| Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron. | 358. | Prelude |
| |
| Composite Idyllic School |
| Frederick Tennyson. | 359. | Thirty-first of May |
360. | The Blackbird |
361. | From “Niobe” |
| Charles Tennyson Turner. | 362. | The Lion’s Skeleton |
363. | The Vacant Cage |
364. | The Lachrymatory |
365. | The Buoy-Bell |
366. | The Forest Glade |
367. | The Lattice at Sunrise |
368. | The Rookery |
369. | Orion |
370. | To the Gossamer-Light |
371. | Letty’s Globe |
372. | Her First-Born |
| Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron. | 373. | The Deserted House |
374. | The Lotos-Eaters |
375. | Ulysses |
376. | Sir Galahad |
377. | Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere |
378. | Break, Break, Break |
379. | Songs from “The Princess.” I. As thro’ the Land |
380. | Songs from “The Princess.” II. Sweet and Low |
381. | Songs from “The Princess.” III. Bugle Song |
382. | Songs from “The Princess.” IV. Tears, Idle Tears |
383. | Songs from “The Princess.” V. Thy Voice Is Heard |
384. | Songs from “The Princess.” VI. Ask Me No More |
385. | Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington |
386. | The Charge of the Light Brigade |
387. | Northern Farmer |
388. | The Daisy |
389. | The Flower |
390. | Come into the Garden, Maud |
391. | The Shell |
392. | The Passing of Arthur |
393. | Rizpah |
394. | Flower in the Crannied Wall |
395. | Song in “The Foresters” |
396. | Vastness |
397. | The Silent Voices |
398. | Crossing the Bar |
| Benjamin Disraeli, 1st earl of Beaconsfield. | 399. | Wellington |
| Thomas Westwood. | 400. | O Wind of the Mountain! |
401. | In the Golden Morning of the World |
| Arthur Hugh Clough. | 402. | In a Lecture-Room |
403. | A Protest |
404. | Qua Cursum Ventus |
405. | From “The Bothie of Tober-Na-Vuolich” |
406. | Peschiera |
407. | From “Amours De Voyage” |
408. | Ite Domum Saturæ, Venit Hesperus |
409. | Ah! Yet Consider It Again |
410. | Where Lies the Land |
| John Campbell Shairp. | 411. | Cailleach Bein-Y-Vreich |
| Menella Bute Smedley. | 412. | The Little Fair Soul |
| Robert Leighton. | 413. | The Dried-up Fountain |
| Matthew Arnold. | 414. | Written in Emerson’s Essays |
415. | The World and the Quietist |
416. | From “Sohrab and Rustum” |
417. | From “Balder Dead” |
418. | The Forsaken Merman |
419. | Philomela |
420. | Dover Beach |
421. | From “Empedocles on Etna” |
422. | The Buried Life |
423. | Memorial Verses |
424. | Geist’s Grave |
| Charles Kent. | 425. | Pope at Twickenham |
| William Caldwell Roscoe. | 426. | To La Sansœur |
427. | The Master-Chord |
428. | Earth |
| William Johnson Cory. | 429. | Mimnermus in Church |
430. | Heracleitus |
431. | A Poor French Sailor’s Scottish Sweetheart |
| Anonymous. | 432. | Epitaph of Dionysia |
| Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore. | 433. | From “The Angel in the House” |
434. | The Girl of All Periods |
435. | From “The Unknown Eros” |
436. | Regina Cœli |
| Walter C. Smith. | 437. | Daughters of Philistia |
438. | The Self-Exiled |
| Francis Turner Palgrave. | 439. | The Ancient and Modern Muses |
440. | Pro Mortuis |
441. | William Wordsworth |
442. | A Little Child’s Hymn |
443. | A Danish Barrow |
| Thomas Henry Huxley. | 444. | Tennyson |
| Arthur Joseph Munby. | 445. | Doris: A Pastoral |
446. | From “Dorothy: a Country Story.” I. Dorothy |
447. | From “Dorothy: a Country Story.” II. Country Kisses |
448. | From “Dorothy: a Country Story.” III. Dorothy’s Room |
449. | From “Dorothy: a Country Story.” IV. Beauty at the Plough |
450. | Flos Florum |
451. | Sweet Nature’s Voice |
| Isa Craig Knox. | 452. | The Woodruffe |
| Sir Edwin Arnold. | 453. | From “The Light of Asia” |
454. | The Caliph’s Draught |
