The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Volume 1

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Henry Holt & Company, 1959 - 4013 pages

Contents

The Human Seasons John Keats
2
JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN
7
To a NewBorn Baby Girl Grace Hazard Conkling
9
Cosmo Monkhouse
10
Weighing the Baby Ethel Lynn Beers
15
Paradise
17
On Parent Knees William Jones
21
The Indian Buryingground
25
Venice John Addington Symonds 2619
895
Philip Bourke Marston
899
Song We break the glass
905
Eurydice
911
HOME AND FATHERLAND
915
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis François Villon 3837
920
The Arrow and the Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2923
922
Ashes of Roses
923

Into the World and Out Sarah M P Piatt
27
In the Lilacrain
28
Jack and Jill Unknown
39
Robin Redbreast Unknown
45
Old Mother Hubbard Unknown
51
The Moon Eliza Lee Follen
57
Proverbs Unknown
64
The RazorSeller
66
The City of the Dead
68
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
Gradatim
86
MotherSong from Prince Lucifer Alfred Austin
90
BedTime Song
92
My Ain Countree
95
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN
98
Home
101
Unknown
104
The Bird Let Loose in Eastern
110
Contented John
111
PAGE
115
Buttercups and Daisies
117
The Story of Little SuckAThumb
123
The Worlds Music Gabriel Setoun
127
Early Death
130
The Wind and the Moon George Macdonald
133
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant
139
The Crickets Story Emma Huntington Nason
145
Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight Rose Hartwick Thorpe
149
Nurses Song William Blake
151
The Blind Boy Colley Cibber
157
The Argument of His book Robert Herrick 3105
158
Friends Edward Verrall Lucas 3000
162
The Building of the Nest Margaret Sangster
163
Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley
169
The Two Villages
174
A Story for a Child Bayard Taylor
175
The Courtship Merry Marriage
181
Holy Matrimony
182
The Babes in the Wood Unknown
185
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning
192
The Well of St Keyne
199
THE GLAD EVANGEL
201
The Angels William Drummond
207
Landscapes
210
Integer Vitæ Thomas Campion 2012
212
The House of Christmas Gilbert Keith Chesterton
213
The Battle of Otterburn
215
A Childs Song of Christmas Marjorie L C Pickthall
219
PART VII
226
FAIRYLAND
231
Melancholy
236
Fairy Song John Keals
237
A Requiem
241
The Reveille
242
The Fairy Thrall Mary C G Byron
243
The Satyrs and the Moon Herbert S Gorman
249
A Childs Laughter Algernon Charles Swinburne
254
Moan Moan Ye Dying Gales
255
The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whittier
261
June from The Vision of Sir Laun
265
To a Little Girl Helen Parry Eden
267
To Charlotte Pulteney Ambrose Philips
273
Time and Grief
275
Soldier Rest thy Warfare Oer Walter Scott 2301
278
The Childs Heritage John G Neihardt
279
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
Columbus
298
How We Learn
299
The Little Ghost Katherine Tynan
302
Love
307
For Charlies Sake John Williamson Palmer
310
We Are Seven William Wordsworth
318
Sonnets from Mimma Bella Eugene LeeHamilton
323
On Her Coming To London Edmund Waller
330
Misadventures at Margate
332
Blackmwore Maidens William Barnes
336
Daisy Francis Thompson
343
The Dance of Death
348
Ah Be Not False Richard Watson Gilder
349
Todlin Hame Unknown 2009
352
I Strove with None Walter Savage Landor 3491
354
Stanzas for Music George Gordon Byron
355
TomaBedlams Poem Unknown 3142
359
Growing Gray Austin Dobson
361
Leavetaking William Watson
367
The Collar
370
Ode on the Intimations of Immortal
371
THE WOMAN
377
She Walks in Beauty George Gordon Byron
383
Our Sister Horatio Nelson Powers
389
Prayer
391
A Child My Choice Robert Southwell 3747
394
