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The Oxford Book of English Verse

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Editor
Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863-1944
Title
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
Credits
Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 66619
Release Date
October 27, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1900 — The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1900
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS — Cuckoo Song
  4. 4.ANONYMOUS — Alison — Spring-tide — Blow, Northern Wind — This World’s Joy — A Hymn to the Virgin
  5. 5.ROBERT MANNYNG OF BRUNNE — Praise of Women
  6. 6.JOHN BARBOUR — Freedom
  7. 7.GEOFFREY CHAUCER — The Love Unfeigned — Balade — Merciles Beaute A Triple Roundel — 1. CAPTIVITY — 2. REJECTION — 3. ESCAPE
  8. 8.THOMAS HOCCLEVE — Lament for Chaucer
  9. 9.JOHN LYDGATE — Vox ultima Crucis
  10. 10.KING JAMES I OF SCOTLAND — Spring Song of the Birds
  11. 11.ROBERT HENRYSON — Robin and Makyne — The Bludy Serk
  12. 12.WILLIAM DUNBAR — To a Lady — In Honour of the City of London — On the Nativity of Christ — Lament for the Makers
  13. 13.ANONYMOUS — May in the Green-Wood — Carol — Quia Amore Langueo — The Nut-Brown Maid — As ye came from the Holy Land — The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring — Balow — The Old Cloak
  14. 14.JOHN SKELTON — To Mistress Margery Wentworth — To Mistress Margaret Hussey
  15. 15.STEPHEN HAWES — The True Knight — An Epitaph
  16. 16.SIR THOMAS WYATT — Forget not yet — The Appeal — A Revocation — Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus ... — To His Lute
  17. 17.HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY — Description of Spring — Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover being upon the Sea — The Means to attain Happy Life
  18. 18.NICHOLAS GRIMALD — A True Love
  19. 19.ALEXANDER SCOTT — A Bequest of His Heart — A Rondel of Love
  20. 20.ROBERT WEVER — In Youth is Pleasure
  21. 21.RICHARD EDWARDES — Amantium Iræ
  22. 22.GEORGE GASCOIGNE — A Lover’s Lullaby
  23. 23.ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE — The Night is Near Gone
  24. 24.WILLIAM STEVENSON — Jolly Good Ale and Old
  25. 25.ANONYMOUS (SCOTTISH) — When Flora had O’erfret the Firth — Lusty May — My Heart is High Above — NUMBERS FROM ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES & SONG-BOOKS BY UNNAMED OR UNCERTAIN AUTHORS — A Praise of His Lady — To Her Sea-faring Lover — The Faithless Shepherdess — Crabbed Age and Youth — Phyllida’s Love-Call — A Pedlar — Hey nonny no! — Preparations — The New Jerusalem — Icarus — Madrigal — How can the Heart forget her? — Tears — My Lady’s Tears — Sister, Awake! — Devotion — Since First I saw your Face — There is a Lady sweet and kind — Love not me for comely grace — The Wakening
  26. 26.NICHOLAS BRETON — Phillida and Coridon
  27. 27.NICHOLAS BRETON? — A Cradle Song
  28. 28.SIR WALTER RALEIGH — The Silent Lover — i — ii — His Pilgrimage — The Conclusion
  29. 29.EDMUND SPENSER — Whilst it is prime — A Ditty — Prothalamion — Epithalamion — From ‘Daphnaïda’ — Easter
  30. 30.JOHN LYLY — Cards and Kisses — Spring’s Welcome
  31. 31.ANTHONY MUNDAY — Beauty Bathing
  32. 32.SIR PHILIP SIDNEY — The Bargain — Song — Voices at the Window — Philomela — The Highway — His Lady’s Cruelty — Sleep — Splendidis longum valedico Nugis
  33. 33.FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE — Myra
  34. 34.THOMAS LODGE — Rosalind’s Madrigal — Phillis I — Phillis 2 — Rosaline
  35. 35.GEORGE PEELE — Fair and Fair — A Farewell to Arms
  36. 36.ROBERT GREENE — Samela — Fawnia — Sephestia’s Lullaby
  37. 37.ALEXANDER HUME — A Summer Day
  38. 38.GEORGE CHAPMAN — Bridal Song
  39. 39.ROBERT SOUTHWELL — Times go by Turns — The Burning Babe
  40. 40.HENRY CONSTABLE — On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney
  41. 41.SAMUEL DANIEL — Love is a Sickness — Ulysses and the Siren — Beauty, Time, and Love — Sonnets. I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII
