The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Volume 1

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Henry Holt & Company, 1959 - American poetry - 4013 pages
Collects both American and English children's poetry from 1580-1920.

Contents

Stonewall Jacksons
lxiv
John Keats
2
Mannahatta
5
Wouldnt You Like to Know
6
Baby
8
Choosing a Name
14
Dont
16
Little Hands
20
RollCall
862
Well go no More a Roving George Gordon Byron
866
An Orchard at Avignon
868
A Hymn to God the Father
870
A Place in Thy Memory Gerald Griffin
872
Divina Commelia
873
Youth and Art Robert Browning
880
Song Oh that we two were May
886

The Peaks
21
House
23
The Indian Buryingground
25
Our Wee White Rose
26
In the Lilacrain
28
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Bell
38
Jack and Jill
39
A Song of Glenann
41
My Garden
42
Solomon Grundy Unknown
45
Melancholy
49
Old Mother Hubbard Unknown
51
The Moon Eliza Lee Follen
57
June
61
England 1802
62
Proverbs Unknown
64
The RazorSeller
66
The Old Sexton
68
When the Sleepy Man Comes Charles G D Roberts
70
Monterey
71
Time and Grief
74
Mothers Song Unknown
77
An Irish LoveSong
78
GoodNight Jane Taylor
83
MotherSong from Prince Lucifer Alfred Austin
90
BedTime Song Emilie Poulsson
92
The Crooked Footpath
93
Little Mary Cassidy
95
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN
98
The Journey Onwards
102
The Crust of Bread Unknown
104
His Litany to the Holy Spirit
105
Our Sister
106
Meddlesome Matty Ann Taylor
110
Folly
111
Mother
112
IN THE NURSERY
115
The Butterfly and the Bee William Lisle Bowles
116
A Contemplation Upon Flowers
117
Of the Last Verses in the Book
118
Fair
119
The Story of Augustus Who Would
122
Twickenham Ferry
125
The Worlds Music Gabriel Setoun
127
Early Death
130
The Wind and the Moon George Macdonald
133
To the Daisy
136
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant
139
The Crickets Story Emma Huntington Nason
145
A Song of Sherwood
146
Nurses Song William Blake
151
The Blind Boy Colley Cibber
157
The Argument of His book Robert Herrick 3105
158
Friends Edward Verrall Lucas 3000
162
The Building of the Nest Margaret Sangster
163
The Maids Lament
167
Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley
169
The Two Villages
174
A Story for a Child Bayard Taylor
175
The Courtship Merry Marriage
181
Holy Matrimony
182
The Babes in the Wood
185
The Old Mans Comforts
186
The Dandelions
192
Tam OShanter
199
THE GLAD EVANGEL
201
Strictly Germproof
207
The Burning Babe
208
In Men Whom Men Condemn as Ill Joaquin Miller
210
St Jamess Street
211
The Day is Done
213
The Feast of the Snow
214
Jerusalem
217
Jest Fore Christmas
220
Little Giffen
224
The Fairy Book
231
Driftwood
235
Queen
237
A Requiem
241
The Reveille
242
The Fairy Thrall
243
Mans Days
244
The Satyrs and the Moon
249
The GuardianAngel
252
Four Years
253
A Childs Laughter
254
The Elf and the Dormouse
258
Dell
259
Christ Our Example in Suffering
260
The Barefoot
261
The World
262
The Jackdaw of Rheims
264
To a Little Girl
267
A Little While
270
The Hour of Peaceful Rest
271
pect of Flowers
273
The River of Life
275
Ballad
278
The Childs Heritage
279
To the Willowtree
282
In Sorrow
286
Stepping Westward
287
The ShadowChild
288
Ceylon
289
The Bridge
291
Were Dead
296
Lovest Thou
297
The Little Ghost
302
On a Picture by Poussin
303
For Charlies Sake
308
At Home in Heaven
311
A Song the Grass Sings
312
She Came and Went
314
The Hollytree
315
The Childs Wish Granted
320
The Singers Prelude
323
Sonnets from Mimma Bella Eugene LeeHamilton
326
To a Young Lady
332
Thomas Hood
333
The Gipsy Girl
344
The Village Blacksmith
347
William Canton
349
The Breaking
351
Todlin Hame Unknown 2009
352
What is Good
353
I Strove with None Walter Savage Landor 3491
354
Aladdin
357
Soldier Rest thy Warfare Qer Walter Scott
359
Ballade of Middle
363
Jack and Joan
366
FACING THE SUNSET
367
Evelyn Hope
368
Rabbi Ben Ezra
373
Veni Sancte Spiritus
380
The Songs I Sing
387
William Shakespeare
390
Fairy Song
401
De Fust Banjo
405
