.-< LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, cha P .....?-8 r -\\.l£. Shelf ........^--X^L g8Z- ~fj UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GOLDEN POEMS H3j) ISrittel) an* American glutljots, EDITED BY FRANCIS F. BROWNE. " The Poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above." " The Folk-songs old that never are outworn, "Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care ; And come like the benediction That follows after prayer." Chicago: JANSEN, McCLURG, & COMPANY. 1882. ■ fRH7^ .31 r copyright: JANSEN, McCLURG, & COMPANY. 1881. STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED THE CHICAGO LEC PREFACE The plan and scope of the present volume are, it is be- lieved, sufficiently explained by its title and by its contents and arrangement. As, however, the number of poetical anthologies is already large, a word of justification may properly be expected of any one who would venture to in- crease the number. In any close survey of the larger compilations of Dana, Bryant, Coates, Fields and Whipple, and Sargent, it is thought that the reader, while impressed with the fulness and richness of these noble collections, must notice the comparatively small number of pieces which have become to any considerable extent popular favorites. It is apparent also that miscellaneous collections should be chiefly popular in plan and purpose. The field of English poetry is so vast that no anthologies, however wide their scope, can serve as a substitute for the works of the various authors; and attempts to make them do this must result in cumbersome and unwieldy as well as expensive volumes. Of smaller books we already have, it is true, a number which admira- bly serve their purpose; but it is no disparagement of these to note their limited range — their design being in general to represent some special department or some particular period of poetry, or to express the individual tastes and preferences of their illustrious compilers. Belonging to the first of these classes are works so admirable as (Hi) IV PREFACE. Palgrave's " Golden Treasury" — which is restricted to songs and l}-rics, and represents no American authors, and no British authors as recent as Tennyson and the Brownings, — Johnson's " Single Famous Poems," and Lodge's " Bal- lads and Lyrics;" and to the second class, Whittiers " Songs of Three Centuries," Longfellow's " Poems of Places," and Emerson's " Parnassus." Having this popular aim prominently in view, the com- piler of the present volume has hoped to be able, by limit- ing his selections as closely as possible to short pieces, to bring together a larger number and greater variety of popu- lar poetical favorites than can perhaps be found elsewhere in equal compass. It would of course be too much to expect that any reader could find here all his favorite pieces. Judg- ments would differ in many instances as to what should be given precedence; and some chance omissions are inevita- ble. As a necessary result of the preference for short pieces, many of the older writers are represented but spar- ingly: and from this there also results, what it is hoped may prove to be an advantage — and what, indeed, has been one of the objects of the book — that many pieces are to be found here which are not usually given in similar collec- tions. In order to afford as wide a representation of authors as possible, the selections have been confined, except in a very few instances, to a small number from each. Many authors, indeed, are known by but a single piece — which would hence have a special claim to a place here. As far as practicable, whole poems have been chosen; but where an author could best be represented by some familiar or char- acteristic extract, this has been used, and in such case the full title of the poem from which the extract is taken usu- ally appears at the end. Great pains have been taken to secure correct versions of the pieces used. This is, however, a matter of too much difficulty to permit any one who has ever attempted it to be confident of entire success. Many of the finest pieces are not to be found in any authentic form, but exist only as PREFACE. V waifs and strays of literature. Some have so long borne titles ditFerent from those their authors gave them, that they would scarcely be recognized by any other name; while others have not only been re-christened, but also re-appar- elled in such a way that their own parents might almost pass them by as strangers: like the poor palmer with Mar- mion at Norham Castle, they have become so changed by fortune and hard usage, that -The mother that them