The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages

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H. Holt, 1912 - American poetry - 3742 pages
 

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Contents

A Lullaby Upon my lap my sov
74
Lullaby Sweet and Low
80
Samuel Minturn Peck
87
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN
94
The Sluggard
100
Heredity
113
Heinrich Hoffmann
115
Going down Hill on a Bicycle
121
Childs Song in Spring Edith Nesbit
127
Answer to a Childs Question Samuel Taylor Coleridge
133
The SingingLesson Jean Ingelow
139
The Shepherd William Blake
145
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson
151
A Nursery Song Laura E Richards
157
The Night Bird Charles Kingsley
163
The Nightingale and Glowworm William Cowper
169
The Blackberry Girl Nancy Dennis Sproat
175
Gods Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Robert Southey
183
THE GLAD EVANGEL
195
While Shepherds Watched Their
199
Reginald Heber
205
Clement Clarke Moore
211
PAGE
213
His WindingSheet
215
FAIRYLAND
223
The Fairy Thrall
233
Creep Afore Ye Gang
244
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Robert Burns
250
The Heritage
251
A New Poet
257
Poetry
259
To My Daughter Thomas Hood
260
The Childs Heritage John G Neihardt 205
266
The Mitherless Bain William Thom 209
274
The Post
276
Were Dead Coventry Patmore
282
The Little Ghost Katherine Tynan
288
For Charlies Sake John Williamson Palmer 204
296
We are Seven William Wordsworth
304
Glenlogie
306
MAIDENHOOD
313
Ruth Thomas Hood
319
To a Child of Fancy Lewis Morris
326
Somebodys Child
331
If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart
333
THE
337
Stanzas
340
My BirthDay
344
William Wordsworth
362
Of Those who Walk Alone
368
Our Sister
375
PAGE
378
In Early Spring
382
The Old Mans Comforts Robert Southey
385
Love Time and Death
389
Terminus Ralph Waldo Emerson
393
Young and Old Charles Kingsley
399
The Paradox of Time Austin Dobson
405
LOOKING BACKWARD
416
Carcassonne John R Thompson
422
Percy Bysshe Shelley
425
Voice of the Western Wind Edmund Clarence Stedman
428
The ShoogyShoo
429
Henry Clarence Kendall
436
Richard Henry Stoddard
442
The Harvest Waits
446
Eugene Henry Pullen
448
Francis Huston
454
The Doorstep
455
Rosalinds Madrigal Love in
460
Loves Emblems
466
Unknown
467
Song How delicious is the winning
474
Love will Find Out the Way Unknown
478
Ballad
483
Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
485
The Rose of Stars George Edward Woodberry
491
IN PRAISE OF
498
When Daffodils begin to Peer
500
Rosaline Thomas Lodge
504
The Character of a Happy Life
508
A Contemplation Upon Flowers
509
The Complete Lover William Browne
510
Ask Me no More
512
Chloe Divine
515
O Mallys Meck Mallys Sweet
523
Twice
526
It is not Beauty I Demand
529
Song Nay but you who do not love
535
Marian
544
The Daughter of Mendoza
551
Robert Adger Bowen
557
The Passionate Shepherd to
562
Of Corinnas Singing Thomas Campion
568
To Julia Robert Herrick
574
A Doubt of Martyrdom John Suckling
580
A Deposition from Beauty Thomas Stanley
586
Be True
588
Against Indifference
593
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
599
Today
602
Song How many times do I love
610
Life in a Love
616
In the Dark in the Dew
630
Nora Perry
636
To Arcady
642
To William Sharp
648
At Night
652
The Valley of Vain Verses
653
Charles Hanbury Williams
659
An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw
661
To Lesbia John Godfrey Saxe
664
Matin Song Thomas Heywood
670
Serenade Aubrey Thomas De Vere
676
At Her Window Frederick LockerLampson
682
THE COMEDY OF LOVE
689
Pious Selinda William Congreve
695
