Book _j--->D B COPYRIGHT DEPOSIK HAKPER'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF BEITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY 3i EDITED BY EPES SARGENT ^*ftf>s MAY 24 1881 No.j,f/„:j../)-c^ NEW YORK IIAUPEU & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 18 81 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by UARPER & BEOTHERS, In the OfBce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All rights reserved. \l o\ yy- pi^efa.ce:. 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 day, how much more so is it at the present time! Works in verse, that would 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 onr 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 be given than that they were unavoidable. An apology under such circumstances would be out of place. It cannot be overlooked, too, that much of the best poetry of recent times has been tlie product of feminine genius. The progress of women in enlarging the sphere of their occupations, and competing with the employments of the stronger sex, is repre- sented in no department of intellectual work more signally tliaii in verse. Every 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 iiighest intuitions and aspirations. It cannot l)c 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 have 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 difEer widely, not only among dif- ferent persons, but among tlie same persons at different periods of their lives. Tlie youth, in whose estimate the verse of Byron once had the highest place, often finds iiimself, as he grows older, transferring his affections to Coleridge or Wordsworth. Tiien, too, it frequently happens that our fondness for a certain poem may lie uncon- sciously in some early association witli 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 which redeems tlieir 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 introductory' notices of poets, in reference to the inost distinguished, the aim has been to condense, or to sum np 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 uniform originality in these respects are made. Epes Saegent. Boston, December, 1880. PUBLISHER'S NOTE. The concluding pages of this voliimc 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. Altliough he did not live to see it published, he had the pleasure of putting the tiual touches to it, and of knowing that his work was finished. Mr. Sargent was eminently fitted for tlie 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. He designed this 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. IIarpkk S: Bkothers. Franklin Square, Xkw York, Fcf»itary 22, 1881. inSTDEX OF -A-TJTHOHS, AVITH CONTENTS. Adams, John Quincy. pace To a Bcicavcd Mother 535 Adams, Sarah Flower. Nearer, my God, to Thee G08 The World may Change (from Schiller) (iff.) Thy Will, not Mine GO'J Addison, Joseph. Hymn 1:27 Ode from tlic Nineteenth Psalm l:*i Paraphnise on Psalm xxiii lUS Cato's Soliloquy on tlie Immortality of the Soul. 129 Ode : How are Thy Servants Blest l->0 Aiken, Berkeley. Uncrowned Kings .552 Ainslie, Hew. Sighings for the Sca-sidc 441 The Ingle-side 44J Aird, Marion Paul. Far, Far Away 733 Aird, Thomas. The Swallow 5S0 Akenside, Mark. Tlio Soul's Tendencies to the Infinite ixii The nii;h-born Soul 1H7 .Mind, tlie Fount of Beauty I''" Tlie Ascent of Being 1S7 Tiirougli Nature up to Nature's God l.SS Akin, Mary Elizabeth. Psalm cix.vvii .568 Alden, Henry M. The Ancient " Lady of Sorrow " 881 Aldrich, James. A Death-bed 001 To One Far Away 6U1 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Lines on BrowncU 773 Plseataqua River 8(i7 Before the Kain 8(i8 After the Kain 808 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. mck Unsung 868 Sonnet 868 Alexander, Mrs. Cecil Frances. The Burial of Moses 836 Alexander, Joseph Addison. The Power of Short Words 007 Alexander, William. Waves and Leaves 797 Jacob's Ladder 71(7 Alford, Henry. A -Memory OW Alison, Richard. Hope 32 Clierry-ripe 23 Allen, Elizabeth Akers. Kodi Me to Sleep 8.50 Till Death 8.50 Allingham, William. Song 825 The Touchstone 835 Autumnal Sonnet 825 Allston, Washington. Sonnet on Culcridire 3.50 America to Great Britain 3.50 Anonymous and Miscellaneous Poems of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Chevy Chase 03 Sir Patrick Spcns &5 Give Place, You Ladyes All 06 Tak' Yonr Auld Cloak About Ye 67 Tlic Heir of Linnc 68 The Nut-brown .Maide 71 Sir John Barleycorn 75 Trutli'a Integrity 75 The Twa Sisters o' Binnorie 76 Dowie Dens o' Yarrow 78 Kobin Hood's Uesenc of Will Stutly 7\l Begone, Dull Care 80 Man's -Mortality, by Simon Wastell 81 liobia Hood and Atliua-Dalu 81 INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Anonymous and Miscellaneous— Conftnucrf. page Waly, Waly 83 Edsvard 83 Love Me Little, Love Me Long 83 True Loveliness 84 Lines by One in the Tower, by Chidiock Tychborn 84 Bonnie George Caraptiell 84 Silent Music, by Thomas Camptou 85 Tlie Heavenly Jerusalem 85 Helen of Kirkconnell 86 Anonymous and Miscellaneous Poems of the 17th and 18th Centuries. The Lincolnshire Poacher 156 Tlie Twa Corbies 156 Still Water, liy Tlionias D' Urfey 156 The Jovial Beggars, by Richard Brome 157 Harvest-home Song 157 Time's Cure 157 "When Shall We Three Meet Again?" 158 God Save the King 158 Winifreda 158 Wliy Should We Quarrel for Riches 159 The Fairy Queene 159 Tlie Maiden's Choice, by Henry Fielding 160 The White Rose 160 From Merciless Invaders 160 Willie's Visit to Melville Castle 160 Our Gude-man 161 Jock o' Hazelgreen 163 Love Not Me for Comely Grace 163 How Stands the Glass Around ? 163 Ye Gentlemen of England 164 Annie Laurie, by Douglas of Fingland 164 The Soldier's Glee 164 England's Vote for a Free Election 085 Anonymous and Miscellaneous Poems of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Meny May the Keel Row 537 Oh Saw Ye the Lass ? 537 The Pauper's Drive, by Tliomas Noel 537 Sonnet: December Morning, by Anna Seward... .538 Song of Birth ^ .538 Song of Death 538 Young Airly .539 Love's Remonstrance, by James Kenney .539 Sonnet : Comparison .530 The Crocus's Soliloquy, by Miss H. F. Gould 530 The Managing Mamma .530 A Riddle on the Letter H, by Miss Catlierine M. Faushawe 530 Sweet Tyrant, Love, by James Thomson 531 The End of the Drought 531 Tliree Kisses of Farewell 533 The Sailor's Consolation, by William Pitt 533 Wliere is He ? by Henry Neele 533 Heaving of the Lead 533 Coming Tlirougli tlie Rye 533 Oh ! Say Not Woman's Heart is Bought, by Thomas Love Peacock 584 Love and Age, by Thomas Love Peacock 5:J4 Go, Sit by the Summer Sea 534 Anonymous and Miscellaneous— rojifinncd. page To a Bereaved Mother, by John Quincy Adams^. 535 Again 535 Never Despair 536 My Philosophy 536 Progress 536 Reliquiie 537 Faith 537 Genius 537 Deirdre's Farewell to Alba 538 Tlie Mystery of Life, by Jolin Gambokl 538 Fame (from the German of Schiller) 539 Tlic Clown's Song 539 The Song of the Forge .540 Sunrise Comes To-morrow 540 Wliere Are Ye ? .541 Come, Sunsliine, Come ! (from the Freneli of Cliarles Vincent) 543 When tlie Grass Shall Cover Me 543 Battle Hymn and Farewell to Life (from the Ger- man of Tlicodore Korner) .542 The Going of My Bride 543 Erin, by Dr. Williain Drcnnan 543 The Swans of Wilton 544 Hymn to tlie Stars 544 Summer Days 545 With a Rose in Her Hair 545 A Hundred 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... 547 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 551 The Beautiful, by E. H. Burrington 551 The Joy of Incompleteness 553 Uncrowned Kings, by Berkeley Aiken 5.53 W^onderland, by Cradoek Newton 5.53 Mischievous Woman, by "The Ettriek Shepherd." 5.53 The Water-drinker, by Edward Johnson, M.D. .. 