bare, If she had been in presence there, k She had not known her child." The classification of the poem3, in which the stereotyped chronological order is abandoned for an arrangement by subjects, is believed to be that most effective and convenient in a popular work like this. It is necessarily somewhat ar- bitrary, since it is not always clear to which one of several classes a poem most fitly belongs. It is hoped, however, that the classification will be found in the main correct, and that its adoption will be approved by use. As has seemed proper and desirable in an American col- lection, liberal quotations have been made from the works of American poets. These have been necessarily subject to existing copyright restrictions, which may explain any seeming disproportion in the representation of the various authors. The search for material, both in British and American poetry, has been brought down as nearly as pos- sible to the present; and a very interesting feature of the collection, it is thought, is the large number of remarkable poems from unknown and little-known authors. Transla- tions — since a translated poem really becomes a new poem — are in this work indexed under the name of the translator, or as anonymous where the translator is not known: though the name of the original author is frequently given at the end of translated pieces. The editor desires to express his obligations to the cour- tesy and liberality of many American authors and publish- ers in permitting the use of copyrighted matter — especially VI PREFACE. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., whose list is so rich in the poetry not only of our standard writers but of minor poets; and Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., Messrs. Roberts Brothers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., and Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co. F. F. B. Chicago, November, 1881. CONTENTS. Part I. — By the Fieeside. PAGE Like a Laverock in the Lift Jean Ingelow. 27 Only a Baby Small Matthias Barr. 27 Cradle Song Josiah Gilbert Holland, 28 Choosing- a Name Mary Lamb. 29 My Babes in the Wood Sallie M. B. Piatt. 30 " Bairnies, Cuddle Doon " .... Alexander Anderson. 31 The Children's Hour . . . Henry Wads worth Longfellow. 32 Willie Winkie William Miller. 33 The Farmer Sat in his Easy Chair . Charles Gamage Eastman. 34 Not One to Spare Ethel Lynn Beers. 35 Tired Mothers May Riley Smith. 36 Winifreda Anonymous. 37 Don't be Sorrowful, Darling Rembrandt Peale. 38 John Anderson, My Jo Robert Burns. 39 The Sailor's Wife Jean Adam. 39 A Winter Evening at Home William Cowper. 41 Home, Sweet Home John Howard Payne. 41 It 's Hame and it 's Hame Allan Cunningham. 42 Old Folks at Home Stephen Collins Foster. 42 My Old Kentucky Home Stephen Collins Foster. 43 In a Strange Land James Thomas Fields. 44 No Time like the Old Time Anonymous. 44 The Old Oaken Bucket Samuel Wood-worth. 45 Rain on the Roof Coates Kinney. 46 I Remember, I Remember Thomas Hood. 47 Graves of a Household . . . , . Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 48 The Family Meeting Charles Sprague. 49 (vii) Vlll CONTENTS. Part II. — Nature's Voices. PAGE The World is Too Much With Us . . William Wordsworth. 53 Invocation to Nature Percy Bysshe Shelley. 53 Freedom of Nature James Thomson. 54 Nature's Delights John Keats. 54 Imaginative Sympathy with Nature .... Lord Byron. 55 Varying Impressions from Nature . . William Wordsworth. 55 Nature in Spring James Thomson. 56 June William Cullen Bryant, hi Spring in Carolina Henry Timrod. 58 June James Russell Lowell. 59 A Summer Morn - James Beattie. 61 Summer John Townsend Trowbridge. 62 September George Arnold. 63 Winter William Cowper. 64 Months and Seasons . . . . . . . . Edmund Spenser. 65 Trees, Flowers, and Birds Geoffrey Chaucer. 68 Loves of the Plants Erasmus Darwin. 69 Violets Bobert Herric . 70 The First Violet Marie B. Williams. 70 The Violet William Wetmore Story. 72 The Daisy Geoffrey Chaucer. 72 Daffodils William Wordsworth. 73 To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley. 73 The Skylark James Hogg. 76 To the Cuckoo William Wordsworth. 77 Ode to a Nightingale John Keats. 78 The Ocean Lord Byron. 79 To Seneca Lake James Gates Percival. 80 The Sierras Joaquin Miller. 81 Hymn before Sunrise Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 82 Sunrise Edmund Spenser. 84 Morning William Shakespeare. 84 Dawn Richard Watson Gilder. 84 Hail, Holy Light John Milton. 85 Night Edward Young. 86 Night . . . Lord Byron. 86 Night Percy Bysshe Shelley. 87 Stars Lord Byron. 88 Day is Dying . . Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot). 88 The Evening Win! William Cullen Bryant. 89 CONTENTS. IX PAGE Ode to the West Wind Percy By sshe ShelUy\ 90 The Thunder-Storm James Thomson. 91 A Thunder- Storm in the Alps Lord Byron. 92 The Snow-Storm James Thomson. 93 Before the Rain . • Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 94 After the Rain Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 94 The Rainbow James Thomson. 94 The Rainbow William Wordsworth. 95 Part III. — Fueams and Fancies. Dreamers Joaquin Miller. 99 Fancies John Ford. 99 Drifting Thomas Buchanan Bead. 100 Basking Sidney I) obeli. 102 Echo and Silence .... Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges. 103 Indirection Richard Realf. 103 Give Me Back My Youth Again. . From the German of Goethe. 104 In Our Boat ....... Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. 105 Convalescence Edgar Allan Poe. 105 Alone by the Hearth George Arnold. 106 At Best John Boyle O'Reilly. 107 Bugle Song Alfred Tennyson. 108 Egyptian Serenade ...... George William Curtis. 108 Chimney Swallows Horatio Nelson Powers. 109 g ori g Celia Thaxter. 110 The Golden Silence William Winter. Ill The Blessed Damozel Dante Gabriel Eossetti. Ill In the Mist Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge). 113 Upon the Beach Henry David Thoreau. 114 A Strip of Blue Lucy Larcom. 115 Pre-Existence * • Paul Hamilton Hayne. 116 An Old Man's Idyl Richard Realf. 117 Some Day of Days Nora Perry. 119 Sleeping and Dreaming .... Josiah Gilbert Holland. 119 Part IV. — Friendship and Sympathy. Forever John Boyle O'Reilly. 125 The Memory of the Heart Daniel Webster. 125 Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns. 126 Our Sister Horatio Nelson Powers. 127 We Have Been Friends To-vther Carolina Elizabeth Norton. 127 CONTEXTS. PAGT To Thomas Moore Lord Byron. 128 Joseph Rodman Drake Fitz-Greene Hallech. 129 Invitation to Izaak Walton Charles Cotton. 129 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice Alfred Tennyson. 131 To Victor Hugo Alfred Tennyson. 132 For the Moore Centennial Celebration Oliver Wendell Holmes. 132 A Friend's Greeting Bayard Taylor. 134 Part V. — Love. Wake Now, My Love Edmund Spenser. 139 True Love William Shakespeare. 139 My True Love Hath My Heart .... Sir Philip Sidney. 140 Song John Gay. MO A Girdle .• . Edmund Waller. 141 The Shepherd's Love Ben Jonson. 141 To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace. 141 A Celebration of Char n Ben Jonson. 142 Cupid and Campaspe John Lyly. 143 Cherry Ripe Richard Alison. 143 Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover . . Sir John Suckling. 144 Julia Robert Herrick. 144 Absence William Shakespeare. 145 Take, Take Those Lips Away . Beaumont and Fletcher. 145 Hark! Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate William Shakespeare. 146 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love . Christopher Marlowe. 146 The Nymph's Reply Sir Walter Raleigh. 147 Pain of Love Henry Constable. 147 How Many Times ...... Thomas Lovell Beddoes. 148 I Do Confess Thou 'rt Sweet Sir Robert Ayton. 148 A Parting Michael Drayton. 149 Afton Water . Robert Bums. 149 0, Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley Robert Burns. 150 First Love Lord Byron. 151 How do I Love Thee .... Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 152 Ask Me No More Alfred Tennyson. 152 Ae Fond Kiss Before We Part Robert Burns. 152 The Departure Alfred Tennyson. 153 Adieu Thomas Carlyle. 154 O Swallow Flying South Alfred Tennyson. 155 Mary Morison . Robert Burns. 156 Annie Laurie Douglas. 156 Jenny Kissed Me Leigh Hunt. 157 CONTENTS. XI PAGE Separation Alfred Tennyson. 157 Absence Robert Burns. 157 Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley. 158 1 Arise From Dreams of Thee . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley. 158 Bonnie Mary Robert Burns. 159 Three Kisses Elizabeth Barrett Broivning. 159 0, My Luve 's Like a Red, Red Rose .... Robert Burns. 160 Doris Arthur J . Munby . 160 She was a Phantom of Delight . . . William Wordsworth. 161 Janette's Hair Charles Graham Halpine. 162 We Twain Amanda T. Jones. 163 Kiss Me Softly ........ John Godfrey Saxe. 164 Wooing John B. L. Soule. 165 Pearls Richard Henry Stoddard. 165 The Brookside . Richard Monckton Milnes {Lord Houghton). 166 The Old Story . . Elizabeth Akers Allen {Florence Percy). 167 We Parted in Silence Julia Crawford. 167 Evening Song Sidney Lanier. 168 0, Saw Ye the Lass Richard Ryan. 168 Serenade Oscar Wilde. 169 Love Scorns Degrees Paul Hamilton Hayne. 170 A Song of Krishna Edwin Arnold. 170 Bird of Passage Edgar Fawcett. 