ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For the use of copyright poems in this volume I have to thank--and most gratefully I do so--the following authors and publishers:--Mr. Martin Armstrong (and Mr. Martin Seeker); Mr. Lascelles Abercrombie (and Mr. John Lane); Mr. Edmund Blunden (and Mr. Cobden Sanderson); Mr. H. H. Bashford (Messrs. Harrap & Company and Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Company); Mrs. Bunston de Bary; Mr. Laurence Binyon (and Messrs. Elkin Matthews); Mr. Hilaire Belloc (and Messrs. Duckworth & Company); Mr. Robert Bridges (and Mr. John Murray); Mr. Gordon Bottomley; Mr. Padraic Colum (Messrs. Maunsell & Roberts Ltd., and Messrs. the Macmillan Company); Mr. William H. Davies (Mr. Jonathan Cape and Mr. Alfred A. Knopf); the executors of the late Lord de Tabley; Mr. C. M. Doughty; Mr. Edward L. Davison (and Messrs. G. Bell & Sons); Mr. Charles Dalmon (and Messrs. Methuen & Company); Mr. John Drinkwater (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, and Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company); Mr. Vivian Locke Ellis; Mr. Robert Frost (and Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Company); Mr. John Freeman; Miss Eleanor Farjeon (Messrs. Selwyn & Blount, Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, and Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company); Mrs. Furse (and Messrs. Constable & Company); Mr. Robert Graves; the Viscountess Grey; Mr. Edmund Gosse; Mr. Wilfrid Gibson (Messrs. Elkin Mathews, and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Mr. Crosbie Garstin (and Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson); Mr. Thomas Hardy (and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Mr. Ralph Hodgson (and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Miss Gwen John; Mr. Rudyard Kipling (Messrs. Macmillan & Company, and Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company); Mr. Sidney Royse Lysaght (and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Mr. Harold Monro; Mr. John Masefield; Mrs. Manning-Sanders (and Messrs. the Hogarth Tress); Mr. T. Sturge Moore (and Mr. Grant Richards); Miss Charlotte Mew (Mr. Harold Monro and Messrs. the Macmillan Company); Miss Viola Meynell; Sir Henry Newbolt; Mr. Alfred Noyes (and Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons); Mr. Seumas O'Sullivan (Messrs. Maunsell & Roberts); Mr. Conal O'Riordan; Mr. F. J. Patmore; Miss Madeleine Caron Rock; Miss Lizette Woodworth Reese (and Mr. Thomas B. Mosher); Mr. James Stephens (Messrs. Maunsell & Roberts and Messrs, the Macmillan Company); Mr. Siegfried Sassoon; Miss Edith Sitwell (and Mr. B. H. Blackwell); Mr. Edward Shanks (and Messrs. Collins, Sons & Company); Mr. J. C. Squire (and Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton); Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson; Mr. Herbert Trench; Mr. Walter J. Turner (and Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson); Miss Elinor Wylie (and Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Company); Mr. Francis Brett Young (and Messrs. W. Collins, Sons & Company); Mr. W. B. Yeats (Messrs. T. Fisher Unwin and Messrs. the Macmillan Company).
It is, too, a happy privilege to have been permitted to include poems by Mrs. Webb, Mr. Eric Batterham, Mr. Gilbert Sheldon, Mr. Bernard Sleigh, Miss Elizabeth Ramal, and Mr. Colin Francis which have not hitherto appeared in any other published collection.
My most grateful thanks are due also to Mr. Edward Marsh (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson and Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company) for two poems by Rupert Brooke; to Mr. Clement Shorter for six poems by Emily Bronte, and a poem by Dora Sigerson Shorter; to Sir Henry Newbolt for seven poems by Mary Coleridge; to Mr. Cobden-Sanderson for three poems by John Clare; to Mr. John Murray and to the executors of Canon Dixon for two poems; to Mrs. Flecker (and Mr. Martin Seeker) for two poems by James Elroy Flecker; to Lady Gomme for rhymes from "Traditional Games"; to the Viscountess Grey for poems from "The White Wallet"; to Miss Antonie Meyer (and Messrs. Constable & Company) for six translations by Kuno Meyer; to Mrs. Meynell herself and to Mr. Wilfrid Meynell (and Messrs. Burns & Oates) for three poems; to Mr. William Meredith and to Messrs. Constable & Company for two poems by George Meredith; to Mrs. Sharp for one poem by "Fiona Macleod" (William Sharp); to Miss Morris, Mr. S. C. Cockerill (and Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company) for two poems by William Morris; to Mrs. Owen for a poem by Wilfred Owen; to Mrs. C. Patmore (and Messrs. G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.) for two poems by Coventry Patmore; to Messrs. Macmillan & Company for eight poems by Christina Rossetti; to Mr. Lloyd Osbourne (Messrs. Chatto & Windus and Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons) for four poems by Robert Louis Stevenson; to Mr. William Heinemann for a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne; to Miss E. Margaret Courtney Boyd for a poem by William Bell Scott; to Mrs. Thomas (and Messrs. Selwyn & Blount) for seven poems by Edward Thomas; to Mr. Wilfrid Meynell (and Messrs. Burns & Oates) for three poems by Francis Thompson; to Messrs. P. J. and A. E. Dobell for quotations from the writings of Thomas Traherne.
