4 On the Loss of the Royal George.

5 With Walker in Nicaragua.

6 Sir Patrick Spence

7 "Willy's rare, and Willy's fair".

8 Edward, Edward

9 The Twa Corbies

10 Thomas Rymer

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11 La Belle Dame Sans Merci

12 The Eve of St. Agnes

13 Christabel

14 The Forsaken Merman

15 The Haystack in the Floods

16 Rhyme of the Duchess May

17 The Lady of Shalott

18 The Defence of Guenevere .

19 Guinevere .

20 Morte d'Arthur

21 Love

22 Michael

23 The Brothers

24 Locksley Hall

25 Rizpah

26 The Bore

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Robert Browning

Thomas Campbell

William Cowper 12

Joaquin Miller 13

Old Ballad 40

Old Ballad 42

Old Ballad 43

Old Ballad 45

Old Ballad 46

John Keats 49

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63

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Matthew Arnold 76

William Morris 81

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 86

Alfred Tennyson 101

William Morris 107

Alfred Tennyson 118

Alfred Tennyson 140

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 148

William Wordsworth 152

27 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (abridged)

George Crabbe 167

Alfred Tennyson 180

Alfred Tennyson 191

Horace 196

Alexander Pope 201

28 The Syracusan Gossips; or, The Feast of Adonis

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Theocritus 208

31 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

Walter Savage Landor 248

35 The Parting of Hector and Andromache. Homer 250

49 Medea Meditates the Murder of Her Children Euripides 350

59 The Puritan and the Man of the World . Molière 402

61 The Poet

III

LYRICAL POEMS

62 "Bards of Passion and of Mirth"

63 "We are the music-makers"

Percy Bysshe Shelley 433

. John Keats 433

Arthur W. E. O'Shaughnessy 435

64 When the Assault Was Intended to the City

65 To a Friend

66 For a Copy of Theocritus

67 To Virgil

68 "Frater Ave atque Vale"

John Milton 436

Matthew Arnold 436

Austin Dobson 437

Alfred Tennyson 438

Alfred Tennyson 439

69 Dante and The Divine Comedy (five sonnets)

73 "O my Luve's like a red, red rose"

Robert Burns 444

Robert Burns 445

Robert Burns 446

Robert Burns 447

77 "My true-love hath my heart, and I have his"

Sir Philip Sidney 449

78 "Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance"

Sir Philip Sidney 449

79 "Nor roses kindling when the Night grows old"

Pierre Ronsard 450

80 "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"

William Shakespeare 450

81 "When in the chronicle of wasted time"

82 To Celia.

83 The Poetry of Dress

William Shakespeare 451

84 To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars

85 The Banks of Rhine

86 To Augusta

Ben Jonson 451

Robert Herrick 452

Richard Lovelace 453

Lord Byron 453

Lord Byron 454

87 Maid of Athens

88 "Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art"

Lord Byron 454

93 "There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer

than the purest". .

Robert Browning 462

94 "Nay but you, who do not love her" Robert Browning 463

95 Two in the Campagna

96 "Well I remember how you smiled"

Robert Browning 463

Walter Savage Landor 465

97 "Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak”

Edgar Allan Poe 470

101 At the Church Gate. William Makepeace Thackeray 469

102 To Helen

103 "Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade"

William Cowper 470

104 "Three years she grew in sun and shower"

105 The Solitary Reaper

106 Ruth

107 To Perdita, Singing (abridged)

William Wordsworth 471

William Wordsworth 472

Thomas Hood 473

James Russell Lowell 474

108 "She was a phantom of delight" William Wordsworth 475

109 "She walks in beauty, like the night". Lord Byron 477

115 “A slumber did my spirit seal" William Wordsworth 484