The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

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H. Holt, 1918 - American poetry - 4009 pages

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Contents

Into the World and Out Sarah M P Piatt
27
Paradise
28
Wise
34
Jack and Jill Unknown
39
Gods JuoBaby
43
James Montgomery
44
Robin Redbreast Unknown
45
Old Mother Hubbard Unknown
51
The Moon Eliza Lee Follen
57
Proverbs Unknown
64
Ad Ministram
67
The Garden that I Love
68
When the Sleepy Man Comes Charles G D Roberts
70
A Ballad of Sir John Franklin
71
Mothers Song Unknown
77
Carolina Nairne
82
Lullaby O Lullaby William Cox Bennett
83
Oh Mother of a Mighty Race
84
To Sleep
87
MotherSong from Prince Lucifer Alfred Austin
90
My Ain Countree
95
Francis Robert St Clair Erskine
97
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN
98
Home
101
Little Things
103
Jane and Eliza
109
The Pilgrim
110
Unknown
115
The Ant and the Cricket
118
Frederick William Faber
124
Unknown
129
The Night
134
Goodbye
136
Helen Barron Bostwick
137
On a Bust of Dante
141
Phoebe Cary
143
HOME AND FATHERLAND
147
Katherine Tyman
149
Prince Tatters
155
Holy Thursday
174
The Nightingale and the GlowWorm William Cowper
181
Hot Weather in the PlainsIndia
199
Salve
202
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Jakert Louis Stevenson
203
Reginald Heber
210
Integer Vitæ Thomas Campion 2012
212
Henry Howarth Bashford
218
The Argument of His book
223
PART VII
226
On the Morning of Christs Nativity John Milton
231
Ben Jonson
234
The Fairies of the CaldonLow
238
Gone
240
The Reveille
242
The Fairy Folk
245
Laus Infantium
253
A Childs Laughter Algernon Charles Swinburne
254
Cowpers Grave
255
The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whittier
261
To a Little Girl Helen Parry Eden
267
The Bridge of Sighs
269
To Charlotte Pulteney Ambrose Philips
273
Soldier Rest thy Warfare Oer Walter Scott 2301
278
The Childs Heritage John G Neihardt
279
The Song of the Shirt
281
Song Stay stay at home my heart
287
The ShadowChild Harriet Monroe
288
Mannahatta Walt Whitman 2568
289
The DreamBearer Mary Carolyn Davies 3058
290
Daybreak
291
THEY ARE ALL GONE
293
A Song of Sherwood Alfred Noyes 2591
295
Lucy Gray William Wordsworth 200
296
Dickens in Camp
298
The Masters Touch
299
The High Tide at Gettysburg
300
Drink Today
301
The Little Ghost Katherine Tynan
302
Love
307
The Dead Faith
309
For Charlies Sake John Williamson Palmer
310
We Are Seven William Wordsworth
318
IN THE SHADOW
322
Sonnets from Mimma Bella Eugene LeeHamilton
323
Thanatopsis
328
To Mistress Margaret Hussey John Skelton
329
On Melancholy John Keats 3349
333
Blackmwore Maidens William Barnes
336
What of The Darkness? Richard Le Gallienne 3515
338
To Petronilla Who Has Put Up
343
Comrades
347
The Dance of Death
348
Ah Be Not False Richard Watson Gilder
349
Stanzas for Music George Gordon Byron
355
Counsel
358
Growing Gray Austin Dobson
361
Envoy
363
FACING THE SUNSET
367
Equinoctial Adeline D T Whitney
368
Ode on the Intimations of Immortal
371
Duna
373
THE WOMAN
377
Coventry Patmore
384
From Life
390
STEPPING
398
Toujours Amour
399
Shakespeare
401
The Old Mans Comforts
405
Rabbi Ben Ezra
411
Lincoln the Man of the People
414
Young and
417
Forty Years On Edward Ernest Bowen
421
Vitæ Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat
422
LOOKING BACKWARD
434
The Vicar
439
Carcassonne John R Thompson
440
The Voice of Toil
444
Voice of the Western Wind Edmund Clarence Stedman
446
An Immorality Ezra Pound
452
In the Lilacrain Edith Matilda Thomas 3539
453
Threescore and Ten Richard Henry Stoddard
458
The Belle of the Ballroom
461
