......

PAGE

Lady Clara Vere de Vere.... Alfred Tennyson. 210
Alfred Tennyson. 138
Lady Geraldine's Courtship... E. B. Browning. 104
Lady Margaret Ley, To the.......John Milton. 235
Lady of Shalott, The......... Alfred Tennyson. 888
Lady's Dream, The............ Thomas Hood. 714
Lady's Yes, The........ Elizabeth B. Browning. 138
Laird o' Cockpen, The.........Lady C. Nairne. 892
Lake of the Dismal Swamp, The.... T. Moore. 422
L'Allegro.........
John Milton. 733
Lament, A............... Percy Bysshe Shelley. 766
Lamentation for Celin, The....J. G. Lockhart. 373
Lamentation of Don Roderick.J. G. Lockhart. 290
Lament of the Border Widow. Author Unknown. 417
Lament of the Irish Emigrant. Lady Dufferin. 86
Lancashire Doxology, A...... Dinah M. Craik. 583
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New

.....

England, The.......... Felicia Hemans. 308
Land o' the Leal, The.......... Lady C. Nairne. 636
Langley Lane............ ..... Robert Buchanan. 203
Lass of Patie's Mill, The........ Allan Ramsay. 155
Last Buccaneer, The.......... Charles Kingsley. 419
Last Conqueror, The.............. James Shirley. 623
Last Leaf, The.......... Oliver Wendell Holmes. 755
Last Man, The................. Thomas Campbell. 643
La Tricoteuse........ George Walter Thornbury. 332
Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse, The,

Sir William Blackstone. 738
Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The,

Henry Howard Brownell. 951
Lead, Kindly Light......John Henry Newman. 569
Lemuel's Song................. George Wither. 24
Leven Water, Ode to............ Tobias Smollett. 515
Levett, On the Death of Dr..Samuel Johnson. 245
Lie, The........................Sir Walter Raleigh. 655
Lord Bacon. 613
.Anna Letitia Barbauld. 613
George Herbert. 756
.Francis Scott Key. 577
Bryan Waller Procter. 615

Life.....

Life...

Life.

Life.

Life.........

..............

Life on the Ocean Wave, A......Epes Surgent. 695
Light....................
.F. W. Bourdillon. 180
Light Shining out of Darkness... W. Cowper. 543
Lilian......... ............Alfred Tennyson. 203
Lines on Isabella Markham.John Harrington. 124
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern.....John Keats. 504
Lines on the Portrait of Shakespeare. Jonson. 230
Lines to an Indian Air........ Percy B. Shelley. 103
Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard,

Yorkshire................... Herbert Knowles. 633
Lines Written in the Tower....... C. Tychborn. 688
Lines Written on the Night of the 30th of
July, 1847........ Thomas B. Macaulay. 273
Lines Written the Night before his Execu-
tion..........
...Sir Walter Raleigh. 230
Lines Written to his Wife..... Reginald Heber.
Lines Written under the Picture of John

Milton.....

9

Love.........

............

Samuel Hinds. 582
Lord Ullin's Daughter....... Thomas Campbell. 381
Lost Heir, The..........
Thomas Hood. 904
Lost Leader, The............ .Robert Browning. 263
Lot of Thousands, The............ Anne Hunter. 685
Louis XV............ ..........John Sterling. 328
.... Samuel T. Coleridge. 100
Love and Death...
..........John Ford. 203
Love in the Valley......... George Meredith. 142
Love is a Sickness................Samuel Daniel. 98
Love-Knot, The......... .......Nora Perry. 217
Love Lightens Labor......... Author Unknown. 24
Loveliness of Love, The......Author Unknown. 139
Lovely Mary Donnelly......... Wm. Allingham. 122
Love Not........... ........ Caroline Norton. 187
Love not me for Comely Grace,

Author Unknown. 139
Love's Omnipresence...........Joshua Sylvester. 99
Love's Philosophy........ Percy Bysshe Shelley. 97
Love still hath Something of the Sea,

Sir Charles Sedley. 99
Lovest thou Me................ William Cowper. 541
Love will Find out the Way,

Author Unknown. 97
Low-backed Car, The..............Samuel Lover. 165
Loyalty Confined.........Sir Roger L'Estrange. 241
Lucasta, To. (On Going beyond the Seas.)
Richard Lovelace. 125
Lucasta, To. (On Going to the Wars.)

