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

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Crowell, 1910 - 684 pages

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Contents

The Three Lights Whitney 637
17
At the Churchgate Thackeray 585
18
Cayuga Lake
22
The True Measure of Life P J Bailey
26
Sleep and Death
27
The Dead Bee F Bates
28
M
30
Reconciliation
31
The Tryst Stedman 536
32
The American Flag
34
On the Lake
37
A varice E Spenser 525
45
To England
46
Different Sources of Funeral Tears E Young 682
47
Unwedded Larcom 330
49
The Ladder of St Augustine H W Longfellow 341
50
Repose
51
Brackett
52
Last Lines
54
The Lie Raleigh 452
56
Waiting Clemmer 131
60
Remorse
62
A Petition to Time B W Procter 444
63
The Child and the Mourners
66
Advice on Church Behavior
67
The Pressed Gentian
68
The Dignity and Patience of Genius Tupper 615
76
The Charms of Nature
79
Farewell Renown Dobson 190
84
Man was Made to Mourn
85
Charity Gradually Pervasive
88
On Time
89
Byron
91
Madonna
94
O Thou who Dryst the Mourners Tears
96
The Faded Violet T B Aldrich 11
97
The Meeting H W Longfellow 342
100
Apostrophe to Ada Byron
105
Wandering Willie Scott 480
106
Last Verses
107
Ours
108
Fear no More Shakespeare 488
111
Apostrophe to Hope Campbell
117
Discontent Thaxter 586
118
Life
119
Pain and Pleasure
121
Nantasket Clemmer
130
A Day of Sunshine
133
Peace and Pain
135
Thomson
148
Riches of a Man of Taste
149
A Face in the Street
150
First Appearance at the Odeon J T Fields 227
151
Cheerfulness in Misfortune
156
Light on the Cloud
157
The Flower o Dumblane Tannahill 563
158
Crabbe
163
Flowers without Fruit Newman 396
164
Manhood
165
Green Things Growing Craik
170
Peradventure
171
Maple Leaves
172
Whilst Thee I Seek Williams 650
176
A Welcome to Alexandra Tennyson 582
180
Early Death and Fame M Arnold 25
181
Song on May Morning
189
Dryden
190
Poor Andrew
194
A Wife Dryden
206
From Absalom Willis 654
207
A Sleep Prescott 434
208
Procrastination
209
The Problem
213
Grief for the Loss of the Dead Quarles 451
222
Finch
227
Gannett
228
The Free Mind Garrison
229
Weak Consolation Trench 603
231
The Prophets Song
234
0
237
Elegy in a Country Churchyard T Gray
240
Pursuit and Possession
241
Measure for Measure
242
Ode Emerson 213
244
Little Martin Craghan
245
The Two Brides Stoddard 540
247
Melrose Abbey by Moonlight
249
Bret Harte
252
A Womans Love Hay
254
Why should we Faint and Fear to Live Alone? Keble 315
257
Mercy to Animals
258
End of all Earthly Glory Shakespeare 487
262
The Pulley
263
To Keep a True Lent
265
A Song of Content J J Piatt 419
271
The Two Kisses R Browning 70
275
Hood
279
Ballad Hood
284
Battle of the Baltic Campbell 114
312
Evening Song Lanier
328
Becalmed at Eve Clough 181
329
Street
332
Ode on the Spring T Gray 233
339
Stanzas from Song of the Flowers
342
To Lucasta on Going beyond the Seas
346
The Fringed Gentian Bryant 77
349
Stonewall Jacksons Grave
352
From the Lay of Horatius Macaulay
354
Mace
360
Mackay
361
Clear the
362
The Gift Webster 631
363
Marvell
367
Strength through Resisted Temptation
369
The Nun and Harp Spofford 529
371
The Sailors Wife
372
Montgomery
382
Aspirations of Youth Montgomery
384
Ode to Disappointment H K White 635
386
Wishes for Obscurity Crowne 179
388
Beyond Recall Bradley 52
397
We Have Been Friends Together Norton
398
The Way the Truth and the Life Parker
406
The Grasshopper and Cricket Hunt 300
410
Percival
411
A Letter
417
To Mary in Heaven
425
Pope
429
Excessive Praise or Blame Pope
432
The Seasons
433
The Parting Drayton 198
437
Losses
438
The White Flag Winter 658
439
Complete
443
The World Quarles
450
Oh Watch you Well by Daylight Lover 347
451
The Silent Lover
452
Words for Parting Clement 129
458
The Paupers Deathbed C A B Southey 514
460
Excess to be Avoided Thomson 596
461
Assurance E B Browning 64
466
Lost Days
468
A Life on the Ocean Wave
469
Laborare est Orare
474
Worth and Cost Holland 273
475
Birds and their Loves Thomson 503
478
The Squires
480
Heaven near the Virtuous Larcom 833
481
Constant Effort Necessary to Support Fame
486
Loves Philosophy
488
One by One A A Procter 440
490
Music when Soft Voices
492
From The Ode on Shakespeare Sprague 534
493
Would Wisdom for Herself be Wooed? Patmore 411
498
Sigourney
499
T Smith
507
The Worth of Fame Baillie 26
508
Content and Rich
523
Spencer
524
Hereafter Spofford
529
A Thrush in a Gilded Cage Cranch 173
540
Heroes E D Proctor 448
541
Weighing the Baby Beers 36
542
The Hour of Death Hemans 261
544
The Poets Friends Howells 292
560
Couplets from Locksley Hall
573
Faciebat Abbey 2
575
L
576
Breathings of Spring Hemans 260
577
D
579
Daily Dying
585
Death amid the Snows
593
The Zeal of Persecution Thomson
595
This Name of Mine G Houghton 285
602
Sabbath Morning
603
Faith in Unfaith Scott 479
606
My Comrade and I
613
Count my Time by Times that I Meet Thee Gilder 232
614
Delay
615
The Postboy Cowper 161
617
Vaughan
621
A Little before Death
636
My Life is like the Summer Rose
641
Genius Byron 99
648
Willis
650
To Sleep
652
Burial of Sir John Moore Wolfe
665
Wordsworth
666
A Little While
667
She Was a Phantom of Delight
674
To the Cuckoo
676
Description of the One he would Love
677
False Appearances Shakespeare 485
682
All Change no Death
683
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