For permission to use prose extracts, etc., which for the most part have already been referred to on pages 497-668. I am gratefully indebted to Dr. Blackman for his translation on Page 593; to Mr. Basil Blackwell for first grateful sight of Bunyan's "Book for Boys and Girls"; to Mrs. Child Sargent, Mr. George Lyman Kittredge and Messrs. George G. Harrap & Company for selections from "English and Scottish Popular Ballads"; to Mr. G. G. Coulton; to Dr. Courtenay Dunn and to Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Company; to Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons for a quotation from "A Hind in Richmond Park" by W. H. Hudson; to Mr. Tickner Edwardes (and Messrs. Methuen & Company); to Lady Gomme; to Messrs. Longman for a quotation from "The Diary of Master William Silence"; to Miss Emma Phipson (and Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company); to Mr. H. M. Tomlinson; to Professor J. Arthur Thompson (and Messrs. George Newnes); to Mrs. Wright; to Mr. W. B. Yeats; and to Mr. Filson Young. Also to the Clarendon Press, and to the Hakluyt Society.
And I would ask forgiveness of any one whose rights I may have inadvertently overlooked.
For generous help, counsel and kindness, in the preparation of this book it is a happiness to express my gratitude to many friends--to Miss Naomi Royde Smith, Mr. Martin Freeman, Mr. J. W. Haines, Mr. Gilbert Sheldon, Mr. Frank Morley, Mr. Forrest Reid, and to Mr. James MacLehose; and, last, to my niece, Miss Lucy Rowley, to whom it owes more than words can say.
INDEXES
INDEX OF AUTHORS
[Poems by writers whose names are unknown will be found marked with an asterisk in the Index of Poems. In the following Index the names of writers still living are similarly denoted.]
*Abercrombie, Lascelles, 154, 636
Allingham, William (1824-1889), 122, 520
*Armstrong, Martin 102
Aubrey, John (1626-1697), 568, 601
Augustine, St. (d. 604), 606
Barnes, William (1801-1886), 272, 280, 282, 461, 540, 581, 594
Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627), 107
*Bashford, H. H., 80
*Batterham, Eric N., 259
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616), 269, 599
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849), 380, 449, 624
*Belloc, Hilaire, 200
Best, Charles (fl. 1602), 354
*Binyon, Laurence, 197, 212
Blake, William (1757-1827), 22, 23, 42, 66, 66, 93, 98, 112, 140, 161, 167, 198, 373, 450, 452, 453, 475, 476, 477, 507, 535, 545, 652, 666, 668
Blunden, Edmund, 79
*Bottomley, Gordon, 410
Breton, Nicholas (1545?-1626?), 146
*Bridges, Robert, 234, 274, 462, 475, 504
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848), 225, 229, 277, 284, 449, 454
Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915), 172, 263
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), 665
Browne, William (1591-1643?), 151, 604
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878), 113
Buckhurst, Lord (1536-1608), 115
Bunyan, John (1628-1688), 111, 211, 451, 558, 582, 652
Burns, Robert (1759-1796), 50, 187
Burton, Robert (1577-1640), 548, 613
Byron, Lord (1788-1824), 464
Callanan, Jeremiah John (1795-1829), 354
Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844), 89, 180, 571
Campion, Thomas (1567-1619), 150, 189, 482, 595, 628
Carbery, Ethna (d. 1902), 313
Carew, Thomas (1595?-1639?), 152
Cartwright, William (1611-1643), 101
Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571), 613
Chapman, George (1559?-1634), 635
Charles I. (1600-1649), 467
Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770), 266
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400), 14, 511, 544
Clare, John (1793-1864), 78, 207, 517
Cleland, William (1661?-1689), 376
Coleridge, Mary (1861-1907), 52, 106, 192, 318, 355, 367, 463
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), 24, 270, 331, 335, 337, 373, 383, 405, 514, 516, 548, 611, 620, 625, 638
*Colum, Padraic, 52
Constable, Henry (1562-1613), 351
Corbet, Richard (1582-1635), 553
Cornish, William (fl. 1510), 17
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667), 564
Cowper, William (1731-1800), 41, 49
Cunningham, Allan (1784-1842), 181, 239
*Dalmon, Charles, 205, 355
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619), 162
Darley, George (1795-1846), 643
Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668), 6, 596
*Davidson, Edward L., 172
*Davies, William H., 7, 38, 95, 145, 254, 402
Davies, Sir John (1569-1626), 566
Davison, Francis (fl. 1602), 81
*De Bary, Anna Bunston, 159
Dekker, Thomas (1570?-1641?), 253, 281
De Tabley, Lord (1835-1895), 364
Dixon, Richard Watson (1833-1900), 222, 224
Dobell, Sydney (1824-1874), 33, 44, 316
Donne, John (1573-1631), 628, 663
*Doughty, Charles M., 132
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), 548, 557
*Drinkwater, John, 256, 298
Drummond, William (1585-1649), 162, 252, 585
Dunbar, William (1465?-1530?), 525
Elliot, Jean (1727-1805), 188
*Ellis, Vivian Locke, 369
Emerson, R. W. (1803-1882), 562
Farjeon, Eleanor, 120, 175, 236, 459, 465
Ferguson, Sir Samuel (1810-1886), 125
Flecker, James Elroy (1884-1915), 40, 382
Fleming, Margaret (1803-1811), 652
Fletcher, John (1579-1625), 360, 440, 457, 596, 599, 661
*Francis, Colin, 375
*Freeman, John, 39, 173
*Frost, Robert, 26, 587
*Furse, Margaret Cecilia, 563
*Garstin, Crosbie, 474
*Gibson, Wilfrid, 403, 415
Gifford, Humphrey (fl. 1580), 168
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774), 626
Googe, Barnabe (1540-1594), 91
*Gosse, Edmund, 318
Graves, John Woodcock (1795-1886), 139
*Graves, Robert, 109, 230, 407
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), 655
Greene, Robert (1560-1592), 503
*Grey, Viscountess, 121
Hamilton, John (1761-1814), 233
*Hardy, Thomas, 10, 26, 175, 176, 177, 273, 298, 455, 570
Hawes, Stephen (d. 1523?), 600
Hayman, Robert (d. 1631?), 189
Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835), 48
Herbert, George (1593-1633), 16, 451, 483
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674), 150, 208, 215, 219, 271, 292, 450, 507, 510, 651
