The Home Book of Verse, Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson Contents of Volume I of the two volume set This includes contents of Volumes 1 through 4 of our Etext editions. PART I POEMS OF YOUTH AND AGE The Human Seasons John Keats THE BABY “Only a Baby Small” Matthias Barr Only Harriet Prescott Spofford Infant Joy William BlakeBaby George MacdonaldTo a New-Born Baby Girl Grace Hazard Conkling To Little Renee William Aspenwall Bradley A Rhyme of One Frederick Locker-Lampson To a New-Born Child Cosmo MonkhouseBaby May William Cox Bennett Alice Herbert BashfordSongs for Fragoletta Richard Le Gallienne Choosing a Name Mary LambWeighing the Baby Ethel Lynn Beers Etude Realiste Algernon Charles Swinburne Little Feet Elizabeth AkersThe Babie Jeremiah Eames Rankin Little Hands Laurence BinyonBartholomew Norman GaleThe Storm-Child May Byron“On Parent Knees” William Jones “Philip, My King” Dinah Maria Mulock Craik The King of the Cradle Joseph Ashby-Sterry The Firstborn John Arthur Goodchild No Baby in the House Clara DolliverOur Wee White Rose Gerald Massey Into the World and Out Sarah M. P. Piatt “Baby Sleeps” Samuel HindsBaby Bell Thomas Bailey Aldrich IN THE NURSERY Mother Goose’s Melodies UnknownJack and Jill UnknownThe Queen of Hearts UnknownLittle Bo-Peep UnknownMary’s Lamb Sarah Josepha Hale The Star Jane Taylor“Sing a Song of Sixpence” UnknownSimple Simon UnknownA Pleasant Ship Unknown“I Had a Little Husband” Unknown“When I Was a Bachelor” Unknown“Johnny Shall Have a New Bonnet” UnknownThe City Mouse and the Garden Mouse Christina Rossetti Robin Redbreast UnknownSolomon Grundy Unknown“Merry Are the Bells” Unknown“When Good King Arthur Ruled This Land” UnknownThe Bells of London Unknown“The Owl and the Eel and the Warming Pan” Laura E. Richards The Cow Ann TaylorThe Lamb William BlakeLittle Raindrops Unknown“Moon, So Round and Yellow” Matthias Barr The House That Jack Built UnknownOld Mother Hubbard UnknownThe Death and Burial of Cock Robin UnknownBaby-Land George CooperThe First Tooth William Brighty Rands Baby’s Breakfast Emilie PoulssonThe Moon Eliza Lee Follen Baby at Play UnknownThe Difference Laura E. Richards Foot Soldiers John Banister TabbTom Thumb’s Alphabet UnknownGrammar in Rhyme UnknownDays of the Month UnknownThe Garden Year Sara Coleridge Riddles UnknownProverbs UnknownKind Hearts UnknownWeather Wisdom UnknownOld Superstitions Unknown THE ROAD TO SLUMBERLAND Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Eugene Field The Sugar-Plum Tree Eugene FieldWhen the Sleepy Man Comes Charles G. D. Roberts Auld Daddy Darkness James FergusonWillie Winkle William Miller The Sandman Margaret Thomson Janvier The Dustman Frederick Edward Weatherly Sephestia’s Lullaby Robert Greene“Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes” Thomas Dekker“Sleep, Baby, Sleep” George Wither Mother’s Song UnknownA Lullaby Richard Rowlands A Cradle Hymn Isaac WattsCradle Song William BlakeLullaby Carolina NairneLullaby of an Infant Chief Walter Scott Good-Night Jane Taylor“Lullaby, O Lullaby” William Cox Bennett Lullaby Alfred TennysonThe Cottager to Her Infant Dorothy Wordsworth Trot, Trot! Mary F. ButtsHoly Innocents Christina Georgina Rossetti Lullaby Josiah Gilbert Holland Cradle Song Josiah Gilbert Holland An Irish Lullaby Alfred Perceval Graves Cradle Song Josephine Preston Peabody Mother-Song from “Prince Lucifer” Alfred AustinKentucky Babe Richard Henry Buck Minnie and Winnie Alfred TennysonBed-Time Song Emilie Poulsson Tucking the Baby In Curtis May“Jenny Wi’ the Airn Teeth” Alexander Anderson Cuddle Doon Alexander AndersonBedtime Francis Robert St. Clair Erskine THE DUTY OF CHILDREN Happy Thought Robert Louis Stevenson Whole Duty of Children Robert Louis Stevenson Politeness Elizabeth TurnerRules of Behavior UnknownLittle Fred UnknownThe Lovable Child Emilie Poulsson Good and Bad Children Robert Louis Stevenson Rebecca’s After-Thought Elizabeth Turner Kindness to Animals UnknownA Rule for Birds’ Nesters Unknown“Sing on, Blithe Bird” William Motherwell “I Like Little Pussy” Jane TaylorLittle Things Julia Fletcher Carney The Little Gentleman UnknownThe Crust of Bread Unknown“How Doth the Little Busy Bee” Isaac WattsThe Brown Thrush Lucy LarcomThe