OF VERSE

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH

1580-1912

With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems
in Other Languages

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART VI

POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION

The Noble Nature.

Ben Jonson.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

.Edmund Spenser

.Henry King

.Philip Rosseter

.Robert Southwell.

Sweet and Sour

On the Life of Man.

All is Vanity.

Times Go by Turns

"Say not, the Struggle Naught Avail-

eth".

Kyrielle

..Arthur Hugh Clough

..John Payne .

.Thomas Hardy

"Let Me Enjoy"

Song, "Because the rose must fade".. Richard Watson Gilder

"Where Runs the River"

Self-Dependence

Hope and Fear.

On His Blindness.

Ozymandias of Egypt.

A Turkish Legend.

"Even This Shall Pass Away"

Sesostris

Vers la Vie

Life

Three Sonnets on Oblivion

The Magic Mirror..

Ebb and Flow

The King of Dreams

Masquerade.

The Higher Pantheism

While the Days go By

The Wayfarer

Bookra.

Into the Twilight

Life

"Songs from

The Seekers

The Beleaguered City

A Doubting Heart.

.Lloyd Mifflin

.George Sterling

..Henry Mills Alden

..George William Curtis.

.Clinton Scollard

Pre-Existence

Envoy from

bondia"

The Petrified Fern.

The Question Whither

The Good Great Man

Human Frailty'.

Stanzas, "Where forlorn sunsets flare

and fade"

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.Francis William Bourdillon. 2734

.Matthew Arnold

..Algernon Charles Swinburne.

.John Milton.

.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

.Theodore Tilton

Olive Custance.

.Alfred Tennyson

..Henry Abbey

..Helen Huntington

.Charles Dudley Warner..

.William Butler Yeats

.Lizette Woodworth Reese

.Arthur Upson...

.Bryan Waller Procter

.Paul Hamilton Hayne.

Vaga-

.Bliss Carman

..Mary Bolles Branch

.George Meredith

.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Cowper.

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2753

.William Ernest Henley

.John Masefield ..

..Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2753

.Adelaide Anne Procter.

2755

یا

Vain Virtues..

Evolution.

Each in His Own Tongue.

Indirection

Deservings

"A Little Work'

A Grammarian's Funeral

The Rubáiyát of Omar Kháyyám...Edward Fitzgerald .

The Conclusion of the Whole Matter Frederic Ridgely Torrence

The Earth and Man

..Stopford Augustus Brooke

Unknown

.George du Maurier.

.Dante Gabriel Rossetti

.John Banister Tabb,

William Herbert Carruth

.Richard Realf

..Robert Browning

The Joyful Wisdom

Ode to Duty

Chant Royal of High Virtue.

The Splendid Spur

.Frances Anne Kemble

Herbert Trench

.Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Campion....

.Oliver Wendell Holmes

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2781

.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2782

.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2783

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2784

Henry Van Dyke.

.Edmund Gosse.

.John Boyle O'Reilly

2786

"They Went Forth to Battle but

They Always Fell"

.Lydia Avery Coonley Ward.

.Henry Van Dyke.

William Dean Howells

Alice Meynell.

Jacob Fischer

William Hervey Woods

Matthew Arnold

William Wetmore Story

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Robert Southey

.John James Ingalls

.Walter Malone.

.Edward Rowland Sill

2791

.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2791

Frances Sargent Osgood.

2792

.John Keble.

2792

Charles Mackay

2793

2794

Margaret Sangster.

.Alfred Tennyson .

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2796

.Emily Brontë

.Sarah Doudney

.George Herbert.

.Horatius Bonar

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2779

..John G. Neihardt

.James Freeman Clarke

Coventry Patmore.

William Wordsworth

.A. T. Quiller-Couch..

.A. T. Quiller-Couch..

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.Shaemas O Sheel

..Laurence Hope

2805

..Louise Imogen Guiney

..Arthur Upson....

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.Richard Monckton Milnes.. 2808

.Austin Dobson

2810

.John Drinkwater

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