THOMAS DAVIS.

The Welcome....

JOHN STERLING.

Shakespeare

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

The Maid's Lament...

The Brier

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.

"Awake, my Love!".

"A wet Sheet and a flowing Sea".

THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY.

The Soldier's Tear

"Oh, no! we never mention her".

"I'd be a Butterfly"..

"She wore a Wreath of Roses".

REV. CHARLES WOLFE.

JOHN KEBLE.

The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna

......

MRS. CAROLINE NORTON.

Twilight

"We have been Friends together".

The Fallen Leaves

SAMUEL LOVER.

Rory O'More; or, Good Omens..

The Angel's Whisper.........

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.

The Battle of Ivry

ROBERT BROWNING.

MRS. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.

The Cry of the Children

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How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix

The Statue and the Bust

ALFRED TENNYSON.

Locksley Hall

The May Queen

Lady Clara Vere de Vere..................

Extracts from "In Memoriam".

The Bugle Song

Come into the Garden, Maud

MARY HOWITT.

Cornfields.

WILLIAM MOTHERWELL.

Jeanie Morrison

My Heid is like to rend, Willie....

ELIZA COOK.

MRS. CAROLINE ANNE SOUTHEY.

The Mariner's Hymn.............

The Pauper's Death-bed

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The Old Arm-chair

Song of the Hempseed

...

FAGE

442

443

497

The Charge of the Light Brigade, at Balaklava ........... 500

Idyls of the King. Vivien..

502

444

448

454

456

466

478

487

490

4.96

508

509

513

515

517

518

519

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Song of the River......

ALEXANDER SMITH.

A Song (from a Life-Drama)....

JEAN INGELOW.

The Brides of Enderby; or, the High Tide.

GOLDEN LEAVES.

I.

William Shakespeare.

SPRING AND WINTER.

SPRING.

WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue,

And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,

Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men, for thus sings he,
Cuckoo ;

Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!

II. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,

And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,
When turtles tread, and rooks and daws,

And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,

Mocks married men, for thus sings he,

Cuckoo ;
Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!

WINTER.

III. When icicles hang by the wall,

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,

And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-who,

Tu-whit, to-who; a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

IV. When all aloud the wind doth blow,

And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,

And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-who,

Tu-whit, to-who; a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

LOVE'S PERJURIES.

ON a day, alack the day !

Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair,
Playing in the wanton air:
Through the velvet leaves the wind
All unseen 'gan passage find;
That the lover, sick to death,
Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.