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns
464
Forty Years Ago Francis Huston
470
Eros Ralph Waldo Emerson
474
The
475
To Death
479
What is Love John Fletcher
481
John Dryden
486
Cupid Stung Thomas Moore
488
Love will Find Out the Way Unknown
494
The Eagle
495
Time and Grief William Lisle Bowles 3352
496
A Ballad of Dreamland Algernon Charles Swinburne
500
The Rose of Stars George Edward Woodberry
507
Child Child
512
The Common Street
516
IN PRAISE OF
518
Arethusa
521
Elizabeth of Bohemia
525
Ben Jonson
527
Song from The Devils Law Case John Webster 3517
528
A Devout Lover
531
Mark Akenside
537
Kyrielle John Payne 2840
542
Song She is not fair to outward
548
Israfel Edgar Allan Poe 3077
551
Love in the Valley
556
Discipline
557
Marian
562
To Daphne
568
Opportunity John James Ingalls 2021
571
Oh Why Should the Spirit of Mor
573
Prayer
576
The White Jessamine John Banister Tabb 3549
579
Rupert Brooke
580
Wrong not Sweet Empress of
586
The Battle of Otterburn Unknown 2356
587
The Winter Glass
610
The Hour of Death
611
The Enchantment Thomas Otway
613
Cavaliers Song Robert CunninghameGraham
619
Take back the Virgin Page Thomas Moore
623
Pain St John Lucas 3353
624
The Cataract of Lodore
626
Ode We are the musicmakers
628
My Share of the World Alice Furlong
630
Providence
633
When You are Old William Butler Yeats
636
Matthew Arnold
640
A Ballad of Life Algernon Charles Swinburne
642
Love on the Mountain Thomas Boyd
648
Matin Song
651
Nanny Francis Davis
654
Resurrection Harry Kemp 3553
657
MY COUNTRY
659
That Day You Came Lizette Woodworth Reese
660
Wild Wishes Ethel M Hewitt
664
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard
670
Heart of my Heart Unknown
676
MY LADYS LIPS
682
The Destruction of Sennacherib George Gordon Byron 2327
685
On Music
686
George Gordon Byron
687
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden Percy Bysshe Shelley
688
A Ballad of Orleans A Mary F Robinson 2364
693
AT HER WINDOW
694
Matin Song
696
Fancies
701
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
702
A Roundel of Rest
708
Memorabilia
710
Oscar Wilde
712
Pious Selinda
721
Todlin Hame
722
To a New York ShopGirl Dressed
725
Comin Through the Rye
727
Embryo Mary Ashley Townsend 3079
732
Alfred Tennyson
733
Lacrima Musarum
734
The Odyssey Andrew Lang 3083
740
Charles Dawson Shanly
755
THE HUMOR OF LOVE
763
The Changing Road
764
Sally in Our Alley Henry Carey
769
A Lament for Flodden Jane Elliot 2368
774
The LowBacked Car Samuel Lover
778
Lochinvar Walter Scott
786
At the Church Gate William Makepeace Thack
792
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont John Milton 2404
794
Across the Fields to Anne
801
Saturday Night
802
THE IRONY OF LOVE
807
The Lovers Resolution
813
Song I try to knead and spin Louise Imogen Guiney 3361
818
The Constant Lover
819
Les Amours
825
The Test
831
The Little Waves of Breffny Eva GoreBooth 2005
834
Shadows Richard Monckton Milnes
838
Scum o the Earth
841
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
846
Vers la Vie Arthur Upson 2855
851
Hebe James Russell Lowell
852
The Night Court
855
Suburb Harold Monro
860
The Factories
864
Venice John Addington Symonds 2619
895
After Summer
899
Song We break the glass
905
John Greenleaf Whittier
909
Eurydice
911
The Peaks
914
Impenitentia Ultima
917
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis François Villon 3837
920
Kinchinjunga
922
Loves Prisoner
925
A Song
931
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going
934
Willie and Helen
941
The Rovers Adieu from Rokeby Walter Scott
948
Last Night
954
Hemlock Mountain
956
A Valediction
960
Alfred Tennyson
964
My Sorrow Seumas OSullivan 3362
966
