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1. Casa Bianca

Mrs. Hemans

II. The Flight of Xerxes

Miss Jewsbury

III. Charade (Don Pedro's feast)

Praed

Iv. Ivan the Czar.

Mrs. Hemans

v. Death the Leveller

Shirley

VI. The Sword

L. E. Landon

VII. The Graves of a Household

Mrs. Hemans

VIII. “ We are Seven"

Wordsworth

Ix. Rosabelle

Sir W. Scott

x. Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Longfellow

XL The Mountain Boy From the German of Uhland

XII. The Minstrel Boy

Moore

XIII. The Exile of Erin

Campbell

XIV. The Indian's Tale

Whittier

xv, The Slave's Dream

Longfellow

XVI. The Cross in the Wilderness Mrs. Hemans

XVII. The African Chief

Cullen Bryant

XVIII. The Harp of Tara

Moore

xix. Bring back the Chain

Mrs. Norton

xx. The Battle of Bannockburn

Burns

XXI. The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson

XXII. The Wounded Hussar

Campbell

XXIII. Gertrude von der Wart

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xxiv. The Lady of Provence

Mrs. Hemans

xxv. Auld Robin Gray

Lady Anne Lindsay

XXVI. Lord John of the East

Joanna Baillie

XXVII. Lenora

From the German of Bürger

XXVIII. Adelgitha :

Campbell

XXIX. The Grave of the Greyhound

Spenser

xxx. Epitaph on a Hare

Cowper

XXXI. The Parrot; a True Story

Campbell

XXXII. The Nymph's Complaint for the

Death of her Fawn

Marvell

XXXIII. The Cricket

Couper

XXXIV. The Fox at the point of Death

Gay

XXXV. Ariel's Song

Shakespeare

XXXVI. The Butterfly's Ball and the Grass-

hopper's Feast

Roscoe

XXXVII. Robin Goodfellow

Ben Jonson

XXXVIII. The Procession of the Months

Spenser

XXXIX. Fairies' Vagaries

Shakespeare

XL. The King of the Crocodiles

Southey

XLI. John Gilpin

Cowper

XLII. The Cataract of Lodore

Southey

XLII. The Song of the Brave Man

From the German of Birgir

XLIV. The Battle of Ivry

Macau'ay

XLV. Crescentius

L. E. Landon

XLVI. The War-Horse

Dryden

XLVII. The Knight of Toggenburg

From the German of Schiller

XLVIII. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp

Moore

XLIX. Lord Ullin's Daughter

Campbell

L. Sea Song

Cunningham

LI. The Wreck

Mrs. Hemans

LII. The Three Fishers

Kingsley

LIII. The Diver

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LIV. The Treasures of the Deep

Mrs. Hemans

LV. The Mariner's Child

L. E. Landon

LVI. The Forsaken Merman

Arnold

LVII. The Wreck of the Hesperus

Longfellow

LVIII. The Ancient Mariner

Coleridge

LIX. Verses supposed to be written by

Alexander Selkirk.

Cowper

Lx. The Inchcape Rock

Southey

LXI. The Convict Ship

LXII. Sir Patrick Spens

Old Ballad

LXIII. A Sea Dirge

Shakespeare

LXIV. The Sands of Dee

Kingsley

Lxv. Canadian Boat Song

Moore

LXVI. The Loss of the Royal George

Cowper

Lxv. Ye Mariners of England

Campbell

LXVIII. Marguerite of France

Mrs. Hemans

LXIX. Pibroch of Donuil Dhu

Sir W. Scott

Lxx. The Muffled Drum

Mrs. Hemans

LXXI. The Cavalier

Sir W. Scott

LXXII. The Soldier's Dream

Campbell

LXXIII. Hymn of the Moravian Nuns

Longfellow

LXXIV. The Burial of Sir John Moore

Wolfe

Lxxv. Ode.