171 I Fear Thy Kisses Percy Bysshe Shelley. 171 The Patriot's Bride Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. 172 I Saw Two Clouds at Morning . . John Gardiner Brainard. 173 A Woman's Question Adelaide Anne Procter. 174 0, Lay thy Hand in Mine, Dear Gerald Massey. 175 Part YI. — Liberty and Patriotism. Love of Liberty William Cowper. 179 Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights . . Alfred Tennyson. 180 Independence Tobias George Smollett. 180 The Hills Were Made for Freedom William Goldsmith Brown. 181 Downfall of Poland Thomas Campbell. 181 The Fall of Greece . . : . Lord Byron. 182 National Decay Oliver Goldsmith. 183 Fair Greene! Sad Relic of Departed Worth . Lord Byron. 184 Charles XII of Sweden Samuel Johnson. 184 What Constitutes a State Sir William Jones. 185 A Curse on the Traitor Thomas Moore. 186 England William Wordsworth. 187 Xll CONTENTS. TAGE The Better Country Oliver Goldsmith. 187 Mazzini Laura C. Redden (Howard Glyndon). 188 Green Fields of England ..... Arthur Hugh Clough. 188 Saxon Grit Eobert Collyer. 189 The Patriot's Death Fiiz-Greene Halleck. 191 Westward the Course of* Empire .... George Berkeley. 192 Bannockburn Robert Burns. 192 The American Flag- Joseph Rodman Drake. 193 The Star- Spang-led Banner Francis Scott Key. 195 God Save the King* Henry Carey. 195 French National Hymn . . . French of Roget De Lisle. 196 Prussian National Anthem ..... From the German. 197 The German's Fatherland From the German. 198 Patriotism .'....■ Sir Walter Scott. 200 Warren's Address John Pierpont. 200 The Battle of Lexington Sidney Lanier. 201 Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson. 20? Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind .... Lord Byron. 203 Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers . Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 203 InState Forceythe Willson. 204 Apocalypse Richard Realf. 208 How Sleep the Brave William Collins. 209 Part YII. — Cattle Echoes. Flodden Field Sir Walter Scott. 213 Te Mariners of England Thomas Campbell. 215 Waterloo Lord Byron. 216 The Unreturning Brave Lord Byron. 217 Hohenlinden Thomas Campbell. 218 The Battle of Ivry .... Thomas Babington Macaulay. 219 Battle of the Baltie Thomas Campbell. 221 Border Song Sir Walter Scott. 223 The "Revenge." — A Ballad of ths Fleet . Alfred Tennyson. 223 The Defense of Lucknow Alfred Tennyson. 227 Song of the Camp Bayard Taylor. 232 Carmen Bellicosum Guy Humphrey McMaster. 233 Battle-Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe. 234 My Maryland James R. Randall. 235 Stonewall Jackson's Way J.W. Palmer. 237 Civil War Charles Dawson Shanly. 238 The Arsenal at Springfield . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 239 CONTENTS. Xlll Part VIII. — Humor. PAGE Love is Like a Dizziness James Hogg. 243 Gluggity Glug Anonymous. 244 Rory O'Mopre Samuel Lover. 245 Jolly Good Ale and Old John Still. 246 Little Billee William Makepeace Thackeray. 247 The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring Henry Howard Brownell. 248 The Doctor in Love A. McFarland. 248 A Carman's Account of a Lawsuit . . . Sir David Lyndsay. 249 The New Church Organ Will M. Carleton. 250 Hans Breitrnann's Party Charles G. Leland. 252 The Plaidie Charles Sibley. 253 Bite Bigger Anonymous. 254 Popping Corn . . . • Anonymous. 255 A Housekeeper's Tragedy Anonymous. 256 The Sailor's Consolation Charles Dibdin. 257 The Lovers Phoebe Gary. 258 The Nantucket Skipper James Thomas Fields. 259 John Davidson *. . . . Anonymous. 260 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog . . Oliver Goldsmith. 262 The Power of Prayer .... Sidney and Clifford Lanier. 263 To a Fish John Wolcott. 265 The Society Upon the Stanislaus Bret Harte. 265 The Northern Cobbler Alfred Tennyson. 267 The Sorrows of Werther . William Makepeace Thackeray. 271 Part IX. — Pathos and Sorrow. Tears, Idle Tears ........... Alfred Tennyson. 275 Evelyn Hope Robert Browning. 275 Auld Robin Gray Lady Anne Barnard. 277 The Burial of Sir John Moore Charles Wolfe. 278 The Death of the Flowers . . . William Cullen Bryant. 279 Ashes of Roses Elaine Goodale. 280 Claribel's Prayer Anonymous. 280 The Death-Bed Thomas Hood. 282 My Slain Richard Realf. 282 The Bivouac of the Deal Theodore VHara. 283 Sands of Dee Charles Kingsley. 285 Three Roses Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 286 Into the World and Oat Sallie M. B. Piatt. 286 Hannah Binding SI1033 Lucy Larcom. 287 XIV COXTF.XTS. PAGE The Cradle Austin Dobson. 288 Angelus Song Austin Dobson. 288 When the Grass shall Cover M? Anonymous. 289 Two Mysteries Mary Mapes Dodge. 