| William Wordsworth. |
1. |
The Passing of the Elder Bards |
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| Distinctive Poets and Dramatists |
| Walter Savage Landor. |
2. |
Overture |
| 3. |
The Hamadryad |
| 4. |
The Death of Artemidora |
| 5. |
From “Myrtis” |
| 6. |
Little Aglaë |
| 7. |
To a Cyclamen |
| 8. |
Dirce |
| 9. |
An Invocation |
| 10. |
From “Gebir” |
| 11. |
To Youth |
| 12. |
To Age |
| 13. |
Rose Aylmer |
| 14. |
Rose Aylmer’s Hair, Given by Her Sister |
| 15. |
Child of a Day |
| 16. |
Fiesolan Idyl |
| 17. |
Farewell to Italy |
| 18. |
The Maid’s Lament |
| 19. |
Margaret |
| 20. |
On Music |
| 21. |
Plays |
| 22. |
There Falls with Every Wedding Chime |
| 23. |
Shakespeare and Milton |
| 24. |
Macaulay |
| 25. |
Robert Browning |
| 26. |
On the Death of M. D’Ossoli and His Wife Margaret Fuller |
| 27. |
To Ianthe |
| 28. |
Ianthe’s Troubles |
| 29. |
The Appeal |
| 30. |
The Test |
| 31. |
In after Time |
| 32. |
A Prophecy |
| 33. |
Cowslips |
| 34. |
Wrinkles |
| 35. |
Advice |
| 36. |
How to Read Me |
| 37. |
Time to Be Wise |
| 38. |
The One White Hair |
| 39. |
On Himself |
| 40. |
On Lucretia Borgia’s Hair |
| 41. |
Persistence |
| 42. |
Man |
| 43. |
To Sleep |
| 44. |
On Living Too Long |
| 45. |
A Thought |
| 46. |
Heartsease |
| 47. |
Verses Why Burnt |
| 48. |
Death Undreaded |
| 49. |
Memory |
| 50. |
For an Epitaph at Fiesole |
| George Darley. |
51. |
The Flower of Beauty |
| 52. |
Summer Winds |
| 53. |
Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” I. Chorus of Spirits |
| 54. |
Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” II. Morning-Song |
| 55. |
Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” III. Nephon’s Song |
| 56. |
Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” IV. Romanzo to Sylvia |
| Barry Cornwall. |
57. |
The Sea |
| 58. |
The Hunter’s Song |
| 59. |
The Poet’s Song to His Wife |
| 60. |
The Stormy Petrel |
| 61. |
Peace! What Do Tears Avail? |
| 62. |
Life |
| 63. |
The Blood Horse |
| 64. |
Sit Down, Sad Soul |
| 65. |
Golden-Tressed Adelaide |
| 66. |
A Poet’s Thought |
| 67. |
A Petition to Time |
| Charles Jeremiah Wells. |
68. |
From “Joseph and His Brethren” |
| Sir Henry Taylor. |
69. |
From “Philip Van Artevelde” |
| 70. |
From “Edwin the Fair” |
| 71. |
A Characterization |
| 72. |
Aretina’s Song |
| 73. |
The Hero |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron. |
74. |
The Battle of Naseby |
| 75. |
Epitaph on a Jacobite |
| 76. |
Ivry |
| Richard Henry Horne. |
77. |
From “Orion: An Epic Poem” |
| 78. |
Genius |
| 79. |
Pelters of Pyramids |
| 80. |
Solitude and the Lily |
| 81. |
The Slave |
| 82. |
The Plough |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes. |
83. |
From “Torrismond” |
| 84. |
Dream-Pedlary |
| 85. |
Ballad of Human Life |
| 86. |
Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” I. To Sea, to Sea! |
| 87. |
Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” II. Dirge |
| 88. |
Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” III. Athulf’s Death Song |
| 89. |
Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” IV. Second Dirge |
| 90. |
Songs from “The Brides’ Tragedy.” I. Hesperus Sings |
| 91. |
Songs from “The Brides’ Tragedy.” II. Love Goes A-Hawking |
| Robert Stephen Hawker. |
92. |
The Song of the Western Men |
| 93. |
Mawgan of Melhuach |
| 94. |
Featherstone’s Doom |
| 95. |
“Pater Vester Pascit Illa” |
| 96. |
The Silent Tower of Bottreau |
| 97. |
To Alfred Tennyson |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. |
98. |
The Cardinal’s Soliloquy |
| 99. |
