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LIST OF POEMS

I. THE STUDY OF POETRY

Watson, William: Lachrima Musarum (in part)

Dickinson, Emily: A Book

Whittier, John Greenleaf: Burns (in part)

Bryant, William Cullen: The Poet

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Fletcher, John Gould: Blake

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II. THE SONG .

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Foster, Stephen Collins: Old Folks at Home

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Burns, Robert: Afton Water

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Burns, Robert: Auld Lang Syne

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Young Charms

John Brown's Body

Randall, James Ryder: My Maryland

Kipling, Rudyard: The Gipsy Trail

Burns, Robert: John Anderson

Douglas, William, and Lady John Scott: Annie Laurie
Shakespeare, William: Hark, Hark, the Lark

Jonson, Ben: Song to Celia

Moore, Thomas: Believe Me if All Those Endearing

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Gilman, Samuel: Fair Harvard

Newman, John Henry: Lead, Kindly Light
Key, Francis Scott: The Star-Spangled Banner

Smith, Samuel Francis: America

Carey, Henry: God Save the King

Howe, Julia Ward: The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Stevenson, Robert Louis: Requiem

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Concord Hymn

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: To Night

Tennyson, Alfred: Crossing the Bar

Tennyson, Alfred: Sweet and Low

Yeats, William Butler: Song from The Land of

Heart's Desire

III. THE DUPLE METERS

Byron, Lord: She Walks in Beauty'

Jonson, Ben: Hymn to Diana (in part)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Hiawatha (in part)

Blake, William: The Tiger (in part) .

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo: The Rhodora (in part)

Waller, Edmund: Go, Lovely Rose

Bryant, William Cullen: To a Water-fowl

Bryant, William Cullen: Thanatopsis (in part)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell: The Chambered Nautilus

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Henley, William Ernest: Invictus

Arnold, Matthew: Destiny

Kipling, Rudyard: The White Man's Burden

Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles: The Private of

the Buffs

Wordsworth, William: Ode to Duty

Lovelace, Richard: To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars

Burns, Robert: A Bard's Epitaph

Kingsley, Charles: Young and Old

Scott, Sir Walter: Hunting Song

Housman, Alfred Edward: Reveille (in part)

Blake, William: Songs of Innocence: Introduction

Herrick, Robert: Upon His Departure Hence

Swinburne, Algernon Charles: The Garden of Proser-

pine

Wordsworth, William: The Solitary Reaper

Wordsworth, William: I Wandered Lonely

Goldsmith, Oliver: When Lovely Woman Stoops to

Folly

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Noyes, Alfred: Niobe

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Pierpont, John: The Ballot

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Miller, Cincinnatus Heine ("Joaquin"): Westward Ho 116

Hovey, Richard: Unmanifest Destiny

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Kipling, Rudyard: For All We Have and Are

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Burns, Robert: Bruce's Address to his Army at Ban-

nockburn

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Teasdale, Sara: Wisdom

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Whittier, John Greenleaf: Snow-Bound (in part)-.

Scott, Sir Walter: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (in

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Long, Haniel: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Hymn to the Night
Poe, Edgar Allan: To One in Paradise
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Kubla Khan
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: To a Skylark 、.

IV. THE TRIPLE METERS

Byron, Lord: The Destruction of Sennacherib
Byron, Lord: O Talk Not to Me

Cowper, William: The Poplar Field

Swinburne, Algernon Charles: A Forsaken Garden 142

Wolfe, Charles: The Burial of Sir John Moore at
Corunna

Browning, Robert: Prospice

Scott, Sir Walter: Coronach

Browning, Robert: The Year's at the Spring

Browning, Robert: The Lost Leader

Noyes, Alfred: Unity

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Evangeline (in part) 162

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: The Cloud

Hood, Thomas: The Bridge of Sighs

Noyes, Alfred: Seven Wise Men

Lanier, Sidney: The Song of the Chattahoochee
Byron, Lord: The Bride of Abydos (in part)

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar: Ode
Tennyson, Alfred: Break, Break, Break

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Yeats, William Butler: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Masefield, John: The West Wind

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V. IAMBIC PENTAMETER

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Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus (in part)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: This Shining Moment

Shakespeare, William: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Wordsworth, William: The Prelude (in part)
Keats, John: Hyperion (in part)

Bryant, William Cullen: The Prairies (in part)