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The Home Book of Verse, Volume 1

by Burton Egbert Stevenson




Contents of Volume I of the two volume set
This includes contents of Volumes 1 through 4 of our Etext editions.




PART I



POEMS OF YOUTH AND AGE

The Human Seasons	           John Keats


THE BABY

"Only a Baby Small"          Matthias Barr
Only                         Harriet Prescott Spofford
Infant Joy                   William Blake
Baby                         George Macdonald
To a New-Born Baby Girl      Grace Hazard Conkling
To Little Renee              William Aspenwall Bradley
A Rhyme of One               Frederick Locker-Lampson
To a New-Born Child          Cosmo Monkhouse
Baby May                     William Cox Bennett
Alice                        Herbert Bashford
Songs for Fragoletta         Richard Le Gallienne
Choosing a Name              Mary Lamb
Weighing the Baby            Ethel Lynn Beers
Etude Realiste               Algernon Charles Swinburne
Little Feet                  Elizabeth Akers
The Babie                    Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Little Hands                 Laurence Binyon
Bartholomew                  Norman Gale
The Storm-Child              May Byron
"On Parent Knees"            William Jones
"Philip, My King"            Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The King of the Cradle       Joseph Ashby-Sterry
The Firstborn                John Arthur Goodchild
No Baby in the House         Clara Dolliver
Our Wee White Rose           Gerald Massey
Into the World and Out       Sarah M. P. Piatt
"Baby Sleeps"                Samuel Hinds
Baby Bell                    Thomas Bailey Aldrich


IN THE NURSERY

Mother Goose's Melodies      Unknown
Jack and Jill                Unknown
The Queen of Hearts          Unknown
Little Bo-Peep               Unknown
Mary's Lamb                  Sarah Josepha Hale
The Star                     Jane Taylor
"Sing a Song of Sixpence"    Unknown
Simple Simon                 Unknown
A Pleasant Ship              Unknown
"I Had a Little Husband"     Unknown
"When I Was a Bachelor"      Unknown
"Johnny Shall Have a New 
 Bonnet"                     Unknown
The City Mouse and the
 Garden Mouse                Christina Rossetti
Robin Redbreast              Unknown
Solomon Grundy               Unknown
"Merry Are the Bells"        Unknown
"When Good King Arthur
 Ruled This Land"            Unknown
The Bells of London          Unknown
"The Owl and the Eel and
 the Warming Pan"            Laura E. Richards
The Cow                      Ann Taylor
The Lamb                     William Blake
Little Raindrops             Unknown
"Moon, So Round and Yellow"  Matthias Barr
The House That Jack Built    Unknown
Old Mother Hubbard           Unknown
The Death and Burial of
 Cock Robin                  Unknown
Baby-Land                    George Cooper
The First Tooth              William Brighty Rands
Baby's Breakfast             Emilie Poulsson
The Moon                     Eliza Lee Follen
Baby at Play                 Unknown
The Difference               Laura E. Richards
Foot Soldiers                John Banister Tabb
Tom Thumb's Alphabet         Unknown
Grammar in Rhyme             Unknown
Days of the Month            Unknown
The Garden Year              Sara Coleridge
Riddles                      Unknown
Proverbs                     Unknown
Kind Hearts                  Unknown
Weather Wisdom               Unknown
Old Superstitions            Unknown


THE ROAD TO SLUMBERLAND

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod     Eugene Field
The Sugar-Plum Tree          Eugene Field
When the Sleepy Man Comes    Charles G. D. Roberts
Auld Daddy Darkness          James Ferguson
Willie Winkle                William Miller
The Sandman                  Margaret Thomson Janvier
The Dustman                  Frederick Edward Weatherly
Sephestia's Lullaby          Robert Greene
"Golden Slumbers Kiss Your
 Eyes"                       Thomas Dekker
"Sleep, Baby, Sleep"         George Wither
Mother's Song                Unknown
A Lullaby                    Richard Rowlands
A Cradle Hymn                Isaac Watts
Cradle Song                  William Blake
Lullaby                      Carolina Nairne
Lullaby of an Infant Chief   Walter Scott
Good-Night                   Jane Taylor
"Lullaby, O Lullaby"         William Cox Bennett
Lullaby                      Alfred Tennyson
The Cottager to Her Infant   Dorothy Wordsworth
Trot, Trot!                  Mary F. Butts
Holy Innocents               Christina Georgina Rossetti
Lullaby                      Josiah Gilbert Holland
Cradle Song                  Josiah Gilbert Holland
An Irish Lullaby             Alfred Perceval Graves
Cradle Song                  Josephine Preston Peabody
Mother-Song from "Prince
 Lucifer"                    Alfred Austin
Kentucky Babe                Richard Henry Buck
Minnie and Winnie            Alfred Tennyson
Bed-Time Song                Emilie Poulsson
Tucking the Baby In          Curtis May
"Jenny Wi' the Airn Teeth"   Alexander Anderson
Cuddle Doon                  Alexander Anderson
Bedtime                      Francis Robert St. Clair Erskine


THE DUTY OF CHILDREN

Happy Thought                Robert Louis Stevenson
Whole Duty of Children       Robert Louis Stevenson
Politeness                   Elizabeth Turner
Rules of Behavior            Unknown
Little Fred                  Unknown
The Lovable Child            Emilie Poulsson
Good and Bad Children        Robert Louis Stevenson
Rebecca's After-Thought      Elizabeth Turner
Kindness to Animals          Unknown
A Rule for Birds' Nesters    Unknown
"Sing on, Blithe Bird"       William Motherwell
"I Like Little Pussy"        Jane Taylor
Little Things                Julia Fletcher Carney
The Little Gentleman         Unknown
The Crust of Bread           Unknown
"How Doth the Little Busy
 Bee"                        Isaac Watts
The Brown Thrush             Lucy Larcom
The Sluggard                 Isaac Watts
The Violet                   Jane Taylor
Dirty Jim                    Jane Taylor
The Pin                      Ann Taylor
Jane and Eliza               Ann Taylor
Meddlesome Matty             Ann Taylor
Contented John               Jane Taylor
Friends                      Abbie Farwell Brown
Anger                        Charles and Mary Lamb
"There Was a Little Girl"    H. W. Longfellow
The Reformation of Godfrey
 Gore                        William Brighty Rands
The Best Firm                Walter G. Doty
A Little Page's Song         William Alexander Percy
How the Little Kite Learned
 to Fly                      Unknown
The Butterfly and the Bee    William Lisle Bowles
The Butterfly                Adelaide O'Keefe
Morning                      Jane Taylor
Buttercups and Daisies       Mary Howitt
The Ant and the Cricket      Unknown
After Wings                  Sarah M. B. Piatt
Deeds of Kindness            Epes Sargent
The Lion and the Mouse       Jeffreys Taylor
The Boy and the Wolf         John Hookham Frere
The Story of Augustus, Who 
 Would Not Have Any Soup     Heinrich Hoffman
The Story of Little
 Suck-A-Thumb                Heinrich Hoffman
Written in a Little Lady's
 Little Album                Frederick William Faber
My Lady Wind                 Unknown
To a Child                   William Wordsworth
A Farewell                   Charles Kingsley


RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD

Reeds of Innocence           William Blake
The Wonderful World          William Brighty Rands
The World's Music            Gabriel Setoun
A Boy's Song                 James Hogg
Going Down Hill On a Bicycle Henry Charles Beeching
Playgrounds                  Laurence Alma-Tadema
"Who Has Seen the Wind?"     Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Wind's Song              Gabriel Setoun
The Piper on the Hill        Dora Sigerson Shorter
The Wind and the Moon        George Macdonald
Child's Song in Spring       Edith Nesbit
Baby Seed Song               Edith Nesbit
Little Dandelion             Helen Barron Bostwick
Little White Lily            George Macdonald
Wishing                      William Allingham
In the Garden                Ernest Crosby
The Gladness of Nature       William Cullen Bryant
Glad Day                     W. Graham Robertson
The Tiger                    William Blake
Answer to a Child's Question Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How the Leaves Came Down     Susan Coolidge
A Legend of the Northland    Phoebe Cary
The Cricket's Story          Emma Huntington Nason
The Singing-Lesson           Jean Ingelow
Chanticleer                  Katherine Tynan
"What Does Little Birdie
 Say?"                       Alfred Tennyson
Nurse's Song                 William Blake
Jack Frost                   Gabriel Setoun
October's Party              George Cooper
The Shepherd                 William Blake
Nikolina                     Celia Thaxter
Little Gustava               Celia Thaxter
Prince Tatters               Laura E. Richards
The Little Black Boy         William Blake
The Blind Boy                Colley Cibber
Bunches of Grapes            Walter de la Mare
My Shadow                    Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land of Counterpane      Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land of Story-Books      Robert Louis Stevenson
The Gardener                 Robert Louis Stevenson
Foreign Lands                Robert Louis Stevenson
My Bed is a Boat             Robert Louis Stevenson
The Peddler's Caravan        William Brighty Rands
Mr. Coggs                    Edward Verrall Lucas
The Building of the Nest     Margaret Sangster
"There was a Jolly Miller"   Isaac Bickerstaff
One and One                  Mary Mapes Dodge
A Nursery Song               Laura E. Richards
A Mortifying Mistake         Anna Maria Pratt
The Raggedy Man              James Whitcomb Riley
The Man in the Moon          James Whitcomb Riley
Little Orphant Annie         James Whitcomb Riley
Our Hired Girl               James Whitcomb Riley
See'n Things                 Eugene Field
The Duel                     Eugene Field
Holy Thursday                William Blake
A Story for a Child          Bayard Taylor
The Spider and the Fly       Mary Howitt
The Captain's Daughter       James Thomas Fields
The Nightingale and the
 Glow-Worm                   William Cowper
Sir Lark and King Sun: A
 Parable                     George Macdonald
The Courtship, Merry
 Marriage, and Picnic
 Dinner of Cock Robin
 and Jenny Wren              Unknown
The Babes in the Wood        Unknown
God's Judgment on a
 Wicked Bishop               Robert Southey
The Pied Piper of Hamelin    Robert Browning


THE GLAD EVANGEL

A Carol                      Unknown
"God Rest You Merry
 Gentlemen"                  Unknown
'O Little Town of Bethlehem" Phillips Brooks
A Christmas Hymn             Alfred Domett
"While Shepherds Watched
 their Flocks by Night"      Nahum Tate
Christmas Carols             Edmund Hamilton Sears
The Angels                   William Drummond
The Burning Babe             Robert Southwell
Tryste Noel                  Louise Imogen Guiney
Christmas Carol              Unknown
"Brightest and Best of the
 Sons of the Morning"        Reginald Heber
Christmas Bells              Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Christmas Carol            Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The House of Christmas       Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Feast of the Snow        Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Mary's Baby                  Shaemas OSheel
Gates and Doors              Joyce Kilmer
The Three Kings              Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lullaby in Bethlehem         Henry Howarth Bashford
A Child's Song of Christmas  Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Jest 'Fore Christmas         Eugene Field
A Visit from St. Nicholas    Clement Clarke Moore
Ceremonies for Christmas     Robert Herrick
On the Morning of Christ's
 Nativity                    John Milton


FAIRYLAND

The Fairy Book               Norman Gale
Fairy Songs                  William Shakespeare
Queen Mab                    Ben Jonson
The Elf and the Dormouse     Oliver Herford
"Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide
 Their Heads?"               Thomas Haynes Bayly
Fairy Song                   Leigh Hunt
Dream Song                   Richard Middleton
Fairy Song                   John Keats
Queen Mab                    Thomas Hood
The Fairies of the
 Caldon-Low                  Mary Howitt
The Fairies                  William Allingham
The Fairy Thrall             Mary C. G. Byron
Farewell to the Fairies      Richard Corbet
The Fairy Folk               Robert Bird
The Fairy Book               Abbie Farwell Brown
The Visitor                  Patrick R. Chalmers
The Little Elf               John Kendrick Bangs
The Satyrs and the Moon      Herbert S. Gorman


