Golden Poems, by British and American authors. Edited by F. F. Browne

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. The plan and scope of the present volume are, it is be lieved, sufficiently explained by its title and by its contents and arrangement. As, however, the number ef poetical anthologies is already large, a word of justification may properly be expected of any one who would venture to in crease the number. In any close survey of the larger compilations of Dana, Bryant, Coates, Fields and Whipple, and Sargent, it is thought that the reader, while impressed with the fulness and richness of these noble collections, must notice the comparatively small number of pieces which have become to any considerable extent popular favorites. It is apparent also that miscellaneous collections should be chiefly popular in plan and purpose. The field of English poetry is so vast that no anthologies, however wide their scope, can serve as a substitute for the works of the various authors; and attempts to make them do this must result in cumbersome and unwieldy as well as expensive volumes.

Of smaller books we already have, it is true, a number which admira bly serve their purpose; but it is no disparagement of these to note their limited range — their design being in general to represent some special department or some particular period of poetry, or to express the individual tastes and preferences of their illustrious compilers. Belonging to the first of these classes are works so admirable as

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. Palgrave's " Golden Treasury" — which is restricted to songs and lyrics, and represents no American authors, and ii" British authors as recent as Tennyson and the Brownings, — Johnson's " Single Famous Poems," and Lodge's " Bal lads and Lyrics;" and to the second class, Whittiers " Songs of Three Centuries," Longfellow's " Poems of Places," and Emerson's " Parnassus." Having this popular aim prominently in view, the com piler of the present volume has hoped to be able, by limit ing his selections as closely as possible to short pieces, to bring together a larger number and greater variety of popular poetical favorites than can perhaps be fount! elsewhere in equal compiss. It would of course be too much to expect that any reader could find here all his favorite pieces. Judg ments would differ in many instances as to what should be given precedence; and some chance omissions are inevita ble.

As a necessary result of the preference for short pieces, many of the older writers are represented but spar ingly: and from this there also results, what it is hoped may prove to be an advantage — and what, indeed, has been one of the objects of the book — that many pieces are to be found here which are not usually given in similar collec tions. In order to afford as wide a representation of authors as possible, the selections have b2en confined, except in a very few instances, to a small number from each. Many authors, indeed, are known by but a single piece — which would hence have a special claim to a place here. As lar as practicable, whole poems have been chosen; but where an author could best be represented by some familiar or char acteristic extract, this has been used, and in such case the full title of the poem from which the extract is taken usu ally appears at the end.

Great pains have been taken to secure correct versions of the pieces used. This is, however, a matter of too much difficulty to permit any one who has ever attempted it to be confident of entire success. Many of the finest pieces are not to be found in any authentic form, but exist only as

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. V waifs and strays of literature. Some have so long borne titles different from those their authors gave them, that they would scarcely be recognized by any other name; while others have not only been re-christened, but also re-appar elled in such a way that their own parents might almost pass them by as strangers: like the poor palmer with Mar mion at Norham Castle, they have become so changed by fortune and hard usage, that " -The mother that them bare, Is she had been in presence there, , She had not known lier child." The classification of the poems, in which the stereotyped chronological order is abandoned for an arrangement by subjects, is believed to be that most effective and convenient in a popular work like this. It is necessarily somewhat ar bitrary, since it is not always clear to which one of several classes a poem most fitly belongs.

It is hoped, however, that the classification will be found in the main correct, and that its adoption will be approved by use. As has seemed proper and desirable in an American col lection, liberal quotations have been made from the works of American poets. These have been necessarily subject to existing copyright restrictions, which may explain any seeming disproportion in the representation of the various authors. The search for material, both in British and American poetry, has been brought down as nearly as pos sible to the present; and a very interesting feature of the collection, it is thought, is the large number of remarkable poems from unknown and little-known authors. Transla tions — since a translated poem really becomes a new poem — are in this work indexed under the name of the translator, or as anonymous where the translator is not known: though the name of the original author is frequently given at the end of translated pieces.