553 Glenlogie 554 The Place to Die, by Michael Joseph Bui'ry 554 To My Wife, by William Smith .5.55 Love and Absence, by James Asheroft Noble 5.55 Dreams 555 Epigram, by S. T. Coleridge 5.55 The First Spring Day, by John Todhuuter 556 Unbelief 556 On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman Wlio Died Suddenly, by William Cartwriglit 5.56 The Way, by William S. Shurtleff .556 Anster, John. The Fairy Child 443 The Days of Youth (from Goethe) 443 The Soul of Eloquence (from Goethe) 443 JXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITS CONTENTS. Armstrong, Edmund. From Darkness to LigUt . PAGE . 913 Arnold, Edwin. After Death in Anibia 851 A Ma Future 851 Arnold, George. In the Dark ivJS Cui Bono ? 8.58 A Summer Longiuj; 8o'J Arnold, Matthew. Lines on Byron 3W Self-Dcpeudcuee 783 A Wisli •CSS Dr. Arnold 781 Austerity of Poetry 7*1 Askew, Anne. From "The FIsUt of Faith" 7 Aubanel, Theodore. Tliirteeu (translated by Miss Harriet W. Picstoii). 919 Austin, Arthur Williams. From " The Greek Anthology" Oil Austin, Mrs. Sarah. The Passage (from the German of Uhland) 451 Aytoa, Sir Robert. On Woman's Inconstancy 35 Aytoun, William Edmondstoune. The Old Scottish Cavalier 713 Bailey, Philip James. Love, the End of Created Being TIM Thouglits from " Fcstus " 735 Ballantine, James. Its Ain Drap o' Dew 013 Baillie, Joanna. To a Child 20C Fame ^ aiC Ballou, Maturin M. Flowers 772 Banim, John. Soggartli Anion TM From " Damon and Pythias," Act V 605 Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Life 230 Lines written at the Age of Eiglity-thrcc Tcnrs. 220 Wliat do the Futures Speak of? 327 The Death of tlic Virtuous 237 The Unknown God 227 For Easter Sunday 328 Barbour, John. Freedom PAGE . 3 Barham, Richard Harris. The Jackdaw of UUeims 405 Song 407 Barker, David. Tlic Covered Bridge 743 Tlie Under Dog in the Fight 742 Barker, James Nelson. Little Red Riding Hood 8?2 Barlow, Joel. From " Tlie Hasty Pudding" 340 Barnard, Lady Anne. Auld Robin Gr,ay 236 Barnes, William. Plorata Veris Laclirymis 67:5 Sonnet : Rur.-il Nature 073 Barr, Mary A. White Poppies 939 Out of tlie Deep 939 A Harvest-home 939 Barr, Matthias. (iod'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 Night 369 Bates, Charlotte Fiske. Satisllcd 933 After reading Longfellow's "Morituri Salutanins." 93:5 Woodbines in October 9iJ Evil Thought 933 The Power of Music 93:5 Sonnet : To C. F 933 The Telephone 931 Hopes and Memories 931 Baxter, Richard. Thy Will Be Done. 100 Bayly, Thomas Haynes. The Soldier's Tear 501 I'd be a Butterfly 503 She Wore a Wreath of Roses 503 The Premature While Hat 502 Beattie, James. Nature and Her Votary 218 Life and ImuiorUtlity 319 INDEX OF A UTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Beattie, James. fiOE Morning Melodies 219 Arraignment of Providence 230 Beaumont and Fletcher. Melancholy 46 CiBsar's Lamentation over Pompej's Head 46 Song from ' ' Valentinian " 47 On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, by Francis Beaumont 47 Invocation to Sleep 47 Song from " RoUo, Duke of Normandy" 47 From "The Humorous Lieutenant" 47 From "Tlie Maid's Tragedy" 48 From " The Custom of the Country " 48 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. To Sea I Beers, Mrs. Ethel Lynn. The Picket-guard Beers, Henry Augustin. Psyche Carfamon Bell, Henry Glassford. From "The End" Cadzow 591 818 930 609 609 Bello, Emilio (Spanish). Meeting (translated by Mrs. Conant). Bennett, William Cox. A May-day Song 773 A Thought -. Beranger, Pierre Jean de (French). Popular Recollections of Bonaparte (translated by Francis Mahony) Berkeley, George. Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America Bethune, George "Washington. It is not Death to Die Sonnet, introducing " Lays," etc 599 139 610 610 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". 660 666 607 155 350 250 250 251 Blamire, Susanna. The Siller Croun . . PAGE . 333 Blanchard, Laman. The Eloquent Pastor Dead 581 The Bird-catcher 583 Sonnet : Hidden Joys 583 Sonnet : Wishes of Youth 583 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 The Inner Calm . . 650 650 Botta, Mrs. Anne (Lynch). Love Wins Love 770 In the Adirondacks 770 The Lesson of the Bee 770 Bourdillon, Francis W. Light Ca'li 938 938 The Home of My Heart. The Difference Let us Love Bowles, William Lisle. The Touch of Time 265 The Bells of Ostend 265 Sonnet : October, 1793 365 Sonnet : On the River Rhine 365 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 Derzhavin) .« 439 Wisdom and Wealth (from the Russian of Khcra- nitzer) 440 True Courage 440 Brainard, John Gardiner Caulkins. The Sea-bird's Song 484 Stanzas 484 To the Daughter of a Friend 485 The Falls of Niagara 485 Brome, Richard. The Jovial Beggars. Bronte, Anne. If This Be All 157 744 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITS CONTEXTS. Bronte, Charlotte. l.ile From "The Teacher's Monologue' PAGE . 743 . 743 Bronte, Emily. From "Aiilieipation" 74.3 A Death Scene 74;j Brooks, Charles Timothy. Such is Life 711 The Two Grenadiers (from the German of Heine). 711 Alabama 713 Brooks, James Gordon. Greece: 1833 Brooks, Mrs. James Gordon. Psalm c.\x.xvii 5G8 5G8 Brooks, Maria (GowenV Lines to Southey 47.5 Song of Egla 475 Brown, Frances. Losses 741 Brown, William Goldsmith. .\ lliiiulreil Years to Come 540 Browne, Sir Thomas. The Niglit is Come 87 Browne, William. Shall I tell You whom I Love ? .53 The Siren's Song 54 Brownell, Henry Howard. At Sea : A Fnigmcnt 773 From " The Bay Fight" 773 The Burial of the Dane 775 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnet: Cheerfulness Taught by Reason 068 Cowper's Grave 008 The Sleep Oti'J A Woman's Question C70 Sonnet : Futurity 070 Sonnet : Insufllciency 070 Four Sonnets from the Portuguese 670 Bro'wning, Robert. How lliey Brought the Good News from Ghent. 709 The French at Katisbon 710 Meeting at Night 710 Evelyn Hope 710 Linos on Alfred Domett 7:14 Bruce, Michael. From an "Elegy Written in Spring" 231 Bryant, John Howard. The Valley Brook 630 The Little Cloud 037 Sonnet : Autumn 637 B Bryant, William Cullen. moe Novenibcr : a Sonnet 463 The Antiquity of Freedom 463 Tlianatopsis 464 Summer Wind 465 The Future Life 465 Meeting of Hector and Achilles 4(i0 The Battle-lieUl m) From "An Evening Kcverie" 467 To tlic Fringed Gentian 467 Song: Dost Thou Idly Ask to Hear? 467 The Return of Youth 468 To the Ucv. John Picrpout 468 Brydges, Sir Egerton. Echo ;uul Silence 264 The Approach of Cold Weatlicr 26t Written at Paris, May 11, 1836 264 Written at Lee Priory, August 10,1830 264 Buchanan, Robert. Dying 907 Hermione ; or, Differences Adjusted 907 Langley Lane 908 To Triflers 909 Buckingham, Duke of (see Villiers). Burbidge, Thomas. Sonnet 747 Even-tide 748 Burleigh, William Henry. The Harvest-call 705 Sonnet : Rain 705 Solitude 705 Burns, Robert. The Cotter's Saturday Night 3.53 A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish. 2.56 Epistle to a Young Friend, May, 1786 256 Bannockburn 257 To a Mountain Daisy 357 For A' That and A' That 358 Highland Mary 2.58 Bonnie Lesley 2.59 Auld Lang Syne 3.59 To Mary in Heaven 359 Ac Fond Kiss 200 John Anderson My Jo 200 Duncan Gray 260 Somebody 301 A Red, Red Rose 261 The Banks o' Doon 361 Alton Water 361 Burrington, E. H. The Beautiful 5.51 Burroughs, John. Waiting 873 Butler, Samuel. The Learning of Hudibras 104 From " MisccUaucous Thoughts " 104 INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Butler, William Allen. '^oe Nothing to Wear 799 Byrom, John. My Spirit Longetli for Thee 153 An Epigram on tlie Blessedness of Divine Love. 1.53 St. Ptiilip Neri and the Youth 153 Jacobite Toast 154 Byron, Lord. Lines on George Croly 359 Lines on Henry Kirlie White 377 From " Cliilde Harold " 395 Scenes by Lalie Leman 395 Waterloo 396 Address to the Ocean 397 Evening 398 The Isles of Greece 398 From the "Ode on Venice" 399 She WallS Sonnet on Grasmere 449 The Messenger-bird 44!