SUBJECT. AFAR IN THE DESERT ......Pringle.... THE WATER-NYMPH APPEARING TO THE SHEP HERD...... THE LILIES OF THE FIELD THE HEBREW WEDDING..... AN ITALIAN GARDEN. THE ALHAMBRA THE THREE SONS....... THE SPANISH ARMADA *SNOW-A WINTER SKETCH * BLESSINGS ON CHILDREN.. HYMN TO THE SEA....... THE MAY QUEEN........ AUTHOR ..Landor .F. R. Pickersgill, A.R.A. 351 Keble......... .B. Foster .Moultrie..... ..J. Gilbert.. .Alford........ E. Duncan..... 356 .... 362 366 369 . 375 424 .Tennyson..... .T. Dalziel....... 432 xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. SUBJECT. WITHIN AND WITHOUT BATTLE SCENES..... ...Atherstone... 528 ..Ditto..............James Godwin..... ..E. H. Corbould............ 530 ........... Ditto ..Mary Howitt....James Godwin........ 534 540 ..Ditto...... ..Ditto....... .Allingham.......G. Dodgson 570 Mackay.... E. H. Corbould............ 573 ..Brown.. .Ditto.......... ...J. R. Lowell .....J. H. Hill... ..Read.......... 575 584 596 ....Ditto W. A. Butler....A. Hoppin........... ...Ditto.......... .Ditto........ 606 616 THE POET IN YOUTH. And sees on high, amidst th' encircling groves, For aught the huntsman's puny craft supplies? And oft he trac'd the uplands, to survey, When o'er the sky advanc'd the kindling dawn, And villager abroad at early toil, But, lo! the sun appears! and heaven, earth, ocean smile. And oft the craggy cliff he lov'd to climb, When all in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste of vapour, toss'd In billows, lengthening to th' horizon round, Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd! And hear the voice of mirth and song rebound, Flocks, herds, and waterfalls, along the hoar profound! In truth, he was a strange and wayward wight, A sigh, a tear so sweet he wish'd not to control. |