The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

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H. Holt, 1918 - 4009 pages
 

Contents

Eule Things
28
The Book of the World
29
Jack and Jill Unknown
39
The Violet
43
Robin Redbreast Unknown
45
Old Mother Hubbard Unknown
51
The Moon Eliza Lee Follen
57
Proverbs Unknown
64
When the Sleepy Man Comes Charles G D Roberts
70
Mothers Song Unknown
77
Jerusalem John Mason Neale 3689
82
Lullaby O Lullaby William Cox Bennett
83
Gaudeamus Igitur
84
MotherSong from Prince Lucifer Alfred Austin
90
BedTime Song
92
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN
98
Meddlesome Matty
110
PAGE
115
The Butterfly and the
116
The Story of Augustus Who Would
122
When Good King Arthur Ruled This
128
The Lamb
135
Shadows
139
What Does Little Birdie Say?
150
The Little Black
156
Envoy
158
Mr Coggs
162
The Man in the Moon
168
Holy Thursday
174
A Parable George Macdonald
180
The Babes in the Wood Unknown
185
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning
192
THE GLAD EVANGEL
201
Song She is not fair to outward
206
The Angels William Drummond
207
The DreamBearer
210
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3439
212
The House of Christmas Gilbert Keith Chesterton
213
A Childs Song of Christmas Marjorie L C Pickthall
219
PART VII
226
FAIRYLAND
231
Life a Question
235
Fairy Song John Keats
237
No Thomas Hood 2048
238
The Fairy Thrall Mary C G Byron
243
Mans Days
244
The Satyrs and the Moon Herbert S Gorman
249
Out Where the West Begins
251
A Childs Laughter Algernon Charles Swinburne
254
James Ballantine
257
The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whittier
261
Israfel
263
To a Little Girl Helen Parry Eden
267
A Little While
270
To Charlotte Pulteney Ambrose Philips
273
Multum Dilexit
275
Envoy
278
The Childs Heritage John G Neihardt
279
The ShadowChild Harriet Monroe
288
Battle Cry John G Ncihardt 2952
290
The Bridge of Sighs
291
William Wordsworth
292
THEY ARE ALL GONE
293
Were Dead Coventry Patmore
296
The Loss of the Birkenhead Francis Hastings Doyle 2472
300
The Little Ghost Katherine Tynan
302
For Charlies Sake John Williamson Palmer
308
She Came and Went James Russell Lowell
314
The Childs Wish Granted George Parsons Lathrop
320
Gods World
322
Sonnets from Mimma Bella Eugene LeeHamilton
323
To a Young Lady William Cowper
332
The Song of the Shirt
333
A Portrait Elizabeth Barrett Browning
338
St Jamess Street
341
The Gipsy Girl Henry Alford
344
The Dead Faith
346
The Chambered Nautilus
347
The Sonnet
349
THE
351
Walter Savage Landor 2903
354
Aladdin James Russell Lowell
357
The Pilgrim John Bunyan 3715
359
Vendors Song
362
Ballade of Middle Age Andrew Lang
363
The Battle of Otterburn Unknown 2356
366
Man Henry Vaughan
370
Ode on the Intimations of Immortal
371
THE WOMAN
377
She Walks in Beauty George Gordon Byron
383
Our Sister Horatio Nelson Powers
389
A Child My Choice Robert Southwell 3747
394
The Shrine Digby Mackworth Dolben
395
Sonnets
397
Of the Last Verses in the Book Edmund Waller
401
Metrical Feet
405
Years Walter Savage Landor
407
Ralph Waldo Emerson
411
Human Life Aubrey Thomas de Vere
416
Melancholy John Fletcher 3349
417
Sic Vita
419
Forty Years On Edward Ernest Bowen
421
Ernest Dowson
422
Edinburgh
429
LOOKING BACKWARD
434
Childhood John Banister Tabb
440
Voice of the Western Wind Edmund Clarence Stedman
446
An Immorality Ezra Pound
452
In the Lilacrain Edith Matilda Thomas 3539
453
Threescore and Ten Richard Henry Stoddard
458
Brown of Ossawatomie John Greenleaf Whittier 2484
462
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns
464
The Maiden City
467
Ben Bolt Thomas Dunn English
470
Eros Ralph Waldo Emerson
474
Yes?