Sluggard Isaac WattsThe Violet Jane TaylorDirty Jim Jane TaylorThe Pin Ann TaylorJane and Eliza Ann TaylorMeddlesome Matty Ann TaylorContented John Jane TaylorFriends Abbie Farwell Brown Anger Charles and Mary Lamb“There Was a Little Girl” H. W. Longfellow The Reformation of Godfrey Gore William Brighty Rands The Best Firm Walter G. DotyA Little Page’s Song William Alexander Percy How the Little Kite Learned to Fly UnknownThe Butterfly and the Bee William Lisle Bowles The Butterfly Adelaide O’KeefeMorning Jane TaylorButtercups and Daisies Mary Howitt The Ant and the Cricket UnknownAfter Wings Sarah M. B. Piatt Deeds of Kindness Epes SargentThe Lion and the Mouse Jeffreys Taylor The Boy and the Wolf John Hookham Frere The Story of Augustus, Who Would Not Have Any Soup Heinrich Hoffman The Story of Little Suck-A-Thumb Heinrich Hoffman Written in a Little Lady’s Little Album Frederick William Faber My Lady Wind UnknownTo a Child William Wordsworth A Farewell Charles Kingsley RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD Reeds of Innocence William Blake The Wonderful World William Brighty Rands The World’s Music Gabriel SetounA Boy’s Song James HoggGoing Down Hill On a Bicycle Henry Charles Beeching Playgrounds Laurence Alma-Tadema “Who Has Seen the Wind?” Christina Georgina Rossetti The Wind’s Song Gabriel SetounThe Piper on the Hill Dora Sigerson Shorter The Wind and the Moon George Macdonald Child’s Song in Spring Edith NesbitBaby Seed Song Edith NesbitLittle Dandelion Helen Barron Bostwick Little White Lily George MacdonaldWishing William Allingham In the Garden Ernest CrosbyThe Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant Glad Day W. Graham RobertsonThe Tiger William BlakeAnswer to a Child’s Question Samuel Taylor Coleridge How the Leaves Came Down Susan Coolidge A Legend of the Northland Phoebe CaryThe Cricket’s Story Emma Huntington Nason The Singing-Lesson Jean IngelowChanticleer Katherine Tynan “What Does Little Birdie Say?” Alfred TennysonNurse’s Song William BlakeJack Frost Gabriel SetounOctober’s Party George Cooper The Shepherd William BlakeNikolina Celia ThaxterLittle Gustava Celia Thaxter Prince Tatters Laura E. RichardsThe Little Black Boy William Blake The Blind Boy Colley CibberBunches of Grapes Walter de la Mare My Shadow Robert Louis Stevenson The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson The Land of Story-Books Robert Louis Stevenson The Gardener Robert Louis Stevenson Foreign Lands Robert Louis Stevenson My Bed is a Boat Robert Louis Stevenson The Peddler’s Caravan William Brighty Rands Mr. Coggs Edward Verrall LucasThe Building of the Nest Margaret Sangster “There was a Jolly Miller” Isaac Bickerstaff One and One Mary Mapes DodgeA Nursery Song Laura E. Richards A Mortifying Mistake Anna Maria Pratt The Raggedy Man James Whitcomb Riley The Man in the Moon James Whitcomb Riley Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley Our Hired Girl James Whitcomb Riley See’n Things Eugene FieldThe Duel Eugene FieldHoly Thursday William BlakeA Story for a Child Bayard Taylor The Spider and the Fly Mary HowittThe Captain’s Daughter James Thomas Fields The Nightingale and the Glow-Worm William CowperSir Lark and King Sun: A Parable George Macdonald The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren UnknownThe Babes in the Wood UnknownGod’s Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Robert Southey The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning THE GLAD EVANGEL A Carol Unknown“God Rest You Merry Gentlemen” Unknown‘O Little Town of Bethlehem” Phillips Brooks A Christmas Hymn Alfred Domett“While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night” Nahum Tate Christmas Carols Edmund Hamilton Sears The Angels William DrummondThe Burning Babe Robert Southwell Tryste Noel Louise Imogen Guiney Christmas Carol Unknown“Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning” Reginald Heber Christmas Bells Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Christmas Carol Gilbert Keith Chesterton The House of Christmas Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Feast of the Snow Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mary’s Baby Shaemas OSheelGates and Doors Joyce KilmerThe