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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Burton Egbert Stevenson
Holt, 1953 - American poetry - 4013 pages
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Contents

The Human Seasons
2
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis François Villon
5
Wouldnt You Like to Know John Godfrey Saxe
6
Richard Le Gallienne
14
Dont
16
Laurence Binyon
20
The Indian Buryingground
25
Clara Dolliver
26
Song We break the glass whose
905
St Agnes
909
Eurydice Francis William Bourdillon
912
The Masters
916
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonæ
918
The GoodMorrow
921
The Arrow and the Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2923
922
When My Beloved Sleeping Lies Irene Rutherford McLeod
924

The Blue Bells of Scotland
28
The TreeTop Road
38
Jack and Jill
39
Solomon Grundy
45
June
61
Weather Wisdom
66
The Precept of Silence
67
The Three Ravens
68
Willie Winkie
72
Time and Grief
74
Lord Randal
78
Cradle Song
81
Was a Bachelor
87
BedTime Song
92
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN
98
Unknown
104
Meddlesome Matty
110
PAGE
115
The Butterfly and the
116
Johnny Shall Have a New Bonnet Unknown
120
The Story of Augustus Who Would
122
A Farewell
125
The Worlds Music
127
Early Death
130
The Night
134
Its Ain Drap o Dew
136
eyes
141
HOME AND FATHERLAND
147
Colley Cibber
157
The Two Villages
174
William Blake
175
Robin Redbreast
181
Holy Matrimony
182
The Babes in the Wood
185
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
192
The Well of St Keyne
199
The Old Scottish Cavalier
200
THE GLAD EVANGEL
201
Strictly Germproof
207
Tryste Noël
209
Sapientia Lunæ
210
Integer Vitæ Thomas Campion 2012
212
The Day is Done
213
Abide with Me
214
The Cavaliers Escape
216
Prophet Marjorie L C Pickthall 3071
220
On the Morning of Christs Nativity John Milton
223
The Missive
224
The Sons of Martha
227
FAIRYLAND
231
The Noble Nature
234
John Keats
237
A Requiem
241
The Queen
242
William Allingham
243
The Satyrs and the Moon
249
A Childs Laughter
254
Frederic Lawrence Knowles 3596
255
ing
257
Harpers
263
The Hour of Peaceful Rest
271
The Spring is Late
272
Andrew Marvell
274
William Wordsworth
275
Sweet and Sour
277
Oh Breathe Not His Name
278
On the Picture of a Child Tired
280
Andrés Ride
281
The Reveille
286
The ShadowChild
288
Mannahatta Walt Whitman 2568
289
Immoral
290
Daybreak
291
A Song of Sherwood Alfred Noyes 2591
295
Were Dead
296
Unknown
298
Concord Hymn
300
The Little Ghost
302
For Charlies Sake
308
I Give my Soldier Boy a Blade
310
A Song the Grass Sings
312
She Came and Went
314
Dover Beach Matthew Arnold 2595
318
The Childs Wish Granted
320
Sonnets from Mimma Bella
323
Robert Herrick
329
JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN
332
Thomas Hood
333
William Barnes
337
To Petronilla Who Has Put Up
343
Song Stay stay at home my heart
344
A Child My Choice
345
The Dance of Death
348
Nathaniel Parker Willis
349
The Cruiskeen Lawn Unknown 2010
352
I Strove with None
354
When As a Lad
356
The New Jerusalem
357
Peace to the Slumberers
359
The One White Hair
362
Envoy
363
Divina Commedia
366
FACING THE SUNSET
367
Before the Beginning of Years
368
Peace
369
Ode on the Intimations of Immortal
371
THE WOMAN
377
Robert Herrick
378
Preludes from The Angel in
384
The Songs I Sing
387
From Life
390
Garden Alice Meynell
393
Robert Louis Stevenson
394
Nathaniel Parker Willis
398
Song When daisies pied and violets
401
The Old Mans Comforts
405
Lincoln the Man of the People Edwin Markham
414
An Irish LoveSong
418
The Last Word
419
George Arnold
421
Austin Dobson
424
Waiting
426
James Russell Lowell
433