Song Fair is the night and fair
977
Song Tis said that absence conquers
983
A Song of Autumn Rennell Rodd
985
James Russell Lowell
991
Forever and a Day Thomas Bailey Aldrich
992
Marian Drury Bliss Carman
998
PreExistence Paul Hamilton Hayne 2854
999
Cui Bono Thomas Carlyle 3377
1002
Modern Beauty Arthur Symons
1004
Ode on a Grecian
1006
Lost Light Elizabeth Akers
1010
Endymion Oscar Wilde
1014
Left Behind Elizabeth Akers
1020
The Rose and Thorn Paul Hamilton Hayne
1028
Little Wild Baby Margaret Thomson Janvier
1035
Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley
1040
Agatha Alfred Austin
1047
A Prayer Harry Kemp 2930
1050
The PassionFlower Margaret Fuller
1054
LOVE AND DEATH
1060
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley
1067
The Raven
1070
Lucy William Wordsworth
1073
On the Extinction of the Venetian
1076
The Song of the Western Men Robert Stephen Hawker 2407
1077
At the Mid Hour of Night Thomas Moore
1079
Battle of the Baltic Thomas Campbell 2441
1083
Rosalinds Scroll Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1085
The King of Denmarks Ride Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor
1088
Next of
1091
Evelyn Hope Robert Browning
1094
Barbara Alexander Smith
1102
Telling the Bees John Greenleaf Whittier
1109
Give Love Today Ethel Talbot
1115
Romance Andrew Lang
1121
After Lizette Woodworth Reese
1127
The LotosEaters
1128
Rain on a Grave Thomas Hardy
1133
The Little Rose is Dust My Dear Grace Hazard Conkling
1139
A Better Resurrection
1141
The GoodMorrow John Donne
1142
Song For me the jasmine buds
1148
The Summer is Ended
1149
Earl Mertouns Song Robert Browning
1156
A Womans Question Adelaide Anne Procter
1162
Anna Hempstead Branch 3021
1165
The GuardianAngel Robert Browning 2620
1166
When Death to Either shall Come Robert Bridges
1168
The Lady of Shalott
1174
Nested Habberton Lulham
1177
Prothalamion Edmund Spenser
1183
The Kiss Sara Teasdale
1194
Holy Matrimony John Keble
1197
Hed Nothing but His Violin Mary Kyle Dallas 1 202
1203
Lord Ullins Daughter Thomas Campbell 2723
1204
If Thou Wert by My Side
1209
Margaret to Dolcino Charles Kingsley
1215
The Blessed Damozel
1217
Winifreda Unknown
1221
The Seekers John Masefield 2863
1223
Moggy and Me James Hogg
1227
Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella Philip Sidney
1235
Sonnets from Idea Michael Drayton 12 42
1245
Alexis Here She Stayed William Drummond
1252
Sonnets Christina Georgina Rossetti
1259
Afterwards
1260
Renouncement Alice Meynell
1263
Love in the Winds Richard Hovey
1269
Sonnets from Sonnets from
1276
A Child My Choice Robert Southwell 3747
1283
One Word More Robert Browning
1284
The World is too Much With Us William Wordsworth
1292
A Hundred Years to Come
1294
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 2960
1296
Great Nature is an Army Gay Richard Watson Gilder
1298
Hymn of Apollo Percy Bysshe Shelley
1306
The Hound of Heaven
1309
The Conquered Banner
1311
Ode to Evening William Collins
1313
The Lamp in the West
1316
Song to the Evening Star Thomas Campbell
1319
Ye Mariners of England
1320
Night James Montgomery
1326
There is a Pool on Garda Clinton Scollard 2623
1327
Eve Ralph Hodgson 2816
1329
Turn o the Year Katherine Tynan
1332
England 1802
1348
New Life Amelia Josephine Burr
1349
Spinning in April Josephine Preston Peabody
1357
Unknown
1363
The Harvest Waits
1371
Robert Burns
1386
WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNING BROOK
1398
To the Willowtree Robert Herrick
1406
William Cowper
1411
The Fourth of August
1412
Of an Orchard Katherine Tynan
1414
Stephen Crane
1433
The Worlds Justice
1437
Robert Herrick
1439
GREEN THINGS GROWING
1446