THE CHILDREN

The Children                 Charles Monroe Dickinson
The Children's Hour          Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Laus Infantium               William Canton
The Desire                   Katherine Tynan
A Child's Laughter           Algernon Charles Swinburne
Seven Years Old              Algernon Charles Swinburne
Creep Afore Ye Gang          James Ballantine
Castles in the Air           James Ballantine
Under My Window              Thomas Westwood
Little Bell                  Thomas Westwood
The Barefoot Boy             John Greenleaf Whittier
The Heritage                 James Russell Lowell
Letty's Globe                Charles Tennyson Turner
Dove's Nest                  Joseph Russell Taylor
The Oracle                   Arthur Davison Ficke
To a Little Girl             Helen Parry Eden
To a Little Girl             Gustav Kobbe
A Parental Ode to My Son     Thomas Hood
A New Poet                   William Canton
To Laura W-, Two Years Old   Nathaniel Parker Willis
To Rose                      Sara Teasdale
To Charlotte Pulteney        Ambrose Philips
The Picture of Little T. C.
 in a Prospect of Flowers    Andrew Marvell
To Hartley Coleridge         William Wordsworth
To a Child of Quality        Matthew Prior
Ex Ore Infantium             Francis Thompson
Obituary                     Thomas William Parsons
The Child's Heritage         John G. Neihardt
A Girl of Pompeii            Edward Sandford Martin
On the Picture of a "Child 
 Tired of Play"              Nathaniel Parker Willis
The Reverie of Poor Susan    William Wordsworth
Children's Song              Ford Madox Hueffer
The Mitherless Bairn         William Thom
The Cry of the Children      Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Shadow-Child             Harriet Monroe
Mother Wept                  Joseph Skipsey
Duty                         Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lucy Gray                    William Wordsworth
In the Children's Hospital   Alfred Tennyson
"If I Were Dead"             Coventry Patmore
The Toys                     Coventry Patmore
A Song of Twilight           Unknown
Little Boy Blue              Eugene Field
The Discoverer               Edmund Clarence Stedman
A Chrysalis                  Mary Emily Bradley
Mater Dolorosa               William Barnes
The Little Ghost             Katherine Tynan
Motherhood                   Josephine Daskam Bacon
The Mother's Prayer          Dora Sigerson Shorter
Da Leetla Boy                Thomas Augustin Daly
On the Moor                  Gale Young Rice
Epitaph of Dionysia          Unknown
For Charlie's Sake           John Williamson Palmer
"Are the Children at Home?"  Margaret Sangster
The Morning-Glory            Maria White Lowell
She Came and Went            James Russell Lowell
The First Snow-fall          James Russell Lowell
"We Are Seven"               William Wordsworth
My Child                     John Pierpont
The Child's Wish Granted     George Parsons Lathrop
Challenge                    Kenton Foster Murray
Tired Mothers                May Riley Smith
My Daughter Louise           Homer Greene
"I Am Lonely"                George Eliot
Sonnets from "Mimma Bella"   Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Rose-Marie of the Angels     Adelaide Crapsey


MAIDENHOOD

Maidenhood                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To the Virgins, to Make
 Much of Time                Robert Herrick
To Mistress Margaret Hussey  John Skelton
On Her Coming To London      Edmund Waller
"O, Saw Ye Bonny Lesley"     Robert Burns
To a Young Lady              William Cowper
Ruth                         Thomas Hood
The Solitary Reaper          William Wordsworth
The Three Cottage Girls      William Wordsworth
Blackmwore Maidens           William Barnes
A Portrait                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To a Child of Fancy          Lewis Morris
Daisy                        Francis Thompson
To Petronilla, Who Has
 Put Up Her Hair             Henry Howarth Bashford
The Gipsy Girl               Henry Alford
Fanny                        Anne Reeve Aldrich
Somebody's Child             Louise Chandler Moulton
Emilia                       Sarah N. Cleghorn
To a Greek Girl              Austin Dobson
"Chamber Scene"              Nathaniel Parker Willis
"Ah, Be Not False"           Richard Watson Gilder
A Life-Lesson                James Whitcomb Riley


THE MAN

The Breaking                 Margaret Steele Anderson
The Flight of Youth          Richard Henry Stoddard
"Days of My Youth"           St. George Tucker
Ave Atque Vale               Rosamund Marriott Watson
To Youth                     Walter Savage Landor
Stanzas Written on the Road
 Between Florence and Pisa   George Gordon Byron
Stanzas for Music            George Gordon Byron
"When As a Lad"              Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
"Around the Child"           Walter Savage Landor
Aladdin                      James Russell Lowell
The Quest                    Ellen Mackey Hutchinson Cortissoz
My Birth-Day                 Thomas Moore
Sonnet on His having Arrived
 to the Age of Twenty-Three  John Milton
On This Day I Complete My
 Thirty-Sixth Year           George Gordon Byron
Growing Gray                 Austin Dobson
The One White Hair           Walter Savage Landor
Ballade of Middle Age        Andrew Lang
Middle Age                   Rudolph Chambers Lehmann
To Critics                   Walter Learned
The Rainbow                  William Wordsworth
Leavetaking                  William Watson
Equinoctial                  Adeline D. T. Whitney
"Before the Beginning of
 Years"                      Algernon Charles Swinburne
Man                          Henry Vaughan
The Pulley                   George Herbert
Ode on the Intimations of
 Immortality from Recollections
 of Early Childhood          William Wordsworth


THE WOMAN

Woman                        Eaton Stannard Barrett
Woman                        From the Sanskrit of Calidasa
Simplex Munditiis            Ben Jonson
Delight in Disorder          Robert Herrick
A Praise of His Lady         John Heywood
On a Certain Lady at Court   Alexander Pope
Perfect Woman                William Wordsworth
The Solitary-Hearted         Hartley Coleridge
Of Those Who Walk Alone      Richard Burton
"She Walks in Beauty"        George Gordon Byron
Preludes from "The Angel in
 The House"                  Coventry Patmore
A Health                     Edward Coote Pinkney
Our Sister                   Horatio Nelson Powers
From Life                    Brian Hooker
The Rose of the World        William Butler Yeats
Dawn of Womanhood            Harold Monro
The Shepherdess              Alice Meynell
A Portrait                   Brian Hooker
The Wife                     Theodosia Garrison
"Trusty, Dusky, Vivid, True" Robert Louis Stevenson
The Shrine                   Digby Mackworth Dolben
The Voice                    Norman Gale
Mother                       Theresa Helburn
Ad Matrem                    Julian Fane
C.L.M                        John Masefield


STEPPING WESTWARD

Stepping Westward            William Wordsworth
A Farewell to Arms           George Peele
The World                    Francis Bacon
"When That I Was and a
 Little Tiny Boy"            William Shakespeare
Of the Last Verses in the
 Book                        Edmund Waller
A Lament                     Chidiock Tichborne
To-morrow                    John Collins
Late Wisdom                  George Crabbe
Youth and Age                Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Old Man's Comforts       Robert Southey
To Age                       Walter Savage Lander
Late Leaves                  Walter Savage Lander
Years                        Walter Savage Lander
The River of Life            Thomas Campbell
"Long Time a Child"          Hartley Coleridge
The World I am Passing
 Through                     Lydia Maria Child
Terminus                     Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rabbi Ben Ezra               Robert Browning
Human Life                   Audrey Thomas de Vere
Young and Old                Charles Kingsley
The Isle of the Long Ago     Benjamin Franklin Taylor
Growing Old                  Matthew Arnold
Past                         John Galsworthy
Twilight                     A. Mary F. Robinson
Youth and Age                George Arnold
Forty Years On               Edward Ernest Bowen
Dregs                        Ernest Dowson
The Paradox of Time          Austin Dobson
Age                          William Winter
Omnia Sonmia                 Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Year's End               Timothy Cole
An Old Man's Song            Richard Le Gallienne
Songs of Seven               Jean Ingelow
Auspex                       James Russell Lowell


LOOKING BACKWARD

The Retreat                  Henry Vaughan
A Superscription             Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Child in the Garden      Henry Van Dyke
Castles in the Air           Thomas Love Peacock
Sometimes                    Thomas S. Jones, Jr
The Little Ghosts            Thomas S. Jones, Jr
My Other Me                  Grace Denio Litchfield
A Shadow Boat                Arlo Bates
A Lad That is Gone           Robert Louis Stevenson
Carcassonne                  John R. Thompson
Childhood                    John Banister Tabb
The Wastrel                  Reginald Wright Kauffman
Troia Fuit                   Reginald Wright Kauffman
Temple Garlands              A. Mary F. Robinson
Time Long Past               Percy Bysshe Shelley
"I Remember, I Remember"     Thomas Hood
My Lost Youth                Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Voice of the Western Wind"  Edmund Clarence Stedman
"Langsyne, When Life Was
 Bonnie"                     Alexander Anderson
The Shoogy-Shoo              Winthrop Packard
Babylon                      Viola Taylor
The Road of Remembrance      Lizette Woodworth Reese
The Triumph of Forgotten
 Things                      Edith M. Thomas
In the Twilight              James Russell Lowell
An Immorality                Ezra Pound
Three Seasons                Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Old Familiar Faces       Charles Lamb
The Light of Other Days      Thomas Moore
"Tears, Idle Tears"          Alfred Tennyson
The Pet Name                 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Threescore and Ten           Richard Henry Stoddard
Rain on the Roof             Coates Kinney
Alone by the Hearth          George Arnold
The Old Man Dreams           Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Garret                   William Makepeace Thackeray
Auld Lang Syne               Robert Burns
Rock Me to Sleep             Elizabeth Akers
The Bucket                   Samuel Woodworth
The Grape-Vine Swing         William Gilmore Simms
The Old Swimmin'-Hole        James Whitcomb Riley
Forty Years Ago              Unknown
Ben Bolt                     Thomas Dunn English
"Break, Break, Break"        Alfred Tennyson




PART II



POEMS OF LOVE

Eros                         Ralph Waldo Emerson


"NOW WHAT IS LOVE"

"Now What is Love"           Walter Raleigh
Wooing Song, "Love is the
 Blossom where there blows"  Giles Fletcher
Rosalind's Madrigal, "Love
 in My bosom"                Thomas Lodge
Song, "Love is a sickness
 full of woes"               Samuel Daniel
Love's Perjuries             William Shakespeare
Venus' Runaway               Ben Jonson
What is Love                 John Fletcher
Love's Emblems               John Fletcher
The Power of Love            John Fletcher
Advice to a Lover            Unknown
Love's Horoscope             Richard Crashaw
"Ah, how Sweet it is to
 Love"                       John Dryden
Song, "Love still has
 something of the sea"       Charles Sedley
The Vine                     James Thomson
Song, "Fain would I change
 that Note"                  Unknown
Cupid Stung                  Thomas Moore
Cupid Drowned                Leigh Hunt
Song, "Oh! say not woman's
 love is bought"             Isaac Pocock
"In the Days of Old"         Thomas Love Peacock
Song, "How delicious is the
 winning"                    Thomas Campbell
Stanzas, "Could love for
 ever"                       George Gordon Byron
"They Speak o' Wiles"        William Thom
"Love will Find Out the Way" Unknown
A Woman's Shortcomings       Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Love hath a Language"       Helen Selina Sheridan
Song, "O, let the solid
 ground"                     Alfred Tennyson
Amaturus                     William Johnson-Cory
The Surface and the Depths   Lewis Morris
A Ballad of Dreamland        Algernon Charles Swinburne
Endymion                     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate                         Susan Marr Spalding
"Give all to Love"           Ralph Waldo Emerson
"O, Love is not a Summer
 Mood"                       Richard Watson Gilder
"When will Love Come"        Pakenham Beatty
"Awake, My Heart"            Robert Bridges
The Secret                   George Edward Woodberry
The Rose of Stars            George Edward Woodberry
Song of Eros from "Agathon"  George Edward Woodberry
Love is Strong               Richard Burton
"Love once was like an April
 Dawn"                       Robert Underwood Johnson
The Garden of Shadow         Ernest Dowson
The Call                     Reginald Wright Kauffman
The Highway                  Louise Driscoll
Song, "Take it, love"        Richard Le Gallienne
"Never Give all the Heart"   William Butler Yeats
Song, "I came to the door of
 the house of love"          Alfred Noyes
"Child, Child"               Sara Teasdale
Wisdom                       Ford Madox Hueffer
Epilogue from "Emblems of
 Love"                       Lascelles Abercrombie
On Hampstead Heath           Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Once on a Time               Kendall Banning