Comin Through the Rye Robert Burns
701
Song of the Milkmaid from Queen
707
Cradle Song Sleep baby sleep Elizabeth Prentiss
708
LEau Dormante Thomas Bailey Aldrich
713
A Rose Arlo Bates
719
Behave Yoursel before Folk Alexander Rodger
725
The Dules i this Bonnet o Mine Edwin Waugh
731
Song When thy beauty appears Thomas Parnell
737
The Lass o Gowrie Carolina Nairne
743
The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan Samuel Ferguson
749
Walter Scott
756
Edward Fitzgerald
762
John
768
THE IRONY OF LOVE
779
The Lovers Resolution
785
The Chronicle
796
A Turkish Legend
800
Les Amours Charles Cotton
803
The Test Walter Savage Landor
809
Shadows Richard Monckton Milnes
816
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
824
An Interlude Algernon Charles Swinburne
830
The Shadow Dance Louise Chandler Moulton
836
LOVES SADNESS
843
The Water Lady Thomas Hood
849
Gerald Griffin
852
Charles Kingsley
866
Love Me Little Love Me Long
872
Could Shut the Gate Against
877
Rococo
880
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonĉ
890
Ashore
896
Midsummer
902
The Last Memory
908
To Lucasta going beyond the Seas Richard Lovelace
914
morn
920
My Bonnie Mary
926
When We Two Parted
932
The Palmtree and the Pine
943
My Playmate
952
THE TRAGEDY OF LOVE
981
TantalusTexas Joaquin Miller
987
Endymion Oscar Wilde
994
Outgrown Julia C R Dorr
1001
The Portrait Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
1007
From the Turkish
1013
The Two Lovers
1020
Aspatias Song from The Maids
1038
Proud Maisie
1048
Rosalinds Scroll
1055
Next of
1061
Oh that Twere Possible
1063
Ex Libris
1068
Too Late
1069
Love and Death
1076
The Broom Flower
1082
When the Grass Shall Cover Me Ina Coolbrith
1084
If Spirits Walk
1090
After
1099
LOVES
1105
A Birthday
1111
Rondel Kissing her hair I
1112
A Memory Frederic Lawrence Knowles
1118
The Turn of the Road Alice Rollit Coe
1124
A Song Sing me a sweet low song
1130
Content Norman Gale
1136
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1142
Epithalamion Edmund Spenser
1149
Bridal Song John Fletcher ?
1160
Like a Laverock in the Lift Jean Ingelow
1166
The Land of Hearts Desire Emily Huntington Miller
1172
Truth doth Truth Deserve Philip Sidney
1178
Jerry an Me Hiram Rich
1185
To Mary Samuel Bishop
1191
Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella Philip Sidney
1199
Sonnets from To Delia Samuel Daniel 1 203
1206
Sonnets William Shakespeare
1216
Sonnets Christina Georgina Rossetti
1224
Sonnets from Sonnets to Miranda William Watson
1233
Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1245
The World is too Much With Us William Wordsworth
1254
PAGE
1255
DAWN AND DARK
1265
A Summer Noon William Howitt
1271
Twilight Olive Custance
1277
Thomas Campbell
1279
To Night Joseph Blanco White
1283
A Song of the Seasons Cosmo Monkhouse
1289
Denis Florence MacCarthy
1320
Midwinter John Townsend Trowbridge 1349
1322
Ode to Autumn
1332
Winter Nights
1341
To a Snowflake
1347
A Glee for Winter Alfred Domett
1350
What Do We Plant Henry Abbey
1358
The Hollytree Robert Southey
1364
Of an Orchard Katherine Tynan
1370
Arethusa Percy Bysshe Shelley
1376
Canadian BoatSong Thomas Moore
1382
Kinchinjunga Cale Young Rice
1391
PAGE
1397
GREEN THINGS GROWING
1398
Unguarded Ada Foster Murray
1406
Green Things Growing Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1413
Thomas Hood
1417
Walter Savage Landor
1420
Ella Higginson
1424
To the Dandelion
1433
A Hundred Years to Come
1441
Henry Kirke White
1449
To a WoodViolet
1457
Thomas Moore
1459
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket John Keats
1464
The Owl Bryan Waller Procter
1509