The editor desires to express his obligations to the cour tesy and liberality of many American authors and publish ers in permitting the use of copyrighted matter — especially VI

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. Messrs. Hougbton, Mifflin & Co., whose list is so rich in the poetry not only of our standard writers but of minor poets; and Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., Messrs. Roberts Brothers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., and Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co. F. F. B. Chicago, November, 1881. CONTENTS. Paet I. — By the Fireside. PAsiE Like a Laverock in the Lift Jean Tngelow. 27 Only a Baby Small Matthias Barr. 27 Cradle Song Josiah Gilbert Holland. 28 Choosing a Name Mary Lamb. 29 My Babes in the Wood Sallie M. B. Piatt. 30 " Bairnies, Cuddle Doon " .... Alexander Anderson. 31 The Children's Hour . . . Henri/ Wadsworth Longfellow. 32 Willie Winkie William Miller. 33 The Farmer Sat in his Easy Chair . Charles Gamage Eastman. 34 Not One to Spare Ethel Lynn Beers. 35 Tired Mothers May Riley Smith. 36 Winifreda Anonymous. 37 Don't be Sorrowful, Darling Rembrandt Peale. 38 John Anderson, My Jo Robert Burns. 39 The Sailor's Wife Jean Adam. 39 A Winter Evening at Home William Coivper. 41 Home, Sweet Home John Howard Payne. 41 It 's Hame and it 's Hame Allan Cunningham. 42 Old Folks at Home Stephen Collins Foster. 42 My Old Kentucky Home Stephen Collins Foster. 43 In a Strange Land James Thomas Fields. 44 No Time like the Old Time Anonymous. 44 The Old Oaken Bucket Samuel Woodworth. 45 Rain on the Roof Coat es Kinney. 46 I Remember, I Remember Thomas Hood. 47 Graves of a Household . . . , .

Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 48 The Family Meeting Charles Sprague. CONTENTS. Part II. — Nature's Voices. PAGE The World is Too Much With Us . . William Wordsworth. 53 Invocation to Nature Percy Bysshe Shelley. 53 Freedom of Nature James Thomson. 54 Nature's Delights' John Keats. -54 Imaginative Sympathy with Nature .... Lord Byron. 55 Varying Impressions from Nature . . William Wordsworth. 55 Nature in Spring James Thomson. 56 June William Cullen Bryant. 57 Spring in Carol.Da Henry Timrod. 58 June James Russell Lowell. 59 A Summer Morn James Beattie. 61 Summer John Townsend Trowbridge. 62 September George Arnold. 63 Winter William Cowper. 64 Months and Seasons Edmund Spenser. 65 Trees, Flowers, and Birds G-ossreg Chaucer. 68 Loves of the Plants Erasmus Darwin. 69 Violets Robert Herric . 70 The First Violet Marie B. Williams. 70 The Violet William Wetmore Story. 72 The Daisy Geoffrey Chaucer. 72 Daffodils William Wordsworth. 73 To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Sin lley. 73 The Skylark James Hogg. 76 To the Cuckoo William Wordsworth. 77 Ode to a Nightingale Jnlm Keats. 78 The Ocean Lord Byron. 79 To Seneca L:ik3 James Gates Percival. 80 The Sierras Joaquin Miller. 81 Hymn before Sunrise: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -_' Sunrise Edmund Spenser. *-l Morning William Shakespeare.

S4 Dawn Richard Watson Gilder. 84 Hail, Holy Light John Milton. 85 Night Edward Young. 86 Night Lord Byron. 86 Night Percy Bysshe Shelley, s? Stars Lord Byron. 88 Day is Dying . . Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot). 8S The Evening Win! William Cullen Bryant. S9 CONTENTS, IX PAGE Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley. 90 James Thomson. 91 A Thunder-Storm in the Alps Lord Byron. 92 Ihe Snow-Storm James Thomson_ g3 Before the Ram Thomas Bailey Aldrieh. 94 After the Ram Thomas Bailey Aldrieh. 94 Ita -Rainbow JaMM TAmwob. 94 1 he Rainbow William Wordsworth. 95 Part III. — Dreams and Fancies. Dreamers Joaquin Miller. 99 Fancies John Ford_ 99 I)nftlI!= Thomas Buchanan Read. 100 Basking Sidney Dobell. 102 Echo and Silence .... Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges. 103 Indirection Richard Reals. 103 Give Me Back My Youth Again .