( Leave Me Not Yet 4.50 Evening Song of the Tyrolese Peasants 4.50 Hymn of the Monntaineci-s 4.50 The Greek I>lander iii Exile 4.51 Sunday in England 451 Henryson, Robert. A Vision of /Esop 5 Heraud, John Abraham. The Emigrant's Home .510 Herbert, George. Man 60 The Elixir 01 Sweet Day 61 Heredia, Jose Maria (Spanish). Alas ! (translated by Mrs. Couant). 89.5 Herrick, Robert. To DaflbdiLs .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 Dianemc .56 Prayer to Ben Jonson 57 The Primrose 57 Herschel, Sir John. Throw Thvself on Thy God. c 441 Hervey, Thomas Kibble. i-aoe Hope , 601 To One Departed 602 Cleopatra Embarking on the Cydnus 003 To Ellen— Weeping 603 Heyrvood, Thomas. Fantasies of Drunkenness 36 Song : Pack Clouds Away 87 Search after God 37 Higginson, Mary Thacher. Gifts 701 Higginson, Thomas 'Wentworth. "I will Arise and go to my Father" 701 Decoration 703 The Reed Immortal 703 Hill, Thomas. The Bobolink 751 Antiopa 751 The Winter is Past 7.53 Hillhouse, James Abraham. Interview of Iladad and Tainar 410 Hirst, Henry B. Parting of Dian and Endymion 718 Hoffman, Charles Fenno. Monterey 617 Hogg, James. Honny Kilmeny 277 The Skylark..! 281 When Maggy Gangs Away 381 Mischievous Woman 553 Holcroft, Thomas. GafiVr Grav o.»q Holland, Josiah Gilbert. Gradatim 766 Wanted 766 Holmes, Oliver 'Wendell. Bill and Joe 6.53 Old Ironsides 0.53 Kudolph, the Headsman 6.54 Nearing the Snow-line 6.54 The Chambered Nautilus 0.54 The Two Streams 6.55 To James Freeman Clarke 0.55 Contentment 6.55 The Voiceless 6.56 L'lneonnuc 656 Holyday, Barten. Distichs Home, John. The Soldier-Uenuit . 59 193 INDEX OF AUTHUES, WITH CONTENTS. Home, F. Wjrville. riGE A Clioice - 937 From " Ode to the Viue " WoT Hood, Thomas. Sonnet on the Counting-house 507 The Bridge of Sighs 508 Tlie Song of the Shirt 509 I remember 510 Fair Ines 510 Farewell, Life 511 The Monkey-martyr : a Fable 511 The Lee Shore 513 To Charles Dickens, Esq 513 Ruth 513 A Parental Ode to My Son 513 The Impudence of Steam 514 The Death-bed 514 Hooper, Lucy Hamilton. On an Old Portrait 876 In Vain 876 The King's Ride 877 Hopkinson, Joseph. Hail, Columbia ! 395 Home, Richard Hengist. Morning 581 Summer Noon 581 Hosmer, William Henry Cuyler. Blaise's Visitants 731 To a Long Silent Sister of Song 731 Houghton, Lord (see Milnes). Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey). How No Age is Content 6 Howarth, Mrs. Thou Will Never Grow Old 547 Howe, Julia Ward. Battle Hymn of the Republic Speak, for Thy Servant Hearcth 758 758 Howells, William Dean. Thanksgiving 871 Tlie Mysteries 871 Ho Witt, Mary. New-yc 594 The Fairies of Caldon-Low .596 The Spider and the Fly .597 Cornliclds 59S Howitt, William. Hoarfrost; a Sonnet.. The Wind in a Frolic . 483 483 Howland, Mrs. Robert S. Rcquiescam 549 Hoyt, Ralph. Stanzas from " New ' PACE . 673 Hume, Alexander (1560-1609). The Story of a Summer Day Hume, Alexander (1809-1851). My Wee, Wee Wife Hunt, Leigh. To T. L. H., Six Years Old, during Sickness. Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel An Italian Morning in May Thoughts on the Avon, Sept. 28, 1S17 May and the Poets Deatli Jenny Kissed Me Hunter, Mrs. Anne. Indian Dcatb-song... Huntington, Frederic Dan. A Supplication Imlah, John. The Gathering From "There Lives a Young Lassie" , 35 658 370 371 371 371 371 372 373 225 760 5:26 536 Ingelow, Jean. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571). Inglis, Mrs. Margaret Maxwell. From "Liues on the Death of Hogg" 840 Jackson, Helen Fiske. The Way to Sing March 334 843 843 Thought 843 October 844 Jackson, Henry Rootes. My Father 776 The Live-oak 776 My Wife and Child 777 James I. of England. Sonnet : To Prince Henry 38 James I. of Scotland. 1 he Captive King 5 James. Paul Moon. The Beacon Jenks, Edward Augustus. Going and Coming 355 840 Jerrold, Douglas. The Drum 584 Johnson, Edward. The Water-drinker.. 553 iyDi:x or .nrnoj!^, iriiu coxTE2fTS. Johnson. Samuel. p*oe Charles XII. of Sivcdeii 178 On the Death of Mr. Robert Lcvett 178 Cardinal Wolsoy 179 Nor Deem Keli^iou Vain 179 On Claude Phillips, ail Itinerant Musician in Wales. 179 Jones, Sir William. A Poi-sian !>on;; of llafiz 232 Tetrastich (fioiii the Persian ) 2iJ3 An Ode in Imitation of Alc;rus 2;i2 Jonson, Ben. To the -Memory of Shakspcare 4o See the Cliariot at Umul 43 The Song of Hesperus 44 On a Portrait of Shalispcare 44 An Ode : To Himself. 44 Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke 4.5 The Sweet Neglect 4.5 Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. II 45 Song to Celia 45 Good Life, Long Life 45 Joyce, Robert Dwyer. Fair fln-endnliiie and her Dove 883 The Banks of Aiiner 883 Olenara 88;J Judson, Mrs. Emily. Watching 747 Eeats, John. Sonnet 18 The Eve of St. Agnes 48() Ode 4i)0 Beauty 491 La Belle Dame Sans Merci 491 Sonnet 492 Sonnet to a Young Lndy 492 Sonnet in a New Form 493 On the Grassliopper and Cricket 493 Kcats's Last Sonnet 493 Fairy Song 493 Fancy 493 Ode to a Nightingale 4'.»4 Ode to Autumn 495 Ode on a Grecian Urn 495 Keble. John. Morning 43ri Evening 437 Address to Poets 4;!8 A Thought 43S Kemble, Frances Anne. Lines Written in London CM Written after leaving West Point 094 Ken. Thomas. I' rum the " Evening Ilymii " 120 Kennedy, William. Line's on .MotlicrwcH 520 A Thought 520 Kenney, James. pace Why are You Wandcriug Hero? 359 Love's Keinonstiauee 529 Kenyon, John. Champagne Rose 3G(i Keppel, Lady Caroline. Koblu Adair 220 Key, Francis Scott. The Star-spangled Banner 343 The Worm's Ueath-soiig 343 Kimball, Harriet McEwen. The Guest a57 The Crickets 857 Longing for Rain 8.58 All's Well 858 King, Henry. From the "Exequy on his Wife" Sic Vila Kingsley, Charles. The Three Fishers. The World's Age.. The Sands of Dee . A Farewell Kinlooh, Lord. The Star in the East . Kinney, Coates. From "The .Motlier of Glory". Rain on the Roof. Knowles, Herbert. Lines Written in a Churchyard. Knowles, James Sheridan. From the last Act of " Virginius ■' Tell among tlic Mountains The Actor's Craft Knox, Isabella (Craig\ The Brides of Quair Knox, William. Oh! why should the Spirit of -Mortal be Proud? Komer, Theodore (German). Battle Hymn and Farewell to Life Lacoste, Marie R. Somebody's Darling Laighton, Albert. Under the Leaves To My Soul The Dead Laing, Alexander. The Happy Mother .58 59 7C5 705 7C.5 705 570 810 811 504 4.56 457 457 815 410 543 915 827 827 827 383 XX INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH COXTEXTS. Lamb, Charles. tage Tlie Old Familiar Faces S37 Lines Written in my own Album 327 To James Sheridan Kiiowles 327 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (Mrs. Maclean). Success Alone Seen .577 Death and the Youth 578 Landor, Walter Savage. To tlie Sister of "Elia" (Charles Lamb) 329 Julius Hare 329 Rose Aylraer 329 Death 339 Langhorne, John. From "Owen of Carrou". 218 Lanier, Sidney. A Rose-moral 91C Evenini; Song 916 The Harlequin of Dreams 917 From the Flats 917 Larcom, Liicy. Hannah Binding Shoes 814 Lathrop, George Parsons. Musie of Growth Sonnet: Tlie Lover's Year.. The Sunshine of Thine Eyes. Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr. Look Aloft 937 937 937 626 Leigh, Arrah. I Am the Lord ; I Change Not 547 Leighton, Robert. Ye Three Voices ' 785 Books 786 Leland, Charles Godfrey. Mine Own 796 Le-wis, Matthew Gregory. Lines to a Friend 338 Tlie Helmsman 328 A Matrimonial Duet 328 Leyden, John. Ode to an Indian Gold Coin 326 Sonnet on the Sabbath Morning 326 Lilly, John. Cupid and Campaspe . 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. The Poet of To-day PAGB . 