Robin Redbreast George Washington Doane
1515
The Skylark Frederick Tennyson
1521
The Stormy Petrel
1526
The Throstle
1532
George Gordon Byron
1542
Wind and
1544
In Our Boat
1550
Christmas at
1556
Memorabilia
1558
Drifting
1563
The Mariners Dream
1569
Ballad
1575
Tom Bowling
1582
The Last Buccaneer
1584
A Strip of Blue
1601
The Wish
1609
WANDERLUST
1619
The Vagabond
1626
A Maine Trail
1633
Lacrima Musarum
1637
The SeaGipsy
1640
The King of Dreams
1665
Tennyson
1719
Charles Wolfe
1865
The Higher Pantheism
1867
The Wreck of the Hesperus
2009
The Three Warnings
2034
Gluggity Glug
2044
Horace Smith
2050
The Captain Stood on
2057
Old Grimes
2063
Little Billee
2072
The Alarmed Skipper
2078
How Sleep the Brave
2122
The Eagles Song Richard Mansfield
2135
The Pċrting of the Ways Joseph B Gilder
2145
The Lost Colors
2149
The Virginians of the Valley Francis Orray Ticknor
2151
Saxon Grit Robert Collyer
2157
An Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus William Jones
2164
An English Mother Robert Underwood Johnson
2170
Recessional Rudyard Kipling
2176
Ireland Lionel Johnson
2189
Hills o My Heart Ethna Carbery
2196
PAGE
2197
The Farewell Robert Burns
2202
The Blue Bells of Scotland
2204
Reveille
2214
Danny Deever
2221
HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE
2229
The Pipes o Gordons
2235
Thomas Buchanan Read
2246
POEMS OF HISTORY
2255
The Patriots Password
2281
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2394
2298
The Song of the Spanish Main
2309
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
2315
The Execution of Montrose
2322
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwells
2328
Edward Everett Hale
2335
Robert Browning
2343
Richard Glover
2350
Edward Everett Hale
2361
On the Loss of the Royal George William Cowper
2369
The Fighting Téméraire
2377
Waterloo
2385
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
2398
Arthur Hugh Clough
2405
Robert Traill Spence Lowell
2415
Barbara Frietchie
2422
The Black Regiment
2436
Farragut
2443
The Conquered Banner
2451
Dewey at Manila
2463
POEMS OF PLACES
2471
Santa Barbara
2477
Yarrow Unvisited
2484
Dover Beach
2495
The GuardianAngel
2516
Nuremberg
2526
came down from Lebanon Clinton Scollard
2532
Earl Mars Daughter
2539
The Wife of Ushers Well
2546
Fair Annie
2552
Young Beichan and Susie
2562
Sweet William and May Margret
2573
Riddles Wisely Expounded
2579
Robin Hood and AllenaDale
2588
The Bonnie House of Airlie
2600
The Dowie Houms o Yarrow
2607
King John and the Abbot of Canter
2613
Song from Rokeby
2626
William Motherwell
2634
William Bell Scott
2642
Thomas Haynes Bayly
2648
George Macdonald
2660
Henry Newbolt
2713
Wallace Rice
2721
Ben Jonson
2728
Hope and Fear
2736
The Wayfarer
2744
The Question Whither
2750
Each in His Own Tongue
2757
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
2775
Opportunity
2789
The Kings
2807
Chant Royal of High Virtue
2819
The Future
2836
The Miller of the
2842
My Mind to Mea Kingdom Is Edward Dyer
2845
Goodbye
2853
Jaffár
2866
Saturday Night
2876
Amantium Irae
2884
Verses
2890
The Man with the Hoe a Reply
2896
On First looking into Chapmans
2903
The Inner Vision
2906
The Moods
2918
The Rondeau
2925
Robert Herrick
2938
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1053
2939
A Tocatta of Galuppis
2949
FLOWER O THE MIND
2956
Kilmeny
2965
Kubla Khan
2974
To Fancy
2980
The Bells
2988
CARECHARMER SLEEP
3024
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3034
Emma Lazarus
3057
NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE POEMS
3064
The Prisoner of Chillon
3075
Eve of St Agnes
3086
The Skeleton in Armor
3129
POEMS OF SORROW DEATH AND IMMORTALITY