  42. 42.MARK ALEXANDER BOYD — Sonet
  43. 43.JOSHUA SYLVESTER — Ubique
  44. 44.MICHAEL DRAYTON — To His Coy Love — The Parting — Sirena — Agincourt — To the Virginian Voyage
  45. 45.CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE — The Passionate Shepherd to His Love — Her Reply
  46. 46.WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE — Silvia — The Blossom — Spring and Winter — i — ii — i — ii — iii — iv — v — Love — Sweet-and-Twenty — Dirge — Under the Greenwood Tree — Blow blow, thou Winter Wind — It was a Lover and his Lass — Take, O take those Lips away — Aubade — Fidele — Bridal Song — Dirge of the Three Queens — Orpheus — The Phœnix and the Turtle — i — ii — iii — iv — v — vi — vii — viii — ix — x — xi — xii — xiii — xiv — xv — xvi — xvii — xviii — xix — xx
  47. 47.RICHARD ROWLANDS — Lullaby
  48. 48.THOMAS NASHE — Spring — In Time of Pestilence
  49. 49.THOMAS CAMPION — Cherry-Ripe — Laura — i — ii — Vobiscum est Iope — Hymn in Praise of Neptune — Winter Nights — Integer Vitae — O come quickly!
  50. 50.JOHN REYNOLDS — A Nosegay
  51. 51.SIR HENRY WOTTON — Elizabeth of Bohemia — The Character of a Happy Life — Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife
  52. 52.SIR JOHN DAVIES — Man
  53. 53.SIR ROBERT AYTON — To His Forsaken Mistress — To an Inconstant One
  54. 54.BEN JONSON — Hymn to Diana — To Celia — Simplex Munditiis — The Shadow — The Triumph — An Elegy — A Farewell to the World — The Noble Balm — On Elizabeth L. H. — On Salathiel Pavy — A Part of an Ode
  55. 55.JOHN DONNE — Daybreak — Song — The Ecstasy — The Dream — The Funeral — A Hymn to God the Father — Death
  56. 56.RICHARD BARNEFIELD — Philomel
  57. 57.THOMAS DEKKER — Sweet Content
  58. 58.THOMAS HEYWOOD — Matin Song — The Message
  59. 59.JOHN FLETCHER — Sleep — Bridal Song — Aspatia’s Song — Hymn to Pan — Away, Delights — Love’s Emblems — Hear, ye Ladies — God Lyaeus — Beauty Clear and Fair — Melancholy — Weep no more
  60. 60.JOHN WEBSTER — A Dirge — The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi — Vanitas Vanitatum
  61. 61.WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING — Aurora
  62. 62.PHINEAS FLETCHER — A Litany
  63. 63.SIR JOHN BEAUMONT — Of his Dear Son, Gervase
  64. 64.WILLIAM DRUMMOND, OF HAWTHORNDEN — Invocation — Madrigal — Spring Bereaved 1 — Spring Bereaved 2 — Spring Bereaved 3 — Her Passing — Inexorable — Change should breed Change — Saint John Baptist
  65. 65.GILES FLETCHER — Wooing Song
  66. 66.FRANCIS BEAUMONT — On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey
  67. 67.JOHN FORD — Dawn
  68. 68.GEORGE WITHER — I loved a Lass — The Lover’s Resolution — The Choice — A Widow’s Hymn
  69. 69.WILLIAM BROWNE, OF TAVISTOCK — A Welcome — The Sirens’ Song — The Rose — Song — Memory — In Obitum M.S. Xº Maij, 1614 — On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
  70. 70.ROBERT HERRICK — Corinna’s going a-Maying — To the Virgins, to make much of Time — To the Western Wind — To Electra — To Violets — To Daffodils — To Blossoms — The Primrose — The Funeral Rites of the Rose — Cherry-Ripe — A Meditation for his Mistress — Delight in Disorder — Upon Julia’s Clothes — The Bracelet: To Julia — To Daisies, not to shut so soon — The Night-piece: To Julia — To Music, to becalm his Fever — To Dianeme — To Œnone — To Anthea, who may command him Anything — To the Willow-tree — The Mad Maid’s Song — Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love — To Meadows — A Child’s Grace — Epitaph — Another — His Winding-sheet — Litany to the Holy Spirit
  71. 71.FRANCIS QUARLES — A Divine Rapture — Epigram
  72. 72.HENRY KING, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER — A Contemplation upon Flowers — A Renunciation — Exequy on his Wife
  73. 73.GEORGE HERBERT — Virtue — Easter — Discipline — A Dialogue — The Pulley — Love
  74. 74.JAMES SHIRLEY — A Hymn — Death the Leveller
  75. 75.THOMAS CAREW — Song — Persuasions to Joy: a Song — To His Inconstant Mistress — The Unfading Beauty — Ingrateful Beauty threatened — Epitaph — Another