Three Kings Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lullaby in Bethlehem Henry Howarth Bashford A Child’s Song of Christmas Marjorie L. C. Pickthall Jest ‘Fore Christmas Eugene FieldA Visit from St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore Ceremonies for Christmas Robert Herrick On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity John Milton FAIRYLAND The Fairy Book Norman GaleFairy Songs William Shakespeare Queen Mab Ben JonsonThe Elf and the Dormouse Oliver Herford “Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads?” Thomas Haynes Bayly Fairy Song Leigh HuntDream Song Richard Middleton Fairy Song John KeatsQueen Mab Thomas HoodThe Fairies of the Caldon-Low Mary HowittThe Fairies William Allingham The Fairy Thrall Mary C. G. ByronFarewell to the Fairies Richard Corbet The Fairy Folk Robert BirdThe Fairy Book Abbie Farwell Brown The Visitor Patrick R. ChalmersThe Little Elf John Kendrick Bangs The Satyrs and the Moon Herbert S. Gorman THE CHILDREN The Children Charles Monroe Dickinson The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Laus Infantium William CantonThe Desire Katherine Tynan A Child’s Laughter Algernon Charles Swinburne Seven Years Old Algernon Charles Swinburne Creep Afore Ye Gang James Ballantine Castles in the Air James Ballantine Under My Window Thomas WestwoodLittle Bell Thomas Westwood The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whittier The Heritage James Russell Lowell Letty’s Globe Charles Tennyson Turner Dove’s Nest Joseph Russell Taylor The Oracle Arthur Davison Ficke To a Little Girl Helen Parry EdenTo a Little Girl Gustav Kobbe A Parental Ode to My Son Thomas HoodA New Poet William CantonTo Laura W-, Two Years Old Nathaniel Parker Willis To Rose Sara TeasdaleTo Charlotte Pulteney Ambrose Philips The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers Andrew Marvell To Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth To a Child of Quality Matthew PriorEx Ore Infantium Francis Thompson Obituary Thomas William Parsons The Child’s Heritage John G. Neihardt A Girl of Pompeii Edward Sandford Martin On the Picture of a “Child Tired of Play” Nathaniel Parker Willis The Reverie of Poor Susan William Wordsworth Children’s Song Ford Madox Hueffer The Mitherless Bairn William ThomThe Cry of the Children Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Shadow-Child Harriet MonroeMother Wept Joseph SkipseyDuty Ralph Waldo Emerson Lucy Gray William WordsworthIn the Children’s Hospital Alfred Tennyson “If I Were Dead” Coventry PatmoreThe Toys Coventry Patmore A Song of Twilight UnknownLittle Boy Blue Eugene FieldThe Discoverer Edmund Clarence Stedman A Chrysalis Mary Emily BradleyMater Dolorosa William Barnes The Little Ghost Katherine TynanMotherhood Josephine Daskam Bacon The Mother’s Prayer Dora Sigerson Shorter Da Leetla Boy Thomas Augustin Daly On the Moor Gale Young RiceEpitaph of Dionysia UnknownFor Charlie’s Sake John Williamson Palmer “Are the Children at Home?” Margaret Sangster The Morning-Glory Maria White Lowell She Came and Went James Russell Lowell The First Snow-fall James Russell Lowell “We Are Seven” William Wordsworth My Child John PierpontThe Child’s Wish Granted George Parsons Lathrop Challenge Kenton Foster MurrayTired Mothers May Riley Smith My Daughter Louise Homer Greene“I Am Lonely” George EliotSonnets from “Mimma Bella” Eugene Lee-Hamilton Rose-Marie of the Angels Adelaide Crapsey MAIDENHOOD Maidenhood Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick To Mistress Margaret Hussey John Skelton On Her Coming To London Edmund Waller“O, Saw Ye Bonny Lesley” Robert Burns To a Young Lady William CowperRuth Thomas HoodThe Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth The Three Cottage Girls William Wordsworth Blackmwore Maidens William BarnesA Portrait Elizabeth Barrett Browning To a Child of Fancy Lewis MorrisDaisy Francis ThompsonTo Petronilla, Who Has Put Up Her Hair Henry Howarth Bashford The Gipsy Girl Henry AlfordFanny Anne Reeve Aldrich Somebody’s Child Louise Chandler Moulton Emilia Sarah N. CleghornTo a Greek Girl Austin Dobson “Chamber Scene” Nathaniel Parker Willis “Ah, Be Not False” Richard Watson Gilder A Life-Lesson James Whitcomb Riley THE MAN