The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, 1. köideBurton Egbert Stevenson Holt, 1953 - 4013 pages 2 volume collection of the best brief poems in the English language from Spenser to the present. |
Contents
THE BABY | 3 |
JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN | 7 |
Shadows | 10 |
William Cox Bennett | 11 |
Edith | 14 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne | 17 |
May Byron | 21 |
Gerald Massey | 27 |
His WindingSheet | 884 |
Song Oh that we two were May | 886 |
Song I saw the days white rap | 892 |
The Lonely Road | 893 |
Venice John Addington Symonds 2619 | 895 |
Rococo | 900 |
Love Time and Death | 905 |
Proem | 909 |
The Blue Bells of Scotland | 28 |
Jack and Jill | 39 |
Robin Redbreast | 45 |
Old Mother Hubbard Unknown | 51 |
The Moon Eliza Lee Follen | 57 |
Proverbs Unknown | 64 |
The RazorSeller | 66 |
When the Sleepy Man Comes Charles G D Roberts | 70 |
Mothers Song Unknown | 77 |
The Friar of Orders Gray Thomas Percy 2710 | 82 |
Lullaby O Lullaby William Cox Bennett | 83 |
A Ballad of Sir John Franklin | 84 |
To Sleep | 87 |
Minnie and Winnie Alfred Tennyson | 92 |
My Ain Countree | 95 |
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN | 98 |
Home | 101 |
Unknown | 104 |
Meddlesome Matty | 110 |
PAGE | 115 |
Heinrich Hoffman | 123 |
The Worlds Music Gabriel Setoun | 127 |
The Wind and the Moon George Macdonald | 133 |
The Night | 134 |
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant | 139 |
The Crickets Story Emma Huntington Nason | 145 |
HOME AND FATHERLAND | 147 |
A Court Lady Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3315 | 149 |
In Memoriam | 150 |
Nurses Song William Blake | 151 |
The Blind Boy Colley Cibber | 157 |
Envoy | 158 |
My Bed is a Boat Robert Louis Stevenson | 161 |
The Man in the Moon James Whitcomb Riley | 168 |
Holy Thursday William Blake | 174 |
A Parable George Macdonald | 180 |
Holy Matrimony | 182 |
The Babes in the Wood Unknown | 185 |
A Marriage Charm | 187 |
Gods Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Robert Southey | 189 |
In the Lilacrain | 196 |
The Well of St Keyne | 199 |
THE GLAD EVANGEL | 201 |
The Angels William Drummond | 207 |
Stupidity Street | 210 |
The House of Christmas Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 213 |
A Childs Song of Christmas Marjorie L C Pickthall | 219 |
In Memoriam | 223 |
PART VII | 226 |
FAIRYLAND | 231 |
The Noble Nature | 234 |
The Rustic at the Play | 235 |
Fairy Song John Keats | 237 |
The Reveille | 242 |
The Fairy Thrall Mary C G Byron | 243 |
Mans Days | 244 |
The Visitor Patrick R Chalmers | 247 |
Laus Infantium William Canton | 253 |
A Childs Laughter Algernon Charles Swinburne | 254 |
The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whittier | 261 |
The High Tide at Gettysburg | 263 |
June from The Vision of Sir Laun | 265 |
To a Little Girl Helen Parry Eden | 267 |
A Little While | 270 |
To Charlotte Pulteney Ambrose Philips | 273 |
Sweet and Sour | 277 |
Envoy | 278 |
The Childs Heritage John G Neihardt | 279 |
Song Stay stay at home my heart | 287 |
The ShadowChild Harriet Monroe | 288 |
Mannahatta Walt Whitman 2568 | 289 |
Daybreak | 291 |
A Song of Sherwood Alfred Noyes 2591 | 295 |
Were Dead Coventry Patmore | 296 |
How We Learn | 299 |
Edmund Clarence Stedman | 300 |
The Little Ghost Katherine Tynan | 302 |
Love | 307 |
For Charlies Sake John Williamson Palmer | 310 |
James Russell Lowell | 315 |
We Are Seven William Wordsworth | 318 |
IN THE SHADOW | 322 |
Sonnets from Mimma Bella | 323 |
To Mistress Margaret Hussey | 329 |
Thomas Hood | 333 |
William Barnes | 337 |
Francis Thompson | 343 |
The Chambered Nautilus | 347 |