  76. 76.JASPER MAYNE — Time
  77. 77.WILLIAM HABINGTON — To Roses in the Bosom of Castara — Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam
  78. 78.THOMAS RANDOLPH — A Devout Lover — An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford
  79. 79.SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT — Aubade — To a Mistress Dying — Praise and Prayer
  80. 80.EDMUND WALLER — On a Girdle — Go, lovely Rose — Old Age
  81. 81.JOHN MILTON — Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity — On Time — At a Solemn Musick — L’Allegro — Il Penseroso — From ‘Arcades’
  82. 82.From ‘Comus’ — i — ii Echo — iii Sabrina — iv The Spirit epiloguizes: — Lycidas — To the Lady Margaret Ley — On His Blindness — To Mr. Lawrence — To Cyriack Skinner — On His Deceased Wife — Light — i — ii
  83. 83.SIR JOHN SUCKLING — A Doubt of Martyrdom — The Constant Lover — Why so Pale and Wan? — When, Dearest, I but think of Thee
  84. 84.SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE — A Rose
  85. 85.WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT — To Chloe — Falsehood — On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries — On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman that died suddenly
  86. 86.JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE — I’ll never love Thee more
  87. 87.THOMAS JORDAN — Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant
  88. 88.RICHARD CRASHAW — Wishes to His Supposed Mistress — The Weeper — A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa — Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa — Verses from the Shepherds’ Hymn — Christ Crucified — An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife
  89. 89.RICHARD LOVELACE — To Lucasta, going to the Wars — To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas — Gratiana Dancing — To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair — The Grasshopper — To Althea, from Prison
  90. 90.ABRAHAM COWLEY — 1. Drinking — 2. The Epicure — 3. The Swallow — On the Death of Mr. William Hervey — The Wish
  91. 91.ALEXANDER BROME — The Resolve
  92. 92.ANDREW MARVELL — An Horatian Ode — A Garden — To His Coy Mistress — The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers — Thoughts in a Garden — Bermudas — An Epitaph
  93. 93.HENRY VAUGHAN — The Retreat — Peace — The Timber — Friends Departed
  94. 94.JOHN BUNYAN — The Shepherd Boy sings in the Valley of Humiliation
  95. 95.BALLADS AND SONGS BY UNKNOWN AUTHORS — Thomas the Rhymer — Sir Patrick Spens — I. The Sailing — II. The Return — The Lass of Lochroyan — The Dowie Houms of Yarrow — Clerk Saunders — Fair Annie — Edward, Edward — Edom o’ Gordon — The Queen’s Marie — Binnorie — The Bonnie House o’ Airlie — The Wife of Usher’s Well — The Three Ravens — The Twa Corbies — A Lyke-Wake Dirge — The Seven Virgins. — Two Rivers — Cradle Song — The Call — The Bonny Earl of Murray — Helen of Kirconnell — Waly, Waly — Barbara Allen’s Cruelty — Pipe and Can — I — II — Love will find out the Way — Phillada flouts Me
  96. 96.WILLIAM STRODE — Chloris in the Snow
  97. 97.THOMAS STANLEY — The Relapse
  98. 98.THOMAS D’URFEY — Chloe Divine
  99. 99.CHARLES COTTON — To Cœlia
  100. 100.KATHERINE PHILIPS (‘ORINDA’) — To One persuading a Lady to Marriage
  101. 101.JOHN DRYDEN — Ode — A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 — Grand Chorus. — Ah, how sweet it is to love! — Hidden Flame — Song to a Fair Young Lady, going out of the Town in the Spring
  102. 102.CHARLES WEBBE — Against Indifference
  103. 103.SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE — Song — To a Lady asking him how long he would love her
  104. 104.THOMAS TRAHERNE — News
  105. 105.THOMAS FLATMAN — The Sad Day
  106. 106.CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET — Song
  107. 107.SIR CHARLES SEDLEY — To Chloris — To Celia
  108. 108.APHRA BEHN — Song — The Libertine
