The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Volume 12 volume collection of the best brief poems in the English language from Spenser to the present. |
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Contents
Stonewall Jacksons | lxiv |
THE BABY | 3 |
General William Booth Enters into | 4 |
JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN | 7 |
Yes? | 8 |
To a NewBorn Baby Girl Grace Hazard Conkling | 9 |
Shadows | 10 |
Weighing the Baby Ethel Lynn Beers | 15 |
Song I came to the door of the house | 834 |
Aubrey Thomas De Vere | 835 |
MotherSong from Prince Lucifer Alfred Austin | 838 |
Scum o the Earth | 841 |
The Mystics Prayer | 842 |
Jessie | 849 |
Little and Great | 850 |
The Night Court | 855 |
Little Feet Elizabeth Akers | 19 |
Song She is not fair to outward | 22 |
On a Tear | 23 |
No Baby in the House Clara Dolliver | 26 |
Song A violet in her lovely hair Charles Swain | 28 |
The Book of the World | 29 |
Wise | 34 |
The Skeleton in Armor | 38 |
Jack and Jill Unknown | 39 |
Robin Redbreast Unknown | 45 |
Melancholy | 49 |
Old Mother Hubbard | 51 |
The Moon | 57 |
June | 61 |
Proverbs | 64 |
The RazorSeller | 66 |
When the Sleepy Man Comes | 70 |
The Loss of the Birkenhead | 71 |
The Argument of His book | 73 |
The Precept of Silence | 74 |
A Cradle Hymn | 79 |
The Friar of Orders Gray Thomas Percy 2710 | 82 |
333 | 84 |
Holy Innocents | 85 |
Abt Vogler | 91 |
BedTime Song | 92 |
Happy Thought | 98 |
The Crust of Bread | 104 |
Mothers Song | 105 |
The Indian Buryingground Philip Freneau 3438 | 113 |
The Reformation of Godfrey Gore William Brighty Rands | 114 |
The Question | 115 |
The Memory of the Dead | 123 |
The Story of Little SuckAThumb Heinrich Hoffman | 124 |
A Farewell | 125 |
Ode on the Intimations of Immortal | 126 |
The Worlds Music | 127 |
Early Death | 130 |
The Wind and the Moon | 133 |
Its Ain Drap o Dew | 136 |
The Gladness of Nature | 139 |
Woman | 143 |
The Crickets Story | 145 |
The King of Denmarks Ride | 146 |
Nurses Song | 151 |
House | 155 |
The Blind | 157 |
On Music | 160 |
My Bed is a Boat | 161 |
The Man in the Moon | 168 |
Holy Thursday | 174 |
Ad Matrem | 175 |
Kentucky Babe | 185 |
O that Twere Possible | 186 |
Gods Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Robert Southey | 189 |
War is Kind | 196 |
Tam OShanter | 199 |
Forget not Yet | 200 |
THE GLAD EVANGEL | 201 |
The Angels William Drummond | 207 |
Sapientia Lunĉ | 210 |
The House of Christmas Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 213 |
Storm Fear | 214 |
The Battle of Otterburn | 215 |
A Childs Song of Christmas Marjorie L C Pickthall | 219 |
Eugene Field | 221 |
The Godmaker | 227 |
FAIRYLAND | 231 |
The Noble Nature | 234 |
Life a Question | 235 |
Woods | 236 |
Fairy Song John Keats | 237 |
A Requiem | 241 |
The Reveille | 242 |
The Fairy Thrall Mary C G Byron | 243 |
Mans Days | 244 |
The Visitor Patrick R Chalmers | 247 |
Laus Infantium William Canton | 253 |
A Childs Laughter | 254 |
My April Lady | 255 |
Dell | 259 |
The Barefoot | 261 |
Villanelle of His Ladys Treasures | 263 |
To a Little Girl | 267 |
Such is the Death the Soldier Dies | 268 |
A Little While | 270 |
pect of Flowers | 273 |
Out of Hearing | 275 |
Sweet and Sour | 277 |
The Reverie of Poor Susan | 281 |
To the Willowtree | 282 |
The Blessed Damozel | 286 |
The ShadowChild | 288 |
After Two Years | 289 |
The Bridge | 291 |
The Dead Faith | 292 |
William Cox Bennett | 295 |
Were Dead | 296 |
On a Bust of Dante | 298 |
Edmund Clarence Stedman 793 | 300 |
The Little Ghost | 302 |
For Charlies Sake | 308 |
She Came and Went | 314 |
Woodman Spare that Tree | 315 |