Heywood, Thomas (d. 1650?), 7
*Hodgson, Ralph, 110, 151, 454, 485
Hogg, James (1770-1835), 141
Hood, Thomas (1799-1845), 25, 295, 299, 361, 405, 583
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910), 170
Howitt, Mary (1799-1888), 94
Hudson, W. H. (1862-1923), 521
Hume, Alexander (1560?-1609), 144
*John, Gwen, 239
Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637), 252, 319, 352, 462, 568, 658
Keats, John (1795-1821), 107, 129, 220, 231, 256, 283, 380, 468, 527, 545, 660
Killigrew, Henry (1613-1700), 467
King, Henry (1592-1669), 273
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875), 225, 656
*Kipling, Rudyard, 297
Kirk, Robert (1641?-1692), 615
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864), 365, 597, 604
Lindsay, Lady Anne (1750-1825), 362
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), 32, 533
Lovelace, Sir Richard (1618-1658), 535
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?), 191, 503
Lyly, John (1554?-1606), 15
*Lysaght, Sidney Royse, 53
MacGillivray, W. (1796-1852), 104
Macleod, Fiona (William Sharp) (1855-1905), 423
Macneill, Hector (1746-1818), 35
Mahony, Francis ("Father Prout") (1804-1866), 210
Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849), 181
*Manning-Sanders, Ruth, 111, 340
Maplet, John (d. 1592), 639
Marriot, John (1780-1825), 270
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678), 98, 149, 381
*Masefield, John, 27, 56
Mandeville, Sir John (d. 1372), 534, 561, 629
Meredith, George (1828-1909), 332, 638
*Mew, Charlotte, 309
Meyer, Kuno (Tr.), 70, 97, 193, 205, 231, 585, 667
Meynell, Alice (d. 1923) 214, 464, 472
Meynell, Viola, 409
Milton, John (1608-1674), 11, 130, 213, 632
*Monro, Harold, 9, 124
Montgomerie, Alexander (1556?-1610?), 4
*Moore, T. Sturge, 144
More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535), 603
Morris, William (1834-1896), 465, 481
Munday, Anthony (1553-1633), 81
Nash, Thomas (1567-1601), 15, 261
*Newbolt, Sir Henry, 51, 178, 214
North, Sir Thomas (1535?-1601), 574
*Noyes, Alfred, 151
Odoric, Friar (1286-1331), 636, 641
O'Keefe, John (1747-1833), 579
*O'Riordan, Conal, 605
*O'Sullivan, Seumas, 197
Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613), 529
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918), 173
Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896), 473, 566
*Patmore, F. J., 541
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866), 205, 268, 552
Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703), 505
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), 59, 320, 338, 365, 662
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), 271
Plotinus (205?-270?), 507
Polo, Marco (1254-1323), 642
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618), 600
*Ramal, Elizabeth, 608
Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758), 623
Ravenscroft, Thomas (1592?-1635?), 120
*Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 277
Rhodes, Hugh (fl. 1555), 592
*Rock, Madeline Caron, 265
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894), 251, 279, 280, 352, 368, 472, 483, 487
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), 643
Rowlands, Richard (1565-1630?), 22
Rowley, William (1585?-1642?), 374
*Sassoon, Siegfried, 171
Scott, Reginald (1538?-1599), 613
Scott, Alexander (1525?-1584?), 360
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), 174, 185, 279, 330, 357
Scott, William Bell (1811-1890), 324
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), 6, 74, 119, 121, 131, 143, 199, 209, 224, 246, 247, 267, 361, 499, 505, 506, 510, 522, 530, 533, 540, 553, 554, 579, 585, 610, 633, 643, 650, 655, 657, 662, 667
*Shanks, Edward, 331
Sharp, William (Fiona Macleod) (1855-1905), 423
*Sheldon, Gilbert, 404
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), 8, 155, 156, 209, 223, 227, 252, 254, 258, 341, 353, 404, 458, 464, 530, 542, 546, 621
Shorter, Dora Sigerson (d. 1918), 275
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), 352, 463, 500, 597, 601, 602
*Sitwell, Edith, 198
Skelton, John (1460?-1529), 37
*Sleigh, Bernard, 549
Southwell, Robert (1561?-1595), 242, 259
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599), 153, 190, 339, 491, 567
*Squire, J. C., 379, 422
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729), 519
*Stephens, James, 61, 96, 157
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894), 28, 31, 40, 54, 615
Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642), 580
Surrey, Earl of (1517?-1547), 472
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909), 358
Temple, Sir William (1628-1699), 578
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), 105, 108, 122, 226, 314, 582, 630
Thomas, Edward (1878-1917), 53, 102, 113, 460, 474, 521, 557
Thomas the Rhymer (1220?-1297?), 550
Thompson, Francis (1859-1907), 262, 285, 637
Thomson, James (1700-1748), 665
*Tomlinson, H. M., 569
Topsell (d. 1638?), 537
Traherne, Thomas (1636?-1674), 160, 564
Trench, Herbert (1865-1923), 171
Trevisa, John de (1326-1412), 537
Turberville, George (1540?-1610?), 584
*Turner, Walter J., 295, 375, 408
*Tynan, Katharine, 49
Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695), 283, 557
Vautor, Thomas (fl. 1619), 104
Walton, Izaac (1593-1683), 505, 543
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), 5
*Webb, Mary, 10, 106, 141
Webster, John (1610-1682), 264, 267, 268
Wedderburn, John (1500?-1556), 597
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), 179
Wither, George (1588-1667), 202
*Woods, Margaret L., 539
Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855), 220
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), 103, 221, 234, 237, 276, 456, 655
Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639), 16
*Wright, Elizabeth M., 532, 559
*Wylie, Elinor, 236
*Yeats, W. B., 296, 312, 608
*Young, Filson, 632
*Young, Francis Brett, 92
INDEX OF POEMS
[An asterisk denotes that the name of the author of the poem is unknown.]
