Select Poems. Being the literature prescribed for the Junior Matriculation (third Form) Examination 1899. 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. 1898. Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by The Gorr, Clark Company, Limited, Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction : Metre and its Relation to Thought . . .vii Selections : The Lady of the Lake Scott 1 To My Sister ....... Wordsioorth 165 Expostulation and Reply ..... n 106 The Tables Turned „ 167 Influence of Natural Objects .... n 168 Nutting ,i 170 Michael „ 172 To the Daisy (" Bright flower whose home " ) . „ 187 At the Grave of Burns „ 187 Thoughts Suggested on the Pay Following . i, 190 The Solitary Reaper „ 193 Ode to Duty „ 194 Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle „ 196 Character of the Happy Warrior ... ,, 198 "O Nightingale, thou surely art " ...

M 200 To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth .... „ 201 The Primrose of the Rock .... „ 204 Sonnets : " Fair Star of Evening " „ 205 " It is not to be thought of " .... „ 206 "It is a beauteous evening " .... M 206 Personal Talk ....... „ 207 After-thought „ 208 " Scorn not the Sonnet " .... ,, 209 On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott . . ,, 209 " A Poet ! — He hath put his heart to school " . i, 210 CONTENTS. Notes on Scott: tabi Life and General Characteristics . . . . . . -13 The Lady of the Lake ■ 22b Canto I 239 „ II 251 „ III 264 „ IV 277 V 287 „ VI 301 Notes on Wordsworth : • Life and General Characteristics ...... 312 To My Sister 324 Expostulation and Reply ....... 324 The Tables Turned 325 Influence of Natural Objects . 326 Nutting 329 Michael ........... 331 To the Daisy 340 At the Grave of Burns ........ 341 Thoughts Suggested on the Day Following .... 344 The Solitary Reaper 345 Ode to Duty 347 Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle . . 351 Character of the Happy Warrior ...... 353 "0 Nightingale, thou surely art '' ...... 354 To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth 355 The Primrose of the Rock ....... 356 Sonnets 358 Appendix: Selections for "Sight" Reading — 1.

Sir Patrick Spens ...... Old Ballad 2. Introduction to the Third Book of Paradise Lost Milton 3. Hymn to Adversity ...... Gray 4. Wolsey (from "The Vanity of Human Wishes") Sam Johnson 5. Conclusion of "The Vanity of Human Wishes" i< 6. The Guardian- Angel if. Browning 7. " A slumber did my spirits seal " , . . Wordsworth 8. The Scholar ....... J?. Southey 9. Old Jane . T. Ashe 10. Boadicea . Cowper CONTENTS. 5 Appendix — Continued. 11. Proud Maisie . . .... Scott 12. My Last Duchess ...... B. Browning 13. Up at a Villa — Down in the City ... n 14. Estrangement . . . . . . . J. B. Lowell 15. " The girt woak tree that's in the dell " . . W.Barnes 16. Home Thoughts, from Abroad B. Brotvning 17. To a Waterfowl W.C. Bryant 18. Ozymandias ....... Shelley 19. After Sunset ...... Wm. Allingham 20.

Home : in War- Time S. Dobell 21. On the Death of Richard West .... Gray 22. Remember ....... Christina G. Bossetli 23. Sonnets from the Portuguese, No. xvii. . E. B. Browning 24. Sonnet xxvi. ....... Shakespeare 25. Sonnet xc. ........ n 26. To Delia S. Daniel 27. To the Lord General Cromwell .... Milton 28. To Lady Fitzgerald ...... Wordsworth 29. Ejaculation ....... n