Lucy.........

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude.... Wm. Wordsworth.
Lucy's Flittin'..

56

William Laidlaw. 202

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MAIDENHOOD..............Henry W. Longfellow. 66
Maiden's Choice, The.......... .Henry Carey. 210
Maid of Athens.....
.................Lord Byron. 145
Maid's Lament, The......... Walter S. Landor. 141
Make Way for Liberty.....James Montgomery. 297
Malbrouck... Francis Mahony (Father Prout),
(from the French). 948 |
...Simon Wastell. 626

Man's Mortality.
Marching Along.. ................................... Robert Browning. 310
March to Moscow.....
Robert Southey. 949
Marco Bozzaris.......... Fitz-Greene Halleck. 347
Mariner's Dream, The........ William Dimond. 696
Mariner's Wife, The...................Jean Adam. 10
Mary, To...............
...Samuel Bishop. 10
Mary, To........................ William Cowper. 245
Mary in Heaven, To............
.........Robert Burns. 137
Mary Morison.......
Mary of Castle Cary

Robert Burns. 147
Hector Macneill. 164
Massacre of the Macpherson... W. E. Aytoun. 934
Matrimonial Happiness..........John Lapraik. 7
Maude Clare....... Christina Georgina Rossetti. 188
Maud Muller.....
John G. Whittier. 167
May, Song to..........
Erasmus Darwin. 431
May, Song to.......... ............ Lord Thurlow. 428
May, Sonnet on.................. Thomas Watson. 428
May, The Reign of......James Gates Percival. 432
May Morning, Song on.............John Milton. 427
May Queen, The.......... ..Alfred Tennyson. 69
Means to Attain Happy Life..Henry Howard. 616
Meeting of the Waters, The... Thomas Moore. 517
Melancholia........
.....John Fletcher. 656
Men of England............... Thomas Campbell. 356
Men of Old, The.......
............ Richard M. Milnes. 747
Merry Pranks of Robin Good-Fellow, The,
Author Unknown. 808
Messiah.........
Alexander Pope. 527
Midnight Hymn............................................................ Thomas Ken. 557
Milk-Maid's Mother's Answer,

Sir Walter Raleigh. 140 Milk-Maid's Song......... Christopher Marlowe. 140 Miller's Daughter, The........ Alfred Tennyson. 155 Milton, Lines Written under the Picture of,

John Dryden. 240 Milton, Sonnet to......... William Wordsworth. 240 Milton's Prayer of Patience...... E. L. Howell. 235 Minstrel's Song, The........ Thomas Chatterton. 147 Missionary Hymn.......... Reginald Heber. 580 Mistress Margaret Hussey, To...John Skelton. 225 Mitherless Bairn, The........... William Thom. 46 Modern Belle, The................. .......Stark. 922 Monody on the Death of an Only Client,

NABOB, The..................... Susanna Blamire. 93 Nantucket Skipper, The......James T. Fields. 927 Napoleon..................John Gibson Lockhart. 268 Napoleon, The Return of, from St. Helena,

Lydia H. Sigourney. 268 Naseby............ Thomas Babington Macaulay. 311 Nearer Home................. .........Phœbe Cary. 587 Nearer, my God, to Thee.... Sarah F. Adams. 564 Neckan, The...................... Matthew Arnold. 883 Neglected Call, The...... Hannah Lloyd Neale. 684 Never Again..........Richard Henry Stoddard. 764 New Jerusalem....... Author Unknown. 602 New Year's Day, Niagara...... Night Night... Night.........

..................

For Philip Doddridge. 559

........

..John G. C. Brainard. 520 ....James Montgomery. 687

Hartley Coleridge. 775 William Habington. 775

Monterey................
Moon, Sonnet to the
Moon, Sonnet to the..........
Moon, To the...........
Morning.......

lections of Early Childhood. Wordsworth. 644 Ode on a Grecian Urn ...............John Keats. 746 Ode on Solitude...... Alexander Pope. 755 Ode on St. Cecilia's Day...... Alexander Pope. 727 Ode on the Centenary of Burns.. Isa C. Knox. 250 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Alfred Tennyson. 270 Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson. W. Collins. 244 Ode, On the Spring............ ....... Thomas Gray. 427 Ode,-"The spacious firmament on high,"

Ode to Fear...

Ode to Himself......

