What far-reaching Nemesis stirred him What hath he lost that such great grace hath won ? What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape What means yon blaze on high? What's the soft South-Wester? When at home alone I sit When half-gods go When I am dead, my dearest When I lov'd you, I can't but allow 80 44 103 299 Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground! Whither, 'midst falling dew Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round Who ever saw the earliest rose Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight'? Who is he that cometh, like an honour'd guest ? Who on earth have made us heirs 100 24 147 330 323 237 384 367 149 394 338 19 Who's striving Parnassus to climb 223 Wild as the scream of the curlew Wind beloved of earth and sky and sea beyond all winds that 52 Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her 'You were taken aback, poor boy,' they urge, no time to regain your wits' 322 MANY exquisite lines quoted in the preceding pages are from poems comparatively recent; and I have pleasure in expressing my sense of the courtesy of the copyrightowners which has enabled me to include them. I am thus indebted to Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., in respect of verses by Cardinal Newman; to Messrs. Macmillan, for Lord Tennyson, Edward FitzGerald, Arthur Hugh Clough, and Matthew Arnold; to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., for Robert Browning; to Messrs. Ellis, for Dante Gabriel Rossetti; to Mr. Aldis Wright, FitzGerald's executor, and to William Morris's and Robert Louis Stevenson's trustees; to Mrs. Coventry Patmore, for The Unknown Eros, and to Messrs. George Bell & Sons, its publishers; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for James Russell Lowell; and to Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton, in respect of Algernon Charles Swinburne. With relation to the work in general of Lowell, Emerson, Poe, Longfellow, Bryant, and Whittier, I must ask pardon of our American kinsmen, with whom we share the heritage of verse, for having yielded to the temptation of numbering all writers of inspired English poetry as members of one brotherhood. To British readers I need make no excuse. INDEX OF POETS WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH ADDISON, JOSEPH (1672-1719). AKENSIDE, MARK, M.D. (1721-1770). ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889). ARNOLD, EDWIN, Sir (1832-1904). ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822–1888). AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE, Professor (1813-1865). BACON, FRANCIS, Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626). BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES (1816-1902). BAILLIE, JOANNA (1762-1851). BARBAULD (AIKIN), ANNA LETITIA, Mrs. (1743–1825). BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS, Rev. (1788–1845). BARNARD (LINDSAY), ANNE, Lady (1750-1825). BARNES, WILLIAM, Rev. (1801–1886). BEATTIE, JAMES, LL.D. (1735-1803). BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1584-1616). BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL (1803-1849). BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827). BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT (1766-1823). BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE, Rev. (1762-1850). BRETON, NICHOLAS (1545 ?–1626 ?). BRONTË, EMILY JANE (1818-1848). BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY (1816–1874). BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD, Rev. (1830-1897). BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591, or 1590-1643, or 1645 ?). BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889). BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878). BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841-1901). BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796). BUTLER, SAMUEL (1612, or 1600-1680). BYRON, GEORGE Gordon NOEL, Lord (1788–1824). |