The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Volume 1

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Burton Egbert Stevenson
Holt, 1953 - American poetry - 4013 pages
2 volume collection of the best brief poems in the English language from Spenser to the present.

Contents

THE BABY
3
JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN
7
Shadows
10
William Cox Bennett
11
Edith
14
Algernon Charles Swinburne
17
May Byron
21
Gerald Massey
27
His WindingSheet
884
Song Oh that we two were May
886
Song I saw the days white rap
892
The Lonely Road
893
Venice John Addington Symonds 2619
895
Rococo
900
Love Time and Death
905
Proem
909

The Blue Bells of Scotland
28
Jack and Jill
39
Robin Redbreast
45
Old Mother Hubbard Unknown
51
The Moon Eliza Lee Follen
57
Proverbs Unknown
64
The RazorSeller
66
When the Sleepy Man Comes Charles G D Roberts
70
Mothers Song Unknown
77
The Friar of Orders Gray Thomas Percy 2710
82
Lullaby O Lullaby William Cox Bennett
83
A Ballad of Sir John Franklin
84
To Sleep
87
Minnie and Winnie Alfred Tennyson
92
My Ain Countree
95
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN
98
Home
101
Unknown
104
Meddlesome Matty
110
PAGE
115
Heinrich Hoffman
123
The Worlds Music Gabriel Setoun
127
The Wind and the Moon George Macdonald
133
The Night
134
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant
139
The Crickets Story Emma Huntington Nason
145
HOME AND FATHERLAND
147
A Court Lady Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3315
149
In Memoriam
150
Nurses Song William Blake
151
The Blind Boy Colley Cibber
157
Envoy
158
My Bed is a Boat Robert Louis Stevenson
161
The Man in the Moon James Whitcomb Riley
168
Holy Thursday William Blake
174
A Parable George Macdonald
180
Holy Matrimony
182
The Babes in the Wood Unknown
185
A Marriage Charm
187
Gods Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Robert Southey
189
In the Lilacrain
196
The Well of St Keyne
199
THE GLAD EVANGEL
201
The Angels William Drummond
207
Stupidity Street
210
The House of Christmas Gilbert Keith Chesterton
213
A Childs Song of Christmas Marjorie L C Pickthall
219
In Memoriam
223
PART VII
226
FAIRYLAND
231
The Noble Nature
234
The Rustic at the Play
235
Fairy Song John Keats
237
The Reveille
242
The Fairy Thrall Mary C G Byron
243
Mans Days
244
The Visitor Patrick R Chalmers
247
Laus Infantium William Canton
253
A Childs Laughter Algernon Charles Swinburne
254
The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whittier
261
The High Tide at Gettysburg
263
June from The Vision of Sir Laun
265
To a Little Girl Helen Parry Eden
267
A Little While
270
To Charlotte Pulteney Ambrose Philips
273
Sweet and Sour
277
Envoy
278
The Childs Heritage John G Neihardt
279
Song Stay stay at home my heart
287
The ShadowChild Harriet Monroe
288
Mannahatta Walt Whitman 2568
289
Daybreak
291
A Song of Sherwood Alfred Noyes 2591
295
Were Dead Coventry Patmore
296
How We Learn
299
Edmund Clarence Stedman
300
The Little Ghost Katherine Tynan
302
Love
307
For Charlies Sake John Williamson Palmer
310
James Russell Lowell
315
We Are Seven William Wordsworth
318
IN THE SHADOW
322
Sonnets from Mimma Bella
323
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
329
Thomas Hood
333
William Barnes
337
Francis Thompson
343
The Chambered Nautilus
347
The Dance of Death
348
Nathaniel Parker Willis
349
Todlin Hame Unknown 2009
352
What is Good
353
Walter Savage Landor
354
The Quest
357
Peace to the Slumberers
359
Andrew Lang
363
FACING THE SUNSET
367
The Pulley
370
Ode on the Intimations of Immortal
371
Duna
373
THE WOMAN
377
Hartley Coleridge
382
Preludes from The Angel in
384
From Life Brian Hooker
390
Prayer
391
Sentence
393
We Need not Bid for Cloistered
394
Mother Theresa Helburn
396
The Crowing of the Red Cock
399
Song When daisies pied and violets
401
Tomorrow John Collins
402
Long Time a Child Hartley Coleridge
408
The Quiet Life
409
Ralph Waldo Emerson
411
Human Life Aubrey Thomas de Vere
416