The Friar of Orders Gray Thomas Percy 2710
408
The Inner Vision
410
Song The linnet in the rocky dells Emily Bronté
419
Forty Years On Edward Ernest Bowen
421
Auspex James Russell Lowell
433
The High Tide at Gettysburg
438
Carcassonne John R Thompson
440
His Pilgrimage
441
Oh Breathe Not His Name Thomas Moore 3609
443
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 144
446
An Immorality Ezra Pound
452
Chivalry at a Discount
453
Threescore and Ten Richard Henry Stoddard
458
My Heart and I
461
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns
464
On a Tear Samuel Rogers 3380
466
Dorothy
469
Forty Years Ago Unknown
470
John Anderson My
471
NOW WHAT IS LOVE
475
What is Love
481
Te Martyrum Candidatus
486
The Vine
487
The Widow Allan Ramsay 2020
489
The Eagle
495
Song I came to the door of the house
497
One Word More
503
Ralph Waldo Emerson
504
Gone Mary E Coleridge 3005
506
Louise Driscoll
510
Sara Teasdale
512
Edith William Ellery Channing 3217
517
IN PRAISE OF
518
MOTHER
520
CherryRipe Thomas Campion
524
The Hawkbit
525
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Robert Burns
530
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph
531
The Lay of the Levite William Edmonstoune
534
Amoret Mark Akenside
537
Say not the Struggle Naught Avail
542
My Love Shes but a Lassie yet James Hogg
543
The Graves of a Household
546
Song I prithee send me back
547
Song She is not fair to outward
548
The MinstrelBoy
549
Are They not all Ministering Spirits Robert Stephen Hawker
550
Barbara
551
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3160
552
Lovely Mary Donnelly
554
Fainne Gael an
555
The Primrose
558
For Annie
560
Marian
562
To Daphne
568
Song This peach is pink with such
574
De Sheepfol
577
On the Portrait of Shakespeare Ben Jonson 3652
578
Rupert Brooke
580
To the Nightingale
584
Wrong not Sweet Empress of
586
The Battle of Otterburn Unknown 2356
587
Opportunity
589
Song O do not wanton with those
592
Mediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew
598
At the Church Gate
602
To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace
605
Ambrose Philips
608
Song Too late alas I must con
612
Amynta Gilbert Elliot
618
Take back the Virgin Page
623
Jaffar Leigh Hunt 3013
625
Song A lake and a fairy boat
630
Love in a Life
637
Shakespeare Matthew Arnold 3653
640
It is Great for our Country to Die James Gates Percival
642
Algernon Charles Swinburne
645
Ode to a Nightingale
646
Romance
654
Life Anna Letitia Barbauld 3491
655
Let Me Enjoy Thomas Hardy 2841
660
Wild Wishes Ethel M Hewitt
664
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard
670
Waldeinsamkeit
673
Wild Roses
675
Heart of my Heart Unknown
676
MY LADYS LIPS
682
Rosalinds Scroll
683
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden Percy Bysshe Shelley
688
The Rose of
693
AT HER WINDOW
694
Row Gently Here Thomas Moore
700
Serenade Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
706
Aspects of the Pines
707
Lyric You would have understood
708
To William Sharp Clinton Scollard 3654
711
Serenade Oscar Wilde
713
To Chloris Charles Sedley
720
William Wordsworth
721
Sarah Josepha Hale
725
I Asked My Fair One Happy Day Samuel Taylor Coleridge
726
Where Be You Going You Devon
732
James Thomas Fields
734
1
737
I Had a Little Husband
773
This World is all a Fleeting Show Thomas Moore
774
The Lovers
778
Memorabilia Robert Browning 3657
782
The Little Red Ribbon
791
Toujours Amour Edmund Clarence Stedman
793
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont John Milton 2404
794
Riding Down Nora Perry
799
Yes? Henry Cuyler Bunner
805
The Shamrock
808
Song Follow a shadow it still flies
811
Disdain Returned Thomas Carew
817
Song Love in fantastic triumph
824
Scotland
828
Song of Thyrsis Philip Freneau
830
Memories
836
Shadows Richard Monckton Milnes
838
War is Kind
839
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
846
Stains
849
Beautys
850
Vers la Vie Arthur Upson 2856
851
Hebe James Russell Lowell
852
Two Lovers
856