IN PRAISE OF HER

First Song from
 "Astrophel and Stella"      Philip Sidney
Silvia                       William Shakespeare
Cupid and Campaspe           John Lyly
Apollo's Song from "Midas"   John Lyly
"Fair is my Love for April's
 in her Face"                Robert Greene
Samela                       Robert Greene
Damelus' Song of His
 Diaphenia                   Henry Constable
Madrigal, "My Love in her
 attire doth show her wit"   Unknown
On Chloris Walking in
 the Snow                    William Strode
"There is a Lady Sweet
 and Kind"                   Unknown
Cherry-Ripe                  Thomas Campion
Amarillis                    Thomas Campion
Elizabeth of Bohemia         Henry Wotton
Her Triumph                  Ben Jonson
Of Phillis                   William Drummond
A Welcome                    William Browne
The Complete Lover           William Browne
Rubies and Pearls            Robert Herrick
Upon Julia's Clothes         Robert Herrick
To Cynthia on Concealment
 of her Beauty               Francis Kynaston
Song, "Ask me no more where
 Jove bestows"               Thomas Carew
A Devout Lover               Thomas Randolph
On a Girdle                  Edmund Waller
Castara                      William Habington
To Amarantha that She would
 Dishevel her Hair           Richard Lovelace
Chloe Divine                 Thomas D'Urfey
My Peggy                     Allan Ramsay
Song, "O ruddier than the
 cherry"                     John Gay
"Tell me, my Heart, if this
 be Love"                    George Lyttleton
The Fair Thief               Charles Wyndham
Amoret                       Mark Akenside
Song, "The shape alone let
 others Prize"               Mark Akenside
Kate of Aberdeen             John Cunningham
Song, "Who has robbed the
 ocean cave"                 John Shaw
Chloe                        Robert Burns
"O Mally's Meek, Mally's
 Sweet"                      Robert Burns
The Lover's Choice           Thomas Bedingfield
Rondeau Redouble             John Payne
"My Love She's but a
 Lassie yet"                 James Hogg
Jessie, the Flower
 o' Dunblane                 Robert Tannahill
Margaret and Dora            Thomas Campbell
Dagonet's Canzonet           Ernest Rhys
Stanzas for Music, "There be
 none of Beauty's daughters" George Gordon Byron
"Flowers I would Bring"      Aubrey Thomas de Vere
"It is not Beauty I Demand"  George Darley
Song, "She is not fair to
 outward view"               Hartley Coleridge
Song, "A violet in her
 lovely hair"                Charles Swain
Eileen Aroon                 Gerald Griffin
Annie Laurie                 Unknown
To Helen                     Edgar Allan Poe
"A Voice by the Cedar Tree"  Alfred Tennyson
Song, "Nay, but you, who do
 not love her"               Robert Browning
The Henchman                 John Green1eaf Whittier
Lovely Mary Donnelly         William Allingham
Love in the Valley           George Meredith
Marian                       George Meredith
Praise of My Lady            William Morris
Madonna Mia                  Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Meet we no Angels, Pansie"  Thomas Ashe
To Daphne                    Walter Besant
"Girl of the Red Mouth"      Martin MacDermott
The Daughter of Mendoza      Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar
"If She be made of White
 and Red"                    Herbert P. Horne
The Lover's Song             Edward Rowland Sill
"When First I Saw Her"       George Edward Woodberry
My April Lady                Henry Van Dyke
The Milkmaid                 Austin Dobson
Song, "This peach is pink
 with such a pink"           Norman Gale
In February                  Henry Simpson
"Love, I Marvel What You
 Are"                        Trumbull Stickney
Ballade of My Lady's Beauty  Joyce Kilmer

Ursula                       Robert Underwood Johnson
Villanelle of His Lady's
 Treasures                   Ernest Dowson
Song, "Love, by that
 loosened hair"              Bliss Carman
Song, "O, like a queen's her
 happy tread"                William Watson
Any Lover, Any Lass          Richard Middleton
Songs Ascending              Witter Bynner
Song, "'Oh! Love,' they
 said, 'is King of Kings'"   Rupert Brooke
Song, "How do I love you"    Irene Rutherford McLeod
To . . . . In Church         Alan Seeger
After Two Years              Richard Aldington
Praise                       Seumas O'Sullivan


PLAINTS AND PROTESTATIONS

"Forget not Yet"             Thomas Wyatt
Fawnia                       Robert Greene
The Passionate Shepherd to
 His Love                    Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the
 Passionate Shepherd         Walter Raleigh
"Wrong not, Sweet Empress
 of My Heart"                Walter Raleigh
To His Coy Love              Michael Drayton
Her Sacred Bower             Thomas Campion
To Lesbia                    Thomas Campion
"Love me or Not"             Thomas Campion
"There is None, O None but
 You"                        Thomas Campion
Of Corinna's Singing         Thomas Campion
"Were my Heart as some
 Men's are"                  Thomas Campion
"Kind are her Answers"       Thomas Campion
To Celia                     Ben Jonson
Song, "O, do not wanton
 with those eyes"            Ben Jonson
Song, "Go and catch a
 falling star"               John Donne
The Message                  John Donne
Song, "Ladies, though to
 your conquering eyes"       George Etherege
To a Lady Asking Him how
 Long He would Love Her"     George Etherege
To Aenone                    Robert Herrick
To Anthea, who may Command
 him Anything                Robert Herrick
The Bracelet: To Julia       Robert Herrick
To the Western Wind          Robert Herrick
To my Inconstant Mistress    Thomas Carew
Persuasions to Enjoy         Thomas Carew
Mediocrity in Love Rejected  Thomas Carew
The Message                  Thomas Heywood
"How Can the Heart forget
 Her"                        Francis Davison
To Roses in the Bosom of
 Castara                     William Habington
To Flavia                    Edmund Waller
"Love not Me for Comely
 Grace"                      Unknown
"When, Dearest, I but Think
 of Thee"                    Suckling or Felltham
A Doubt of Martyrdom         John Suckling
To Chloe                     William Cartwright
I'll Never Love Thee More    James Graham
To Althea, from Prison       Richard Lovelace
Why I Love Her               Alexander Brome
To his Coy Mistress          Andrew Marvell
A Deposition from Beauty     Thomas Stanley
"Love in thy Youth, Fair
 Maid"                       Unknown
To Celia                     Charles Cotton
To Celia                     Charles Sedley
A Song, "My dear mistress
 Has a Heart"                John Wilmot
Love and Life                John Wilmot
Constancy                    John Wilmot
Song, "Too late, alas, I
 must Confess"               John Wilmot
Song, "Come, Celia, let's
 agree at last"              John Sheffield
The Enchantment              Thomas Otway
Song, "Only tell her that I
 love"                       John Cutts
"False though She be"        William Congreve
To Silvia                    Anne Finch
"Why, Lovely Charmer"        Unknown
Against Indifference         Charles Webbe
A Song to Amoret             Henry Vaughan
The Lass of Richmond Hill    James Upton
Song, "Let my voice ring out
 and over the earth"         James Thomson
Gifts                        James Thomson
Amynta                       Gilbert Elliot
"O Nancy! wilt Thou go
 with Me"                    Thomas Percy
Cavalier's Song              Robert Cunninghame-Graham
"My Heart is a Lute"         Anne Barnard
Song, "Had I a heart for
 falsehood framed"           Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Meeting                      George Crabbe
"O Were my Love you Lilac
 Fair"                       Robert Burns
"Bonnie Wee Thing"           Robert Burns
Rose Aylmer                  Walter Savage Landor
"Take back the Virgin Page"  Thomas Moore
"Believe me, if all Those
 Endearing Young Charms"     Thomas Moore
The Nun                      Leigh Hunt
Only of Thee and Me          Louis Untermeyer
To -                         Percy Bysshe Shelley
From the Arabic              Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Wandering Knight's Song  John Gibson Lockhart
Song, "Love's on the
 highroad"                   Dana Burnett
The Secret Love              A. E.
The Flower of Beauty         George Darley
My Share of the World        Alice Furlong
Song, "A lake and a fairy
 boat"                       Thomas Hood
"Smile and Never Heed Me"    Charles Swain
Are They not all Ministering
 Spirits                     Robert Stephen Hawker
Maiden Eyes                  Gerald Griffin
Hallowed Places              Alice Freeman Palmer
The Lady's "Yes"             Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song, "It is the miller's
 daughter"                   Alfred Tennyson
Lilian                       Alfred Tennyson
Bugle Song, from "The
 Princess"                   Alfred Tennyson
Ronsard to His Mistress      William Makepeace Thackeray
"When You are Old"           William Butler Yeats
Song, "You'll love me yet,
 and I can tarry"            Robert Browning
Love in a Life               Robert Browning
Life in a Love               Robert Browning
The Welcome                  Thomas Osborne Davis
Urania                       Matthew Arnold
Three Shadows                Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Since we Parted              Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
A Match                      Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Ballad of Life             Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Leave-Taking               Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Lyric                      Algernon Charles Swinburne
Maureen                      John Todhunter
A Love Symphony              Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Love on the Mountain         Thomas Boyd
Kate Temple's Song           Mortimer Collins
My Queen                     Unknown
"Darling, Tell me Yes"       John Godfrey Saxe
"Do I Love Thee"             John Godfrey Saxe
"O World, be Nobler"         Laurence Binyon
"In the Dark, in the Dew"    Mary Newmarch Prescott
Nanny                        Francis Davis
A Trifle                     Henry Timrod
Romance                      Robert Louis Stevenson
"Or Ever the Knightly Years
 were Gone"                  William Ernest Henley
Rus in Urbe                  Clement Scott
My Road                      Oliver Opdyke
A White Rose                 John Boyle O'Reilly
"Some Day of Days"           Nora Perry
The Telephone                Robert Frost
Where Love is                Amelia Josephine Burr
That Day You Came            Lizette Woodworth Reese
Amantium Irae                Ernest Dowson
In a Rose Garden             John Bennett
"God Bless You, Dear,
 To-day"                     John Bennett
To-day                       Benjamin R. C. Low
To Arcady                    Charles Buxton Going
Wild Wishes                  Ethel M. Hewitt
"Because of You"             Sophia Almon Hensley
Then                         Rose Terry Cooke
The Missive                  Edmund Gosse
Plymouth Harbor              Mrs. Ernest Radford
The Serf's Secret            William Vaughn Moody
"O, Inexpressible as Sweet"  George Edward Woodberry
The Cyclamen                 Arlo Bates
The West-Country Lover       Alice Brown
"Be Ye in Love with
 April-Tide"                 Clinton Scollard
Unity                        Alfred Noyes
The Queen                    William Winter
A Lover's Envy               Henry Van Dyke
Star Song                    Robert Underwood Johnson
"My Heart Shall be Thy
 Garden"                     Alice Meynell
At Night                     Alice Meynell
Song, "Song is so old"       Hermann Hagedorn
"All Last Night"             Lascelles Abercrombie
The Last Word                Frederic Lawrence Knowles
"Heart of my Heart"          Unknown
My Laddie                    Amelie Rives
The Shaded Pool              Norman Gale
Good-Night                   S. Weir Mitchell
The Mystic                   Witter Bynner
"I Am the Wind"              Zoe Akins
"I Love my Life, But not Too
 Well"                       Harriet Monroe
"This is my Love for You"    Grace Fallow Norton


MY LADY'S LIPS

Lips and Eyes                Thomas Middleton
The Kiss                     Ben Jonson
"Take, O Take Those
 Lips Away"                  John Fletcher
A Stolen Kiss                George Wither
Song, "My Love bound me
 with a kiss"                Unknown
To Electra                   Robert Herrick
"Come, Chloe, and Give Me
 Sweet Kisses"               Charles Hanbury Williams
A Riddle                     William Cowper
To a Kiss                    John Wolcot
Song, "Often I have heard
 it said"                    Walter Savage Landor
The First Kiss of Love       George Gordon Byron
"Jenny Kissed Me"            Leigh Hunt
"I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle
 Maiden"                     Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Philosophy            Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song, "The moth's kiss,
 first"                      Robert Browning
Summum Bonum                 Robert Browning
The First Kiss               Theodore Watts-Dunton
To My Love                   John Godfrey Saxe
To Lesbia                    John Godfrey Saxe
Make Believe                 Alice Cary
Kissing's No Sin             Unknown
To Anne                      William Maxwell
Song, "There is many a love
 in the land, my love"       Joaquin Miller
Phyllis and Corydon          Arthur Colton


AT HER WINDOW

"Hark, Hark, the Lark"       William Shakespeare
"Sleep, Angry Beauty"        Thomas Campion
Matin Song                   Nathaniel Field
The Night-Piece: To Julia    Robert Herrick
Morning                      William D'Avenant
Matin Song                   Thomas Heywood
The Rose                     Richard Lovelace
Song, "See, see, she wakes!
 Sabina wakes"               William Congreve
Mary Morison                 Robert Burns
Wake, Lady                   Joanna Baillie
The Sleeping Beauty          Samuel Rogers
"The Young May Moon"         Thomas Moore
"Row Gently Here"            Thomas Moore
Morning Serenade             Madison Cawein
Serenade                     Aubrey Thomas De Vere
Lines to an Indian Air       Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good-Night                   Percy Bysshe Shelley
Serenade                     George Darley
Serenade                     Thomas Hood
Serenade                     Edward Coote Pinkney
Serenade                     Henry Timrod
Serenade                     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Come into the Garden, Maud" Alfred Tennyson
At Her Window                Frederick Locker-Lampson
Bedouin Song                 Bayard Taylor
Night and Love               Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Nocturne                     Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Palabras Carinosas           Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Serenade                     Oscar Wilde
The Little Red Lark          Alfred Perceval Graves
Serenade                     Richard Middleton