7'JO Locker, Frederick. St. George's, Hanover Square 777 The Unrealized Ideal 778 Lockhart, John Gibson. Captain Paton's Lament 453 Beyond 454 Lamentation for Celin 455 Logan, John. Ode to the Cuckoo 334 The Braes of Yarrow 234 Lombard, James K. "Not as Though I had Already Attained" 853 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Killed at tne Ford 639 The Launch 629 The Arrow and the Song 630 Revenge of Rain-in-the-Faec 630 The Rainy Day 63L Rain in Summer 631 Sonnet : The Poets 632 Phantoms 633 Sonnet : Nature 633 Excelsior 633 Hawthorne 633 The Bells of Lynn, heard at Naliant 634 Longfellow, Samuel. April 706 November 760 Lovelace, Richard. To Althca (from Prison ) To Lucasta (on Going to the Wars). Lover, Samuel. Rory O'Morc ; or, Good Omens The Angel's Whisper 109 109 507 507 Lowell, James Russell. Auf Wiedersehen ! 763 A Day in June 703 To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 703 Longing 764 " In Whom We Live and Move" 764 She Came and Went 764 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 631 Requiem 622 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH COXTEXTS. Lnnt, ■William Parsons. ''^'-^ The American Flag 013 Luttrell, Henry. Tlic Noviinber Fo? of Londun 297 Lydgate, John. Flum till' B:ill;ul of " Loiulon Lyckpciinv" 4 Lyle. Thomas. Kelvin Grove 419 Lyte, Henry Francis. llviiin: "Abide With Me" 44.5 From Lilies on " Evening;" 44.'> Lytle, William Haines. Antony to Cleopatra 814 Lyttelton. George (Lorcl\ Tell Me, .My lUait 177 Lytton, Lord (Edward Bulwer\ Caiadoc, the Bard to the Cymrians 000 A Spendthrift 600 The Guardian Ansjcl 606 To tlie King ; 60(i Is it all Vanity ? 607 Invocation to Love 607 ■ Epigrams from the German 607 Lytton, Edward Robert (Lord>. l.eoline 84.T Macaulay, Thomas Babington. From tlie Lay of " Hoiatius" 5.57 Tlic Battle of Nascby .561 The Armada .563 The Battle of Ivrv 563 McCarthy, Denis Florence. Summer Longings 749 Mace, Frances Laughton. Easter Morning 866 Indian Sninnier 8ti6 Only Wailing 867 MoCord, Mrs. Louisa S. What Used to Be C75 Thy Will Be Done 075 Passages from "Cains Grarrhns" 676 Dedication of " Cains Gracchus " 670 Macdonald, George. Buby 797 "Lord, I BclieTe; Help Thou Mine Unbelief".. 798 McGee, Thomas D'Arcy. Catlml's Farewell to the Rye. 805 Mackay, Charles. The Watcher on the Tower Tii The (iood Time Comini; 735 Nature and her Lover 7J6 McKnight, George. p*oe "Though Naught They May to Others Be" 899 Perpetual Youth 899 Scorn 899 Opportunity ,'S99 Tiiumph : 899 In Unison SKM) "The Glory of the Lord shall Endure Forever" 900 The Test of Truth 900 Euthanasia 900 Consummation 900 Clear Assurance 900 Live While You Live 901 >Icinento Mori 901 (iilts 901 Kinship 901 Maclagan, Alexander. "Dinna Ye Hear ll ?'".. MoClellan, Isaac. The Notes of the Birds. C03 693 McMaster, Guy Humphrey. Carmen Bclliensnin 8.30 Brant to the Iiuliuns 831 Macneil, Hector. Mary of Caslle-Cary . Macnish, Robert. Mv Little Sister 230 573 Macpherson. James. Ossian's Addiess to the Sun 222 The Song of Colma 222 Maginn, William. The Irishman ; 446 Mahony, Francis (Father Prout). Poetical Epistle from Father Proul to Boz (Charles DieUens) 598 The Bells of Sliandon 599 Popular KeeoUections of Bonaparte (after B(5- rangcr) .599 Mangan, James Clarence. The Mariner's Bride .589 The Nameless One 590 From " Soul and Country " 590 Marlowe, Christopher. The Death of Fan*tns The Passionate Sheplierd to his Lovt Answer to the Same 25 26 26 Marston, John. The Scholar and his Spaniel 41 To Detraction I Present ray Poesie 41 Marston, Philip Bourke. From Far 916 IXDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Martin, Theodore. '"'""= Napoleon's Midnight Review (from tlie Gormnn of Baron Josepli Cliristian von Zedlitz) 7oO Sie Habcn Midi Gequalet (from Heine) 740 Tlie Excellent Man (from Heine) 740 Marvell, Andrew. Song of the Emigrants in Bermnda Ill Courage, my Soul ! 113 A Drop of Dew 113 Thoughts in a Garden 113 Marzials, Theophile. Cai'pe Diem : Kondeiin 926 Mason, Caroline Atherton. Not Yet 7SS Beauty for Ashes 788 An October Wood Hymn 7SS Mason, William. Epitaph on Mrs. Mason, in the Catliedral of Bristol ltl3 Massey, Gerald. Little Willie 8:26 Massinger, Philip. Waiting for Death 48 From "A New Way to Pay Old Debts" 48 Mayne, John. Logan Braes 263 Meek, Alexander Beaufort. Bahiklava 731 Mellen, Grenville. The Bugle 535 Meredith, George. Love within the Lover's Breast 826 At the Gate 836 Merivale, John Herman. " Evil, be Thou my Good" 343 Reason and Understanding 344 From tlie Greek Anthology 344 Merrick, James. Tlic Chameleon 185 Messinger. Robert Hinckley. A Winter Wish 693 Mickle, William Julius. The Mariner's Wile 217 Miller, Abraham Perry. A Summer Afternoon 885 The Divine Refuge 885 Turn to the Helper 885 The Disappointed Lover 886 Keep Faith in Love 886 Miller, Elizabeth Henry. r^cE Now and Ever 941 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 WinUie 693 Milliken, Richard Alfred. The Groves of Blarney 272 Milman, Henry Hart. The ApoUo-Belvidcro 417 Stanzas on Sophia Lockhart 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 659 I Wandered by the Brook-side 660 • From "Tlie Long-ago " 660 Milton, John. L' Allegro 90 H Penseroso 91 Lycidas 93 The Messenger's Account of Samson 95 Scene tVom " Comus " % Satan's Encounter with Death 96 Adam and Eve's Morning Hymn 97 One First Matter All 98 What is Glory ? 98 Epitaph on Shakspearc 99 On his being arrived to the Age of Twcnty-tliree. 99 To the Lord-general, Cromwell 99 To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 99 On his Blindness 99 To Mr. Lawrence 100 To Cyriac Skinner 100 On the Religious Memory of Mrs, Catlierine Thom- son, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec,. 16, 1646. 100 Song : On May Morning 100 From the Spirit's Epilogue in "Comus" 100 Mitchell, Walter. Tacking Ship Off Shore 813 Mitford, Mary Russell. Ricnzi's Address to the Romans 383 Song 382 Moir, David Macbeth. Langsync 500 IXDEX OF AUTHOnS, WITH COXTENTS. Montgomery, James. f*oe Tlic Common Lot .'iorj Forever with tlie Lord :50:J Youth Renewed 304 Lift up Thuie Eyes, Afflicted Soul 304 Sonnet : The Crucifixion 304 Humility 30o Moore. Clement C. A Vifit fioni St. Nicholas. 351 Moore, Thomas. Yet, yet furijive Jle, yc Sacred Few! 34.5 The Meetins; of tlic Waters 345 Believe Me, if all tliose Endearing Young Charms. 345 The Turf shall be my Fragrant Shrine 34IJ Oh! Breathe not his Name 340 The Harp that once through Tara's Halls 346 Oft, in the Stilly Night 346 Those Evening Bells 347 Farewell !— but, wlienever you Welcome the Hour. 347 Oh, could We do with this World of Ours 347 Kcmember Thee 347 Thou art, O God 348 The Last Rose of Summer 348 The Modern I'ufling System 348 I saw from the Beach 349 Love's Young Dream 34!) Oh, Thou who Dry'st the Mourner's Tear :M9 Come, ye Disconsolate 34'J To Greece we give our Shining Blades 3.50 More, Hannah. The Two \\eavers 229 Kindness in Little Things 230 More, Henry. The Preexistcncy of the Soul 105 From "The Pliilosoi)her's Devotion" 100 Morris, Le'wis. It Shall be Well SiS Dear Little Hand 8.54 The Treasure of Hope 854 Morris, William. March 862 Motherwell, William. The Cavalier's Song 409 Jcanle .Morrison .500 Lines Given to a Friend 501 Motley, John Lothrop. Lines Written at Syracuse ?23 Moulton, Ellen Louise. Alone liy the Bay 8ft3 In Time to Come 863 Moultrie, John. "Forget Thee?" 515 Here's to Tlicc, my Scottiah Lassie 515 Mowatt-Ritchie, Mrs. Anna Cora. To a Beloved One FACE . 770 Muhlenberg, William Augustus. " I Would Not Live Ahvay " 551 Mulock, Dinah M. (see Craik\ Munby, Arthur. A utunin SS4 Doris : A Pastoral 884 Nairne, Carolina (BaronessK The Land o' the Leal 271 Would you be Young again 'f 271 Nash, Thomas. Spring 38 The Coming of Winter 38 . The Decay of Summer 39 Neal, John. Goldau . . .. 