Counsel Mary Evelyn Moore Davis 3014
859
Suburb Harold Monro
860
Song I saw the days white rap
892
The Lonely Road Kenneth Rand
893
After Philip Bourke Marston
899
Whither is Gone the Wisdom
904
Song We break the glass whose
905
Unbelief
910
Eurydice Francis William Bourdillon
912
HOME AND FATHERLAND
915
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonæ
918
PAGE
920
The GoodMorrow
921
When My Beloved Sleeping Lies Irene Rutherford McLeod
924
Arthur Stringer
927
Alice Brown
929
THE PARTED LOVERS
930
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going
934
Lady Clara Vere de Vere Alfred Tennyson
935
Song At setting day and rising
940
My Bonnie Mary Robert Burns
946
Antony to Cleopatra
948
When We Two Parted George Gordon Byron
952
The Sealands Orrick Johns
958
Solitude
962
The Flowers Name Robert Browning
964
2
967
II
968
Heredity
969
Divided Jean Ingelow
971
Song Fair is the night and fair
977
Song Tis said that absence conquers
983
A Song of Autumn Rennell Rodd
985
Forever and a Day Thomas Bailey Aldrich
992
Helen Hay Whitney
995
Marian Drury Bliss Carman
998
PreExistence Paul Hamilton Hayne 2857
999
Now and Afterwards
1001
Modern Beauty Arthur Symons
1004
The Harvest Waits
1005
A Spring Journey
1009
Lost Light Elizabeth Akers
1010
Robert Louis Stevenson Lizette Woodworth Reese 3657
1014
The Pope He Leads a Happy Life Charles Lever
1015
Love Came Back at Fall o Dew Lizette Woodworth Reese
1016
A Charge
1017
The Portrait Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
1025
The EightDay Clock
1027
From the Turkish George Gordon Byron
1031
The Hour of Death Felicia Dorothea Hemans 3411
1034
Gods Will
1035
Lady Anne Bothwells Lament Unknown
1037
Compensation
1039
He Never Smiled Again
1046
To a Cricket
1055
The Burial of Moses
1056
My Truelove Hath My Heart Philip Sidney
1065
Fireflies
1067
The Wife to Her Husband
1072
Old Books are Best
1073
Joseph Skipsey
1076
The Green Little Shamrock of Ireland Andrew Cherry
1077
He Liveth Long who Liveth Well Horatius Bonar
1079
Charles Wolfe
1083
A Sonnet of the Moon
1088
Next of
1091
There is no Death
1092
Alfred Tennyson
1093
The Reason
1106
IIII
1111
Recompense
1117
With Strawberries
1118
My Own Cáilin Donn
1120
121
1123
Today
1124
A Better Resurrection
1141
Alfred Tennyson
1143
Song Flame at the core of
1146
Death Florence Earle Coates 3430
1149
BALLADS OLD AND
1152
Little Billee
1153
George Meredith
1154
The Valley of Vain Verses
1156
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1160
The Fools Prayer
1163
Charlie is My Darling
1167
Alfred Tennyson
1169
The Lady Poverty
1174
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1176
The Collar
1181
Epithalamion
1183
The Kiss
1194
Lord Ullins Daughter Thomas Campbell 2723
1204
Reginald Heber
1210
Coventry Patmore
1213
The Seekers John Masefield 2863
1223
Samuel Bishop
1225
Henry King
1231
LOVE SONNETS
1232
St Agnes
1238
Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella Philip Sidney
1239
Sonnets from Diana
1245
Alexis Here She Stayed
1252
The Hills of Rest
1253
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1259
Afterwards
1260
PART III
1263
Constancy
1269
Mastery
1277
Gods World
1283
William Drummond
1293
I Would not Live Alway
1294
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 2960
1296
Richard Watson Gilder
1299
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 211
1301
Henry Fothergili Chorley
1302
Prospice
1304
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1307
Hartley Coleridge
1308
The Conquered Banner
1311
Song to the Evening Star Thomas Campbell
1319
Joyce Kilmer
1320
What of The Darkness? Richard Le Gallienne 3515
1321
Elegiac Stanzas
1323
Night John Addington Symonds
1325
Driving Home the Cows
1326
George Gordon Byron
1327
The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston Sydney Dobell 2736
1329
A Song of the Seasons Cosmo Monkhouse
1331
William Cowper
1332
Spring Thomas Nashe
1337
Chimney Swallows
1340
The Plaint of the Camel
1341
An Ode on the Spring Thomas Gray
1343
