MOORE, THOMAS (1779-1852)

As slow our ship her foamy track (The Journey Onwards)
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly .
How sweet the answer Echo makes (Echoes)
Oft in the stilly night (The Light of Other Days)
When he who adores thee has left but the name (Pro patria
mori)

MORRIS, WILLIAM (1834-1896)

Had she come all the way for this (The Haystack in the Floods)
There were four of us about that bed (Shameful Death).
You must be very old, Sir Giles (Old Love) .

NAIRN, CAROLINA, LADY (1766-1845)

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I'm wearing awa', Jean (The Land o' the Leal).

NASH, THOMAS (1567-1601)

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant King (Spring)
NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (AFTERWARDS LADY STIR-
LING-MAXWELL) (1808-1877)

I do not love thee !-no! I do not love thee! .

O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR (1844-1881)
We are the music-makers (Ode).

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PATMORE, COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON (1823-1896)

Why, having won her, do I woo (The Married Lover) .
PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE (1785-1866)

I dug, beneath the cypress shade (The Grave of Love)
Seamen three! What men be ye (Three Men of Gotham)
The mountain sheep are sweeter (The War Song of Dinas Vawr)

PHILIPS, AMBROSE (1675 ?-1749)

Timely blossom, Infant fair (To Charlotte Pulteney)

Happy the man whose wish and care (The Quiet Life) .

Sleep on, and dream of Heaven awhile (The Sleeping Beauty) 129

ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA (1830-1894)

Does the road wind up-hill all the way (Up-Hill)

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My heart is like a singing bird (A Birthday) .

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O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes (Rest)

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Oh roses for the flush of youth (Song).

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Remember me when I am gone away (Remember)

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When I am dead, my dearest (Song)

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ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)

The blesséd Damozel leaned out (The Blessed Damozel).

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SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832)

A weary lot is thine, fair maid (The Rover)

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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh (A Serenade)

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He is gone on the mountain (Coronach)

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O Brignall banks are wild and fair (The Outlaw).

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O listen, listen, ladies gay (Rosabelle).

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O lovers' eyes are sharp to see (The Maid of Neidpath)

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Pibroch of Donuil Dhu (Gathering Song of Donald the Black) 202

SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832) (continued)

Proud Maisie is in the wood (The Pride of Youth).

The sun upon the lake is low (Datur Hora Quieti).

Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright (To a Lock of Hair)

Waken, lords and ladies gay (Hunting Song)

Where shall the lover rest

Why weep ye by the tide, ladie (Jock o' Hazeldean)

SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES (1639 ?–1701)

Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit (Child and Maiden)

Not, Celia, that I juster am

SEWELL, GEORGE (—— 1726)

Why, Damon, with the forward day (The Dying Man in his
Garden)

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Being your slave, what should I do but tend (Absence).
Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Come away, come away, Death (Dirge of Love)

Crabbed Age and Youth (4 Madrigal)

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Fidele)

Full fathom five thy father lies (A Sea Dirge)

How like a winter hath my absence been

If thou survive my well-contented day (Post Mortem)
It was a lover and his lass.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds (True Love).
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Revolu
tions)

No longer mourn for me when I am dead (The Triumph of
Death)

O me! what eyes hath love put in my head (Blind Love)
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming (Carpe Diem)
O never say that I was false of heart (The Unchangeable)
On a day, alack the day (Love's Perjuries).

Poor Soul, the centre of my sinful earth (Soul and Body)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (To His Love).
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Time and
Love)

Take, O take those lips away (A Madrigal).

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That time of year thou may'st in me behold

They that have power to hurt, and will do none (The Life
without Passion)

Tell me where is Fancy bred (Madrigal)

Tired with all these, for restful death i cry (The World's Way)
To me, fair Friend, you never can be old
Under the greenwood tree

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced (Time and Love)
When icicles hang by the wall (Winter)

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (A Consolation)
When in the chronicle of wasted time (To His Love)
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Remembrance)

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792-1822)

A widow bird sate mourning for her Love.

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Ariel to Miranda :- Take (To a Lady, with a Guitar).

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Art thou pale for weariness (To the Moon)

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Best and brightest, come away (The Invitation).
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit (To a Skylark)

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I arise from dreams of Thee (Lines to an Indian air)

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I dream'd that as I wander'd by the way (A Dream of the
Unknown)

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden.

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met a traveller from an antique land (Ozymandias of Egypt) 251
Life of Life! Thy lips enkindle (Hymn to the Spirit of

Nature)

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Many a green isle needs must be (Written in the Euganean

Music, when soft voices die

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Now the last day of many days (The Recollection).

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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being (Ode to the
West Wind)

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O World! O Life! O Time! (A Lament)

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On a Poet's lips I slept (The Poet's Dream).

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One word is too often profaned.

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Rarely, rarely, comest thou (Invocation)

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Swiftly walk over the western wave (To the Night)

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The fountains mingle with the river (Love's Philosophy)

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SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

The sun is warm, the sky is clear (Stanzas written in dejection
near Naples)

When the lamp is shatter'd (The Flight of Love).