443 Neele, Henry. Wheie is He V .533 Newman, John Henry. Flowers without Fruit .571 A Voice from Afar .5?2 G uardian Angel .572 Newton, Cradock. Wonderland 552 Nicoll, Robert. People's Anthem 720 Life in Death 720 Niles, Nathaniel. The American Her 223 Noble, James Ashcroft. Love and Absence 555 Noel, Thomas. The Pauper's Drive .527 Norris. John. The Aspiration 1'22 Superstition 1'22 Norton, Andrews. Scene after a Summer Shower ."581 Trust and Submission 381 Norton, Caroline. Bingen on the Rhine 640 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 the Earth 994 My Soldier 9;J4 INDi;X 01' AVTBORS, WITH CONTENTS. O'Brien, Fitz-James. Elislui Kent Kane . . . , PACE . 833 O'Keefe, John. I am a Friar ol' Orders Gray 233 O'Reilly, John Boyle. Western Australia 922 Forever 922 At Kest 932 Osgood, Frances Sargent. "Bois Ton Sang, Beaiunauuii Little Tilings Laborarc est Orare An Atlantic Trip . 707 70S 708 708 The Author's Last Verses 708 Osgood, Kate Putnam. Driving Homo the Cows 905 Otway, Thomas. From "Venice Preserved' Page, Emily R. The Old Canoe 121 Pailleron, Edouard (French^ A Keminisecnee (translated liy J. F. Clarke) 673 Paine, Robert Treat, Jr. Ode: Adams and Liberty.. Palgrave, Francis Turner. Faith and Sight : In the Latter Days. To a Child Pardoe, Julia. The Beacon-light . 318 796 707 030 Parker, Martyn. Ye Gentlemen ot England 1C4 Parker, Theodore. Three Sonnets Ilynui 689 690 Parnell, Thomas. The Hermit 132 Parsons, Thomas William. Saint Peray lu St. James's Park 7.59 760 Partridge, Samuel 'William. "Not to Myself Aloue" 674 Patmore, Coventry. From "Faithful Forever' Tlie Toys Payne, John Howard. Home, Sweet Home ! . . . 790 790 439 Pajme, John. "ge Rondeau Redouble 918 Villaneile : 918 Peabody, Ephraim. To a Cliild '"•23 From " The Bactwoodsman " 623 Peabody, Everett. Song of the Cadets 522 Peabody, O. W. B. Visions of Immortality .523 To a Departed Friend 524 The Disembodied Spirit 524 Peabody, W. B. O. The Autumn Evening 522 The Alarm 522 Nature and Nature's God 523 Hymn of Nature 525 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 Emilie Marshall 483 May '. 483 A Vision 483 Percy, Thomas. The Friar of Orders Gray. 202 Perkins, James Handasyd. On Lake Michigan The Upright Soul 688 689 Perry, Nora. In the Dark 920 In June 920 Riding Down 921 Some Day of Days 931 Pfeiflfer, Emily. Summer-time. : Villaneile 926 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Apple Blossoms 925 On the Bridge of Sighs 9:» Philips, Ambrose. A Fragment of Sappho 126 To Miss Georgiana Carteret 126 Philips, John. From "The Splendid Shilling' 131 IXDEX OF AVTHOns, WITH COXTEXTS. Phillips, Katherine. 'aoe To Mrs. M. A., at Parting 119 On Controversies in Kcligiou 119 Piatt, John James. The First Tryst 804 Tlic Morning Street 804 Piatt, Mrs. J. J. Tlie Gift of Empty Hands 80.5 Pickering, Henry. Tlic lldiise in wliieli 1 was Boru 303 Pierpont, John. The Pilgrim Fathers 379 From "The Departed Child " 380 What Blesses Now Must Ever Bless 3S0 Pike, Albert. Bucna Vista C.57 Pinkney, Edward Coate. .\ Health o?3 Song: \Vc Break the Glass 573 Pitt, William. The Sailor's Consolation 533 Plimpton. Floras Beardsley. Tell lUr 833 Poe, Edgar Allan. To Sarah Ilcleu Whitman GOl The Bells 0(J3 The Raven 003 To Franees Sargent Osgood 005 PoUok, Robert. Invocation (from "The Course of Time") 510 Pride the Cause of Sin (from "TheCoui'scofTime") 510 True Happiness (from "The Course of Time").. 517 Holy Love (from "The Conree of Time") 517 A Moonlight Evening(froni "The Course of Time") 517 Poole, Hester M. An Oetober Secne 043 A Little While 943 Pope, Alexander. Lines on Kohert Ilarley, Earl of Oxford 133 Ode on Solitude 143 From " The Essay on Critieisin " 143 To Henry St. John (Lord Bolingbroke) 143 From the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" 144 From " The Rape of the Lock " 145 The Universal Prayer 140 The Dying Christian to his Soul 140 From " Eloisa to Abclard " 147 Couelu^ion of the " Essay on Man" 147 Of the Characters of Women 149 Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of "Cato".. 1.50 The Moon (translated from Homer) 1.50 From " The Temple of Fame " 1.50 Lines on Addison 151 Conelusion of "The Dunciad" 151 Powers, Horatio Nelson. moe From " Memorial Day " 810 A Rose-bud SIC Praed, Winthrop Mackworth. My Little Cousins .574 Where is Miss Myrtle ? 574 Tell Him I Love Him Yet 575 April-fools 575 Goodnight 570 Charade on Campbell 570 I Remember, I Remember .577 Prentice, George Denison. To an Absent Wife .578 Lookout Mountaiu 579 Preston. Harriet W. Thirteen (alter Theodore Aubancl) 919 Preston, Margaret Junkin. Dedication 8:57 The Tyranny of Mood 837 Saint Cecilia 8:!7 Pringle, Thomas. Afar in the Desert 407 The Emigrant's Farewell 408 Prior, Matthevr. A Simile 133 To a Child of Quality Vii Procter, Adelaide Anne. Ministering Angels 805 The Lost Chord 800 Strive, Wait, and Pray 800 Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall). The Sea :j.S5 The Return of the Admiral 385 Sonnet to Adelaide 380 A Petition to Time 380 Softly Woo Away Her Bieath 380 Life :i80 Proctor, Edna Dean. From " The Return of the Dead " 838 Take Heart 8:19 Heaven, O Lord, I Cannot Lose 83".t Prout, Father (see Mahony, Francis). Quarles. Francis. The Vanity of the World ."7 Delight in God Only .58 Raleigh, Sir Walter. The Lie 14 The Silent Lover 15 My Pilgrimage 10 Ramsay, Allan. The Clock and Dial 1.S9 Farewell to Loehaber 139 ISDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Randall, James Ryder. ''*'=': MaryUiud 802 Read, Thomas Buchanan. Drifting 'i'80 Sheridim's Ride 'SI The Closing Scene 78:3 Reade, John Edmund. Tlie Colosseum 610 Realf, Richard. My Slain 859 Symbolisms ^^tiO Robbins, Samuel Dowse. Eutliauasia ™~ Lead Me 'i'O'i' Rockwell, James Otis. Tile Lost at Sea Rodger, Alexander. Behave Youisel' Before Folli. 63H 36S Rogers, Samuel. Tlie Olil Ancestral Mansion 267 Hopes for Italy 268 Venice 268 Roman Relics 268 Roscoe, William. To My Books 344 Roscoe, William Caldwell. Sonnet : To a Friend 787 Roscommon, Earl of. Fuetie Inspiration 120 Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Consider 834 Beauty is Vain 834 Rossetti. Dante Gabriel. Lost Days : Sonnet 833 From "The Portrait" 823 Riickert, Friedrich (German). A Shelter (translated by Miss Clarke) 678 Russell, Thomas. To Vaklnsa 366 Sonnet 367 Sands, Robert Comfort. From " Yanioydeu " 530 1 he Dead of 1832 521 Sargent, Epes. ""'"^ Linda's Sons 717 Soul of My Soul : 717 Sonnet: To David Friedrich Strauss 717 Webster 717 Sargent, Horace Binney. After " Taps " 778 Sargent, John Osborne. Death of Henry Wohllcb (from the German of Von Auersperg) 703 Savage, Minot Judson. Life from Death Life in Death Litiht on tlic Cloud 900 910 910 Saxe, John Godfrey. The Superfluous Man 735 Justine, You Love Me Not ! 736 Schiller, J. C. F. von (German). Fame 539 Haste Not, Rest Not (translated by C. C. Cox).. 737 Scott, John. Ode on Hearing the Drum. 205 Sargent, Epes. Evenini; in Gloucester Harbor. Sunrise at Sea A Life on the Ocean Wave — 716 716 716 Scott, Lady John. Lammermoor 740 ■ Ettrick 740 Scott, Sir Walter. Lochinvar 398 Scene from "Marmion" 298 Allcn-a-Dale 399 Helvellyn 300 Jock of Hazeldean 300 Coronach 301 Pibroch of Donuil Dhu 301 Border Ballad 301 Rebecca's Hymn 301 Song: The Heath this Niglit must be My Bed.. 303 Nora's Vow 302 Sears, Edmund Hamilton. Christmas Song 079 The Angel's Song 680 Sewall, Mrs. Harriet Winslow. Why Thus Longing ? 