The Dance of Death | 348 |
Nathaniel Parker Willis | 349 |
Todlin Hame Unknown 2009 | 352 |
What is Good | 353 |
Walter Savage Landor | 354 |
The Quest | 357 |
Peace to the Slumberers | 359 |
Andrew Lang | 363 |
FACING THE SUNSET | 367 |
The Pulley | 370 |
Ode on the Intimations of Immortal | 371 |
Duna | 373 |
THE WOMAN | 377 |
Hartley Coleridge | 382 |
Preludes from The Angel in | 384 |
From Life Brian Hooker | 390 |
Prayer | 391 |
Sentence | 393 |
We Need not Bid for Cloistered | 394 |
Mother Theresa Helburn | 396 |
The Crowing of the Red Cock | 399 |
Song When daisies pied and violets | 401 |
Tomorrow John Collins | 402 |
Long Time a Child Hartley Coleridge | 408 |
The Quiet Life | 409 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 411 |
Human Life Aubrey Thomas de Vere | 416 |
Forty Years On Edward Ernest Bowen | 421 |
Ernest Dowson | 422 |
Out of Hearing | 427 |
Leisure | 429 |
Auspex James Russell Lowell | 433 |
PAGE | 438 |
Carcassonne John R Thompson | 440 |
Oh Breathe Not His Name Thomas Moore 3609 | 443 |
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 144 | 446 |
An Immorality Ezra Pound | 452 |
A Friend | 453 |
A Hymn to God the Father John Donne 3759 | 457 |
Threescore and Ten Richard Henry Stoddard | 458 |
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns | 464 |
On a Tear Samuel Rogers 3380 | 466 |
Forty Years Ago Unknown | 470 |
John Anderson My | 471 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 474 |
The | 475 |
Loves Emblems | 482 |
Cupid Stung | 488 |
The Widow Allan Ramsay 2020 | 489 |
William Thom | 494 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne | 500 |
C Pickthall 3241 | 501 |
Lincoln the Man of the People Edwin Markham 3639 | 504 |
Comrades | 506 |
Song of Eros from Agathon | 507 |
Dewey at Manila | 508 |
The Starry Host | 511 |
Child Child Sara Teasdale | 512 |
IN PRAISE OF | 518 |
Song Because the rose must fade | 519 |
Arethusa | 521 |
CherryRipe Thomas Campion | 524 |
The Captain Stood on | 526 |
Song Ask me no more where Jove | 530 |
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph | 531 |
The Fair Thief Charles Wyndham | 536 |
Amoret Mark Akenside | 537 |
William Goldsmith Brown 3244 | 540 |
Rondeau Redoublé John Payne | 542 |
My Love Shes but a Lassie yet James Hogg | 543 |
Song She is not fair to outward | 548 |
The MinstrelBoy | 549 |
The Henchman | 552 |
Lovely Mary Donnelly | 554 |
Heredity | 559 |
Ursula | 561 |
In February | 568 |
The Daughter of Mendoza | 569 |
Jaffar | 574 |
Trumbull Stickney | 575 |
On the Portrait of Shakespeare Ben Jonson 3652 | 578 |
Irene Rutherford McLeod | 581 |
Praise | 582 |
The Battle of Otterburn Unknown 2356 | 587 |
To Lesbia | 588 |
Love me or Not | 589 |
Song O do not wanton with those | 592 |
Mediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew | 598 |
To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace | 605 |
Love and Life John Wilmot | 611 |
Song Too late alas I must con | 612 |
Gifts James Thomson | 617 |
Amynta Gilbert Elliot | 618 |
Alice Furlong | 624 |
On Melancholy John Keats 3349 | 628 |
Faithless Sally Brown | 630 |
Charles Swain | 631 |
Song Youll love me yet and I | 637 |
Shakespeare Matthew Arnold 3653 | 640 |
A Ballad of Heroes | 642 |
A LeaveTaking | 645 |
Life Anna Letitia Barbauld 3491 | 655 |
Rus in Urbe | 656 |
Some Day of Days | 658 |
Amantium Iræ | 660 |
Wild Wishes Ethel M Hewitt | 664 |
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard | 670 |
Heart of my Heart Unknown | 676 |
MY LADYS LIPS | 682 |
The Common Street | 684 |
William Cowper | 685 |
Opportunity | 687 |
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden Percy Bysshe Shelley | 688 |