The Shrine Digby Mackworth Dolben
395
A Farewell
399
Song When daisies pied and violets
401
Tomorrow John Collins
402
The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2916
405
Long Time a Child Hartley Coleridge
408
The Quiet Life
409
Human Life Aubrey Thomas de Vere
416
Forty Years
421
Jean Ingelow
433
PAGE
438
His Pilgrimage
441
Arethusa Percy Bysshe Shelley 1418
443
Faithless Nelly Gray
444
Voice of the Western Wind
446
Fuzzywuzzy
447
The Old Familiar Faces
453
Alone by the Hearth
460
Oliver Wendell Holmes
462
The Bucket
466
Brook
471
Break Break Break
472
Ralph Waldo Emerson
474
Loves Emblems
482
Cupid Stung
488
The Widow Allan Ramsay 2020
489
William Thom
494
Spirit of Sadness
496
Ralph Waldo Emerson
504
Gone Mary E Coleridge 3005
506
Richard Le Gallienne
510
The Starry Host
511
A Song of Fleet Street Alice Werner 2597
512
Epilogue from Emblems of Love Lascelles Abercrombie
513
Edith William Ellery Channing 3217
517
SONGS OF PRAISE
518
Silvia William Shakespeare
519
Elizabeth of Bohemia Henry Wollon
525
His WindingSheet
529
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph
531
The Lay of the Levite William Edmonstoune
534
Amoret Mark Akenside
537
Kyrielle John Payne 2840
542
My Love Shes but a Lassie yet James Hogg
543
Song She is not fair to outward
548
Israfel
551
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3160
552
John Greenleaf Whittier
554
Love Time and Death
560
George Meredith
561
Algernon Charles Swinburne
567
Ex Libris
570
Opportunity John James Ingalls 2921
571
Comrades Lionel Johnson 3006
574
Trumbull Stickney
575
On the Portrait of Shakespeare Ben Jonson 3652
578
Frederick LockerLampson 3554
579
After Two Years
581
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
Andrew Marvell
608
Song Too late alas I must con
612
Amynta Gilbert Elliot
618
Take back the Virgin Page
623
Jaffar Leigh Hunt 3013
625
Robert Stephen Hawker
631
Life in a Love
638
Shakespeare Matthew Arnold 3653
640
Bonnie Dundee
642
Arthur OShaughnessy
648
Francis Davis
654
Life Anna Letitia Barbauld 3491
655
Let Me Enjoy Thomas Hardy 2841
660
Wild Wishes Ethel M Hewitt
664
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard
670
Morte DArthur Alfred Tennyson 3181
675
Heart of my Heart Unknown
676
MY LADYS LIPS
682
Sleep John Fletcher 3220
683
The Destruction of Sennacherib George Gordon Byron 2327
685
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden Percy Bysshe Shelley
688
AT HER WINDOW
694
Row Gently Here Thomas Moore
700
Serenade Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
706
To William Sharp Clinton Scollard 3654
711
Serenade Oscar Wilde
713
To Chloris Charles Sedley
720
I Asked My Fair One Happy Day Samuel Taylor Coleridge
726
Where Be You Going You Devon
732
Wouldnt You Like to Know John Godfrey Saxe
734
James Russell Lowell
739
A Primrose Dame Gleeson While
740
Wooed and Married and A Alexander Ross
746
Rory OMore or Good Omens Samuel Lover
753
Charles Dawson Shanly
755
The Ould Plaid Shawl Francis A Fahy
759
To Chloe Jealous Matthew Prior
766
O Merry may the Maid be John Clerk
772
The LowBacked Car Samuel Lover
778
Memorabilia Robert Browning 3657
782
Lochinvar Walter Scott
786
At the Church Gate William Makepeace Thack
792
Toujours Amour Edmund Clarence Stedman
793
Edmund Clarence Stedman
794
Riding Down Nora Perry
799
Corrymcela Moira ONeill 2604
801
Yes? Henry Cuyler Bunner
805
Song Follow a shadow it still flies
811
Disdain Returned Thomas Carew
817
Song Love in fantastic triumph
824
The Battle of Blenheim
829
Song of Thyrsis Philip Freneau
830
The Little Waves of Breffny Eva GoreBooth 2605
834
Shadows Richard Moncklon Milnes
837
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
846
Homeric Unity
850
Oh Mother of a Mighty Race William Cullen Bryant 2203
851
Hebe James Russell Lowell
852
Two Lovers