Henry Vaughan
434
To Minerva
438
Childhood
439
The
441
JUST NONSENSE
444
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
446
My Ain Fireside
447
An Upper Chamber
448
The Old Familiar Faces
453
Alone by the Hearth
460
3837
463
The Bucket
466
My Life is Like the Summer Rose
468
James Whitcomb Riley
469
Break Break Break
472
Eros
474
Loves Emblems
482
Spirit of Sadness
483
The Angelus
486
The Widow Allan Ramsay 2020
489
The Secret
493
William Thom
494
The Eagle
495
The Voice of Christmas
496
The Surface and the Depths
499
Algernon Charles Swinburne 368
500
Ralph Waldo Emerson
504
Awake My Heart
505
Alfred Noyes
511
Child Child Sara Teasdale
512
In After Days
513
Time You Old Gipsy Man
514
IN PRAISE OF
518
ter William Shakespeare
519
Kinchinjunga
521
Unknown
523
CherryRipe Thomas Campion
524
The Hawkbit
525
His WindingSheet
530
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph
531
toun 2023
534
Amoret Mark Akenside
537
Heaven Overarches Earth
539
Kyrielle
542
My Love Shes but a Lassie yet James Hogg
543
Times Revenge
546
Song She is not fair to outward
548
The MinstrelBoy
549
Edgar Allan
551
PAGE
553
The Warrior Maid
556
The Mountain HeartsEase
558
Opportunity John James Ingalls 2921
571
Crossing the
576
Simon the Cyrenean
577
Shakespeare
578
Rupert Brooke
580
Philomela
584
The Battle of Otterburn Unknown 2356
587
Love me or Not
589
Lost but Found
591
Song O do not wanton with those
592
To an Early Primrose
595
Airly Beacon
597
Mediocrity in Love Rejected
598
William Cartwright
604
Tropical Town
606
John Wilmot
611
A Hymn to God the Father
617
Love Time and Death
618
Meeting
621
George Herbert
623
Cui Bono
624
Thomas Hood
630
Renouncement
631
The Sunset City
632
Quand Vous Serez Vieille
635
When You are Old William Butler Yeats
636
Next of
637
Shakespeare
640
A Ballad of Life Algernon Charles Swinburne
642
Alls Well
645
An Epitaph
646
Love on the Mountain Thomas Boyd
648
Nanny Francis Davis
654
A Cyprian Woman
655
That Day You Came Lizette Woodworth Reese
660
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines William Vaughn Moody
662
Rose Terry Cooke
665
Clinton Scollard
670
GoodNight
679
Charles Hanbury Williams
685
Bonnie Doon
686
George Gordon Byron
687
Make Believe
691
A Ballad of Orleans A Mary F Robinson 2364
693
Thomas Campion
694
Morning Serenade Madison Cawein
700
Serenade Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
706
Bayard Taylor
710
Serenade Oscar Wilde
713
To Chloris Charles Sedley
720
I Asked My Fair One Happy Day Samuel Taylor Coleridge
726
Where Be You Going You Devon
732
Robert Louis Stevenson
734
Charles Kingsley
736
Robert Underwood Johnson
742
Jean Glover
748
Samuel Lover
754
THE HUMOR OF LOVE
763
Sally in Our Alley
769
When the Kye Comes Hame
775
Sonnets after the Italian
776
MuckleMouth
781
James Ballantine
783
Candor
787
Home
789
Mabel in New Hampshire
793
Edmund Clarence Stedman
794
Austin Dobson
797
Duna
799
Corrymeela Moira ONeill 2604
801
The Prime of Life
805
The Lovers
808
The Lovers Resolution
813
Wishes to His Supposed Mistress Richard Crashaw
824
Walier Savage Landor
831
The Little Waves of Breffny Eva GoreBooth 2605
834
Thunderstorms
836
Shadows Richard Monckton Milnes
838
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
846
Andrew Lang
850
Hebe James Russell Lowell
852
They Always Fell
854
To Music to Becalm his Fever
855
Two Lovers
856
Suburb Harold Monro
860
Unknown
863
Well go no More a Roving George Gordon Byron
866
A Place in Thy Memory Gerald Griffin
872
Youth and Art Robert Browning
880
Song Oh that we two were May
886
Song I saw the days white rap
892
The Lonely Road Kenneth Rand
893
Venice John Addington Symonds 2619
895