A Tocatta of Galuppis | 689 |
A Ballad of Orleans A Mary F Robinson 2364 | 693 |
AT HER WINDOW | 694 |
Mary Morison | 697 |
Robinson Crusoe | 701 |
The Rainy Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3350 | 702 |
Come into the Garden Maud | 706 |
A Turkish Legend | 711 |
Serenade | 712 |
Sesostris | 724 |
When Molly Smiles | 725 |
Kubla Khan | 726 |
Multum Dilexit Hartley Coleridge 3387 | 732 |
Wouldnt You Like to Know John Godfrey Saxe | 734 |
A Primrose Dame Gleeson While | 740 |
Wooed and Married and A Alexander Ross | 746 |
Rory OMore or Good Omens Samuel Lover | 753 |
Allan Cunningham | 754 |
The Ould Plaid Shawl Francis A Fahy | 759 |
To Chloe Jealous Matthew Prior | 766 |
O Merry may the Maid be John Clerk | 772 |
A Lament for Flodden Jane Elliot 2368 | 774 |
The LowBacked Car Samuel Lover | 778 |
Memorabilia Robert Browning 3657 | 782 |
Lochinvar Walter Scott | 786 |
Because Edward Fitzgerald | 790 |
Toujours Amour Edmund Clarence Stedman | 793 |
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont John Milton 2404 | 794 |
Riding Down Nora Perry | 799 |
Corrymcela Moira ONeill 2604 | 801 |
The House by the Side of the Road Sam Walter Foss | 802 |
Yes? Henry Cuyler Bunner | 805 |
Song Follow a shadow it still flies | 811 |
Disdain Returned Thomas Carew | 817 |
Song Love in fantastic triumph | 824 |
Song of Thyrsis Philip Freneau | 830 |
The Little Waves of Breffny Eva GoreBooth 2605 | 834 |
Sorrows of Werther | 838 |
Scum o the Earth | 841 |
The Mystics Prayer | 842 |
My Last Duchess | 846 |
Little and Great | 850 |
Oh Mother of a Mighty Race William Cullen Bryant 2203 | 851 |
Hebe | 852 |
The Night Court | 855 |
Two Lovers | 856 |
The Betrothed | 860 |
In After Days Austin Dobson 3502 | 862 |
Deaths Summons | 865 |
The Water Lady | 869 |
Time and Grief William Lisle Bowles 3352 | 873 |
A Womans Thought | 912 |
So Sweet Love Seemed | 918 |
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis François Villon 3837 | 920 |
When My Beloved Sleeping Lies Irene Rutherford McLeod | 924 |
THE PARTED LOVERS | 930 |
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going | 934 |
Lady Clara Vere de Vere Alfred Tennyson | 935 |
Song At setting day and rising | 940 |
My Bonnie Mary Robert Burns | 946 |
Stanzas | 948 |
When We Two Parted George Gordon Byron | 952 |
The Sealands Orrick Johns | 958 |
Solitude | 962 |
The Flowers Name Robert Browning | 964 |
Pain St John Lucas 3353 | 966 |
Divided Jean Ingelow | 971 |
Song Fair is the night and fair | 977 |
Kathleen Mavourneen Louisa Macartney Crawford | 979 |
The Parting Hour Olive Custance | 985 |
They Went Forth to Battle | 992 |
THE TRAGEDY OF LOVE | 1001 |
Cui Bono Thomas Carlyle 3377 | 1002 |
The Odyssey | 1006 |
Lost Light | 1010 |
Robert Louis Stevenson Lizette Woodworth Reese 3657 | 1014 |
The Pope He Leads a Happy Life Charles Lever | 1015 |
Shall not Care | 1017 |
Pyramus and Thisbe | 1026 |
Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley | 1040 |
Don Quixote Austin Dobson 2950 | 1046 |
Agatha Alfred Austin | 1047 |
The PassionFlower Margaret Fuller | 1054 |
LOVE AND DEATH | 1060 |
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley | 1067 |
The Raven | 1070 |
Lucy William Wordsworth | 1076 |
The Song of the Western Men Robert Stephen Hawker 2407 | 1077 |
Ruth Guthrie Harding | 1080 |
Oh Snatched away in Beautys | 1082 |
Battle of the Baltic Thomas Campbell 2441 | 1083 |
Next of | 1091 |
Vers la | 1095 |
Recompense | 1096 |
Love and Death | 1104 |
The Bells | 1105 |
Loves Resurrection | 1112 |
Be True | 1117 |
Requiescat | 1119 |
Homeric Unity | 1121 |
Today | 1124 |
Holy Holy Holy | 1125 |
After | 1127 |
The LotosEaters | 1128 |
Rain on a Grave | 1133 |
Dirge | 1139 |
The Little Red Ribbon | 1140 |
A Better Resurrection | 1141 |
The GoodMorrow John Donne | 1142 |
Song For me the jasmine buds | 1148 |
The Summer is Ended | 1149 |
Earl Mertouns Song Robert Browning | 1156 |
The Two Mysteries | 1157 |
Plighted Dinah Maria Mulock Craik | 1162 |
James Oppenheim | 1165 |
The GuardianAngel Robert Browning 2620 | 1166 |
When Death to Either shall Come Robert Bridges | 1168 |
The Celestial Surgeon | 1169 |
The Valley of Vain Verses | 1174 |
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1176 |
Prothalamion Edmund Spenser | 1183 |
Character of the Happy Warrior | 1192 |
The Kiss Sara Teasdale | 1194 |
Forever | 1195 |
Now and Afterwards | 1209 |
A Wifes Song | 1217 |
Bringing Our Sheaves | 1223 |
John Anderson | 1224 |
England My England William Ernest Henley 2239 | 1228 |
LOVE SONNETS | 1232 |
Sonnets from To Delia | 1239 |
Van Elsen | 1240 |
Enamored | 1243 |
Alexis Here She Stayed | 1252 |
Afterwards | 1260 |
A Man Called Dante I Have | 1261 |
The Pleasures of Love | 1262 |
He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed | 1277 |
False Poets and True | 1279 |
One Word More Robert Browning | 1284 |
Good Tidings of Great Joy | 1285 |
The World is too Much With Us William Wordsworth | 1292 |
A Hundred Years to Come | 1294 |
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 2960 | 1296 |
Great Nature is an Army Gay Richard Walson Gilder | 1298 |
There is a Pool on Garda Clinton Scollard 2623 | 1301 |
Patmos Edith M Thomas | 1304 |
The Hound of Heaven | 1309 |
Music of the Dawn Virginia Bioren Harrison | 1310 |
Take Heart | 1311 |
In the Cool of the Evening Alfred Noyes | 1316 |
Alfred Noyes | 1317 |
Song to the Evening Star Thomas Campbell | 1319 |
What of The Darkness? Richard Le Gallienne 3515 | 1321 |
Night John Addington Symonds | 1325 |
Eve Ralph Hodgson 2816 | 1329 |
A Song of the Seasons Cosmo Monkhouse | 1331 |
and fade | 1334 |
Spring Thomas Nashe | 1337 |
Dirge for a Soldier | 1338 |
Robert Burns | 1342 |
An Ode on the Spring Thomas Gray | 1343 |
March William Morris | 1351 |
Spinning in April Josephine Preston Peabody | 1357 |
Street and Flagg | 1360 |
Before a Statue of Achilles | 1362 |
A Spring Lilt Unknown | 1363 |
June Harrison Smith Morris | 1369 |
To Autumn John Keats | 1375 |
A Mighty Fortress is Our God | 1380 |
Autumn Emily Dickinson | 1381 |
The Frost Hannah Flagg Gould | 1387 |
Midwinter John Townsend Trowbridge | 1394 |
Each and All Ralph Waldo Emerson 2962 | 1399 |
Under the Leaves Albert Laighton | 1401 |
Heroes | 1406 |
Trees Joyce Kilmer | 1407 |
William Cowper | 1411 |
Of an Orchard Katherine Tynan | 1414 |
POEMS | 1416 |
The Cataract of Lodore | 1420 |
The Hills of Rest | 1423 |
He Standeth at the Door | 1425 |
Canadian BoatSong | 1426 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1433 |
A Lost Chord Adelaide Anne Procter 3398 | 1437 |
The Deserted Village | 1438 |
Summer Invocation | 1443 |
An Autumn Garden | 1452 |
The Progress of Poesy | 1460 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1461 |
One Gift I | 1462 |
Edwin Arnold | 1467 |
Wallace Rice | 1473 |
William Wordsworth | 1479 |
If Love were Jester at the Court | 1484 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1486 |
A Song the Grass Sings Charles G Blanden | 1488 |
The MorningGlory Florence Earle Coates | 1494 |
Song from The Devils Law Case John Webster 3517 | 1498 |
A Rose Richard Fanshawe | 1500 |
Helen Gray Cone | 1506 |
GODS CREATURES | 1507 |
Expostulation and Reply | 1510 |
The Snail William Cowper | 1514 |
The Blood Horse Bryan Waller Procter | 1520 |