856
Counsel Mary Evelyn Moore Davis 3014
859
Suburb Harold Monro
860
Rudyard Kipling
862
Unknown
863
Well go no More a Roving George Gordon Byron
866
A Place in Thy Memory Gerald Griffin
872
Youth and Art Robert Browning
880
Song Oh that we two were May
886
Nothing to Wear
891
Song I saw the days white rap
892
Rococo
893
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
When We Two Parted George Gordon Byron
952
The Sealands Orrick Johns
958
The Flowers Name Robert Browning
964
Divided Jean Ingelow
971
Song Fair is the night and fair
977
love Frederick William Thomas
983
A Song of Autumn Rennell Rodd
985
Forever and a Day Thomas Bailey Aldrich
992
Elizabeth Barrell Browning 3555
995
Richard Hovey
997
Marian Drury Bliss Carman
998
PreExistence Paul Hamilton Hayne 2857
999
Modern Beauty Arthur Symons
1004
Lost Light Elizabeth Akers
1010
When the Great Gray Ships Come in Guy Wetmore Carryl
1014
Love Came Back at Fall o Dew Lizette Woodworth Reese
1016
The Portrait Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
1025
From the Turkish George Gordon Byron
1031
Lady Anne Bothwells Lament Unknown
1037
Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley
1040
Don Quixote Austin Dobson 2950
1046
Agatha Alfred Austin
1047
August 1914
1050
The PassionFlower Margaret Fuller
1054
LOVE AND DEATH
1060
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley
1067
The Evening Cloud
1070
Lucy William Wordsworth
1076
Oh Snatched away in Beautys
1082
PART V
1085
The King of Denmarks Ride Caroline E S Norton
1088
Evelyn Hope Robert Browning
1094
Barbara Alexander Smith
1102
The Dead Faith Fannie Heaslip Lea 3396
1105
Telling the Bees John Greenleaf Whittier
1109
Give Love Today Ethel Talbot
1115
Romance Andrew Lang
1121
After Lizette Woodworth Reese
1127
Rain on a Grave Thomas Hardy
1133
The Little Rose is Dust My Dear Grace Hazard Conkling
1139
The GoodMorrow
1142
What My Lover Said
1149
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
1152
Meeting at Night
1157
If Love were Jester at the Court
1158
James Oppenheim
1165
The GuardianAngel Robert Browning 2620
1166
The Celestial Surgeon
1169
Mortimer Collins
1171
Habberton Lulham
1177
Edmund Spenser
1183
Sara Teasdale
1195
Dora Greenwell
1204
Now and Afterwards
1209
The Seekers John Masefield 2863
1223
The Golden Wedding
1226
England My England William Ernest Henley 2239
1228
LOVE SONNETS
1232
To Cynthia
1238
Sonnets from To Delia
1239
Van Elsen
1240
66
1252
Travellers Hope
1255
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1259
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
1262
Renouncement Alice Meynell
1263
Love in the Winds Richard Hovey
1269
Sonnets from Sonnets from
1276
False Poets and True
1279
To Night
1282
One Word More Robert Browning
1284
The World is too Much With Us William Wordsworth
1292
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 2960
1296
Great Nature is an Army Gay Richard Watson Gilder
1298
Morality
1300
There is a Pool on Garda Clinton Scollard 2623
1301
Patmos Edith M Thomas
1304
He Made the Night
1305
Mutability
1307
Music of the Dawn Virginia Bioren Harrison
1310
Take Heart
1311
POEMS OF PATRIOTISM HISTORY AND LEGEND
1314
In the Cool of the Evening Alfred Noyes
1316
A Wood Song
1320
What of The Darkness? Richard Le Gallienne 3515
1321
Universal Prayer Alexander Pope 3788
1326
The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston Sydney Dobell 2736
1329
CHANGING YEAR
1330
Scaled Orders
1331
To Song
1334
Saturday Night James Oppenheim 3024
1345
Alfred Noyes
1349
Nebuchadnezzar
1350
Spinning in April
1357
A Spring Lilt
1363
June Harrison Smith Morris
1369
The Harvest Waits
1371
To Autumn John Keats
1375
Ripe Grain
1377
Autumn Emily Dickinson
1381
The Land
1383
The Frost Hannah Flagg Gould
1387
Midwinter John Townsend Trowbridge