757 Special Providences 758 Seward, Anna. Sonnet : December Morning 528 Shairp, John Campbell. Sonnet : Relief 708 Shakspeare, William. Silvia 28 Sigh No More 28 Ariel's Song 38 IXDEX OF A unions, WITH coy TEXTS. Shakspeare, William. mob Mau's IiigratUiide 28 Dira;e of Imoiren 29 The Song of Winter 2!) Clolcn's Serenailu 29 Sonnets: xviii., xxx., xxxiii., liv., Iv., Ix., xc, xcviii., ex., cxi., cxvi., cxlvi., cxivii 39, SO, 31 Ulysses's Advice to Acliilles 31 The Quality of Mercy 33 Moonlight and Music 33 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 Smith 3.53 The Clond 431 Stanzas, Written in Dejection, near Naples 433 The Fugitives 423 To a Skylark 423 Ode to the West Wind 42.i I Arise from Dreams of Tliee 436 Invocation 430 Good-night 436 One Word is Too Often Profaned 437 A Lament 437 On a Faded Violet 437 Adonais ; An Elegy ou the Death of Jonn Keats. 427 Invocation to Nature 433 Sonnet 433 Dedication to His Wife 434 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 435 Lines to a Reviewer 436 Shenstone, William. From "The School-mistress" 181 Written at an Inn at Henley 182 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. Had 1 a Heart for Falsehood Framed 237 Song, from "The Duenna*' 337 Shirley, James. Death's C'oiKiuests. no Shurtleff, William S. The Way 5.56 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 1 1 : The Blessed Uain 41H Indian Names 419 Sillery, Charles Doyne. She Died in Beauty 63U Simmons, Bartholomew. taob Song of a Returned Exile 698 From ' From ' Stanzas ou Thomas Hood" The Mother of the Kings" 699 TOO Simms. William Gilmore. The First Day of Spring. C18 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 235 To a Young Man entering the World 235 The Cricket '235 Smith, Elizabeth Oakes. Sonnet: The Lnattained 619 Sonnet : Poesy 619 Sonnet: Faith 619 Smith, Horace. Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition. 3.53 Moral Cosmetics 353 Sonnet 3.54 The First of March 354 Hymn to the Flowers 3.54 Smith, James. Epigram 339 The Theatre 330 To Miss Edgeworth 330 Smith, Mrs. May Riley. If Smith. William. To .My Wile 915 555 Smollett, Tobias George. The Tears of Scotland 191 Ode to Leven-water 193 Sotheby, William. Stalfa— Visited 1829. •349 Southey, Caroline Bo-wles. Lines on Her Father 387 The River SS"* To Little Mary SS-* "Sullieient unto the Day is the Evil thereof".. 389 The Pauper's Deathbed 391 To a Dying Infant 391 Oh, Fear Not Thou to Die 393 Sonnet: To the Mother of Luerctia and Margaret Davidson 013 INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Southey, Robert. tage Inscription for tiie Ap:\rtnR'nt. in Cliepstow Castle. 27.5 Tlie Battle of Blenlieim 320 Immortality of Love 320 A Beautiful Day in Autumn 321 The Holly-tree 321 My Library .' 321 Night in the Desert 323 The Dead Friend 332 Imitated from the Persian 333 The Morning jMist 333 Retleetions 323 To Williiim Wordsworth 3.23 Southwell, Robert. Love's Servile Lot 33 Times Go By Turns 23 Spencer, Hon. William Robert. To the Lady Anne Hamilton 39.5 Beth Gelert ; or, The Grave of the Greyhound... 3U5 Spenser, Edmund. From " The Eijithalamion " 10 Una and the Lion 11 Prince Arthur 13 Tlie Miuistry of Angels 13 From the " Hymn in Honor of Beauty " 13 Easter Morning 13 Miseries of a Court-life 13 Spofford, Harriet Prescott. A Four-o'clock Stanley, Thomas. The Depositiou . . . Stockton, Mrs. Annis Boudinot. Ode to Washiugton Stoddard, Mrs. Lavinia. The Soul's Detlanec Stoddard, Mrs. R. H. On the Campagua 863 Sprague, Charles. The Winged Worshippers 415 The Fourth of July 415 From " The ShaUspeare Ode" 415 I See Thee Still 41(3 114 Stedman, Kdmund Clarence. Provencal Lovers 854 How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry 855 Sterling, John. To a Child 619 The Man Survives 620 Prose and Song 620 .549 387 Stoddard, Richard Henry. Songs Unsung : 803 From the "Proem to Collected Poems" 803 How are Songs Begot and Bred? 803 The Country Life 804 rAGR . 804 Story, V/illiam Wetmore. Lines on John Lothrop Motley 723 The Unexpressed 7.53 Wetmore Cottage, Nahant 7.53 Stowe, 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 " 1:24 Stella's Birthday, 1730 135 Swinburne, Algernon Charles. An Interlude 873 Love and Death 87:^ A Match 873 Sylvester, Joshua. Plurality of Woilds :« Love's Omnipresence 33 Symonds, John Addington. In the Jlentone Graveyard 910 Seven Sonnets on Death 9U The Will 912 Beati Illi 912 Talfourd, Thomas Noon. To the South American Patriots 470 Love Immortal 470 Verses on a Child 471 An Act of Kindness 471 Sonnet on Wordsworth 473 Tannahill, Robert. The Flower o' Duniblane 324 The Braes o' Balquhither 324 Taylor, Bayard. Storm-song 807 A Crimean Episode 807 The Fight of Paso Del Mar 807 Taylor, Jane. Teaching from the Stars. 36.5 iMirx or Airnons, jirrii coxtexts. Taylor, Jeremy. pace Tliy Kingdom Conic 105 Taylor, Sir Henry. On Edwanl Einesl Villiers M'la AVIiiit .Makes a Ikin V 5I« Extinct I'loni "Philip Van Ailcveldu" Sliil Greatness and Success !Hi7 Artevelde's Soliloquy ,5G7 Aitcvelde and Eleuii 5tJ7 Taylor, Thomas. Ode to the Rising Sun 2.")! Tennant, William. Description of .Magi;ic Luudcr 3G7 Tennyson, Alfred. From tlie Lines on Bulwcr G0.5 Edward Gray GSO Go Not, Happy Day 081 Welcome to Alccandra GSl Ask Mc No More GSl To , after Reading a Life and Letters G82 Garden Song G82 Dc Profundis G8:j Bugle Song 083 The Foolish Virgins 084 Charge of the Light Brigade 084 Turn, Fortune, Turn Thy Wheel 084 Stanzas from " In Mcmoriani '" OS.") Tears, Idle Tears 088 From " The Golden Year" 088 Tennyson, Charles (see Turner). Tennyson, Frederick. The Blackhird 016 Sonnet 017 Thackeray, William Makepeace. Little Billec 006 At the Church Gate O'.IG The Ballad of Bouillabaisse G'M The XIahoganytrce 0'J7 Thaxter, Mrs. Celia. Song 803 The Sand-piper 862 Thom, William. The Mitherless Bairn 40!) Dreamings of the Bereaved 409 Thompson, John Randolph. .^Ill^ic in Camp 789 Thomson, James. Lines Written at the Age of Fourteen 10(i The Approach of Spring IWi Sunrise in Summer 107 Hymn on the Seasons 167 The Bard's Song 168 Rule, BriUinnia '. 10!) Love of Nature ItJ!) Sweet Tyrant, Low .531 Thoreau, Henry David. moe Smoke in Winter 745 Upon the Beach 74.5 Thornbury, Walter. How Sir Richard Died 824 The Old Grenadier's Story 8'24 Thorpe, Mrs. Rosa Hartwiok. Down tlie Track 9.S.5 "Curfew Must Not Ring To-night" 93.5 Thurlo-w, Edward Hovel (Lord). Sonnet to a Bird ,S.59 Song to May 359 Tickell, Thomas. On the Death of Addison 141 Tighe, Mrs. Mary. On Receiving a Branch of Mczcrcon 317 Written at Killarney 318 Tilton, Theodore. Sir Marmadukc's Musings 804 Timrod, Henry. Hark to the Shouting Wind 8'2S Ode 828 A Common Thought 828 From " A Southern Spring " 8'28 Sonnets 829 Timrod, William H. Lines to Harry 420 Tobin, John. The Duke Aranza to Juliana 275 Todhunter, John. The First Spring Day : Sonnet .5.50 Toplady, Augustus Montague. Deathless Principle, Arise ! 2'24 Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me 224 Townshend, Chauncy Hare. ".ludgc Not" .587 " Wliat God hath Cleansed," etc 587 "His Banner over Me was Love" 588 'In My Father's House are many Mansions"... 588 An Evening Thought 588 On Poetry 588 May .588 Concluding Sonnet 588 Trench, Richard Chenevix. Our Father's Home OJO Be Patient 040 Sonnet : On Prayer GIO Spring 041 Trowbridge, John Tow^nsend. Beyond 8*20 The Vagabonds 8'20 IXVICX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Trumbull, Jolin. fa^e From "M'Fiiig-;il" 237 Tucker, St. George. Dnys of My Youth 338 Tuokerman, Henry Theodore. Souuct : Freedom 715 Tupper, Martin Farquliar. Carpe Diem 691 Turner, Charles (Tennyson). Lines on "In Memoriani" C49 Morning 049 Tlie Lattice at Sunrise 049 A Brillinnt Day 049 Letty's Globe 050 Tuttle, Mrs. Emma. The First Fledgling 893 Tychborn, Chidiock. Lines by One in tlie Tower 84 Uhland, Johann Litdwig (1787-1862). The Passage (tiaiislated by Mrs. Austin) 4.51 Vandyne, Mary E. When I went Fishing with Dad 910 Vaughan, Henry. The Retreat 107 The Rainbow 107 They Are x\ll Gone ! 