  109. 109.JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER — Return — Love and Life — Constancy — To His Mistress
  110. 110.JOHN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE — The Reconcilement — On One who died discovering her Kindness
  111. 111.THOMAS OTWAY — The Enchantment
  112. 112.JOHN OLDHAM — A Quiet Soul
  113. 113.JOHN CUTTS, LORD CUTTS — Song
  114. 114.MATTHEW PRIOR — The Question to Lisetta — To a Child of Quality Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty — Song — On My Birthday, July 21 — The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus — A Letter — For my own Monument
  115. 115.WILLIAM WALSH — Rivals
  116. 116.LADY GRISEL BAILLIE — Werena my Hearts licht I wad dee
  117. 117.WILLIAM CONGREVE — False though She be — A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret
  118. 118.JOSEPH ADDISON — Hymn
  119. 119.ISAAC WATTS — The Day of Judgement — A Cradle Hymn
  120. 120.THOMAS PARNELL — Song
  121. 121.ALLAN RAMSAY — Peggy
  122. 122.WILLIAM OLDYS — On a Fly drinking out of his Cup
  123. 123.JOHN GAY — Song
  124. 124.ALEXANDER POPE — On a certain Lady at Court — Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady — The Dying Christian to his Soul
  125. 125.GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON, LORD MELCOMBE — Shorten Sail
  126. 126.HENRY CAREY — Sally in our Alley — A Drinking-Song
  127. 127.WILLIAM BROOME — The Rosebud — Belinda’s Recovery from Sickness
  128. 128.JAMES THOMSON — On the Death of a particular Friend
  129. 129.GEORGE LYTTELTON, LORD LYTTELTON — Tell me, my Heart if this be Love
  130. 130.SAMUEL JOHNSON — One-and-Twenty — On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic
  131. 131.RICHARD JAGO — Absence
  132. 132.THOMAS GRAY — Elegy written in a Country Churchyard — THE EPITAPH. — The Curse upon Edward — The Progress of Poesy — On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
  133. 133.WILLIAM COLLINS — Ode to Simplicity — How sleep the Brave — Ode to Evening — Fidele
  134. 134.MARK AKENSIDE — Amoret — The Complaint — The Nightingale
  135. 135.TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT — To Leven Water
  136. 136.CHRISTOPHER SMART — Song to David
  137. 137.JANE ELLIOT — A Lament for Flodden
  138. 138.OLIVER GOLDSMITH — Woman — Memory
  139. 139.ROBERT CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM OF GARTMORE — If Doughty Deeds
  140. 140.WILLIAM COWPER — To Mary Unwin — My Mary
  141. 141.JAMES BEATTIE — An Epitaph
  142. 142.ISOBEL PAGAN — Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes
  143. 143.ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD — Life
  144. 144.FANNY GREVILLE — Prayer for Indifference
  145. 145.JOHN LOGAN — To the Cuckoo
  146. 146.LADY ANNE LINDSAY — Auld Robin Gray
  147. 147.SIR WILLIAM JONES — Epigram
  148. 148.THOMAS CHATTERTON — Song from Ælla
  149. 149.GEORGE CRABBE — Meeting — Late Wisdom — A Marriage Ring
  150. 150.WILLIAM BLAKE — To the Muses — To Spring — Song — Reeds of Innocence — The Little Black Boy — Hear the Voice — The Tiger — Cradle Song — Night — Love’s Secret
  151. 151.ROBERT BURNS — Mary Morison — Jean — Auld Lang Syne — My Bonnie Mary — John Anderson, my Jo — The Banks o’ Doon — Ae Fond Kiss — Bonnie Lesley — Highland Mary — O were my Love yon Lilac fair — A Red, Red Rose — Lament for Culloden — The Farewell — Hark! The Mavis
  152. 152.HENRY ROWE — Sun — Moon
  153. 153.WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES — Time and Grief
  154. 154.JOANNA BAILLIE — The Outlaw’s Song
  155. 155.MARY LAMB — A Child
  156. 156.CAROLINA, LADY NAIRNE — The Land o’ the Leal
  157. 157.JAMES HOGG — A Boy’s Song — Kilmeny
  158. 158.WILLIAM WORDSWORTH — i — ii — iii — iv — v — Upon Westminster Bridge — Evening on Calais Beach — On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802 — i — ii — iii — iv — v — The Solitary Reaper — Perfect Woman — Daffodils — Ode to Duty — The Rainbow — i — ii — The World — Ode — Desideria — Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon — Mutability — The Trosachs — Speak!