When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun. |
100. |
The Execution of Montrose |
| 101. |
Massacre of the Macpherson |
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| Poets of Quality |
| Thomas Love Peacock. |
102. |
The Men of Gotham |
| 103. |
The War-Song of Dinas Vawr |
| 104. |
Margaret Love Peacock |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed. |
105. |
The Vicar |
| 106. |
The Newly-Wedded |
| Charles Hartley Langhorne. |
107. |
Theocritus |
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| The Roisterers |
| Richard Harris Barham. |
108. |
The Jackdaw of Rheims |
| 109. |
Mr. Barney Maguire’s Account of the Coronation |
| William Maginn. |
110. |
The Irishman and the Lady |
| 111. |
The Soldier-Boy |
| Francis Sylvester Mahony. |
112. |
The Shandon Bells |
|
| Meditative Poets |
| William Sidney Walker. |
113. |
Death’s Alchemy |
| Hartley Coleridge. |
114. |
To the Nautilus |
| 115. |
The Birth of Speech |
| 116. |
Whither? |
| 117. |
To Shakespeare |
| 118. |
Ideality |
| 119. |
Song |
| 120. |
Prayer |
| 121. |
“Multum Dilexit” |
| Anna Brownell Jameson. |
122. |
Take Me, Mother Earth |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend. |
123. |
Thy Joy in Sorrow |
| John Henry Newman. |
124. |
The Sign of the Cross |
| 125. |
England |
| 126. |
Reverses |
| 127. |
The Pillar of the Cloud |
| 128. |
The Elements |
| Sara Coleridge. |
129. |
From “Phantasmion” |
| Charles Whitehead. |
130. |
As Yonder Lamp |
| John Sterling. |
131. |
Shakespeare |
| 132. |
Louis XV |
| 133. |
To a Child |
| Jane Welsh Carlyle. |
134. |
To a Swallow Building under Our Eaves |
| Richard Chenebix Trench. |
135. |
After the Battle |
| 136. |
Sonnet |
| Thomas Miller. |
137. |
The Old Baron |
| Lord John Hanmer. |
138. |
The Pine Woods |
| Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton, 1st Baron. |
139. |
An Envoy to an American Lady |
| 140. |
The Brook-Side |
| Frances Anne Kemble. |
141. |
The Black Wall-Flower |
| 142. |
Faith |
| Henry Alford. |
143. |
Lady Mary |
| 144. |
Colonos |
| John Mitford. |
145. |
The Roman Legions |
| Arthur Henry Hallam. |
146. |
Written in Edinburgh |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere. |
147. |
An Epicurean’s Epitaph |
| 148. |
Flowers I Would Bring |
| 149. |
Human Life |
| 150. |
Sorrow |
| 151. |
Love’s Spite |
| 152. |
The Queen’s Vespers |
| 153. |
Cardinal Manning |
| 154. |
Song |
| 155. |
To Imperia |
| Thomas Burbidge. |
156. |
If I Desire |
| 157. |
Mother’s Love |
| 158. |
Eventide |
| William Henry Whitworth. |
159. |
Time and Death |
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| English Song Writers |
| John Kenyon. |
160. |
Champagne Rosé |
| William Howitt. |
161. |
The Departure of the Swallow |
| Thomas Haynes Bayly. |
162. |
She Wore a Wreath of Roses |
| 163. |
Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? |
| Mary Howitt. |
164. |
The Sea Fowler |
| 165. |
Cornfields |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey. |
166. |
I Think on Thee |
| Charles Swain. |
167. |
Tripping Down the Field-Path |
| 168. |
Take the World As It Is |
| 169. |
Life |
| 170. |
The Rose Thou Gav’st |
| 171. |
’T Was Just before the Hay Was Mown |
| Eliza Cook. |
172. |
The Quiet Eye |
| 173. |
The Sea-Child |
| William Cox Bennett. |
174. |
Baby May |
| 175. |
Be Mine, and I Will Give Thy Name |
| 176. |
A Christmas Song |
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| Songs of Balladry of Scotland |
| Alexander Laing. |
177. |
My Ain Wife |
| Thomas Carlyle. |
178. |
The Sower’s Song |
| Robert Gilfillan. |
179. |
’T is Sair to Dream |
