The Home Book of Verse, American and English: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages, Volume 12 volume collection of the best brief poems in the English language from Spenser to the present. |
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Contents
Home | 8 |
To a NewBorn Child | 9 |
PART VII | 14 |
Weighing the Baby Ethel Lynn Beers | 15 |
The Rosary of My Tears Abram 1 Ryan 3381 | 19 |
May Byron | 21 |
Bret Harle | 24 |
Gerald Massey | 27 |
My Bonnie Mary | 946 |
As Toilsome I Wandered Virginias | 947 |
Maid of Athens Ere We Part George Gordon Byron | 952 |
William Motherwell | 958 |
The Dearest Poets | 960 |
St Agnes | 964 |
My Playmate | 972 |
A Parting Guest | 976 |
The White Island | 28 |
Inter Sodales William Ernest Henley 1986 | 30 |
Gone | 35 |
Jack and Jill | 39 |
Robin Redbreast | 45 |
The Rainy | 49 |
Old Mother Hubbard | 51 |
Dirge | 54 |
The Moon | 57 |
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Proverbs | 64 |
The Earth and | 70 |
21 | 71 |
When the Sleepy Man Comes Charles G D Roberts | 72 |
A Lullaby | 78 |
The Bonny Earl of Murray Unknown 2276 | 82 |
The Cottager to Her Infant Dorothy Wordsworth | 84 |
MotherSong from Prince Lucifer Alfred Austin | 92 |
My Ain Countree | 95 |
Give Me Ale | 97 |
THE DUTY OF CHILDREN | 98 |
The Crust of Bread | 104 |
Meddlesome Matty | 110 |
A Little Work | 113 |
PAGE | 115 |
The Butterfly and the Bee William Lisle Boules | 116 |
The Story of Augustus Who Would | 122 |
Drink Today | 123 |
Grief | 124 |
Advice | 125 |
James Hogg 128 Going Down Hill On a Bicycle Henry Charles | 130 |
Vendors Song | 131 |
Edith | 135 |
Goodbye | 136 |
Wishing William Allingham | 138 |
Shadows | 139 |
Coleridge | 141 |
The SingingLesson coles ow | 145 |
Nurses Song William Blake | 151 |
The Blind Boy Colley Cibber | 157 |
Mr Coggs Edward Verrall Lucas | 167 |
The Duel Eugene Field | 173 |
Sleep Silence Child William Drummond 3220 | 178 |
The Nightingale and the GlowWorm William Cowper | 181 |
The Babes in the Wood Unknown | 185 |
Gods Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Robert Southey | 189 |
THE GLAD EVANGEL | 201 |
The Power of Prayer | 207 |
For the Baptist | 208 |
The Burning Babe Robert Southwell | 209 |
The Arsenal at Springfield | 212 |
The Day is Done | 213 |
Gates and Doors | 215 |
The RazorSeller John Wolcot 2101 | 216 |
A Childs Song of Christmas Marjorie L C Pickihall | 221 |
The Last Invocation | 223 |
The Little Sister of the Prophet Marjorie L Pickihall 3071 | 227 |
FAIRYLAND | 231 |
Fairy Song | 237 |
The Fairy Thrall | 243 |
Mans Days | 244 |
Oh Mother of a Mighty Race William Cullen Bryant 2203 | 249 |
The Children | 250 |
Out Where the West Begins Arthur Chapman 2574 | 251 |
A Childs Laughter Algernon Charles Swinburne | 254 |
Cowpers Grave | 255 |
The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whitlicr | 263 |
June from The Vision of Sir Laun | 265 |
A New Poet | 269 |
A Little While | 270 |
A Divine Rapture Francis Quarles 3742 | 272 |
Lines Composed a few Miles above | 275 |
To Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth | 278 |
2850 | 284 |
The Cry of the Children Elizabeth Barrelt Browning | 288 |