455. | After Death in Arabia |
456. | Raglan |
457. | From “With Sa’di in the Garden.” I. Mahmud and Ayaz: A Paraphrase on Sa’Di |
458. | From “With Sa’di in the Garden.” II. Song without a Sound |
459. | The Musmee |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke. | 460. | Versailles |
461. | The Jungfrau’s Cry |
462. | Songs from “Riquet of the Tuft.” I. Queen’s Song |
463. | Songs from “Riquet of the Tuft.” II. Prince Riquet’s Song |
| John Nichol. | 464. | Mare Mediterraneum |
465. | H. W. L. |
| Francis Robert Rosslyn, Earl of. | 466. | Bedtime |
467. | Memory |
| Sir Lewis Morris. | 468. | At Last |
469. | Song |
470. | On a Thrush Singing in Autumn |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton. | 471. | The Sanyassi |
472. | The Wild Huntsmen |
| Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel. | 473. | The Secret of the Nightingale |
474. | Sea Slumber-Song |
475. | Dying |
476. | The Merry-Go-Round |
477. | Lament |
478. | The Toy Cross |
479. | “That They All May Be One” |
| Sir Alfred Lyall. | 480. | Meditations of a Hindu Prince |
| Alfred Austin. | 481. | At His Grave |
482. | Songs from “Prince Lucifer.” I. Grave-Digger’s Song |
483. | Songs from “Prince Lucifer.” II. Mother-Song |
484. | Agatha |
485. | The Haymakers’ Song |
| Thomas Ashe. | 486. | Marian |
487. | Phantoms |
488. | By the Salpétrière |
489. | A Vision of Children |
490. | Poeta Nascitur |
| Theodore Watts-Dunton. | 491. | Ode to Mother Carey’s Chicken |
492. | The Sonnet’s Voice |
493. | Coleridge |
494. | The Breath of Avon |
495. | The First Kiss |
496. | John the Pilgrim |
497. | Natura Benigna |
498. | Natura Maligna |
| David Gray. | 499. | The Dear Old Toiling One |
500. | I Die, Being Young |
501. | My Epitaph |
| John Addington Symonds. | 502. | An Episode |
503. | Lux Est Umbra Dei |
504. | The Nightingale |
505. | The Fall of a Soul |
506. | Farewell |
507. | Il Fior Degli Eroici Furori |
508. | Venice |
509. | Thyself |
510. | The Sonnet |
| Alexander Hay Japp. | 511. | A Music Lesson |
512. | Landor |
513. | Shelley |
514. | Memories |
| Cosmo Monkhouse. | 515. | Song |
516. | A Dead March |
517. | The Spectrum |
518. | The Secret |
519. | Robert Buchanan |
520. | Spring Song in the City |
521. | The Wake of Tim O’Hara |
522. | Two Sons |
523. | On a Young Poetess’s Grave |
524. | The Summer Pool |
525. | We Are Children |
526. | When We Are All Asleep |
527. | The Dream of the World without Death |
528. | The Faëry Foster-Mother |
529. | The Churchyard |
| Emily Pfeiffer. | 530. | A Song of Winter |
531. | To a Moth That Drinketh of the Ripe October |
532. | To the Herald Honeysuckle |
| Frederic William Henry Myers. | 533. | From “Saint Paul” |
534. | A Song |
535. | On a Grave at Grindelwald |
536. | A Last Appeal |
537. | Immortality |
538. | A Letter from Newport |
539. | I Saw, I Saw the Lovely Child |
| Edward Dowden. | 540. | Renunciants |
541. | Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa” |
542. | Two Infinities |
| Margaret Veley. | 543. | First or Last? |
| Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie. | 544. | A May Song |
545. | A Foreboding |
546. | In Green Old Gardens |
547. | Afterwards |
| Samuel Waddington. | 548. | The Inn of Care |
549. | Soul and Body |
| Ernest Myers. | 550. | Gordon |
551. | Etsi Omnes, Ego Non |
552. | “The Seamaids’ Music” |
| George Francis Savage-Armstrong. | 553. | Autumn Memories |
554. | The Mystery |
555. | One in the Infinite |
556. | My Guide |
557. | “The Father” |
| James Chapman Woods. | 558. | The Soul Stithy |
559. | The World’s Death-Night |
| |
| Balladists and Lyrists |
| Louisa Macartney Crawford. | 560. | Kathleen Mavourneen |