THE COMEDY OF LOVE

A Lover's Lullaby            George Gascoigne
Phillida and Corydon         Nicholas Breton
"Crabbed Age and Youth"      William Shakespeare
"It Was a Lover and His
 Lass"                       William Shakespeare
"I Loved a Lass"             George Wither
To Chloris                   Charles Sedley
Song, "The merchant, to
 secure his Treasure"        Matthew Prior
Pious Selinda                William Congreve
Fair Hebe                    John West
A Maiden's Ideal of a
 Husband                     Henry Carey
"Phillada Flouts Me"         Unknown
"When Molly Smiles"          Unknown
Contentions                  Unknown
"I Asked My Fair, One Happy
 Day"                        Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Exchange                 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Comin' Through the Rye"     Robert Burns
"Green Grow the Rashes, O"   Robert Burns
Defiance                     Walter Savage Landor
Of Clementina                Walter Savage Landor
"The Time I've Lost in
 Wooing"                     Thomas Moore
Dear Fanny                   Thomas Moore
A Certain Young Lady         Washington Irving
"Where Be You Going, You
 Devon Maid"                 John Keats
Love in a Cottage            Nathaniel Parker Willis
Song of the Milkmaid from
 "Queen Mary"                Alfred Tennyson
"Wouldn't You Like to Know"  John Godfrey Saxe
"Sing Heigh-ho"              Charles Kingsley
The Golden Fish              George Arnold
The Courtin'                 James Russell Lowell
L'Eau Dormante               Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A Primrose Dame              Gleeson White
If                           James Jeffrey Roche
Don't                        James Jeffrey Roche
An Irish Love-Song           Robert Underwood Johnson
Growing Old                  Walter Learned
Time's Revenge               Walter Learned
In Explanation               Walter Learned
Omnia Vincit                 Alfred Cochrane
A Pastoral                   Norman Gale
A Rose                       Arlo Bates
"Wooed and Married and A'"   Alexander Ross
"Owre the Moor Amang the
 Heather"                    Jean Glover
Marriage and the Care O't    Robert Lochore

The Women Folk               James Hogg
"Love is Like a Dizziness"   James Hogg
"Behave Yoursel' before
 Folk"                       Alexander Rodger
Rory O'More; or, Good Omens  Samuel Lover
Ask and Have                 Samuel Lover
Kitty of Coleraine           Charles Dawson Shanly
The Plaidie                  Charles Sibley
Kitty Neil                   John Francis Waller
"The Dule's i' this Bonnet
 o' Mine"                    Edwin Waugh
The Ould Plaid Shawl         Francis A. Fahy
Little Mary Cassidy          Francis A. Fahy
The Road                     Patrick R. Chalmers
Twickenham Ferry             Theophile Marzials


THE HUMOR OF LOVE

Song, "I prithee send me
 back my Heart"              John Suckling
A Ballad Upon a Wedding      John Suckling
To Chloe Jealous             Matthew Prior
Jack and Joan                Thomas Campion
Phillis and Corydon          Richard Greene
Sally in Our Alley           Henry Carey
The Country Wedding          Unknown
"O Merry may the Maid be"    John Clerk
The Lass o' Gowrie           Carolina Nairne
The Constant Swain and
 Virtuous Maid               Unknown
When the Kye Comes Hame      James Hogg
The Low-Backed Car           Samuel Lover
The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan  Samuel Ferguson
Muckle-Mouth Meg             Robert Browning
Muckle-Mou'd Meg             James Ballantine
Glenlogie                    Unknown
Lochinvar                    Walter Scott
Jock of Hazeldean            Walter Scott
Candor                       Henry Cuyler Bunner
"Do you Remember"            Thomas Haynes Bayly
Because                      Edward Fitzgerald
Love and Age                 Thomas Love Peacock
To Helen                     Winthrop Mackworth Praed
At the Church Gate           William Makepeace Thackeray
Mabel, in New Hampshire      James Thomas Fields
Toujours Amour               Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Doorstep                 Edmund Clarence Stedman
The White Flag               John Hay
A Song of the Four Seasons   Austin Dobson
The Love-Knot                Nora Perry
Riding Down                  Nora Perry
"Forgettin'"                 Moira O'Neill
"Across the Fields to Anne"  Richard Burton
Pamela in Town               Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz
Yes?                         Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Prime of Life            Walter Learned
Thoughts on the Commandments George Augustus Baker


THE IRONY OF LOVE

"Sigh no More, Ladies"       William Shakespeare
A Renunciation               Edward Vere
A Song, "Ye happy swains,
 whose hearts are free"      George Etherege
To His Forsaken Mistress     Robert Ayton
To an Inconstant             Robert Ayton
Advice to a Girl             Thomas Campion
Song, "Follow a shadow, it
 still flies you"            Ben Jonson
True Beauty                  Francis Beaumont
The Indifferent              Francis Beaumont
The Lover's Resolution       George Wither
His Further Resolution       Unknown
Song, "Shall I tell you whom
 I love"                     William Browne
To Dianeme                   Robert Herrick
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened Thomas Carew
Disdain Returned             Thomas Carew
"Love Who Will, for I'll
 Love None"                  William Browne
Valerius on Women            Thomas Heywood
Dispraise of Love, and
 Lovers' Follies             Francis Davison
The Constant Lover           John Suckling
Song, "Why so pale and wan,
 fond Lover"                 John Suckling
Wishes to His Supposed
 Mistress                    Richard Crashaw
Song, "Love in fantastic
 Triumph sate"               Aphra Behn
Les Amours                   Charles Cotton
Rivals                       William Walsh
I Lately Vowed, but 'Twas
 in Haste                    John Oldmixon
The Touchstone               Samuel Bishop
Air, "I ne'er could any
 luster see"                 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"I Took a Hansom on Today"   William Ernest Henley
Da Capo                      Henry Cuyler Bunner
Song Against Women           Willard Huntington Wright
Song of Thyrsis              Philip Freneau
The Test                     Walter Savage Landor
"The Fault is not Mine"      Walter Savage Landor
The Snake                    Thomas Moore
"When I Loved You"           Thomas Moore
A Temple to Friendship       Thomas Moore
The Glove and the Lions      Leigh Hunt
To Woman                     George Gordon Byron
Love's Spite                 Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Lady Clara Vere de Vere      Alfred Tennyson
Shadows                      Richard Monckton Milnes
Sorrows of Werther           William Makepeace Thackeray
The Age of Wisdom            William Makepeace Thackeray
Andrea del Sarto             Robert Browning
My Last Duchess              Robert Browning
Adam, Lilith, and Eve        Robert Browning
The Lost Mistress            Robert Browning
Friend and Lover             Mary Ainge de Vere
Lost Love                    Andrew Lang
Vobiscum est Iope            Thomas Campion
Four Winds                   Sara Teasdale
To Marion                    Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Crowned                      Amy Lowell
Hebe                         James Russell Lowell
"Justine, You Love me Not"   John Godfrey Saxe
Snowdrop                     William Wetmore Story
When the Sultan Goes to
 Ispahan                     Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Shadow Dance             Louise Chandler Moulton
"Along the Field as we
 Came by"                    Alfred Edward Housman
"When I was One-and-Twenty"  Alfred Edward Housman
"Grieve Not, Ladies"         Anna Hempstead Branch
Suburb                       Harold Monro
The Betrothed                Rudyard Kipling


LOVE'S SADNESS

"The Night has a Thousand
 Eyes"                       Francis William Bourdillon
"I Saw my Lady Weep"         Unknown
Love's Young Dream           Thomas Moore
"Not Ours the Vows"          Bernard Barton
The Grave of Love            Thomas Love Peacock
"We'll go no More a Roving"  George Gordon Byron
Song, "Sing the old song,
 amid the sounds dispersing" Aubrey Thomas de Vere
The Question                 Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Wanderer                 Austin Dobson
Egyptian Serenade            George William Curtis
The Water Lady               Thomas Hood
"Tripping Down the
 Field-path"                 Charles Swain
Love Not                     Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
"A Place in Thy Memory"      Gerald Griffin
Inclusions                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mariana                      Alfred Tennyson
Ask Me no More               Alfred Tennyson
A Woman's Last Word          Robert Browning
The Last Ride Together       Robert Browning
Youth and Art                Robert Browning
Two in the Campagna          Robert Browning
One Way of Love              Robert Browning
"Never the Time and the
 Place"                      Robert Browning
Song, "Oh! that we two were
 Maying"                     Charles Kingsley
For He Had Great Possessions Richard Middleton
Windle-straws                Edward Dowden
Jessie                       Thomas Edward Brown
The Chess-board              Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Aux Italiens                 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Song, "I saw the day's
 white rapture"              Charles Hanson Towne
The Lonely                   Road Kenneth Rand
Evensong                     Ridgely Torrence
The Nymph's Song to Hylas    William Morris
No and Yes                   Thomas Ashe
Love in Dreams               John Addington Symonds
"A Little While I fain would
 Linger Yet"                 Paul Hamilton Hayne
Song, "I made another
 garden, yea"                Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Song, "Has summer come
 without the rose"           Arthur O'Shaughnessy
After                        Philip Bourke Marston
After Summer                 Philip Bourke Marston
Rococo                       Algernon Charles Swinburne
Rondel                       Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Oblation                 Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Song of the Bower        Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Song, "We break the glass,
 whose sacred wine"          Edward Coote Pinkney
Maud Muller                  John Greenleaf Whittier
La Grisette                  Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Dark Man                 Nora Hopper
Eurydice                     Francis William Bourdillon
A Woman's Thought            Richard Watson Gilder
Laus Veneris                 Louise Chandler Moulton
Adonais                      Will Wallace Harney
Face to Face                 Frances Cochrane
Ashore                       Laurence Hope
Khristna and His Flute       Laurence Hope
Impenitentia Ultima          Ernest Dowson
Non Sum Quails Eram Bonae
 sub Regno Cynarae           Ernest Dowson
Quid non Speremus, Amantes?  Ernest Dowson
"So Sweet Love Seemed"       Robert Bridges
An Old Tune                  Andrew Lang
Refuge                       William Winter
Midsummer                    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ashes of Roses               Elaine Goodale
Sympathy                     Althea Gyles
The Look                     Sara Teasdale
"When My Beloved Sleeping
 Lies"                       Irene Rutherford McLeod
Love and Life                Julie Mathilde Lippman
Love's Prisoner              Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Rosies                       Agnes I. Hanrahan
At the Comedy                Arthur Stringer
"Sometime It may Be"         Arthur Colton
"I heard a Soldier"          Herbert Trench
The Last Memory              Arthur Symonds
"Down by the Salley Gardens" William Butler Yates
Ashes of Life                Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Farewell                   Alice Brown