The Breaking Margaret Steele Anderson The Flight of Youth Richard Henry Stoddard “Days of My Youth” St. George Tucker Ave Atque Vale Rosamund Marriott Watson To Youth Walter Savage LandorStanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa George Gordon Byron Stanzas for Music George Gordon Byron “When As a Lad” Isabel Ecclestone Mackay “Around the Child” Walter Savage Landor Aladdin James Russell LowellThe Quest Ellen Mackey Hutchinson Cortissoz My Birth-Day Thomas MooreSonnet on His having Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Three John Milton On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year George Gordon Byron Growing Gray Austin DobsonThe One White Hair Walter Savage Landor Ballade of Middle Age Andrew LangMiddle Age Rudolph Chambers Lehmann To Critics Walter LearnedThe Rainbow William Wordsworth Leavetaking William WatsonEquinoctial Adeline D. T. Whitney “Before the Beginning of Years” Algernon Charles Swinburne Man Henry VaughanThe Pulley George HerbertOde on the Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood William Wordsworth THE WOMAN Woman Eaton Stannard Barrett Woman From the Sanskrit of Calidasa Simplex Munditiis Ben JonsonDelight in Disorder Robert Herrick A Praise of His Lady John HeywoodOn a Certain Lady at Court Alexander Pope Perfect Woman William WordsworthThe Solitary-Hearted Hartley Coleridge Of Those Who Walk Alone Richard Burton “She Walks in Beauty” George Gordon Byron Preludes from “The Angel in The House” Coventry Patmore A Health Edward Coote PinkneyOur Sister Horatio Nelson Powers From Life Brian HookerThe Rose of the World William Butler Yeats Dawn of Womanhood Harold MonroThe Shepherdess Alice Meynell A Portrait Brian HookerThe Wife Theodosia Garrison “Trusty, Dusky, Vivid, True” Robert Louis Stevenson The Shrine Digby Mackworth Dolben The Voice Norman GaleMother Theresa HelburnAd Matrem Julian FaneC.L.M John Masefield STEPPING WESTWARD Stepping Westward William Wordsworth A Farewell to Arms George PeeleThe World Francis Bacon“When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy” William Shakespeare Of the Last Verses in the Book Edmund WallerA Lament Chidiock Tichborne To-morrow John CollinsLate Wisdom George CrabbeYouth and Age Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Old Man’s Comforts Robert Southey To Age Walter Savage LanderLate Leaves Walter Savage Lander Years Walter Savage LanderThe River of Life Thomas Campbell “Long Time a Child” Hartley Coleridge The World I am Passing Through Lydia Maria Child Terminus Ralph Waldo EmersonRabbi Ben Ezra Robert Browning Human Life Audrey Thomas de Vere Young and Old Charles KingsleyThe Isle of the Long Ago Benjamin Franklin Taylor Growing Old Matthew ArnoldPast John GalsworthyTwilight A. Mary F. Robinson Youth and Age George ArnoldForty Years On Edward Ernest Bowen Dregs Ernest DowsonThe Paradox of Time Austin Dobson Age William WinterOmnia Sonmia Rosamund Marriott Watson The Year’s End Timothy ColeAn Old Man’s Song Richard Le Gallienne Songs of Seven Jean IngelowAuspex James Russell Lowell LOOKING BACKWARD The Retreat Henry VaughanA Superscription Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Child in the Garden Henry Van Dyke Castles in the Air Thomas Love Peacock Sometimes Thomas S. Jones, JrThe Little Ghosts Thomas S. Jones, Jr My Other Me Grace Denio Litchfield A Shadow Boat Arlo BatesA Lad That is Gone Robert Louis Stevenson Carcassonne John R. ThompsonChildhood John Banister Tabb The Wastrel Reginald Wright Kauffman Troia Fuit Reginald Wright Kauffman Temple Garlands A. Mary F. Robinson Time Long Past Percy Bysshe Shelley “I Remember, I Remember” Thomas HoodMy Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Voice of the Western Wind” Edmund Clarence Stedman “Langsyne, When Life Was Bonnie” Alexander Anderson The Shoogy-Shoo Winthrop PackardBabylon Viola TaylorThe Road of Remembrance Lizette Woodworth Reese The Triumph of Forgotten Things Edith M. ThomasIn the Twilight James Russell Lowell An Immorality Ezra PoundThree Seasons Christina Georgina Rossetti The Old Familiar Faces Charles LambThe Light of Other Days Thomas Moore “Tears, Idle Tears” Alfred TennysonThe Pet Name Elizabeth Barrett Browning Threescore and Ten Richard