T W Rolleston
1451
To the Daisy
1455
One Gift I
1462
A Chant of Hate Against England
1464
Magpies in Picardy
1473
A Song the Grass Sings Charles G Blanden
1488
The MorningGlory Florence Earle Coates
1494
John Banister Tabb
1503
To Blossoms Robert Herrick
1504
On the Grasshopper and Cricket John Keats
1510
William Cowper
1512
To a Butterfly William Wordsworth
1517
The Blackbird Frederick Tennyson
1523
The OLincon Family Wilson Flagg
1530
The Crow William Canton
1536
Frederick LockerLampson 3458
1538
The Spirit of Wine
1539
The Green Linnet
1541
After the Martyrdom
1543
To the Nightingale
1547
Matthew Arnold
1548
Laura E Richards
1555
The Bridge
1556
A Dirge
1558
Christ Our Example in Suffering James Montgomery 3799
1561
The Sandpiper
1562
To a Skylark
1569
Itylus
1576
The Exiles Song
1582
Song for all Seas all Ships
1584
Falstaffs Song
1590
England
1592
Ireland
1599
Carolina Nairne
1623
The Burial of Moses
1626
THE SIMPLE LIFE
1634
William Shakespeare
1636
Inscription in a Hermitage Thomas Warton
1640
A Strip of Blue Lucy Larcom
1647
The Useful Plow Unknown
1653
The Quiet Life William Byrd
1654
A Runnable Stag John Davidson
1661
A Stein Song
1662
WANDERLUST
1667
Song When daisies pied and violets
1668
In City Streets Ada Smith
1674
A Maine Trail Gertrude Huntington
1681
Charles G D Roberts
1682
The SeaGipsy Richard Hovey
1688
The Joys of the Road Bliss Carman
1694
Ballad of Lowliedown Madison Cawein 1609
1700
Divina Commedia Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3084
1703
Ireland
1706
Ballade of the Primitive Jest Andrew Lang
1708
The Widow
1717
Robert Herrick
1723
My Mistresss Boots
1730
The Lay of the Levite
1739
A MIND CONTENT
1745
Alfred Cochrane
1755
Ballade of Ladies Names
1761
Mimnermus in Church
1767
A Fancy from Fontenelle Austin Dobson 3378
1768
A Dialogue from Plato
1773
On a
1781
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
1788
Chiffons William Samuel Johnson
1789
Before a Statue of Achilles
1790
The Chaperon Henry Cuyler Bunner
1795
Miss Nancys Gown Zitella Cocke
1802
A Letter of Advice Winthrop Mackworth Praed
1809
The Nymph Complaining for
1817
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper
1823
Laddie Katharine Lee Bates
1832
ONE FIGHT MORE
1837
What Mr Robinson Thinks James Russell Lowell
1839
A Modest Wit Selleck Osborn
1845
Nongtongpaw Charles Dibdin
1851
If Love were Jester at the Court
1853
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor
1855
Villons Straight Tip to all Cross
1857
The Worlds
1860
Up at a VillaDown in the City Robert Browning
1868
The German Fatherland
1871
Ballade of a Friar
1874
Travellers Hope
1875
John Godfrey Saxe
1879
The Maiden and the Lily
1880
Came Down from Lebanon Clinton Scollard 2637
1886
Hem and
1887
Sam Walter Foss
1890
Charlie is My Darling
1891
Man and the Ascidian
1895
Balkis
1899
The Ballad of Cassandra Brown Helen Gray Cone
1907
The Muses Edith Matilda Thomas 3097
1908
A Bakers Duzzen uv Wize Sawz
1915
The Farewell
1919
PAGE
1921
Father William
1927
Nonsense Verses Edward Lear 2057
1928
Not a Sou Had he Got
1933
The Jampot
1939
Nubia Bayard Taylor 2640
1948
The Poets at
1953
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Page 1558 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 1529 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While .thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 259 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace : From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Page 1546 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 629 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
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