| Sir Francis Hastings Doyle. | 561. | The Old Cavalier |
562. | The Private of the Buffs |
| William Makepeace Thackeray. | 563. | At the Church Gate |
564. | The Ballad of Bouillabaisse |
565. | The Age of Wisdom |
566. | Sorrows of Werther |
567. | The Pen and the Album |
568. | The Mahogany Tree |
569. | The End of the Play |
| Charles Kingsley. | 570. | From “The Saint’s Tragedy” |
571. | The Sands of Dee |
572. | The Three Fishers |
573. | A Myth |
574. | The Dead Church |
575. | Andromeda and the Sea-Nymphs |
576. | The Last Buccaneer |
577. | Lorraine |
578. | A Farewell |
| Adelaide Anne Procter. | 579. | A Woman’s Question |
580. | A Doubting Heart |
581. | The Requital |
582. | Per Pacem Ad Lucem |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. | 583. | Philip, My King |
584. | Too Late |
| Earl of Southesk (Sir James Carnegie). | 585. | The Flitch of Dunmow |
586. | November’s Cadence |
| Mortimer Collins. | 587. | A Greek Idyl |
588. | Kate Temple’s Song |
589. | The Ivory Gate |
| William Allingham. | 590. | The Fairies |
591. | Lovely Mary Donnelly |
592. | The Sailor |
593. | A Dream |
594. | Half-Waking |
595. | Day and Night Songs |
| George Walter Thornbury. | 596. | The Three Scars |
597. | Melting of the Earl’s Plate |
598. | The Three Troopers |
599. | The White Rose over the Water |
600. | The Jacobite on Tower Hill |
601. | The Death of Marlborough |
602. | The Old Grenadier’s Story |
| John Veitch. | 603. | The Laird of Schelynlaw |
| Jean Ingelow. | 604. | The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire |
605. | Sailing beyond Seas |
606. | The Long White Seam |
| Robert Dwyer Joyce. | 607. | Crossing the Blackwater |
| Ellen O’Leary. | 608. | To God and Ireland True |
| Hamilton Aïdé. | 609. | Remember or Forget |
610. | The Danube River |
611. | When We Are Parted |
612. | The Forsaken |
| Joseph Skipsey. | 613. | Mother Wept |
614. | The Dewdrop |
615. | The Butterfly |
| Richard Garnett. | 616. | The Island of Shadows |
617. | The Fair Circassian |
618. | The Ballad of the Boat |
619. | The Lyrical Poem |
620. | The Didactic Poem |
621. | On an Urn |
622. | Age |
623. | To America |
| John Todhunter. | 624. | The Banshee |
| R. St. John Tyrwhitt. | 625. | The Glory of Motion |
| Clement William Scott. | 626. | Rus In Urbe |
627. | Lilian Adelaide Neilson |
| Sarah Williams. | 628. | Omàr and the Persian |
629. | Queen Elizabeth |
| Lady Blanche Elizabeth Lindsay. | 630. | Sonnet |
631. | My Heart Is a Lute |
| |
| Various Distinctive Poets |
| Thomas Gordon Hake. | 632. | Old Souls |
633. | The Sibyl |
| Edward FitzGerald. | 634. | From His Paraphrase of the Rubáiyát of Omár Khayyám |
| George Meredith. | 635. | R. B. |
| Robert Browning. | 636. | Song from “Paracelsus” |
637. | Cavalier Tunes. I. Marching Along |
638. | Cavalier Tunes. II. Give a Rouse |
639. | Cavalier Tunes. III. Boot and Saddle |
640. | My Last Duchess |
641. | Incident of the French Camp |
642. | In a Gondola |
643. | Song from “Pippa Passes” |
644. | “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” |
645. | The Lost Leader |
646. | Youth and Art |
647. | Home Thoughts from Abroad |
648. | A Face |
649. | “De Gustibus—” |
650. | The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church |
651. | Meeting at Night |
652. | Parting at Morning |
653. | Evelyn Hope |
654. | “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” |
655. | Respectability |
656. | Memorabilia |
657. | One Way of Love |
658. | One Word More |
659. | Abt Vogler |
660. | Prospice |
661. | Misconceptions |
662. | Epitaph |
663. | Muckle-Mouth Meg |
664. | Epilogue |
| Sydney Dobell. | 665. | How ’s My Boy? |
666. | A Nuptial Eve |
667. | Tommy ’s Dead |
668. | Home in War-Time |
