Poems of the English Race

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Raymond Macdonald Alden
C. Scribner's Sons, 1921 - 410 pages

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Contents

The Peacock the Turkey and the Goose
11
Boadicea
12
Tam OShanter
13
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
14
Simon
15
Bishop Hatto PAGE Geoffrey Chaucer I 4 5 8 William Shakespeare
16
Alexander Pope 17 John Gay 29 John Gay 29 William Cowper 30 Robert Burns 31 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 33 William Wordsworth 4I Robert Sou...
17
Michael
18
Lochinvar
19
Marmion and Douglas
20
William Wordsworth 43 William Wordsworth 43 Walter Scott 50 Walter Scott 51 21 The Battle of the Baltic 22 The Destruction of Sennacherib
22
The Prisoner of Chillon
23
Christabel
24
The Burial of Sir John Moore
25
La Belle Dame sans Merci
26
The Eve of St Agnes
27
The Red Fisherman
28
The Belle of the BallRoom
29
Bonny Dundee
30
The Silent Tower of Bottreau
31
The Lady of Shalott
32
The Last Buccaneer
33
The Jackdaw of Rheims
34
The Skeleton in Armor
35
Horatius
36
My Last Duchess
37
The Shepherd of King Admetus
38
Rhacus
39
Abou Ben Adhem
40
Rime of the Duchess
41
How They Brought the Good News
42
The Boy and the Angel
43
Incident of the French Camp
44
The Italian in England
45
The Raven
46
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon
47
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
48
The Forsaken Merman
49
Sohrab and Rustum
50
The Charge of the Light Brigade
51
Leigh Hunt Thomas Campbell
52
Lord Byron
53
Skipper Iresons Ride
54
King Solomon
55
King Robert of Sicily
56
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
57
The Lady of the Land
58
Gareth and Lynette
59
Charles Wolfe
60
John Keats
61
Hervé Riel
62
The Revenge
63
A Ballad of the French Fleet
64
Pheidippides George Henry Boker John Greenleaf Whittier Owen Meredith Lord Lytton
65
Winthrop Mackworth Praed Winthrop Mackworth Praed
67
Walter Scott 62 67 70
72
Robert Stephen Hawker
73
Alfred Tennyson
74
Thomas Babington Macaulay 76 Richard Harris Barham
76
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
78
Thomas Babington Macaulay
80
Robert Browning
86
James Russell Lowell 87 James Russell Lowell
87
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
90
On his Blindness
95
Robert Browning 96 Robert Browning
96
Robert Browning
97
Alfred Tennyson
137
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140
The world is too much with
152
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
158
Alfred Tennyson
160
Ode to a Nightingale
164
PAGE
196
Walter de la Mare 215 216 Sara Teasdale 218 John G Neihardt 219 66 The Charge of the Heavy Brigade 67 The White Ship 68 The Ballad of Judas ...
201
The Slaying of Urgan
204
Opportunity
205
The High Tide at Gettysburg
206
A Ballad of East and West
207
The Ballad of Moll Magee 74 The Ballad of Father Gilligan
209
Elfin Skates 76 The Death of Puck
210
The Last Chantey
211
Craven
212
Gillespie
213
Forty Singing Seamen
214
The Listeners
215
The Dauber Rounds Cape Horn
216
The Star
218
The Finding of Jamie Dante Gabriel Rossetti
219
A Farewell
224
PART
225
HeartExchange 86 Who is Sylvia? 87 O Sweet Content LYRICAL AND REFLECTIVE POEMS 88 Blow Blow thou Winter Wind 89 Under the Gree...
227
92 When in disgrace with Fortune and mens eyes William Shakespeare 228
228
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 229 94 That time of year thou mayst in me behold
229
Our Country
230
Michael Drayton
231
Young and
236
Robert Herrick
241
The Spacious Firmament on High
247
To a Mouse
259
When I Saw You Last Rose
262
Sir Walter Scott
274
To a Skylark
280
Concord Hymn
286
Algernon Charles Swinburne
289
Ulysses
295
The Present Crisis
301
Song Old Adam the carrion crow
307
Alfred Tennyson
314
Drakes Drum
319
Walt Whitman
320
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
322
Prelude
325
Julia Ward Howe
328
Sometimes
331
East London
335
The Conquest of the
337
A
341
Matthew Arnold
342
The Making of Birds
343
Songs of Palms
348
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
349
The House of Christmas
355
Robert Browning
362
The English Flag
364
The Butterfly
370
George Edward Woodberry
375
John Masefield
381
Abbie Farwell Brown
390
James Russell Lowell
399
Helen Hunt Jackson
404
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
406
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Page 93 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Page 267 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 276 - The hills Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages.
Page 234 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 267 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Page 240 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 299 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port ; the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his...
Page 248 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives,...
Page 299 - ULYSSES It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 339 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go: For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last!

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