| 180. |
The Exile’s Song |
| David Macbeth Moir. |
181. |
Casa’s Dirge |
| William Thom. |
182. |
The Mitherless Bairn |
| Thomas Aird. |
183. |
The Swallow |
| Hugh Miller. |
184. |
The Babie |
| James Ballantine. |
185. |
Muckle-Mou’d Meg |
| John Stuart Blackie. |
186. |
My Bath |
| 187. |
The Emigrant Lassie |
| 188. |
The Working Man’s Song |
| William Miller. |
189. |
Willie Winkie |
| Charles Mackay. |
190. |
Tell Me, Ye Winged Winds |
| 191. |
Earl Norman and John Truman |
| 192. |
What Might Be Done |
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| Irish Minstrelsy |
| Samuel Lover. |
193. |
Rory O’More; Or, Good Omens |
| 194. |
Widow Machree |
| John Banim. |
195. |
Soggarth Aroon |
| Gerald Griffin. |
196. |
A Place in Thy Memory |
| 197. |
Nocturne |
| James Clarence Mangan. |
198. |
Dark Rosaleen |
| 199. |
Soul and Country |
| Lady Helen Selina Dufferin. |
200. |
Lament of the Irish Emigrant |
| Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton. |
201. |
We Have Been Friends Together |
| 202. |
The King of Denmark’s Ride |
| 203. |
Love Not |
| John Francis Waller. |
204. |
Kitty Neil |
| 205. |
A Spinning-Wheel Song |
| Sir Samuel Ferguson. |
206. |
The Fairy Thorn |
| Thomas Osborne Davis. |
207. |
The Sack of Baltimore |
| 208. |
The Boatman of Kinsale |
| 209. |
The Welcome |
| Sir Charles Gaban Duffy. |
210. |
The Irish Rapparees |
| Denis Florence MacCarthy. |
211. |
Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land |
| 212. |
The Irish Wolf-Hound |
| Bartholomew Dowling. |
213. |
The Revel |
| John Kells Ingram. |
214. |
The Memory of the Dead |
| Thomas D’Arcy McGee. |
215. |
The Celtic Cross |
| 216. |
The Irish Wife |
| 217. |
The Exile’s Devotion |
| Lady Jane Francesca Speranza Wilde. |
218. |
The Voice of the Poor |
| Mary Eva Kelly. |
219. |
Tipperary |
| Ellen Mary Patrick Downing. |
220. |
Were I but His Own Wife |
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| “The Oaten Flute” |
| William Barnes. |
221. |
Woone Smile Mwore |
| 222. |
Blackmwore Maidens |
| 223. |
The Heäre |
| 224. |
The Castle Ruins |
| Edwin Waugh. |
225. |
The Dule ’s i’ This Bonnet o’ Mine |
| 226. |
Th’ Sweetheart Gate |
| 227. |
Owd Pinder |
| Samuel Laycock. |
228. |
Welcome, Bonny Brid! |
|
| Poets of the New Day |
| Ebenezer Elliott. |
229. |
Elegy on William Cobbett |
| 230. |
A Poet’s Epitaph |
| 231. |
The Builders |
| William Johnson Fox. |
232. |
The Barons Bold |
| 233. |
Life Is Love |
| Thomas Hood. |
234. |
The Dream of Eugene Aram |
| 235. |
Flowers |
| 236. |
Fair Ines |
| 237. |
The Death-Bed |
| 238. |
Ballad |
| 239. |
Lear |
| 240. |
Ballad |
| 241. |
From “Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg.” I. Her Death |
| 242. |
From “Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg.” II. Her Moral |
| 243. |
Ruth |
| 244. |
The Water Lady |
| 245. |
Ode—Autumn |
| 246. |
The Song of the Shirt |
| 247. |
The Lay of the Laborer |
| 248. |
The Bridge of Sighs |
| 249. |
Stanzas |
| Bartholomew Simmons. |
250. |
Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood |
| Harriet Martineau. |
251. |
On, on, Forever |
| Laman Blanchard. |
252. |
Nell Gwynne’s Looking-Glass |
| 253. |
Hidden Joys |
| Thomas Wade. |
254. |
The Net-Braiders |
| 255. |
Birth and Death |
| Thomas Cooper. |
256. |
Chartist Song |
| Sarah Flower Adams. |
257. |
Hymn |
| 258. |
Love |
| 259. |
Nearer to Thee |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
260. |
The Cry of the Children |
| 261. |
My Heart and I |
| 262. |
Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| 263. |
A Musical Instrument |