SHIRLEY, JAMES (1596–1666)

The glories of our blood and state (Death the Leveller)
Victorious men of earth, no more (The Last Conqueror).

SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP (1554-1586)

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his (A Ditty) .

SMITH, ALEXANDER (1830-1867)

On the Sabbath-day (Barbara)

It was a summer evening (After Blenheim)

My days among the Dead are passed (The Scholar)

SPENSER, EDMUND (1552 ?-1599)

Calm was the day, and through the trembling air (Prothala-
mion)

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Why so pale and wan, fond lover (Encouragements to a Lover)
SYLVESTER, JOSHUA (1563–1618)

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Were I as base as is the lowly plain (Love's Omnipresence)

Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height

Come into the garden, Maud

Deep on the convent-roof the snows (St. Agnes' Eve)

In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours.

My good blade carves the casques of men (Sir Galahad)

I come from haunts of coot and hern (The Brook)

It is the miller's daughter (The Miller's Daughter)

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky (In Memoriam)
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean
The splendour falls on castle walls

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THOMSON, JAMES (1700-1748)

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove

When Britain first at Heaven's command (Rule, Britannia). 114

THOMSON, JAMES (1834-1882)

As we rush, as we rush in the train

TONIE, THE SHEPHERD (? ANTHONY MUNDAY: 1553-1633)
Beauty sat bathing by a spring (Colin)

VAUGHAN, HENRY (1622-1695)

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Happy those early days, when I (The Retreat)
VERE, EDWARD, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604)

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If women could be fair, and yet not fond (A Renunciation)

WALLER, EDMUND (1606-1687)

Go, lovely Rose

That which her slender waist confined (On a Girdle).
WEBSTER, JOHN (1580 ?-1625)

Call for the robin redbreast and the wren (A Land Dirge)

WHITMAN, WALT (1819-1892)

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done

WITHER, GEORGE (1588-1667)

Shall I, wasting in despair (The Manly Heart)

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A slumber did my spirit seal

WOLFE, CHARLES (1791-1823)

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note (The Burial of
Sir John Moore at Corunna)

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850)

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by (To Sleep)

And is this-Yarrow? This the Stream (Yarrow Visited)

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At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears (The
Reverie of Poor Susan)

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Behold her, single in the field (The Reaper)

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I wander'd lonely as a cloud (The Daffodils)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways (The Lost Love).

She was a phantom of delight

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God (Ode to Duty)

Surprised by joy-impatient as the wind (Desideria)

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed (The Green Linnet)
Degenerate Douglas! O the unworthy lord (Composed at Neid-
path Castle, the property of Lord Queensberry, 1803)
Earth has not anything to show more fair (Upon Westminster
Bridge).

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky (To the Skylark).
From Stirling Castle we had seen (Yarrow Unvisited)

I heard a thousand blended notes (Written in Early Spring)
I travell'd among unknown men

I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile (Nature and the Poet)
In the sweet shire of Cardigan (Simon Lee the old Huntsman)
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free (By the Sea).
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour (London, 1802)
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes (The Inner Vision)
My heart leaps up when I behold

O blithe new-comer! I have heard (To the Cuckoo)

O Friend! I know not which way I must look (London, 1802)
Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee (On the Extinction
of the Venetian Republic)

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Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense (Within King's

Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower (To the Highland Girl of
Inversneyde).

College Chapel, Cambridge)

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The World is too much with us; late and soon.
There is a flower, the Lesser Celandine (A Lesson).
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (Ode on
Intimations of Immortality).

Three years she grew in sun and shower (The Education of
Nature)

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Two Voices are there, one is of the Sea (England and Switzer-
land, 1802)

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We talk'd with open heart, and tongue (The Fountain)
We walk'd along, while bright and red (The Two April
Mornings)

When I have borne in memory what has tamed.
When Ruth was left half desolate (Ruth)

Where art thou, my beloved Son (The Affliction of Margaret)
Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant (To a Distant Friend)
With little here to do or see (To the Daisy)

Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye (Admonition to a
Traveller)

WOTTON, SIR HENRY (1568-1639)

How happy is he born and taught (Character of a Happy Life)
You meaner beauties of the night (Elizabeth of Bohemia)

WYAT, SIR THOMAS (1503 ?-1542)

And wilt thou leave me thus (The Lover's Appeal)
Forget not yet the tried intent (4 Supplication).

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Absence, hear thou my protestation (Present in Absence)

As I was walking all alane (The Twa Corbies)

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Down in yon garden sweet and gay (Willy Drowned in Yarrow) 122

I wish I were where Helen lies (Fair Helen)

Love not me for comely grace

O waly waly up the bank (The Forsaken Bride)

My Love in her attire doth shew her wit

Over the mountains (The Great Adventurer).

There is a garden in her face (Cherry-ripe)

While that the sun with his beams hot (The Unfaithful
Shepherdess).

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