and authority of his widely honored name, and comes before the reading public with an indorsement second to none in the world of letters. The Publishers desire to return their cordial thanks for the courtesy freely extended to them, by which many copyrighted American poems have been allowed to appear in this collection. In regard to a large number of them, permission has been accorded by the authors themselves; other poems, having been gathered as waifs and strays, have been necessarily used without especial authority, and where due credit is not given, or where the authorship may have been erroneously ascribed, future editions will afford opportunity for the correction, which will be gladly made. Particular acknowledgments are offered to Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. for extracts from Gen. James Grant Wilson's handsome edition of the works of Fitz-Greene Halleck, and from the poems of William Cullen Bryant; to Messrs. Harper & Brothers for a few poems of Charles G. Halpine; to Messrs. J. 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THE Publishers take this opportunity of expressing their gratification at the very flattering reception given to the “Library of Poetry and Song,” the best evidence of which is the fact of the 20th edition having been called for in little more than six months from the publication of the first. It has seemed to supply a real public need. The present edition has been revised and improved in various ways, and the observations of the numerous critics of the work have been diligently consulted, with a view to make it perfect in all its details, and the recognized standard work of the kind. Many new poems have also been added. -É CONTENTS. PAGE DisaPPOINTMENT AND ESTRANGEMENT POEMS OF TEMPERANCE AND LABOR . POEMS OF PATRIOTISM AND FREEDOM POEMS or ADVENTURE AND RURAL SPORTS FACSLIILE OF THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT JOHN HOWARD PAYNE THOMAS Hood LEIGIL HUNT Josial GILBERT HOLLAND ALFRED TENNYSON GEORGE H. BOKER T. BUCHANAN READ . JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER . OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES BAYARD TAYLOR ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING N. P. WILLIS GEORGE P. MORRIS Fitz-GREENE HALLECK W. GILMORE SIMMS EDGAR ALLAN POE HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY JOIN QUINCY ADAMS . JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Join G. SAXE . JULIA WARD HOWE xxii xxxii 2 30 222 256 256 296 374 412 414 428 468 492 524 524 564 564 628 676 676 700 724 724 776 . ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. ARNOLD, EDWIN. Page England, 1831. Sempronius's Speech 435 AYTON, SIR ROBERT. “The Lord my pasture shall prepare? “When all thy mercies, O my God !”. • 737 Execution of Montrose, The'. ALDRICH, JAMES. Heath-Cock, The 345 68 ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. England, 1743- 1825. * Life! I know not what thou art" 1177 When the Sultan goes to Ispahan “Praise to God, inmortal praise Summer Evening's Meditation, A 315 BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS (“ Thomas Parting Lovers, The (Translation) To Heaven approached a Sufi Saint (Translation) 262 ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM. Inebriate, The 767 Fairies, The Knight and the Lady, The 748 52 751 Misadventures at Margate 749 BARNARD, LADY ANNE. 39 Scotland, 1750 - 1825. Auld Robin Gray. 158 BARNES, WILLIAM. 27 *** In the stillness o' the night”. Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, The (Trans- BARTON, BERNARD. England, 1784 - 1849. 355 ANGELO, MICHAEL. Mistletoe Bough, The 205 "If it be true that any beauteous thing" . BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, and FLETCHER, JOHN. | BROOKS, MARIA. England, 1586 - 1616, and 1576 - 1025. 340 "Day, in melting purple dying" “ Hence, all ye vain delights" “O the pleasant days of old !" Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The 4 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Romance of the Swan's Nest, The 374 Sonnets from the Portuguese View across the Roman Campagna, A How they brought the Good News from Ghent “Beyond the smiling and the weeping' “Children of God, who, faint and slow" 283 Cummington, Mass., b. 1794. "From the recesses of a lowly spirit" The Nightingale (Portuguese Translation) The Nightingale (Dutch Translation) “ I saw two clouds at morning" "I would I were an excellent divine" “Thou hast put all things under his feet" 275 Hermann and Thusnelda (Tr. from Klopstock) 435 BURBIDGE, THOMAS. Nobleman and the Pensioner, The (Translation) 395 A Mother's Love |