PART VI
Reading edition
The Voice of Spring 259 Felicia Hemans
The Forsaken Merman 260 Matthew Arnold
The Banks o’ Doon 265 Robert Burns
The Light of Other Days 266 Thomas Moore
My Own Shall Come to Me 267 John Burroughs
Ode to a Skylark 268 Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Sands of Dee 271 Charles Kingsley
A Wish 272 Samuel Rogers
Lucy 272 William Wordsworth
Solitude 273 Alexander Pope
John Anderson 274 Robert Burns
The God of Music 275 Edith M. Thomas
A Musical Instrument 275 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Brides of Enderby 277 Jean Ingelow
The Lye 283 Sir Walter Raleigh
L’Envoi 285 Rudyard Kipling
Contentment 286 Edward Dyer
The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls 287 Thomas Moore
The Old Oaken Bucket 288 Samuel Woodworth
The Raven 289 Edgar Allan Poe
Arnold von Winkleried 296 James Montgomery
Life, I Know Not What Thou Art 299 A. L. Barbauld
Mercy 300 William Shakespeare
Polonius’ Advice 301 William Shakespeare
A Fragment from “Julius Cæsar” 301 William Shakespeare
The Skylark 302 Thomas Hogg
The Choir Invisible 303 George Eliot
The World Is Too Much With Us 304 William Wordsworth
On His Blindness 304 John Milton
She Was a Phantom of Delight 305 William Wordsworth
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 306 Thomas Gray
Rabbi Ben Ezra 312 Robert Browning
Prospice 320 Robert Browning
Recessional 321 Rudyard Kipling
Ozymandias of Egypt 322 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mortality 323 William Knox
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer 326 John Keats
Hervé Riel 326 Robert Browning
The Problem 333 Ralph Waldo Emerson
To America 335 Alfred Austin
The English Flag 337 Rudyard Kipling
The Man With the Hoe 342 Edwin Markham
Song of Myself 344 Walt Whitman
Index 350