Part 11

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace— Where Delos rose and Phœbus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun, is set.

The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dream’d that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians’ grave I could not deem myself a slave.

A King sate on the rocky brow Which looks o’er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations—all were his! He counted them at break of day— And when the sun set where were they?

And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now— The heroic bosom beats no more! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?

Must we but weep o’er days more blest? Must we but blush? Our father’s bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

In vain—in vain: strike other chords; Fill high the cup with Samian wine! Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio’s vine! Hark! rising to the ignoble call— How answers each bold Bacchanal!

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave?

Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! Our virgins dance beneath the shade— I see their glorious black eyes shine! But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves.

Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!

INDEX.

PAGE Abou Ben Adhem _Leigh Hunt_ 107 All _Francis A. Durivage_ 160 Althea from Prison, To _Richard Lovelace_ 98 Annabel Lee _Edgar Allan Poe_ 178 Antony and Cleopatra _William H. Lytle_ 226 Arsenal at Springfield, The _Henry Wadsworth 158 Longfellow_

Babyhood _Josiah Gilbert 40 Holland_ Ballade of Nicolete _Graham R. Tomson_ 78 Ballad of Old-Time Ladies _Dante Gabriel 128 Rossetti’s version of Villon_ Ballad of the Boat, The _Richard Garnett_ 172 Ballad Upon a Wedding _Sir John Suckling_ 192 Banks o’ Doon _Robert Burns_ 76 Bedouin Love Song _Bayard Taylor_ 67 Believe Me If All Those _Thomas Moore_ 101 Bells of Shandon _Francis Mahony_ 196 Bonny Dundee _Sir Walter Scott_ 167 Border Ballad _Sir Walter Scott_ 169 Break, Break, Break _Lord Tennyson_ 24 Breathes There a Man _Sir Walter Scott_ 104 Bridge, The _Henry Wadsworth 55 Longfellow_ Bugle Song _Lord Tennyson_ 108

Celia, To _Ben Jonson_ 187 Chambered Nautilus _Oliver Wendell 87 Holmes_ Cherry Ripe _Thomas Campion_ 36 Children, Cry of The _Elizabeth Barrett 106 Browning_ Church Gate, At the _William Makepeace 92 Thackeray_ Crossing the Bar _Lord Tennyson_ 193 Cuckoo, To the _John Logan_ 94

Daffodils, The _William Wordsworth_ 162 Dandelion, To the _James Russell 170 Lowell_ Dante, On A Bust of _T. W. Parsons_ 126 Death-Bed, The _Thomas Hood_ 33 Deed and a Word, A _Charles Mackay_ 47 Delight in Disorder _Robert Herrick_ 62 Dirge for a Soldier _George H. Boker_ 53 Ditty, A _Sir Philip Sidney_ 118 Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True _Dinah Maria Mulock_ 149 Drifting _Thomas Buchanan 50 Read_

Elia _E. J. McPhelim_ 70 Emperor’s Daughter Stands Alone, An _Geoffrey Chaucer_ 60 Evening Song _Sidney Lanier_ 54

Faith _Thomas Chatterton_ 144 Fate _Susan Marr Spalding_ 22 Flynn of Virginia _Bret Harte_ 204 Fool’s Prayer, The _Edward Rowland Sill_ 28 For All These _Juliet Wilbor 45 Tompkins_ Fount of Castaly _Joseph O’Connor_ 142

Garret, The _William Makepeace 198 Thackeray_ Girdle, On a _Edmund Waller_ 199 Go, Lovely Rose _Edmund Waller_ 82 Grass, The _Emily Dickinson_ 217 Graveyard, In the _Macdonald Clarke_ 166 Grounds of the Terrible _Harold Begbie_ 164

Hark, Hark the Lark _William Shakespeare_ 71 Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls _Thomas Moore_ 195 He’d Had No Show _S. W. Foss_ 93 Heritage, The _James Russell 116 Lowell_ Her Moral (Miss Kilmanseg) _Thomas Hood_ 95 Highland Mary _Robert Burns_ 152 Holy Nation, A _Richard Realf_ 23

Indian Serenade _Percy Bysshe 141 Shelley_ Indian Summer _John G. Whittier_ 181 “In Memoriam” _Lord Tennyson_ 121 Intra Muros _Mary C. Gillington_ 21 Invictus _W. E. Henley_ 131 I Remember _Thomas Hood_ 123 Isles of Greece _Lord Byron_ 232

Jerusalem the Golden _John M. Neale_ 183 Jim Bludso _John Hay_ 64 John Anderson, My Jo _Robert Burns_ 185 Jonathan to John _James Russell 222 Lowell_ June _James Russell 194 Lowell_

Kubla Kahn _Samuel Taylor 190 Coleridge_

Lamb, The _William Blake_ 153 Last Leaf, The _Oliver Wendell 84 Holmes_ Lead Kindly Light _John Henry Newman_ 72 Life _Mrs. A. L. Barbauld_ 161 Little Breeches _John Hay_ 202 Lovers’ Quarrel, A _Austin Dobson_ 188 Lucasta on Going to the Wars, To _Richard Lovelace_ 35 Lucy _William Wordsworth_ 59