THE PARTED LOVERS

Song, "O mistress mine,
 where are you roaming"      William Shakespeare
"Go, Lovely Rose"            Edmund Waller
To the Rose: A Song          Robert Herrick
Memory                       William Browne
To Lucasta, Going to the
 Wars                        Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going beyond
 the Seas                    Richard Lovelace
Song to a Fair Young Lady,
 Going out of the Town in
 the Spring                  John Dryden
Song, "To all you ladies now
 at land"                    Charles Sackville
Song, "In vain you tell your
 parting lover"              Matthew Prior
Black-Eyed Susan             John Gay
Irish Molly O                Unknown
Song, "At setting day and
 rising morn"                Allan Ramsay
Lochaber no More             Allan Ramsey
Willie and Helen             Hew Ainslie
Absence                      Richard Jago
"My Mother Bids me Bind
 my Hair"                    Anne Hunter
"Blow High! Blow Low"        Charles Dibdin
The Siller Croun             Susanna Blamire
"My Nannie's Awa"            Robert Burns
"Ae Fond Kiss"               Robert Burns
"The Day Returns"            Robert Burns
My Bonnie Mary               Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose              Robert Burns
I Love My Jean               Robert Burns and John Hamilton
The Rover's Adieu, from
 "Rokeby"                    Walter Scott
"Loudoun's Bonnie Woods and
 Braes"                      Robert Tannahill
"Fare Thee Well"             George Gordon Byron
"Maid of Athens, Ere We
 Part"                       George Gordon Byron
"When We Two Parted"         George Gordon Byron
"Go, Forget Me"              Charles Wolfe
Last Night                   George Darley
Adieu                        Thomas Carlyle
Jeanie Morrison              William Motherwell
The Sea-lands                Orrick Johns
Fair Ines                    Thomas Hood
A Valediction                Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Farewell                     John Addington Symonds
"I Do Not Love Thee"         Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
The Palm-tree and the Pine   Richard Monckton Milnes
"O Swallow, Swallow Flying
 South"                      Alfred Tennyson
The Flower's Name            Robert Browning
To Marguerite                Matthew Arnold
Separation                   Matthew Arnold
Longing                      Matthew Arnold
Divided                      Jean Ingelow
My Playmate                  John Greenleaf Whittier
A Farewell                   Coventry Patmore
Departure                    Coventry Patmore
A song of Parting            H. C. Compton Mackenzie
Song, "Fair is the night,
 and fair the day"           William Morris
At Parting                   Algernon Charles Swinburne
"If She But Knew"            Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Kathleen Mavourneen          Louisa Macartney Crawford
Robin Adair                  Caroline Keppel
"If You Were Here"           Philip Bourke Marston
"Come to Me, Dearest"        Joseph Brenan
Song, "'Tis said that
 absence Conquers love"      Frederick William Thomas
Parting                      Gerald Massey
The Parting Hour             Olive Custance
A Song of Autumn             Rennell Rodd
The Girl I Left Behind Me    Unknown
"When We are Parted"         Hamilton Aide
Remember or Forget           Hamilton Aide
Nancy Dawson                 Herbert P. Horne
My Little Love               Charles B. Hawley
For Ever                     William Caldwell Roscoe
Auf Wiedersehen              James Russell Lowell
"Forever and a Day"          Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Old Gardens                  Arthur Upson
Ferry Hinksey                Laurence Binyon
Wearyin' fer You             Frank L. Stanton
The Lovers of Marchaid       Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Song, "She's somewhere in
 the sunlight strong"        Richard Le Gallienne
The Lover Thinks of His Lady
 in the North                Shaemas O Sheel
Chanson de Rosemonde         Richard Hovey
Ad Domnulam Suam             Ernest Dawson
Marian Drury                 Bliss Carman
Love's Rosary                Alfred Noyes
When She Comes Home          James Whitcomb Riley


THE TRAGEDY OF LOVE

Song, "My silks and fine
 array"                      William Blake
The Flight of Love           Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Farewell! If ever Fondest
 Prayer"                     George Gordon Byron
Porphyria's Lover            Robert Browning
Modern Beauty                Arthur Symons
La Belle Dame Sans Merci     John Keats
Tantalus--Texas              Joaquin Miller
Enchainment                  Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Auld Robin Gray              Anne Barnard
Lost Light                   Elizabeth Akers
A Sigh                       Harriet Prescott Spofford
Hereafter                    Harriet Prescott Spofford
Endymion                     Oscar Wilde
"Love is a Terrible Thing"   Grace Fallow Norton
The Ballad of the Angel      Theodosia Garrison
"Love Came Back at Fall
 o' Dew"                     Lizette Woodworth Reese
I Shall not Care             Sara Teasdale
Outgrown                     Julia C. R. Dorr
A Tragedy                    Edith Nesbit
Left Behind                  Elizabeth Akers
The Forsaken Merman          Matthew Arnold
The Portrait                 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
The Rose and Thorn           Paul Hamilton Hayne
To Her--Unspoken             Amelia Josephine Burr
A Light Woman                Robert Browning
From the Turkish             George Gordon Byron
A Summer Wooing              Louise Chandler Moulton
Butterflies                  John Davidson
Unseen Spirits               Nathaniel Parker Willis
"Grandmither, Think Not I
 Forget"                     Willa Sibert Cather
Little Wild Baby             Margaret Thomson Janvier
A Cradle Song                Nicholas Breton
Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament  Unknown
A Woman's Love               John Hay
A Tragedy                    Theophile Marzials
"Mother, I Cannot Mind My
 Wheel"                      Walter Savage Landor
Airly Beacon                 Charles Kingsley
A Sea Child                  Bliss Carman
From the Harbor Hill         Gustav Kobbe
Allan Water                  Matthew Gregory Lewis
Forsaken                     Unknown
Bonnie Doon                  Robert Burns
The Two Lovers               Richard Hovey
The Vampire                  Rudyard Kipling
Agatha                       Alfred Austin
"A Rose Will Fade"           Dora Sigerson Shorter
Affaire d'Amour              Margaret Deland
A Casual Song                Roden Noel
The Way of It                John Vance Cheney
"When Lovely Woman Stoops
 to Folly"                   Oliver Goldsmith
Folk-Song                    Louis Untermeyer
A Very Old Song              William Laird
"She Was Young and Blithe
 and Fair"                   Harold Monro
The Lass that Died of Love   Richard Middleton
The Passion-Flower           Margaret Fuller
Norah                        Zoe Akins
Of Joan's Youth              Louise Imogen Guiney
There's Wisdom in Women      Rupert Brooke
Goethe and Frederika         Henry Sidgwick
The Song of the King's
 Minstrel                    Richard Middleton
Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon Patrick Orr
Emmy                         Arthur Symons
The Ballad of Camden Town    James Elroy Flecker


LOVE AND DEATH

Helen of Kirconnell          Unknown
Willy Drowned in Yarrow      Unknown
Annan Water                  Unknown
The Lament of the Border
 Widow                       Unknown
Aspatia's Song from "The
 Maid's Tragedy"             John Fletcher
A Ballad, "'Twas when the
 seas were roaring"          John Gay
The Braes of Yarrow          John Logan
The Churchyard on the Sands  Lord de Tabley
The Minstrel's Song
 from "Aella"                Thomas Chatterton
Highland Mary                Robert Burns
To Mary in Heaven            Robert Burns
Lucy                         William Wordsworth
Proud Maisie                 Walter Scott
Song, "Earl March looked on
 His dying child"            Thomas Campbell
The Maid's Lament            Walter Savage Landor
"She is Far from the Land"   Thomas Moore
"At the Mid Hour of Night"   Thomas Moore
On a Picture by Poussin      John Addington Symonds
Threnody                     Ruth Guthrie Harding
Strong as Death              Henry Cuyler Banner
"I Shall not Cry Return"     Ellen M. H. Gates
"Oh! Snatched away in
 Beauty's Bloom"             George Gordon Byron
To Mary                      Charles Wolfe
My Heart and I               Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rosalind's Scroll            Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lament of the Irish Emigrant Helen Selina Sheridan
The King of Denmark's Ride   Caroline E. S. Norton
The Watcher                  James Stephens
The Three Sisters            Arthur Davison Ficke
Ballad                       May Kendall
"O that 'Twere Possible"     Alfred Tennyson
"Home They Brought Her
 Warrior Dead"               Alfred Tennyson
Evelyn Hope                  Robert Browning
Remembrance                  Emily Bronte
Song,"The linnet in the
 rocky dells"                Emily Bronte
Song of the Old Love         Jean Ingelow
Requiescat                   Matthew Arnold
Too Late                     Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Four Years                   Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Barbara                      Alexander Smith
Song, "When I am dead, my
 dearest"                    Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sarrazine's Song to Her
 Dead Lover                  Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Love and Death               Rosa Mulholland
To One in Paradise           Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee                  Edgar Allan Poe
For Annie                    Edgar Allan Poe
Telling the Bees             John Greenleaf Whittier
A Tryst                      Louise Chandler Moulton
Love's Resurrection Day      Louise Chandler Moulton
Heaven                       Martha Gilbert Dickinson
Janette's Hair               Charles Graham Halpine
The Dying Lover              Richard Henry Stoddard
"When the Grass Shall
 Cover Me"                   Ina Coolbrith
Give Love Today              Ethel Talbot
Until Death                  Elizabeth Akers
Florence Vane                Phillip Pendleton Cooke
"If Spirits Walk"            Sophie Jewett
Requiescat                   Oscar Wilde
Lyric, "You would have
 understood me, had you
 waited"                     Ernest Dowson
Romance                      Andrew Lang
Good-Night                   Hester A. Benedict
Requiescat                   Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Four Winds               Charles Henry Luders
The King's Ballad            Joyce Kilmer
Heliotrope                   Harry Thurston Peck
"Lydia is Gone this Many
 a Year"                     Lizette Woodworth Reese
After                        Lizette Woodworth Reese
Memories                     Arthur Stringer
To Diane                     Helen Hay Whitney
"Music I Heard"              Conrad Aiken
Her Dwelling-place           Ada Foster Murray
The Wife from Fairyland      Richard Le Gallienne
In the Fall o' Year          Thomas S. Jones, Jr
The Invisible Bride          Edwin Markham
Rain on a Grave              Thomas Hardy
Patterns                     Amy Lowell
Dust                         Rupert Brooke
Ballad, "The roses in my
 garden"                     Maurice Baring
"The Little Rose is Dust,
 My Dear"                    Grace Hazard Conkling
Dirge                        Adelaide Crapsey
The Little Red Ribbon        James Whitcomb Riley
The Rosary                   Robert Cameron Rogers


LOVE'S FULFILLMENT

"My True-love Hath My Heart" Philip Sidney
Song, "O sweet delight"      Thomas Campion
The Good-Morrow              John Donne
"There's Gowd in the Breast" James Hogg
The Beggar Maid              Alfred Tennyson
Refuge                       A.E.
At Sunset                    Louis V. Ledoux
"One Morning Oh! so Early"   Jean Ingelow
Across the Door              Padraic Colum
May Margaret                 Theophile Marzials
Rondel, "Kissing her hair,
 I sat against her feet"     Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Spring Journey             Alice Freeman Palmer
The Brookside                Richard Monckton Milnes
Song, "For me the jasmine
 buds unfold"                Florence Earle Coates
What My Lover Said           Homer Greene
May-Music                    Rachel Annand Taylor
Song, "Flame at the core of
 the World"                  Arthur Upson
A Memory                     Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Love Triumphant              Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Lines, "Love within the
 lover's breast"             George Meredith
Love among the Ruins         Robert Browning
Earl Mertoun's Song          Robert Browning
Meeting at Night             Robert Browning
Parting at Morning           Robert Browning
The Turn of the Road         Alice Rollit Coe
"My Delight and Thy Delight" Robert Bridges
"O, Saw Ye the Lass"         Richard Ryan
Love at Sea                  Algernon Charles Swinburne
Mary Beaton's Song           Algernon Charles Swinburne
Plighted                     Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A Woman's Question           Adelaide Anne Procter
"Dinna Ask Me"               John Dunlop
A Song, "Sing me a sweet,
 low song of night"          Hildegarde Hawthorne
The Reason                   James Oppenheim
"My Own Cailin Donn"         George Sigerson
Nocturne                     Amelia Josephine Burr
Surrender                    Amelia Josephine Burr
"By Yon Burn Side"           Robert Tannahill
A Pastoral, "Flower of the
 medlar"                     Theophile Marzials
"When Death to Either shall
 Come"                       Robert Bridges
The Reconciliation           Alfred Tennyson
Song, "Wait but a little
 while"                      Norman Gale
Content                      Norman Gale
Che Sara Sara                Victor Plarr
"Bid Adieu to Girlish Days"  James Joyce
To F.C.                      Mortimer Collins
Spring Passion               Joel Elias Spingarn
Advice to a Lover            S. Charles Jellicoe
"Yes"                        Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Love                         Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nested                       Habberton Lulham
The Letters                  Alfred Tennyson
Prothalamion                 Edmund Spenser
Epithalamion                 Edmund Spenser
The Kiss                     Sara Teasdale
Marriage                     Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The Newly-wedded             Winthrop Mackworth Praed
I Saw Two Clouds at Morning  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Holy Matrimony               John Keble
The Bride                    Laurence Hope
A Marriage Charm             Nora Hopper
"Like a Laverock in the
 Lift"                       Jean Ingelow
My Owen                      Ellen Mary Patrick Downing
Doris: A Pastoral            Arthur Joseph Munby
"He'd Nothing but His
 Violin"                     Mary Kyle Dallas
Love's Calendar              William Bell Scott
Home                         Dora Greenwell
Two Lovers                   George Eliot
The Land of Heart's Desire   Emily Huntington Miller
My Ain Wife                  Alexander Laing
The Irish Wife               Thomas D'Arcy McGee
My Wife's a Winsome Wee
 Thing                       Robert Burns 
Lettice                      Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"If Thou Wert by My Side,
 My Love"                    Reginald Heber
The Shepherd's Wife's Song   Robert Greene
"Truth doth Truth Deserve"   Philip Sidney
The Married Lover            Coventry Patmore
My Love                      James Russell Lowell
Margaret to Dolcino          Charles Kingsley
Dolcino to Margaret          Charles Kingsley
At Last                      Richard Henry Stoddard
The Wife to Her Husband      Unknown
A Wife's Song                William Cox Bennett
The Sailor's Wife            William Julius Mickle
Jerry an' Me                 Hiram Rich
"Don't be Sorrowful,
 Darling"                    Rembrandt Peale
Winifreda                    Unknown
An Old Man's Idyl            Richard Realf
The Poet's Song to his Wife  Bryan Waller Procter
John Anderson                Robert Burns
To Mary                      Samuel Bishop
The Golden Wedding           David Gray
Moggy and Me                 James Hogg
"O, Lay Thy Hand in Mine,
 Dear"                       Gerald Massey
The Exequy                   Henry King