Joseph Addison. 545 Ode to a Nightingale ................John Keats. 478 Ode to an Indian Gold Coin...... John Leyden. 87 Ode to Duty...... William Wordsworth. 664 Ode to Evening.. William Collins. 440 William Collins. 776 Ben Jonson. 225 Ode to Leven Water........... Tobias Smollett. 515 Ode to my Little Son......... Thomas Hood. 903 Ode to the West Wind... Percy Bysshe Shelley. 436 O Fairest of the Rural Maids!. W. C. Bryant. 779 Of Myself.... Abraham Cowley. 233 Oft, in the Stilly Night.......... Thomas Moore. 77 O God of Bethel, by whose Hand... Variation

.....

by John Logan (from Philip Doddridge). 587 O Happy Soul, that Lives on High!.I. Watts. 575 Oh, Breathe not his Name...... Thomas Moore. 252 Oh, had we some Bright Little Isle of our Own!.............. Thomas Moore. 194 Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's Bloom, Lord Byron. 743 Oh the Pleasant Days of Old....... F. Brown. 747 Oh why should the Spirit of Mortal be

Proud?.......................................... William Knox. 627 Old and Young Courtier..... Author Unknown. 672 | B

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Old Arm-Chair, The.................. Eliza Cook.
Old Clock on the Stairs, The...... Longfellow. 76
Old Familiar Faces, The......... Charles Lamb. 77
Old Folks at Home...........Stephen C. Foster. 18
Old Grimes........
....Albert G. Greene. 912
Old Letters
Frederick Locker. 88
Old Man Dreams, The ......Oliver W. Holmes. 899
Old Man's Comforts, The....... Robert Southey. 674
Old Man's Wish, The............... Walter Pope. 751
Old Oaken Bucket, The....Samuel Woodworth. 74
Old St. David's at Radnor...H. W. Longfellow. 522
Omnipotent Decree, The....... Charles Wesley. 585
On a Bust of Dante.. Thomas William Parsons. 221
On a Contented Mind..... Thomas, Lord Vaux. 658
On a Day, Alack the Day!... W. Shakespeare. 141
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. T. Gray. 504
On a Distant View of England. W. L. Bowles. 356
On a Girdle............................. ...... Edmund Waller, 185
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva. T. B. Aldrich. 780
O Nanny, wilt Thou go with Me...... T. Percy. 161
On Another's Sorrow.... William Blake. 589

On a Prayer-Book, sent to Mrs. M. R.,

Robert Crashaw. 586 On a Sprig of Heath............................................ Anne Grant. 447 Once upon a Time...... ...Caroline B. Southey. 93 One by One...................................Adelaide Anne Procter. 683 One Gray Hair, The......... Walter S. Landor. 751 One Word is too often Profaned. P. B. Shelley. 148 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer,

On his Divine Poems.......... Edmund Waller, 688 On Lending a Punch-Bowl...... O. W. Holmes. 90 On Lucy, Countess of Bedford..... Ben Jonson. 233 Only Waiting.......... Francis Laughton Mace. 639 On my Dear Son, Gervase Beaumont,

Sir John Beaumont. 226 On Revisiting the River Loddon... T. Warton. 508 On the Death of Dr. Levett...Samuel Johnson. 245 On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake,

Fitz-Greene Halleck. 253 On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, William Wordsworth. 348

On the Funeral of Charles the First,

William Lisle Bowles. 312 On the Grasshopper and Cricket......J. Keats. 482 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont..J. Milton. 313 On the Morning of Christ's Nativity... Milton. 523 On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learn

ing in America............. George Berkeley. 723 On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture,

William Cowper. 15 On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey,

Francis Beaumont. 504

On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year...... ......Lord Byron. 88

PAGE

Origin of the Opal............ Author Unknown. 459
Orphan Boy's Tale, The...........Amelia Opie. 46
O Thou from whom all Goodness Flows,

Thomas Haweis. 584

O Thou, the Contrite Sinner's Friend,

Charlotte Elliott. 539
Outlaw, The..........
..Sir Walter Scott. 176
Over Hill, Over Dale.... William Shakespeare. 794
Over the River........ Nancy A. W. Wakefield. 629

.........

PAN, TO............ ...... Beaumont & Fletcher. 425
Pan in Wall Street. Edmund Clarence Stedman. 886
Panglory's Wooing Song.........Giles Fletcher. 98
Paradise................... Frederick W. Faber. 601
Paraphrase of Psalm XXIII......J. Addison. 561
Paraphrase of Psalm XXIII...... R. Crashaw. 562
Parody on Pope........................................... Sydney Smith. 923
Passing Away....
...John Pierpont. 628
Passing Under the Rod...... Mary S. B. Dana. 589
Passions, The.
W. Collins. 730
Past, The................. William Cullen Bryant. 91
Pastoral, A...
.........John Byrom. 173
Pastoral, A....
Nicholas Breton, 182
Pastoral Ballad, A........... William Shenstone. 205
Paul Revere's Ride...... Henry W. Longfellow. 329
Pauper's Death-bed, The ......... C. B. Southey. 721
Pauper's Drive, The................. Thomas Noel. 722
Pavy, Epitaph on Salathiel......... Ben Jonson. 232
Peal of Bells, A........... Christina G. Rossetti. 764
Pearl-Wearer, The...... Bryan Waller Procter. 700
Pembroke, Epitaph on the Countess of,

Ben Jonson. 233
George Croly. 289
Per Pacem ad Lucem .... Adelaide A. Procter. 537
Petition to Time, A.... Bryan Waller Procter. 751
Pet Lamb, The....
W. Wordsworth. 487
Philip, my King................
Dinah M. Craik. 30
Phillida and Corydon......
Nicholas Breton. 145
Philomela......
Matthew Arnold. 472
Philosopher's Scales, The.........Jane Taylor. 665
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu...... Sir Walter Scott. 359
Picture, A................. Charles G. Eastman. G
Picture of T. C., The, in a Prospect of
Flowers.
Andrew Marvell. 240
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The...... R. Browning. 851
Pilgrimage, The.............Sir Walter Raleigh. 578
Pilgrims of the Night, The.. Fred. W. Faber. 600
Place to Die, The....... Michael Joseph Barry. 680
Plain Language from Truthful James,

Pericles and Aspasia............

Bret Harte. 933
Ploughman, The....... Oliver Wendell Holmes. 692
Poet's Bridal-Day Song... Allan Cunningham. 18
Poet's Song to his Wife.......... B. W. Procter.
Pompadour, The............................. G. W. Thornbury. 327

Poor Jack........

14

Charles Dibdin. 698

Pope, Parody on.......
Sydney Smith. 923
Portrait, The.............. Robert Bulwer Lytton. 199
Power of Love, The..... Beaumont & Fletcher. 169

Praise of a Countryman's Life.John Chalkhill. 496
Praise of a Solitary Life, The.. W. Drummond. 658
Praise of his Love, A............. Henry Howard. 154
Praise to God........... Anna Lætitia Barbauld. 548
Praxiteles and Phryne...... William W. Story. 784
Pre-Existence.......
Paul H. Hayne. 783
Present Crisis, The......James Russell Lowell, 343
Priest, The.......
Nicholas Breton. 552
Primrose, The...
Robert Herrick. 214
Primrose, To an Early........Henry K. White. 452
Primroses Filled with Morning Dew, To,

Robert Herrick. 452
Prisoned in Windsor, he Recounteth his
Pleasure there Passed......Henry Howard. 222
Prisoner of Chillon.
Lord Byron. 398
Problem, The............................. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 663
Progress of Poesy, The........... Thomas Gray. 728
Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of "Cato,"

..................

Alexander Pope. 242
Proud Maisie is in the Wood..Sir Walter Scott. 890
Psalm of Life, A.......... Henry W. Longfellow. 615
Psalm XXIII, Paraphrase of......J. Addison. 581
Psalm XXIII, Paraphrase of...... R. Crashaw. 562
Psalm LXXII-" Hail to the Lord's Anoint-

ed".........................James Montgomery. 537
Psalm LXXXIV" Pleasant are Thy courts

above"

.Henry Francis Lyte. 600
Psalm LXXXVII-" Glorious things of Thee
are spoken".
John Newton. 598
Psalm XC-"Our God, our help in ages
past"
.......... Isaac Watts. 549
Psalm XCVIII-"Joy to the world! the
Lord is come".
Isaac Watts. 549
Psalm C-With one consent let all the
earth
Tate & Brady. 545
Psalm C-"Before Jehovah's awful throne,"
Isaac Watts (varied by Charles Wesley). 546
Psalm CXVII-" From all that dwell below
the skies"....