290 Mither, Dinna Dee . Robert Buchanan. 290 My Heart and I Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 291 Rosalie William C. Richards. 292 Requiescat Oscar Wilde. 293 The Old Sexton Park Benjamin. 293 Only a Year Harriet Beecher Stow e. 294 Before Sedan Austin Dobson. 295 Highland Mary Robert Burns. 296 My Playmate John Greenleaf Whittier. 297 Elegy Written in-a Country Churchyard . . Thomas Gray. 299 Lucy William Wordsworth. 302 Three Years She Grew William Wordsworth. 303 The Old Familiar Faces Charles Lamb. 304 Under the Daisies Hattie Tyng Griswold. 305 Lucy's Flittin 1 William Laidlaw. 306 We are Seven William Wordsworth. 307 The Banks 0' Doon Robert Burns. 308 My Love is Dead Thomas Chatterton. 309 Nevermore Lord Byron. 310 Break, Break, Break Alfred Tennyson. 310 A Life .... Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall). 311 It Might Have Been Anonymous. . 311 The Hour of Death Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 313 Waly, Waly, but Love be Bonny Anonymous. 314 The Mitherless Bairn William Thorn. 314 The Voice of the Poor Lady Wilde (Speranza). 315 Lament of the Irish Emigrant Lady Dufferin. 316 The Braes of Yarrow William Hamilton. 318 She and He Edwin Arnold. 321 Who Ne 'er His Bread in Sorrow Ate . . From the German. 323 The Three Fishers Charles Kingsley. 323 The Blue and the Gray Francis Miles Finch. 324 Decoration Day at Charleston Henry Timrod. 325 Dirge for a Soldier George Henry Boker. 326 The Unreturning Brave James Russell Lowell. 327 Lord Raglan Edwin Arnold. 327 Vale Richard Real f. 328 Dickens in Camp Bret Harte. 329 Obsequies of David . . . Francis Mahony (Father Prout). 330 CONTENTS. XV PAGF. Bayard Taylor John Greenleaf Whittier. 332 Horace Greeley Edmund, Clarence Stedman. 333 Farewell Algernon Charles Swinburne. 335 Paet X. — The Bettee Life. Heard are the Voices Thomas Carlyle. 339 How to Live Horathis Bonar. 339 A Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton. 340 Gradatiru Josiah Gilbert Holland. 341 A Hindoo's Search for Truth A. C.Lyall. 341 Responses Ralph Waldo Emerson. 343 De Profundis Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 344 Restitution . . • Anonymous. 347 " Blessed are They that Mourn " . William Cullen Bryant. 348 The Master's Touch Horathis Bonar. 348 I Hold Still From the German. 349 Gethsemane Ella Wheeler. 849 Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Arthur Hugh Clough. 350 My Legacy Helen Hunt Jackson. 351 Bringing Our Sheaves Elizabeth Akers A lien (Florence Percy). 352 Follow Me Abram T. By an. 353 Hope, Faith, Love .... From the German of Schiller. 354 Take Heart Edna Dean Proctor. 354 How We Learn Horathis Bonar. 355 Reaper of Life's Harvest Anonymous. 355 Memorial Hymn — J. A. Garfield David Swing. 356 Ripe Grain Dora Beed Goodale. 357 All is Well Alfred Tennyson. 357 Parted Friends James Montgomery. 358 Peace Mary Clemmer Ames. 358 I Shall Be Satisfied Anonymous. 359 This World is All a Fleeting Show .... Thomas Moore. 360 I Too Constance Feni more Woolson. 361 The Bird Let Loose in Eastern Skies . . . Thomas Moore. 362 All Before Anonymous. 362 Up Hill Christina G. Rossetti. 363 When Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge). 363 0, May I Join the Choir Invisible Mrs. Cross (George Eliot). 365 Life Anna Letitia Barbauld. 366 A Rhyme of Life Charles Warren Stoddard. 367 Now and Afterwards .... Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. 367 Rest Mary Woolsey Howland. 268 XVI CONTESTS. PAGE Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping . . . Horatius Bonar. 369 The Silent Land Kate Seymour McLean. 370 Heaven Nancy Priest Wakefield. 370 The Dying Christian to His Soul .... Alexander Pope. 371 Dying Hymn Alice Cary. 372 Hereafter Harriet Prescott Spofford. 372 Immortality Richard Henry Dana. 373 The Immortal Part Joseph Addison. 374 Ode on Immortality William Wordsworth. 374 Song of Angiola in Heaven Austin Dobson. 379 The Discoverer Edmund Clarence Stedman. 381 There is no Death . . \, d H^XcUuiy^o^ - A n onymo us. 382 No More Sea Anonymous. 333 The Other World Harriet Beecher Stowe. 384 Two Worlds Mortimer Collins. 335 Spiritual Communions Alfred Tennyson. 387 The Future Life William Cullen Bryant. 337 Over the River Nancy Priest Wakefield. 388 Only Waiting '.. Frances Laughton Mace. 389 I Would Not Live Alway . William Augustus Muhlenberg. 390 Nearer Home Phoebe Cary. 391 Longing for Home Jean Ingeloia. 392 Ministry of Angels Edmund Spenser. 393 Nearer, My God, to Thee Sarah Flower Adams. 394 The Better Way Jean Ingelow. 395 Abide With Me Henry Francis Lyte. 396 The Way, the Truth, and the Life . . . Theodore Parker. 