| William Wordsworth. | 1. | The Passing of the Elder Bards |
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| Distinctive Poets and Dramatists |
| Walter Savage Landor. | 2. | Overture |
3. | The Hamadryad |
4. | The Death of Artemidora |
5. | From “Myrtis” |
6. | Little Aglaë |
7. | To a Cyclamen |
8. | Dirce |
9. | An Invocation |
10. | From “Gebir” |
11. | To Youth |
12. | To Age |
13. | Rose Aylmer |
14. | Rose Aylmer’s Hair, Given by Her Sister |
15. | Child of a Day |
16. | Fiesolan Idyl |
17. | Farewell to Italy |
18. | The Maid’s Lament |
19. | Margaret |
20. | On Music |
21. | Plays |
22. | There Falls with Every Wedding Chime |
23. | Shakespeare and Milton |
24. | Macaulay |
25. | Robert Browning |
26. | On the Death of M. D’Ossoli and His Wife Margaret Fuller |
27. | To Ianthe |
28. | Ianthe’s Troubles |
29. | The Appeal |
30. | The Test |
31. | In after Time |
32. | A Prophecy |
33. | Cowslips |
34. | Wrinkles |
35. | Advice |
36. | How to Read Me |
37. | Time to Be Wise |
38. | The One White Hair |
39. | On Himself |
40. | On Lucretia Borgia’s Hair |
41. | Persistence |
42. | Man |
43. | To Sleep |
44. | On Living Too Long |
45. | A Thought |
46. | Heartsease |
47. | Verses Why Burnt |
48. | Death Undreaded |
49. | Memory |
50. | For an Epitaph at Fiesole |
| George Darley. | 51. | The Flower of Beauty |
52. | Summer Winds |
53. | Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” I. Chorus of Spirits |
54. | Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” II. Morning-Song |
55. | Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” III. Nephon’s Song |
56. | Songs from “Sylvia; Or, the May Queen.” IV. Romanzo to Sylvia |
| Barry Cornwall. | 57. | The Sea |
58. | The Hunter’s Song |
59. | The Poet’s Song to His Wife |
60. | The Stormy Petrel |
61. | Peace! What Do Tears Avail? |
62. | Life |
63. | The Blood Horse |
64. | Sit Down, Sad Soul |
65. | Golden-Tressed Adelaide |
66. | A Poet’s Thought |
67. | A Petition to Time |
| Charles Jeremiah Wells. | 68. | From “Joseph and His Brethren” |
| Sir Henry Taylor. | 69. | From “Philip Van Artevelde” |
70. | From “Edwin the Fair” |
71. | A Characterization |
72. | Aretina’s Song |
73. | The Hero |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron. | 74. | The Battle of Naseby |
75. | Epitaph on a Jacobite |
76. | Ivry |
| Richard Henry Horne. | 77. | From “Orion: An Epic Poem” |
78. | Genius |
79. | Pelters of Pyramids |
80. | Solitude and the Lily |
81. | The Slave |
82. | The Plough |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes. | 83. | From “Torrismond” |
84. | Dream-Pedlary |
85. | Ballad of Human Life |
86. | Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” I. To Sea, to Sea! |
87. | Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” II. Dirge |
88. | Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” III. Athulf’s Death Song |
89. | Songs from “Death’s Jest-Book.” IV. Second Dirge |
90. | Songs from “The Brides’ Tragedy.” I. Hesperus Sings |
91. | Songs from “The Brides’ Tragedy.” II. Love Goes A-Hawking |
| Robert Stephen Hawker. | 92. | The Song of the Western Men |
93. | Mawgan of Melhuach |
94. | Featherstone’s Doom |
95. | “Pater Vester Pascit Illa” |
96. | The Silent Tower of Bottreau |
97. | To Alfred Tennyson |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. | 98. | The Cardinal’s Soliloquy |
99. | When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun. | 100. | The Execution of Montrose |
101. | Massacre of the Macpherson |