The Garden that I Love Florence L Henderson 3441 | 291 |
SongWe only ask for sunshine llelen Hay Whilncy | 294 |
Were Dead | 296 |
A Song of Sherwood | 297 |
Waiting | 298 |
How We Learn | 299 |
The Little Ghost | 302 |
Pierette in Memory | 304 |
For Charlies Sake | 308 |
The First Snowfall James Russell Lorell | 316 |
June | 320 |
Cired Mothers | 322 |
MAIDENHOOD | 327 |
To Keep a True Lent | 329 |
Tam OShanter | 332 |
The Death | 333 |
Don Quixote | 348 |
THE | 351 |
Around the Child Walter Sarage Landor | 357 |
Sweet and Sour Edmund Spenser 2837 | 359 |
Ode to Duty | 366 |
FACING THE SUNSET | 367 |
Hope and Fear | 369 |
The Collar | 370 |
The Call rath | 372 |
THE WOMAN | 377 |
The SolitaryHearted Hartley Coleridge | 384 |
Sacrifice | 387 |
From Life | 390 |
Prayer | 391 |
In the Dark | 397 |
STEPPING WESTWARD | 398 |
The Fallen Star George Darley 3746 | 399 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 405 |
The Soldiers Dream | 408 |
Forbearance | 409 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 411 |
The Cavaliers Song William Motherwell 2282 | 416 |
HOME AND FATHERLAND | 417 |
Growing | 418 |
Forty Years | 421 |
Sapientia Lunæ | 422 |
The Rubicon | 424 |
The Second Crucifixion | 426 |
The White Jessamine | 428 |
Leisure | 429 |
SongStay stay at home my heart | 430 |
Fair Annie | 431 |
Auspex | 433 |
Temple Garlands | 442 |
My Early Home John Clare 3233 | 447 |
Langsyne When Life Was Bonnie Alexander Anderson | 448 |
The Light of Other Days Thomas Moore | 454 |
The Higher Pantheism | 455 |
Alone by the Hearth | 460 |
Brown of Ossawatomie John Greenleaf Whirlier 2484 | 462 |
The I | 463 |
The Bucket | 466 |
Wind me a Summer Crown Menclla Bule Smedley | 469 |
Trifles | 470 |
Breas Break Break Alfred Tennyson | 472 |
POEMS OF LOVE | 473 |
Eros | 474 |
The | 475 |
Loves Perjuries | 479 |
What is Love | 481 |
Ah how Sweet it is to Love John Dryden | 486 |
The Vine | 487 |
Song How delicious is the winning Thomas Campbell | 495 |
Love hath a Language | 496 |
O Love is not a Summer Mood Richard Watson Gilder | 504 |
Song Take it love | 510 |
Never Give all the Heart William Butler Yeats | 511 |
Child Child | 512 |
Silvia | 518 |
Arethusa | 521 |
On Chloris Walking in the Snow William Strode | 524 |
The Winter Glass | 527 |
His WindingSheet | 529 |
Song Ask me no more where Jove | 530 |
The Fair Thief | 536 |
Amoret | 537 |
Eileen Aroon Gerald Griffin | 550 |
THE MUSICMAKERS | 551 |
Godiva | 552 |
PAGE | 553 |
Love in the Valley George Meredith | 556 |
Tears | 561 |
Marian | 562 |
Meet we no Angels Pansie Thomas Ashe | 568 |
At Gibraltar | 572 |
When First I Saw Her George Edward Woodberry | 573 |
Song This peach is pink with such | 574 |
The Lost Sheep | 577 |
Any Lover Any Lass Richard Middlelon | 579 |
Song Oh Love they said is King | 580 |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe | 585 |
Wrong not Sweet Empress of | 586 |
Agincourt Michael Drayton 2301 | 587 |
Were my Heart as some Mens are Thomas Campion | 591 |
Song O do not wanton with those | 592 |
The Message | 593 |
Mediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew | 598 |
How Can the Heart forget Her Francis Davison | 600 |
To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace | 606 |