From the German of Goethe. 104 In Our Boat Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. 105 Convalescence Edgar A llan Poe. 105 Alone by the Hearth George Arnold. 106 At Best John Boyle O'Reilly. 107 Bugle Song Alfred Tennyson. 108 Egyptian Serenade George William Curtis. 108 Chimney Swallows Horatio Nelson Powers. 109 Song Celia Thaxter. 110 The Golden Silence William Winter. Ill The Blessed Dainozel Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Ill In the Mist Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge). 113 Upon the Beach Henry David Thoreau. 114 A Strip of Blue Lucy La ream. 115 Pre-Existence Paul Hamilton Hayne. 116 An Old Man's Idyl Richard Reals. 117 Some Day of Days Nora Perry. 119 Sleeping* and Dreaming .... Josiah Gilbert Holland. 119 Part IV. — Friendship and Sympathy. Forever John Boyle O'Reilly. 125 The Memory of the Heart Daniel Webster. 125 Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns. 126 Our Sister • Horatio Nelson Powers. 127 We Have Been Friends Together Caroline Elizabeth Norton.

X CONTEXTS, PAGE To Thomas Moore Lord Byron. 128 Joseph Rodman Drake F,tz-Greene Halleck. 129 Invitation to Izaak Walton Charles Cotton. 129 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice Alfred Tennyson. 131 To Victor Hugo Alfred Tennyson. 132 For the Moore Centennial Celebration Oliver Wendell Holmes. 132 A Friend's Greeting Bayard Taylor. 134 Part V. — Love. Wake Now, My Love Edmund Spenser. 139 True Love William Shakespeare. 139 My True Love Hath My II _urt .... Sir Philip Sidney. 140 Song John Gay. 1-10 A Girdle Edmund Waller. 141 The Shepherd's Love lien Jonson. 141 To Althea from Prison Richard Lorelace. 141 A Celebration of Char-s Ben Jonson. 142 Cupid and Campaspe John Lyly. 143 Cherry Ripe Richard Alison. 143 Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover . . Sir John Suckling. 144 Julia Robert Herrick. 144 Absence William Shakespeare. 145 Take, 0 Take Those Lips Away .

Beaumont and Fletcher. 145 Hark! Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate William Shakespeare. 146 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love . Christopher Marlowe. 146 The Nymph's Reply Sir Walter Raleigh. 147 Pain of Love Henry Constable. 147 How Many Times Thomas Locell Beddoes. 14S I Do Confess Thou 'rt Sweet Sir Robert Ayton. 148 A Parting Michael Drayton. 149 Alton Water Robert Burns. 140 O, Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley Robert Burns. 150 First Love Lord Byron. 151 How do I Love Thee .... Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 152 Ask Me No More Alfred Tennyson. 152 Ae Fond Kiss Before We Part Robert Burns. 152 The Departure Alfred Tennyson. 153 Adieu Thomas Carlyle. 154 O Swallow Flying South Alfred Tennyson. 155 Mary Morison Robert Burns. 156 Annie Laurie Douglas. 156 Jenny Kissed Me Leigh Hunt. CONTENTS. XI . PAGC Separation Alfred Tennyson. 157 Absence Robert Burns. 157 Love's Philosophy percy Bysshe Shelley. 158 1 Arise From Dreams of Thee . . .

Percy Bysshe Shelley. 158 Bonnie Mary Robert Burns. 159 Three Kisses Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 159 0, My Luve 's Like a Red, Red Rose .... Robert Burns. 160 Dor's Arthur J. Munby. 160 She was a Phantom of Delight . . . William Wordsworth. 161 Janette's Hair Charles Graham Halpine. 162 We Twain Amanda T. Jones. 163 Kiss Me Softly John Godfrey Saxe. 164 woomg John B. L. Soule. 165 Pearls Richard Henry Sloddard. 165 The Brookside . Richard Monckton Milnes [Lord Houghton). 166 The Old Story . . Elizabeth Akers Allen {Florence Percy). 167 We Parted in Silence Julia Crawford. 167 Evening Song Sidney Lanier. 168 0, Saw Ye the Lass Richard Ryan. 168 Serenade Oscar Wilde. 169 Love Scorns Degrees Paul Hamilton Hayne. 170 A Song of Krishna Edwin Arnold. 170 Bird of Passage Edgar Fawcett. 171 I Fear Thy Kisses Percy Bysshe Shelley. 171 The Patriot's Bride Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. 172 I Saw Two Clouds at Morning . .