| 264. |
From “Casa Guidi Windows” |
| 265. |
A Court Lady |
| 266. |
Mother and Poet |
| 267. |
From “Aurora Leigh” |
| 268. |
The Sleep |
| Alfred Domett. |
269. |
A Glee for Winter |
| 270. |
A Christmas Hymn |
| 271. |
From “A Christmas Hymn” |
| William Bell Scott. |
272. |
Glenkindie |
| 273. |
Youth and Age |
| 274. |
Pygmalion |
| 275. |
My Mother |
| 276. |
The Norns Watering Yggdrasill |
| 277. |
To the Dead |
| 278. |
Hero-Worship |
| William James Linton. |
279. |
Eviction |
| 280. |
Patience |
| 281. |
Our Cause |
| 282. |
Heart and Will |
| 283. |
From “A Threnody: In Memory of Albert Darasz” |
| 284. |
Love and Youth |
| 285. |
Too Late |
| 286. |
Weep Not! Sigh Not! |
| 287. |
Spring and Autumn |
| 288. |
Love’s Blindness |
| 289. |
The Silenced Singer |
| 290. |
Epicurean |
| Robert Nicoll. |
291. |
We ’ll a’ Go Pu’ the Heather |
| 292. |
Bonnie Bessie Lee |
| 293. |
The Hero |
| Wathen Marks Wilks Call. |
294. |
The People’s Petition |
| 295. |
Summer Days |
| Charles Weldon. |
296. |
The Poem of the Universe |
| Emily Brontë. |
297. |
Song |
| 298. |
The Old Stoic |
| 299. |
Warning and Reply |
| 300. |
Stanzas |
| 301. |
Her Last Lines |
| George Eliot. |
302. |
“O May I Join the Choir Invisible” |
| 303. |
Songs from “The Spanish Gypsy.” I. The Dark |
| 304. |
Songs from “The Spanish Gypsy.” II. Song of the Zíncali |
| Ernest Charles Jones. |
305. |
Earth’s Burdens |
| John Ruskin. |
306. |
The Wreck |
| 307. |
Trust thou thy Love |
| Ebenezer Jones. |
308. |
Song of the Kings of Gold |
| 309. |
The Face |
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| The Rhapsodists |
| Philip James Bailey. |
310. |
From “Festus” |
| Dora Greenwell. |
311. |
A Song of Farewell |
| 312. |
To Christina Rossetti |
| George Macdonald. |
313. |
Light |
| 314. |
World and Soul |
| 315. |
Baby |
| 316. |
Song |
| Gerald Massey. |
317. |
The Deserter from the Cause |
| 318. |
Christie’s Portrait |
| 319. |
His Banner over Me |
| Alexander Smith. |
320. |
From “A Life-Drama” |
| 321. |
Beauty |
| 322. |
To —— |
|
| Early Hymnody |
| James Montgomery. |
323. |
At Home in Heaven |
| Charlotte Elliott. |
324. |
Just As I Am |
| 325. |
Let Me Be with Thee |
| James Edmeston. |
326. |
Prayer to the Trinity |
| Henry Hart Milman. |
327. |
Hymn for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity |
| 328. |
Burial Hymn |
| 329. |
Ride on in Majesty |
| John Keble. |
330. |
Who Runs May Read |
| 331. |
Seed Time Hymn |
| 332. |
Holy Matrimony |
| Sir John Bowring. |
333. |
From the Recesses |
| 334. |
What of the Night? |
| Henry Francis Lyte. |
335. |
Abide with Me |
| 336. |
“Lo, We Have Left All” |
| 337. |
The Secret Place |
| Samuel Wilberforce. |
338. |
Just for To-day |
| Christopher Wordsworth. |
339. |
Giving to God |
| Horatius Bonar. |
340. |
Lost but Found |
| 341. |
The Voice from Galilee |
| 342. |
Thy Way, Not Mine |
| 343. |
Abide with Us |
| 344. |
The Master’s Touch |
| 345. |
A Little While |
| John Samuel Bewley Monsell. |
346. |
Litany |
| Frederick William Faber. |
347. |
The Will of God |
| 348. |
Paradise |
| 349. |
The Right Must Win |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. |
350. |
Teach Us to Die |
| Christopher Newman Hall. |
351. |
My Times Are in Thy Hand |
| Anne Brontë. |
352. |
A Prayer |
| William John Blew. |
353. |
O Lord, Thy Wing Outspread |
| Cecil Frances Alexander. |
354. |
There Is a Green Hill |
| Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane. |
355. |
The Lost Sheep |
| Sabine Baring-Bould. |
356. |
Child’s Evening Hymn |
| Frances Ridley Havergal. |
357. |
I Gave My Life for Thee |