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| Poets of Quality |
| Thomas Love Peacock. | 102. | The Men of Gotham |
103. | The War-Song of Dinas Vawr |
104. | Margaret Love Peacock |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed. | 105. | The Vicar |
106. | The Newly-Wedded |
| Charles Hartley Langhorne. | 107. | Theocritus |
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| The Roisterers |
| Richard Harris Barham. | 108. | The Jackdaw of Rheims |
109. | Mr. Barney Maguire’s Account of the Coronation |
| William Maginn. | 110. | The Irishman and the Lady |
111. | The Soldier-Boy |
| Francis Sylvester Mahony. | 112. | The Shandon Bells |
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| Meditative Poets |
| William Sidney Walker. | 113. | Death’s Alchemy |
| Hartley Coleridge. | 114. | To the Nautilus |
115. | The Birth of Speech |
116. | Whither? |
117. | To Shakespeare |
118. | Ideality |
119. | Song |
120. | Prayer |
121. | “Multum Dilexit” |
| Anna Brownell Jameson. | 122. | Take Me, Mother Earth |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend. | 123. | Thy Joy in Sorrow |
| John Henry Newman. | 124. | The Sign of the Cross |
125. | England |
126. | Reverses |
127. | The Pillar of the Cloud |
128. | The Elements |
| Sara Coleridge. | 129. | From “Phantasmion” |
| Charles Whitehead. | 130. | As Yonder Lamp |
| John Sterling. | 131. | Shakespeare |
132. | Louis XV |
133. | To a Child |
| Jane Welsh Carlyle. | 134. | To a Swallow Building under Our Eaves |
| Richard Chenebix Trench. | 135. | After the Battle |
136. | Sonnet |
| Thomas Miller. | 137. | The Old Baron |
| Lord John Hanmer. | 138. | The Pine Woods |
| Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton, 1st Baron. | 139. | An Envoy to an American Lady |
140. | The Brook-Side |
| Frances Anne Kemble. | 141. | The Black Wall-Flower |
142. | Faith |
| Henry Alford. | 143. | Lady Mary |
144. | Colonos |
| John Mitford. | 145. | The Roman Legions |
| Arthur Henry Hallam. | 146. | Written in Edinburgh |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere. | 147. | An Epicurean’s Epitaph |
148. | Flowers I Would Bring |
149. | Human Life |
150. | Sorrow |
151. | Love’s Spite |
152. | The Queen’s Vespers |
153. | Cardinal Manning |
154. | Song |
155. | To Imperia |
| Thomas Burbidge. | 156. | If I Desire |
157. | Mother’s Love |
158. | Eventide |
| William Henry Whitworth. | 159. | Time and Death |
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| English Song Writers |
| John Kenyon. | 160. | Champagne Rosé |
| William Howitt. | 161. | The Departure of the Swallow |
| Thomas Haynes Bayly. | 162. | She Wore a Wreath of Roses |
163. | Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? |
| Mary Howitt. | 164. | The Sea Fowler |
165. | Cornfields |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey. | 166. | I Think on Thee |
| Charles Swain. | 167. | Tripping Down the Field-Path |
168. | Take the World As It Is |
169. | Life |
170. | The Rose Thou Gav’st |
171. | ’T Was Just before the Hay Was Mown |
| Eliza Cook. | 172. | The Quiet Eye |
173. | The Sea-Child |
| William Cox Bennett. | 174. | Baby May |
175. | Be Mine, and I Will Give Thy Name |
176. | A Christmas Song |
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| Songs of Balladry of Scotland |
| Alexander Laing. | 177. | My Ain Wife |
| Thomas Carlyle. | 178. | The Sower’s Song |
| Robert Gilfillan. | 179. | ’T is Sair to Dream |
180. | The Exile’s Song |
| David Macbeth Moir. | 181. | Casa’s Dirge |
