PART VI

145. The Voice of Spring 259 FELICIA HEMANS

146. The Forsaken Merman 260 MATTHEW ARNOLD

147. The Banks o’ Doon 265 ROBERT BURNS

148. The Light of Other Days 266 THOMAS MOORE

149. My Own Shall Come to Me 267 JOHN BURROUGHS

150. Ode to a Skylark 268 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

151. The Sands of Dee 271 CHARLES KINGSLEY

152. A Wish 272 SAMUEL ROGERS

153. Lucy 272 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

154. Solitude 273 ALEXANDER POPE

155. John Anderson 274 ROBERT BURNS

156. The God of Music 275 EDITH M. THOMAS

157. A Musical Instrument 275 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

158. The Brides of Enderby 277 JEAN INGELOW

159. The Lye 283 SIR WALTER RALEIGH

160. L’Envoi 285 RUDYARD KIPLING

161. Contentment 286 EDWARD DYER

162. The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls 287 THOMAS MOORE

163. The Old Oaken Bucket 288 SAMUEL WOODWORTH

164. The Raven 289 EDGAR ALLAN POE

165. Arnold von Winkleried 296 JAMES MONTGOMERY

166. Life, I Know Not What Thou Art 299 A.L. BARBAULD

167. Mercy 300 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

168. Polonius’ Advice 301 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

169. A Fragment from “Julius Cæsar” 301 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

170. The Skylark 302 THOMAS HOGG

171. The Choir Invisible 303 GEORGE ELIOT

172. The World Is Too Much With Us 304 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

173. On His Blindness 304 JOHN MILTON

174. She Was a Phantom of Delight 305 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

175. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 306 THOMAS GRAY

176. Rabbi Ben Ezra 312 ROBERT BROWNING

177. Prospice 320 ROBERT BROWNING

178. Recessional 321 RUDYARD KIPLING

179. Ozymandias of Egypt 322 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

180. Mortality 323 WILLIAM KNOX

181. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer 326 JOHN KEATS

182. Hervé Riel 326 ROBERT BROWNING

183. The Problem 333 RALPH WALDO EMERSON

184. To America 335 ALFRED AUSTIN

185. The English Flag 337 RUDYARD KIPLING

186. The Man With the Hoe 342 EDWIN MARKHAM

187. Song of Myself 344 WALT WHITMAN

Index 350

INDEX OF AUTHORS

ANONYMOUS Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, 6 The Days of the Month, 7 The Boy who Never Told a Lie, 19 The Bluebell of Scotland, 20 The Nautilus and the Ammonite, 188 A Ballad for a Boy, 236 ARNOLD, MATTHEW The Forsaken Merman, 260 AUSTIN, ALFRED To America, 335

BARBAULD, A.L. Life, I Know Not What Thou Art, 299 BENNETT, HENRY HOLCOMB The Flag Goes By, 133 BLAKE, WILLIAM A Dream, 116 BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE The Butterfly and the Bee, 42 BRADLEY, MARY EMILY A Chrysalis, 149 BREWER, EBENEZER COBHAM Little Things, 5 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT From Casa Guidi Windows, 222 A Musical Instrument, 275 BROWNING, ROBERT Pippa, 6 An Incident of the French Camp, 43 How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 173 Rabbi Ben Ezra, 312 Prospice, 320 Hervé Riel, 326 BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN Robert of Lincoln, 44 The Planting of the Apple Tree, 211 BURNS, ROBERT John Barleycorn, 83 To a Mouse, 92 To a Mountain Daisy, 94 Bannockburn, 142 For a’ That, 151 The Banks o’ Doon, 265 John Anderson, 274 BURROUGHS, JOHN My Own Shall Come to Me, 267 BURT, MARY E. The Flying Squirrel, 60 BYRON, LORD The Destruction of Sennacherib, 158 The Eve of Waterloo, 177

CABLE, GEORGE W. The New Arrival, 152 CAMPBELL, THOMAS The Rainbow, 53 Lord Ullin’s Daughter, 105 Hohenlinden, 134 CARROLL, LEWIS Father William, 33 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL T. He Prayeth Best, 5 If I Had But Two Little Wings, 21 COLLINS, WILLIAM How Sleep the Brave, 133 COOLIDGE, SUSAN How the Leaves Came Down, 12 COWPER, WILLIAM The Nightingale and the Glow-worm, 34 The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, 190

DICKENS, CHARLES The Ivy Green, 59 DOUGLAS, WILLIAM Annie Laurie, 226 DYER, EDWARD Contentment, 286

ELIOT, GEORGE The Choir Invisible, 303 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO The Problem, 333

FIELD, EUGENE Wynken, Blynken and Nod, 16 The Duel, 18 Krinken, 162 FIELDS, JAMES T. The Captain’s Daughter, 23 FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS My Old Kentucky Home, 136 Old Folks at Home, 137

GOULD, HANNAH FLAGG The Frost, 39 A Name in the Sand, 256 GRAY, THOMAS Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 306 GREENE, ALBERT GORTON Old Grimes, 47

HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE Marco Bozzaris, 128 HEMANS, FELICIA Casabianca, 22 The Homes of England, 192 The Landing of the Pilgrims, 229 The Voice of Spring, 259 HOOD, THOMAS I Remember, I Remember, 159 HOGG, JAMES A Boy’s Song, 50 The Skylark, 302 HOLLAND, J.G. Heaven is Not Reached at a Single Bound, 117 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Old Ironsides, 53 The Chambered Nautilus, 122 HOWITT, MARY Buttercups and Daisies, 51 HUNT, LEIGH Abou Ben Adhem, 89 The Glove and the Lions, 184 Cupid Drowned, 234

INGELOW, JEAN The Brides of Enderby, 277

JONSON. BEN The Noble Nature, 60

KEATS, JOHN Fairy Song, 50 On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, 326 KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT The Star-Spangled Banner, 31 KINGSLEY, CHARLES A Farewell, 21 The Sands of Dee, 271 KIPLING, RUDYARD True Royalty, 7 Playing Robinson Crusoe, 8 The Overland Mail, 125 The Ballad of the Clampherdown, 154 L’Envoi, 285 Recessional, 321 The English Flag, 337 KNOX, WILLIAM Mortality, 323

LANIER, SIDNEY The Tournament, 110 Barnacles, 219 LEAR, EDWARD The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, 15 LIDDELL, CATHERINE C. Jesus the Carpenter, 114 LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. The Arrow and the Song, 3 The Village Blacksmith, 25 Hiawatha’s Childhood, 79 The Wreck of the Hesperus, 138 A Psalm of Life, 218 The Ship of State, 227 The Skeleton in Armour, 240 LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL The Finding of the Lyre, 148 The Shepherd of King Admetus, 171 June, 217 LYLY, JOHN Cupid and My Campasbe, 235 LYTE, HENRY FRANCIS Abide With Me, 223

MACAULAY, THOMAS B. Ivry, 179 Horatius at the Bridge, 193 MACDONALD, GEORGE Little White Lily, 10 The Wind and the Moon, 111 MACKAY, CHARLES Song of Life, 48 MARKHAM, EDWIN The Man With the Hoe, 342 MCCLELLAN, ISAAC The Death of Napoleon, 131 MILLER, JOAQUIN Columbus, 169 MILLER, KATHERINE Stevenson’s Birthday, 164 MILLER, WILLIAM Willie Winkie, 13 MILTON, JOHN On His Blindness, 304 MONTGOMERY, JAMES Arnold von Winkleried, 296 MOORE, CLEMENT CLARKE A Visit from St. Nicholas, 29 MOORE, THOMAS The Last Rose of Summer, 234 Cupid Stung, 234 The Light of Other Days, 266 The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls, 287 MORRIS, GEORGE POPE Woodman, Spare That Tree, 222

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY Lead, Kindly Light, 224

OSBORNE, SELLECK A Modest Wit, 165 OSGOOD, KATE PUTNAM Driving Home the Cows, 160

PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD Home, Sweet Home, 220 PIERPONT, JOHN Warren’s Address, 63 POE, EDGAR ALLAN The Raven, 289 POPE, ALEXANDER Solitude, 273

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER The Lye, 283 RANKIN. JEREMIAH EAMES The Babie, 4 READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN Sheridan’s Ride, 68 RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB Little Orphant Annie, 54 ROGERS, SAMUEL A Wish, 272

SARGENT, EPES A Life on the Ocean Wave, 85 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Lochinvar, 103 The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 126 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Ingratitude, 58 Mercy, 300 Polonius’ Advice, 301 A Fragment from Julius Cæsar, 301 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Ode to a Skylark, 268 Ozymandias in the Desert, 322 SMITH, SAMUEL FRANCIS America, 228 SOUTHEY, ROBERT The Battle of Blenheim, 117 The Inchcape Rock, 145 The Legend of Bishop Hatto, 166 The Well of St. Keyne, 186 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS My Shadow, 9

TAYLOR, BAYARD The Song in Camp, 64 TAYLOR, JANE The Violet, 27 TENNYSON, ALFRED Sweet and Low, 27 The Owl, 40 The Bugle Song, 66 Lady Clare, 72 The Lord of Burleigh, 75 The Death of the Old Year, 86 The Charge of the Light Brigade, 107 Crossing the Bar, 124 The Brook, 153 The Lotos Eaters, 231 The REVENGE, 246 Sir Galahad, 253 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE Little Billee, 41 THAXTER, CELIA The Sandpiper, 71 THOMAS, EDITH Moly, 233 The God of Music, 275 TROWBRIDGE, J.T. Farmyard Song, 90 TURNER, CHARLES TENNYSON Letty’s Globe, 115

WATTS, ISAAC Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, 4 Love Between Brothers and Sisters, 20 WHITMAN, WALT O Captain! My Captain! 57 Song of Myself, 344 WHITTIER, JOHN G. The Three Bells of Glasgow, 67 Barbara Frietchie, 96 WOLFE, C. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 176 WOODWORTH, SAMUEL The Old Oaken Bucket, 288 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM The Rainbow (a fragment), 28 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, 82 Fidelity, 120 Lucy, 272 The World is Too Much With Us, 304 She Was a Phantom of Delight, 305 WOTTON, SIR HENRY A Happy Life, 220