Henry Stoddard Rain on the Roof Coates KinneyAlone by the Hearth George Arnold The Old Man Dreams Oliver Wendell Holmes The Garret William Makepeace Thackeray Auld Lang Syne Robert BurnsRock Me to Sleep Elizabeth Akers The Bucket Samuel WoodworthThe Grape-Vine Swing William Gilmore Simms The Old Swimmin’-Hole James Whitcomb Riley Forty Years Ago UnknownBen Bolt Thomas Dunn English “Break, Break, Break” Alfred Tennyson PART II POEMS OF LOVE Eros Ralph Waldo Emerson “NOW WHAT IS LOVE” “Now What is Love” Walter Raleigh Wooing Song, “Love is the Blossom where there blows” Giles Fletcher Rosalind’s Madrigal, “Love in My bosom” Thomas LodgeSong, “Love is a sickness full of woes” Samuel Daniel Love’s Perjuries William Shakespeare Venus’ Runaway Ben JonsonWhat is Love John FletcherLove’s Emblems John Fletcher The Power of Love John FletcherAdvice to a Lover UnknownLove’s Horoscope Richard Crashaw “Ah, how Sweet it is to Love” John DrydenSong, “Love still has something of the sea” Charles Sedley The Vine James ThomsonSong, “Fain would I change that Note” UnknownCupid Stung Thomas MooreCupid Drowned Leigh HuntSong, “Oh! say not woman’s love is bought” Isaac Pocock “In the Days of Old” Thomas Love Peacock Song, “How delicious is the winning” Thomas CampbellStanzas, “Could love for ever” George Gordon Byron “They Speak o’ Wiles” William Thom“Love will Find Out the Way” Unknown A Woman’s Shortcomings Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Love hath a Language” Helen Selina Sheridan Song, “O, let the solid ground” Alfred TennysonAmaturus William Johnson-Cory The Surface and the Depths Lewis Morris A Ballad of Dreamland Algernon Charles Swinburne Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fate Susan Marr Spalding“Give all to Love” Ralph Waldo Emerson “O, Love is not a Summer Mood” Richard Watson Gilder “When will Love Come” Pakenham Beatty “Awake, My Heart” Robert BridgesThe Secret George Edward Woodberry The Rose of Stars George Edward Woodberry Song of Eros from “Agathon” George Edward Woodberry Love is Strong Richard Burton“Love once was like an April Dawn” Robert Underwood Johnson The Garden of Shadow Ernest DowsonThe Call Reginald Wright Kauffman The Highway Louise DriscollSong, “Take it, love” Richard Le Gallienne “Never Give all the Heart” William Butler Yeats Song, “I came to the door of the house of love” Alfred Noyes “Child, Child” Sara TeasdaleWisdom Ford Madox Hueffer Epilogue from “Emblems of Love” Lascelles Abercrombie On Hampstead Heath Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Once on a Time Kendall Banning IN PRAISE OF HER First Song from “Astrophel and Stella” Philip Sidney Silvia William ShakespeareCupid and Campaspe John LylyApollo’s Song from “Midas” John Lyly “Fair is my Love for April’s in her Face” Robert GreeneSamela Robert GreeneDamelus’ Song of His Diaphenia Henry Constable Madrigal, “My Love in her attire doth show her wit” Unknown On Chloris Walking in the Snow William Strode“There is a Lady Sweet and Kind” UnknownCherry-Ripe Thomas CampionAmarillis Thomas CampionElizabeth of Bohemia Henry Wotton Her Triumph Ben JonsonOf Phillis William Drummond A Welcome William BrowneThe Complete Lover William Browne Rubies and Pearls Robert HerrickUpon Julia’s Clothes Robert Herrick To Cynthia on Concealment of her Beauty Francis Kynaston Song, “Ask me no more where Jove bestows” Thomas CarewA Devout Lover Thomas Randolph On a Girdle Edmund WallerCastara William Habington To Amarantha that She would Dishevel her Hair Richard Lovelace Chloe Divine Thomas D’UrfeyMy Peggy Allan RamsaySong, “O ruddier than the cherry” John Gay“Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love” George Lyttleton The Fair Thief Charles WyndhamAmoret Mark AkensideSong, “The shape alone let others Prize” Mark Akenside Kate of Aberdeen John CunninghamSong, “Who has robbed the ocean cave” John ShawChloe Robert Burns“O Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet” Robert BurnsThe Lover’s Choice Thomas Bedingfield Rondeau Redouble John Payne“My Love She’s but a Lassie yet” James HoggJessie, the Flower o’ Dunblane Robert Tannahill Margaret and Dora Thomas CampbellDagonet’s Canzonet Ernest Rhys Stanzas for Music, “There be none of Beauty’s daughters” George