The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American Authors

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Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1882 - 882 pages

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Contents

Bosom Sin
xlvi
A Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents
xlvii
Oft in the Stilly Night
xlviii
Death of the Day
xlix
Amends
l
Forever with the Lord
li
Calling the Dead
lii
Afar in the Desert
liii
O may I Join the Choir Invisible
liv
The Barefoot Boy
lv
Epithalamium
lvi
Decoration
lviii
After All
lix
The Crowded Street
lx
Mercy
3
On a Sermon against Glory
4
Auf Wiedersehen
6
The Belle of the Ball
8
Delay
17
Autumnal Sonnet
18
After a Mothers Death
21
Left Behind
24
Departure of the Swallow
25
The True Measure of Life
26
Pats Criticism
28
Descanting on Illness
35
In Autumn
37
Harvesting
41
Autumn Song
45
Die down O Dismal Day
47
The Other World
48
The Diamond
51
The Return of Kane
57
Apollo Belvedere
63
In a Year
68
Evelyn Hope
69
The Passage from Birth to Age
79
The Past
92
Calm and Tempest at Night on Lake Leman
101
Apostrophe to Ada
105
On Completing my ThirtySixth Year
107
Yawcob Strauss
110
To the Fire
113
On Doves and Serpents
114
The Dignity and Patience of Genius
115
Discontent
116
Apostrophe to Hope
117
The Doorstep
130
Peace and Pain
135
Harvest Time
148
In Blossom Time
153
Reason an aid to Revelation
156
Apostrophe to Liberty
157
Mercy to Animals
160
The Paupers Deathbed
163
Learning is Labor
164
After the Ball
165
Thou hast Sworn by thy God
179
A Welcome to Alexandra
180
Merit beyond Beauty
186
Home and Heaven
189
Peradventure
194
Thou Knowest
195
Midnight
197
The Bible
204
A Wife
206
The Rhodora
214
Apostrophe to the Ocean
215
Pescadero Pebbles
219
Love
223
The Perpetuity of Song
225
A Protest
226
The Biblical Knowledge of Hudibras
227
The Perversion of Great Gifts
245
A Womans Love
254
One Presence Wanting
258
Evening Prayer at a Girls School
262
Calm on the Bosom of our God
263
Three Epitaphs
266
Holland
271
Life a Victory
273
Three Friends of Mine
276
The Bluebirds Song
282
Love Bettered by Time
284
Read
289
The Poets Friends
292
The Broom Flower
294
Three Sonnets on Prayer
295
Aged Sophocles Addressing the Athenians
301
Scott
318
Landon
326
A Question Answered
328
Heart Superior to Head
333
Picture of Marian Erle
336
The Tryst
344
Only Waiting
360
Heliotrope
361
Alexander at Persepolis
370
Excessive Praise or Blame
432
A Womans Question
442
Incompleteness
443
On Reading Chapmans Homer
451
Exhortation to Marriage
461
True Union
462
The Sealimits
467
Alexander Selkirk
469
Life in Death
472
A Scene in the Highlands
476
Faith in Doubt
479
Helvellyn
481
Lifes Mystery
484
Faithless Nellie Gray
485
President Garfield
501
Independence
502
Fancy
503
Never Cast a Flower away
515
The Ebbtide
522
Her Conquest
529
Fantasia
530
The Two Brides
540
Fare Thee Well
541
Cayuga Lake
547
From a Vision of Spring in Winter
552
Prometheus
565
Heroes
566
The Selfish
567
Changes
569
Love Reluctant to Endanger
570
In Extremis
572
The September Gale
573
Ashes of Roses
578
Charge of the Light Brigade
584
Love shall Save us all
588
In Kittery Churchyard
589
Prospice
591
The Eggs and the Horses
605
Purity
609
Vaughan
621
From Childhood
622
The Ship Becalmed
624
A Little before Death
636
Charity
639
In Memory of Barry Cornwall
640
To a Child Embracing his Mother
650
Life will be Gone ere I have Lived
657
The Golden Silence
661
Charity Gradually Pervasive
664
A Little While
667
From The Cock and the Fox
670
To a Dead Woman
672
Inscription
680
Cheerfulness in Misfortune
684
Quack
686
All Change nó Death
689
6
695
Byron
704
From Lines composed in a Concert Room
710
The Ferry of Galloway
716
Quakerdom
726
Farewell Life
748
The Sight of Angels
751
To a Friend afraid of Critics
754
Merrick
759
Rogers
760
The Smack in School
762
The Snake
769
Field Flowers
780
Her Roses
784
Hic Jacet
801
A Womans Way
808
Light on the Cloud
816
From Lines to a Louse
826
Lines to a Comie Author
827
Burns
828
From Mire to Blossom
845
The Gold under the Roses
846
Florence Nightingale
853
Arnold
859
Pope
860
Circumstance
861
Lucy
865
Swinburne
866
Holmes
867
The Souls Farewell
868
Conscience
869
Burns
871
P Cary
872
K P Osgood
873
H Coleridge
874
The Spider
875
On the Headland
876
Husband to Wife
877
E Goodale
878
East London
879
Sargent
880
Dryden
882

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