TEXT NOTES
*Adam lay i-bowndyn 489
Adieu! farewell earth's bliss! 261 596
*A dis, a dis, a green grass 203
After the blast of lightning from the east 173
Afterwards 455
Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh 330
Ah! sad wer we as we did peäce 272 604
Ah, what avails the sceptred race? 365
Alas, the moon should ever beam 295
Alice, dear, what ails you? 230
A little lonely child am I 423 645
A little Saint best fits a little Shrine 510
*All in this pleasant evening, together come are we 12 501
All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone 189 574
All my stars forsake me 464
All the flowers of the spring 268 599
*All under the leaves and the leaves of life 489
Amo, amas 579
*An' Charlie he's my darling 186
Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the 383
And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte 14 502
And in the midst of all, a fountaine stood 153 564
And like a dying lady, lean and pale 464
And now all nature seemed in love 16 504
And then I pressed the shell 61
And there were spring-faced cherubs that did sleep 408 643
Angel spirits of sleep 475
Annabel Lee 59
*Annan Water's wading deep 329 614
A piper in the streets to-day 197
Are they shadows that we see? 162
A Rose, as fair as ever saw the North 151
Art thou gone in haste? 374 629
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? 253
As I in hoary winter's night 242
As it fell upon a day 107 543
*As I walked out one night 571
*As I was going by Charing Cross 188
*As I was walking all alane 109
*As I was wa'king all alone 293
As I wer readen ov a stwone 280 605
Ask me no more 152 562
*A sparhawk proud did hold in wicked jail 108 543
A sunny shaft did I behold 373 628
*As we dance round a-ring-a-ring 12
At common dawn there is a voice of bird 369
At the corner of Wood Street 103 540
Auld Robin Gray 362
Autumn 223
*A vision that appeared to me 70 527
Awake, awake, my little Boy! 477 605
A weary lot is thine, fair maid 185
A widow bird sat mourning for her love 252
*A wife was sitting at her reel ae night 618
*Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho! 91 534
Before my face the picture hangs 259 594
Behold her, single in the field 221
Bells have wide mouths and tongues 211 582
Beneath our feet, the shuddering bogs 318 610
Bermudas 381
Best and brightest, come away! 155
Be thou at peace this night 172
*Bingo 89
Birds, The 112
Blow, blow, thou winter winde 247
Blows the wind to-day 54 522
*Bonny Barbara Allan 356
Break, break, break 226
Brief, on a flying night 214
Bright star, would I were stedfast 660
*Bring us in good ale 69
*Bring us in no browne bred 69 526
*Brown Robyn 420
*Buckee, Buckee, biddy Bene 292
Burning Babe, The 242
By Saint Mary, my lady 37 518
By the Moone we sport and play 120 547
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren 267
Call me no more, O gentle stream 51
*Cam' ye by the salmon fishers? 35
Cauld blows the wind frae north to south 233
Changeling, The 309
Cherrie Ripe, Ripe, Ripe, I cry 150
Cherry and pear are white 173
Child and the Mariner, The 402
Chimney Sweeper, The 42
Christabel 335
Christmas at Sea 31
Christ of His gentleness 109
Cities drowned in olden time 214
Close thine eyes and sleep secure 467
*Cold cold! 231 586
Cold in the earth 277
Come, Sleep 605
*Come to me, grief, for ever 269 601
Come to me in the silence of the night 472
Come unto these yellow sands 119 546
Come wary one, come slender feet 111 544
Coronach, The 174
Crystal Cabinet, The 373
*Dalyaunce 28
Dark is the stair, and humid the old walls 212
Dear, dear, dear 104
Dear God, through Thy all-powerful hand 605
Death stands above me 597
Departe, departe, departe 360 627
Dew sate on Julia's haire 651
Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly 351 624
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? 483 666
*Down in yonder meadow 349
*Down in yon garden 647
Do you remember an Inn 200 580
Dreams, The Land of 477
D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray? 139 556
Eagle, The 108
*Earl of Mar's Daughter, The 307
Easter 16
*Edward 430
Egypt's might is tumbled down 367
Encinctured with a twine of leaves 337
*English Gentleman, The 67
Eve of Saint Mark, The 468
Even such is Time 600
Eve, with her basket 485
*Faht's in there? 293 607
*Fair Annie 434
Fairies 122
Fairies Feast, The 132
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away 225
Feare no more the heate o' th' Sun 267 599
*Fine knacks for ladies! 74
Flowers of the Forest, The 188
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow 482
*Four and twenty bonny boys 428 646
*Four men stood by the grave of a man 191 574
From noise of Scare-fires rest ye free 215
Full fathom five 643
Gane were but the winter cauld 239 587
Garden, The 149
*Garden, The 492
Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning 125 549
*Gilderoy was a bonnie boy 82 532
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes 281 605
*Golden Vanity, The 418
Gone were but the Winter 251
Good-Morrow to the Day so fair 208
*Green Broom 147
Hallo my Fancy 376
Hame, hame, hame, hame, fain wad I be 181
Hark! now everything is still 264 597
Haunted Palace, The 338
Hay, nou the day dauis 4 497
Hearke, hearke, the Larke at Heaven's gate sings 6
Hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell 331
He came and took me by the hand 151
He clasps the crag with crooked hands 108
He gave us all a good-bye cheerily 178
He is gone on the mountain 174