The Blackbird Alfred Edward Housman | 1526 |
William Ernest Henley | 1527 |
My Catbird William Henry Venable | 1533 |
After the Martyrdom | 1543 |
To the Nightingale | 1548 |
An Epitaph Intended for Himself James Beattie 3518 | 1551 |
Song Tis sweet to hear the merry | 1554 |
Robin Redbreast | 1561 |
The Skylark | 1567 |
Itylus | 1573 |
A Song of Living | 1579 |
THE | 1584 |
The Destruction of Sennacherib | 1588 |
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 2966 | 1590 |
Hastings Mill C Fox Smith | 1591 |
In Our Boat Dinah Maria Mulock Craik | 1597 |
The Port o Hearts Desire John S McGroarty | 1604 |
Drifting Thomas Buchanan Read | 1612 |
At the Top of the Road | 1617 |
The Sea Richard Henry Stoddard | 1619 |
Compensation | 1624 |
The Sailor William Allingham | 1625 |
The Burial of Moses | 1626 |
The Last Buccaneer Thomas Babington Macaulay | 1632 |
William Shakespeare | 1636 |
The Old Squire Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | 1638 |
The Country Faith Norman Gale | 1644 |
The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn Robert Tannahill | 1652 |
The Tables Turned | 1657 |
WANDERLUST | 1667 |
The Song of the Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 2241 | 1679 |
Oliver Herford | 1684 |
Night for Adventures | 1701 |
Time to be Wise | 1709 |
Advice Walter Savage Landor | 1710 |
The Belle of the Ballroom Winthrop Mackworth Praed | 1718 |
A Ternerie of Littles upon a Pipkin | 1724 |
My Mistresss Boots Frederick LockerLampson | 1730 |
A Terrible Infant Frederick LockerLampson | 1736 |
Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1743 |
A MIND CONTENT | 1745 |
Thalia Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 1750 |
The EightDay Clock Alfred Cochrane | 1756 |
To a Pair of Egyptian Slippers Edwin Arnold | 1762 |
Clay Edward Verrall Lucas | 1768 |
The Ladies of St Jamess Austin Dobson | 1775 |
On a Fan Austin Dobson | 1781 |
A Ballade of Suicide Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1787 |
Chiffons | 1788 |
Chiffons William Samuel Johnson | 1789 |
Old King Cole Edwin Arlington Robinson | 1797 |
The Agnostics Creed | 1802 |
Evolution Langdon Smith | 1805 |
On the Flyleaf of a Book of | 1806 |
A Nice Correspondent Frederick LockerLampson | 1812 |
Frederick LockerLampson | 1813 |
Austin Dobson | 1819 |
Epitaph on a Hare | 1825 |
Boadicea | 1826 |
The Muses | 1828 |
Hold Patrick R Chalmers | 1834 |
THE BARB OF SATIRE | 1835 |
Prospice | 1837 |
Darius Green and his FlyingMachine John | 1839 |
The Debate in the Sennit James Russell Lowell | 1840 |
The Marquis of Carabas | 1843 |
Each in His Own Tongue | 1844 |
Jolly Jack William Makepeace Thack | 1848 |
Kaiser | 1849 |
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible | 1854 |
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor | 1855 |
Guy Wetmore Carryl | 1856 |
The Worlds | 1860 |
Evoe | 1861 |
All Saints Edmund Yates | 1869 |
Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn | 1871 |
The Chameleon James Merrick | 1875 |
The OwlCritic | 1880 |
The OwlCritic James Thomas Fields | 1881 |
The Vase | 1886 |
Hem and Haw Bliss Carman | 1887 |
Unknown | 1891 |
Man and the Ascidian | 1895 |
No Fault in Women Robert Herrick | 1901 |
The Lure | 1905 |
The Woman with the Serpents | 1908 |
A Bakers Duzzen uv Wize Sawz Edward Rowland Sill | 1915 |
PAGE | 1921 |
Father William Lewis Carroll | 1927 |
Not a Sou Had he Got Richard Harris Barham | 1933 |
The Jampot Rudyard Kipling | 1939 |
Two Limericks | 1941 |
Nephilidia Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1946 |
Nubia Bayard Taylor 2040 | 1948 |
The Poets at Tea Barry Pain | 1953 |
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