......

Isaac Watts. 552

PAGE
Rebecca's Hymn................Sir Walter Scott. 550
Recipe for Salad, A........... Sydney Smith. 959
Reconciliation, The............ Alfred Tennyson. 39
Re-cured Lover Exulteth in his Freedom,

The.
..........Sir Thomas Wyatt. 191
Redbreast, Sonnet to the......John Bampfylde. 477
Red, Red Rose, A.................. Robert Burns. 157
Red River Voyageur, The...John G. Whittier. 680
Reflective Retrospect, A..........John G. Saxe. 79
Reign of May, The.......James Gates Percival. 432
Renunciation, A...E. Vere (Earl of Oxford). 190
Resignation
Richard Baxter. 566
Resignation.........
Thomas Chatterton. 565
Resignation.....Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 646
Retirement.........
William Couper. 582
Retirement, The.................... Charles Cotton, 495
Retreat, The............................... Henry Vaughan. 92
Return of Napoleon from St. Helena,
Lydia H. Sigourney. 268
Rêve du Midi.................. Rose Terry Cooke. 433
Rhine, The................ William Lisle Bowles. 518
Rhodora, The............Ralph Waldo Emerson. 455
Right must Win, The....Frederick W. Faber. 572
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 855
Rise, my Soul, and Stretch thy Wings,

..........

PAGE

Serenade, A......... ...........Sir Walter Scott. 189
Shakespeare, Epitaph on..........John Milton. 230
Shakespeare, Lines on the Portrait of...Jonson. 230
Shakespeare, To the memory of... Ben Jonson. 228
Shall I Tell you Whom I Love?. Wm. Browne. 123
She is Far from the Land ...... Thomas Moore. 275
She is not Fair to Outward View.H. Coleridge. 172
Shepherd's Resolution, The.... George Wither. 169
Shepherd's Wife's Song, The.........R. Greene. 142
Sheridan's Ride....... Thomas Buchanan Read. 351
She's Gane to Dwell in Heaven. A. Cunningham. 218
She Walks in Beauty..........
..Lord Byron. 741
She was a Phantom of Delight.... Wordsworth. 10
Ships at Sea.........
R. B. Coffin. 789
Shortness of Life, The......... Francis Quarles. 615
Shout the Glad Tidings.. Wm. A. Muhlenberg. 533
Sic Vita
......Henry King. 688
Sidney, Epitaph upon Sir Philip. W. Raleigh. 227
Siege of Belgrade, The....... Author Unknown. 960
Sigh no More, Ladies.......... Wm. Shakespeare. 187
Silent Lover, The...........Sir Walter Raleigh. 182
Siller Croun, The...............Susanna Blamire. 147
Sir Marmaduke...George Colman, the Younger. 784
Sir Patrick Spens............... Author Unknown. 367
Sister Helen................ ............... Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 875
Sixteen..........
Walter Savage Landor. 214
Skeleton, To a
Author Unknown. 642
Skeleton in Armor, The..... H. W. Longfellow. 864
Skipper Ireson's Ride........John G. Whittier. 371
Skylark, The....... ..........James Hogg. 473
Skylark, To a......................................... Percy Bysshe Shelley. 474
Skylark, To a..... William Wordsworth. 473
Skylark, To a.............
William Wordsworth. 473
Sleep, Sonnet on.. .........Samuel Daniel. 776
Sleep, Sonnet on......... ..Sir Philip Sidney. 776
Sleep, The............................................ Elizabeth B. Browning. 622
Sleeping Babe, The...............Samuel Hinds. 45
Smack in School, The... William Pitt Palmer. 923
Society upon the Stanislow, The....Bret Harte. 944
Soldier, Rest........................................... Sir Walter Scott. 700
Soldier's Dream, The......... Thomas Campbell. 83
Solitude, Ode on........... Alexander Pope. 755
Somerset, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the
Earl of...
.........Sir H. Wotton. 230
Son-Dayes........
Henry Vaughan. 560
Song-"Busy, curious, thirsty fly ".. W. Oldys. 483
Song" Day in melting purple dying,"

Maria Brooks. 170
Song "Follow a Shadow, it still Flies you,"
Ben Jonson, 124
Song for St. Cecilia's Day, A.....John Dryden. 726
Song. (From the "Merchant of Venice"),
William Shakespeare. 838
Song "Lay a garland on my hearse,"