LOVE SONNETS

Sonnets from "Amoretti"      Edmund Spenser
Sonnets from "Astrophel and
 Stella"                     Philip Sidney
Sonnets from "To Delia"      Samuel Daniel
Sonnets from "Idea"          Michael Drayton
Sonnets from "Diana"         Henry Constable
Sonnets                      William Shakespeare
"Alexis, Here She Stayed"    William Drummond
"Were I as Base as is the 
 Lowly Plain"                Joshua Sylvester
A Sonnet of the Moon         Charles Best
To Mary Unwin                William Cowper
"Why art Thou Silent"        William Wordsworth
Sonnets from "The House
 of Life"                    Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sonnets                      Christina Georgina Rossetti
How My Songs of Her Began    Philip Bourke Marston
At the Last                  Philip Bourke Marston
To One who Would Make a
 Confession                  Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The Pleasures of Love        Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
"Were but my Spirit Loosed
 upon the Air"               Louise Chandler Moulton
Renouncement                 Alice Meynell
"My Love for Thee"           Richard Watson Gilder
Sonnets after the Italian    Richard Watson Gilder
Stanzas from "Modern Love"   George Meredith
Love in the Winds            Richard Hovey
"Oh, Death Will Find Me"     Rupert Brooke
The Busy Heart               Rupert Brooke
The Hill                     Rupert Brooke
Sonnets from "Sonnets to
 Miranda"                    William Watson
Sonnets from "Thysia"        Morton Luce
Sonnets from "Sonnets from
 the Portuguese"             Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One Word More                Robert Browning



PART III



POEMS OF NATURE

"The World is too Much With
 Us"                         William Wordsworth


MOTHER NATURE

The Book of the World        William Drummond
Nature                       Jones Very
Compensation                 Celia Thaxter
The Last Hour                Ethel Clifford
Nature                       Henry David Thoreau
Song of Nature               Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great Nature is an
 Army Gay"                   Richard Watson Gilder
To Mother Nature             Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Quiet Work                   Matthew Arnold
Nature                       Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"As an Old Mercer"           Mahlon Leonard Fisher
Good Company                 Karle Wilson Baker
"Here is the Place where
 Loveliness  Keeps House"    Madison Cawein
God's World                  Edna St. Vincent Millay
Wild Honey                   Maurice Thompson
Patmos                       Edith M. Thomas


DAWN AND DARK

Song, "Phoebus, arise"       William Drummond
Hymn of Apollo               Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prelude to "The New Day"     Richard Watson Gilder
Dawn on the Headland         William Watson
The Miracle of the Dawn      Madison Cawein
Dawn-angels                  A. Mary F. Robinson
Music of the Dawn            Virginia Bioren Harrison
Sunrise on Mansfield
 Mountain                    Alice Brown
Ode to Evening               William Collins
"It is a Beauteous Evening
 Calm and Free"              William Wordsworth
Gloaming                     Robert Adger Bowen
Evening Melody               Aubrey de Vere
In the Cool of the Evening   Alfred Noyes
Twilight                     Olive Custance
Twilight at Sea              Amelia C. Welby
"This is My Hour"            Zoe Akins
Song to the Evening Star     Thomas Campbell
The Evening Cloud            John Wilson
Song: To Cynthia             Ben Jonson
My Star                      Robert Browning
Night                        William Blake
To Night                     Percy Bysshe Shelly
To Night                     Joseph Blanco White
Night                        John Addington Symonds
Night                        James Montgomery
He Made the Night            Lloyd Mifflin
Hymn to the Night            Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Night's Mardi Gras           Edward J. Wheeler
Dawn and Dark                Norman Gale
Dawn                         George B. Logan, Jr
A Wood Song                  Ralph Hodgson


THE CHANGING YEAR

A Song for the Seasons       Bryan Waller Procter
A Song of the Seasons        Cosmo Monkhouse
Turn o' the Year             Katherine Tynan
The Waking Year              Emily Dickinson
Song, "The year's at the
 spring"                     Robert Browning
Early Spring                 Alfred Tennyson
Lines Written in Early
 Spring                      William Wordsworth
In Early Spring              Alice Meynell
Spring                       Thomas Nashe
A Starling's Spring Rondel   James Cousins
"When Daffodils begin to
 Peer"                       William Shakespeare
Spring, from "In Memoriam"   Alfred Tennyson
The Spring Returns           Charles Leonard Moore
"When the Hounds of Spring"  Algernon Charles Swinburne
Song, "Again rejoicing
 Nature sees"                Robert Burns
To Spring                    William Blake
An Ode on the Spring         Thomas Gray
Spring                       Henry Timrod
The Meadows in Spring        Edward Fitzgerald
The Spring                   William Barnes
"When Spring Comes Back to
 England"                    Alfred Noyes
New Life                     Amelia Josephine Burr
"Over the Wintry Threshold"  Bliss Carman
March                        William Morris
Song in March                William Gilmore Simms
March                        Nora Hopper
Written in March             William Wordsworth
The Passing of March         Robert Burns Wilson
Home Thoughts, from Abroad   Robert Browning
Song, "April, April"         William Watson
An April Adoration           Charles G. D. Roberts
Sweet Wild April             William Force Stead
Spinning in April            Josephine Preston Peabody
Song: On May Morning         John Milton
A May Burden                 Francis Thompson
Corinna's Going a-Maying     Robert Herrick
"Sister, Awake"              Unknown
May                          Edward Hovell-Thurlow
May                          Henry Sylvester Cornwell
A Spring Lilt                Unknown
Summer Longings              Denis Florence MacCarthy
Midsummer                    John Townsend Trowbridge
A Midsummer Song             Richard Watson Gilder
June, from "The Vision of
 Sir Launfal"                James Russell Lowell
June                         Harrison Smith Morris
Harvest                      Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz
Scythe Song                  Andrew Lang
September                    George Arnold
Indian Summer                Emily Dickinson
Prevision                    Ada Foster Murray
A Song of Early Autumn       Richard Watson Gilder
To Autumn                    John Keats
Ode to Autumn                Thomas Hood
Ode to the West Wind         Percy Bysshe Shelley
Autumn: a Dirge              Percy Bysshe Shelley
Autumn                       Emily Dickinson
"When the Frost is on the
 Punkin"                     James Whitcomb Riley
Kore                         Frederic Manning
Old October                  Thomas Constable
November                     C. L. Cleaveland
November                     Mahlon Leonard Fisher
Storm Fear                   Robert Frost
Winter: a Dirge              Robert Burns
Old Winter                   Thomas Noel
The Frost                    Hannah Flagg Gould
The Frosted Pane             Charles G. D. Roberts
The Frost Spirit             John Greenleaf Whittier
Snow                         Elizabeth Akers
To a Snowflake               Francis Thompson
The Snow-Shower              William Cullen Bryant
Midwinter                    John Townsend Trowbridge
A Glee for Winter            Alfred Domett
The Death of the Old Year    Alfred Tennyson
Dirge for the Year           Percy Bysshe Shelley


WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNTNG BROOK

Waldeinsamkeit               Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When in the Woods I Wander
 All Alone"                  Edward Hovell-Thurlow
Aspects of the Pines         Paul Hamilton Hayne
Out in the Fields            Unknown
Under the Leaves             Albert Laighton
"On Wenlock Edge"            Alfred Edward Housman
"What Do We Plant"           Henry Abbey
The Tree                     Jones Very
The Brave Old Oak            Henry Fothergill Chorley
"The Girt Woak Tree that's
 in the Dell"                William Barnes
To the Willow-tree           Robert Herrick
Enchantment                  Madison Cawein
Trees                        Joyce Kilmer
The Holly-tree               Robert Southey
The Pine                     Augusta Webster
"Woodman, Spare that Tree"   George Pope Morris
The Beech Tree's Petition    Thomas Campbell
The Poplar Field             William Cowper
The Planting of the
 Apple-Tree                  William Cullen Bryant
Of an Orchard                Katherine Tynan
An Orchard at Avignon        A. Mary F. Robinson
The Tide River               Charles Kingsley
The Brook's Song             Alfred Tennyson
Arethusa                     Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cataract of Lodore       Robert Southey
Song of the Chattahoochee    Sidney Lanier
"Flow Gently, Sweet Afton"   Robert Burns
Canadian Boat-Song           Thomas Moore
The Marshes of Glynn         Sidney Lanier
The Trosachs                 William Wordsworth
Hymn before Sunrise in the
 Vale of Chamouni            Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Peaks                    Stephen Crane
Kinchinjunga                 Cale Young Rice
The Hills                    Julian Grenfell
Hemlock Mountain             Sarah N. Cleghorn
Sunrise on Rydal Water       John Drinkwater
The Deserted Pasture         Bliss Carman
To Meadows                   Robert Herrick
The Cloud                    Percy Bysshe Shelley
April Rain                   Robert Loveman
Summer Invocation            William Cox Bennett
April Rain                   Mathilde Blind
To the Rainbow               Thomas Campbell


GREEN THINGS GROWING

My Garden                    Thomas Edward Brown
The Garden                   Andrew Marvell
A Garden                     Andrew Marvell
A Garden Song                Austin Dobson
In Green Old Gardens         Violet Fane
A Benedictine Garden         Alice Brown
An Autumn Garden             Bliss Carman
Unguarded                    Ada Foster Murray
The Deserted Garden          Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Forsaken Garden            Algernon Charles Swinburne
Green Things Growing         Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A Chanted Calendar           Sydney Dobell
Flowers                      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Flowers                      Thomas Hood
A Contemplation Upon Flowers Henry King
Almond Blossom               Edwin Arnold
White Azaleas                Harriet McEwen Kimball
Buttercups                   Wilfrid Thorley
The Broom Flower             Mary Howitt
The Small Celandine          William Wordsworth
To the Small Celandine       William Wordsworth
Four-leaf Clover             Ella Higginson
Sweet Clover                 Wallace Rice
"I Wandered Lonely as a
 Cloud"                      William Wordsworth
To Daffodils                 Robert Herrick
To a Mountain Daisy          Robert Burns
A Field Flower               James Montgomery
To Daisies, Not to Shut so
 Soon                        Robert Herrick
Daisies                      Bliss Carman
To the Daisy                 William Wordsworth
To Daisies                   Francis Thompson
To the Dandelion             James Russell Lowell
Dandelion                    Annie Rankin Annan
The Dandelions               Helen Gray Cone
To the Fringed Gentian       William Cullen Bryant
Goldenrod                    Elaine Goodale Eastman
Lessons from the Gorse       Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Voice of The Grass       Sarah Roberts Boyle
A Song the Grass Sings       Charles G. Blanden
The Wild Honeysuckle         Philip Freneau
The Ivy Green                Charles Dickens
Yellow Jessamine             Constance Fenimore Woolson
Knapweed                     Arthur Christopher Benson
Moly                         Edith Matilda Thomas
The Morning-Glory            Florence Earle Coates
The Mountain Heart's-Ease    Bret Harte
The Primrose                 Robert Herrick
To Primroses filled with
 Morning Dew                 Robert Herrick
To an Early Primrose         Henry Kirke White
The Rhodora                  Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rose                     William Browne
Wild Roses                   Edgar Fawcett
The Rose of May              Mary Howitt
A Rose                       Richard Fanshawe
The Shamrock                 Maurice Francis Egan
To Violets                   Robert Herrick
The Violet                   William Wetmore Story
To a Wood-Violet             John Banister Tabb
The Violet and the Rose      Augusta Webster
To a Wind-Flower             Madison Cawein
To Blossoms                  Robert Herrick
"'Tis the Last Rose of
 Summer"                     Thomas Moore
The Death of the Flowers     William Cullen Bryant


