Popular poets of the period :

Preface

My chief aim in the pages of the present volume has been to lay before the public, in as concise a form as possible, biographical and critical sketches of popular and distinguished poets of our own time and country, together with interesting specimens of their works, in order that, haply, those readers who have known hitherto but little of the gifts of present-day poets, may be induced to seek a larger acquaintance with their works. It is believed that the field here entered has not previously been taken by any existing anthology, and although it is not pretended that the list of poets who may be termed popular is yet completed, it is suggested that the work, whilst containing reliable information of the lives of the poets included, consists also of such a representative collection of Modern Poetry as has never before appeared within the covers of one volume.

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS.

PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE. — With the exception of that of Sir Edwin Arnold, the copyright of which belongs exclusively to Mr. Vander Weyde, I am indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Elliott and Fry, to whom the originals belong, for permission to reproduce the group of copyright portraits contained on the frontispiece.

POEMS. — My best thanks are due also to Messrs, Trubner and Co. (Arnold) ; Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. (Barlow) ; the Editor of the Argosy for " By Eden's Swift Tide," Messrs. Boosey and Co. for "An Old Garden ;" Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Son for Two Christmas Card Verses (Burnside) ; Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co. (Dobson, Gosse, and Lewis Morris) ; the Editor of the Argosy for " In the Cloisters " (Doudney) ; Mr. David Stott for " Uriel," Messrs. Chapman and Hall for the Earlier Poems (Lytton) ; Messrs. Chatto and Windus (Marston) ; the Editor of The Girls' Own Paper (Newsam) ; Messrs. George Bell and Sons (Coventry Patmore) ; the Editor of Longman's Magazine (Robertson) ; the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (Rossetti) ; and Messrs. Routledge and Son (Clement Scott), for permission to insert in this volume poems of which they hold the copyright.

THE EDITOR OF " POPULAR POETS OF THE PERIOD."

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By whom the Editor has been assisted in preparing the Sketches.

BELL, H. T. MACKENZIE, 153.

BRANCH, H. E., 97, 298.

FAHY, F. A., 284.

GALLIENNE, RICHARD LE, 180.

353. 359- MAYO, ISABELLA FYVIE, 117.

NEWSAM, WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT, 185, 225, 304, 321.

NIAS, JAMES, 3", 343-

SHARP, MRS. ELIZABETH A., 368.

WALKER, JOHN, 234.

GENERAL INDEX.

An asterisk denotes that excerpts only are given from the Poems thus marked.

PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE- SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, MR. ALFRED AUSTIN, MR. ROBERT BROWNING, MR. W. S. GILBERT,

DR. CHARLES MACKAY,

MR. LEWIS MORRIS,

MR. CLEMENT SCOTT,

MR. ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE,

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY—

"ON SOME ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY;" BY

H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Page xvii.

of ^rifctrs and fifles of

Page

ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM 122

To Earine 123

Primrose 124

Meadowsweet 125

Heather 125

The Western Wind ... 126

Among the Heather 127

Civitas Dei 128

ARMSTRONG, GEORGE FRANCIS 249

The Fireship of Kanaris 251

In the Mountainland 254

The Castle of De Riddlesford (Wicklow) 255

ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN i

*The Light of Asia 3

*The Feast of Belshazzar 7

Serenade 9

To Matthew Arnold 225

ARNOLD, MATTHEW 225

AUSTIN, ALFRED 65

A Night in June 66

A Question 68

An Answer „ 68

*Prince Lucifer 69

*The Human Tragedy 70

BARLOW, GEORGE 304

Adam and Eve 306

Blue-Bells 307

A Southern Vengeance 308

The Old Maid 310

Page BELL, THE REV. CANON

CHARLES DENT 298

The Summers of the Long Ago 300

Fox How 301

'Tis Well to be a Maiden Free 303

BELL, H. T. MACKENZIE 170

In Memoriam, W. E. Forster 172

The Keeping of the Vow 172

Waiting for the Dentist 175

BINGHAM, G. CLIFTON 54

I Would the Boats Were Home 54

Letters 55

From a Child's Hand 56

All My World 57

BLACKIE, JOHN STUART 97

The Jungfrau of the Lurlei ... 99 Beautiful World 102

BLIND, Miss MATHILDE 368

*The Ascent of Man 369

The Dead 371

The Sower 372

BOYLE, ROBERT WHELAN 338

Robert Burns.... 340

The Queen 340

Welsh Heroes 341

The Winds 341

The Eye 342

Fellow Creatures . 342

BROWNING, ROBERT 193

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POPULAR POETS.

