730 477 110 123 4 . 671 274 SURREY, LORD. Give Place, ye Lovers Happy Life, The A Violet in her Hair Smile and never heed me Disappointed Lover, The. - When the hounds of spring" Contentment "Were I as base as is the lowly plain” Flower o' Dumblane, The “The midges dance 'aboon the burn", . “There is an hour of peaceful rest Arab to the Palm, The Rose, The Philosopher's Scales, The Toad's Journal, The . Milkmaid, The Heaven Ode to Peace Bugle, The Spring Ocean, The Rêve du Midi Age of Wisdom, The Mr. Molony's Account of the Ball Sorrows of Werther White Squall, The Tacking Ship off Shore. Scotland. The Mitherless Bairn Scotland, 1700-1748. Angling . Connubial Life Domestic Birds Hymn on the Seasons Rule Britannia Stag Hunt, The Winter Scenes Jester's Sermon, The Beauty Bird, Toa 71 England, b. 1666. TILTON, THEODORE. Baby Bye Great Bell Roland, The * Rock of ages, cleft for me TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIX. Harmosan. Vagabonds, The Bostoli, Mass., b. 1813. Newport Beach England, b. 1810. England, 1786-1849. Friends far away. TYCHBORN, CHIDIOCK. England. Young and Condemned to die UHLAND, LUDWIG. Germany, 1787-189. Landlady's Daughter, The . England, 1070 - 1749. Lass of Richmond Hill, The 1621 - 1605 They are all gone" Salem, Mass., b. 1813. Latter Rain, The Spirit Land, The The Nightingale (Translation) The Mother Nightingale (Translation) 581 266 417 622 558 613 201 75 98 616 341 593 . 583 168 738 739 314 740 717 27 VISSCHER, MARIA TESSELSCHADE. The Nightingale (Translation) Girdle, Ona Go, lovely Rose ! . Spinning-Wheel Song, The Rivalry in Love Angler's Wish, The . Retirement Man's Mortality Beautiful Snow "Before Jehovah's awful throne “Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb”. The dule 's i' this bonnet o' mine English Robin, The The Old Maid Jesus, lover of my soul Wrestling Jacob window" Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles Night Early Primrose, To the Harvest Moon, To the . Absent Sailor, To her , The Maud Muller Meeting, The New England in Winter Poet's Reward, The . Pumpkin, The Reformer, The Life Portland, Me., 1807 - 1867, Belfry Pigeon, The Women, Two WILSON, JOHN (K’it North). Evening Cloud, The. To a Sleeping Child America, b. 1524. “Why thus longing ?" England, 1585 -107. "I loved a lass, a fair one" Shepherd's Resolution, The . King Canute and his Nobles Pilgrims and the Peas, The . Razor-Seller, The Ireland, 1719-1223, Scituate, Mass., 1785-1812. Old Oaken Bucket, The Cuckoo, To the. Dafiodils Education of Nature, The England Highland Girl of Inversnaid, To ihe Inner Vision, The Intimations of Immortality Lost Love, The March Music Rainbow, The . Reaper, The Westminster Bridge. Worldliness Varrow Visited A Happy Lite Verses in Praise of Angling 342 21 “Under my I 2 567 43 14 768 366 England, 1593 - 1542. An Earvest Suit XAVIER, ST. FRANCIS. France, 1506 - 1552. "My God, I love thee" (Translation). England. Song of Spring 316 307 grace 246 410 766 200 ANONYMOUS. Advice “Love not me for comely 61 74 47 148 49 249 269 26 266 634 767 288 357 496 487 Diogenes) 455 313 518 622 • 763 97 • 354 80 • 742 673 759 444 620 596 199 178 420 754 173 • 225 39 47 157 415 6 10 46 93 79 6 210 am . 202 So large a collection of poems as this demands of its compiler an extensive familiarity with the poetic literature of our language, both of the early and the later time, and withal so liberal a taste as not to exclude any variety of poetic merit. At the request of the Publishers I undertook to write an Introduction to the present work, and in pursuance of this design I find that I have come into a somewhat closer personal relation with the book. In its progress it has passed entirely under my revision, and, although not absolutely responsible for the compilation or its arrangement, I have, as requested, exercised a free hand both in excluding and in adding matter according to my judgment of what was best adapted to the purposes of the enterprise. Such, however, is the wide range of English verse, and such the abundance of the materials, that a compilation of this kind must be like a bouquet gathered from the fields in June, when hundreds of flowers will be left in unvisited spots, as beautiful as those which have been taken. It may happen, therefore, that many who have learned to delight in some particular poem will turn these pages, as they might those of other collections, without finding their favorite. Nor should it be matter of surprise, considering the multitude of authors from whom the compilation is made, if it be found that some are overlooked, especially the more recent, of equal merit with many whose poems appear in these pages. It may happen, also, that the compiler, in consequence of some particular association, has been sensible of a beauty and a power of awakening emotions and recalling images in certain poems which other readers will fail to perceive. It should be considered, moreover, that in poetry, as in painting, different artists have different modes of presenting their conceptions, each of which may possess its peculiar merit, yet those whose taste is formed by contemplating the productions of one class take little pleasure in any other. Crabb Robinson relates that Wordsworth once admitted to him that he did not much admire contemporary poetry, not because of its want of poetic merit, but because he had been accustomed to poetry of a different sort, and added that but for this he might have read it with pleasure. I quote from memory. It is to be hoped that every reader of this collection, however he may have been trained, will find in the great variety of its contents something conformable to his taste. I suppose it is not necessary to give a reason for adding another to the collections of this nature, already in print. They abound in every language, for the simple reason that there is a demand for them. German literature, prolific as it is in verse, has many of them, and some of them compiled by distinguished authors. The par E – |