  159. 159.SIR WALTER SCOTT — Proud Maisie — Brignall Banks — Lucy Ashton’s Song — Answer — The Rover’s Adieu — 1. Innominatus — 2. Nelson, Pitt, Fox
  160. 160.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE — The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Part I — Part II — Part III — Part IV — Part V — Part VI — Part VII — Kubla Khan — Love — Youth and Age — Time, Real and Imaginary — Work without Hope — Glycine’s Song
  161. 161.ROBERT SOUTHEY — His Books
  162. 162.WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR — The Maid’s Lament — Rose Aylmer — Ianthe — Twenty Years hence — Verse — Proud Word you never spoke — Resignation — Mother, I cannot mind my Wheel — Autumn — Remain! — Absence — Of Clementina — Ianthe’s Question — On Catullus — Dirce — Alciphron and Leucippe — Years — Separation — Late Leaves — Finis
  163. 163.CHARLES LAMB — The Old Familiar Faces — Hester — On an Infant dying as soon as born
  164. 164.THOMAS CAMPBELL — Ye Mariners of England — The Battle of the Baltic
  165. 165.THOMAS MOORE — The Young May Moon — The Irish Peasant to His Mistress — The Light of Other Days — At the Mid Hour of Night
  166. 166.EDWARD THURLOW, LORD THURLOW — May
  167. 167.EBENEZER ELLIOTT — Battle Song — Plaint
  168. 168.ALLAN CUNNINGHAM — The Sun rises bright in France — Hame, Hame, Hame — The Spring of the Year
  169. 169.LEIGH HUNT — Jenny kiss’d Me
  170. 170.THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK — Love and Age — The Grave of Love — Three Men of Gotham
  171. 171.CAROLINE SOUTHEY — To Death
  172. 172.GEORGE GORDON BYRON, LORD BYRON — When we Two parted — For Music — We’ll go no more a-roving — She walks in Beauty — The Isles of Greece
  173. 173.SIR AUBREY DE VERE — The Children Band
  174. 174.CHARLES WOLFE — The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna — To Mary
  175. 175.PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY — Hymn of Pan — The Invitation — Hellas — To a Skylark — The Moon — I — II — Ode to the West Wind — I — II — III — IV — V — The Indian Serenade — Night — From the Arabic — Lines — To—— — The Question — Remorse — Music, when Soft Voices die
  176. 176.HEW AINSLIE — Willie and Helen
  177. 177.JOHN KEBLE — Burial of the Dead
  178. 178.JOHN CLARE — Written in Northampton County Asylum
  179. 179.FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS — Dirge
  180. 180.JOHN KEATS — Song of the Indian Maid — Ode to a Nightingale — Ode on a Grecian Urn — Ode to Psyche — To Autumn — Ode on Melancholy — Fragment of an Ode to Maia — Bards of Passion and of Mirth — Fancy — Stanzas — La Belle Dame sans Merci — On first looking into Chapman’s Homer — When I have Fears that I may cease to be — To Sleep — Last Sonnet
  181. 181.JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN — The Outlaw of Loch Lene
  182. 182.WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER
  183. 183.GEORGE DARLEY — Song — To Helene — The Fallen Star
  184. 184.HARTLEY COLERIDGE — The Solitary-Hearted — Song — Early Death — Friendship
  185. 185.THOMAS HOOD — Autumn — Silence — Death — Fair Ines — Time of Roses — Ruth — The Death-bed — The Bridge of Sighs
  186. 186.WILLIAM THOM — The Blind Boy’s Pranks
  187. 187.SIR HENRY TAYLOR — Elena’s Song
  188. 188.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, LORD MACAULAY — A Jacobite’s Epitaph
  189. 189.WILLIAM BARNES — Mater Dolorosa — The Wife a-lost
  190. 190.WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED — Fairy Song
  191. 191.SARA COLERIDGE — O sleep my Babe — The Child
  192. 192.GERALD GRIFFIN — Eileen Aroon
  193. 193.JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN — Dark Rosaleen — The Nameless One
  194. 194.THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES — Wolfram’s Dirge — Dream-Pedlary — Song
  195. 195.RALPH WALDO EMERSON — Give All to Love — Uriel — Bacchus — Brahma
  196. 196.RICHARD HENRY HORNE — The Plough
  197. 197.ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER — King Arthur’s Waes-hael — Are they not all Ministering Spirits?