| William Thom. | 182. | The Mitherless Bairn |
| Thomas Aird. | 183. | The Swallow |
| Hugh Miller. | 184. | The Babie |
| James Ballantine. | 185. | Muckle-Mou’d Meg |
| John Stuart Blackie. | 186. | My Bath |
187. | The Emigrant Lassie |
188. | The Working Man’s Song |
| William Miller. | 189. | Willie Winkie |
| Charles Mackay. | 190. | Tell Me, Ye Winged Winds |
191. | Earl Norman and John Truman |
192. | What Might Be Done |
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| Irish Minstrelsy |
| Samuel Lover. | 193. | Rory O’More; Or, Good Omens |
194. | Widow Machree |
| John Banim. | 195. | Soggarth Aroon |
| Gerald Griffin. | 196. | A Place in Thy Memory |
197. | Nocturne |
| James Clarence Mangan. | 198. | Dark Rosaleen |
199. | Soul and Country |
| Lady Helen Selina Dufferin. | 200. | Lament of the Irish Emigrant |
| Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton. | 201. | We Have Been Friends Together |
202. | The King of Denmark’s Ride |
203. | Love Not |
| John Francis Waller. | 204. | Kitty Neil |
205. | A Spinning-Wheel Song |
| Sir Samuel Ferguson. | 206. | The Fairy Thorn |
| Thomas Osborne Davis. | 207. | The Sack of Baltimore |
208. | The Boatman of Kinsale |
209. | The Welcome |
| Sir Charles Gaban Duffy. | 210. | The Irish Rapparees |
| Denis Florence MacCarthy. | 211. | Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land |
212. | The Irish Wolf-Hound |
| Bartholomew Dowling. | 213. | The Revel |
| John Kells Ingram. | 214. | The Memory of the Dead |
| Thomas D’Arcy McGee. | 215. | The Celtic Cross |
216. | The Irish Wife |
217. | The Exile’s Devotion |
| Lady Jane Francesca Speranza Wilde. | 218. | The Voice of the Poor |
| Mary Eva Kelly. | 219. | Tipperary |
| Ellen Mary Patrick Downing. | 220. | Were I but His Own Wife |
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| “The Oaten Flute” |
| William Barnes. | 221. | Woone Smile Mwore |
222. | Blackmwore Maidens |
223. | The Heäre |
224. | The Castle Ruins |
| Edwin Waugh. | 225. | The Dule ’s i’ This Bonnet o’ Mine |
226. | Th’ Sweetheart Gate |
227. | Owd Pinder |
| Samuel Laycock. | 228. | Welcome, Bonny Brid! |
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| Poets of the New Day |
| Ebenezer Elliott. | 229. | Elegy on William Cobbett |
230. | A Poet’s Epitaph |
231. | The Builders |
| William Johnson Fox. | 232. | The Barons Bold |
233. | Life Is Love |
| Thomas Hood. | 234. | The Dream of Eugene Aram |
235. | Flowers |
236. | Fair Ines |
237. | The Death-Bed |
238. | Ballad |
239. | Lear |
240. | Ballad |
241. | From “Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg.” I. Her Death |
242. | From “Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg.” II. Her Moral |
243. | Ruth |
244. | The Water Lady |
245. | Ode—Autumn |
246. | The Song of the Shirt |
247. | The Lay of the Laborer |
248. | The Bridge of Sighs |
249. | Stanzas |
| Bartholomew Simmons. | 250. | Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood |
| Harriet Martineau. | 251. | On, on, Forever |
| Laman Blanchard. | 252. | Nell Gwynne’s Looking-Glass |
253. | Hidden Joys |
| Thomas Wade. | 254. | The Net-Braiders |
255. | Birth and Death |
| Thomas Cooper. | 256. | Chartist Song |
| Sarah Flower Adams. | 257. | Hymn |
258. | Love |
259. | Nearer to Thee |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning. | 260. | The Cry of the Children |
261. | My Heart and I |
262. | Sonnets from the Portuguese |
263. | A Musical Instrument |
264. | From “Casa Guidi Windows” |
