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Rainbow gold; poems old and new selected for boys and girls

Part 4 — INDEX OF AUTHORS

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Allingham, William (1824-1889)

The Fairies, 162 The Lepracaun, 40

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

The Forsaken Merman, 152

Blake, William (1757-1827)

Nurse’s Song, 158 The Tiger, 98

Branch, Anna Hempstead (18- )

A Song for My Mother, 215

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 109 Song (“The Year’s at the Spring”), 36

Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

The Pilgrim, 76

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

Bannockburn, 138 To a Mouse, 159

Byron, Lord (1788-1824)

The Destruction of Sennacherib, 92

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

Kubla Khan, 19

Colum, Padraic (1881- )

The Terrible Robber Men, 100

Conkling, Hilda (1910- )

Tree-Toad, 223

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Epitaph on a Hare, 73

Cunningham, Allan (1784-1842)

A Sea Song, 72

Davies, William H. (1870- )

Nature’s Friend, 221

de la Mare, Walter (1873- )

Berries, 24 Jim Jay, 197 Off the Ground, 249

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

The Snow, 214

Dobell, Sydney (1824-1874)

A Chanted Calendar, 143

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

Fable, 140

Ferguson, James (?)

Auld Daddy Darkness, 256

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Good Hours, 141

Gifford, Fannie Stearns (1884- )

Moon Folly, 189

Graves, Robert (1895- )

Star-Talk, 193

Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)

To Violets, 38

Hodgson, Ralph (about 1879- )

“Time, you Old Gipsy Man,” 124

Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)

Battle Hymn of the Republic, 133

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)

Jaffár, 87

Jonson, Ben (1574-1637)

Hymn to Diana, 59

Keats, John (1795-1821)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 168 Meg Merrilies, 22

Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875)

The Sands of Dee, 234

Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)

Song of the Chattahoochee, 206

Lindsay, Vachel (1879- )

The Ghosts of the Buffaloes, 199

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

My Lost Youth, 130 The Skeleton in Armor, 237

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

The Fountain, 217

Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859)

Ivry, 94

Markham, Edwin (1852- )

A Prayer, 245

Marlowe, Christopher (1562-1593)

The Shepherd to His Love, 62

Masefield, John (1874- )

Sea Fever, 211

Milton, John (1608-1674)

On May Morning, 39

Moore, Thomas (1780-1852)

By Bendemeer’s Stream, 244 The Minstrel-Boy, 137

Nashe, Thomas (1567-1601?)

Spring, 175

Noyes, Alfred (1880- )

A Song of Sherwood, 89

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

Israfel, 82

Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)

A Christmas Carol, 203

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 135 Hunting Song, 44 Young Lochinvar, 246

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

“Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind,” 108 Lullaby for Titania, 78 “Under the Greenwood Tree” 37 Winter, 142

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

Hymn of Pan, 29 The Cloud, 145

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

Escape at Bedtime, 205 Romance, 28

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

“When the Hounds of Spring,” 32

Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)

Bugle Song, 151 The Lady of Shalott, 46

Unknown

An Ancient Christmas Carol, 225 An Old Christmas Carol, 226 An Old Song of Fairies, 186 King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, 228 Robin Hood and the Butcher, 64 Sir Patrick Spens, 101 Sister, Awake! 236 The Gay Gos-Hawk, 178

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

O Captain! My Captain! 212

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

“I Wandered Lonely,” 176 The Solitary Reaper, 128 Written in March, 31

Yeats, William Butler (1865- )

The Song of Wandering Aengus, 60

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