  198. 198.THOMAS WADE — The Half-asleep
  199. 199.FRANCIS MAHONY — The Bells of Shandon
  200. 200.ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING — Rosalind’s Scroll — The Deserted Garden — Consolation — Grief — i — ii — iii — iv — v — A Musical Instrument
  201. 201.FREDERICK TENNYSON — The Holy Tide
  202. 202.HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW — My Lost Youth
  203. 203.JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER — Vesta
  204. 204.HELEN SELINA, LADY DUFFERIN — Lament of the Irish Emigrant
  205. 205.CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH NORTON — I do not love Thee
  206. 206.CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER — Letty’s Globe
  207. 207.EDGAR ALLAN POE — To Helen — Annabel Lee — For Annie
  208. 208.EDWARD FITZGERALD — Old Song — From Omar Khayyám — I — II — III
  209. 209.ALFRED TENNYSON, LORD TENNYSON — Mariana — The Lady of Shalott — Part I — Part II — Part III — Part IV — The Miller’s Daughter — Song of the Lotos-Eaters — St. Agnes’ Eve — Blow, Bugle, blow — Summer Night — Come down, O Maid — From ‘In Memoriam’ — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX — X — XI — XII — Maud — O that ’twere possible
  210. 210.RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON — Shadows
  211. 211.HENRY ALFORD — The Bride
  212. 212.SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON — Cean Dubh Deelish — Cashel of Munster — The Fair Hills of Ireland
  213. 213.ROBERT BROWNING — Song from ‘Paracelsus’ — The Wanderers — Thus the Mayne glideth — Pippa’s Song — You’ll love Me yet — Porphyria’s Lover — Song — Earl Mertoun’s Song — In a Gondola — Meeting at Night — Parting at Morning — The Lost Mistress — The Last Ride together — Misconceptions — Home-thoughts, from Abroad — Home-thoughts, from the Sea
  214. 214.WILLIAM BELL SCOTT — The Witch’s Ballad
  215. 215.AUBREY DE VERE — Serenade — Sorrow
  216. 216.GEORGE FOX — The County of Mayo
  217. 217.EMILY BRONTË — My Lady’s Grave — Remembrance — The Prisoner — Last Lines
  218. 218.CHARLES KINGSLEY — Airly Beacon — The Sands of Dee
  219. 219.ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH — Say not the Struggle Naught availeth
  220. 220.WALT WHITMAN — The Imprisoned Soul — O Captain! My Captain!
