . . .269 To Silvia 58 INDEX OF AUTHORS. XXIX Heywood, John, Born in England; died 1565. rbe Portrait 65 E. H. Geoi-ge Nidiver 327 Hogg, James. Born in Ettrick, Scotland, 1772; died 1835. Kilmeny 120 The Witch of Fifo 487 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Born in Cambridge, Mass., 1809. Contentment 499 Dorothy Q 498 Never or Now 232 Old Ironsides -226 Rudolph the Headsman . . . 503 The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay . . 492 To George Peabody .... 282 Howe, Julia Ward. Bom in Neto York. Battle Hjnnn of the Republic . . 230 The Flag 236 HoNT, Leigh. Bom in Middlesex, Eng., 1784; died 1859. Abou Ben Adhem 158 Song to Ceres 434 E. S. H. The Chimney Sweep .... 339 The Nobly Bom 518 The Wood Fire 56 Wayfarers 159 H. H. Ariadne's Farewell .... 202 Coronation 202 Joy 157 My Legacy 176 Thought 91 iNGELow, Jean. Bom in England, 1825. Di^ded 80 Goldilocks 443 High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire 340 Winstanley 322 Wreck of the "Grace of Sunderland" 320 Jones, Sir William. Bom in London, 1746; died 1794. Narayena, Spirit of God (translation) . 180 The Babe (translation from Calidasa) . 56 JoNSON, Ben. Bom in London, 1574; died 1637. Chivalry 199 flpigram 269 Epigram (trans.) 268 JoNSON, Ben (continued). Epistle to a Friend to Persuade Him to the Wars 196 Epitaph: "Underneath this sable hearse" 269 Epitaph : " Underneath this stone doth lye" 268 Fame loi Fantasy 123 Freedom in Dress 87 May 9 Masque of Pleasure and Virtue . . 433 Nature 3 Ode to Himself 93 On Lucy, Countess of Bedford . . 268 Song: "How near to good is what is fair" 87 Song: " The owl is abroad " . . 125 Song of Echo 441 Song : " See the chariot at hand " . 73 Song: "Spring all the graces of the age " 434 To Celia . .... 445 To the Countess of Rutland . . .269 To William Sidney, on his Birthday 269 Keats, John. Bom in London, 1796 ; died 1820. Hjrperion : " As heaven and earth are fairer " 143 Hyperion (Music) 128 Hyperion (Saturn, as he walked into the midst) 518 Hyperion (Thea) 509 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 94 The Nightingale 34 Kemble, Mrs. Frances Anne. Born in London, about 1811. Faith 518 Knowles, Herbert. Born in England. Written in the Churchyard of Rich- mond, Yorkshire . . .167 Landor, Walter Savage. Bom in Wartvickshire, Eng., 1775 ; died 1864. Inscription on a Sea-Shell . , .40 Larcom, Lucy. Bom in Massachusetts. A Loyal Woman's No . . . .248 Lewis, David. Lines to Alexander Pope . . .272 Lindsay, Lady Anne. Bom in Scotland, 1750 : died in London, 1825. Auld Robin Gray 383 LocKHART, John Gibson. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1792 : d'ied 1854. Bridal of Andalla 447 Garci Perez de Vargas . . . 300 XXX INDEX OF AUTHOES. Lodge, Thomas. Bom in England, 1556 ; died 1625. Rosaline 72 LoGAi^, John. Bom in Scotland, 1748 ; died 1788. The Braes of Yarrow . . . .456 Longfellow, Henry "Wads- WOETH. Bom in Portland, Me., 1807. Agassiz, on the Fiftieth Birthday of . 280 Life 149 Santa Filomena 280 The Birds of KOlingworth . . . 11 The Children's Hour . . . .57 The Cumberland 239 The Warden of the Cinque Ports . 224 Lovelace, Biohaed. Bom in Kent, Eng., 1618; died 1658. ToAlthea 445 To Lucasta -63 The Grasshopper 16 Lowell, James Russell. Born in Cambridge, Mass., 1819. Commemoration Ode .... 258 Hosea Biglow's Lament . . . 476 Mason and Slidell 234 Origin of Didactic Poetry . . . 483 Suntliin' in a Pastoral Line . . . 240 The Courtia' 494 The Washers of the Shroud . . .237 Lowell, Robert T. S. Bom in Boston, Mass., 1816. The Relief of Lucknow . . .311 LuNT, George. Bom, in Newhuryport, Mass., 1803. Requiem: "Breathe, trumpets, breathe " 257 Macdonald, George. Bom in Scotland. The Earl o' Quarterdeck . . . 318 Marvell, Andrew. Bom in England, 1620 ; died 1678. A Drop of Dew 47 Cromwell and King Charles . . 219 The Garden 25 The Nymph Mourning her Fawn . 455 Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda . 41 Mellen, Grenville. Born in America, 1799; died 1841. Bunker Hill 226 Entrance of Columbus into Barcelona 225 Messinger, Robert Hinckley. Bom in Boston, Mass., about 1807. trive me the Old 57 MicKLE, William Julius. Bom in Dumfries-shire, Scotland, 1734; died 1788. There's Nae Luck about the House . 437 MiLNES, Richard Monckton (Lord Houghton). Bom in Yorkshire, Eng., 1809. Humility 145 The Palm and the Pine . . .289 Milton, John. Boryi i7i London, 1608 ; died 1674. Christmas Hymn 187 Comus 104 Epitaph on Shakspeare .... 268 II Penseroso 18 L'Allegi-o 4 Lycidas 467 Samson Agonistes .... 199 Song: "Sweet Echo". . . . 441 On His being Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three 270 Sonnet on his Blindness . . . 271 Sonnet on the Late Massacre in Pie- mont 195 Sonnet to Sir Henry Vane . . . 271 To Be no More 169 When the Assault was intended to the City 274 MiTCHEL, Walter. Bom in America. Tacking Ship off Shore 40 Montgomery, James. Born in Irvine, Scotland, 1771 ; died 1834. The Sun-Dial 151 Montrose (James Grahame), Marquis of. Bom in Montrose, Scotland, 1612 ; executed 1650. I'll never Love Thee more . 63 Moore, Thomas. Born in Dublin, 1779 ; died 1852. Araby's Daughter 435 Canadian Boat-Song .... 430 Harp that once through Tara's Halls . 435 Lake of the Dismal Swamp . . 335 Love's Young Dream .... 446 Oft in the Stilly Night .... 438 Song of Fionuuala 126 To Campbell 276 The Caliph's Encampment . . . 286 More, Henry. Bom in Gi-aiitJiam^i Eng., IGH; died 1687. Euthanasia 173 Love and Humility 176 INDEX OF AUTHORS. XXXI Morris, J, W. Born t?i America. A Collusion between a Alegaiter and a Wator-Suaik 491 Mouuis, William. Born ill England. Song from J:i!