John Gardiner Brainard. 173 A Woman's Question Adelaide Anne Procter. 174 0, Lay thy Hand in Mine, Dear Gerald Massey. 175 Part VI. — Liberty and Patriotism. Love of Liberty William Cowper. 179 Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights . . Alfred Tennyson. 180 Independence Tobias George Smollett. 180 The Hills Were Made for Freedom William Goldsmith Brown. 181 Downfall of Poland Thomas Campbell. 181 The Fall of Greece Lord Byron. 182 National Decay Oliver Goldsmith. 183 Fair Greece! Sad Relic of Departed Worth . Lord Byron. 184 Charles XII of Sweden Samuel Johnson. 184 What Constitutes a State Sir William Jones. 185 A Curse on the Traitor Thomas Moore. 186 England William Wordsworth. CONTEXTS. PAGE The Better Country Oliver Goldsmith. 187 Mazzini Laura C. Redden (Howard Glyndon). 188 Green Fields of England Arthur Hugh Clough. 188 Saxon Grit Robert Collyer. 189 The Patriot's Death Fitz-Greene Halleck. 191 Westward the Course of Empire ....

George Berkeley. 192 Bannockburn Robert Burns. 192 The American Flag Joseph Rodman Drake. 193 The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key. 195 God Save the King Henry Carey. 195 French National Hymn . . . French of Rogel Be Lisle. 196 Prussian National Anthem From the German. 197 The German's Fatherland From the German. 198 Patriotism Sir Walter Scott. 200 Warren's Address John Pierpont. 200 The Battle of Lexington Sidney Lanier. 201 Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson. 20? Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind .... Lord Byron. 203 Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers . Felicia Dorothea Hi mans. 203 InState Forceythe Willson. 204 Apocalypse Richard Reals. 208 How Sleep the Brave William Collins. 209 Part VII.- — Battle Echoes. Flodden Field Sir Walter Scott. 213 Ye Mariners of England Thomas Campbell. 215 Waterloo Lord Byron. 216 The Unreturning Brave Lord Byron. 217 Hohenlinden Thomas Campbell. 218 The Battle of Ivry ....

Thomas Babington Macaulay. 219 Battle of the Baltic ThomarCampbell. 221 Border Song Sir Walter Scott. 223 The "Revenge." — A Ballad of the Fleet . Alfred Tennyson. 223 The Defense of Lucknow Alfred Tennyson. 227 Song of the Camp Bayard Taylor. 23*2 Carmen Bellicosum Guy Humphrey McMaster. 233 Battle-Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe. 234 My Maryland James R. Randall. 235 Stonewall Jackson's Way J. W. Palmer. 237 civil War Charles Dawson Shanty. 238 The Arsenal at Springaeld . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. CONTENTS. XIII Part VIII. — Humor. PAGE Love is Like a Dizziness James Hogg. 243 Gluggity Glug Anonymous. 244 Rory O'Moore Samuel Lover. 245 Jolly Good Ale and Old John Still. 246 Little Billee William Makepeace Thackeray. 247 The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring Henry Howard Brownell. 243 The Doctor in Love A. McFarland. 248 A Carman's Account of a Lawsuit . . .

Sir David Lgndsay. 249 The New Church Organ Will M. Carleton. 250 Hans Breitmann's Party Charles G. Leland. 252 The Plaidie Charles Sibley. 253 Bite Bigger Anonymous. 254 Popping Corn Anonymous. 255 A Housekeeper's Tragedy Anonymous. 256 The Sailor's Consolation Charles Dibdin. 257 The Lovers Phœbe Gary. 258 The Nantucket Skipper James Thomas Fields. 259 John Davidson Anonymous. 260 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog . . Oliver Goldsmith. 262 The Power of Prayer .... Sidney and Clifford Lanier. 263 To a Fish John Wolcott. 265 The Society Upon the Stanislaus Bret Harte. 265 The Northern Cobbler Alfred Tennyson. 267 The Sorrows of Werther . William Makepeace Thackeray. 271 Part IX. — Pathos and Sorrow. Tears, Idle Tears Alfred Tennyson. 275 Eveiyn Hope Robert Browning. 275 Auld Robin Gray Lady Anne Barnard. 277 The Burial of Sir John Moorj Charles Wolfe. 278 The Death of the Flowers . . .

