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The Flight of Love

.Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Farewell! If ever Fondest Prayer” George Gordon Byron.

Porphyria's Lover

. Robert Browning .

..Arthur Symons.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

.Joaquin Miller

.Arthur O'Shaughnessy.

Auld Robin Gray

Elizabeth Akers.

.Harriet Prescott Spofford

.Harriet Prescott Spofford 992

“Love is a Terrible Thing” .Grace Fallow Norton

The Ballad of the Angel .

Theodosia Garrison

“Love Came Back at Fall o' Dew"..Lizette Woodworlh Reese 996

Robert Browning

.Julia C. R. Dort

. Edith Nesbit.

. Elizabeth A kers

The Forsaken Merman

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton 1007

The Rose and Thorn

.Paul Hamilton Hayne..

To Her-Unspoken.

.. Amelia Josephine Burr IOII

. Robert Browning .

From the Turkish

.George Gordon Byron. 1013

A Summer Wooing

Louise Chandler Moulton ... 1014

.John Davidson .

.Nathaniel Parker Willis 1014

“Grandmither, Think Not I Forget” Willa Sibert Cather

IOI5

Little Wild Baby..

Margaret Thomson Janvier .. 1017

A Cradle Song .

.Nicholas Breton

Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament .....Unknown

A Woman's Love.

.Théophile Marzials

“Mother, I Cannot Mind My

.Walter Savage Landor

.Charles Kingsley

From the Harbor Hill

..Gustav Kobbé

. Matthew Gregory Lewis 1024

. Richard Hovey

.Rudyard Kipling

“A Rose Will Fade"

.Dora Sigerson Shorter 1029

Affaire d'Amour

.Margaret Deland

The Maid of Neidpath

Elena's Song from “Philip van Arte-

John Vance Cheney. ........ 1032

“When Lovely Woman Stoops to

.Oliver Goldsmith...

Helen of Kirconnell .

Willy Drowned in Yarrow

The Lament of the Border Widow... Unknown

Aspatia's Song from “The Maid's

..John Fletcher

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Table of Contents

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A Ballad, “'Twas when the seas

The Braes of Yarrow

The Rose and the Gauntlet. .John Wilson

The Minstrel's Song from “Ælla" .Thomas Chatterton

. Robert Burns.

To Mary in Heaven.

.William Wordsworth

Song, “Earl March looked on his

dying child”.

Thomas Campbell .

The Maid's Lament

.Walter Savage Landor 1049

“She is Far from the Land”

“At the Mid Hour of Night' .Thomas Moore

A Bridal Dirge..

. Bryan Waller Procter

“Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's

.George Gordon Byron... 1052

..Charles Wolfe.

My Heart and I.

. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 1053

Rosalind's Scroll

. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 1055

Lament of the Irish Emigrant. ...Helen Selina Sheridan . 1056

The King of Denmark's Ride .......Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor-

Maritæ Suæ.....

.William Phil pot

“Oh that 'Twere Possible

.Alfred Tennyson

“Home They Brought Her Warrior

.Alfred Tennyson .

Robert Browning

Song, “The linnet in the rocky dells”Emily Bronté

Song of the Old Love .

.Matthew Arnold

.Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.. 1069

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik..

Alexander Smith ..

Song, “When I am Dead, My

.Christina Georgina Rossetti . 1072

Christina Georgina Rosseti .. 1072

Lines, “In the merry hay-time" .C. J. Paul.

.Sarah Chauncey Woolsey 1074

Love and Death .

Rosa Mulholland

To One in Paradise

.Edgar Allan Poe

.Edgar Allan Poe

.Edgar Allan Poe

Telling the Bees

John Greenleaf Whittier

..Louise Chandler Moulton ... 1083

Love's Resurrection Day

Louise Chandler Moulton 1084

.Martha Gilbert Dickinson 1084

.Charles Graham Halpine. 1084

The Dying Lover

.Richard Henry Stoddard 1086

“When the Grass Shall Cover Me"..Ina Coolbrith

Give Love Today

.Philip Pendleton Cooke 1089

"If Spirits Walk"

..Sophie Jewett

Lyric, “You would have understood

me, had you waited”

..Andrew Lang .

..Hester A. Benedict ..

. Rosamund Marriott Watson . 1094

.Charles Henry Lüders

The King's Ballad.

Harry Thurston Peck

“Lydia is Gone this Many a Year”..Lizette Woodworth Reese ....

.Lizette Woodworth Reese

..Arthur Stringer

.Helen Hay Whitney.

.William Winter .

Her Dwelling-place

..Ada Foster Murray

The Wife from Fairyland .

.Richard Le Gallienne..

In the Fall o’ Year.

.Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

Robert Cameron Rogers

LOVE'S FULFILLMENT

“My True-love Hath my Heart . .Philip Sidney

Song, “O sweet delight"

Thomas Campion.