Song Come Celia lets agree | 612 |
The Harp of Sorrow | 617 |
O Nancy wilt Thou go with Me Thomas Percy | 618 |
Cavaliers Song | 619 |
Let the Toast Pass | 621 |
Take back the Virgin Page Thomas Moore | 623 |
last | 627 |
My Share of the World Alice Furlong | 630 |
My Days Among them | 632 |
When You are Old William Butler Years | 637 |
Dover Beach 4 | 640 |
A LeaveTaking | 645 |
Todlin Hame | 650 |
Love Thee | 651 |
Invictus | 655 |
My Road | 657 |
Amantium Irae | 661 |
In a Rose Garden John Bennett | 663 |
Wild Wishes | 664 |
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard | 670 |
Be Ye in Love with AprilTide Clinton Scollard | 671 |
Vers la Vi | 672 |
Heart of my Heart | 676 |
Amélie Rives | 677 |
MY LADYS LIPS | 682 |
Take O Take Those Lips Away John Fletcher | 683 |
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden Percy Bysshe Shelley | 688 |
Song The moths kiss first Robert Browning | 689 |
Columbus | 693 |
AT HER WINDOW | 694 |
Nathaniel Field | 695 |
Aubrey Thomas De Vere | 701 |
Come into the Garden Maud ed Tennyson | 708 |
The Widows Mite | 709 |
A Late Lark Twitters from | 710 |
Serenade | 714 |
The Prime | 718 |
Pious Selinda | 721 |
Comin Through the Rye Robert Burns | 727 |
On First looking into Chapmans | 732 |
Nathaniel Parker Willis | 733 |
Wouldnt You Like to Know John Godfrey Saxe | 735 |
Comfort | 736 |
404 | 737 |
Growing | 742 |
Marriage and the Care Ot Robert Lochore | 749 |
Kitty of Coleraine | 755 |
God Save Elizabeth | 758 |
Patrick R Chalmers | 761 |
A Ballad Upon a Wedding John Suckling | 767 |
The Lass o Gowrie Carolina Nairne | 773 |
The Battle of Naseby Thomas Babinglon Macaulay 2392 | 774 |
The Lovers | 778 |
The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan Samuel Ferguson | 779 |
Mr Finneys Turnip | 784 |
Jock of Hazeldean | 786 |
Alice Brand | 787 |
Mabel in New Hampshire James Thomas Fields | 793 |
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont John Milton 2404 | 796 |
The Little Waves of Brefny Eva GoreBooth 2005 | 797 |
Riding Down | 799 |
The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody | 802 |
The Prime of Life | 805 |
Song Follow a shadow it still flies | 811 |
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened Thomas Carew | 817 |
The Last Redoubt | 818 |
Wishes to His Supposed Mistress Richard Crashaw | 824 |
Said Opie Rcad | 827 |
Lovewells Fight | 829 |
Song of Thyrsis | 830 |
The Passions | 836 |
Sorrows of Werther William Make peace Thack | 838 |
My Last Duchess | 846 |
The Odyssey | 850 |
Gibraltar | 851 |
Justine You Love me Not John Godfrey Saxe | 854 |
To Music to Becalm his Fever Robert Herrick 3123 | 855 |
Enamored Architect of Airy | 856 |
The Greyhorse Troop Robert W Chambers 2291 | 862 |
Unknown | 863 |
The Water Lady | 869 |
A Womans Last Word Robert Browning | 877 |
Two in the Campagna Robert Brouning | 884 |
Hans Breitmanns Party Charles Godfrey Leland 2152 | 891 |
Song I saw the days white rap | 892 |
The Symphs Song to Hylas William Morris | 895 |
Gifts | 899 |
Rondel | 902 |
The Song of the Shirt | 903 |
La Grisette | 909 |
Bill and | 910 |
The Knight in Disguise Vachel Lindsay 3610 | 914 |