Boy | 318 |
The Childs Wish Granted | 320 |
Gods World | 322 |
Sonnets from Mimma Bella | 323 |
Twilight | 325 |
To Mistress Margaret Hussey | 329 |
Sara Teasdale | 334 |
Sentinel Songs | 335 |
The Gipsy Girl | 344 |
Comrades | 347 |
Nathaniel Parker Willis | 349 |
The Breaking | 351 |
Todlin Hame Unknown 2009 | 352 |
Stanzas | 354 |
Aladdin | 357 |
Ellen Mackay Hutchinson | 358 |
Sic Vita | 359 |
To Song | 361 |
Ballade of Middle | 363 |
William Wordsworth | 366 |
He Liveth Long who Liveth Well Horatius Bonar 3716 | 370 |
Rabbi Ben Ezra | 373 |
Ben Jonson | 377 |
William Shakespeare | 390 |
Wild Honey | 393 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 394 |
Were my Heart as some Mens are | 396 |
Song When daisies pied and violets | 401 |
Oh Breathe Not His Name | 406 |
Alice Brand Walter Scott 2716 | 408 |
Lincoln the Man of the People | 414 |
Dorothy Wordsworth | 420 |
Forty Years On Edward Ernest Bowen | 421 |
Salve | 422 |
Verse Past ruined Ilion | 424 |
Alone | 427 |
The Constant Lover | 428 |
Auspex James Russell Lowell | 433 |
Mors et Vita | 435 |
The High Tide at Gettysburg | 438 |
Carcassonne John R Thompson | 440 |
Young Windebank | 442 |
The Brave Old | 443 |
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 144 | 446 |
James Ryder Randall | 450 |
An Immorality Ezra Pound | 452 |
Soldier Rest thy Warfare Oer Walter Scott | 454 |
Threescore and Ten Richard Henry Stoddard | 458 |
Rouge Bouquet | 462 |
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns | 464 |
Forty Years Ago Unknown | 470 |
John Anderson My | 471 |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe | 475 |
The Surface and the Depths | 484 |
Janettes Hair | 485 |
TennysonTurner | 486 |
The Widow Allan Ramsay 2020 | 489 |
Song How delicious is the winning | 490 |
Ford Madox Hucer | 494 |
Love hath a Language | 496 |
Until Death | 497 |
The MinstrelBoy | 499 |
Give all to Love | 502 |
The Highway | 508 |
The Call | 509 |
Charlie is My Darling | 510 |
The Dead Coach | 511 |
Child Child Sara Teasdale | 512 |
Tom Dunstan | 516 |
Tenants Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 3218 | 517 |
IN PRAISE OF | 518 |
Air I neer could any luster see | 519 |
LEnvoi | 521 |
CherryRipe Thomas Campion | 524 |
Ben Jonson | 527 |
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph | 531 |
Amoret Mark Akenside | 537 |
Richard Edwards | 540 |
My Love Shes but a Lassie yet James Hogg | 543 |
Crecy | 545 |
Song Sing the old song amid | 546 |
Mary Evelyn Moore Davis 3014 | 548 |
Oh Why Should the Spirit of Mor | 573 |
339 | 574 |
William Watson | 578 |
Rupert Brooke | 580 |
Wrong not Sweet Empress of | 586 |
Song O do not wanton with those | 592 |
Mediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew | 598 |
Francis Davison | 600 |
To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace | 605 |
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwells | 608 |
Aphra Behn | 610 |
Song Too late alas I must con | 612 |
Amynta Gilbert Elliot | 618 |
John Oldmixon | 621 |
Heres a Health to Them Thats | 622 |
Take back the Virgin Page | 623 |
Thomas Moore | 624 |
Alice Furlong | 630 |
Bugle Song from The Princess | 635 |
When You are Old | 636 |
Ozymandias of Egypt | 640 |
Since we Parted | 641 |
A Ballad of Life | 642 |
Maureen | 647 |
Love on the Mountain | 648 |
Nanny | 653 |
Romance | 654 |
Life Anna Letitia Barbauld 3491 | 655 |
Where Love | 659 |
The Songs I Sing | 663 |
To Arcady | 664 |
THE | 669 |
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard | 670 |
Heart of my Heart Unknown | 676 |
GoodNight | 679 |
MY LADYS LIPS | 682 |