Page

BUCHANAN, ROBERT 332

BURNSIDE,MISS HELEN MARION 15

The Auld Burnside 17

By Eden's Swift Tide 1 8

An Old Garden 18

Two Christmas Card Verses 19

DIXON, Miss CONSTANCE E. ... 144

*The Chimney-piece of Bruges 145

The Roaming Souls 147

DOIISON, AUSTIN 104

The Prodigals 106

The Cradle 107

The Street Singer 107

On London Stones 108

A Dialogue from Plato 108

A Gentleman of the Old

School no

Don Quixote in

DOHERTY, MALCOLM 241

The Legend of St. Christopher 242

A Castle in the Air 246

The Queen's Colours 247

The Fisher's Wife 248

DOUDNEY, SARAH 112

In the People's Garden 113

Of the Earth, Earthy 114

DOVETON, F. B 200

The Last Farewell 201

My Lady's Charms 204

Parva Domus — Magna Quies 205

EDMONDS, MRS. E. MAYHEW... 213

The Poet's Wife 214

Hesperas 215

O, Beauteous Death 215

EDWARDS,M. BARBARA BETHAM 78

The Golden Bee 79

Dreams that came True 82

FORSHAW, CHARLES F 84

A Summer's Day 85

Sunrise in the Woods — August 86

My Love _ 88

GILBERT, W. S 311

The Yarn of the Nancy Bell 313

The Way of Wooing 316

The Fairy Curate , ... 318

GOSSE, EDMUND 347

*Fortunate Love 349

The Ballad of Dead Cities ... 351

Song from "King Erik " 352

The First Snow 352

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL ... 284

Fathe rO'Flynn 285

Page

Love's Wishes 286

O'Farrell the Fiddler 287

HALL, THE REV. NEWMAN ... 44

Alpine Cattle Bells 45

Who Makes the Daisies 46

To live for Christ is Glory ... 47

HAMILTON, EDWIN 89

The Moderate Man 90

To My First Love ... 92

The Sort of Man He was 92

Shadow and Sunshine 94

My Wooing 95

JAPP, ALEXANDER HAY 117

A Music Lesson 118

Summer's Advent 120

The Tangled Skein 121

LAMPSON, FREDERICK LOCKER 359

The Skeleton in the Cupboard 361

Beggars ... 362

A Nice Correspondent 364

The Reason Why .. 366

Geraldine Green 366

LANG, ANDREW 343

LANGBRIDGE, THE REV. F 229

Doctor Dan's Secret 230

Exit Tommy 231

LEFROY, THE REV. E. C 216

A Sicilian Night 217

A Thought from Pindar 218

LYTTON, THE EARL OF 321

Uriel (a Mystery) 322

Forbearance 328

Desire 329

The Chess Board 330

The First Farewell 331

Knowledge and Wisdom 331

The Last Wish 331

MACKAY, CHARLES 129

King Edward and the Nightingales 131

*Egeria 133

The Bard's Recompense 135

Eternal Justice 136

MARSTON, DR. WESTLAND 219

The Death-Ride 220

By the Sea 223

Mine 224

MAYO, MRS. ISABELLA FYVIE .. 49

Then and Afterwards 50

A Story of Isandlana 51

The Long Sermon 53

GENERAL INDEX.

IX.