475
To Death
479
What is Love John Fletcher
481
Prayer Richard Crashaw 3723
485
A Song for St Cecilias
486
Cupid Stung Thomas Moore
488
The Widow Allan Ramsay 2020
489
Love will Find Out the Way Unknown
494
Time and Grief William Lisle Bowles 3352
496
Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
500
The Rose of Stars George Edward Woodberry
507
Child Child Sara Teasdale
512
Edith William Ellery Channing 3217
517
IN PRAISE OF
518
The Two Villages
519
CherryRipe Thomas Campion
524
Enamored
526
Song Phoebus arise
527
Song from The Devils Law Case John Webster 3517
528
To Music to Becalm his Fever
529
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph
531
The Lay of the Levite William Edmonstoune
534
Amoret Mark Akenside
537
Kyrielle John Payne 2840
542
My Love Shes but a Lassie yet James Hogg
543
Eileen Aroon
549
The Prime of Life
553
George Meredith
556
Praise of My Lady
563
The Daughter of Mendoza
569
Henry Van Dyke
572
Oh Why Should the Spirit of Mor
573
Marvel What You Are
575
Dawn on the Headland
578
Softly Woo Away Her Breath Bryan Waller Procter 3548
579
After Two Years
581
The
586
Her Sacred Bower
587
Song O do not wanton with those
592
His WindingSheet
595
Mediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew
598
To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace
605
Song Too late alas I must con
612
Amynta Gilbert Elliot
618
Take back the Virgin Page Thomas Moore
624
With a Guitar to Jane
626
Thomas Hood
630
When You are Old
636
The Song of the Western Men Robert Stephen Hawker 2407
639
Pain St John Lucas 3353
640
A Ballad of Life
642
Love on the Mountain
648
Matin Song
651
A Trifle
654
Music
655
Resurrection Harry Kemp 3553
657
MY COUNTRY
659
Let Me Enjoy Thomas Hardy 2841
660
The Rose
661
Wild Wishes Ethel M Hewitt
664
Edmund Gosse
667
Song See see she wakes Sabina
668
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard
670
Alfred Noyes
671
Rhyme
672
Heart of my Heart Unknown
676
A Man Called Dante I Have
680
MY LADYS LIPS
682
The Destruction of Sennacherib George Gordon Byron 2327
685
On Music
686
The Dearest Poets
687
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden Percy Bysshe Shelley
688
My Days Among the Dead
690
AT HER WINDOW
694
William Congreve
697
The Miracle of the Dawn
701
Oh Breathe Not His Name Thomas Moore 3609
702
GoodNight
703
False Poets and True
704
Song of the Silent Land
706
Bedouin Song
709
A Lovers Lullaby
715
Pious Selinda
721
Tom o Bedlam
725
Comin Through the Rye
727
Wouldnt You Like to Know John Godfrey Saxe
734
The King of Denmarks Ride Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor
737
The Reveille Bret Harte 2487
739
A Primrose Dame Gleeson White
740
Wooed and Married and A Alexander Ross
746
Kilmeny
750
Rory OMore or Good Omens Samuel Lover
753
The Ould Plaid Shawl Francis A Fahy
759
To Chloe Jealous Matthew Prior
766
O Merry may the Maid be John Clerk
772
The Arrow and the Song
775
The LowBacked Car Samuel Lover
778
Lochinvar Walter Scott
786
At the Church Gate William Makepeace Thack
792
Moira ONeill
801
THE IRONY OF LOVE
807
The Lovers Resolution
813
L
819
Thomas Moore
832
Sorrows of Werther
838
My Last Duchess
846
Little and Great
850
Vers la Vie Arthur Upson 2855
851
Justine You Love me
853
Suburb
859
A Singing Lesson
902
Song We break the glass whose
905
The Dark Man Nora Hopper 010
912
Lincoln the Man of the People Edwin Markham 3639
913
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonæ
918
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis François Villon 3837
920
The GuardianAngel
922
When My Beloved Sleeping Lies Irene Rutherford McLeod
