THE HOME BOOK

OF VERSE

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH

1580-1912

With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems
in Other Languages

COPYRIGHT, 1912,

BY

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

GREENFIELD MASC

The Bridge..

.Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3155

St. John Lucas..

3155

.Alfred Tennyson

3156

..Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3157

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3158

"My Life is Like the Summer Rose" Richard Henry Wilde

"As I Laye A-Thynkynge"

The Harp of Sorrow

The Journey Onwards

.Ethel Clifford .

Thomas Moore

3160

Richard Harris Barham

3161

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3162

Song, "I try to knead and spin'

Spirit of Sadness.

.Louise Imogen Guiney

3163

.Richard Le Gallienne..

3164

No More

Byron Forceythe Willson.

3164

""Tis But a Little Faded Flower"

...Ellen Clementine Howarth .

3165

To Each His Own

.Margaret Root Garvin

3165

Song, "Rarely, rarely comest thou". .Percy Bysshe Shelley

3166

Stanzas Written in Dejection Near

Naples

.Percy Bysshe Shelley.

3167

Sunset Wings

Morality

Cui Bono

.Thomas Carlyle

3171

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3179

Song "We only ask for sunshine"..Helen Hay Whitney.

Table of Contents

His Winding-Sheet

. Robert Herrick

A Prayer in the Prospect of Death .. Robert Burns..

Song of the Silent Land

June..

Love, Time, and Death.

A Wish

Next of Kin

A Better Resurrection

The Summer is Ended

A Little Parable.

My Cross

In the Hospital

When..

"Ex Libris"

In Extremis

Spinning.

"Some Time at Eve"

Night..

Afterwards

A Hundred Years to Come

The Last Camp-fire.

At First..

The Lamp in the West..

The Dying Reservist.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3242

.William Cullen Bryant . 3243

Frederick Locker-Lampson . 3244

.Matthew Arnold

3245