Gordon Byron “Flowers I would Bring” Aubrey Thomas de Vere “It is not Beauty I Demand” George Darley Song, “She is not fair to outward view” Hartley Coleridge Song, “A violet in her lovely hair” Charles SwainEileen Aroon Gerald Griffin Annie Laurie UnknownTo Helen Edgar Allan Poe“A Voice by the Cedar Tree” Alfred Tennyson Song, “Nay, but you, who do not love her” Robert Browning The Henchman John Green1eaf Whittier Lovely Mary Donnelly William Allingham Love in the Valley George MeredithMarian George MeredithPraise of My Lady William Morris Madonna Mia Algernon Charles Swinburne “Meet we no Angels, Pansie” Thomas AsheTo Daphne Walter Besant“Girl of the Red Mouth” Martin MacDermott The Daughter of Mendoza Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar “If She be made of White and Red” Herbert P. Horne The Lover’s Song Edward Rowland Sill “When First I Saw Her” George Edward Woodberry My April Lady Henry Van DykeThe Milkmaid Austin DobsonSong, “This peach is pink with such a pink” Norman Gale In February Henry Simpson“Love, I Marvel What You Are” Trumbull StickneyBallade of My Lady’s Beauty Joyce Kilmer Ursula Robert Underwood Johnson Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures Ernest DowsonSong, “Love, by that loosened hair” Bliss CarmanSong, “O, like a queen’s her happy tread” William Watson Any Lover, Any Lass Richard Middleton Songs Ascending Witter BynnerSong, “‘Oh! Love,’ they said, ‘is King of Kings’” Rupert Brooke Song, “How do I love you” Irene Rutherford McLeod To . . . . In Church Alan SeegerAfter Two Years Richard Aldington Praise Seumas O’Sullivan PLAINTS AND PROTESTATIONS “Forget not Yet” Thomas WyattFawnia Robert GreeneThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe The Nymph’s Reply to the Passionate Shepherd Walter Raleigh “Wrong not, Sweet Empress of My Heart” Walter Raleigh To His Coy Love Michael DraytonHer Sacred Bower Thomas Campion To Lesbia Thomas Campion“Love me or Not” Thomas Campion “There is None, O None but You” Thomas CampionOf Corinna’s Singing Thomas Campion “Were my Heart as some Men’s are” Thomas Campion“Kind are her Answers” Thomas Campion To Celia Ben JonsonSong, “O, do not wanton with those eyes” Ben JonsonSong, “Go and catch a falling star” John DonneThe Message John DonneSong, “Ladies, though to your conquering eyes” George Etherege To a Lady Asking Him how Long He would Love Her” George Etherege To Aenone Robert HerrickTo Anthea, who may Command him Anything Robert Herrick The Bracelet: To Julia Robert Herrick To the Western Wind Robert HerrickTo my Inconstant Mistress Thomas Carew Persuasions to Enjoy Thomas CarewMediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew The Message Thomas Heywood“How Can the Heart forget Her” Francis DavisonTo Roses in the Bosom of Castara William Habington To Flavia Edmund Waller“Love not Me for Comely Grace” Unknown“When, Dearest, I but Think of Thee” Suckling or Felltham A Doubt of Martyrdom John SucklingTo Chloe William Cartwright I’ll Never Love Thee More James GrahamTo Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace Why I Love Her Alexander BromeTo his Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell A Deposition from Beauty Thomas Stanley “Love in thy Youth, Fair Maid” UnknownTo Celia Charles CottonTo Celia Charles SedleyA Song, “My dear mistress Has a Heart” John WilmotLove and Life John WilmotConstancy John WilmotSong, “Too late, alas, I must Confess” John WilmotSong, “Come, Celia, let’s agree at last” John Sheffield The Enchantment Thomas OtwaySong, “Only tell her that I love” John Cutts“False though She be” William Congreve To Silvia Anne Finch“Why, Lovely Charmer” UnknownAgainst Indifference Charles Webbe A Song to Amoret Henry VaughanThe Lass of Richmond Hill James Upton Song, “Let my voice ring out and over the earth” James Thomson Gifts James ThomsonAmynta Gilbert Elliot“O Nancy! wilt Thou go with Me” Thomas PercyCavalier’s Song Robert Cunninghame-Graham “My Heart is a Lute” Anne BarnardSong, “Had I a heart for falsehood framed” Richard Brinsley Sheridan Meeting George Crabbe“O Were my Love you Lilac Fair” Robert Burns“Bonnie Wee Thing” Robert Burns Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor “Take back the Virgin Page” Thomas