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Prothalamion
Eliz.mjkthan Sonneteers Sir Th{)nl\s Wyatt
The Lover Compareth His State Hknry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Descriptit)n of Spring
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: Nos. i, 31, 30, 41 Edmund Spenser
Amoretti: Nos. 24, 34, 03, 70, 75, 79 Samuel Daniel
Care-Charmer Sleep
Mkilvei. Drayton
Since There's no Help William Sh.\kespeare Sonnets: Nos. 18, 29, 30, a, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 98, loo, iit), 146
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Contents
Thomas Carew page
Ask Me no More Where Jove Bestows 115
He That Loves a Rosy Cheek 115
Preface to the Fables 213
Daniel Defoe
The True-Bom Englishman 214
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters 216
The Apparition of Mrs. \'eal 221
Jonathan Swift
The Tale of a Tub 226
The Journal to Stella 236
Joseph Addison
The Camjiaign 239
The Spacious Firmament on High 240
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele The Tatler
Prospectus . 240
Duelling 241
Ned Softly 242 xii COXTEXTS
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Frozen Words 244
The Spectator
Mr. Spectator = 246
The Club 248
Westminster Abbey 251
Sir Roger at Church 253
Sir Roger at the Assizes 254
The Vision of JSIirza 256
A Coquette's Heart 258
Alexander Pope
Windsor Forest 260
An Essay on Criticism 262
The Rape of the Lock ; . . 264
An Essay on Man 276
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 278
The Universal Praj'er 279
Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village 279
The Retaliation 286
The Citizen of the World
Beau Tibbs at Home 287
A Visit to a Silk-jSIerchant 289
Samuel Johnson
The Rambler, No. 121 290
Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield 293
Letter to James ]\Iacpherson 294
Lives of the English Poets
JMilton 294
Pope 299
Gray 300
James Bos^\t:ll
The Life of Samuel Johnson: The Year 1763 301
Edmund Burke
Address to the Electors of Bristol 322
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings 326
Reflections on the Revolution in France 329
The Precursors of Rom.a.nticism
All-an Ramsay
Peggy . ^ 332
The Lass wath a Lump of Land . 332
J.\MES Thomson
The Seasons 333
The Castle of Indolence 335
Rule, Britannia 336
EDW.A.RD Young
Night Thoughts 336
Robert Blair
The Grave 337
W1LLLA.M Collins
A Song from Cymbeline 339
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How Sleep the Brave 330
Ode to Evening T^i^g
The Passions 340
Thomas Gray
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 342
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 343
The Progress of Poesy , 345
The Bard 347
The Fatal Sisters 349
Sketch of His Own Character 350
Letters
James Macpherson
Cath-Loda 352
The Songs of Selma 353
Carthon 353
Robert Fergusson
The Daft Days 353
Thomas Chatterton
Bristowe Tragedie 3^4
Song from ^lla 3^g
William Cowper
Walking with God 360
The Loss of the Royal George 360
The Task 361
On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture . . . . . . .... . .362
Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin 364
To Mary 364
The Castaway ^ 365
Robert Burns
Lines to John Lapraik 366
The Holy Fair 366
To a Mouse 369
To a Daisy 369
The Cotter's Saturday Night 370
Address to the Unco Guid t^'^t^
Tarn O'Shanter 374
Scots Wha Hae .■ 377
Songs
Mary Morison 377
Green Grow the Rashes 377
Auld Lang Syne 378
Of A' the Airts . 378
Tarn Glen 37S
My Heart's in the Highlands 379
Go Fetch to Me a Pint of Wine 379
John Anderson 379
Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut 379
Sweet Afton 3S0
Bonie Doon 3S0
Ae Fond Kiss 380
Highland Mary 381
Duncan Gray 381
See, the Smoking Bowl before Us ^82 xiv CONTENTS
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Contented wi' Little 382
A Man's a Man for A' That 382
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast 383
William Blake Songs of Innocence
Introduction 383
The Lamb . 383
Cradle Song 384
The Little Black Boy . 384
Songs of Experience
The Clod and the Pebble 384
The Sick Rose • 385
The Tiger 385
The Sunflower 385 'j
Auguries of Innocence 385 f
George Crabbe ii
The Village 385--
The Borough 387
William Lisle Bowles
Time 387
Hope 388
To the River Tweed 388
Bamborough Castle 388
Written at Tynemouth after a Tempestuous Voyage 388
William Wordsworth
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads 389
Lines Written in Early Spring 392
Expostulation and Reply 392
The Tables Turned 392
Tintern Abbey 393
Lucy Gray 395
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 396
Three Years She Grew 396
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 396
The Prelude 396
Michael 399
My Heart Leaps Up 406
Resolution and Independence 406
Yew Trees 408