William Cullen Bryant. 279 Ashes of Roses Elaine Goodale. 280 Claribel's Prayer Anonymous. 28) TheDeath-Bed Themis Hood. 282 My Slain Richard Reals. 282 The Bivouac of the Deal Theodore O'Hara. 283 Sands of Dee Charles Kingsley. 285 Three Roses Thomas Bailey Aldrieh. 236 Into the World and Oat Sallie M. B. Piatt. 286 Hannah Binding Shoes Lucy Larcom. 2S7 CONTENTS. PAGE The Cradle Austin Dobson. 288 Angelus Song Austin Dobson. 288 When the Grass shall Cover Me Anonymous. 289 Two Mysteries Mary Mapes Dodge. 290 0 Mither, Dinna Dee Robert Buchanan. 290 My Heart and I Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 291 Rosalie William C. Richards. 292 Requiescat Oscar Wilde. 293 The Old Sexton Park Benjamin. 293 Only a Year Harriet Beecher Stowe. 294 Before Sedan Austin Dobson. 295 Highland Mary Robert Burns. 296 My Playmate John Greenleaf Whittier. 297 Elegy Written ina Country Churchyard . .

Thomas Gray. 299 Lucy William Wordsworth. 302 Three Years She Grew William Wordsworth. 303 The Old Familiar Faces Charles Lamb. 304 Under the Daisies Hattie Tyng Griswold. 305 Lucy's Flittin' William Laidlaw. 306 We are Seven William Wordsworth. 307 The Banks 0' Doon Robert Burns. 308 My Love is Dead Thomas Chatterton. 309 Nevermore Lord Byron. 310 Break, Break, Break Alfred Tennyson. 310 A Life .... Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall). 311 It Might Have Been Anonymous. 311 The Hour of Death Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 313 Waly, Waly, but Love be Bonny Anonymous. 314 The Mitherless Bairn William Thorn. 314 The Voice of the Poor Lady Wilde (Speranza). 315 Liment of the Irish Enrgrant Lady Dufferin. 316 The Braes of Yarrow William Hamilton. 318 She and He Edwin Arnold. 321 Who Ne 'er His Brea 1 in Sorrow Ate . .

From the German. 323 The Three Fishers Charles Kingsley. 323 The Blue and the Gray Francis Miles Finch. 324 Decoration Day at Charleston Henry Timrod. 325 Dirge for a Soldier George Henry Boker. 326 The Unreturning Brave James Russell Lotvell. 327 Lord Raglan Edwin Arnold. 327 Vale Richard Reals. 328 Dickens in Camp Bret Harte. 329 Obsequies of David . . . Francis Mahony ( Father Prout). CONTENTS. XV PAGE Bayard Taylor .' John Greenleaf Whittier. 332 Horace Greeley Edmund Clarence Stedman. 333 Farewell Algernon Charles Swinburne. 335 Part X. — The Better Life. Heard are the Voices Thomas Carlyle. 339 How to Live Horatius Bonar. 339 A Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton. 340 Gradatim Josiah Gilbert Holland. 341 A Hindoo's Search for Truth A. C. Lyall. 341 Responses Ralph Waldo Emerson. 343 De Profundis Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 344 Restitution Anonymous. 347 " Blessed are They that Mourn " .

William Cullen Bryant. 348 The Master's Touch Horatius Bonar. 348 I Hold Still From the German. 349 Gethsemane Ella Wheeler. 349 Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Arthur Hugh Clough. 350 My Legacy Helen Hunt Jackson. 351 Bringing Our Sheaves Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence Percy). 352 Follow Me Abram T. Ryan. 353 Hope, Faith, Love .... From the German of Schiller. 354 Take Heart Edna Dean Proctor. 354 How We Learn Horatius Bonar. 355 Reaper of Life's Harvest Anonymous. 355 Memorial Hymn — J. A. Garfield David Siving. 356 Ripe Grain Dora Reed Goodale. 357 All is Well Alfred Tennyson. 357 Parted Friends James Montgomery. 358 Peace Mary Clemmer Ames. 358 I Shall Be Satisfied Anonymous. 359 This World is All a Fleeting Show .... Thomas Moore. 360 I Too Constance Fenimore Woolson. 361 The Bird Let Loose in Eastern Skies . . .