396 The Pillar of the Cloud John Henry Neivman. 397 God John Bowring. 393 The Eternal Percy Bysshe Shelley. 400 Mutability Edmund Spenser. 401 Part XI. — Scattered Leaves. Music in Camp John R. Thompson. 405 Before the Gate William Dean Howells. 407 Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt. 408 Cleon and I Charles Mackay. 408 The Age of Wisdom . . William Makepeace Thackeray. 409 The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes. 409 The Jolly Old Pedagogue George Arnold. 411 Daniel Gray Josiah Gilbert Holland. 412 1 1 m Growing 0"d John Godfrey Scixe. 414 "Wild Oats" Charles King shy. 415 CONTENTS. XV11 PAGE The Water That Has Passed Anonymous. 416 The Ivy Green Charles Dickens. 417 A Hundred Years to Come . . William Goldsmith Brown. 418 Vertue George Herbert. 418 Where Lies the Land Arthur Hugh Clough. 419 A Farewell Charles Kingsleg. 419 After the Ball Nora Perry. 420 The Old Sergeant Forceythe Willson. 421 The Place Where Man Should Die . . Michael Joseph Barry. 426 The Bells of Shandon . . Francis Mahony (Father Prout). 427 Song- of the Forge Anonymous.' 428 The Babe Sir William Jones. 430 A^ pie Blossoms Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 431 Pictures of Memory Alice Cary. 431 Woman Eaton Stannard Barrett. 432 Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe. 433 Old Time3 Anonymous. 434 A Woman's Love John Hay. 434 Fishing Song Rose Terry Cooke. 435 A Life on the Ocean Wave Epes Sargent. 436 Alone by the Bay Louise Chandler Moult on. 437 The Tempest James Thomas Fields. 437 Lines on Leaving Europe .... Nathaniel Parker Willis. 438 At Sea John Townsend Trowbridge. 438 In the Sea Hiram Rich. 439 Woodman, Spare that Tree . . . George Perkins Morris. 440 Album Verses Washington Irving. 441 Waiting John Burroughs. 442 Life's Incongruities Egbert Phelps. 443 Equinoctial Mrs. A.J). T. Whitney. 443 The Mysteries William Dean Hoivells. 444 Ruth Thomas Hood. 444 The Late Spring Louise Chandler Moulton. 445 Thought Christopher Pearse Cranch. 445 Blindness John Milton. 446 Night and Death Joseph Blanco White. 447 The Closing Scene Thomas Buchanan Read. 447 Endurance . . . Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence Percy). 449 Outgrown Julia C. R. Dorr. 450 The Penitent John Keats. 451 The Aim of Life Philip) James Bailey. 452 Fame German of Scl tiller. 452 Mother, Home, Heaven . . . William Goldsmith Brown. 453 The End of the Play . . . William Makepeace Thackeray. 454 LIST OF AUTHORS. American authors are indicated by A. Others are British. The figures in paren- theses are dates of birth and death. ADAM, JEAN. (1710-1765.) Sailur's Wife, The . . ADAMS, SARAH FLOWER. (1805-1849). Nearer, My God, to Thee ADDISON, JOSEPH. (1672-1719). Immortal Part, The . . . ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. (A. 1636- After the Rain ..... Before the Rain Three Roses ALLEN, ELIZABETH AKERS (Florence Percy ) {A. 1832- Bringing Our Sheaves . . . Endurance Old Story, The ALLISON, RICHARD. (1606- Cherry Ripe AMES, MARY CLEMMER. (^1). Peace ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. Bairnies Cuddle Doon . . . ARNOLD, EDWIN. (1832- Lord Raglan She ana He Song of Krishna ARNOLD, GEORGE. (A. 1834-1865). Alone hy the Hearth .... Jolly Old Pedagogue, The . . September A YTON, SIR ROBERT. (1570-1638). I do Confess Thou 'rt Sweet BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES. (1816- Aim of Life, The BARBAULD. ANNA LETITIA. (1743-1825). Life BARNARD, LADY ANNE. (1750-1825). Auld Robin Gray 277 BARRETT. EATON STANDARD. (1785-1820). Woman 432 BARR. MATTHIAS. (1831- Only aBiby S.ua.l 27 394 374 35 1 449 167 143 327 321 170 103 411 63 148 452 3S6 PAGE BARRY, MICHAEL JOSEPH. Place where Man Should Die 426 BEATTIE, JAMES. (1735-1805). Summer Morn, A 61 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. (1586-ltil ; 1576-1625). Take, O Take Thos Lips Away 145 BEDDOES, " THOMAS LOVELL. (180:3-1849). How Many Times 148 BEERS, ETHEL LYNN. (A. 1827-18. 9). Not One to Spare 35 BENJAMIN, PARK. (A. 1809-1864). Old Sexton, The 293 BERKELEY, GEORGE. (1681-1753). Westward the Course of Em- pire 192 BOKER, GEORGE HENRY. '{A. 1824- Dirge for a Soldier 3J6 BONAR, HORATIU-. (1808- Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping T69 How to Live 339 How we Learn 3-3 > Master's Touch, The .... 348 BOWRING, JOHN. (1792-1872). God (from the Russian) . . . 398 BRAINARD, JOHN GARDINER CALKINS. (A. 1796-1828). I saw Two Clouds at Morning 176 BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD. (A. 1820-1872). Lawyer's Invocation to Spring 248 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BAR- RETT. (1609-1&61). De Profundis 344 How d > I Love Thee . . . . 