Collins

LXXVI. Charade (the name of a Poet)

Praed

LXXVII. Hohenlinden

Campbell

1.XXVIII. After Blenheim

Southey

LXXIX. Sir Hilary (Charade)

Praed

LXXX. The Battle of Flodden

Sir W. Scott

LXXXI. The Trumpet

Mrs. Hemans

LXXXII. Baby sleeps

Anon

LXXXIII. The Little Shroud

L. E. Landon

LXXXIV. Bernardo del Carpio

Mrs. Hemans

LXXXV. Coronach

Sir W. Scott

LXXXVI. The Boy of Egremond

Rogers

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LXXXVII. The Wild Huntsman

Sir. W. Scott, from the German of Bürger

LXXXVIII. Bishop Hatto

Southey

LXXXIX. The Fox and the Cat

Cunningham

xc. The Toy of the Giant's Child

From the German of Chamisso

xci. Report of an adjudged Case

Cowper

XCII. The Lady and the Knight (Charade). Pracd

XCIII. John Barleycorn

Burns

XCIV. The Hare and the Tortoise

Lloyd

xcv. Charade

Praed

XCVI. Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Goldsmith

XCVII. The Romance of the Swan's Nest

Mrs. Barrett Browning

XCVIII. Young Lochinvar

Sir W. Scott

xcix. The Kitten

Joanna Baillie

c. How they brought the good news

from Ghent to Aix .

Browning

CI. The Arab's Farewell to his Steed Mrs. Norton

CII. A Riddle.

Miss Fanshawe

CIII. Rural Architecture

Wordsworth

CIV. The Horned Owl

Barry Cornwall

cv. Lucy Gray

Wordsworth

CVI. Midnight

Dryden

CVII. Morning

Fletcher

CVIII. Song

Shakespeare

cix. The Child's Wish in June

Mrs. Gilman

cx. The Grasshopper

Cowley

cxi. The Nightingale and the Glow-worm Cowper

CXII. Robin Redbreast

Allingham

CXIII. The Children in the Wood

Old Ballad

cxiv. Barthram's Dirge

Old Ballad

cxv. The Raven and the Oak

Coleridge

CXVI. Chevy Chase

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CXVII. Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu Sir W. Scott

CXVIII. The Destruction of Sennacherib

Lord Byron

cxix. The Black Knight From the German of Uhland

cxx. The Hermit

Parnell

CXXI. The Blind Boy

Colley Cibber

CXXII. The Child's First Grief

Mrs. Hemans

CXXII. To a Child in Sickness

Leigh Hunt

CXXIV. The Spanish Chapel

Mrs. Hemans

CXXV. A Funeral Hymn.

Alaric Watts

CXXVI. The Murdered Traveller

Cullen Bryant

CXXVII. The Mother's Jewels

Trench

CXXVIII. Stanzas

Trench

cxxix. The Better Land

Mrs. Hemans

cxxx. The Serenade From the German of Uhland

CXXXI. The Pilgrim Fathers

Mrs. Hemans

CXXXII. The Seven Sisters; or the Solitude

of Binnorie

Wordsworth

CXXXIII. The Cid's Death-Bed

Mrs. Hemans

CXXXIV. The Cid's Funeral Procession Mrs. Hemans

cxxxv. Colin and Lucy

Tickell

CXXXVI. The Witches' Meeting

Shakespeare

CXXXVII. Fair Helen

Old Ballad

CXXXVIII. Ginevra

Rogers

cxxxix. The Erl King From the German of Goethe

CXL. The Wakening

Mrs. Hemans

CXLI. The Dying Infant

Miss Bowles

CXLII. Fidele

Shakespeare

CXLIII. Greek Islander's Song of Exile Mrs. Hemans

CXLIV. Violets

Moultrie

CXLV. Songs of Birds

Lyly

CXLVI. Lay of the Imprisoned Huntsman Sir W. Scott

CXLVII. Poor Dog Tray

Campbell

CXLVIII. The Fairy Queen's Lullaby Shakespeare

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