After Philip Bourke Marston
899
THE PARTED LOVERS
930
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going
934
Song At setting day and rising
940
My Bonnie Mary
946
When We Two Parted
952
The Palmtree and the Pine
963
SelfDependence
966
Departure
974
Song Tis said that absence conquers
983
A Song of Autumn Rennell Rodd
985
Forever and a Day Thomas Bailey Aldrich
992
Custers Last Charge
995
Marian Drury Bliss Carman
998
Bliss Carman
999
James Whitcomb Riley
1000
Modern Beauty Arthur Symons
1004
War is Kind
1010
Lost Light Elizabeth Akers ΙΟΙΟ
1012
Outgrown Julia C R Dorr
1019
The Portrait Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
1025
Hope and Fear
1028
From the Turkish George Gordon Byron
1031
Lovest Thou
1036
Lady Anne Bothwells Lament Unknown
1037
TomaBedlams Poem
1038
John
1039
am Dead and Sister to
1045
The Voice from Galilee
1046
John Vance Cheney
1049
Oliver Goldsmith
1050
Henry Sidgwick
1056
He Standeth at the Door
1059
The Lament of the Border Widow Unknown
1063
The Minstrels Song from
1070
Proud Maisie
1076
The Song of the Western Men Robert Stephen Hawker 2407
1077
Battle of the Baltic Thomas Campbell 2441
1083
Rosalinds Scroll
1085
The King of Denmarks Ride
1088
Evelyn Hope
1094
Inspiration
1100
Song When I am dead my dearest Christina Georgina Rossetti
1102
The Dead Faith Fannie Heaslip Lea 3396
1105
Janettes Hair
1109
Englands Dead
1112
Give Love Today
1115
Romance
1121
The Peaks
1123
Magpies in Picardy
1126
After
1127
The Warden of the Cinque Ports Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3670
1132
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger
1136
Dirge
1139
The Little Red Ribbon
1140
Conscience
1145
Song For me the jasmine buds
1148
The Hills
1154
Meeting at Night
1157
Dinna Ask
1163
James Oppenheim
1165
The GuardianAngel Robert Browning 2620
1166
My Ain Countree
1167
Song Wait but a little while
1169
Nested
1176
The Twins
1183
Each and
1190
Forever
1195
William Julius Mickle
1204
Beauty and Duty
1206
Now and Afterwards
1209
Reginald Heber
1210
William Cox Bennett
1217
Richard Realf
1223
Inspiration
1226
Gerald Massey
1228
LOVE SONNETS
1232
An Invocation
1236
Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella Philip Sidney
1239
The Flight
1240
Even This Shall Pass Away
1254
Sonnets from The House of Life Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1255
At the Last
1261
Chartless
1266
Sonnets from Thysia
1273
MOTHER
1293
Interlude
1294
The King of Dreams
1295
Twice
1296
To Mother Nature
1299
There is a Pool on Garda Clinton Scollard 2623
1301
In the Cool of the Evening
1305
Hemlock Mountain
1307
Alice Brown
1312
Penseroso
1313
Zoë Akins
1319
Ye Mariners of England
1320
Night John Addington Symonds
1325
To Fancy
1327
Spinning
1329
Cricket
1330
A Song of the Seasons Cosmo Monkhouse
1331
Ray Palmer
1334
England 1802
1335
Spring Thomas Nashe
1337
Little Giffen
1338
A Threnody
1341
An Ode on the Spring Thomas Gray
1343
William Barnes
1348
England My England
1349
March William Morris
1351
Nonsense Verses
1353
The Muses
1354
Spinning in April Josephine Preston Peabody
1357
Francis Thompson
1359
Oliver Herford
1360
A Spring Lilt Unknown
1363
James Russell Lowell
1369
Heredity
1371
Ripe Grain
1377
November
1382
The Land
1383
A Parting Guest
1384
WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNING BROOK
1398
The Raven
1401
Andromeda
1402
William Barnes
1405
Rouge Bouquet
1407
Leisure
1408
William Cowper
1411
Katherine Tynan
1414
Alfred Tennyson
1417
Shemuel
1423
The Queens Song
1432
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1433
San Lorenzo Giustinianis Mother Alice Meynell
1434
Cale Young Rice
1435
The Worlds Justice