152 My Heart and I 291 Three Kisses 159 BROWNING. ROBERT (1812- Evelyn Hope 27) BROWN, WILLIAM GOLDSMITH. (A. 1812- Hun Ired Years to Come . . . 41§ (xviii) LIST OF AUTHOES. XIX PAGE Hills were Made for Freedom 181 Mother, Home, Heaven ... 453 BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. (A. 1794-1878). Blessed are They that Mourn 348 Death of the Flowers, The . . 279 Evening Wind, The .... 8J Future Liie. The 387 June 57 BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGER- TON. (1762-1837). Echo and Silence 103 BUCHANAN, ROBERT. (1841- " O Mither, Dinna Dee ! " . . 290 BURNS, ROBERT. (1759-1796). Absence 157 Ae Fond Kiss Before we Part . 152 Afton Water 149 Auld Lang Syne 126 Banks o' uoon 308 Bannockburn Pj2 Bonnie Marv 159 Highland Mary 296 John Anderson, My Jo . . . 39 Mary Morison 156 O My Luve 's Like a Red, Red Rose 160 O Saw ye Bonnie Lesley . . 150 BURROUGHS, JOHN. (A.) Waiting 442 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD. ( 78S-1824). Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind 2^3 Fall of Greece, The 182 Fair Greece ! Sad Relic of De- parted Worth, 184 First Love 151 Imaginative Sympathy with Nature ......... 55 Nevermore 310 Night 86 Ocean, The 79 Stars 88 Thomas Moore, To 128 Thunder Storm in the Alps . 92 Unreturning Brave, The . . 217 Waterloo 216 CAMPBELL, THOMAS. (1777-1844) Battle of the Baltic .... 221 D( .wnfall of Poland .... 181 Hoh nlinden 218 Ye Mariners of England . . 215 CAREY, HENRY. (1663-1743). God Save the King 195 CARLETON, WILL M. (A. 1845- New Church Organ, The . . 250 CARLYLE, THOMAS. (1795-1881). Adieu 154 Heard are the Voices .... 339 CARY, ALICE. (A. 1820-1871). Dying Hymn 372 Pictures of Memory .... 431 CARY, PHCEBE. (A. 1824-1871). Lovers, The 258 Nearer Home 391 PAGE CHATTFRTON. THOMAS. (1752-1770). My Love is Dead 309 CHAUCER. GEOFFREY. (1328-1400). Daisy, The 72 Tree's, Flowers, and Birds . . 68 CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH. (1819-1861). Green Fields of Eng and . . 188 Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth 350 Where Lies the Land .... 419 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. (1772-18:34). Hymn Before Sunrise . . . . 82 COLLINS, MORTIMER. (1827-1878). Two Worlds 385 COLLINS, WILLIAM. (1720-1756). How Sleep the Brave .... 203 COLLYER, ROBERT. (A. 1823- Saxon Grit 189 CONSTABLE, HENRY. (1560-1612). Pain of Love 14? COOKE, ROSE TERRY. (A. 1827- Fishing Song 43", COOLIDGE, SUSAN. (>ee Wool- sey, Sarah.) COTTON, CHARLES. (1630-1687). Invitation to Izaak Walton . 129 COWPER, WILLIAM. (1731-1800). Love of Liberty 179 Winter 64 W'inter Evening at Home . . 41 CORNWALL, BARRY. (See Proc- ter, Bryan Waller). CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MUL- OCK. (1826- In Our Boat 105 Now and Afterwards .... 367 CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE. {A. 1813- Thought 445 CRAWFORD, JULIA. We Parted in Silence .... 167 CROSS, MARIAN EVANS LEWES (Georne Eliot). (1820-1S80). Day is Dying 88 May I Join the Choir Invisible 365 CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN. (1784-1842). Its Hame and its Hame ... 42 CURTIS, G ORGE WILLIAM. {A. 1824- Egyptian Serenade 108 DANA, RICHARD HENRY. (A. 1787-1878). Immortality 373 DARWIN, ERASMUS. (1731-1802). Ljves of the Plants .... 69 XX LIST OF AUTHOES. PAGE DIBDIN. CHARLES. (1745-1814). Sailor's Consolation, The . . 257 DICKENS, CHARLES. (1812-1870). Ivy Green, The 417 DOBELL, SIDNEY. (1824-1875). Basking 102 DOB30N, AUSTIN. (1840- ; An.elus Song 288 Cradle. The 288 Before sedan 295 Song of Angiola in Heaven . 370 DODGE, MARY MAPES. (A.) Two Mysueries ..... 290 DORR, JULIA C. R. {A. 1825- Outgrown 450 )OUGLAS. (loth Cent.) Annie Laurie 156 DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN. (A. 1795-1820). American Flag, The .... 193 DRAYTON, MICHAEL. (1563-1631). Parting, A 149 DUEFERIN, LADY. (1807-1867). Lament of the Irish Emigrant 316 DUFFY, SIR CHARLES GAVAN. Patriot's Bride, The .... 172 EASTMAN, CHARLES GAMAGE. {A. 1816-1660). Farmer Sat in his Easy Chair 34 ELIOT, GEORGE. (See Cross, Ma- rian Evans Lewes.) EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. (A. 1803- Concord Hymn 202 Responses 343 FAWCETT, EDGAR. (A. 1847- Bird of Passage 171 FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS. (A. 1817-1881). In a Strange Land 44 Nantucket Skipper, The . . 259 Tempest, The 437 FINCH, FRANCIS MILES. (A. 1827- Blue and the Gray, The . . 324 FORD, JOHN. (1586-1639). Fancies 99 FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS. (A. 1826-1864). Mv Old Kentucky Home . . 