The Golden Treasury

Second Series

GOLDEN

THE

TREASURY

SELECTED FROM THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL
POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

AND ARRANGED WITH NOTES

BY

FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE

LATE PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

First Edition, October, 1897. Reprinted twice, November, 1897. Reprinted twice, 1898, 1900, 1902.

TO THE MEMORY OF

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

BY WHOM THE FIRST SERIES

OF THE GOLDEN TREASURY WAS

KINDLY SUPERVISED

AND IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS

INVARIABLY FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP AND COUNSEL

THROUGH FORTY YEARS AND MORE

THIS BOOK

IS SADLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED