ENGLISH LYRICS

CHAUCER TO POE

1340-1809

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow.

Omar Khayyàm.

LIBRARY

OF THE

UNIVERSITY

OF

CALIFORNIA

LONDON: METHUEN AND CO.

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA

1897

GENERAL

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty

ΤΟ

GEORGE WYNDHAM

IN GRATITUDE FOR

MUCH GOOD TALK GOOD COUNSEL

AND GOOD FEELING