Face to Face | 915 |
Fantaisie | 920 |
Midsummer | 922 |
The Last Memory | 928 |
LArt | 932 |
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going | 934 |
Song At setting day and rising | 940 |
Charles Dibdin | 943 |
Lament for Culloden | 944 |
At Parting | 978 |
My Sorrow | 983 |
love Frederick William Thomas 083 | 984 |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 992 |
Spirit of Sadness | 995 |
Ad Domnulam Suam Ernest Dowson 907 | 998 |
Envoy from Songs from Vaga | 999 |
Hith a Guitar to Jane Percy Bysshe | 1002 |
Modern Beauty | 1004 |
Stanzas In a drearnighted | 1006 |
A Ballad of Heroes Austin Dobson 2304 | 1010 |
Endymion | 1013 |
Left Behind | 1020 |
To HerUnspoken | 1029 |
The Eagle | 1030 |
The Dark Road | 1034 |
Little Wild Baby | 1035 |
The Stirrup | 1039 |
Airly Beacon | 1040 |
Dust | 1045 |
Affaire dAmour | 1048 |
The PassionFlower Margaret Fuller | 1054 |
When the Great Gray Ships Come in Guy Welmore Carryl 2543 | 1055 |
Out of Hearing | 1058 |
LOVE AND DEATH | 1060 |
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley | 1067 |
To the Sister of Elia Walter Savage Landor 3625 | 1071 |
The Maiden City | 1075 |
Lucy William Wordsworth | 1076 |
Hohenlinden | 1077 |
Oh Snatched away in Beautys | 1082 |
I | 1083 |
Comrades | 1091 |
Sir Galahad | 1093 |
At the Crossroads | 1097 |
LCIL DCINU | 1098 |
Now and Afterwards | 1099 |
I Saw Thee | 1100 |
A Little Parable | 1103 |
Eldorado | 1105 |
Englands Dead | 1112 |
Day and Night my Thoughts | 1114 |
Above Salerno | 1130 |
What of The Darkness? | 1131 |
To Song | 1132 |
LOVES FULFILLMENT | 1141 |
The GoodMorrow | 1142 |
Song For me the jasmine buds | 1148 |
Ex Libris | 1152 |
Love among the Ruins | 1154 |
Falstaffs Song | 1156 |
Mary Beatons Song Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1160 |
Lincoln the Man of the People Edwin Markham 3639 | 1161 |
Nocturne Amelia Josephine | 1166 |
Yes | 1172 |
The Good Great Man Samuel 1 aylor | 1176 |
The KeyBoard | 1177 |
At the Salon | 1183 |
The Kiss | 1194 |
Holy Matrimony John Keble | 1197 |
Loves Calendar Wuliam Bei William Bell Scoll | 1203 |
Glenkindie | 1204 |
Love Reginald Heber | 1210 |
The Wife to Her Husband Unknown | 1216 |
An Old Mans Idyl Richard Reall | 1222 |
0 Lay Thy Hand in Mine Dear Gerald Massey | 1228 |
Sonnets | 1232 |
Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella Philip Sidney | 1235 |
The Flight | 1240 |
Sonnets from Idea Michael Drayton | 1242 |
Sonnets William Shakespeare | 1252 |
Human Frailty | 1254 |
Sunset Wings | 1259 |
The Bourne | 1260 |
Renouncement | 1263 |
Love in the Winds Richard Hovey | 1269 |
The Starry Host | 1273 |
Sonnets from Sonnets from | 1276 |
Venice | 1279 |
One Word More Robert Browning | 1284 |
The Crowing of the Red Cock Emma Lazarus 3254 | 1289 |
A Tocaita of Galuppis | 1290 |
The World is too Much With Us William Wordsworth | 1292 |
Battle of the Baltic | 1295 |
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 2960 | 1296 |
Great Nature is an Army Gay Richard Walson Gilder | 1298 |
Song When daisies pied and violets | 1299 |
Morality | 1300 |
Mother England | 1304 |
DAWN AND DARK | 1305 |
Mutability | 1307 |
Sunrise on Mansfield Mountain Alice Brown | 1311 |