GOD'S CREATURES

Once on a Time               Margaret Benson
To a Mouse                   Robert Burns
The Grasshopper              Abraham Cowley
On the Grasshopper and
 Cricket                     John Keats
To the Grasshopper and the
 Cricket                     Leigh Hunt
The Cricket                  William Cowper
To a Cricket                 William Cox Bennett
To an Insect                 Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Snail                    William Cowper
The Housekeeper              Charles Lamb
The Humble-Bee               Ralph Waldo Emerson
To a Butterfly               William Wordsworth
Ode to a Butterfly           Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Butterfly                Alice Freeman Palmer
Fireflies                    Edgar Fawcett
The Blood Horse              Bryan Waller Procter
Birds                        Moira O'Neill
Birds                        Richard Henry Stoddard
Sea-Birds                    Elizabeth Akers
The Little Beach Bird        Richard Henry Dana
The Blackbird                Frederick Tennyson
The Blackbird                Alfred Edward Housman
The Blackbird                William Ernest Henley
The Blackbird                William Barnes
Robert of Lincoln            William Cullen Bryant
The O'Lincon Family          Wilson Flagg
The Bobolink                 Thomas Hill
My Catbird                   William Henry Venable
The Herald Crane             Hamlin Garland
The Crow                     William Canton
To the Cuckoo                John Logan
The Cuckoo                   Frederick Locker-Lampson
To the Cuckoo                William Wordsworth
The Eagle                    Alfred Tennyson
The Hawkbit                  Charles G. D. Roberts
The Heron                    Edward Hovell-Thurlow
The Jackdaw                  William Cowper
The Green Linnet             William Wordsworth
To the Man-of-War-Bird       Walt Whitman
The Maryland Yellow-Throat   Henry Van Dyke
Lament of a Mocking-bird     Frances Anne Kemble
"O Nightingale! Thou
 Surely Art"                 William Wordsworth
Philomel                     Richard Barnfield
Philomela                    Matthew Arnold
On a Nightingale in April    William Sharp
To the Nightingale           William Drummond
The Nightingale              Mark Akenside
To the Nightingale           John Milton
Philomela                    Philip Sidney
Ode to a Nightingale         John Keats
Song, 'Tis sweet to hear the
 merry lark                  Hartley Coleridge
Bird Song                    Laura E. Richards
The Song the Oriole Sings    William Dean Howells
To an Oriole                 Edgar Fawcett
Song: the Owl                Alfred Tennyson
"Sweet Suffolk Owl"          Thomas Vautor
The Pewee                    John Townsend Trowbridge
Robin Redbreast              George Washington Doane
Robin Redbreast              William Allingham
The Sandpiper                Celia Thaxter
The Sea-Mew                  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To a Skylark                 William Wordsworth
To a Skylark                 William Wordsworth
The Skylark                  James Hogg
The Skylark                  Frederick Tennyson
To a Skylark                 Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Stormy Petrel            Bryan Waller Procter
The First Swallow            Charlotte Smith
To a Swallow Building Under
 our Eaves                   Jane Welsh Carlyle
Chimney Swallows             Horatio Nelson Powers

Itylus                       Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Throstle                 Alfred Tennyson
Overflow                     John Banister Tabb
Joy-Month                    David Atwood Wasson
My Thrush                    Mortimer Collins
"Blow Softly, Thrush"        Joseph Russell Taylor
The Black Vulture            George Sterling
Wild Geese                   Frederick Peterson
To a Waterfowl               William Cullen Bryant
The Wood-Dove's Note         Emily Huntington Miller


THE SEA

Song for all Seas, all Ships Walt Whitman
Stanzas from "The Triumph
 of Time"                    Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Sea from "Childe
 Harold's Pilgrimage"        George Gordon Byron
On the Sea                   John Keats
"With Ships the Sea was
 Sprinkled"                  William Wordsworth
A Song of Desire             Frederic Lawrence Knowles
The Pines and the Sea        Christopher Pearse Cranch
Sea Fever                    John Masefield
Hastings Mill                C. Fox Smith
"A Wet Sheet and a Flowing
 Sea"                        Allan Cunningham
The Sea                      Bryan Waller Procter
Sailor's Song from "Death's
 Jest Book"                  Thomas Lovell Beddoes
"A Life on the Ocean Wave"   Epes Sargent
Tacking Ship off Shore       Walter Mitchell
In Our Boat                  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Poor Jack                    Charles Dibdin
"Rocked in the Cradle of the
 Deep"                       Emma Hart Willard
Outward                      John G. Neihardt
A Passer-by                  Robert Bridges
Off Riviere du Loup          Duncan Campbell Scott
Christmas at Sea             Robert Louis Stevenson
The Port o' Heart's Desire   John S. McGroarty
On the Quay                  John Joy Bell
The Forging of the Anchor    Samuel Ferguson
Drifting                     Thomas Buchanan Read
"How's My Boy"               Sydney Dobell
The Long White Seam          Jean Ingelow
Storm Song                   Bayard Taylor
The Mariner's Dream          William Dimond
The Inchcape Rock            Robert Southey
The Sea                      Richard Henry Stoddard
The Sands of Dee             Charles Kingsley
The Three Fishers            Charles Kingsley
Ballad                       Harriet Prescott Spofford
The Northern Star            Unknown
The Fisher's Widow           Arthur Symons
Caller Herrin'               Carolina Nairne
Hannah Binding Shoes         Lucy Larcom
The Sailor                   William Allingham
The Burial of the Dane       Henry Howard Brownell
Tom Bowling                  Charles Dibdin
Messmates                    Henry Newbolt
The Last Buccaneer           Charles Kingsley
The Last Buccaneer           Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Leadman's Song           Charles Dibdin
Homeward Bound               William Allingham


THE SIMPLE LIFE 

The Lake Isle of Innisfree   William Butler Yeats
A Wish                       Samuel Rogers
Ode on Solitude              Alexander Pope
"Thrice Happy He"            William Drummond
"Under the Greenwood Tree"   William Shakespeare
Coridon's Song               John Chalkhill
The Old Squire               Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Inscription in a Hermitage   Thomas Warton
The Retirement               Charles Cotton
The Country Faith            Norman Gale
Truly Great                  William H. Davies
Early Morning at Bargis      Hermann Hagedorn
The Cup                      John Townsend Trowbridge
A Strip of Blue              Lucy Larcom
An Ode to Master Anthony
 Stafford                    Thomas Randolph
"The Midges Dance Aboon the
 Burn"                       Robert Tannahill
The Plow                     Richard Hengist Horne
The Useful Plow              Unknown
"To One Who has Been Long in
 City Pent"                  John Keats
The Quiet Life               William Byrd
The Wish                     Abraham Cowley
Expostulation and Reply      William Wordsworth
The Tables Turned            William Wordsworth
Simple Nature                George John Romanes
"I Fear no Power a Woman
 Wields"                     Ernest McGaffey
A Runnable Stag              John Davidson
Hunting Song                 Richard Hovey
"A-Hunting We Will Go"       Henry Fielding
The Angler's Invitation      Thomas Tod Stoddart
The Angler's Wish            Izaak Walton
The Angler                   John Chalkhill


WANDERLUST

To Jane: the Invitation      Percy Bysshe Shelley
"My Heart's in the
 Highlands"                  Robert Burns
"Afar in the Desert"         Thomas Pringle
Spring Song in the City      Robert Buchanan
In City Streets              Ada Smith
The Vagabond                 Robert Louis Stevenson
In the Highlands             Robert Louis Stevenson
The Song my Paddle Sings     E. Pauline Johnson
The Gipsy Trail              Rudyard Kipling
Wanderlust                   Gerald Gould
The Footpath Way             Katherine Tynan
A Maine Trail                Gertrude Huntington McGiffert
Afoot                        Charles G. D. Roberts
From Romany to Rome          Wallace Irwin
The Toil of the Trail        Hamlin Garland
"Do You Fear the Wind?"      Hamlin Garland
The King's Highway           John S. McGroarty
The Forbidden Lure           Fannie Stearns Davis
The Wander-Lovers            Richard Hovey
The Sea-Gipsy                Richard Hovey
A Vagabond Song              Bliss Carman
Spring Song                  Bliss Carman
The Mendicants               Bliss Carman
The Joys of the Road         Bliss Carman
The Song of the Forest
 Ranger                      Herbert Bashford
A Drover                     Padraic Colum
Ballad of Low-lie-down       Madison Cawein
The Good Inn                 Herman Knickerbocker Viele
Night for Adventures         Victor Starbuck
Song, "Something calls and
 whispers"                   Georgiana Goddard King
The Voortrekker              Rudyard Kipling
The Long Trail               Rudyard Kipling



PART IV



FAMILIAR VERSE, AND POEMS HUMOROUS AND SATIRIC

Ballade of the Primitive Jest  Andrew Lang


THE KINDLY MUSE

Time to be Wise              Walter Savage Landor
Under the Lindens            Walter Savage Landor
Advice                       Walter Savage Landor
To Fanny                     Thomas Moore
"I'd be a Butterfly"         Thomas Haynes Bayly
"I'm not a Single Man"       Thomas Hood
To -----                     Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The Vicar                    Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The Belle of the Ball-room   Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The Fine Old English
 Gentleman                   Unknown
A Ternerie of Littles, upon
 a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to
 a Lady                      Robert Herrick
Chivalry at a Discount       Edward Fitzgerald

The Ballad of Bouillabaisse  William Makepeace Thackeray
To my Grandmother            Frederick Locker-Lampson
My Mistress's Boots          Frederick Locker-Lampson
A Garden Lyric               Frederick Locker-Lampson
Mrs. Smith                   Frederick Locker-Lampson
The Skeleton in the Cupboard Frederick Locker-Lampson
A Terrible Infant            Frederick Locker-Lampson
Companions                   Charles Stuart Calverley
Dorothy Q                    Oliver Wendell Holmes
My Aunt                      Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Last Leaf                Oliver Wendell Holmes
Contentment                  Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Boys                     Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Jolly Old Pedagogue      George Arnold
On an Intaglio Head of
 Minerva                     Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thalia                       Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Pan in Wall Street           Edmund Clarence Stedman
Upon Lesbia - Arguing        Alfred Cochrane
To Anthea, who May Command
 Him Anything                Alfred Cochrane
The Eight-Day Clock          Alfred Cochrane
A Portrait                   Joseph Ashby-Sterry
"Old Books are Best"         Beverly Chew
Impression                   Edmund Gosse
"With Strawberries"          William Ernest Henley
Ballade of Ladies' Names     William Ernest Henley
To a Pair of Egyptian
 Slippers                    Edwin Arnold
Without and Within           James Russell Lowell
"She was a Beauty"           Henry Cuyler Bunner
Nell Gwynne's Looking-Glass  Laman Blanchard
Mimnermus in Church          William Johnson-Cory
Clay                         Edward Verrall Lucas
Aucassin and Nicolete        Francis William Bourdillon
Aucassin and Nicolette       Edmund Clarence Stedman
On the Hurry of This Time    Austin Dobson
"Good-Night, Babette"        Austin Dobson
A Dialogue from Plato        Austin Dobson
The Ladies of St. James's    Austin Dobson
The Cure's Progress          Austin Dobson
A Gentleman of the Old
 School                      Austin Dobson
On a Fan                     Austin Dobson
"When I Saw You Last, Rose"  Austin Dobson
Urceus Exit                  Austin Dobson
A Corsage Bouquet            Charles Henry Luders
Two Triolets                 Harrison Robertson
The Ballad of Dead Ladies    Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ballade of Dead Ladies       Andrew Lang
A Ballad of Dead Ladies      Justin Huntly McCarthy
If I Were King               Justin Huntly McCarthy
A Ballade of Suicide         Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Chiffons!                    William Samuel Johnson
The Court Historian          Walter Thornbury
Miss Lou                     Walter de La Mare
The Poet and the Wood-louse  Helen Parry Eden
Students                     Florence Wilkinson
"One, Two, Three"            Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Chaperon                 Henry Cuyler Bunner
"A Pitcher of Mignonette"    Henry Cuyler Bunner
Old King Cole                Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Master Mariner           George Sterling
A Rose to the Living         Nixon Waterman
A Kiss                       Austin Dobson
Biftek aux Champignons       Henry Augustin Beers
Evolution                    Langdon Smith
A Reasonable Affliction      Matthew Prior
A Moral in Sevres            Mildred Howells
On the Fly-leaf of a Book of
 Old Plays                   Walter Learned
The Talented Man             Winthrop Mackworth Praed
A Letter of Advice           Winthrop Mackworth Praed
A Nice Correspondent         Frederick Locker-Lampson
Her Letter                   Bret Harte
A Dead Letter                Austin Dobson
The Nymph Complaining for
 the Death of her Fawn       Andrew Marvell
On the Death of a Favorite
 Cat Drowned in a Tub of
 Goldfishes                  Thomas Gray
Verses on a Cat              Charles Daubeny
Epitaph on a Hare            William Cowper
On the Death of Mrs.
 Throckmorton's Bullfinch    William Cowper
An Elegy on a Lap-Dog        John Gay
My Last Terrier              John Halsham
Geist's Grave                Matthew Arnold
"Hold"                       Patrick R. Chalmers


