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From Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889), where it appears without the preliminary inscription.

38. save haply one: I would conjecture that Swinburne means Blake, whose Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) contain some wonderful lines about children, which might well have found a place in the Golden Treasury. Palgrave's omission of Blake is as remarkable as his inclusion of John Collins and Rogers.

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69. pass on pass reach: attain to summit after summit.'

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ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-81) was engaged at the British Museum, first in the literary, and afterwards in the natural history department. He wrote four volumes of poems, of which Music and Moonlight, from which the following 'Ode' is taken, appeared in 1874.

1. We the poets.

22. the old . . the new: i.e. the Past and the Future.

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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903), poet, editor, and critic, collaborated with Stevenson in writing three plays, and published several volumes of verse. These splendid lines, written in 1875, when he had lain for months in Edinburgh Infirmary, were printed in his first work, A Book of Verses (1888). In a later edition they are headed ' I.M. [in memoriam] R. T. HamiltonBruce (1846-99).'

INDEX OF WRITERS

WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH, FIRST LINES
OF THE POEMS, AND TITLES

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, EARL OF STERLINE (1567 ?-
1640)

O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm (To
Aurora)

ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)

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15

A wanderer is man from his birth (The Future)
Coldly, sadly descends (Rugby Chapel)
Come, dear children, let us away (The Forsaken

423

435

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413

Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill (The
Scholar Gipsy)

427

Hark! ah, the nightingale (Philomela)

425

In the deserted moon-blanch'd street (4 Summer
Night).

419

Others abide our question-Thou art free (Shake-
speare)

419

Strew on her roses, roses (Requiescat)

Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts (The

Song of Callicles on Etna)

We cannot kindle when we will (Morality)
AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE (1813-1865)

Come hither, Evan Cameron (The Execution of
Montrose)

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426

417

422

391

BACON, FRANCIS, LORD VERULAM (1561-1626)
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man (Life)

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Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce (The Wife
A-lost)

328

The primrwose in the sheäde do blow (Blackmwore

Maidens)

BARNFIELD, RICHARD (1574-1627)

As it fell upon a day (The Nightingale)

326

21

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1584-1616)

Mortality, behold and fear (On the Tombs in West-
minster Abbey)

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806-1861)

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How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
What can I give thee back, O liberal

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336

335

334

334

What was he doing, the great god Pan (A Musical
Instrument)

336

Yet love, mere love, is beautiful indeed

335

BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889)

Escape me? (Life in a Love)

377

Fear death ?to feel the fog in my throat (Pro-
spice)

390

Give her but a least excuse to love me
Grow old along with me (Rabbi Ben Ezra).

373

384

Just for a handful of silver he left us (The Lost
Leader)

Let's contend no more, Love (A Woman's Last
Word)

373

376

Let us begin and carry up this corpse (4 Gram-
marian's Funeral)

378

Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West
died away (Home-Thoughts, from the Sea)
Oh, to be in England now that April's there
(Home-Thoughts, from Abroad)

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 (1794-1878)

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)

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

156

O my Luve's like a red, red rose

149

O saw ye bonnie Lesley (Bonnie Lesley)

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Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie (To à
Mouse)

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD (1788-1824)
And thou art dead, as young and fair (Elegy on
Thyrza)

The lovely lass o' Inverness (Lament for Culloden)
Ye banks and braes and streams around (Highland
Mary).

149

119

151

131 X

141

199

O snatch'd away in beauty's bloom (Elegy)

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind (On the Castle
of Chillon)

209

233

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

173

She walks in beauty, like the night
There be none of Beauty's daughters

177

176

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

takes away (Youth and Age)

When we two parted

CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777-1844)

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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)

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190

182

197

187

205

How delicious is the winning (Freedom and Love) 184
Of Nelson and the North (Battle of the Baltic)
On Linden, when the sun was low (Hohenlinden)
Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had
lower'd (The Soldier's Dream)

212

276

Star that bringest home the bee (To the Evening

273

The more we live, more brief appear (The River of

307

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When first the fiery-mantled Sun (Ode to Winter) 262
Ye Mariners of England

CAMPION, THOMAS (-1619)

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

CAREW, THOMAS (1598 ?-1639 ?)

He that loves a rosy cheek (The True Beauty)

CAREY, HENRY (1693 ?-1743)

Of all the girls that are so smart (Sally in our
Alley).

CIBBER, COLLEY (1671–1757)

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O say what is that thing call'd Light (The Blind
Boy)

111

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861)

As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay (Qua cursum
ventus)

399

Say not, the struggle naught availeth'
Where lies the land to which the ship would

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights (Love)
Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying (Youth and

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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)

119

If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song (To Evening) 143
When Music, heavenly maid, was young (The

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CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)

Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly (Diaphenia)

CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892)

Somewhere beneath the sun (Amaturus)

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