669. | America |
670. | Epigram on the Death of Edward Forbes |
671. | Sea Ballad |
672. | Dante, Shakespeare, Milton |
673. | On the Death of Mrs. Browning |
674. | Fragment of a Sleep-Song |
| George Meredith. | 675. | From “Modern Love.” I. “All Other Joys” |
676. | From “Modern Love.” II. Hiding the Skeleton |
677. | From “Modern Love.” III. The Coin of Pity |
678. | From “Modern Love.” IV. One Twilight Hour |
679. | Juggling Jerry |
680. | The Lark Ascending |
681. | Lucifer in Starlight |
682. | The Spirit of Shakespeare |
683. | The Two Masks |
| Sebastian Evans. | 684. | A Dirge for Summer |
685. | What the Trumpeter Said |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti. | 686. | The Unseen World. I. At Home |
687. | The Unseen World. II. Remember |
688. | The Unseen World. III. After Death |
689. | The Unseen World. IV. Wife to Husband |
690. | The Unseen World. V. Up-Hill |
691. | “It Is Finished” |
692. | From “Monna Innominata.” I. Agnegation |
693. | From “Monna Innominata.” II. Trust |
694. | Fluttered Wings |
695. | Passing and Glassing |
696. | The Thread of Life |
697. | From “Later Life” |
698. | An Echo from Willowwood |
699. | Twist Me a Crown |
700. | Good-By |
| Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton. | 701. | Indian Love-Song |
702. | Aux Italiens |
703. | The Chess-Board |
704. | Tempora Acta |
705. | The Dinner Hour |
706. | The Legend of the Dead Lambs |
707. | The Utmost |
| James Thomson. | 708. | Melencolia |
709. | Life’s Hebe |
710. | From “He Heard Her Sing” |
| Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King. | 711. | Palmermo |
712. | The Crocus |
| |
| Poets of the Renaissance |
| Ford Madox Brown. | 713. | For the Picture, “The Last of England” |
714. | O. M. B. |
| Sir Joseph Noel Paton. | 715. | Requiem |
716. | The Last of the Eurydice |
| Thomas Woolner. | 717. | My Beautiful Lady |
718. | Given Over |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti. | 719. | The Blessed Damozel |
720. | The Portrait |
721. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” I. Introductory |
722. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” II. Lovesight |
723. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” III. Her Gifts |
724. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” IV. The Dark Glass |
725. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” V. Without Her |
726. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” VI. Broken Music |
727. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” VII. Inclusiveness |
728. | From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” VIII. A Superscription |
729. | Sonnets on Pictures. I. A Venetian Pastoral |
730. | Sonnets on Pictures. II. Mary Magdalene |
731. | Sudden Light |
732. | The Woodspurge |
733. | The Sea-Limits |
734. | A Little While |
735. | The Ballad of Dead Ladies |
| Richard Watson Dixon. | 736. | Ode on Conflicting Claims |
737. | Humanity |
738. | From “Mano: a Poetical History.” I. The Skylark |
739. | From “Mano: a Poetical History.” II. Of a Vision of Hell, Which a Monk Had |
740. | From “Mano: a Poetical History.” III. Of Temperance in Fortune |
| William Morris. | 741. | The Gillyflower of Gold |
742. | Shameful Death |
743. | The Blue Closet |
744. | From “The Earthly Paradise.” I. The Singer’s Prelude |
745. | From “The Earthly Paradise.” II. Atalanta’s Victory |
746. | From “The Earthly Paradise.” III. Atalanta’s Defeat |
747. | From “The Earthly Paradise.” IV. The King’s Visit |
748. | From “The Earthly Paradise.” V. Song: to Psyche |
749. | From “The Earthly Paradise.” VI. A Land Across the Sea |
750. | From “The Earthly Paradise.” VII. Antiphony |
751. | From “Sigurd the Volsung.” I. Of the Passing Away of Brynhild |