Page MEREDITH, GEORGE 373

MONKHOUSE, COSMO 279

Mysteries 280

Life and Death 282

In Arcady 282

A Dead March 283

MORRIS, WILLIAM 353

MORRIS, LEWIS 33

*The Epic of Hades 35

*Gwen 37

The Birth of Verse 40

The Organ Boy 42

NEWSAM, WM. CARTWRIGHT... 20

A Morning Reverie 21

Barcarolle 22

Patriotic Song , 23

Darkness and Dawn 24

Just us of old, I dream 25

Serenade 25

Thine, and Thine Alone 26

Sonnet to Sir Edwin Arnold i

Sonnet to the Earl of Lytton 321

NOBLE, JAMES ASHCROFT 180

She and I 182

An Invitation 183

Barren Days 184

OXENFORD, EDWARD 148

Come back to Me ..... 149

Old Cronies 150

A Winter's Tale 151

PATMORE, COVENTRY 58

First Love 61

The Rosy-bosom'd Hours 61

AFarewell 63

Love's Reality 64

The Year 64

PLUMPTRE, THE VERY REV.

*Lazarus n

The River 13

A Silver Wedding Day 14

ROBERTSON, D. J 206

The Taking of Brill 206

Sea-spells 209

Noontide 211

ROSSETTI, Miss CHRISTINA G. 234 Sonnet from " Later Life"... 236

After Communion 236

Dream-land 237

*Time Flies 238

After Death 239

Song 239

To-day for Me 240

Page

SCOTT, CLEMENT 161

Three Kisses 163

The Midnight Charge 164

An Angel's Visit 167

SHARP, WILLIAM 72

Mad Madge O'Cree 73

Monna Natura 76

SIMS, GEORGE R -. 27

The Old Actor's Story 29

Louis Napoleon 32

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON C. ... 257

The Water-Fairy 261

Comparisons 264

May-time in Mid-winter 265

Love's Exchanges 267

In Guernsey (To Theodore

Watts) 268

Roundels 269

TENNYSON, LORD ALFRED 289

TYNAN, Miss KATHARINE 177

Autumnal 179

WADDINGTON, SAMUEI 138

Lines written by Rydal Water 139

Chateau Freyer 140

On the Heights 140

Human 142

Refugium Peccatorum 143

A Last Word 143

WATTS, THEODORE 153

Ode to Mother Carey's

Chicken 155

The Sonnet's Voice 159

The First Kiss 159

The Heaven that Was 160

WEATHERLY, FREDERIC E 185

The Star of Bethlehem... 187

London Bridge 188

The Quaker 189

To-morrow will be Friday ... 190

Wishes and Fishes 191

Paradise Square 192

WEBSTER, MRS. AUGUSTA 274

Waiting, Waiting 275

Poulain, The Prisoner 275

The Swallows 277

The Whisper 278

The Heart that Lacks Room 278 The Lovers 278

WILTON, THE REV. RICHARD... 270

The Snowdrop Dies 271

The Sparrow 271

The Tides .... 272

When I am Gone ... 272

Shells from Gennesaret 273

INDEX AND CLASSIFICATION OF POEMS.