Saturday Night James Oppenheim 3024
1345
The Throstle
1350
March William Morris
1351
Nonsense Verscs
1353
The Veteran of Heaven
1355
Spinning in April Josephine Preston Peabody
1357
Hora Christi
1361
A Spring Lilt Unknown
1363
Before the Beginning of Years
1364
The Destruction of Sennacherib George Gordon Byron
1367
Fuzzywuzzy
1369
Two Limericks
1378
Edward HovellThurlow
1400
SeaBirds
1411
THE CHILDREN
1413
Richard Crashaw
1414
John Keble
1417
Sidney Lanier
1425
Overflow
1429
Robert of Lincoln
1445
At the Salon
1447
The One Hope
1453
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1459
Charles Monroe Dickinson 250
1465
John Williamson Palmer
1482
Georgiana Goddard King 3084
1488
Song from The Devils Law Case John Webster 3517
1498
GODS CREATURES
1507
Leigh Hunt
1511
William Cowper
1514
Allan Cunningham
1517
Margaret Steele Anderson
1522
Dies Iræ
1525
Hame Hame Hame Allan Cunningham 3226
1527
Bartholomew Dowling
1528
William Canton
1536
JoyMonth
1539
America
1543
Lydia Avery Coonley Ward 2932
1544
An Epitaph Intended for Himself James Beattie 3518
1551
To a Waterfowl
1555
William Dean Howells
1557
George Washington Doane
1561
Ford Madox Huefer
1565
Alice Meynell
1566
SENTINEL SONGS
1573
Algernon Charles Swinburne 3086
1578
Alfred Tennyson
1579
The Word of the Lord from Havana Richard Hovey
1581
THE
1584
The Great Adventure
1585
William Wordsworth
1589
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
1590
Hastings Mill
1591
In Our Boat
1597
The Port o Hearts Desire
1604
Hows My Boy
1612
The Sands of
1619
The Sailor
1625
Horatius at the Bridge
1632
SIMPLE LIFE
1634
The Retirement
1641
A Strip of Blue
1647
The Useful Plow
1653
The Quiet Life William Byrd
1654
A Runnable Stag John Davidson
1661
WANDERLUST
1667
In City Streets Ada Smith
1674
Katherine Tynan
1680
A Maine Trail Gertrude Huntington
1681
Charles Granville
1682
Reveillé
1683
The SeaGipsy Richard Hovey
1688
The Joys of the Road Bliss Carman
1694
The Good Inn Herman Knickerbocker Vielé
1700
Rouge Bouquet
1701
Ballade of the Primitive Jest Andrew Lang
1708
Thomas S Jones
1710
Frederick LockerLampson
1730
George Arnold
1740
A MIND CONTENT
1745
Ada Foster Murray
1750
The StarSpangled Banner
1753
Edmund Clarence Stedman
1754
Into Battle
1765
Heraclitus William JohnsonCory 3529
1768
On This Day I Complete My Thirty
1771
12
1780
Walter Savage Landor
1785
Celano
1786
Harriet Monroe
1788
Chiffons William Samuel Johnson
1789
The Chaperon Henry Cuyler Bunner
1795
Evolution Langdon Smith
1805
A Nice Correspondent Frederick LockerLampson
1812
The Nymph Complaining for
1819
1601
1823
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper
1825
William Haines Lytle
1826
Hold Patrick R Chalmers
1834
Rudolph Chambers Lehmann
1836
Robert Browning
1837
Hail Columbia
1839
The Debate in the Sennit James Russell Lowell
1840
Jolly Jack William Makepeace Thack
1848
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible
1854
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor
1855
The Worlds
1860
Up at a VillaDown in the City Robert Browning
1868
14
1869
Ballade of a Friar
1874
L
1877
The Maiden and the Lily
1880
The Dove
1885
Then Agin
1889
Man and the Ascidian
1895
No Fault in Women
1901
1622
1903
Mary Mapes Dodge
1905
William Watson
1908
1634
1911
Unknown
1915
17
1917
Catharine Winkworth
1919
PAGE
1921
Father William Lewis Carroll
1927
Not a Sou Had he Got Richard Harris Barham
1933
Algernon Charles Swinburne 368
1936
The Jampot Rudyard Kipling
1939
Carolyn Wells
1941
Nephilidia Algernon Charles Swinburne
1946
19
1949
The Poets at Tea Barry Pain
1953
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TitleThe Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Volume 1
The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Burton Egbert Stevenson
AuthorBurton Egbert Stevenson
Compiled byBurton Egbert Stevenson
Edition9
PublisherHenry Holt & Company, 1959
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized13 Apr 2011
Length4013 pages
  
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