He is the lonely greatness of the world 265 598
*Helen of Kirkconnell 438
Helen, thy beauty is to me 365 627
Here a little child I stand 507
*Here comes a lusty wooer 346 622
Here lies a little bird 102
Here lies sweet Isabell 652
Here she lies, a pretty bud 271 604
Here she was wont to go, and here, and here! 352 624
*Here we bring new water 4
*Here we come a piping 11
Here where the fields lie lonely and untended 53
Her Eyes the Glow-worme lend thee 292
He sees them pass 259 594
*He that lies at the stock 466
*Hey, nonny no! 200 580
*Hey! now the day dawns 4 497
*Hey, Wully wine, and How, Wully wine 348 623
*Hie upon Hielands 43 519
His eyes are quickened so with grief 407
His stature was not very tall 503
Hohenlinden 180
Holy Thursday 66
Home, home, from the horizon far and clear 472
Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? 28
Ho, sailor of the sea! 33
How like an Angel came I down! 160 454
How lovely is the sound of oars at night 331
How many times do I love thee, dear? 624
How see you Echo? 121
How should I your true love know 361
How strange it is to wake and watch 473
How sweet I roamed from field to field! 161
*Hugh, Sir 428
*I and my white Pangur 97 536
I'd a dream to-night 282 606
*I'd oft heard tell of this Sledburn fair 75
I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way 8 499
I dreamt a Dream! what can it mean? 475
I dug, beneath the cypress shade 268
If I had but two little wings 24 510
If I should ever by chance grow rich 521
I found her out there 273 604
If souls should only shine as bright 594
If there were dreams to sell 449
I got me flowers to straw thy way 16 506
I had a dove and the sweet dove died 107
I had a little bird 44 519
*I had a little nut tree 198
*I have a yong suster 58
I have beene all day looking after 319 610
I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep 382 635
*I have twelfe oxen that be faire and brown 148 559
I hear a sudden cry of pain! 96
I heard a soldier sing some trifle 171 568
I know a little garden-close 481
I know that all beneath the moon decays 585
*I'll sing you a good old song 67 525
I Loved a lass, a fair one 202 580
I love to rise in a summer morn 140
I met a traveller from an antique land 404
I met the Love-Talker one eve in the glen 313
Immortal Imogen crowned queen above 299
In a drear-nighted December 231 585
I never shall love the snow again 274
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes 562
In melancholic fancy 376 629
In somer when the shawes be sheyne 143 556
In the greenest of our valleys 338 621
In the third-class seat sat the journeying-boy 26
In the wild October night-time 177 570
Into the scented woods we'll go 10
Invitation to Jane, The 155
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 405 641
I remember, I remember 25 511
Irish harper and his dog, The 89
I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn 408 643
*I saw a peacock with a fiery tail 294 607
I saw with open eyes 110
I see in his last preached and printed Booke 270 602
*I sing of a maiden 21 510
*It fell upon a Wodensday 420 644
It is an ancient Mariner 383 635
It was a' for our rightfu' king 187
*It was a jolly bed in sooth 501
It was a Lover and his lasse 199 579
*It was in and about the Martinmas time 356 626
*It was intill a pleasant time 307
It was many and many a year ago 59 523
It was not in the winter 361
I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking 188 573
I went out to the hazel wood 296 608
*I will sing, if ye will hearken 432 646
*I wish I were where Helen lies 438
I would not be the Moon, the sickly thing 463 659
Jarring the air with rumour cool 154
John Peel 139
Keith of Ravelston 316
Kubla Khan 405
La Belle Dame sans Merci 129
Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I were 472
*Laird of Logie, The 432
*Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green 148 560
Lawne as white as driven Snow 74 529
Lay a garland on my hearse 360
Leave Taking, A 358
Leave me, O Love 597
Let us go hence, my songs 358
Let us walk in the white snow 236 587
Life of Life 353 625
Light the lamps up, Lamplighter 459 657
Little Black Boy, The 22
Little Fly 535
Little Lamb, who made thee? 93
*London Bridge is broken down 65 524
London Snow 234
Lonely, save for a few faint stars, the sky 197 575
Long ago I went to Rome 563
Look how the pale Queen of the silent night 354 625
Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed 256 593
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back 483
*Love me not for comely grace 366
Lucy Gray 237
*Lully, lullay, lully, lullay 491
Lydia is gone this many a year 277
*Lyke-Wake Dirge, A 264
Mad Maid's Song, The 208
Mariana 314
*Mary's gone a milking 71 529
*Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 466 661
*May Song 12
*Mermaid, The 423
Messmates 178
Midnight was come, when every vital thing 115
Mine eyes have seen the glory 170 567
Mortality, behold and fear! 269 600
Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age 271
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold 380
Music, when soft voices die 209 582
*My clothing was once of the linsey woolsey fine 90 533
*My hand is weary with writing 558
My heart is like a singing bird 352 624
*My love he built me a bonnie bower 439 647
My love lies in the gates of foam 364
*My Luve's in Germany 184
My master hath a garden 492
*My mistress frowns when she should play 199 576
*My mistress is as fair as fine 351
