NOTE 5. Kuble Khan. A beautiful fragment of verse composed by Coleridge on awakening from a sleep in which he had dreamed these wonders. NOTE 6. Lucy. The five poems written by Wordsworth to the unknown "Lucy are among the most beautiful of English lyrics. Though they reveal little beyond her early death, they have made her name a living power in song. NOTE 7. To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old. Nothing is known of this famous little lady, save that she was long thought to have belonged to the Dorset family. The poem has been pronounced by critics one of the prettiest of all nursery idyls. NOTE 8. The Destruction of Sennacherib. It is worth while to notice the strength and simplicity of Byron's language in this noble poem. NOTE 9. Old Ironsides. This was the popular name by which the famous frigate Constitution was known. NOTE 10. Song. Supposed to be sung by one of Robin Hood's outlawed band in merry Sherwood Forest. NOTE 11. Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The finest of modern ballads. It first appeared in a little volume entitled "Lyrical Ballads," published by Wordsworth and Coleridge; and while many people marveled at its weird extravagance, true critics, like Charles Lamb, recognized it at once as a masterpiece. NOTE 12. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. Gray's reputation as a poet rests principally on this famous elegy a strong and sure foundation. It is a poem absolutely perfect of its kind. NOTES NOTE 13. Jenny Kissed Me. 235 "Jenny" is said to have been Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of the historian, Thomas Carlyle, a very brilliant and charming woman. NOTE 14. The Colubriad. The Colubriad means the history or story of a snake, colubra being the Latin word for a female adder or viper. NOTE 15. Hohenlinden. A village in Upper Bavaria, where, on the 3d of December, 1800, the French general Moldeau met and defeated the archduke John of Austria. NOTE 16. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna. Sir John Moore, a British general, lost his life in Spain, fighting against Napoleon's victorious army. The French built him a tomb at Corunna, with this simple and noble inscription: John Moore, Leader of the English Armies. Slain in Battle, NOTE 17. In old times it was the 1809. Telling the Bees. common custom, when a member of the household died, to inform the bees of the death, and drape their hives with black. Otherwise, it was thought, they would fly away. NOTE 18. On a Favorite Cat, drowned in a Tub of Gold fishes. These delightful verses were sent by Gray in a letter to Horace Walpole, who had written to the poet that his "handsome cat" had been drowned in a bowl of goldfishes. Several copies of the poem, in Gray's handwriting, are in existence. INDEX OF AUTHORS ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. Alec Yeaton's Son, 220. The Voice of the Sea, 206. Robin Redbreast, 146. BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL. Song, 171. Sailors' Song, 39. BLAKE, WILLIAM. Infant Joy, 5. Night, 231. The Lamb, 91. The Tiger, 201. BROWNING, ROBERT. Home Thoughts from Abroad, CowPER, WILLIAM. Epitaph on a Hare, 3. DRAYTON, MICHAEL. The Battle of Agincourt, 207. DRYDEN, JOHN. Alexander's Feast, 191. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. The Humble-Bee, 215. GARNETT, RICHARD. Marigold, 162. GRAY, THOMAS. Elegy written in a Country On a Favorite Cat, drowned in HERRICK, ROBERT. The Night Piece, 143. HOGG, JAMES. A Boy's Song, 9. HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Old Ironsides, 73. The Chambered Nautilus, 10. HOOD, THOMAS. Ballad, 154. Song, 24. HOWITT, MARY. The Fairies of the Caldon Low, HUNT, LEIGH. Jenny Kissed Me, 157. JONSON, BEN. Epitaph on the Countess of Hymn to Diana, 23. KEATS, JOHN. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, On first looking into Chap- Choosing a Name, 41. LINDSAY, LADY ANNE. Auld Robin Gray, 35. The Wandering Knight's Song, LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Discoverer of the North The Phantom Ship, 95. The Skeleton in Armor, 75. The Wreck of the Hesperus, 19. LOVELACE, RICHARD. Jock of Hazeldean, 105. Lullaby for Titania, 170. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. To a Skylark, 139. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. The Dumb Soldier, 162. Barthram's Dirge, 226. To Lucasta, on going to the TENNYSON, ALFRED. Wars, 138. Ballad of Oriana, 223. UNKNOWN. Adam o' Gordon, 82. The Lass of Lochroyan, 133. WALLER, EDMUND. Go, Lovely Rose, 144. A Cradle Song, 101. The Barefoot Boy, 97. The Sisters, 175. WOLFE, CHARLES. The Burial of Sir John Moore, WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Lucy, 59. Lucy, 60. Lucy Gray; or, Solitude, 17. The Solitary Reaper, 2. |