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FIRST LINES. AUTHOR. PAGE.
He that cannot see well Bacon 54
Stone walls do not a prison make Lovelace 55
When the heart is right Berkeley 87
It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well Addison 92
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still Cowper 154
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast Cowper 158
Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us Burns 170
Life! we've been long together Mrs. Barbauld 178
Rough wind, that moanest loud Shelley 218
There is a book, who runs may read Keble 233
There is no great and no small Emerson 245
Wellington, Thy great work is but begun Rossetti 293
Sacrifice and self-devotion Lord Houghton 320
Flower in the crannied wall Tennyson 366
It fortifies my soul to know Clough 369
And yet, dear heart! remembering thee Whittier 372
There is no land like England Tennyson 377
The Summum Pulchrum rests in heaven above Clough 382
Be of good cheer then, my dear Crito Socrates 388
What know we greater than the soul Tennyson 407
That is best blood that hath most iron in't Lowell 411
Such kings of shreds have woo'd and won her Aldrich 419