THE BARB OF SATIRE

The Vicar of Bray            Unknown
The Lost Leader              Robert Browning
Ichabod                      John Greenleaf Whittier
What Mr. Robinson Thinks     James Russell Lowell
The Debate in the Sennit     James Russell Lowell
The Marquis of Carabas       Robert Brough
A Modest Wit                 Selleck Osborn
Jolly Jack                   William Makepeace Thackeray
The King of Brentford        William Makepeace Thackeray
Kaiser & Co                  A. Macgregor Rose
Nongtongpaw                  Charles Dibdin
The Lion and the Cub         John Gay
The Hare with Many Friends   John Gay
The Sycophantic Fox and the
 Gullible Raven              Guy Wetmore Carryl
The Friend of Humanity and
 the Knife-Grinder           George Canning
Villon's Straight Tip to all
 Cross Coves                 William Ernest Henley
Villon's Ballade             Andrew Lang
A Little Brother of the Rich Edward Sandford Martin
The World's Way              Thomas Bailey Aldrich
For My Own Monument          Matthew Prior
The Bishop Orders His Tomb
 at Saint Praxed's Church    Robert Browning
Up at a Villa - Down in the
 City                        Robert Browning
All Saints'                  Edmund Yates
An Address to the Unco Guid  Robert Burns
The Deacon's Masterpiece     Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ballade of a Friar           Andrew Lang
The Chameleon                James Merrick
The Blind Men and the
 Elephant                    John Godfrey Saxe
The Philosopher's Scales     Jane Taylor
The Maiden and the Lily      John Fraser
The Owl-Critic               James Thomas Fields
The Ballad of Imitation      Austin Dobson
The Conundrum of the
 Workshops                   Rudyard Kipling
The V-a-s-e                  James Jeffrey Roche
Hem and Haw                  Bliss Carmen
Miniver Cheevy               Edwin Arlington Robinson
Then Ag'in                   Sam Walter Foss
A Conservative               Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
Similar Cases                Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
Man and the Ascidian         Andrew Lang
The Calf-Path                Sam Walter Foss
Wedded Bliss                 Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
Paradise: A Hindoo Legend    George Birdseye
Ad Chloen, M. A.             Mortimer Collins
"As Like the Woman as
 You Can"                    William Ernest Henley
"No Fault in Women"          Robert Herrick
"Are Women Fair"             Francis Davison (?)
A Strong Hand                Aaron Hill
Women's Longing              John Fletcher
Triolet                      Robert Bridges
The Fair Circassian          Richard Garnett
The Female Phaeton           Matthew Prior
The Lure                     John Boyle O'Reilly
The Female of the Species    Rudyard Kipling
The Woman with the Serpent's
 Tongue                      William Watson
Suppose                      Anne Reeve Aldrich
Too Candid by Half           John Godfrey Saxe
Fable                        Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woman's Will                 Unknown
Woman's Will                 John Godfrey Saxe
Plays                        Walter Savage Landor
Remedy Worse than the
 Disease                     Matthew Prior
The Net of Law               James Jeffrey Roche
Cologne                      Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epitaph on Charles II        John Wilmot
Certain Maxims of Hafiz      Rudyard Kipling
A Baker's Duzzen uv
 Wise Sawz                   Edward Rowland Sill
Epigram                      Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epigram                      Unknown
Epigram                      Richard Garnett
Epigram                      Richard Garnett
Epigram                      Walter Savage Landor
Epigram                      William Erskine
Epigram                      Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Epigram                      Alexander Pope
Epigram                      Samuel Johnson
Epigram                      John Gay
Epigram                      Alexander Pope
Epigram                      Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epigram                      Unknown
Epigram                      Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epigram                      Unknown
Epigram                      Matthew Prior
Epigram                      George Macdonald
Epigram                      Jonathan Swift
Epigram                      Byron's epitaph for Pitt
Epigram                      David Garrick
Epigram                      John Harington
Epigram                      John Byrom
Epigram                      Richard Garnett
Epigram                      Thomas Moore
Epigram                      Unknown
Epigram                      Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epigram                      John Dryden
Epigram                      Thomas Hood
Written on a Looking-glass   Unknown
An Epitaph                   George John Cayley
On the Aristocracy of
 Harvard                     John Collins Bossidy
On the Democracy of Yale     Frederick Scheetz Jones
A General Summary            Rudyard Kipling


THE MIMICS

An Omar for Ladies           Josephine Daskam Bacon
"When Lovely Woman"          Phoebe Cary
Fragment in Imitation of
 Wordsworth                  Catherine M. Fanshaw
Only Seven                   Henry Sambrooke Leigh
Lucy Lake                    Newton Mackintosh
Jane Smith                   Rudyard Kipling
Father William               Lewis Carroll
The New Arrival              George Washington Cable
Disaster                     Charles Stuart Calverley
'Twas Ever Thus              Henry Sambrooke Leigh
A Grievance                  James Kenneth Stephen
"Not a Sou Had he Got"       Richard Harris Barham
The Whiting and the Snail    Lewis Carroll
The Recognition              William Sawyer
The Higher Pantheism in a
 Nutshell                    Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Willow-tree              William Makepeace Thackeray
Poets and Linnets            Tom Hood, the Younger
The Jam-pot                  Rudyard Kipling
Ballad                       Charles Stuart Calverley
The Poster-girl              Carolyn Wells
After Dilletante Concetti    Henry Duff Traill
If                           Mortimer Collins
Nephilidia                   Algernon Charles Swinburne
Commonplaces                 Rudyard Kipling
The Promissory Note          Bayard Taylor
Mrs. Judge Jenkins           Bret Harte
The Modern Hiawatha          George A. Strong
How Often                    Ben King
"If I should Die To-night"   Ben King
Sincere Flattery             James Kenneth Stephen
Culture in the Slums         William Ernest Henley
The Poets at Tea             Barry Pain
Wordsworth                   James Kenneth Stephen






PART I






POEMS OF YOUTH AND AGE






THE HUMAN SEASONS

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:

He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honeyed cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto Heaven: quiet coves

His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness - to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook: -

He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

John Keats [1795-1821]







THE BABY






"ONLY A BABY SMALL"

Only a baby small,
Dropped from the skies,
Only a laughing face,
Two sunny eyes;
Only two cherry lips,
One chubby nose;
Only two little hands,
Ten little toes.

Only a golden head,
Curly and soft;
Only a tongue that wags
Loudly and oft;
Only a little brain,
Empty of thought;
Only a little heart,
Troubled with naught.

Only a tender flower
Sent us to rear;
Only a life to love
While we are here;
Only a baby small,
Never at rest;
Small, but how dear to us,
God knoweth best.

Matthias Barr [1831-?]


ONLY

Something to live for came to the place,
Something to die for maybe,
Something to give even sorrow a grace,
And yet it was only a baby!

Cooing, and laughter, and gurgles, and cries,
Dimples for tenderest kisses,
Chaos of hopes, and of raptures, and sighs,
Chaos of fears and of blisses.

Last year, like all years, the rose and the thorn;
This year a wilderness maybe;
But heaven stooped under the roof on the morn
That it brought them only a baby.

Harriet Prescott Spofford [1835-1921]


INFANT JOY

"I have no name;
I am but two days old."
What shall I call thee?
"I happy am,
Joy is my name."
Sweet joy befall thee!

Pretty joy!
Sweet joy, but two days old.
Sweet joy I call thee;
Thou dost smile,
I sing the while;
Sweet joy befall thee!

William Blake [1757-1827]


BABY
From "At the Back of the North Wind"

Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.

Where did you get those eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.

What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.

Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.

What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I went by.

What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than any one knows.

Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.

Where did you get this pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.

Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into bonds and bands.

Feet, where did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs' wings.

How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.

But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought about you, and so I am here.

George Macdonald [1824-1905]


TO A NEW-BORN BABY GIRL

And did thy sapphire shallop slip
Its moorings suddenly, to dip

Adown the clear, ethereal sea
From star to star, all silently?
What tenderness of archangels
In silver, thrilling syllables
Pursued thee, or what dulcet hymn
Low-chanted by the cherubim?
And thou departing must have heard
The holy Mary's farewell word,
Who with deep eyes and wistful smile
Remembered Earth a little while.

Now from the coasts of morning pale
Comes safe to port thy tiny sail.
Now have we seen by early sun,
Thy miracle of life begun.
All breathing and aware thou art,
With beauty templed in thy heart
To let thee recognize the thrill
Of wings along far azure hill,
And hear within the hollow sky
Thy friends the angels rushing by.
These shall recall that thou hast known
Their distant country as thine own,
To spare thee word of vales and streams,
And publish heaven through thy dreams.
The human accents of the breeze
Through swaying star-acquainted trees
Shall seem a voice heard earlier,
Her voice, the adoring sigh of her,
When thou amid rosy cherub-play
Didst hear her call thee, far away,
And dream in very Paradise
The worship of thy mother's eyes.

Grace Hazard Conkling [1878-


TO LITTLE RENEE ON FIRST SEEING HER LYING IN HER CRADLE

Who is she here that now I see,
This dainty new divinity,
Love's sister, Venus' child?  She shows
Her hues, white lily and pink rose,
And in her laughing eyes the snares
That hearts entangle unawares.
Ah, woe to men if Love should yield
His arrows to this girl to wield
Even in play, for she would give
Sore wounds that none might take and live.
Yet no such wanton strain is hers,
Nor Leda's child and Jupiter's
Is she, though swans no softer are
Than whom she fairer is by far.
For she was born beside the rill
That gushes from Parnassus' hill,
And by the bright Pierian spring
She shall receive an offering
From every youth who pipes a strain
Beside his flocks upon the plain.
But I, the first, this very day,
Will tune for her my humble lay,
Invoking this new Muse to render
My oaten reed more sweet and tender,
Within its vibrant hollows wake
Such dulcet voices for her sake
As, curved hand at straining ear,
I long have stood and sought to hear
Borne with the warm midsummer breeze
With scent of hay and hum of bees
Faintly from far-off Sicily....

Ah, well I know that not for us
Are Virgil and Theocritus,
And that the golden age is past
Whereof they sang, and thou, the last,
Sweet Spenser, of their god-like line,
Soar far too swift for verse of mine
One strain to compass of your song.
Yet there are poets that prolong
Of your rare voice the ravishment
In silver cadences; content
Were I if I could but rehearse
One stave of Wither's starry verse,
Weave such wrought richness as recalls
Britannia's lovely Pastorals,
Or in some garden-spot suspire
One breath of Marvell's magic fire
When in the green and leafy shade
He sees dissolving all that's made.
Ah, little Muse still far too high
On weak, clipped wings my wishes fly.
Transform them then and make them doves,
Soft-moaning birds that Venus loves,
That they may circle ever low
Above the abode where you shall grow
Into your gracious womanhood.
And you shall feed the gentle brood
From out your hand - content they'll be
Only to coo their songs to thee. 

William Aspenwall Bradley [1878-


RHYME OF ONE

You sleep upon your mother's breast,
Your race begun,
A welcome, long a wished-for Guest,
Whose age is One.

A Baby-Boy, you wonder why
You cannot run;
You try to talk - how hard you try! -
You're only One.

Ere long you won't be such a dunce:
You'll eat your bun,
And fly your kite, like folk who once
Were only One.

You'll rhyme and woo, and fight and joke,
Perhaps you'll pun!
Such feats are never done by folk
Before they're One.

Some day, too, you may have your joy,
And envy none;
Yes, you, yourself, may own a Boy,
Who isn't One.

He'll dance, and laugh, and crow; he'll do
As you have done:
(You crown a happy home, though you
Are only One.)

But when he's grown shall you be here
To share his fun,
And talk of times when he (the Dear!)
Was hardly One?

Dear Child, 'tis your poor lot to be
My little Son;
I'm glad, though I am old, you see, -
While you are One.

Frederick Locker-Lampson [1821-1895]


TO A NEW-BORN CHILD

Small traveler from an unseen shore,
By mortal eye ne'er seen before,
To you, good-morrow.
You are as fair a little dame
As ever from a glad world came
To one of sorrow.

We smile above you, but you fret;
We call you gentle names, and yet
Your cries redouble.
'Tis hard for little babes to prize
The tender love that underlies
A life of trouble.

And have you come from Heaven to earth?
That were a road of little mirth,
A doleful travel.
"Why did I come?" you seem to cry,
But that's a riddle you and I
Can scarce unravel.

Perhaps you really wished to come,
But now you are so far from home
Repent the trial.
What! did you leave celestial bliss
To bless us with a daughter's kiss?
What self-denial!

Have patience for a little space,
You might have come to a worse place,
Fair Angel-rover.
No wonder now you would have stayed,
But hush your cries, my little maid,
The journey's over.

For, utter stranger as you are,
There yet are many hearts ajar
For your arriving,
And trusty fri