BRITISH AUTHORS

Vol. I.

BYRON-SHELLEY--Moore-ROGERS
KEATS-SOUTHEY-LANDOR

EDITED BY

EDWARD T. MASON

WITH PORTRAITS

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1885

5. Jan.

24,

Subscription Fund.
teen

COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TROW'S

PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,

NEW YORK.

To

M. Y. AND L. H. Y.

THESE VOLUMES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.

"Let those who are in favour with their stars,

Of publick honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories, once foiled,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd;

Then happy I, that love and am belov'd,
Where I may not remove, nor be remov'd."