1437
The Cloud
1440
Out in the Fields
1443
GREEN THINGS GROWING
1446
That Holy Thing
1452
The Pageant of Seamen
1453
One Gift I
1462
Heroes
1464
Thomas Hood
1466
Fourleaf Clover
1472
The Dandelions
1483
If Love were Jester at the Court
1484
Charles G Blanden
1488
The Hollytree
1491
The Hour of Death Felicia Dorothea Hemans 3411
1494
Henry Kirke White
1497
To a WoodViolet
1503
The Grasshopper
1509
William JohnsonCory 3378
1510
The Ballad of East and West
1513
The HumbleBee
1515
Mutability
1527
Robert of Lincoln
1528
The Herald Crane
1535
THEY ARE ALL GONE
1543
Philomela
1549
Bird Song
1555
The Bridge
1556
Constancy
1561
The Sandpiper
1562
The Only
1563
The Throstle
1578
Travellers Hope
1579
THE
1584
Young Windebank
1586
The Pines and the
1590
Hastings Mill
1591
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep Emma Hart Willard
1599
The Mourners Came at Break
1602
On the Quay
1605
Hows My Boy
1612
She and
1617
The Sands of
1619
Compensation
1624
The Sailor
1625
The Burial of Moses
1626
A Sea Dirge
1631
Horatius at the Bridge
1632
Charles Dibdin
1633
William Butler Yeats
1634
Jog On Jog
1636
A Garden
1644
Leaves
1645
The Useful Plow
1653
The Quiet Life William Byrd
1654
A Runnable Stag John Davidson
1661
Envoy from More Songs from
1662
WANDERLUST
1667
Mæsias Song from Farewell
1670
In City Streets Ada Smith
1674
Robert Louis Stevenson
1675
A Dedication
1679
A Maine Trail Gertrude Huntington
1681
A Garden Song
1682
The Golden Mean
1685
The Moods
1686
The SeaGipsy Richard Hovey
1688
A Contemplation Upon
1689
George du Maurier
1693
The Joys of the Road Bliss Carman
1694
The Good Inn Herman Knickerbocker Vielé
1700
My Land
1706
Ballade of the Primitive Jest Andrew Lang
1708
Faithless Nelly Gray
1714
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
1718
Chivalry at a Discount
1724
My Mistresss Boots
1730
Woods
1732
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1740
The Jolly Old Pedagogue
1746
A Portrait
1758
The Seekers
1761
James Russell Lowell
1765
William JohnsonCory 3529
1768
Comrades
1770
A Gentleman of the Old School
1777
A Corsage Bouquet
1783
In Gods Eternal Studios
1784
Die Wacht am Rhein
1786
Chiffons
1788
Jaffàr
1799
On the Flyleaf of a Book of
1806
A Nice Correspondent
1812
Andrew Marvell
1823
Verses on a
1824
Boadicea
1826
Hold
1830
William Wordsworth
1836
The Marquis of Carabas
1843
Kaiser
1849
To a Friend
1853
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor
1855
The Friend of Humanity and
1856
Andrew Lang
1859
The Worlds
1860
All Saints
1868
The German Fatherland
1871
The OwlCritic
1880
A Philosopher
1883
Austin Dobson
1884
The Dove
1885
The Vase
1886
William Makepeace Thack
1887
Bliss Carman
1888
Man and the Ascidian
1895
A Macgregor Rose
1901
William Watson
1908
My Familiar
1909
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2860
1911
John
1916
Edward Dyer
1918
Veni Creator Spiritus
1919
An Omar for Ladies
1921
Hans Breitmanns Party
1922
Farewell but Whenever
1927
Lewis Carroll
1928
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1455
1936
Sonnet
1939
Nubia Bayard Taylor 2640
1948
Ben King
1950
William Ernest Henley 2862
1952
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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
Volume 1 of The Home Book of Verse, American and English, Burton Egbert Stevenson
The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Burton Egbert Stevenson
EditorBurton Egbert Stevenson
Compiled byBurton Egbert Stevenson
Edition9, reprint
PublisherHolt, 1953
Original fromUniversity of Minnesota
Digitized19 Jan 2010
ISBN0030280354, 9780030280351
Length4013 pages
  
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