BROWNING ROBERT (1812-1889) (continued)

The rain set early in to-night (Porphyria's Lover)
The year's at the spring.

This is a spray the Bird clung to (Misconceptions)
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1784-1878)

Whither, 'midst falling dew (To a Waterfowl)
BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796)

Duncan Gray cam here to woo (Duncan Gray)
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine (A Farewell)
John Anderson my jo, John

O Mary, at thy window be (Mary Morison)

O my Luve's like a red, red rose

O saw ye bonnie Lesley (Bonnie Lesley)

Of a' the airts the wind can blaw (Jean)

The lovely lass o' Inverness (Lament for Culloden)

Ye banks and braes and streams around (Highland Mary)
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie (To a Field Mouse):

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD (1788-1824)

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And thou art dead, as young and fair (Elegy on Thyrza)
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind (On the Castle of Chillon) 209
O snatch'd away in beauty's bloom (Elegy)

O talk not to me of a name great in story (All for Love).

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away

A Chieftain to the Highlands bound (Lord Ullin's Daughter)
Earl March look'd on his dying child (The Maid of Neidpath)
Gem of the crimson-colour'd Even (To the Evening Star)
How delicious is the winning (Freedom and Love).
Of Nelson and the North (Battle of the Baltic)
On Linden, when the sun was low (Hohenlinden)

He that loves a rosy cheek (The True Beauty)

Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd (The

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Star that bringest home the bee (To the Evening Star)
The more we live, more brief appear (The River of Life) .
When first the fiery-mantled Sun (Ode to Winter)
Ye Mariners of England

CAREW, THOMAS (1598 ?-1639 ?)

CAREY, HENRY (1693 ?-1743)

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Of all the girls that are so smart (Sally in our Alley)
CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757)

O say what is that thing call'd Light (The Blind Boy).
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861)

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As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay (Qua cursum ventus)
Say not, the struggle naught availeth

Where lies the land to which the ship would go ? .

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COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)

She is not fair to outward view.

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834)

All thoughts, all passions, all delights (Love)

Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying (Youth and Age).

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In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining (To-morrow) 167
COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721-1759)

How sleep the Brave who sink to rest (Ode written in 1746).
If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song (To Evening)
When Music, heavenly maid, was young (The Passions)
CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)

Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly (Diaphenia)

CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892)

Somewhere beneath the sun (Amaturus)

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead
(Heraclitus)

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136

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You promise heavens free from strife (Mimnermus in Church) 431
COWLEY, ABRAHAM (1618-1667)

Awake, awake, my Lyre (4 Supplication).

I am monarch of all I survey (The Solitude of Alexander
Selkirk)

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The poplars are fell'd, farewell to the shade (The Poplar Field) 140
The twentieth year is well-nigh past (To Mary Unwin).
Toll for the Brave (Loss of the Royal George).

Mary! I want a lyre with other strings (To Mary Unwin) 164
Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade (To a Young
Lady)

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CRASHAW, RICHARD (1613 ?-1649)

Whoe'er she be (Wishes for the Supposed Mistress)

CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN (1784-1842)

A wet sheet and a flowing sea

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night.

DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846)

It is not Beauty I demand (The Loveliness of Love)

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The murmur of the mourning ghost (Keith of Ravelston)

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers (The Happy Heart)

DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (1824-1874)

DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887)

It was the calm and silent night (A Christmas Hymn)
DOYLE, FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES (1810-1888)

Last night, among his fellow roughs (The Private of the Buffs) 370
DRAYTON, MICHAEL (1563-1631)

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part (Love's Farewell)

23

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM (1585-1649)

Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move.

40

My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow (To His Lute)
My thoughts hold mortal strife (Madrigal).

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Of this fair volume which we World do name (The Lessons of
Nature)

39

Phoebus, arise! (Summons to Love)

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This Life, which seems so fair

The last and greatest Herald of Heaven's King (Saint John
Baptist)

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37

DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony (Song for Saint
Cecilia's Day, 1687)

49

'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won (Alexander's Feast).

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ELIOT, GEORGE (MARY ANN CROSS) (1819-1880)

O may I join the choir invisible.

ELLIOTT, JANE (1727-1805)

I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking (Lament for
Flodden)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882)

If the red slayer think he slays (Brahma)

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O fair and stately maid, whose eyes (To Eva).

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FITZGERALD, EDWARD (1809-1883)

FLETCHER, JOHN (1579–1625)

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night (Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam)

341

Hence, all you vain delights (Melancholy).

