The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

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BoD – Books on Demand, 2024 M04 26 - 972 pages
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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Contents

A Life on the Ocean Wave
469
Heaven near the Virtuous
481
From The Sensitive Plant
493
Recompense
501
The Bride Beautiful Body and Soul
524
Her Conquest
529
The Bridge of Sighs
534
The Uncertain Man
536

Death of the Day
xlix
The Clergyman and the Peddler
l
Fritz and
li
Calling the Dead
lii
Afar in the Desert
liii
Decoration
lviii
Charity
lix
Aged Sophocles Addressing the Athenians
lx
Apollo Belvedere
3
The Broom Flower
13
Delay
17
Departure of the Swallow
25
Pats Criticism
28
Descanting on Illness
35
Wetmore Cottage Nahant
40
Die down O Dismal Day
47
The Sealimits
57
A Portrait
63
A Hospital
66
Evelyn Hope
69
The Hour of Death
78
Apostrophe to Ada
105
The Rhodora
114
Discontent
118
The Rose
121
Peace and Pain
135
Distance no Barrier to the Soul
156
Apostrophe to Popular Applause
157
A Letter
161
The Housekeeper
167
Drifting
178
The Angels Kiss her
185
From The Cock and the Fox
190
The Human Tie
191
Heart Oracles
192
What Is the Little One Thinking about?
193
Peradventure
194
The Seasons
196
Alexanders Feast
199
The Angels Wing
205
The Humble Bee
214
Pescadero Pebbles
219
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton
244
The Invocation
261
Evening Prayer at a Girls School
262
The Awful Vacancy
274
What will it Matter?
275
From the Exequy on his Wife
277
The Two Ladders
279
The Deathbed
281
The Ballad of Baby Bell
300
Charles X11
308
Ode on Art
311
What would I Save Thee from?
314
Rebeccas Hynn
318
Ode to Evening
322
Evening Song
328
Picture of Marian Erle
336
City Experience
339
Why so Pale and Wan Fond Lover?
340
From the Lay of Horatius
354
Clear the Way
362
The Kingliest Kings
368
Pleasure Mixed with Pain
374
The Bible
380
Recognition of a Congenial Spirit
385
President Garfield
411
Apostrophe to the Ocean
428
Excessive Praise or Blame
432
The Tyranny of Mood
436
The Brave at Home
456
Exhortation to Marriage
461
Widow Machree
466
Proposal
540
The Unexpressed
543
Wind and Sea
565
Heroes
566
Reconciliation
568
The Death of the Old Year
582
Windless Rain
601
The Death of the Virtuous
606
Genius
608
The Difference
615
Remedial Suffering
619
The Seed Growing Secretly
621
Only a Curl
628
One Presence Wanting
635
A Little before Death
636
George Eliot
648
Wisdoms Prayer
649
Withered Roses
660
Gods Patience
665
A Little While
667
All Change no Death
683
The Knights Steed
700
Exile of Erin
707
The Unfulfilled
708
Only Waiting
717
The Discoverer
721
The September Gale
733
A Wife
735
Cleopatra Embarking on the Cydnus
737
The Distant in Nature and Experience
738
The Shipwreck
751
The Dragonfly
752
Extract from A Reverie in the Grass
754
Extracts from Miss Biddys Letters
760
The Smack in School
762
The Snake
769
A Womans Question
773
Resigning
774
The Evening Cloud
779
The Vacillating Purpose
786
The Lady of the Castle
800
Cold Comfort
803
On One who Died in May
810
The Family Meeting
818
Auf Wiedersehen
823
Autumn
829
Complete
830
Her Roses
832
Riches of a Man of Taste
851
Faith in Unfaith
853
The Last Flowers
857
Arnold
859
Farewell Life
860
The Voiceless
861
Apostrophe to the Sun
862
The Last Words
863
Good Counsel
864
Few in Many
866
The Village Preacher
867
Constancy
869
Nameless Pain
870
A Protest
871
Beethoven
872
Flowers without Fruit
873
To his Mothers Spindle
874
The Burial of the Champion of his Class
875
Vaughan
876
On the Hillside
878
Ask Me no More
879
Bingen on the Rhine
880
East London
881
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