43 Old Folks at Home .... 42 GAY, JOHN. (1688-1732). Song 140 GILDER, RICHARD WATSON. (A. 1844- Dawn 84 GLYNDON, HOWARD. (See Bed- d n, Laura C.) GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. (1728-1774). Better Country, The .... 187 PAGE Elegv on the Death of a Mad Dog 262 National Decay 183 GOODALE, DORA REED. {A. 1866- Ripe Grain 357 GOODALE, ELAINE. (A. 1863- Ashes of Roses 280 GRAY, THOMAS. (1716-1771). Elegv Written in a Country Churchyard 299 GRISWOLD. H.VTTIE TYNG. (A.) Under the Daisies . . . * . 305 HALLECK. FITZ-GREENE. (A. 1795-1867). Joseph Rodman Drake . . . 129 Patriot's Death, The .... 191 HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM. (A. 1829-1868). Janette's Hair 162 HAMILTON, WILLIAM. (1701-1754). Braes of Yarrow 318 HART \ BRET. (A. 1837- Dickens in Camp 329 Society upon the Stanislaus . 265 HAY, JOHN. (A. 1839- Woman's Love, A 434 HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON. {A. 1831- Love Scorns Degrees .... 170 Pre-Existence 116 HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA. (1793-1835). Graves of a Household ... 48 Hour of Death, The 313 Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers 203 HERBERT, GEORGE. (1593-1633). Vertue 418 HERR'CK, ROBERT. (1591-1674). Julia 144 Violets 7J HOGG, JAMES. (1770-1835). Love is Like a Dizziness . . . 243 Skylark, The 76 HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT. {A. 1819-1681). Cradle Song 28 Daniel Gray 4U Gradatim 311 Sleeping and Dreaming . . . 119 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. (A. 1809- Last Leaf, The 4C9 Moore Centennial Celebration 132 HOOD, THOMAS. (1798-1845). Death-bed, The 282 I Remember, I Remember . . 47 Ruth . 444 HOUGHTON, LORD. (--«e m'nes, Richard Mo nekton). HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN. {A. 1838- Be r ore the Gate 407 Mysteries, The 4±4 LIST OF AUTHORS. XXI PAGE HOWE, JULTA WARD. (A. 1819- Battle-Hymn ■ f the Republic . 234 HOWL AND, MARY WOOLSEY (A. 1832-1864). Rest 568 HUNT, LEIGH (1784-1859). Abou Ben Adhem 408 Jenny Kissed Me ..... 157 INGELOW JEAN. (1830- Better Way, The 395 Like a Laverock in the Lift . 27 Longing for Home ..... -392 IRVING, WASHINGTON. (A. 1783-1859). Album Verses 441 JACKSON, HELEN HUNT. (A 1831- My Legacy 351 JOHNSON, SAMUEL. (1709-1784). Charles XII. of Sweden ... 184 JONES, AMANDA T. (A.). We Twain 163 JONES, SIR WILLIAM. (1746-1794 Babe. The 430 What Constitutes a State . . 185 JONSON. BEN. (1573-1637). Celebration of Charis, A . . 142 Shepherd's Love, The ... 141 KEATS, JOHN. (1795-1821). Nature's Del ghts 54 Ode to a Nightingale .... 78 Penitent, The 451 KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT. (A. 1779-1843). Star-Spangled "Banner, The . 195 KINGSLLY, CHARLES. (1819-1875.) Farewell, A 419 Sands of Dee 285 Three Fishers, The 323 Wild Oa s 415 KINNEY, COATES. (A. 1826- Rain on the Roof 46 LAIDLAW, WILLIAM. (1780-1845). Lucy's Flittin' 306 LAMB, CHARLES. (1775-1834). Old Familiar Faces, The ... 304 LAMB, MARY. (176.5-1847). Choosing a Name 29 LANIER, SIDNEY. (A. 1842-1881). Bat le of Lexington, The . . 201 Evening Song 168 LANIER, SIDNEY AND CLIF- FORD. (A.) Power of Prayer, The .... 263 LARCOM. LUCY. (A. 1826- Hannah Binding Shoes . . . 287 Strip of Blue, A 115 LELAND, CHARLES G. (A. 1824- Hans Ureitmann's Party . . . 252 LONGF LLOW, HENRY WADS- WORTH. (A 18/7- Arsenal at Springfield, The . 239 Children's Hour, The .... 32 PAGE LOVELACE, RICHARD. (1618-1658). Althea, To, From Prison . . 141 LOVER, SAMUEL. (1797-1808). RoryO'Moore 245 LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. (A. 1819- June 59 Unreturning Brave, The ... 327 LYALL, A. C. Hindoo's Search for Truth, A . 341 LYLY, JOHN. <1 553-1600). Cupid and Campaspe . . . 143 LYNDSAY, SIR DAVID. (1490-1555). Carman's Account of a Law- suit, A . . . 249 LYTE, HENRY FRANCIS. (1793-1847). Abide With Me 396 MACAULAY, THOMAS BABING- TON. (1800-1859). Battle of Ivry, The .' . . . . 219 MACE, FRANCES LAUGHTON. (A. 1836- Only Waiting 389 MACKAY, CHARLES. (1814- Cleon and I 408 MAHONY, FRANCIS (Father Protjt). (1805-1866). Bells of Shandon. The ... 427 Obsequies o i Dav id the Painter 331) MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER. (1564-1593). Passionate Shepherd to His Love 146 MASSEY, GERALD. (1828- O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear 175 McFARLAND, A. (A.). Doctor in Love, The . . . . 248 McLEAN, KATE SEYMOUR. {A.) The Silent Land 370 MCMASTER, GUY HUMPHREY. (A. 1829- Carmen Bellicosum .... 233 MILLER, JOAQUIN. (A. 1841- Dreamers 99 Sierras, The 81 MILLER, WILLIAM. (1810-1872). Willie Winkie 33 MILNES. RICHARD MONCKTON