Moore “Believe me, if all Those Endearing Young Charms” Thomas Moore The Nun Leigh HuntOnly of Thee and Me Louis Untermeyer To – Percy Bysshe ShelleyFrom the Arabic Percy Bysshe Shelley The Wandering Knight’s Song John Gibson Lockhart Song, “Love’s on the highroad” Dana BurnettThe Secret Love A. E.The Flower of Beauty George Darley My Share of the World Alice FurlongSong, “A lake and a fairy boat” Thomas Hood“Smile and Never Heed Me” Charles Swain Are They not all Ministering Spirits Robert Stephen Hawker Maiden Eyes Gerald GriffinHallowed Places Alice Freeman Palmer The Lady’s “Yes” Elizabeth Barrett Browning Song, “It is the miller’s daughter” Alfred Tennyson Lilian Alfred TennysonBugle Song, from “The Princess” Alfred Tennyson Ronsard to His Mistress William Makepeace Thackeray “When You are Old” William Butler Yeats Song, “You’ll love me yet, and I can tarry” Robert Browning Love in a Life Robert BrowningLife in a Love Robert Browning The Welcome Thomas Osborne Davis Urania Matthew ArnoldThree Shadows Dante Gabriel Rossetti Since we Parted Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton A Match Algernon Charles Swinburne A Ballad of Life Algernon Charles Swinburne A Leave-Taking Algernon Charles Swinburne A Lyric Algernon Charles Swinburne Maureen John TodhunterA Love Symphony Arthur O’Shaughnessy Love on the Mountain Thomas BoydKate Temple’s Song Mortimer Collins My Queen Unknown“Darling, Tell me Yes” John Godfrey Saxe “Do I Love Thee” John Godfrey Saxe “O World, be Nobler” Laurence Binyon “In the Dark, in the Dew” Mary Newmarch Prescott Nanny Francis DavisA Trifle Henry TimrodRomance Robert Louis Stevenson “Or Ever the Knightly Years were Gone” William Ernest Henley Rus in Urbe Clement ScottMy Road Oliver OpdykeA White Rose John Boyle O’Reilly “Some Day of Days” Nora PerryThe Telephone Robert FrostWhere Love is Amelia Josephine Burr That Day You Came Lizette Woodworth Reese Amantium Irae Ernest DowsonIn a Rose Garden John Bennett “God Bless You, Dear, To-day” John BennettTo-day Benjamin R. C. Low To Arcady Charles Buxton GoingWild Wishes Ethel M. Hewitt “Because of You” Sophia Almon Hensley Then Rose Terry CookeThe Missive Edmund GossePlymouth Harbor Mrs. Ernest Radford The Serf’s Secret William Vaughn Moody “O, Inexpressible as Sweet” George Edward Woodberry The Cyclamen Arlo BatesThe West-Country Lover Alice Brown “Be Ye in Love with April-Tide” Clinton Scollard Unity Alfred NoyesThe Queen William WinterA Lover’s Envy Henry Van Dyke Star Song Robert Underwood Johnson “My Heart Shall be Thy Garden” Alice MeynellAt Night Alice MeynellSong, “Song is so old” Hermann Hagedorn “All Last Night” Lascelles Abercrombie The Last Word Frederic Lawrence Knowles “Heart of my Heart” UnknownMy Laddie Amelie RivesThe Shaded Pool Norman GaleGood-Night S. Weir Mitchell The Mystic Witter Bynner“I Am the Wind” Zoe Akins“I Love my Life, But not Too Well” Harriet Monroe“This is my Love for You” Grace Fallow Norton MY LADY’S LIPS Lips and Eyes Thomas Middleton The Kiss Ben Jonson“Take, O Take Those Lips Away” John FletcherA Stolen Kiss George WitherSong, “My Love bound me with a kiss” UnknownTo Electra Robert Herrick“Come, Chloe, and Give Me Sweet Kisses” Charles Hanbury Williams A Riddle William CowperTo a Kiss John WolcotSong, “Often I have heard it said” Walter Savage Landor The First Kiss of Love George Gordon Byron “Jenny Kissed Me” Leigh Hunt“I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden” Percy Bysshe Shelley Love’s Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley Song, “The moth’s kiss, first” Robert BrowningSummum Bonum Robert Browning The First Kiss Theodore Watts-Dunton To My Love John Godfrey SaxeTo Lesbia John Godfrey Saxe Make Believe Alice CaryKissing’s No Sin UnknownTo Anne William MaxwellSong, “There is many a love in the land, my love” Joaquin Miller Phyllis and Corydon Arthur Colton AT HER WINDOW “Hark, Hark, the Lark” William Shakespeare “Sleep, Angry Beauty” Thomas CampionMatin Song Nathaniel Field The Night-Piece: To Julia Robert Herrick Morning William D’AvenantMatin Song Thomas HeywoodThe Rose Richard Lovelace Song, “See, see, she wakes! Sabina wakes” William Congreve Mary Morison Robert BurnsWake, Lady Joanna BaillieThe Sleeping