1394
Under the Leaves Albert Laighton
1401
Trees Joyce Kilmer
1407
Should Die Tonight Arabella Eugenia Smith 3037
1411
Of an Orchard Katherine Tynan
1414
The Cataract of Lodore Robert Southey
1420
The Hills of Rest
1423
Canadian BoatSong Thomas Moore
1426
Kinchinjunga Cale Young Rice
1435
A Lost Chord Adelaide Anne Procter 3398
1437
April Rain Robert Loveman
1442
The Post that Fitted
1445
A Garden Andrew Marvell
1448
A Fancy from Fontenelle
1450
Unguarded Ada Foster Murray
1455
The Progress of Poesy
1460
Green Things Growing Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1462
Buttercups Wilfrid Thorley
1468
To Daffodils Robert Herrick
1474
Blow
1475
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell
1481
The Voice of The Grass Sarah Roberts Boyle
1487
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
GODS CREATURES
1507
Expostulation and Reply
1510
Leigh Hunt
1511
The Snail William Cowper
1514
Work without Hope
1516
The Blood Horse Bryan Waller Procter
1520
The Blackbird Alfred Edward Housman
1526
Hame Hame Hame Allan Cunningham 3226
1527
My Catbird William Henry Venable
1533
The Eagle Alfred Tennyson
1539
After the Martyrdom
1543
O Nightingale Thou Surely Art William Wordsworth
1545
An Epitaph Intended for Himself James Beattie 3518
1551
To the Nightingale John Milton 3551
1552
Sweet Suffolk Owl Thomas Vaulor
1558
Christ Our Example in Suffering James Montgomery 3799
1561
To a Skylark William Wordsworth
1565
The Stormy Petrel Bryan Waller Procter
1572
Itylus Algernon Charles Swinburne
1578
THE
1584
William Wordsworth
1589
The Pines and the Sea Christopher Pearse Cranch
1590
Hastings Mill
1591
In Our Boat
1597
The Port o Hearts Desire
1604
Thomas Buchanan Read
1612
At the Top of the Road
1617
Robert Southey
1619
Lucy Larcom
1625
The Burial of Moses
1626
The Fighting Téméraire
1630
Charles Kingsley
1631
The Burial of Sir John Moore
1639
Hot Weather in the PlainsIndia E H Tipple 3230
1654
The Tables Turned
1657
WANDERLUST
1667
Robert Buchanan
1673
JUST NONSENSE
1679
Gertrude Huntington
1682
Richard Hovey
1688
Padraic Colum
1698
Time to be Wise
1709
Advice Walter Savage Landor
1710
Nonsense Verses
1714
The Belle of the Ballroom Winthrop Mackworth Praed
1718
Chivalry at a Discount Edward Fitzgerald
1724
My Mistresss Boots Frederick LockerLampson
1730
A Terrible Infant Frederick LockerLampson
1736
Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes
1743
A MIND CONTENT
1745
MY COUNTRY
1746
Thalia Thomas Bailey Aldrich
1750
Hail Columbia
1753
The EightDay Clock Alfred Cochrane
1756
To a Pair of Egyptian Slippers Edwin Arnold
1762
After Death in Arabia
1764
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 William Samuel Johnson
1789
Tropical Town
1794
The Chaperon Henry Cuyler Bunner
1795
Evolution Langdon Smith
1805
Henry Kingsley
1806
A Nice Correspondent Frederick LockerLampson
1812
The Nymph Complaining for
1819
Thomas Gray
1824
Epitaph on a Hare William Cow per
1825
Duna Marjorie L C Pickthall 3241
1826
Hold Patrick R Chalmers
1834
Incident of the French Camp
1836
ONE FIGHT MORE
1837
The Debate in the Sennit James Russell Lowell
1840
Jolly Jack William Makepeace Thack
1848
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible
1854
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nor
1855
The Worlds
1860
Evoe
1861
Up at a VillaDown in the City Robert Browning
1868
The Philosophers Scales
1879
James Thomas Fields
1883
The Conundrum of the Workshops Rudyard Kipling
1886
The Wearin o the Green Unknown 2249
1887
Man and the Ascidian
1895
Are Women Fair
1902
Tongue
1908
PAGE
1921
Father William Lewis Carroll
1927
Lewis Carroll
1928
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 2640
1948
The Poets at Tea Barry Pain
1953
The Laughing Willow
1955
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