Sleep John Fletcher 3220 | 683 |
Song I came to the door of the house | 684 |
Arabella Eugenia Smith | 685 |
Faithless Nelly Gray | 686 |
Robert Browning | 689 |
585 | 690 |
lxxi | 694 |
Matin Song Nathaniel Field | 697 |
As an Old Mercer | 699 |
GoodNight Percy Bysshe Shelley | 703 |
A Hint from Herrick | 704 |
Mary Newmarch Prescott | 705 |
Edgar Allan | 706 |
Bedouin Song Bayard Taylor | 709 |
In After Days Austin Dobson 3502 | 710 |
Alfred Perceval Graves | 714 |
THE COMEDY OF LOVE | 715 |
A Maidens Ideal of a Husband Henry Carey | 722 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 726 |
Defiance Walter Savage Landor | 728 |
Wouldnt You Like to Know John Godfrey Saxe | 735 |
Song of Shermans March to the Sea Samuel II M Byers | 739 |
If James Jeffrey Roche | 741 |
Owre the Moor Amang the Heather Jean Glover | 747 |
Rory OMore or Good Omens Samuel Lover | 753 |
The Ould Plaid Shawl Francis A Fahy | 759 |
To Chloe Jealous Matthew Prior | 766 |
O Merry may the Maid be John Clerk | 772 |
The Lay of the Levite William Edmonstoune | 774 |
Opportunity | 775 |
The LowBacked Car Samuel Lover | 778 |
Robert Browning | 782 |
Lochinvar Walter Scott | 786 |
Because Edward Fitzgerald | 790 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 799 |
Corrymeela Moira ONeill 2604 | 801 |
Should Die Tonight | 802 |
The Revel | 808 |
My Life is Like the Summer Rose | 818 |
Thomas Buchanan Read | 828 |
The Pulley | 856 |
Call Me Not Dead Richard Watson Gilder 3502 | 862 |
Robert Southey | 863 |
Charles Kingsley | 865 |
Austin Dobson | 868 |
Richard Henry Buck | 875 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 889 |
The Lonely Road Kenneth Rand | 893 |
Venice John Addington Symonds 2619 | 895 |
After Philip Bourke Marston | 899 |
The Seekers | 901 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne | 902 |
Song We break the glass whose | 905 |
The Meadows in Spring | 906 |
Eurydice Francis William Bourdillon | 912 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 913 |
HOME AND FATHERLAND | 915 |
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonĉ | 918 |
Pakenham Beatty | 920 |
When Spring Comes Back to Eng | 921 |
When My Beloved Sleeping Lies Irene Rutherford McLeod | 924 |
Memories | 927 |
In Gods Eternal Studios | 929 |
THE PARTED LOVERS | 930 |
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going | 934 |
The Muses | 935 |
An Epitaph | 937 |
Song At setting day and rising | 940 |
The Village Blacksmith | 942 |
America | 944 |
My Bonnie Mary Robert Burns | 946 |
J Scott Glasgow | 947 |
When We Two Parted George Gordon Byron | 952 |
The Sealands Orrick Johns | 958 |
Frederick Marryat | 960 |
The Flowers Name Robert Browning | 964 |
Divided Jean Ingelow | 971 |
72 | 974 |
Song Fair is the night and fair | 977 |
Fuzzywuzzy | 977 |
Kathleen Mavourneen Louisa Macartney Crawford | 979 |
The Parting Hour Olive Custance | 985 |
Ode to Evening | 986 |
The Masters Laurence Hope 2947 | 992 |
Louise Imogen Guiney | 995 |
William Cullen Bryant | 1001 |
Robert Browning | 1004 |
Evoe | 1006 |
The Pope He Leads a Happy Life Charles Lever | 1015 |
Robert Frost | 1016 |
A Charge | 1017 |
WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNING BROOK | 1029 |
Katherine Lee Butes | 1034 |
Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley | 1040 |
Don Quixote Austin Dobson 2950 | 1046 |
Agatha Alfred Austin | 1047 |
Edwin Markham | 1049 |
The PassionFlower Margaret Fuller | 1054 |
The Little Red Ribbon | 1055 |
LOVE AND DEATH | 1060 |
My Truelove Hath My Heart Philip Sidney | 1065 |
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley | 1067 |