752. | From “Sigurd the Volsung.” II. The Burghers’ Battle |
753. | From “Sigurd the Volsung.” III. A Death Song |
| Lord De Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren). | 754. | A Woodland Grave |
755. | A Simple Maid |
756. | Fortune’s Wheel |
757. | Circe |
758. | A Song of Faith Forsworn |
759. | The Two Old Kings |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne. | 760. | A Match |
761. | Hesperia |
762. | In Memory of Walter Savage Landor |
763. | Love at Sea |
764. | From “Rosamond” |
765. | From “Atalanta in Calydon.” I. Chorus:—“When the Hounds of Spring” |
766. | From “Atalanta in Calydon.” II. From the Chorus, “We Have Seen Thee, O Love!” |
767. | From “Chastelard” |
768. | From “Bothwell” |
769. | Sappho |
770. | Hope and Fear |
771. | On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot |
772. | Hertha |
773. | Étude Réaliste |
774. | The Roundel |
775. | A Forsaken Garden |
776. | On the Monument Erected to Mazzini at Genoa |
| John Payne. | 777. | Cadences |
778. | Sibyl |
779. | Thorgerda |
780. | Love’s Autumn |
781. | Songs’ End |
| Robert Seymour Bridges. | 782. | Poor Withered Rose |
783. | I Will Not Let Thee Go |
784. | Upon the Shore |
785. | A Passer-By |
786. | Elegy |
787. | Thou Didst Delight My Eyes |
788. | Awake, My Heart! |
789. | O Youth Whose Hope Is High |
790. | So Sweet Love Seemed |
791. | Asian Birds |
| Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. | 792. | The Fair Maid and the Sun |
793. | Has Summer Come without the Rose? |
794. | At Her Grave |
795. | Silences |
796. | If She but Knew |
| Philip Bourke Marston. | 797. | A Greeting |
798. | A Vain Wish |
799. | Love’s Music |
800. | The Rose and the Wind |
801. | How My Song of Her Began |
802. | The Old Churchyard of Bonchurch |
803. | Garden Fairies |
804. | Love and Music |
805. | No Death |
806. | At the Last |
807. | Her Pity |
808. | After Summer |
809. | To the Spirit of Poetry |
810. | If You Were Here |
811. | At Last |
| |
| Dramatists and Playwrights |
| Tom Taylor. | 812. | From “The Fool’s Revenge” |
813. | Abraham Lincoln |
| John Westland Marston. | 814. | From “Marie De Meranie” |
| William Gorman Wills. | 815. | Cromwell and Henrietta Maria |
| William Schwenck Gilbert. | 816. | From “Pygmalion and Galatea” |
| Herman Charles Merivale. | 817. | Ætate XIX |
818. | Ready, Ay, Ready |
819. | Thaisa’s Dirge |
| Augusta Webster. | 820. | Songs from Dramas. I. News to the King |
821. | Songs from Dramas. II. ’Tween Earth and Sky |
822. | Songs from Dramas. III. Day Is Dead |
823. | Songs from Dramas. IV. Tell Me Not of Morrows, Sweet |
824. | The Deaths of Myron and Klydone |
| |
| Elegantiæ |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson. | 825. | To My Grandmother |
826. | The Widow’s Mite |
827. | On an Old Muff |
828. | To My Mistress |
829. | The Skeleton in the Cupboard |
| Robert Barnabas Brough. | 830. | My Lord Tomnoddy |
| Charles Stuart Calverley. | 831. | Companions |
832. | Ballad |
833. | On the Brink |
| Joseph Ashby-Sterry. | 834. | A Marlow Madrigal |
835. | A Portrait |
836. | The Little Rebel |
| William John Courthope. | 837. | From “The Paradise of Birds.” I. Birdcatcher’s Song |
838. | From “The Paradise of Birds.” II. Ode—To the Roc |
839. | From “The Paradise of Birds.” III. In Praise of Gilbert White |
| Sir Frederick Pollock. | 840. | The Six Carpenters’ Case |
| |
| “The Land of Wonder-Wander” |
| Edward Lear. | 841. | The Jumblies |
| William Brighty Rands. | 842. | Topsy-Turvy World |
843. | Polly |
844. | Dressing the Doll |
845. | I Saw a New World |
| Lewis Carroll. | 846. | Jabberwocky |
847. | From “The Hunting of the Snark” |
848. | Of Alice in Wonderland |