86

GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)

All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd (Black-eyed Susan)
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1728-1774)

When lovely woman stoops to folly

GRAHAM, ROBERT (AFTERWARDS CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM)

Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake (The Progress of Poetry)
Daughter of Jove, relentless power (Hymn to Adversity)
Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours (Ode on the Spring)
Now the golden Morn aloft (Ode on the Pleasure arising from
Vicissitude)

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Ruin seize thee, ruthless King (The Bard)

115

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Elegy written in a
Country Church-yard)

145

'Twas on a lofty vase's side (On a favourite cat, drowned in a tub
of gold fishes)

112

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers (Ode on a distant prospect
of Eton College)

158

HAWKER, ROBERT STEPHEN (1803–1875)

HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903)

A good sword and a trusty hand (And shall Trelawny
die ?)

330

Out of the night that covers me

457

HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)

When God at first made Man (The Gifts of God).

64

HERRICK, ROBERT (1591-1674)

A sweet disorder in the dress

78

Fair daffodils, we weep to see (To Daffodils)

Bid me to live, and I will live (To Anthea who may
him anything)

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Fair pledges of a fruitful tree (To Blossoms)

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may (Counsel to Girls)
Sweet! be not proud of those two eyes (To Dianeme).
Whenas in silks my Julia goes

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Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day

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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (1809-1894)

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign (The Chambered

Nautilus)

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HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845)

One more Unfortunate (The Bridge of Sighs)

I remember, I remember (Past and Present)

We watch'd her breathing thro' the night (The Death Bed) 235
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD (1809-1885)

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I know not that the men of old (The Men of Old) .

The old mayor climbed the belfry tower (The High Tide on
the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571)

409

JONSON, BEN (1573 ?-1637)

Drink to me only with thine eyes (To Celia)
It is not growing like a tree (The Noble Nature)

Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair (Hymn to Diana) .

Bards of Passion and of Mirth (Ode on the Poets).
Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art
Ever let the Fancy roam (The Realm of Fancy)
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year (The Human Seasons) 307
In a drear-nighted December (Happy Insensibility)
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold (On first looking
into Chapman's Homer).

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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (Ode to a Night-
ingale).

248

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms (La Belle Dame sans
Merci).

193

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (Ode to Autumn)
Souls of Poets dead and gone (The Mermaid Tavern)
When I have fears that I may cease to be (The Terror of
Death)

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KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875)

Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon

O Mary, go and call the cattle home (The Sands of Dee)
Welcome, wild North-easter (Ode to the North-east Wind)
When all the world is young, lad (Young and Old)

LAMB, CHARLES (1775-1834)

I have had playmates,

have had companions (The Old

Familiar Faces)

220

I saw where in the shroud did lurk (On an Infant dying as soon

as born)

237

When maidens such as Hester die (Hester).

234

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864)

Ah, what avails the sceptred race (Rose Aylmer)

317

I loved him not; and yet now he is gone (The Maid's Lament) 317

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.

317

Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak .

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There is delight in singing, tho' none hear (To Robert Browning)
Well I remember how you smiled

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LINDSAY, LADY ANNE (AFTERWARDS BARNARD) (1750-1825)
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame (Auld
Robin Gray).

152

LODGE, THOMAS (1558 ?-1625)

Like to the clear in highest sphere (Rosaline)

LOGAN, JOHN (1748-1788)

Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream (The Braes of
Yarrow)

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Beside the ungathered rice he lay (The Slave's Dream)
Come to me, Ŏ ye children (Children).

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This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling (The Arsenal at
Springfield)

338

LOVELACE, RICHARD (1618-1658)

If to be absent were to be (To Lucasta, on going beyond the
Seas)

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind (To Lucasta, on going to the
Wars)

When Love with unconfinéd wings (Tc Althea from Prison):
LYLYE, JOHN (1554 ?-1606)

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd (Cupid and Campaspe).

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD (1800-1859)

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Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the North
(The Battle of Naseby)

324

To my true king I offered free from stain (A Jacobite's
Epitaph)

323

MACKAY, CHARLES (1814-1889)

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might (Tubal Cain).

398

MAHONEY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (FATHER PROUT) (1804-1866)
With deep affection (The Shandon Bells)

331

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593)

Come live with me and be my love (The Passionate Shepherd to
his Love)

MARVELL, ANDREW (1621-1678)

How vainly men themselves amaze (Thoughts in a Garden).
The forward youth that would appear (Horatian Ode upon
Cromwell's return from Ireland)

Where the remote Bermudas ride (Song of the Emigrants in
Bermuda)

MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS (1735-1788)

And are ye sure the news is true (The Sailor's Wife)
MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674)

Avenge, O Lord! Thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones (On the
late Massacre in Piemont)

51

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy (At a Solemn
Music).

104

Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in arms (When the Assault was
intended to the City)

Cyriack, whose grandsire, on the royal bench (To Cyriack
Skinner)

Daughter to that good Earl, once President (To the Lady
Margaret Ley)

Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son (To Mr. Lawrence).

When I consider how my light is spent (On his Blindness)
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more (Lycidas).

This is the month, and this the happy morn (Ode on the Morn-
ing of Christ's Nativity)