The Lark: songs, ballads and recitations for the people

Front matter

SONGS, HA THE LARK: BALLADS ANT) RECITATIONS FOR THE PEOPLE. EDITED BY W. C. BENNETT. Conbon : RT & Co., 22, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. AND AT ALL BOOKSELLERS AND RAILWAY BOOK STALLS. [Entered at Stationers' Hall, All rights reserved. ] LONDON; METCALFE & Co.. PRINTERS, 3. GROCERS' HALL COURT. POULTRY, E.C. CONTENTS. PAGE '• Fas est ab Hoste Doceri" 126 Frost in the Holidays — Wm. Allingham ... 33 From " Gerald" — Dr. J. Westland Marston ... 86 ; From India 71 [ German Verses from Der Freischutz — Schiller, translated by The Mt. Hon. W. __. Gladstone 61 i Goin' Home To-day — Will Carleton 5 0 Good Night — Edward Fitzgerald 8 Good and Bad Luck — Heine, translated by J. Hay 52 Good Night to the Season — Wmthrop Mackworth Praed 133 Gougane Barra — Aubrey Dc Vere 43 Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle — Oliver Wendell Holmes 106 Guide us, O Lord ! 130 Hail, Land of my Fathers — /.

Stuart Blackie 53 He Conquers who Endures — Charles J. Dunphie 109 Her Letter— Bret Harte 38 Ho Theos meta sou — Arthur Hugh Clough ... 135 Horace, Book ii. Ode 10. — Translated by William Cowper 137 Horace to Pyrrha— Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone 65 How Betsey and I made up — Will Carleton i 113 How it Happened— John Hay 38 How Smith Spiked the Guns 47 How they won the Victoria Cross at the Delhi Magazine 92 Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 131 Imperial Paris — John Plummer 110 I I'm Growing Old — J. Godfrey Saxe 99 ! In a Roman Wine-House 132 i Incognita — Austin Dobson 124 j Inscription for a F'ountain on a Heath —S. T. Coleridge 134 In the Engine Shed — W. Wilkins 102 In a Balcony at Barnes— /. Ashby-Sterry ... 75 Irish Eyes — Alfred Percival Graves 62 it's Little for Glory I Care — Charles Lever ... 125 Ivry — Lord Macaulay 70 Jenny Kissed Me — Leigh Hunt 41 Jim Bludso — John Hay 8 John Milton — William Wordsworth .. .. 24 John Ruskin 53 .

John Burns of Gettysburg — Bret Harte ... 121 | June Pictures 99 Lady Clara Vere de Vere — Lord Tennysm . ... 34 La Grisette — Oliver Wendell Holmes 14 Le Premier Grenadier des Arme'es de la Republique — J.E.Inman 5 Learning the Verbs — W. Jeffery Prowse ... 98 Letter of Lord Macaulay's 33 Lines — William Wordsworth 116 Lines suggested by the 14th February —Cliarles Stuart Calverley 51 Lines Written in America in 1838 — W.F. Rock 50 Lost — John Latey 51 Lost and Found — Hamilton Aide 72 Love and Age — Thomas Love Peacock 89 Love in a Court — Matthias Barr 97 Love Lightens Labour — Anonymous 13 (-Lovely Mary Donnelly — William Allingham 71 Love in Winter —Austin Dobson 27 Love for Love — Richard Brinilsley Sheridan... 125 Luther 23 Man His 0>vn Fate— Beaumont and Fletcher... 110 Madame la Marquise — Robert Earl of Lytton 89 Marston Moor 118 Mehrab Khan — Sir Francis Hastings Doyle ... 88 Measuring the Baby — Emma Alice Brown ... 22 Mending Stockings— Reb'a-a Perley Reed ... 1 PAGE Mii)6trel's Song — Sir Henry Taylor 6' Mother and Son I7 My Partner— Henry S. Leigh 4$ My Playmate— /.