924
Dawnangels
929
THE PARTED LOVERS
930
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going
934
Song At setting day and rising
940
My Bonnie Mary Robert Burns
946
Stanzas
948
When We Two Parted George Gordon Byron
952
The Sealands Orrick Johns
958
The Belfry of Bruges
963
The Flowers Name Robert Browning
964
On the Portrait of Shakespeare Ben Jonson 3052
966
Departure Coventry Patmore
974
Rebin Adair Caroline Keppel
981
A Song of Autumn Rennell Rodd
985
and Free
986
Forever and a Day Thomas Bailey Aldrich
991
To William Sharp Clinton Scollard 3654
992
Chanson de Rosemonde Richard Hovey
997
PreExistence Paul Hamilton Hayne 2854
999
Porphyrias Lover Robert Browning
1003
Memorabilia Robert Browning 3657
1004
Ode on a Grecian
1006
Auld Robin Gray Anne Barnard
1009
Hereafter Harrict Prescott Spofford
1012
Robert Louis Stevenson Lizette Woodworth Reese 3057
1014
Outgrown Julia C R Dorr
1019
The Rose and Thorn Paul Hamilton Hayne
1028
Grandmither Think Not I Forget Willa Sibert Cather 103 3
1035
Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley
1040
Mandalay
1046
Agatha Alfred Austin
1047
The PassionFlower Margaret Fuller
1054
Custers Last Charge Frederick Whittaker 2529
1055
LOVE AND DEATH
1060
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley 1007
1070
Proud Maisie Walter Scott
1076
Lament for Culloden Robert Burns 24 20
1077
Bloom George Gordon Byron
1082
Battle of the Baltic Thomas Campbell 2441
1083
The Watcher James Stephens
1089
Next of
1091
Remembrance Emily Bronté
1095
Solitude
1096
Barbara Alexander Smith
1102
The Bells
1105
Telling the Bees John Greenleaf Whittier
1109
Give Love Today Ethel Talbot
1115
Recompense
1117
Romance Andrew Lang
1121
Today
1124
After Lizette Woodworth Reese
1127
An OldFashioned Poet
1130
Rain on a Grave Thomas Hardy
1133
The Little Rose is Dust My Dear Grace Hazard Conkling
1139
The GoodMorrow John Donne
1142
The LotosEaters
1143
The Garden of Proserpine
1146
Song For me the jasmine buds
1148
Morte DArthur
1152
Earl Mertouns Song Robert Browning
1156
Twilight at
1159
A Womans Question Adelaide Anne Procter
1162
When Death to Either shall Come Robert Bridges
1168
Mastery
1174
Nested Habberton Lulham
1177
Prothalamion Edmund Spenser
1183
Character of the Happy Warrior
1192
The Kiss Sara Teasdale
1194
Holy Matrimony John Keble
1197
Loves Calendar William Bell Scott
1203
A Prayer
1204
If Thou Wert by My Side
1209
It is a Beauteous Evening Calm
1210
Margaret to Dolcino Charles Kingsley
1215
The Blessed Damozel
1217
Awake Awake
1218
Winifreda Unknown
1221
The Seekers John Masefield 2863
1223
Moggy and Me James Hogg
1227
Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella Philip Sidney
1235
Sonnets from Idea Michael Drayton
1242
Alexis Here She Stayed William Drummond
1252
This is My Hour
1254
Sonnets Christina Georgina Rossetti
1259
Counsel
1260
Alice Meynell
1263
Richard Hovey
1269
The Dead Coach
1274
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1276
Robert Browning
1284
William Drummond
1293
The One Hope
1294
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 2960
1296
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
1299
Harry Kemp
1304
Clinton Scollard
1307
A Mary F Robinson
1309
Robert Adger Bowen
1315
The Dying Reservist
1316
Robert Browning
1321
Rock of Ages Augustus Montague Toplady 3797
1326
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2914
1327
The Ballad of Judas Iscariot Robert Buchanan 2791
1329
THE CHANGING YEAR
1330
To the Poets
1334
Spring Thomas Nashe
1337
Death
1339
An Ode on the Spring Thomas Gray
1343
The Progress of Poesy
