"BLESSINGS BE WITH THEM, AND ETERNAL PRAISE,
WHO GAVE US NOBLER LOVES, AND NOBLER CARES,
THE POETS!"- Wordsworth.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER & CO., AVE MARIA LANE.

LIVERPOOL: EDWARD HOWELL, CHURCH STREET.

MDCCCLIII.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
GIFT OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

MAR 28 1939

"POETRY IS THE RECORD OF THE BEST AND HAPPIEST MOMENTS OF THE HAPPIEST AND BEST MINDS."

D. MARPLES, PRINTER, LIVERPOOL.

Shelley.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

The Lord of Burleigh,

She was a Phantom of Delight,

Love,

Cupid and Campaspe,

Resignation,

JOHN LYLY,

LONGFELLOW,

EMERSON,

The Snow Storm,

The Reward of Virtue, (from the "Essay on Man,") POPE,

LEIGH HUNT,

Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel,

The Exile of Cloudland,

Gather ye Rose-buds,

Field Flowers,

Life, (from

To Autumn,

The Cry of the Children,

Lowly Pleasures,

Mary Morison,

A Psalm of Life,

"Human Life,")

The Cypress Wreath,

Ruth,

To a Sky-lark,

Hester,

Auld Robin Gray,

Ode to Evening,

b

TENNYSON,

WORDSWORTH,

COLERIDGE,

MACKAY,

HERRICK,

CAMPBELL,

ROGERS,

KEATS,

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING,

BARRY CORNWALL,

BURNS,

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12

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20

21

22

24

25

32

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34

36

37

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43

LADY ANNE BARNARD, 44

COLLINS,

46

LONGFELLOW,

SCOTT, .

THOMAS HOOD,

SHELLEY,

CHARLES LAMB,

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A Satyr presenting Fruit to a Shepherdess, FLETCHER,

The Bride, (from "A Ballad upon a Wedding,") SUCKLING,

The Poet's Bridal-Day Song,

The Grasshopper, (Anacreontic,)

Death's Final Conquest,

Youth and Age,

Sonnet, (29,)

Stanzas for Music,

Lucy Gray; or Solitude,

Song. On May Morning,

Song, (from "As you like it,")

The Romance of the Swan's Nest,

Music, (from "The Faerie Queen,")

A Pastoral Evening,

Bermudas,

To Althea, (from Prison)

To Daffodils,

Song,

Dirge, (from "The Broken Heart,'')

The Past,

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50

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, 51

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56

58

59

WORDSWORTH,

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62

MILTON,

SHAKSPEARE,

63

ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, 61

SPENSER,

68

FLETCHER,

69

ANDREW MARVELL,

70

RICHARD LOVELACE, 72

HERRICK,

THOMAS CAMPBELL,

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76

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79

COWLEY,

SHIRLEY,

Home-thoughts, from Abroad,

Ode to a Nightingale,

Early Morning,

Flowers,

Spring,

BURNS,

66

To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down

with the plough, in April, 1786,

Winter in Scotland, (from Marmion,") SCOTT,

The Garden of Adonis, (from "The Faerie Queen,") SPENSER,

From the Passionate Pilgrim,

SHAKSPEARE,

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To the Grasshopper and the Cricket,

LEIGH HUNT,

Morning; its Music, (from "The Minstrel,") BEATTIE,

COLERIDGE,

SHAKSPEARE,

BYRON,

JOHN FORD,

BARRY CORNWALL,
ROBERT BROWNING,
JOHN KEATS,
FLETCHER,
LONGFELLOW,

WILLIS,

93

The Procession of the Seasons, (from "The Faerie Queen,") SPENSER, 94

The Ivy in the Dungeon,

CHARLES MACKAY, 95

KEATS,

La Belle Dame sans Merci,

Dirge in Cymbeline,

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SHAKSPEARE,

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