17. blind and stifled: hard to find and choked with weeds.' 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. 6 69. pass on pass reach: attain to summit after summit.' 396 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. 397 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 ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, EARL OF STERLINE (1567 ?- O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm (To ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888) PAGE 15 A wanderer is man from his birth (The Future) 423 435 Merman) 413 Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill (The 427 Hark! ah, the nightingale (Philomela) 425 In the deserted moon-blanch'd street (4 Summer 419 Others abide our question-Thou art free (Shake- 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) Come hither, Evan Cameron (The Execution of 426 417 422 391 BACON, FRANCIS, LORD VERULAM (1561-1626) Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce (The Wife 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- BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806-1861) How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways PAGE 60 336 335 334 334 What was he doing, the great god Pan (A Musical 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- 390 Give her but a least excuse to love me 373 384 Just for a handful of silver he left us (The Lost Let's contend no more, Love (A Woman's Last 373 376 Let us begin and carry up this corpse (4 Gram- 378 Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West The rain set early in to-night (Porphyria's Lover) This is a spray the Bird clung to (Misconceptions): Whither, midst falling dew (To a Waterfowl) BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796) Duncan Gray cam here to woo (Duncan Gray) O Mary, at thy window be (Mary Morison) 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) 150X Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie (To à BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD (1788-1824) The lovely lass o' Inverness (Lament for Culloden) 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 209 233 O talk not to me of a name great in story (All for 173 She walks in beauty, like the night 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) A Chieftain to the Highlands bound (Lord Ullin's Earl March look'd on his dying child (The Maid of Gem of the crimson-colour'd Even (To the Evening Star) PAGE 221 182 197 187 205 How delicious is the winning (Freedom and Love) 184 212 276 Star that bringest home the bee (To the Evening 273 The more we live, more brief appear (The River of 307 When first the fiery-mantled Sun (Ode to Winter) 262 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 CIBBER, COLLEY (1671–1757) O say what is that thing call'd Light (The Blind 111 CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861) As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay (Qua cursum 399 Say not, the struggle naught availeth' All thoughts, all passions, all delights (Love) In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining 167 COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721-1759) How sleep the Brave who sink to rest (Ode written 119 If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song (To Evening) 143 CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613) Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly (Diaphenia) CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892) Somewhere beneath the sun (Amaturus) |