My mother bore me in the southern wild 22
*My plaid awa', my plaid awa' 292
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his 352
*Nay, Ivy, nay 245 590
Night-Piece, The 292
*Not full twelve years 596
Not soon shall I forget 49
*Now milkmaids' pails are deckt with flowers 71 528
Now some may drink old vintage wine 205 581
Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger 11 500
Now the hungry Lyon rores 131 553
*Now wolde I faine some merthės make 366 628
Nurse's Song, The 453
Nymph Complaining, The 98
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? 124
*O Allison Gross, that lives in yon towr 426 646
*O Bessie Bell and Mary Gray 523
Ode to the West Wind 227
O'Driscoll drove with a song 312
*Of all the birds that I do know 100 538
*O for a Booke and a shadie nooke 147 558
Of this fair volume which we World do name 162 565
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray 237
Oh! call my brother back to me 48
*Oh! dear! what can the matter be? 75 530
Oh! poverty is a weary thing 94 536
Oh, sweet content 254
Oh the falling Snow! 236
*Oh, where are you going to, my pretty little dear? 206 581
O, I hae come from far away 324 613
Old Ships, The 382
O many a day have I made good ale in the glen 354
O Mary, go and call the cattle home 225
O Mother, lay your hand on my brow 40
O my dark Rosaleen 181 572
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose 332
Once a dream did weave a shade 476 665
*Once I was a monarch's daughter 105
Once musing as I sat 91 535
Once upon a midnight dreary 320 611
Once when the sun of the year was beginning to fall 26 512
*One Friday morn when we set sail 421
*One king's daughter said to anither 57 523
One without looks in to-night 298 608
On first looking into Chapman's Homer 380
On Linden, when the sun was low 180
*On the first day of Christmas 589
On the green banks of Shannon 89
O sing unto my roundelay 266
O Sorrow 256
O that those lips had language! 41
O the evening's for the fair, bonny lassie O! 207
O Thou, who plumed with strong desire 341 621
O, to have a little house 52
Our King and Queen the Lord God Blesse 568
Our King went up upon a hill high 191 574
Out in the dark over the snow 474
Over the bleak and barren snow 375
*O whare are ye gaun? 334 618
O, what can ail thee, knight at arms 129
O what if the fowler my blackbird has taken? 355
*O wha will shoe my bonny foot? 519
*O where were ye, my milk-white steed 309 609
O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being 227
Oh yes, my dear 565
Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day! 7
Pedlar's Song, The 74
Pleasure it is 17 507
*Poacher, The Lincolnshire 204
*Poor old Horse 90
Prayer unsaid, and Mass unsung 330
Prepare, prepare the iron helm of War 167
Proud Maisie is in the wood 357
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair 462
*Queen of Elfland, The 127
Question, The 8
*Quo' the Tweed to the Till 425
*Quoth John to Joan 350 623
Rarely, rarely, comest thou 254
Raven, The 320
Recollection, The 156
Remember me when I am gone away 280
*Remember us poor Mayers all 13
Reverie of Poor Susan, The 103
Rich in the waning light she sat 39
Riding through Ruwu swamp, about sunrise 92 536
Rosaleen, Dark 181
Rose Aylmer 365
*Rosy apple, lemon, or pear 36 516
*Round about, round about 119
Sabrina fair 130 551
Sands of Dee, The 225
Schoolboy, The 140
Seamen, three! What men be ye? 205
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness 220 583
Secret was the garden 285
*Seven lang years I hae served the King 347
*Seynt Stevene was a clerk 240 587
Shed no tear--O shed no tear! 283
*She is so proper and so pure 38 518
Shepherds all, and Maidens fair 457 655
Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night 450 651
Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer 298
Sick Child, The 40
Silent are the woods 27
Silent is the house, all are laid asleep 284
*Silly Sweetheart, say not nay 345
*Sir Patrick Spence 425
*Sister, awake! close not your eyes 11 501
*Skip it and trip it 575
Sleep on, my Love, in thy cold bed 273
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears 252 592
Sluggard, The 5
Soldiers, For 168
Solitary Reaper, The 221
Some folks as can afford 159
Somewhere, somewhen I've seen 403 639
Sorrow 256
So through the darkness and the cold we flew 234
So, we'll go no more a-roving 464
Sparrow, The Dead 101
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king 15 503
Stepping Westward 456
Stop, Christian passer-by! 270 604
Stupidity Street 110
Swans, The Two 299
Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly 213
Sweet Content 253
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright 451
Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content 38 518
Sweet Suffolk Owl, so trimly dight 104 540
*Sweet William and May Margaret 443
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave 458
Tell me not of joy 101 538
Tell me where is fancie bred 209
That houses forme within was rude and strong 339
That wind, I used to hear it swelling 229
The aïr to gi'e your cheäks a hue 581
The ample heaven of fabrik sure 144 557
*The cheerful arn he blaws in the marn 138
The cleanly rush of the mountain air 56
The clouds have left the sky 462
The crooked paths go every way 157
The days are cold, the nights are long 220 583
The Door of Death 666
The Dragon that our Seas did raise his Crest 189 573
The evening sun was sinking down 449
The feathers of the willow 224