  221. 221.JOHN RUSKIN — Trust Thou Thy Love
  222. 222.EBENEZER JONES — When the World is burning
  223. 223.FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON — At Her Window
  224. 224.MATTHEW ARNOLD — The Forsaken Merman — The Song of Callicles — To Marguerite — Requiescat — The Scholar-Gipsy — Philomela — Shakespeare — From the Hymn of Empedocles
  225. 225.WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS — The Flowers — The Thought
  226. 226.WILLIAM PHILPOT — Maritæ Suæ — I — II
  227. 227.WILLIAM (JOHNSON) CORY — Mimnermus in Church — Heraclitus
  228. 228.COVENTRY PATMORE — The Married Lover — ‘ If I were dead ’ — Departure — The Toys — A Farewell
  229. 229.SYDNEY DOBELL — The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston — Return! — A Chanted Calendar — Laus Deo
  230. 230.WILLIAM ALLINGHAM — The Fairies
  231. 231.GEORGE MAC DONALD — That Holy Thing
  232. 232.DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI — The Blessèd Damozel
  233. 233.GEORGE MEREDITH — Love in the Valley — Phœbus with Admetus — Tardy Spring — Love’s Grave — Lucifer in Starlight
  234. 234.ALEXANDER SMITH — Love — Barbara
  235. 235.CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI — Bride Song — A Birthday — Song — Twice — Uphill — Passing Away — Marvel of Marvels — Is it Well with the Child? — Remember — Aloof — Rest
  236. 236.THOMAS EDWARD BROWN — Dora — Jessie — Salve! — My Garden
  237. 237.EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, EARL OF LYTTON — A Night in Italy — The Last Wish
  238. 238.JAMES THOMSON — In the Train — Sunday up the River — Gifts — The Vine
  239. 239.WILLIAM MORRIS — Summer Dawn — Love is enough — The Nymph’s Song to Hylas
  240. 240.RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL — The Water-Nymph and the Boy — The Old
  241. 241.THOMAS ASHE — Meet We no Angels, Pansie? — To Two Bereaved
  242. 242.THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON — Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid Tavern
  243. 243.ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE — Chorus from ‘Atalanta’ — Hertha — Ave atque Vale — Itylus
  244. 244.WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS — Earliest Spring
  245. 245.BRET HARTE — What the Bullet sang
  246. 246.JOHN TODHUNTER — Maureen — Aghadoe
  247. 247.WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT — Song — The Desolate City — With Esther — To Manon, on his Fortune in loving Her — St. Valentines Day — Gibraltar — Written at Florence — The Two Highwaymen
  248. 248.HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON — A Garden Song — Urceus Exit — In After Days
  249. 249.HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL — Mooni
  250. 250.ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O’SHAUGHNESSY — Ode — Song — The Fountain of Tears
  251. 251.JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY — A White Rose
  252. 252.ROBERT BRIDGES — My Delight and Thy Delight — Spirits — Nightingales — A Passer-by — Absence — On a Dead Child — Pater Filio — Winter Nightfall — When Death to Either shall come
  253. 253.ANDREW LANG — The Odyssey
  254. 254.WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY — Invictus — Margaritæ Sorori — England, My England
  255. 255.EDMUND GOSSE — Revelation
  256. 256.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON — Romance — In the Highlands — Requiem
  257. 257.T. W. ROLLESTON — The Dead at Clonmacnois
  258. 258.JOHN DAVIDSON — Song — The Last Rose
  259. 259.WILLIAM WATSON — Song — Ode in May — The Great Misgiving
  260. 260.HENRY CHARLES BEECHING — Prayers — Going down Hill on a Bicycle
  261. 261.BLISS CARMAN — Why
  262. 262.DOUGLAS HYDE — My Grief on the Sea
  263. 263.ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON — The Phœnix
  264. 264.HENRY NEWBOLT — He fell among Thieves
  265. 265.GILBERT PARKER — Reunited
  266. 266.WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS — Where My Books go — When You are Old — The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  267. 267.RUDYARD KIPLING — A Dedication — L’Envoi — Recessional
  268. 268.RICHARD LE GALLIENNE — Song — The Second Crucifixion
  269. 269.LAURENCE BINYON — Invocation to Youth — O World, be Nobler
  270. 270.GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL (‘A. E.’) — By the Margin of the Great Deep — The Great Breath
  271. 271.T. STURGE MOORE — A Duet
  272. 272.FRANCIS THOMPSON — The Poppy
  273. 273.HENRY CUST — Non Nobis
  274. 274.KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON — Sheep and Lambs
  275. 275.FRANCES BANNERMAN — An Upper Chamber
  276. 276.ALICE MEYNELL — Renouncement — The Lady of the Lambs
  277. 277.DORA SIGERSON — Ireland
  278. 278.MARGARET L. WOODS — Genius Loci
  279. 279.R. D. BLACKMORE — Dominus Illuminatio Mea
  280. 280.INDEX OF AUTHORS
  281. 281.INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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