The Good Morrow

“There's Gowd in the Breast" .James Hogg

The Beggar Maid

Alfred Tennyson

“One Morning, Oh! so Early" ..Jean Ingelow

..Christina Georgina Rossetti . IIII

.Théophile Marzials

Rondel, Kissing her hair, I sat

against her feet"

.Algernon Charles Swinburne 1112

“I Love my Love"

Charles Mackay.

The Brookside ..

. Richard Monckton Milnes ..

The World is Mine

.Florence Earle Coates .

What My Lover Said

.Homer Greene ...

. Rachel Annand Taylor

Song, “Flame at the core of the

.Arthur Upson...

.Frederic Lawrence Knowles. 1118

Love Triumphant :

.Frederic Lawrence Knowles. 1119

Lines, “Love within the lover's

.George Meredith

Love among the Ruins

. Robert Browning

Earl Mertoun's Song

Robert Browning

Meeting at Night

Robert Browning

Parting at Morning .

Robert Browning

The Turn of the Road

. Alice Rollit Coe

“My Delight and Thy Delight" . Robert Bridges

“O, Saw ye the Lass”

.Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1125

Mary Beaton's Song

.Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1126

.Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1127

A Woman's Question

..Adelaide Anne Procter . 1128

“Dinna Ask Me",

A Song; “Sing me a sweet, low song of

..Hildegarde Hawthorne

.James Oppenheim

My Own Cáilin Donn”

..George Sigerson .

Song from “Festus"

..Philip James Bailey

‘By Yon Burn Side'

..Robert Tannahill

A Pastoral, “Flower of the medlar”..Théophile Marzials.

1133

“When Death to either shall Come" Robert Bridges .

The Reconciliation

.Alfred Tennyson

Song, “Wait but a little while' ..Norman Gale

I135

“Bid Adieu to Girlish Days”. James Joyce .

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.Mortimer Collins .

..Joel Elias Spingarn..

Advice to a Lover

.S. Charles Jellicoe

.Richard Doddridge Blackmore 1138

.Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1139

.Habberton Lulham

.Alfred Tennyson

. Edmund Spenser

.Edmund Spenser

John Fletcher (?)

The Newly-wedded

.Winthrop Mackworth Pracd . 1161

“I Saw Two Clouds at Morning' John Gardiner Calkins

A Marriage Charm

“Like a Laverock in the Lift" ..Jean Ingelow

. Ellen Mary Patrick Downing 1166

Doris: A Pastoral

..Arthur Joseph Munby 1167

“He'd Nothing but His Violin .Mary Kyle Dallas

Love's Calendar .

William Bell Scott

.Dora Greenwell

The Land of Heart's Desire .Emily Huntington Miller 1172

. Alexander Loing .

.Thomas d'Arcy McGee 1173

My Wife's a Winsome wee Thing ..Robert Burns

.Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. . 1174

“If Thou wert by my Side, my

. Reginald Heber.

The Shepherd's Wife's Song . Robert Greene

“Truth doth Truth Deserve" ..Philip Sidney

The Married Lover.

..Coventry Patmore

.James Russell Lowell

Margaret to Dolcino.

..Charles Kingsley

Dolcino to Margaret.

..Charles Kingsley .

.Richard Henry Stoddard . 1181

The Wife to Her Husband

.William Cox Bennett

The Sailor's Wife .

.William Julius Mickle 1183

"Don't be Sorrowful, Darling' .. Rembrandt Peale

An Old Man's Idyl .

.. Richard Realf

The Poet's Song to his Wife . . Bryan Waller Procter 1189

The Golden Wedding

“O, Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear". Gerald Massey

Wife, Children, and Friends ...William Robert Spencer 1194

Sonnets from “Amoretti”

Sonnets from “Astrophel and Stella” Philip Sidney.

Sonnets from “To Delia”

. Samuel Daniel

Sonnets from “Idea"

. Michael Drayton

Sonnets from “Diana

..Henry Constable

.William Shakespeare

“Alexis, Here She Stayed”

.William Drummond

“Were I as Base as is the Lowly

.Joshua Sylvester

A Sonnet of the Moon

“Why art Thou Silent”

.William Wordsworth

Sonnets from “The House of Life" .. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1219

.Christina Georgina Rossetti.. 1223

How My Songs of Her Began .Philip Bourke Marston I 224

.Philip Bourke Marston I 225

To One who Would Make a Con-

.Wilfred Scawen Blunt . 1225

Love in the Winds

.Richard Hovey.

“Were but my Spirit Loosed upon

.Louise Chandler Moulton.... 1226

"My Love for Thee

Richard Watson Gilder 1227

Sonnets after the Italian

.Richard Watson Gilder 1228

Stanzas from “Modern Love" .George Meredith

Sonnets from “Sonnets to Miranda” William Watson

Sonnets from “Thysia'

Sonnets from “Sonnets from the

.. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 1238

.Robert Browning....

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