Forty Years On Edward Ernest Bowen
421
Ernest Dowson
422
Out of Hearing
427
Leisure
429
Auspex James Russell Lowell
433
PAGE
438
Carcassonne John R Thompson
440
Oh Breathe Not His Name Thomas Moore 3609
443
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 144
446
An Immorality Ezra Pound
452
A Friend
453
A Hymn to God the Father John Donne 3759
457
Threescore and Ten Richard Henry Stoddard
458
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns
464
On a Tear Samuel Rogers 3380
466
Forty Years Ago Unknown
470
John Anderson My
471
Ralph Waldo Emerson
474
The
475
Loves Emblems
482
Cupid Stung
488
The Widow Allan Ramsay 2020
489
William Thom
494
Algernon Charles Swinburne
500
C Pickthall 3241
501
Lincoln the Man of the People Edwin Markham 3639
504
Comrades
506
Song of Eros from Agathon
507
Dewey at Manila
508
The Starry Host
511
Child Child Sara Teasdale
512
IN PRAISE OF
518
Song Because the rose must fade
519
Arethusa
521
CherryRipe Thomas Campion
524
The Captain Stood on
526
Song Ask me no more where Jove
530
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph
531
The Fair Thief Charles Wyndham
536
Amoret Mark Akenside
537
William Goldsmith Brown 3244
540
Rondeau Redoublé John Payne
542
My Love Shes but a Lassie yet James Hogg
543
Song She is not fair to outward
548
The MinstrelBoy
549
The Henchman
552
Lovely Mary Donnelly
554
Heredity
559
Ursula
561
In February
568
The Daughter of Mendoza
569
Jaffar
574
Trumbull Stickney
575
On the Portrait of Shakespeare Ben Jonson 3652
578
Irene Rutherford McLeod
581
Praise
582
The Battle of Otterburn Unknown 2356
587
To Lesbia
588
Love me or Not
589
Song O do not wanton with those
592
Mediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew
598
To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace
605
Love and Life John Wilmot
611
Song Too late alas I must con
612
Gifts James Thomson
617
Amynta Gilbert Elliot
618
Alice Furlong
624
On Melancholy John Keats 3349
628
Faithless Sally Brown
630
Charles Swain
631
Song Youll love me yet and I
637
Shakespeare Matthew Arnold 3653
640
A Ballad of Heroes
642
A LeaveTaking
645
Life Anna Letitia Barbauld 3491
655
Rus in Urbe
656
Some Day of Days
658
Amantium Irĉ
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 Common Street
684
William Cowper
685
Opportunity
687
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden Percy Bysshe Shelley
688
A Tocatta of Galuppis
689
A Ballad of Orleans A Mary F Robinson 2364
693
AT HER WINDOW
694
Mary Morison
697
Robinson Crusoe
701
The Rainy Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3350
702
Come into the Garden Maud
706
A Turkish Legend
711
Serenade
712
Sesostris
724
When Molly Smiles
725
Kubla Khan
726
Multum Dilexit Hartley Coleridge 3387
732
Wouldnt You Like to Know John Godfrey Saxe
734
A Primrose Dame Gleeson While
740
Wooed and Married and A Alexander Ross
746
Rory OMore or Good Omens Samuel Lover
753
Allan Cunningham
754
The Ould Plaid Shawl Francis A Fahy
759
To Chloe Jealous Matthew Prior
766
O Merry may the Maid be John Clerk
772
A Lament for Flodden Jane Elliot 2368
774
The LowBacked Car Samuel Lover
778
Memorabilia Robert Browning 3657
782
Lochinvar Walter Scott
786
Because Edward Fitzgerald
790
Toujours Amour Edmund Clarence Stedman
793
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont John Milton 2404
794
Riding Down Nora Perry
799
Corrymcela Moira ONeill 2604
801
The House by the Side of the Road Sam Walter Foss
802
Yes? Henry Cuyler Bunner
805
Song Follow a shadow it still flies
811
Disdain Returned Thomas Carew
817
Song Love in fantastic triumph
824
Song of Thyrsis Philip Freneau
830
The Little Waves of Breffny Eva GoreBooth 2605
834
Sorrows of Werther
838
Scum o the Earth
841
The Mystics Prayer
842
My Last Duchess
846
Little and Great
850
Oh Mother of a Mighty Race William Cullen Bryant 2203
851
Hebe
852
The Night Court
855
Two Lovers
856
The Betrothed
860
In After Days Austin Dobson 3502
862
Deaths Summons
865
The Water Lady
869
Time and Grief William Lisle Bowles 3352