Chimney Swallows | 1070 |
Sonnets from Idea | 1072 |
Lucy William Wordsworth | 1076 |
Walter Scott | 1077 |
Travellers Hope Charles Granville 3478 | 1080 |
Oh Snatched away in Beautys | 1082 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1276 | 1085 |
Robert Browning | 1095 |
John Greenleaf Whittier | 1111 |
Overflow | 1116 |
Recompense | 1117 |
William Watson | 1119 |
Ernest Dowson | 1120 |
Charles Hanson Towne | 1132 |
I Have a Rendezvous with Death | 1136 |
The GoodMorrow John Donne | 1142 |
Tennyson | 1143 |
Song For me the jasmine buds | 1148 |
Florence Earle Coates | 1149 |
Over the Wintry Threshold | 1154 |
Earl Mertouns Song Robert Browning | 1156 |
Today | 1159 |
Plighted Dinah Maria Mulock Craik | 1162 |
Anna Hempstead Branch 3021 | 1165 |
Perugia Amelia Josephine Burr 2621 | 1166 |
When Death to Either shall Come Robert Bridges | 1168 |
The Valley of Vain Verses | 1174 |
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1176 |
Prothalamion Edmund Spenser | 1183 |
The Hills of Rest | 1188 |
Character of the Happy Warrior | 1192 |
The Kiss Sara Teasdale | 1194 |
She and | 1195 |
To Mary Unwin | 1197 |
Lord Ullins Daughter Thomas Campbell 2723 | 1204 |
LOVE SONNETS | 1210 |
Unknown | 1216 |
How My Songs of Her Began | 1220 |
Robert Burns | 1225 |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | 1254 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1259 |
Christina Georgina Rossetti | 1260 |
THE | 1269 |
For a Copy of Theocritus | 1276 |
Mastery | 1277 |
William Drummond | 1293 |
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 2960 | 1296 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1301 |
Henry Fothergill Chorley | 1302 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1307 |
William Wordsworth | 1315 |
Aubrey Thomas De Vere | 1316 |
Alfred Noyes | 1317 |
Joyce Kilmer | 1320 |
What of The Darkness? Richard Le Gallienne 3515 | 1321 |
The Eagle that is Forgotten | 1323 |
Francis Turner Palgrave | 1326 |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 3083 | 1327 |
Andrés Ride A H Beesly 2801 | 1329 |
CHANGING YEAR | 1330 |
Alfred Tennyson | 1334 |
A Threnody | 1341 |
Eugene Field | 1348 |
Nonsense Verscs | 1353 |
Robert Browning | 1354 |
Sweet Clover | 1358 |
1001 | 1359 |
PAGE | 1367 |
To the Daisy | 1370 |
Thomas S Jones | 1374 |
Lessons from the Gorse | 1380 |
The Quiet Singer | 1389 |
John Williamson Palmer | 1393 |
Dirge from Cymbeline | 1404 |
John Boyle OReilly | 1408 |
Guy Humphreys McMaster | 1411 |
1014 | 1412 |
Katherine Tynan | 1414 |
John Keble | 1417 |
William Wordsworth | 1430 |
Josephine Daskam Bacon | 1435 |
Into the Twilight | 1437 |
James Hogg | 1442 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | 1445 |
Thomas Edward Brown | 1446 |
Growing Gray | 1450 |
Bliss Carman | 1455 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1461 |
Tears | 1464 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2923 | 1465 |
Wallace Rice | 1473 |
Unknown | 1482 |
Annie Rankin Annan | 1483 |
A Song the Grass Sings Charles G Blanden | 1488 |
The MorningGlory Florence Earle Coates | 1494 |
Song from The Devils Law Case John Webster 3517 | 1498 |
A Rose Richard Fanshawe | 1500 |
GODS CREATURES | 1507 |
William JohnsonCory | 1510 |
The Snail William Cowper | 1514 |
William Wordsworth | 1517 |
The Blood Horse Bryan Waller Procter | 1520 |
The Blackbird Alfred Edward Housman | 1526 |
Hame Hame Hame Allan Cunningham 3226 | 1527 |
My Catbird William Henry Venable | 1533 |
To Each His | 1535 |
Lydia Avery Coonley Ward | 1544 |
The One White Hair | 1551 |
Hartley Coleridge | 1555 |
William Dean Howells | 1557 |