The Ballad of Dead Cities 351 | The Prodigals 106

Page

A Castle in the Air 246

Adam and Eve 306

A Dead March 283

A Dialogue from Plato 108

A Farewell 63

AGentlemanof the Old School... no

All my World 57

Alpine Cattle Bells 45

Among the Heather 127

A Morning Reverie 21

A Music Lesson 118

A Nice Correspondent 364

An Invitation 183

A Night in June 66

An Old Garden 18

A Question and An Answer 68

A Silver Wedding Bay 14

A Southern Vengeance 308

A Story of Isandlana 51

Autumnal 179

A Winter's Tale 151

Barcarolle 22

Beautiful World 102

Beggars 362

Blue-Bells 307

By Eden's Swift Tide 18

By the Sea 223

Civitas Dei , 128

Come back to Me 149

Comparisons 264

Darkness and Dawn 24

Desire 329

Doctor Dan's Secret 230

Dreamland 237

Dreams that Came True 82

Eternal Justice 136

Exit Tommy 231

Father O'Flynn 285

Fellow Creatures 342

First Love 61

Forbearance 328

From a Child's Hand 56

Geraldine Green 366

* Gwen, a Drama in Monologue ... 37

Page

Hesperas 215

In Arcady 282

In the Mountainland 254

In the People's Garden 113

I would the Boats were Home ... 54

Just as of Old, I Dream 25

King Edward and the Nightingales 131

*KingErik 352

Knowledge and Wisdom 331

*Lazarus 1 1

Letters 55

Lines written by Rydal Water ... 139

London Bridge , 1 88

Louis Napoleon 32

Love's Exchanges 267

Love's Reality 64

Love's Wishes 286

Mad MadgeO'Cree 73

Maytime in Midwinter 265

MonnaNatura , 76

My Lady's Charms 204

My Love 88

Mysteries 280

My Wooing 95

Noontide 211

O, Beauteous Death 215

Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken 155

O'Farrell the Fiddler 287

Of the Earth, Earthy 114

Old Cronies 150

On the Heights 140

Paradise Square 192

Parva Domus — Magna Quies 205

Patriotic Song 23

* Prince Lucifer 69

Robert Burns 340

Sea-Spells 209

Serenade 9 and 25

Shadow and Sunshine 94

She and I 182

Shells from Gennesaret 273

Song 239

Sunrise in the Woods— August ... 86

INDEX AND CLASSIFICATION.

Page The Angel's Visit 167

*The Ascent of Man 369

The Auld Burnside 17

The Bard's Recompense 135

The Birth of Verse 40

The Castle of de Riddlesford . . 255 The Chess Board 330

*The Chimney-Piece of Bruges .. 145

The Cradle 107

The Death-Ride 220

* The Epic of Hades 35

The Eye 342

The Fairy Curate 318

*The Feast of Belshazzar 7

The Fireship of Kanaris 251

The First Farewell 331

The Fisher's Wife 248

The Golden Bee 79

The Heart that Lacks Room 278

*The Human Tragedy 7°

*The Jungfrau of the Lurlei 99

The Last Farewell 201

The Last Wish 331

The Legend of St. Christopher... 242

* The Light of Asia 3

The Long Sermon S3

The Lovers 278

The Keeping of the Vow 172

The Midnight Charge 164

The Moderate Man 90

Then and Afterwards 5°

The Old Actor's Story 29

The Old Maid 310

The Organ-Boy 42

The Poet's Wife 214

The Quaker 189

The Queen : A National Jubilee

Ode 340

Page

The Queen's Colours 247

The Reason Why 366

The River 13

The Roaming Souls , 147

The Rosy-Bosom 'd Hours 61

The Skeleton in the Cupboard ... 361

The Sort of Man he was 92

The Sower , 372

The Star of Bethlehem 187

The Summers of the Long Ago 300

The Swallows 277

The Taking ofBrill 206

The Tangled Skein 121

The Water Fairy 261

The Way of Wooing 316

The Western W7ind... ... 126

The Whisper 278

The Winds 341

The Yarn of the Nancy Bell 313

The Year 64

Thine and Thine Alone 26

Three Kisses 163

*TimeFlies 238

'Tis well to be a Maiden Free . . . 303

To-day for Me ... 240

To Earine 123

To Live for Christ is Glory 47

To-morrow will be Friday 190

To My First Love 92

To Matthew Arnold 225

Two Christmas Card Verses 19

Waiting for the Dentist 175

Waiting, Waiting 275

Welsh Heroes 34 1

Who makes the Daisies 46

Wishes and Fishes 191 gonnds.

After Communion

After Death

A Last Word

A Sicilian Night

A Summer's Day

A Thought from Pindar

Barren Days

Chateau Freyer

Don Quixote

Epithalamium (Fortunate Love).

Fox How

Heather _

Human

In Memoriam, W. E. Forster ...

*LaterLife

Life and Death .

236 239 143 217

142 172 218 236 282

Meadowsweet 125

Mine 224

Poulain, the Prisoner 275

Primrose 124

Refugium Peccatorum 143

Sir Edwin Arnold i

Summer's Advent 120

The Dead 371

TheFearofDeath(FortunateLove) 350

The First Kiss 159

The First Snow 352

The Heaven that was 160

The Sonnet's Voice 159

The Sparrow 271

The Tides 272 xii. POPULAR POETS.

Page On London Stones 108

Page When I am Gone 272