*The fort over against the oak-wood 193 575
The four sails of the mill 144 556
The fresh air moves like water round a boat 9
The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew 79
The heaving roses of the hedge are stirred 222
*The Holly and the Ivy 243 589
The hunt is up, the hunt is up 137 555
The King of China's daughter 198
*The king sits in Dumferling toune 425 645
*The king's young dochter 576
The lake lay blue below the hill 106 542
The lark now leaves his watery nest 6 498
*The love that I hae chosen 363
The maiden caught me in the wild 373
The man of life upright 595
*The miller's mill-dog lay at the mill-door 89 533
*The moon's my constant mistress 291 606
The murmur of the mourning ghost 316
The myrtle bush grew shady 192
The night will never stay 465
The poplars are felled; farewell to the shade 49 520
*There came a bird out o a bush 649
*There came a ghost to Margret's door 443 650
*There cam' Seven Egyptians on a day 531
The red flame flowers bloom and die 474 664
There grew a goodly tree him faire beside 491
There is a Garden in her face 150 561
*There is a Lady sweet and kind 366 628
There is a silence where hath been no sound 405 641
*The reivers they stole Fair Annie 434 646
*There lived a wife at Usher's Well 445 651
There's no smoke in the chimney 52
*There was a gallant ship and a gallant ship was she 418 644
*There was a knicht riding frae the east 333 615
There was an Indian, who had known no change 379 631
*There was an old man lived out in the wood 147
There was no song nor shout of joy 422
*There were three gipsies a-come to my door 79 531
*There were twa brethren in the north 55 523
*There were twa sisters sat in a bowr 441 649
The sea would flow no longer 409
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares 172 568
The sheets were frozen hard 31
The smothering dark engulfs relentlessly 239
The snow falls deep; the forest lies alone 78
The snow had fallen many nights and days 410
The splendour falls on castle walls 122
The sun descending in the west 452
The Sun does arise 23
The trees of the elder lands 404 640
The twilight is sad and cloudy 32
The wanton Troopers riding by 98 538
The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing 223
*The wind doth blow to-day, my love 359 626
The wind's on the wold 465 660
They are all gone into the world of light! 283
They shut the road through the woods 297
They stole her from the well 549
*This ae nighte, this ae nighte 264 598
This city and this country 66 525
*This is the Key of the Kingdom 3 { 497 { 667
This is the weather the cuckoo likes 10
This Life, which seems so fair 252 592
This sailor knows of wondrous lands afar 402 638
Thou Fair-haired Angel of the Evening 450
Though three men dwell on Flannan Isle 415
Thou hast come from the old city 340
Thou simple Bird what mak'st thou here to play? 111
Time, you old gipsy man 454
'Tis the middle of night 335 620
'Tis the voice of a sluggard; I heard him complain 5 498
To-day a rude brief recitative 179 571
Toll no bell for me, dear Father, dear Mother 309 609
*Tom o' Bedlam 291
*Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, lend me your gray mare 76 531
To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er 380 632
*To yon fause stream 423
Trafalgar 177
*True Thomas lay oer yond grassy bank 127 550
Turnstile, The 272
*Twa Corbies, The 109
*Twa Sisters, The 441
'Twas on a Holy Thursday 66
Two Swans, The 299
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 98 538
Underneath an old oak tree 611
Under the after-sunset sky 113
Under the greenewood tree 143
Upon a dark ball spun in Time 295
Upon a Sabbath-day it fell 468 663
Upon my lap my sovereign sits 22
Up the airy mountain 122 548
Up, Timothy, up with your staff and away! 276
*Wae's me, wae's me 332 615
Wake, all the dead! 596
War Song, A 167
Was it the sound of a footfall I heard? 608
Waterfowl, To a 113
Water Lady, The 295
*We are three Brethren come from Spain 346
We be the King's men, hale and hearty 175 570
Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan 440
Weep, weep, ye woodmen! 81 532
Weep you no more, sad fountain 282
*Wee Wee Man, The 293
*Welcome, fayre chylde, what is thy name? 28 512
We wandered to the Pine Forest 156
We were young, we were merry 318
Whar hae ye been a' day, my boy Tammy? 35 516
What bird so sings, yet so does wail? 15 503
What, hast thou run thy Race? Art going down? 451 652
What if some little paine the passage have 190
What is there hid in the heart of a rose 151 561
What is this life if, full of care 145
What noise of viols is so sweet 81
What shall I your true-love tell 262 596
What wondrous life is this I lead! 149
What, you are stepping westward? 456 655
When cats run home and light is come 105 541
When I am dead, my dearest 279 605
When I crept over the hill, broken with tears 275
When I did wake this morn from sleep 7
When I sailed out of Baltimore 95
When Isicles hang by the wall 246 591
*When I was bound apprentice 204
When I was but thirteen or so 375 629
When men were all asleep the snow came flying 234 586
When my mother died I was very young 42
When night is o'er the wood 541
When once the sun sinks in the west 454
When she sleeps 263
When that I was and a little tinie boy 224 584
When the cock begins to crow 553
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy 198 576
When the lamp is shattered 258
When the Present has latched its postern 455 653