873
A Womans Thought
912
So Sweet Love Seemed
918
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis François Villon 3837
920
When My Beloved Sleeping Lies Irene Rutherford McLeod
924
THE PARTED LOVERS
930
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going
934
Lady Clara Vere de Vere Alfred Tennyson
935
Song At setting day and rising
940
My Bonnie Mary Robert Burns
946
Stanzas
948
When We Two Parted George Gordon Byron
952
The Sealands Orrick Johns
958
Solitude
962
The Flowers Name Robert Browning
964
Pain St John Lucas 3353
966
Divided Jean Ingelow
971
Song Fair is the night and fair
977
Kathleen Mavourneen Louisa Macartney Crawford
979
The Parting Hour Olive Custance
985
They Went Forth to Battle
992
THE TRAGEDY OF LOVE
1001
Cui Bono Thomas Carlyle 3377
1002
The Odyssey
1006
Lost Light
1010
Robert Louis Stevenson Lizette Woodworth Reese 3657
1014
The Pope He Leads a Happy Life Charles Lever
1015
Shall not Care
1017
Pyramus and Thisbe
1026
Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley
1040
Don Quixote Austin Dobson 2950
1046
Agatha Alfred Austin
1047
The PassionFlower Margaret Fuller
1054
LOVE AND DEATH
1060
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley
1067
The Raven
1070
Lucy William Wordsworth
1076
The Song of the Western Men Robert Stephen Hawker 2407
1077
Ruth Guthrie Harding
1080
Oh Snatched away in Beautys
1082
Battle of the Baltic Thomas Campbell 2441
1083
Next of
1091
Vers la
1095
Recompense
1096
Love and Death
1104
The Bells
1105
Loves Resurrection
1112
Be True
1117
Requiescat
1119
Homeric Unity
1121
Today
1124
Holy Holy Holy
1125
After
1127
The LotosEaters
1128
Rain on a Grave
1133
Dirge
1139
The Little Red Ribbon
1140
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
The Two Mysteries
1157
Plighted Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1162
James Oppenheim
1165
The GuardianAngel Robert Browning 2620
1166
When Death to Either shall Come Robert Bridges
1168
The Celestial Surgeon
1169
The Valley of Vain Verses
1174
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1176
Prothalamion Edmund Spenser
1183
Character of the Happy Warrior
1192
The Kiss Sara Teasdale
1194
Forever
1195
Now and Afterwards
1209
A Wifes Song
1217
Bringing Our Sheaves
1223
John Anderson
1224
England My England William Ernest Henley 2239
1228
LOVE SONNETS
1232
Sonnets from To Delia
1239
Van Elsen
1240
Enamored
1243
Alexis Here She Stayed
1252
Afterwards
1260
A Man Called Dante I Have
1261
The Pleasures of Love
1262
He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed
1277
False Poets and True
1279
One Word More Robert Browning
1284
Good Tidings of Great Joy
1285
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 Walson Gilder
1298
There is a Pool on Garda Clinton Scollard 2623
1301
Patmos Edith M Thomas
1304
The Hound of Heaven
1309
Music of the Dawn Virginia Bioren Harrison
1310
Take Heart
1311
In the Cool of the Evening Alfred Noyes
1316
Alfred Noyes
1317
Song to the Evening Star Thomas Campbell
1319
What of The Darkness? Richard Le Gallienne 3515
1321
Night John Addington Symonds
1325
Eve Ralph Hodgson 2816
1329
A Song of the Seasons Cosmo Monkhouse
1331
and fade
1334
Spring Thomas Nashe
1337
Dirge for a Soldier
1338
Robert Burns
1342
An Ode on the Spring Thomas Gray
1343
March William Morris
1351
Spinning in April Josephine Preston Peabody
1357
Street and Flagg
1360
Before a Statue of Achilles
1362
A Spring Lilt Unknown
1363
June Harrison Smith Morris
1369
To Autumn John Keats
1375
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
1380
Autumn Emily Dickinson
1381
The Frost Hannah Flagg Gould
1387
Midwinter John Townsend Trowbridge
1394
Each and All Ralph Waldo Emerson 2962
1399
Under the Leaves Albert Laighton
1401
Heroes
1406
Trees Joyce Kilmer
1407
William Cowper
1411
Of an Orchard Katherine Tynan
1414
POEMS
1416
The Cataract of Lodore
1420
The Hills of Rest
1423
He Standeth at the Door
1425
Canadian BoatSong
1426