107 The Request lOS Like as a Nurse 108 Vaux, Thomas (Lord). Of a Contented Mind 7 Vere, Sir Aubrey de. Cranmer 393 Sonnet : Time Misspent 393 Three Sonnets on Columbus 393 Dioeletian at Salona 394 Glengarifl' 394 Vere, Aubrey Thomas de. The True Blessedness 728 Adolescentulre 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). Epitaph (in General Fairfax 563 Vincent, Charles (French). Come, Sunshine, Come ! 543 Wakefield, Nancy Priest. pace Over the River SUl From "Heaven" 861 Walker, William Sidney. The Voice of Otlicr Years To a Girl in Her Thirteeutli Year. 469 4C9 Wallace, Horace Binney. Ode on the Rhine's Returning into Germany from France 740 Waller, Edmund. Tlie Message of the Rose 88 On a Girdle 88 Waller, John Francis. Kitty Neil 674 Ware, Henry. A Tliaulcsgiving Song 459 Resurrection of Christ 4.59 Warton, Thomas. To Mr. Gray 304 To the River Lodou 204 Wasson, David Atwood. Ministering Angels to tlie Imprisoned Soul 780 All's Well 787 Wastell, Simon. From " Man's Mortality " 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 Worid 131 Webster, Mrs. Augusta. To Bloom is then to Wane 913 The Gift 913 Webster, John. A Di ige 34 From " The Dneliess of Mali! " 34 Weeks, Robert Kelly. Winter Sunrise Ad Finem 898 898 Welby, Amelia B. Twilight at Sea : A Fragment 779 The Golden Ringlet 779 Wentz, George. " Sweet Si>irit, Hear My Prayer" 903 No Death 903 IXVICX OF AUTHORS, WITH COXTENrS. Wesley, Charles. Tbe \Vrc8tler Come, Let Us Anew. Tlic Only Light PME . 175 . 176 . 177 Wesley, John. Commit Tliou .-Ml Tliy (iricfs (from the Gcrmnii of P:iul Gclllillclt) Westwood, Thomas. The Pit Lamb Little Bell 17:3 White, Henry Kirke. Time Concliiiliiis Stanzas of "The Chiistiad' To nn Early Primrose 377 377 377 White, Joseph Blanco. Night and Death : Sonnet Sonnet, on Hearing Myself for the First Time called an Old Man, Mi. 50 Whitman, Sarah Helen. Lines on Eduar A. Poc The Last Flowers Sonnets to Edsrar A. Poc 335 325 583 583 Whitman, Walt. From "The Mystic Trumpeter". Passages from "Leaves of Grass" Whitney, Adeline D. T. Behind the Mask 756 795 Whittier, John Greenleaf. Maud .Mnller 634 Barbara Frietchic 6:50 Mr. Whittier to His Friends 037 My Two Sisters 637 The Poet's Portrait of Himself 03.8 The Eternal Goodness OJiS Whytehead, Thomas. The Second Day of Cieation 701 Wilcoi, Carlos. A Late Spriiis in New England 401 A Vision of Heaven 401 September 463 Wilde. Lady. The Voice of tlic Poor »12 Wilde, Richard Henry. Sonnet : To the Mocking-bird 413 St;inzas 413 Willard, Mrs. Emma C. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. 384 Williams, Helen Maria. Sonnet to Hope 263 Trust iu Providence 263 Williams, Isaac. pace The Departed Good : Sonnet ."Hit Williams, Richard Dalton. From the "Lament for Clarence Mangan" 707 Willis, Nathaniel Parker. Saturday Afternoon 034 Thirtylive 035 The Spring is Here 625 Acrostic Sonnet on Emilie Mai-shall 635 To a City Pigeon 625 Willson, Forceythe. From Lines to His Wife 874 Tlic 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 Wishcd-for Retreat " 140 Winter, William. Tlic Ballad of Constance 80!) Orgia 869 The Golden Silence 870 Wither, George. Companionship of the Muse .50 The Heavenly Father and His Erring Child 51 Vanished Blessings 51 I Will Sing as I Shall Please 51 Shall I, Wasting in Despair 53 Lines on William Browne 53 Wolcot, John. On Dr. Johnson 221 Epigram on Sleep 321 The Pilgrims and the Pease 331 Wolfe, Charles. The Burial of Sir John Moore 413 If I Had Thought 414 Go, Forget -Me 414 Woodworth, Samuel. The Old Oaken Bucket 377 Woolson, Abba Goold. Carpe Diem S88 Wordsworth, William. To Daffodils 383 To the Cuckoo 283 Ode to Duty 383 She was a Phantom of Delight 383 Character of the Happy Warrior 3!M INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH CONTENTS. Wordsworth, William. page The Fountain 3&5 From Lines composed near Tiiitern Abbey 385 Liiodamia 387 Ode on Immortality 3S9 Extem))ore Efl'nsion upon tlic Death of James Hogs' 291 The Sonnet's Scanty Plot 291 Scorn Not the Sonnet 293 Evening 293 To Sleep 393 The World is Too Much with Us 293 The Favored Sliip 293 Tlie Mind that Builds for Aye : 393 Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803 293 To Toussaint L'Ouverture 393 Pliiloetctes 393 Tliy Art be Nature 393 London, 1803 ' 393 We Must be Free, or Die 393 October, 1803 394 On Personal Tallc (in Four Sonnets) 394 Lines on Hartley Coleridge 49B Wotton, Sir Henry. On Ilis Jlistress, the Queen of Boh Tlie Happy Lile 39 39 Wyatt, Sir Thomas. Pleasure Mixed with Pain . Of Dissembling Words Free at Last PAGB . 6 . 6 . 6 Youl, Edward. A Soring Song Young, Andrew. The Happy Land . 550 658 Young, Edward. Invocation to the Autlior of Ligljt 135 Tlie Departed Live 130 Homer, Milton, Pope 130 Welcome to Deatli 137 I Trust in Thee 137 Humanity of Angels 137 No Atom Lost 137 Immortality Deciphers Man 137 Existence of God 138 Zedlitz, Joseph Christian von (German^ Napoleon's Midniglit Review (translated by Tlieo- dore Martin 739 .^.^^^s^***. "fBRITISH^AMERICAN Poetk ^coffrcn (Jlljauccr. Chaucer, the father of English poetry, was born about the year i:j"28, probably in London, and educated at Cam- bridge. On arrivini; at man's estate, he joined tlie army with wliich Edward III. w.as tryins; to subjugate France. Taken prisoner at Poitiers, Chaucer, on being released, returned to Eni^land, «nd married a sister of the lady who became the wife of the Duke of Lancaster, better known as John of Gaunt. King Edrtard regarded Chaucer with favor, and in 13?3 sent him on a mission to Italy, where he made the ae- quaint:incc of Petrarch, then living at Padua. lie was employed in other public services, sat in Parliament, shared in the downfall of John of Gaunt, fled to Hol- land, returned home in 14S!), abandoned public life, and devoted himself to poetical composition. At the age of sixty-four he began the "Canterbury Talcs," a picture of English life in the fourteenth century. He afterward wrote "The Romaunt of the Rose," "Troilus and Cres- seidc," "The Legende of Good Women," "Chaucer's Dream," "The Flower and the Leaf," "The House of Fame" (richly paraphrased by Pope), etc. The accentuation in Chaucer's verse, by a license since abandoned, is dill'erent in many instances from that of common speech. For example, in "Full well she sange ihc service divine," saiige is two syllables, while service furnishes an ex- ample of a transposed accent. This poetical license of transposing an accent is not uncommon in the later poets. Chaucer appears to have been of a joyous and happy temperament, generous and alTcctionate. He had that intense relish for the beauties of Nature so characteris- tic of the genuine poet. His works abound with enthu- siastic descriptions of spring, the morning hour, the early verdure of groves, green solitudes, birds and flow- ei"s. Nature, courts, camps, characters, passions, mo- tives, are the topics with which he deals. He was op- posed to the priests, whose hypocrisy he unmnskcd. A vigorous temperament, a penetrating, observing intel- lect, and a strong, comprehensive good -sense, arc the instruments with which he fashions his poetical mate- rials. Spenser refers to him as "That renowned Poet, Dan Chancer, well of En^Mish undcfiied, Ou Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be fyled." In the following extracts the orthography is partially modernized. Where the change wonid impair either the measure or the spirit of the passage, the origiual spelling I is retained. AN EARTHLY PARADISE. Fkom "Thr Fi.owrn and tub Leaf." When that Pliipbns his cliair of gold so high Haou)cv. — Cixvbouv.