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“A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay,” 297

Aicard, Jean, 222

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 83

“Along the garden ways just now,” 31

“Amaturus,” 56

“A Ma Future,” 51

“Amelia,” 37

“Amis and Amile,” Introduction, 268-278

“Amphibian,” 166-172

Andrews, Bishop Lancelot, 101

“Angel in the House, The,” 37

“An Invocation,” 299, 302

“Appreciations of Poetry,” Introduction

“Arabian Nights, The,” 268

“Arachne,” 191

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 50, 51

Arnold, Matthew, 116, 313

“Art of Worldly Wisdom, The,” 127

Ashe, Thomas, 58

“A simple ring with a simple stone,” 69

“Atalanta in Calydon,” 258

“Atalanta’s Race,” 26

“Bhagavad-Gita, The,” 94

Bible, The, Introduction, 64, 92-105, 233, 253, 277

Bion, 301, 302

Blake, William, 96, 176

Book of Common Prayer, The, 233, 253

Breton, Jules, 219

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art,” 46

Browning, Robert, 10, 39, 65-69, 71, 73, 166-172, 280

“Burly, dozing humble bee,” 179

“Busy, curious thirsty fly,” 176

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 10, 62

Carew, Thomas, 61

Carlyle, Thomas, 89, 105

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of, 113

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 29

Coleridge, Hartley, 74

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 10, 95, 163

“Conservative, A,” 188

Cooke, Rose Terry, 191

Cory, William, Introduction, 57, 279

Crashaw, Richard, 52

Dante Alighieri, 23

“Daughter of Cleomenes, The,” 305

Descartes, Rene, 195

“Deteriora,” 291

Dickens, Charles, Introduction

“Djins, Les,” 79

“Dream of Fair Women, A,” 297

“Emaux et Camées,” 216

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 82, 178

“Epigramme Funeraire,” 210, 211

“Evelyn Hope,” 67

“Fable, A,” 288

“Fifine at the Fair,” 166

Francis of Assisi, Saint, 196

Freneau, Philip, 186

Gautier, Théophile, 216

“Gazing on stars, my star?” 47

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 78, 82

“Golden Legend, The,” 272

Gracian, Baltasar, 126

“Grasshopper, The,” 226

Gray, Thomas, 202

“Greater Memory,” 32

Greek Anthology, Introduction, 77, 284

“Grillon solitaire,” 213

“Havamal, The,” Introduction, 105-133

Hearn, Lafcadio, Introduction

Heredia, José, Maria de, Introduction, 87-91, 205, 209-211

Herodas, 318

Herrick, Robert, 78

“He that loves a rosy cheek,” 61

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 185

Hood, Thomas, 62

Hugo, Victor, 26, 43, 79, 89, 209

“Idyls of the King,” 299

“I love to hear thine earnest voice,” 185

“In a branch of willow hid,” 186

“Interpretations of Literature,” Introduction

“Ionica,” Introduction, 56, 57

“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife,” 80

“It is a golden morning of the spring,” 40

Jonson, Ben, 72, 78

“Kalevala, The,” Introduction, 228-260

Keats, John, Introduction, 46, 47, 95, 181

“King Solomon and the Ants,” 198

“La Demoiselle,” 209

“Lady of Shalott, The,” 226

Landor, Walter Savage, 80

Lang, Andrew, Introduction, 313

Lamartine, 213, 216

Lamb, Charles, 201

“Le Daimio,” 89

Lemerre, Alphonse, 160

“Le Samourai,” 87

“Les Cigales,” 219

“Life and Literature,” Introduction

de Lisle, Leconte, 87

“Lives there whom pain has evermore passed by,” 82

Locker-Lampson, Frederic, 50, 51, 159

“Locksley Hall,” 36

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 91, 106, 226, 228, 231, 254, 255, 272

Lönnrot, 229, 230, 231

Lovelace, Richard, 225

Lubbock, Sir John, 137

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 161

“Ma Libellule,” 205-209

“Maud,” 24, 25

Meredith, George, Introduction, 129

“Mimes,” 318

“Mimnermus in church,” 281, 308

Moschus, 301

“Nay but you, who do not love her,” 65

“Never the time and the place,” 39

“New Ethics, The,” Introduction

“New Year’s Day, A,” 295

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 135, 144

“Njal-Saga, The.” 7

“Ode on the Spring,” 202

Oldys, William, 176, 177

O’Shaughnessy, Arthur, 30

“Pansie,” 58

“Patchwork,” 50

Pater, Walter, Introduction, 274

Patmore, Coventry, 37, 159

“Pause, A,” 35

Plato, 17

Poe, Edgar Allan, 254

“Poems of Places,” 91

Porson, Richard, 161

Powell, Frederick York, 106

“Princess, The,” Introduction

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas, 172

“Reparabo,” 286

Rossetti, Christina, 35, 36, 55

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 10, 30, 219

Ruskin, John, 105, 150

“Ruth,” 63, 64

“Saga of King Olaf, The,” 106

Sainte-Beuve, 323

Saintsbury, Professor George, 101

“Scheveningen Avenue,” 308

Scott, Sir Walter, 125, 126

Shakespeare, William, 226

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 10

“She walks in beauty, like the night,” 62

“She was a phantom of delight,” 60, 61

“Solitary-Hearted, The,” 74

“Somewhere or other,” 55

“Song in time of Revolution, A,” 258, 259

“Song of Hiawatha, The,” 228, 231, 254-257

“Song of Songs,” 200

Spencer, Herbert, 18, 116, 126, 135, 137, 142, 143

“Stay near me, do not take thy flight” 165

Stetson, Charlotte Perkins, 187

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 10

“Story of Burnt Njal, The,” 7

“Studies in Greek Poets,” 77

“Such Kings of shreds have wooed and won her,” 83

“Sudden Light,” 30

Sully-Prudhomme, René, François Armande, 87

“Summum Bonum,” 71

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 254, 258, 259

Symonds, John Addington, 47, 77

Ten Brink, Bernhard Egidius Konrad, 277

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Introduction, 10, 19, 24, 25, 36, 47, 95, 175, 178, 182-184, 226, 254, 280, 297, 299

Tennyson, Frederick, 40, 41

Thackeray, William Makepeace, Introduction

“The butterfly the ancient Grecians made,” 163

Theocritus, Introduction, 300-302, 312-324

“The poetry of earth is never dead,” 181

“The thousand painful steps at last are trod,” 82

“The trembling arm I pressed,” 43

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,” 296

“Think not thy wisdom can illume away,” 81

Thompson, Maurice, 27, 28

“Thou canst not wave thy staff in air,” 83

“To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars,” 225

“Two Fragments of Childhood,” 293

“Two Voices, The,” 175

“Unknown Eros, The,” 37

Vigfusson, Gudbrandt, 106

“Voice of the summer wind,” 183

Watson, William, 81, 159

“When spring grows old,” 27

“White Moth, The,” 172

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 198

“Wishes to the Supposed Mistress, 52

Wordsworth, William, 10, 60, 61, 95, 164, 165

Wycliffe, John, 98