Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916.
Book II: Nos. 66–208
The Muses — Beauty is Truth — Fairyland — Romance — Childhood — Ideal Love — Nature — Spring & Lovers — Youth & Age.
- Kabir (1440–1518)—From One Hundred Poems, Bk. II. 103
- John Keats (1795–1821)—The opening lines of Endymion
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—Prometheus, iii. 3
- Plotinus (c. 204/5–270)—From Enneads
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677—Eth. Schol. ad fin
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From Letters
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—To Fancy
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Prometheus, i, 1
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Witch of Atlas
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song in Hen. VIII, iii. 1
- John Milton (1608–1674)—From Arcades
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Music
- John Milton (1608–1674)—From L’Allegro
- John Milton (1608–1674)—From Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—The opening lines of Twelfth-Night
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Epipsychidion
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)—From Apology for Poetry
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—From Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)—From Advancement of Learning
- Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867)—From Core
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From A Defence of Poetry
- John Masefield (1878–1967)—From The everlasting Mercy
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—The octett of a sonnet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—Prometheus, i. 738
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—From The Spirit of the Sphere
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet XVIII
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet LV
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Ode to Liberty
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—From Ecclesiastical Sonnets, iii. 45
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—From Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From Ode on a Grecian Urn
- John Keats (1795–1821)—On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
- Lucian (c. 125–180)—From Herodotus sive Aetion
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, i, p. 86
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From Letters
- Unknown—True Thomas
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song from The Tempest
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—The man Who Dreamed of Fairyland
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song from The Tempest
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Witch of Atlas
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Witch of Atlas
- Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)—From the Prothalamion
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Merchant of Venice, v. 1
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From Piccolomini
- George Darley (1795–1846)—From Nepenthe
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—The Sad Shepherd
- Unknown—The Wife of Usher’s Well
- Unknown—Helen of Kirconnell
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From The Lover’s Resolution
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)—La Rivière de Cassis
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From The Woodman and the Nightingale
- Anonymous—The Morning Moon
- Charles Lamb (1775–1834)—From Elia
- John Milton (1608–1674)—From Arcades
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—Kubla Khan
- Emily Bronte (1818–1848)—Poem No. 135
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—The Question
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Prometheus, i. 191
- Anonymous—L’Après-midi d’un Faune
- George Darley (1795–1846)—From Nepenthe
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From Sleep and Poetry
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From Letters
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, i, p. 108
- John Milton (1608–1674)—Paradise Lost, iii. 26
- George Darley (1795–1846)—From Nepenthe
- Plato (427?–347 B.C.)—From Phaedrus
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—From the Ode on Intimations
- Emily Bronte (1818–1848)—From Poems
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
- Charles Fontaine (1515–1585)—From Les Poëtes Français
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—From Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)—From Walden
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—From Sonnet XXI
- Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900)—Dear Friend, Seest Thou Not
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet XXXI
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet CVI
- Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)—Acknowledgment II
- John Milton (1608–1674)—Paradise Lost, iv. 641
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—The Spirit Wooed
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet XCVIII
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, i, p. 193
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From The Invitation
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet XCVII
- R. L. Nettleship (1846–1892)—From Lectures and Memories
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet XXIX
- Anonymous—Devotion
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Epipsychidion
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—Aedh tells of the Rose in his heart
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet XXX
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—Music, when Soft Voices die
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—Humanity
- Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938)—From An Escape
- William Blake (1757–1827)—From Auguries of Innocence
- Ptolemy, the Astronomer (c. 90–c. 168)—Mortal Though I Be
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)—Advancement of Learning, I. viii. 1
- Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)—From To His Coy Mistress
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—From Pensées
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)—From Pulvis et umbra
- Plotinus (c. 204/5–270)—From Enneads
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—Quoted in Memoir
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 86
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 78
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)—From Pulvis et umbra
- Bible—Ecclesiastes, ch. 3
- William Blake (1757–1827)—From Proverbs
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—Lettre à M. Perier
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)—iv. 15
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, pp. 108 and 221
- Kabir (1440–1518)—From One Hundred Poems, iii. 48
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Epipsychidion
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Epipsychidion
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)—Patience, D’un été
- William Blake (1757–1827)—From Songs of Innocence
- Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632)—Sweet Content
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)—vii. 34
- Kabir (1440–1518)—From One Hundred Poems, i. 58
- William Blake (1757–1827)—The Schoolboy
- John Milton (1608–1674)—From L’Allegro
- George Meredith (1828–1909)—From Melampus
- De Baïf (1532–1589)—Les Passetems de Jan Antoine de Baïf
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930)—Walking home
- Thomas Nashe (1567–1601)—Spring
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song from Cymbeline
- Charles D’Orleans (1394–1465)—From Sainte-Beuve’s Book
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song in As You Like It
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—The Ragged Wood
- Charles D’Orleans (1394–1465)—From Les Poëtes Français
- William Blake (1757–1827)—From To Morning
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)—From Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song in Twelfth-Night
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song in As You Like It
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song in As You Like It
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—From The Passionate Pilgrim
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—Last stanza of The Small Celandine
- John Keats (1795–1821)—The Human Seasons
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—The end of the Ode on Intimations
- Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)—Circumstance
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)—From Troilus and Criseyde
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674)—To Meadows
- William Blake (1757–1827)—Song
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From a letter
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song in Merchant of Venice