Edgar Fawcell | 1558 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1565 |
Alice Meynell | 1566 |
Frederic Lawrence Knowles | 1590 |
Hastings Mill | 1591 |
Little Billee | 1592 |
In Our Boat | 1597 |
John G Neihardt | 1600 |
Letts | 1601 |
Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson 3485 | 1604 |
A Passerby | 1613 |
649 | 1627 |
Henry Newbolt | 1630 |
Captain Reece | 1632 |
Norman Gale | 1644 |
Hope and Despair | 1649 |
The Quiet Life William Byrd | 1654 |
To the Earl of Warwick on | 1657 |
Work without Hope | 1658 |
A Runnable Stag John Davidson | 1661 |
WANDERLUST | 1667 |
In City Streets Ada Smith | 1674 |
A Maine Trail Gertrude Huntington | 1681 |
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence James Elroy Flecker | 1686 |
The SeaGipsy Richard Hovey | 1688 |
Bliss Carman | 1689 |
The Joys of the Road Bliss Carman | 1694 |
The Good Inn Herman Knickerbocker Vielė | 1700 |
Georgiana Goddard King 3084 | 1703 |
Ballade of the Primitive Jest Andrew Lang | 1708 |
Walter Savage Landor | 1710 |
Thomas Hood | 1714 |
My Mistresss Boots Frederick LockerLampson | 1730 |
A Terrible Infant Frederick LockerLampson | 1736 |
Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1743 |
A MIND CONTENT | 1745 |
Thalia Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 1750 |
The EightDay Clock Alfred Cochrane | 1756 |
To a Pair of Egyptian Slippers Edwin Arnold | 1762 |
Clay Edward Verrall Lucas | 1768 |
The Ladies of St Jamess Austin Dobson | 1775 |
On a Fan Austin Dobson | 1781 |
Tropical Town | 1784 |
Andrew Lang | 1785 |
A Ballade of Suicide Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1787 |
Chiffons William Samuel Johnson | 1789 |
The Chaperon Henry Cuyler Bunner | 1795 |
Evolution Langdon Smith | 1805 |
Rudolph Chambers Lehmann 363 | 1807 |
A Nice Correspondent Frederick LockerLampson | 1812 |
The Nymph Complaining for | 1819 |
George Berkeley | 1823 |
Thomas Gray | 1824 |
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper | 1825 |
George Croly | 1826 |
Hold Patrick R Chalmers | 1834 |
William Wordsworth | 1836 |
John Greenleaf Whittier | 1838 |
Darius Green and his FlyingMachine John | 1839 |
The Debate in the Sennit James Russell Lowell | 1840 |
Jolly Jack William Makepeace Thack | 1848 |
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible | 1854 |
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor | 1855 |
Edward Sandford Martin 280 | 1860 |
Charles Wolfe | 1865 |
Up at a VillaDown in the City Robert Browning | 1868 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 2349 | 1871 |
Ballade of a Friar | 1874 |
The Petrified Fern | 1876 |
The Deacons Masterpiece | 1877 |
Edward Lear | 1883 |
Came Down from Lebanon Clinton Scollard 2637 | 1886 |
The Net of | 1887 |
The Spider and the | 1891 |
The Lure | 1898 |
The Good Great | 1901 |
William Watson | 1908 |
George John Cayley | 1909 |
Edward Rowland Sill | 1915 |
George John Cayley | 1919 |
A Fancy from Fontenelle | 1921 |
Lewis Carroll | 1928 |
Poets and Linnets | 1929 |
The Recognition | 1935 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne 368 | 1936 |
Gelett Burgess | 1941 |
Nubia Bayard Taylor 2640 | 1948 |
Bret Harte | 1949 |
Reginald Wright Kauffman | 1950 |
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| Title | The 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 |
| Editor | Burton Egbert Stevenson |
| Compiled by | Burton Egbert Stevenson |
| Edition | 9, reprint |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| ISBN | 0030280354, 9780030280351 |
| Length | 4013 pages |
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