Ye Mariners of England Thomas Campbell 2233 | 1315 |
This is My Hour | 1318 |
Song to the Evening Star Thomas Campbell | 1319 |
A Fancy from Fontenelle Austin Dobson 3378 | 1320 |
Epitaphs Ben Jonson 3516 | 1321 |
He Made the Night Lloyd Mifflin | 1326 |
Nuremberg | 1327 |
Stanzas Where forlorn sunsets flare | 1334 |
A Starlings Spring Rondel James Cousins | 1337 |
Somebodys Darling | 1338 |
Bacchus | 1341 |
An Ode on the Spring Thomas Gray | 1343 |
Little Giffen | 1345 |
New Life | 1349 |
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 2013 | 1354 |
Song April April William Watson | 1355 |
Nearer to Thee | 1357 |
The Veteran of Heaven | 1359 |
Corinnas Going aMaying Robert Herrick | 1361 |
The Sun Rises Bright in France Allan Cunningham | 1369 |
Harvest | 1370 |
Ripe Grain | 1377 |
Ode to the West Wind | 1378 |
The Land Which No | 1383 |
November | 1384 |
ing | 1389 |
Snow | 1390 |
Death | 1395 |
Dirge for the Year Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1396 |
The Idler | 1403 |
The Girt Woak Tree thats in | 1404 |
1802 | 1410 |
The Poplar Field | 1411 |
August 1914 | 1412 |
The Cataract of Lodore Robert Southey | 1420 |
Canadian BoatSong | 1426 |
Hemlock Mountain | 1436 |
The Deserted Village | 1438 |
Hack and | 1439 |
Summer Invocation | 1443 |
PAGE | 1445 |
A Garden Song | 1449 |
Ars Victrix | 1450 |
Hora Christi | 1452 |
The Common Street | 1453 |
Unguarded | 1455 |
Seaweed | 1460 |
Green Things Growing Dinah Maria Mulock Craik | 1461 |
Heroes | 1464 |
The Valor of Ben Milam Clinton Scollard 2457 | 1465 |
White Azaleas Harriet McEwen Kimball | 1468 |
To Daffodils | 1474 |
The Great Voices | 1478 |
To the Dandelion | 1481 |
al | 1484 |
A Song the Grass Sings Charles G Blanden | 1488 |
The Morning Glory | 1494 |
On the Tombs in Westminster Francis Beaumont 3517 | 1498 |
A Rose | 1500 |
A Mighty Fortress is Our God Frederick Henry Hedge 3806 | 1501 |
We are Brethren a Robert Nicoll 3035 | 1503 |
GODS CREATURES | 1507 |
Onward Christian Soldiers Sabine BaringGould 3814 | 1510 |
The Snail | 1514 |
TomaBedlams Poem | 1516 |
Elegiac Stanzas | 1517 |
The Blood Horse | 1520 |
San Lorenzo Giustinianis Mother Alice Meynell 3775 | 1523 |
Robert of Lincoln | 1528 |
The Hawkbit | 1539 |
The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2916 | 1544 |
O Nightingale Thou Surely Art William Wordsworth | 1545 |
To the Nightingale | 1551 |
Whither is Gone the Wisdom | 1555 |
To an Oriole | 1557 |
A Dirge | 1558 |
Constancy | 1561 |
Celia Thaxter | 1563 |
Today | 1565 |
Kilmeny | 1567 |
To a Skylark | 1569 |
Chimney Swallows | 1575 |
Wild Geese | 1582 |
The Sin of Omission Margaret Sangster 2926 | 1585 |
Young Windebank | 1586 |
Ode on a Grecian | 1588 |
With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled William Wordsworth | 1589 |
The Seekers | 1591 |
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea Allan Cunningham | 1592 |
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep Emma Hart Willard | 1599 |
On the Quay | 1605 |
Storm Song | 1614 |
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger 2559 | 1615 |
Dirge | 1616 |
The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston Sydney Dobcll 2736 | 1617 |