265. | A Court Lady |
266. | Mother and Poet |
267. | From “Aurora Leigh” |
268. | The Sleep |
| Alfred Domett. | 269. | A Glee for Winter |
270. | A Christmas Hymn |
271. | From “A Christmas Hymn” |
| William Bell Scott. | 272. | Glenkindie |
273. | Youth and Age |
274. | Pygmalion |
275. | My Mother |
276. | The Norns Watering Yggdrasill |
277. | To the Dead |
278. | Hero-Worship |
| William James Linton. | 279. | Eviction |
280. | Patience |
281. | Our Cause |
282. | Heart and Will |
283. | From “A Threnody: In Memory of Albert Darasz” |
284. | Love and Youth |
285. | Too Late |
286. | Weep Not! Sigh Not! |
287. | Spring and Autumn |
288. | Love’s Blindness |
289. | The Silenced Singer |
290. | Epicurean |
| Robert Nicoll. | 291. | We ’ll a’ Go Pu’ the Heather |
292. | Bonnie Bessie Lee |
293. | The Hero |
| Wathen Marks Wilks Call. | 294. | The People’s Petition |
295. | Summer Days |
| Charles Weldon. | 296. | The Poem of the Universe |
| Emily Brontë. | 297. | Song |
298. | The Old Stoic |
299. | Warning and Reply |
300. | Stanzas |
301. | Her Last Lines |
| George Eliot. | 302. | “O May I Join the Choir Invisible” |
303. | Songs from “The Spanish Gypsy.” I. The Dark |
304. | Songs from “The Spanish Gypsy.” II. Song of the Zíncali |
| Ernest Charles Jones. | 305. | Earth’s Burdens |
| John Ruskin. | 306. | The Wreck |
307. | Trust thou thy Love |
| Ebenezer Jones. | 308. | Song of the Kings of Gold |
309. | The Face |
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| The Rhapsodists |
| Philip James Bailey. | 310. | From “Festus” |
| Dora Greenwell. | 311. | A Song of Farewell |
312. | To Christina Rossetti |
| George Macdonald. | 313. | Light |
314. | World and Soul |
315. | Baby |
316. | Song |
| Gerald Massey. | 317. | The Deserter from the Cause |
318. | Christie’s Portrait |
319. | His Banner over Me |
| Alexander Smith. | 320. | From “A Life-Drama” |
321. | Beauty |
322. | To —— |
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| Early Hymnody |
| James Montgomery. | 323. | At Home in Heaven |
| Charlotte Elliott. | 324. | Just As I Am |
325. | Let Me Be with Thee |
| James Edmeston. | 326. | Prayer to the Trinity |
| Henry Hart Milman. | 327. | Hymn for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity |
328. | Burial Hymn |
329. | Ride on in Majesty |
| John Keble. | 330. | Who Runs May Read |
331. | Seed Time Hymn |
332. | Holy Matrimony |
| Sir John Bowring. | 333. | From the Recesses |
334. | What of the Night? |
| Henry Francis Lyte. | 335. | Abide with Me |
336. | “Lo, We Have Left All” |
337. | The Secret Place |
| Samuel Wilberforce. | 338. | Just for To-day |
| Christopher Wordsworth. | 339. | Giving to God |
| Horatius Bonar. | 340. | Lost but Found |
341. | The Voice from Galilee |
342. | Thy Way, Not Mine |
343. | Abide with Us |
344. | The Master’s Touch |
345. | A Little While |
| John Samuel Bewley Monsell. | 346. | Litany |
| Frederick William Faber. | 347. | The Will of God |
348. | Paradise |
349. | The Right Must Win |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. | 350. | Teach Us to Die |
| Christopher Newman Hall. | 351. | My Times Are in Thy Hand |
| Anne Brontë. | 352. | A Prayer |
| William John Blew. | 353. | O Lord, Thy Wing Outspread |
| Cecil Frances Alexander. | 354. | There Is a Green Hill |
| Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane. | 355. | The Lost Sheep |
| Sabine Baring-Bould. | 356. | Child’s Evening Hymn |
| Frances Ridley Havergal. | 357. | I Gave My Life for Thee |
