Select Poems. Being the literature prescribed for the Junior Matriculation and Junior Leaving Examinations, 1897. Edited ... by W. J. Alexander

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. BY W. J. ALEXANDER, Ph.D., Professor of English in University College, Toronto. TORONTO : THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED. 1896. Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, by The Copp, Clark Company, Limited, Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. CONTENTS. PAGE. Introduction : Poetry, its Thought and Form vii Selections : The Traveller Goldsmith . 1 The Deserted Village " .14 tt Upon Westminster Bridge .... Wordsworth. 27 The Green Linnet " .27 The Cuckoo " . 29 " She Was a Phantom of Delight " . . " .30 Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland " . 31 The Inner Vision " . 31 Rosabelle ....... Scott . 33 The Outlaw 35 The Rover 37 Jock of Hazeldean. . . . . . " . . 37 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv . .

Byron . . 39 Ozymandias of Egypt Shelley. 93 To a Skylark. ....... " . . 93 tt The Recollection " . . 97 On First Looking into Chapmau's Homer . Keats . . 101 The Terror of Death " . .101 Ode to a Nightingale " . .102 Ode to Autumn " . . 104 The Htftnan Seasons " . . 106 Notes on Goldsmith, Life, etc I 109 " The Traveller 120 The Deserted Village 140 " Wordsworth, Life, etc. ...... 156 " Upon Westminster Bridge . . . . . .167 " The Green Linnet 168 To the Cuckoo 170 " She was a Phantom of Delight " . . . .172 " Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland 173 " The Inner Vision . . 173 [v] CONTENTS. VI PAGE. Notes on Scott, Life, etc 174 Rosabelle 187 The Outlaw ......... 190 The Rover 191 " Jock of Hazeldean ....... 192 " Byron, Life, etc 194 Childe Harold, Canto iv 207 Shelley, Life, etc 238 " Ozymandias of Egypt ....... 244 To a Skylark 245 The Recollection 247 " Keats, Life, etc. . 250 " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer . . . 259 The Terror of Death 260 " Ode to a Nightingale ....... 260 Ode to Autumn 263 " The Human Seasons ....... 264 Appendix: Selections for "Sight" Reading — An Old Ballad 267 The Sun upon the Weirdlaw HOI . .

Scott . . . 268 From the " Epistle to Erskine " . . "... 269 a To Althea from Prison .... Lovelace . . 273 From the "Essay on Man" . . . Pope . . . 274 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Gray . . . 276 Ode to Duty Wordsworth. . 279 To the Skylark " 280 Song from ' ' James Lee "... Robert Browning . 281 The Lost Leader " A 281 Shelley A. J. Stringer . 282 From " Parting " Matthew Arnold . . 283 Absence. ...... " " . 284 A Christmas Carol. .... Lowell . . 2S4 Sonnet xxix Shakespeare. . 2S5 Sonnet civ ...... " . 286 After-thought Wordsworth. 286 To Night Blanco While . 287 Sonnet Alfred Austin . 287 The Choice D. G. Rossetti . 288 Immortality Matthew Arnold .