Ballad | 1621 |
Twice | 1623 |
Tom Bowling | 1628 |
behold the Deeds | 1632 |
THE SIMPLE LIFE | 1634 |
Solitude | 1635 |
The Churchyard | 1640 |
The Retirement | 1641 |
PART V | 1648 |
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford Thomas Randolph | 1649 |
The Quiet Life | 1654 |
Hunting Song | 1662 |
My Hearts in the Highlands Robert Burns | 1669 |
An English Mother | 1673 |
The Song my Paddle Sings E Pauline Johnson | 1676 |
Ave Imperatrix Oscar Wilde | 1679 |
Afoot | 1682 |
The Road to France | 1683 |
A Grain of Salt | 1684 |
The SeaGipsy | 1688 |
GreatHeart | 1689 |
Home | 1692 |
The Wearin o the Green | 1693 |
The Joys of the Road | 1694 |
The Good Inn Herman Knickerbocker Vielé | 1700 |
Forward | 1706 |
Ballade of the Primitive Jest Andrew Long | 1708 |
To Fanny | 1711 |
The Belle of the Ballroom Winthrop Mackworth Praed | 1718 |
The Muses | 1720 |
Chivalry at a Discount Edward Fitzgerald | 1726 |
A Garden Lyric Frederick LockerLampson | 1732 |
Dorothy | 1738 |
The Boys | 1745 |
MY COUNTRY | 1746 |
Yankee Doodle | 1753 |
Pan in Wall Street Edmund Clarence Stedman | 1754 |
Nephilidi | 1755 |
Mäsias Song from Farewell | 1757 |
Ballade of Ladies Names William Ernest Henley | 1761 |
Nell Gwynnes LookingGlass Laman Blanchard | 1767 |
An Invocation | 1768 |
The Harvest Waits | 1775 |
The Cures Progress | 1776 |
SONGS OF PRAISE | 1779 |
Saw You Last Rose Austin Dobson | 1782 |
Vain Virtues Dant | 1784 |
Chiffons | 1788 |
Clay | 1789 |
A Pitcher of Mignonette Henry Cuyler Burner | 1796 |
Evolution | 1802 |
Gods Will | 1806 |
A Letter of Advice | 1809 |
A Dead Letter | 1816 |
On the Death of a Favorite | 1823 |
Should Die Tonight Arabella Eugenia Smith 3037 | 1824 |
Antony to Cleopatra William Haines Lyile 2346 | 1826 |
My Last Terrier | 1829 |
He Fell Among Thieves Henry Newbull 2797 | 1830 |
Shakespeare William Watson 3652 | 1833 |
THE BARB OF SATIRE | 1835 |
De Brevitate Vitæ | 1836 |
The Ballad of Father Gilligan William Buller Yrals 2803 | 1837 |
The Marquis of Carabas | 1843 |
Kaiser | 1849 |
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Sarah | 1855 |
The Friend of Humanity and | 1856 |
The Worlds Way Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 1860 |
Invention | 1861 |
Be True | 1862 |
The Bells | 1867 |
All Saints | 1868 |
Charlie is My Darling Unknown 2273 | 1871 |
The Deacons Masterpiece Oliver Wendell | 1874 |
Character of the Happy Warrior William Wordsworth 2035 | 1879 |
The Maiden and the Lily John Fraser | 1880 |
A Philosopber John Kendrick Bangs 2983 | 1883 |
The Dove | 1885 |
The Vase | 1886 |
Man and the Ascidian | 1895 |
No Fault in Women Robert Herrick | 1901 |
The Woman with the Serpents | 1908 |
The Ballad of East and West Rudyard Kipling 2830 | 1914 |
A Bakers Duzzen uv Wize Sawz Eduard Rowland Sill | 1915 |
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfor | 1916 |
The Character of a Happy Life Henry Wotton | 1918 |
Stabat Mater Dolorosa Abraham Coles Ir 3779 | 1919 |
THE MIMICS | 1921 |
Not a Sou Had he Got Richard Harris Barham | 1933 |
The Jampot Rudyard Kipling | 1939 |
Two Limericks | 1941 |
Mrs Judge Jenkins | 1948 |
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