Thomas Moore. 362 All Before Anonymous. 362 Up Hill Christina G. Rossetti. 363 When Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge). 363 0, May I Join the Choir Invisible Mrs. Cross (George Eliot). 365 Life Anna Letitia Barbauld. 366 A Rhyme of Life Charles Warren Stoddard. 367 Now and Afterwards .... Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. 367 Rest Mary Woolsey Howland. COX TEXTS. PAGE Beyond the Smiling aud the Weeping . . . Horatius Bonar. 359 The Silent Land Kate Seymour McLean. 370 Heaven Nancy Priest Wakefield. 370 The Dying Christian to His Soul . . . . Alexander Pope. 371 Dying Hymn Alice Cary. 372 Hereafter Harriet Prescott Spofford. ZT2 Immortality Richard Henry Dana. 373 The Immortal Part Joseph Addison. 374 Ode on Immortality William Wordsworth. 374 Song of Angiola in Heaven Austin Dobson. 379 The Discoverer Edmund Clarence Stedman. 381 There is no Death Anonymous. 382 No More Sea Anonymous. 3^3 The Other World Harriet Beecher Stoue. 3.84 Two Worlds Mortimer Collins. 3?5 Spiritual Communions Alfred Tennyson. 387 The Future Life William Cullen Bryant. 387 Over the River Nancy Priest Wakefield. 338 Only Waiting France.

Laughton Mace. 389 I Would Not Live Alway . William Augustus Muhlenberg. 390 Nearer Home Phœbe Cary. 391 Longing for Home jean Ingelow. 392 Ministry of Angels Edmund Spenser. 393 Nearer, My God, to Thee Sarah Flower Adams. 394 The Better Way Jean Ingelow. 395 Abide With Me Henry Francis Lyte. 396 The Way, the Truth, and the Life . . . Theodore Parker. 396 The Pillar of the Cloud JJm Henry Newman. 397 fiod John Bowring. 39S The Eternal percy Bysshe Shelleu. 400 Mutability Edmund Spenser. 401 Part XL — Scattered Leaves. Music in Camp John F_ Thompson. 405 Before the Gate William Dean Howells 407 Abou Ben Adbem Leigh Hunt. 408 Cleon and X Charles Mackay. 408 The Age of Wisdom . . If il'iam Makepeace Thackeray 409 The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes 409 The Jolly Old Pedagogue George Arnold. 411 Daniel Gray Josiah Gilbert Holland AV> I 'm Growing Old John Godfrey Saxe 414 "Wild Oats" Charles Kingsley.

CONTENTS. XVII PA OF The Wafer That Has Passed Anonymous. 416 The Ivy Green Charles Dickens. All A Hundred Years to Come . . William Goldsmith Brown. 418 Vevtue George Herbert. 418 Where Lies the Land Arthur Hugh Clough. 419 A Farewell Charles Kingsley. 419 After the Ball Nora Perry. 420 The Old Sergeant Forceythe Willson. 421 The Place Where Man Should Die . . Michael Joseph Barry. 426 The Bells of Shandon . . Francis Mahony (Father Prout). A21 Song of the Forge inonymous. 423 The Babe Sir William Jones. 430 A*- pie Blossoms Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 431 Pictures of Memory Alice Cary. 431 Woman Eaton Stannard Barrett. 432 Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe. 433 Old Times Anonymous. 434 A Woman's Love John Hag. 434 Fishing Song Rose Terry Cooke. 435 A Life on the Ocean Wave Epes Sargent. 436 Alone by the Bay Louise Chandler Moulton. 437 The Tempest James Thomas Fields. 437 Lines on Leaving Europe ....

Nathaniel Parker Willis. 438 At Sea John Townsend Trowbridge. 438 In the Sea Hiram Rich. 439 Woodman. Spare that Tree . . . George Perkins Morris. 440 Album Verses Washington Irving. 441 Waiting John Burroughs. 442 Life's Incongruities Egbert Phelps. 443 Equinoctial Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. 443 The Mysteries William Dean Hoicells. 444 Ruth Thomas Hood. 444 The Late Spring Louise Chandler Moulton. 445 Thought Christopher Pearse Crunch. 445 Blindness John Milton. 446 Night and Death Joseph Blanco White. 447 The Closing Scene Thomas Buchanan Read. 447 Endurance . . . Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence Percy). 449 Outgrown Julia C. R. Dorr. 450 The Penitent John Keats. 451 The Aim of Life Philip James Bailey. 452 Fame German of Schiller. 452 Mothpr, Home, Heaven . . . William Goldsmith Brown. 453 The End of the Play . . .