1344
New Life Amelia Josephine Burr
1349
The Voice of Toil
1350
Spinning in April Josephine Preston Peabody
1357
A Spring Lilt Unknown
1363
WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNING BROOK
1395
Under the Leaves
1403
George Pope Morris
1409
Charles Kingsley
1415
Arethusa Percy Bysshe Shelley
1418
HOME AND FATHERLAND
1419
Flow Gently Sweet Afton Robert Burns
1425
The Peaks Stephen Crane
1433
To Meadows Robert Herrick
1439
GREEN THINGS GROWING
1446
A Song of Angiola in Heaven
1450
An Autumn Garden Bliss Carman
1452
A Forsaken Garden Algernon Charles Swinburne
1459
Seaweed
1460
Oh Mother of a Mighty Race William Cullen Bryant 2203
1463
Flowers Thomas Hood
1465
Fourleaf Clover Ella Higginson
1472
Daisies Bliss Carman
1478
The Hound of Heaven
1481
To the Fringed Gentian William Cullen Bryant
1484
A Song the Grass Sings Charles G Blanden
1488
The MorningGlory Florence Earle Coates
1494
To Blossoms Robert Herrick
1504
For a That and a That
1509
On the Grasshopper and Cricket John Keats
1510
Thomas the Rhymer
1516
To a Butterfly William Wordsworth
1517
The Blackbird Frederick Tennyson
1523
Hame Hame Hame Allan Cunningham 3226
1527
The OLincon Family Wilson Flagg
1530
The Crow William Canton
1536
Philomel
1543
Frances Anne Kemble
1545
To the Nightingale
1551
Edgar Fawcett
1557
A Dirge
1558
Constancy
1561
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1563
The First Swallow
1573
Overflow
1579
Stanzas from The Triumph
1585
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 2066
1590
Hastings Mill C Fox Smith
1591
In Our Boat Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1597
The Port o Hearts Desire John S McGroarty
1604
Drifting Thomas Buchanan Read
1612
The Sea Richard Henry Stoddard
1619
The Sailor William Allingham
1625
The Last Buccaneer Thomas Babington Macaulay
1632
Dirge from Cymbeline
1636
The Old Squire Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
1638
To America Alfred Austin 2226
1640
The Country Faith Norman Gale
1644
The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn Robert Tannahill
1652
The Quiet Life William Byrd
1654
Mother England Edith M Thomas 2230
1657
Hunting Song Richard Hovey
1662
My Hearts in the Highlands Robert Burns
1669
In the Highlands Robert Louis Stevenson
1675
England My England William Ernest Henley 2239
1679
Afoot Charles G D Roberts
1682
The SeaGipsy Richard Hovey
1688
The Joys of the Road Bliss Carman
1694
Ballad of Lowliedown Madison Cawein 1609
1700
Ballade of the Primitive Jest Andrew Lang
1708
To the Muses
1720
A MIND CONTENT
1745
An Invocation
1768
Sonnet
1782
Το Μ Ε
1788
Chiffons William Samuel Johnson
1789
The Queens Song
1790
The Chaperon Henry Cuyler Bunner
1795
Miss Nancys Gown Zitella Cocke
1802
A Letter of Advice Winthrop Mackworth Praed
1809
The Nymph Complaining for
1817
Bermudas Andrew Marvell 2566
1821
Verses
1822
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper
1823
Duna Marjoric L C Pickthall 3241
1824
Laddie Katharine Lee Bates
1832
Robert Browning
1837
What Mr Robinson Thinks James Russell Lowell
1839
The Second Coming
1844
A Modest Wit Selleck Osborn
1845
Nongtongpaw Charles Dibdin
1851
Villons Straight Tip to all Cross
1857
The Worlds
1860
Invention
1861
All Saints
1868
The Vase
1886
The Wearin o the Green Unknown 2249
1887
Man and the Ascidian
1895
The Gates of Dreamland
1899
Are Women Fair
1902
William Watson
1908
A Bakers Duzzen uv Wize Sawz
1915
PAGE
1921
The New Arrival
1928
Poets and Linnets
1936
The Night Court
1938
After Dilletante Concetti
1943
The Modern Hiawatha
1950
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