Maid of Athens _Lord Byron_ 186 Mary’s Dream _John Lowe_ 124 Match, A _Algernon Charles 137 Swinburne_ Mignon’s Song _Johann Wolfgang 110 Goethe_ Misconceptions _Robert Browning_ 184 Moral (“Lady Flora”) _Lord Tennyson_ 66 Music, When Soft Voices Die _Percy Bysshe 133 Shelley_ My Boat Is on the Shore _Lord Byron_ 180 My Wife and Child _Henry R. Jackson_ 220

Nathan Hale _Francis Miles Finch_ 212 Nearer Home _Phoebe Cary_ 174 Night _James Blanco White_ 79 Night Has a Thousand Eyes, The _Francis Williams 115 Bourdillon_ Nocturne _Thomas Bailey 210 Aldrich_

O, Captain, My Captain _Walt Whitman_ 38 Ode on a Grecian Urn _John Keats_ 97 Ode on Solitude _Alexander Pope_ 103 Oft in the Stilly Night _Thomas Moore_ 63 Old Familiar Faces, The _Charles Lamb_ 18 Old Oaken Bucket _Samuel Woodworth_ 86 One Touch of Nature _William Shakespeare_ 89 Opportunity _John James Ingalls_ 109 O, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal _William Knox_ 228 Be Proud?

O, Yet We Trust that Somehow Good _Lord Tennyson_ 121 (“In Memoriam”)

Patriotism _Sir Walter Scott_ 104 Paradox of Time, The _Austin Dobson_ 208 Pompadour’s Fan, The _Austin Dobson_ 75 Portia’s Speech on Mercy _William Shakespeare_ 207 Psalm XIX 74 Psalm XXIV 155 Psalm XLVI 44 Psalm XLVIII 231 Psalm LXXXIV 111 Psalm CXXI 119

Remembrance _Emily Bronte_ 42 Requiem, A _Robert Louis 90 Stevenson_ Requiescat _Matthew Arnold_ 90 Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep _Emma Willard_ 105 Rock Me to Sleep _Elizabeth Akers 30 Allen_ Rose, The _Pierre Ronsard_ 143 Ruthless Time _William Shakespeare_ 46

Sally in Our Alley _Henry Carey_ 68 Scots Wha Hae _Robert Burns_ 182 Sea Song, A _Allan Cunningham_ 134 Self-Dependence _Matthew Arnold_ 156 Sennacherib’s Host, Destruction of _Lord Byron_ 32 Serenade (From “The Spanish _Henry Wadsworth 96 Student”) Longfellow_ Shepherdess, The _Alice Meynell_ 130 Shepherd’s Resolution, The _George Wither_ 80 She Walks in Beauty Like the Night _Lord Byron_ 57 Sleep, To _William Wordsworth_ 17 Song _John Bunyan_ 100 Song _William Shakespeare_ 71 Song of Callicles _Matthew Arnold_ 214 Song of the Camp _Bayard Taylor_ 146 Song of the Mystic _Abram Ryan_ 81 Song of the Shirt _Thomas Hood_ 85 Song of the Western Men _Robert S. Hawker_ 129 Song on a May Morning _John Milton_ 163 Society Upon the Stanislaus _Bret Harte_ 210 Spacious Firmament on High, The _Joseph Addison_ 58 Star Spangled Banner, The _Francis Scott Key_ 120

Tears, Idle Tears (“Princess”) _Lord Tennyson_ 151 Thalassa, Thalassa _Brownlee Brown_ 140 Thanatopsis _William Cullen 112 Bryant_ There Is No Death _J. L. McCreery_ 25 Though Lost to Sight _Thomas Moore_ 20 Three Fishers, The _Charles Kingsley_ 230 Tiger, The _William Blake_ 176 Time Hath My Lord (“Troilus and _William Shakespeare_ 46 Cressida”) ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer _Thomas Moore_ 132 To Be or Not to Be (“Hamlet”) _William Shakespeare_ 224 Today _Thomas Carlyle_ 179 Tomorrow and Tomorrow (“Macbeth”) _William Shakespeare_ 200 To Thine Own Self Be True _Packenham Beatty_ 37 Two Lovers _George Eliot_ 48

Untimely Thought, An _Thomas Bailey 73 Aldrich_ Uphill _Christina Rossetti_ 148

Virgins, Counsel to _Robert Herrick_ 138 Virtue Immortal _George Herbert_ 34

Waiting, The _John G. Whittier_ 136 Warble for Lilac Time _Walt Whitman_ 206 Water Fowl, To a _William Cullen 225 Bryant_ When in Disgrace with Fortune _William Shakespeare_ 19 Where Shall the Lover Rest? _Sir Walter Scott_ 216 (“Marmion”) Why So Pale and Wan? _Sir John Suckling_ 39 Widow Malone, The _Charles Lever_ 218 World Is Too Much With Us, The _William Wordsworth_ 102

Year’s at the Spring, The _Robert Browning_ 135