William Makepeace Thackeray. LIST OF AUTHORS. American authors are indicated by A. Others are British. The figures in paren theses are dates of birth and death. PAGE 1 ADAM, JEAN. (1710-1765.) Sailor's Wife, The 39 ADAMS, SARAH FLOWER. (1805-1849). Nearer, My God, to Thee . 394 ' ADDISON, JOSEPH. (1672-1719). Immortal fart. The .... 374 ALDRICH. THOMAS BAILEY. (A. 1836- Afler the Rain 94 Before the Rain 94 Three Roses 286 ALLEN*. ELIZABETH AKERS (Florence Percy ) (A. 1832- Bringing Our Sheaves . . . 35*" Endurance 449 ! Old Story, The 167 ALLISON, RICHARD. (1606- Cherry Ripe 143 AMES, MARY CLEMMER. (A). Peace 358 ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. Bairnies Cuddle Doon ... 31 ARNOLD, EDWIN. (1832- Lord Raglan 327 Shean.rHe 321 Song of Krishna 17u ARNOLD. GEORGE. (A. 1834. 1865). Alone bv the Hearth .... 10*.

Jolly Old Pedagogue, The . . 411 September 63 AYTON, SIR ROBERT. (1570-163S). I do Confess Thou 'rt Sweet . 148 BAILEY. PHILIP JAMES. (1816- Aim of Life, The 452 BARBADLD. ANNALETITIA. (1743-1825). Life 366 BARNARD, LADY' ANNE. (1750-1825). Auld Rubin Gray 277 BARRETT. EATON STANXARD. (1785-1820). Woman 432 BARR. MATTHIAS. (1831- Only a B iby S uall 27 PAGE BARRY. MICHAEL JOSEPH. Place where Man Should Die 426 BEATTIE. JAMES. (1735-1805). Summer Morn, A 61 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. (1586-101 ; 1570-16.5). Take, O Take Tims LipsAway 145 BEDDOES. " THOMAS LOVELL. (1803-1849). How Many Times' 148 BEERS, ETHEL LYNN. (A. 1827-18*9). Not One to Spare 35 BENJAMIN', PARK. (__L 1809-18&4L Old Sexton. The _.'?. BERKELEY. GEORGE. (1684-1753). Westward the Course of Empire 19*2 BOKER.'GEORGE HENRY. '(A. 1824- Dirge fora Soldier 326 BONAR, HORATIU-. aS08- Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping How to Live 339 How we Learn o"> > Muster's Touch, The .... 348 BOWRING, JOHN.

(1792-1872). God (from the Russian) . . . 39S BRAINARD, JOHN G ARDIN* ER CALKINS. (A. 1796-1828). I saw Two Clouds at Morning 176 BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD. (A. 1820-187 Lawyer's Invocation to Spring 24S BROWNING, ELIZABETH BAR- RETT. (1809-1861). De Profundis S44 How d p I Love Thee .... 15> My Heart and I 291 Three Kisses 159 BROWNING. ROBERT (1812- Evclyn Hope 27 . BROWN, WILLIAM GOLDSMITH. (A 1812- Hun Ired Years to Come . . . 11§ LIST OF AUTHOP.S. XIX PAGE PAGE Hills were Made for Freedom 181 CHATTFRTON. THOMAS. Mother, Home, Heaven . . . 453 (1752-1770) BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. My Love Ts Dead 309 '■J1* 17?r471878.)i .a, .,„ CHAUCER. GEOFFREY. Blessed are Tli ev that Mourn 318 nW i_mi.. Death of the Flowers, The . . 279 Daisy The 72 Evening Wind The . ... 8a Tree's,' Flowei-s, 'and Birds ! ! 68 June '. . :::::» CLOUGH.

ARTHUR HUGH. BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGER- Green X.dfof Eng and . . 188 _. _ r°N. (1762-1_*37). ,__, Say not the struggle Nought Echo and Silence 103 Availeth ...... 7 . 350 BUCHANAN, ROBERT. (1841- Where Lies the Land .... 419 ■' O Mither, Dinna Dee ! " . . 290 COLERIDGE. SAMUEL TAYLOR. BURNS, ROBERT. (1759-1796). (1772-1834). Absence 157 Hymn Before Sunrise .... 82 Ae Fond Kiss Before we Part . 152 COLLINS. MORTIMER. Alton Water 149 (18°7-1878) Auld Lang Syne 126 Tw0 .' 385 Banks o lioon 308 _„T T T.T_, ,,.-__,.,„, .,___ ._..,.. Bannockbuni 192 COLLINS, \\ ILLIAM. (1720-1756). Bonnie Marv 159 How bleep the Brave . ... 209 Highland Mary 296 COLLYER, ROBERT. (-4. 1823- John Anderson, My Jo . . . 39 Saxon Grit 189 MaryMorison • • • • ; 15ti CONSTABLE, HENRY. O My Luve s Like a Red, Red (1560-16i2) Rose .......... 160 PainofLove .' 147 BmiROUGHS JOHN mT ' ' COOKE.