At the Grave of Burns 409
The Solitary Reaper 409
To the Cuckoo 410
She Was a Phantom of Delight 410
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 411
Ode to Duty 411
Character of the Happy Warrior 411
Ode: Intimations of Immortality 413
To a Sky-Lark 415
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On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 415
Westminster Bridge . 416
On the Sea-Shore near Calais 416
The World Is too Much with Us 416
To Toussaint L'Ouverture 417
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
France: An Ode 417
Kubla Khan 419
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 419
Frost at Midnight . 430
Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni 431
Dejection: An Ode 433
Youth and Age 435
Work without Hope 436
Biographia Literaria 436
Robert Southey
The Inchcape Rock 440
My Days among the Dead Are Passed 441
Sir Walter Scott
Soldier, Rest! 442
Boat Song 442
Coronach 443
Harp of the North 443
Jock of Hazeldean 444
Brignall Banks 444
County Guy 445
Bonny Dundee 445
George Gordon, Lord Byron
When We Two Parted 446
Know Ye the Land 446
She Walks in Beauty 447
The Destruction of Sennacherib 447
Stanzas for Music 447
So We'll Go no More A-Roving 448
My Boat Is on the Shore 448
Sonnet on Chillon 448
The Prisoner of Chillon 448
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III 452
Canto IV 456 Don Juan: Dedication 460
Canto III 460
Canto IV 463
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 471
Ozymandias 472
Ode to the West Wind 472
The Indian Serenade 474
The Cloud 474
To a Skylark 475
To (Music, When Soft Voices Die) 476
Stanzas Written in Dejection 476 xvi CONTENTS
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The World's Wanderers 477
Time 477
To Night 477
To (One Word Is Too Often Profaned) . . . . . . . . .478
Lyrics from Prometheus Unbound ' 478
Adonais 479
Final Chorus from Hellas . '. . . . 488
When the Lamp Is Shattered 488
With a Guitar, to Jane 489
John Keats
Sleep and Poetry 490
Endymion 490
La Belle Dame sans Merci 491
Ode to a Nightingale 492
Ode on a Grecian Urn 493
Ode on Melancholy 494
To Autumn 494
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern 495
Robin Hood 495
The Eve of St. Agnes 496
Hyperion: Book I 502
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 507
When I Have Fears 507
Bright Star 508
Thomas Campbell
Ye Mariners of England ..." 508
Thomas Moore
The Time I've Lost in Wooing 508
Oft in the Stilly Night 509
The Harp That Once through Tara's Halls 509
Oh, Breathe not His Name 509
Charles Wolfe
The Burial of Sir John Moore 509
Thomas Hood
The Bridge of Sighs , 510
The Song of the Shirt 511
Charles Lamb
Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago 512
Dream Children 519
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers 521
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig 525
The Superannuated Man 529
William Hazlitt
The Fight 533
On Going a Journey 542
, On Familiar Style , 548
Thomas de Quincy
Confessions of an Opium-Eater 551
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 559
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 561
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Walter Savage Landor page
RoseAylmer 566
The Death of Artemidora 566
Sappho to Hesperus 566
One Year Ago 566
To Robert Browning 566
On the Hellenics 567
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon 567
To Youth 568
To Age 568
On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday 5 68
To My Ninth Decade 568
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
CEnone . 570
The Lotos-Eaters . 574
A Dream of Fair Women 575
You Ask Me Why 579
Morte D'Arthur ■ 579
Ulysses 583
Locksley Hall ■ 584
Songs from the Princess: Bugle Song 589
Tears, Idle Tears 589
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead . 590
In Memoriam 590
The Eagle 592
Maud 592
The Charge of the Light Brigade 594
The Northern Farmer — Old Style 594
The Higher Pantheism 596
Flower in the Crannied Wall 596
The Rdvenge 597
Rizpah 599
By an Evolutionist 601
Merlin and the Gleam 601
Crossing the Bar 603
Robert Browning
Song from Pippa Passes . 603
Cavalier Tunes 603
The Lost Leader 604
How They Brought the Good News - 605
Meeting at Night 606
Parting at Morning 606
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 606
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 607
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 607
Saul 607
Love among the Ruins 614
Memorabilia 615
My Last Duchess 615 xviii CONTENTS
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In a Gondola 6i6
A Grammarian's Funeral 619
The Bishop Orders His Tomb 621
Andrea Del Sarto 623
Prospice 627
AbtVogler 627
Rabbi Ben Ezra 629
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