3150
St John Lucas
3156
My Life is Like the Summer Rose Richard Henry Wilde
3162
Richard Le Gallienne
3164
Mutability
3172
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3179
Multum Dilexit Hartley Coleridge
3181
Stanzas In a drearnighted
3188
Edgar Allan
3190
To Death Anne Finch
3195
Alfred Tennyson
3202
Mors et Vita Samuel Waddington
3210
The Great Misgiving William Watson
3216
The Churchyard Robert Buchanan
3223
The Garden that I Love Florence L Henderson
3229
The Lie Walter Raleigh
3235
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
3249
Minor Watson
3261
Laus Mortis
3267
In Harbor
3273
In After Days
3282
Afterward
3290
Song from The Devils Law Case John Webster
3296
Alexander Pope
3304
A Dirge
3310
In Memoriam
3317
A Requiem
3323
Mother and Poet
3330
The Two April Mornings
3336
Readen ov a HeadStwone
3342
Now and Afterwards
3344
At the Top of the Road
3350
SENTINEL SONGS
3356
E B
3363
Ethel Lynn Beers
3371
On a Bust of Dante
3372
The Sword of Robert
3394
Lincoln the Man of the People
3406
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3412
Algernon Charles Swinburne
3414
On the Portrait of Shakespeare
3418
Thomas Henry Huxley
3431
JERUSALEM
3446
Rest is Not Here
3455
A Thanksgiving to God for
3467
The Collar
3473
Consider
3481
Frederic
3485
Louise Chandler Moulton
3496
The Winged Worshippers
3504
There is no Death
3513
Liddell
3519
PAGE
3527
O God Our Help in Ages Past Isaac Watts
3541
Just as I
3550
Sarah Flower Adams
3556
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
3562
Dies Irĉ
3569
Urbs Beata Hierusalem
3576
Integer Vitĉ Quintus Horatius Flaccus
3578
Des Deutschen Vaterland Ernst Moritz Arndt
3584
Le Roi dYvetot PierreJean de Béranger
3590
INDEX OF AUTHORS
3597
Unknown
3600
Jane Barlow
3605
Mother Gooses Melodies
3611
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
3620
Cosmo Monkhouse
3632
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
3634
The Sin of Omission
3640
Song Come Celia lets agree
3641
Requiem
3644
William Wordsworth
3652
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
3655
Unknown
3672
Jack and Jill
3676
Phillis
3688
The Star
3690
Walt Whitman
3706
Unknown
3711
John Keats
3716
From Life
3719
Invictus
3722
Ben Jonson
3723
Marita Suĉ
3725
O Little Town of Bethlehem Phillips Brooks 197
3728
On a Distant Prospect of Eton Col
3729
Robin Redbreast
3732
Song Love in fantastic triumph
3734
Spring Song
3736
To Amarantha that She would dis
3737
False though she be William Congreve 591
3738
Mary Mapes Dodge
3739
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Alfred Tennyson Algernon Charles Swinburne angels babe baby Baby Bell beauty birds bless blow blue blush bonnie bosom breast breath bright cheek child dark dear doth dream earth Ernest Dowson eyes face fair fairy fear feet flowers George Edward Woodberry George Gordon Byron girl Glenlogie golden grace green grow hair hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven kiss lady lassie laugh light lips live look love thee Love's lover lullaby maid merry moon morning mother ne'er never night o'er once pain pretty Robert Browning Robert Herrick rose round shine sigh sing sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul stars sweet tears tell There's thine things Thomas Campion Thomas Hood thou art thought tree Twas voice Walter Savage Landor weary weep William Wordsworth wind wings wonder young youth

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TitleThe Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages
AuthorBurton Egbert Stevenson
PublisherH. Holt, 1912
Length3742 pages
  
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