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1433
A Lost Chord Adelaide Anne Procter 3398
1437
The Deserted Village
1438
Summer Invocation
1443
An Autumn Garden
1452
The Progress of Poesy
1460
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1461
One Gift I
1462
Edwin Arnold
1467
Wallace Rice
1473
William Wordsworth
1479
If Love were Jester at the Court
1484
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1486
A Song the Grass Sings Charles G Blanden
1488
The MorningGlory Florence Earle Coates
1494
Song from The Devils Law Case John Webster 3517
1498
A Rose Richard Fanshawe
1500
Helen Gray Cone
1506
GODS CREATURES
1507
Expostulation and Reply
1510
The Snail William Cowper
1514
The Blood Horse Bryan Waller Procter
1520
The Blackbird Alfred Edward Housman
1526
William Ernest Henley
1527
My Catbird William Henry Venable
1533
After the Martyrdom
1543
To the Nightingale
1548
An Epitaph Intended for Himself James Beattie 3518
1551
Song Tis sweet to hear the merry
1554
Robin Redbreast
1561
The Skylark
1567
Itylus
1573
A Song of Living
1579
THE
1584
The Destruction of Sennacherib
1588
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 2966
1590
Hastings Mill C Fox Smith
1591
In Our Boat Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1597
The Port o Hearts Desire John S McGroarty
1604
Drifting Thomas Buchanan Read
1612
At the Top of the Road
1617
The Sea Richard Henry Stoddard
1619
Compensation
1624
The Sailor William Allingham
1625
The Burial of Moses
1626
The Last Buccaneer Thomas Babington Macaulay
1632
William Shakespeare
1636
The Old Squire Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
1638
The Country Faith Norman Gale
1644
The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn Robert Tannahill
1652
The Tables Turned
1657
WANDERLUST
1667
The Song of the Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 2241
1679
Oliver Herford
1684
Night for Adventures
1701
Time to be Wise
1709
Advice Walter Savage Landor
1710
The Belle of the Ballroom Winthrop Mackworth Praed
1718
A Ternerie of Littles upon a Pipkin
1724
My Mistresss Boots Frederick LockerLampson
1730
A Terrible Infant Frederick LockerLampson
1736
Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes
1743
A MIND CONTENT
1745
Thalia Thomas Bailey Aldrich
1750
The EightDay Clock Alfred Cochrane
1756
To a Pair of Egyptian Slippers Edwin Arnold
1762
Clay Edward Verrall Lucas
1768
The Ladies of St Jamess Austin Dobson
1775
On a Fan Austin Dobson
1781
A Ballade of Suicide Gilbert Keith Chesterton
1787
Chiffons
1788
Chiffons William Samuel Johnson
1789
Old King Cole Edwin Arlington Robinson
1797
The Agnostics Creed
1802
Evolution Langdon Smith
1805
On the Flyleaf of a Book of
1806
A Nice Correspondent Frederick LockerLampson
1812
Frederick LockerLampson
1813
Austin Dobson
1819
Epitaph on a Hare
1825
Boadicea
1826
The Muses
1828
Hold Patrick R Chalmers
1834
THE BARB OF SATIRE
1835
Prospice
1837
Darius Green and his FlyingMachine John
1839
The Debate in the Sennit James Russell Lowell
1840
The Marquis of Carabas
1843
Each in His Own Tongue
1844
Jolly Jack William Makepeace Thack
1848
Kaiser
1849
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible
1854
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor
1855
Guy Wetmore Carryl
1856
The Worlds
1860
Evoe
1861
All Saints Edmund Yates
1869
Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn
1871
The Chameleon James Merrick
1875
The OwlCritic
1880
The OwlCritic James Thomas Fields
1881
The Vase
1886
Hem and Haw Bliss Carman
1887
Unknown
1891
Man and the Ascidian
1895
No Fault in Women Robert Herrick
1901
The Lure
1905
The Woman with the Serpents
1908
A Bakers Duzzen uv Wize Sawz Edward Rowland Sill
1915
PAGE
1921
Father William Lewis Carroll
1927
Not a Sou Had he Got Richard Harris Barham
1933
The Jampot Rudyard Kipling
1939
Two Limericks
1941
Nephilidia Algernon Charles Swinburne
1946
Nubia Bayard Taylor 2040
1948
The Poets at Tea Barry Pain
1953
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