ROSE TERRY. (X 1827- BURROUGHS, JOHN. (A.) Fishing Song 43; BYRON, GEORGE GORDON C00LIDGJ; JES^- <See w°* NOFI LORD ( 1 78S-1824 _ ou'u",J Eternal Spirit of the Chainlesi' COTTON, CHARLES. (1630-1687). jlind 2***3 Invitation to Izaak Walton . 129 Fall of Greece, The .' .'.'.'. 182 COWPER, WILLIAM. (1731-1800). Fair Greece ! Sad Relic of De- Love of Liberty 179 parted Worth. 184 Winter 64 First Love 151 Winter Evening at Home . . 41 Imaginative Sympathy with CORNWALL. BARRY. (See Proc- Nature 55 terr. Bryan Walter). Strm°re %l CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MUL- 5c?an,Th'e ". ". . '. ". 1 '. ".79 _ A OCK. (1826- . gtars 88 In Over Boat 105 Thomas' Moore,' To '. '. '. '. '. 128 Now and Afterwards .... 367 Thunder Storm in the Alps . 92 CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER Unrc-turning Brave, The . . 217 PEARSE. (A. 1813- Waterloo 216 Thought 445 CAMPBELL, THOMAS.

(1777-1844) CRAWFORD, JULIA. Battle of the Baltic .... 221 We Parted in Silence .... 167 H_hnn_.nd°en ' ' ' " 2.8 CROSS. MARIAN EVANS LEWES Ye Mariners of England '. . 215 (George Eliot). (1820-1880). CAREY, HENRY (1663-1743). May fjoinlhe Choir Invisible 365 God Save the King 19o CARLETON. WILL M. (_.. 1845- CV^m^M.'^LAN- New Church Organ, The . . 250 its nimTand its Hame . . . 42 CARAdILuE'THOMAS:(!79f"1.f8.)'. 154 CURTIS, G ORGE WILLIAM. Heard are the Voices .... 339 _ (A- I824" _ CARY, ALICE. (A. 1820-1871). Egyptian Serenade 108 Dying Hymn ....... 372 DANA, RICHARD HENRY. Pictures of Memory .... 431 (A. 1787-1S78). CARY, PHŒBE. (A. 1824-1871). Immortality 373 Lovers, The 258 DARWIN, ERASMUS. (1731-18)2). Nearer Home 391 Loves of the Plants .... LIST OF AUTHORS. XX PAGE PAGE DIBDIN, CHARLES.

(1745-1814). Elegy on the Death of a Mad Sailor's Consolation, The . . 257 Dog -'-; DICKENS, I HARLES. (1812-1870). National Decay . . Ivy Green, The ...... 417 GOODALE, DORA REED. {A. 1866- DOBELL. SIDNEY. (1824-1875). Ripe Grain . . . . ■ . ■ ■ Basking . . 102 GOODALE, ELAINE (A. 1863- DOBSON, AUSTIN. (1840- ; Ashes of RoSl9 * * _, * ' ' An.elussong . k 288 GRAY, THOMAS. (171o-l (/I). Cradle. The 288 Elegy Written in a Country Before Sedan 295 Churchyard -Jv Song of Angiola in Heaven . 379 GRISWOLD. II \TTIE TYNG. (.1.) DODGE, MARY MAPES. (A.) Under the Daisies ... * . 305 Two Mysteries 290 HALLECK. FITZ-GREENE. DORR. JULIA C. R. (A. 1825- (A. 1795-1867). nut Town 450 Joseph Rodman Drake ... 1-9 iOUGLAS. (15._ Cent.) Patn "'5 Death* Th« * " " ' 191 Annie Laurie 156 HALPINE, CHARLE-i GRAHAM.