— £i)i)gatc. Contemporary with C'bauccr, but several years liis junior, was John Goiver (133.5-1408), a wealthy "es- quire" of Kent. Tlie grave and sententious turn of his poetry won for him from Cliaueer and others the appella- tion of the " Moral Gower," w hich has become almost a syuonyme for duliicss. He gives little evidence of the genuine afHatus. , The Scottish poet, John Barbour, born about the year 1316, grew up iu the midst of exciting political events. He was archdeacon of Aberdeen, and iu 1375, when Kob- crt HI. had been king five years, he was occupied in writ- ing a metrical history, called "The Bruce," of Robert I. It is iu 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 (1373-1400). He was named from his birth in Suffolk, at the village of Lydgate, and became a Benedictine monk. His "Ballad of London Lyckpen- ny," relating the ill success of a poor countryman in the London Courts of Law, is a remarkable specimen of hu- morous verse. Both (iray and Coleridge seem to have been impressed by the merits of Lydgate. MEDEA GATHERING HERBS. GowKr» Thus it fell upon a nigbt, When there was naught but starrie light, She was vanished right iis she list, That no wight but herself wist. And that was at uudnight tide. Tlie world was still oti every side. AVilh open hand and foot all bare; Her hair too spread, she 'gau to fare; I'pon her cloth<5s girt sho was. And spechi-lcss, upon the grass. She glodo forth, as an adder doth. FREEDOM. RAniioL'it. Ah, Freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking;' ' Cheerful uoss. 5 Cast away. • Eiijoymcnl. CYCLOPEDIA OF BHiriSH AND AMERICAN POETBY. Freedom all solace to man gives ; He lives at ease that freely lives! A noble heart may have naue ease, Ne cUis uocht' that may him please, Gif Ireetlom faileth ; lor free liking Is yearu Perfecllj-. ^ Badge of a sergcaut-!U-law. I got not a mum of his mouth for my meed. And for lack of Mouey I might not speed. Unto the Rolls I gat me from thence. Before the clerkes of the Chancerie, Where many 1 found earning of pence, But none at all once regarded me. I gave them my plaint upon my knee ; Tbey liked it well when they had it read, But lacking Mouey I could not be sped. In Westminster Hall I found out one Wliich went in a long gown of ray;' I crouched and kneeled before him ; anon, For Mary's love, for help I him pray. " I wot not what thou meau'st," gan he say ; To get me thence he did me bede ; For lack of Mouey I could not speed. Witbiu this Hall, neither rich nor yet poor Would do for me aught although I should die : Which seeing, I got me out of the door Where Flemings began on 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 me into Kent; For of the law would I meddle no more, Because no man to me took intent, I dight me to do as I did before. Now Jesus, that in Bethlehem was bore. Save London, and send true lawyers their meed I For whoso wants Mouey with them shall not speed. Sanies 3. of GiotltauD. This Scottish prince (1394-1437) was intercepted at sea, and made prisoner Ijy Henry IV. in 1405. During his captivity lie produced one of the most graceful poems that exist in old English. The "King's Quliair" (that is, quire, or little book) has for its main incident the discov- ery of a lady walking in the prison garden, to whom he becomes attached. This beauty is supposed to have been Lady Jane Beaufort, who became his wife, .and eventually Qncen of Scotland, and mother of the royal lino of the subsequent Stuarts. King James returned to Scotland after the death of Henry V., was crowned at Scone in 1424, and was for twelve years a wise ruler, endeavoring to establish law and order among turbulent nobles, and to assure tho rights and liberties of his people; but his firm upholding of justice led to his assassination at Perth in 1437. A rayed or striped cloth. (Dutch " koopeu "), buy. liOBEKT BliNRYSOX. TlIK CAPTIVE KING. Wlicreas ia ward fiill oft I would bewail My deadly life, full of pain aud peuauce, Saying right thus, '• What have I guilt' to fail My freedou) in this world, and my iilcasauco ? Sin every wight ha8 thereof suffisanco That I behold, and I a creiituro Put from all this, bard is mine aventure! "Tlio bird, the beast, the fish eko in the sea, They live in freedom, every in his kind, Aud I a man, and lacketh liberty ; What shall I eayn, what reason may I lind. That Fortune should do so?'' Thus in my mind My folk' I would argue, but all for nought ; Was none that might that on my pain(5s rougbtl' Robert fjcnrnson. Hcnryson (circa 1425-1507) was tlie oldest of an im- portant group of Seottish poets, wlio, at the close of the urieenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, "were tilling the North country with music." Admitted in 14U2 to the newly-founded University of Glasgow, be be- came notary public and school-master at Dunfermline. In his lifetime the art of printing first came into use in Enirland. He was a writer of ballads; and his "Robin aud Mawkiu" is one of the best early specimens of pas- toral verse. He also wrote a metrical version of .lilsop's Fables. A VISION OF .E.SOP. In mids of June, that jolly sweet seasoun, When that fair IMuebus with his beanu^s briclit Had dryit up the dew frao dale and down, And all the land made with his gleamfo licht, In ane morning, betwixt mid-day and nicht, I rase, and put all sloth and sleep a.side. And to a wood I went alone, but guiile.' Sweet was the smell of flowers white and red. The noise of bird(5s richt delicious ; The boughds bloomt^d broad above my head. The ground growand with ger.sses gr.acious: Of all pleasanco that place wers plenteous. With sweet odors and bird('s harmony. The morning mild, my mirth was mair forlhy.' ' Donopnllty. J My attendants, > That in, " No one took pily on my suffcriuKi'," liour/hl, past teupe of rue, to care for, * Wilbout a gnlde. » Tbercfore, Mo to conserve then fr.io the sunnds heat. Under the shadow of auo hawthorn green I leauit down amang the flowers sweet ; Syno cled my head aud clos6d baith my een. On sleep I fall auiang these bongh<;s been ; And, iu my dream, metlioclit como through tlio sliaw The fairest man that ever befuro I saw. His gown was of ane claith as white as milk, His chimeris' was of ehambeloto purple-brown ; His hood of scarlet bordered weel with silk, Uuhecki^d-wi.se,'' untill his girdle doun ; His bonnet round and of the auld fassoun ; His beard w.as white, his een was great and grey. With locker' hair, whilk over his shoulders lay. Ane roll of paper in his hand he bare, Ane swanes pen stickand under his car, Ane ink-horn, with aue pretty gilt pennair,' Ane bag of silk, all at his belt did bear; Thus was he goodly graithit'' in his gear. Of stature large, aud with a fearl'ull face. Even where I lay he como ano sturdy pace ; And said, " God speed, my son ;" and I was faiu Of that couth word, and of his company. With reverence I saluted him again, " Welcome, father ;"' and he sat down me by. '• Displease you nocht, my good nuiister, though I Demand your birth, your faculty, and name, Why ye como here, or where ye dwell at hanio V "My SOD," said he, "I am of gentle blood. My native laTid is Rome withouten nay; And in that town first to the schools I gaed. In civil law studied full many a day, Aud now my wonning' is iu heaven for aye. JEsop I heclit ;' my writing and my w.ark Is couth* and kcnd' to mony a cunning clerk." "O niaister yEsop, poet laureate! God wot ye are full dear welcome to me ; Are ye nocht he that all those Fables wrato Which, in effect, suppose they feiguM be, Are full of ])rudence and morality f ' " Fair son," said he, " I am the saniin man," God wot gif" that my heart was merry than. ■ Short lij;ht gowu, ' Curlhi*^. ^ Arrayed, ' Am called. • KnowD (other form of same verb). ' Unfastcned-wiec. * Pen-liolder. * Dwelling. * Known. "> God knows if. CYCLOPJiDIA OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY. Sir