claim to its title than it does possess, slight as that may be. My thanks are also due to the following gentlemen who have kindly allowed me to reproduce copyright texts of non-copyright poems from editions published by them: Messrs. Bickers & Son (Ben Jonson), Messrs. Chapman & Hall, Ltd. (Landor), Messrs. Chatto & Windus (Herrick), Mr. Buxton Forman (Keats and Shelley), Mr. Henry Frowde (Wordsworth), Mr. Alex. Gardner and the Rev. George Henderson, B.D. (Lady Nairne), Messrs. T. C. & E. C. Jack (Burns), Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. (Clough and Tennyson), Mr. John Murray (Byron), Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. (Browning) Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd. (Coleridge and Hood).

A. L. G.

CONTENTS.

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ANONYMOUS.

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I. Madrigal

ARNOLD (1822–1888).

2. The Forsaken Merman

BARBAULD (1743–1825).

3. Life.

BROWNING (1812–1889).

4. Song from“ Pippa Passes

5. Song from “ Pippa Passes"

6. The Lost Mistress

7. Home-Thoughts, from the Sea

8. Epilogue

BURNS (1759-1796).

9. The Silver Tassie

10. Of a' the Airts

11. John Anderson my Jo

12. Ae Fond Kiss

13. Ye Flowery Banks

14. A Red, Red Rose

15. Mary Morison

BYRON (1788–1824).

16. She Walks in Beauty

17. Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom

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BYRON - continued.

18. Song from “The Corsair"

19. Song from “Don Juan"

CAMPBELL (1777-1844).

20. Hohenlinden

CLOUGH (1819-1861).

21. Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth

COLERIDGE (1772–1834).

22. Youth and Age .

COLLINS (1721-1759).

23. Written in the Year 1746.

COWPER (1731–1800).

24. To a Young Lady

CUNNINGHAM (1784-1842).

25. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

DAVENANT (1606–1668).

26. Song.

DRYDEN (1631-1700).

27. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

GOLDSMITH (1728–1774).

28. Song:

GRAY (1716-1771).

29. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard

HENLEY (1849–1903).

30. To R. T. H. B..

31. I. M. Margaritæ Sorori

HERBERT (1593–1632).

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HERRICK (1591-1674).

33. To the Virgins, to make much of Time

34. To Anthea, who may command him anything

HOOD (1798-1845).

35. The Death Bed .

36. The Bridge of Sighs

37. I Remember, I Remember.

JONSON (1573-1637).

38. To Celia

KEATS (1795–1821).

39. On first looking into Chapman's Homer

40. Ode to a Nightingale .

41. Ode on a Grecian Urn

42. To Autumn

43. Ode on Melancholy

44. La Belle Dame sans Merci

45. Sonnet

LAMB (1775-1834).

46. The Old Familiar Faces

LANDOR (1775–1864).

47. The Maid's Lament

LOVELACE (1618–1658).

48. To Lucasta. Going to the Wars

MILTON (1608-1674).

49. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

50. L'Allegro

51. Il Penseroso

52. Lycidas

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