When these old woods were young 53 521
When the sheep are in the fauld 362
When the voices of children are heard on the green 453 652
When the words rustle no more 40
When we lay where Budmouth Beach is 176 570
Where are you going, Master mine? 355
Where are your Oranges? 175 569
Where do the gipsies come from? 80 532
Where on the wrinkled stream the willows lean 106 542
Where shall the lover rest 279
Where the Bee sucks, there suck I 121
Where the pools are bright and deep 141
Where the remote Bermudas ride 381 633
Where thou dwellest, in what Grove 112
While I sit at the door 487 666
While Morpheus thus does gently lay 467 663
Whither, midst falling dew? 113
Who calls? Who calls? Who? 120 548
Who can live in heart so glad 146
Who feasts tonight? 132 554
Who'll walk the fields with us to town? 141
*Who's at my window? 597
Whose Woods these are I think I know 587
*Who--Who--the bride will be? 105
*Why does your brand so drop wi' blood 430 646
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled 171
*Widdecombe Fair 76
*Wife of Usher's Well, The 445
Will you come? 460
Witch's Ballad, The 324
With blackest moss the flower-plots 314 609
With deep affection and recollection 210 582
With how sad steps, O Moon 463
*Wolcum be thu, hevene kyng 244 589
World of Light, The 283
*Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, The 79
Wull ye come in eärly Spring 461
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon 50
Ye buds of Brutus' land, courageous youths 168 566
Ye have been fresh and green 219
Yes, I remember Adlestrop 102
*Yet if His Majesty our sovereign lord 484
Young Love lies sleeping 368 628
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THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Hedgehogs
[2] Starling
[3] Know but little
[4] Give
[5] Birds
[6] Such
[7] Sorrow
[8] Run quickly, hasten away
[9] Float
[10] Whips, mills, or beats
[11] Refresh; make sweet
[12] Truly, in sooth
[13] Mateless and matchless
[14] Chose
[15] Keep
[16] Young
[17] Call
[18] Heedlessness
[19] Natural
[20] Nimbly
[21] Stick out
[22] Squiggle
[23] Toy or trap
[24] More
[25] Make grimaces
[26] Falsehood
[27] Learning
[28] Yea, sirs
[29] Air, tune, stave
[30] Willow rind
[31] Pears
[32] Feast or fast
[33] Gown or coat-tail
[34] Where
[35] Going
[36] Who's
[37] From
[38] Dale or hollow
[39] Knoll or hillock
[40] Goods and chattels
[41] If
[42] Clothes
[43] Sweet-smelling
[44] Cat-mint
[45] Gillyflower
[46] Empty
[47] Weeping
[48] Every
[49] Stole
[50] Had been
[51] Wrestle
[52] If
[53] Must not
[54] Dare not
[55] Dug. delved
[56] Her death-throes
[57] Bran
[58] Hairs
[59] Yeast
[60] Duck's
[61] Bracken
[62] To
[63] Such two
[64] Scarce
[65] Makes
[66] If
[67] Safely
[68] Lustily
[69] Cave!
[70] Pretty dear
[71] Green-walled ditch
[72] Thatch: mend
[73] Briar: wild-wood
[74] Distaff
[75] When the woods are fresh and fair
[76] It
[77] Small birds'
[78] Polished
[79] Which soon
[80] O'er meadow, moor and stream
[81] Herbs, wild flowers
[82] Stir
[83] A bank between ploughlands
[84] More
[85] Preens
[86] Stay
[87] Might
[88] This
[89] Risk, hazard, dare.
[90] Dainty; luxurious.
[91] Dirge, lament
[92] Vast hill-hollow
[93] Danger or defeat
[94] When the half-muffled City Bells rang in commemoration of the Bell-Ringers who fell in the war, the bells of St. Clement Danes could not take part owing to a defect in the framework.
[95] For a moment
[96] Game
[97] Cowering
[98] Glen
[99] Wee bit lassikin
[100] No linnets
[101] Freezing
[102] Worse
[103] Burn
[104] Him
[105] Together
[106] Loved
[107] Are here
[108] Custom
[109] Chilblain
[110] Forester
[111] Them
[112] Hast thou
[113] Cries
[114] Skim
[115] Apples
[116] Once
[117] Locks
[118] Skin
[119] Set
[120] Grow
[121] Elf
[122] Made one
[123] May
[124] Where's
[125] Dove
[126] Trappings
[127] Make
[128] Hold
[129] Bought
[130] The green margin of a river
[131] Wild and lively
[132] Furious
[133] Carousers
[134] Brawling
[135] Cobbler
[136] Spellbound
[137] Chose
[138] Witching
[139] Dust: reek
[140] Road
[141] Nearest
[142] Dove
[143] Asked
[144] Ere
[145] Bold
[146] Than
[147] Worse
[148] Why, sure
[149] Peat for school fire
[150] Who owns
[151] Vessel, ship
[152] Bands
[153] Ere
[154] Slowly, softly
[155] Cows
[156] Husband
[157] Weep
[158] Much
[159] Praises
[160] Good reason why
[161] More
[162] Pool
[163] Leaping
[164] Crooked, awry
[165] Spell
[166] Charmed and cozened
[167] Laughed
[168] Foul
[169] Right loth
[170] Wet
[171] But long ere
[172] If
[173] Hand-bag
[174] Birch-wood
[175] The young wife
[176] Skirts of bright green
[177] Must not
[178] This
[179] High
[180] Hair-comb
[181] Save
[182] The one
[183] Raiders
[184] Gold and silver
[185] Alone
[186] To the gate is gone
[187] Halls
[188] If
[189] One
[190] The twain
[191] Makes her weep
[192] Such lament
[193] Shall not lose
[194] Seized his all
[195] More
[196] Everything
[197] Within
[198] And dashed her backwards into the waves
[199] And I'll make
[200] You shall have
[201] It parted me and my world's mate
[202] Great
[203] If you will stand
[204] Every
[205] Likewise
[206] Visions
[207] Canopy over dais
[208] Mate
[209] Bed
[210] Told
[211] First and foremost
[212] Cap-nets of silk or of gold
[213] Bird
Transcriber's Note:
1. All original spelling has been retained.
2. Possible printing and spelling errors have been silently corrected.
3. Words in hyphenated and non-hyphenated forms have been retained.
4. Superscripts are shown as ^x.