Beauty Samuel Rogers “The Young May Moon” Thomas Moore“Row Gently Here” Thomas Moore Morning Serenade Madison CaweinSerenade Aubrey Thomas De Vere Lines to an Indian Air Percy Bysshe Shelley Good-Night Percy Bysshe Shelley Serenade George DarleySerenade Thomas HoodSerenade Edward Coote Pinkney Serenade Henry TimrodSerenade Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Come into the Garden, Maud” Alfred Tennyson At Her Window Frederick Locker-Lampson Bedouin Song Bayard TaylorNight and Love Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton Nocturne Thomas Bailey Aldrich Palabras Carinosas Thomas Bailey Aldrich Serenade Oscar WildeThe Little Red Lark Alfred Perceval Graves Serenade Richard Middleton THE COMEDY OF LOVE A Lover’s Lullaby George Gascoigne Phillida and Corydon Nicholas Breton “Crabbed Age and Youth” William Shakespeare “It Was a Lover and His Lass” William Shakespeare “I Loved a Lass” George WitherTo Chloris Charles SedleySong, “The merchant, to secure his Treasure” Matthew Prior Pious Selinda William CongreveFair Hebe John WestA Maiden’s Ideal of a Husband Henry Carey“Phillada Flouts Me” Unknown“When Molly Smiles” UnknownContentions Unknown“I Asked My Fair, One Happy Day” Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Exchange Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Comin’ Through the Rye” Robert Burns“Green Grow the Rashes, O” Robert Burns Defiance Walter Savage LandorOf Clementina Walter Savage Landor “The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing” Thomas MooreDear Fanny Thomas MooreA Certain Young Lady Washington Irving “Where Be You Going, You Devon Maid” John KeatsLove in a Cottage Nathaniel Parker Willis Song of the Milkmaid from “Queen Mary” Alfred Tennyson “Wouldn’t You Like to Know” John Godfrey Saxe “Sing Heigh-ho” Charles KingsleyThe Golden Fish George Arnold The Courtin’ James Russell Lowell L’Eau Dormante Thomas Bailey Aldrich A Primrose Dame Gleeson WhiteIf James Jeffrey Roche Don’t James Jeffrey RocheAn Irish Love-Song Robert Underwood Johnson Growing Old Walter LearnedTime’s Revenge Walter Learned In Explanation Walter LearnedOmnia Vincit Alfred Cochrane A Pastoral Norman GaleA Rose Arlo Bates“Wooed and Married and A’” Alexander Ross “Owre the Moor Amang the Heather” Jean GloverMarriage and the Care O’t Robert Lochore The Women Folk James Hogg“Love is Like a Dizziness” James Hogg “Behave Yoursel’ before Folk” Alexander RodgerRory O’More; or, Good Omens Samuel Lover Ask and Have Samuel LoverKitty of Coleraine Charles Dawson Shanly The Plaidie Charles SibleyKitty Neil John Francis Waller “The Dule’s i’ this Bonnet o’ Mine” Edwin WaughThe Ould Plaid Shawl Francis A. Fahy Little Mary Cassidy Francis A. FahyThe Road Patrick R. Chalmers Twickenham Ferry Theophile Marzials THE HUMOR OF LOVE Song, “I prithee send me back my Heart” John Suckling A Ballad Upon a Wedding John SucklingTo Chloe Jealous Matthew Prior Jack and Joan Thomas CampionPhillis and Corydon Richard Greene Sally in Our Alley Henry CareyThe Country Wedding Unknown“O Merry may the Maid be” John Clerk The Lass o’ Gowrie Carolina NairneThe Constant Swain and Virtuous Maid UnknownWhen the Kye Comes Hame James Hogg The Low-Backed Car Samuel LoverThe Pretty Girl of Loch Dan Samuel Ferguson Muckle-Mouth Meg Robert BrowningMuckle-Mou’d Meg James Ballantine Glenlogie UnknownLochinvar Walter ScottJock of Hazeldean Walter Scott Candor Henry Cuyler Bunner“Do you Remember” Thomas Haynes Bayly Because Edward FitzgeraldLove and Age Thomas Love Peacock To Helen Winthrop Mackworth Praed At the Church Gate William Makepeace Thackeray Mabel, in New Hampshire James Thomas Fields Toujours Amour Edmund Clarence Stedman The Doorstep Edmund Clarence Stedman The White Flag John HayA Song of the Four Seasons Austin Dobson The Love-Knot Nora PerryRiding Down Nora Perry“Forgettin’” Moira O’Neill“Across the Fields to Anne” Richard Burton Pamela in Town Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz Yes? Henry Cuyler BunnerThe Prime of Life Walter Learned Thoughts on the Commandments George Augustus Baker THE IRONY OF LOVE “Sigh no More, Ladies” William Shakespeare A Renunciation Edward VereA Song, “Ye happy swains, whose hearts are free” George Etherege To His Forsaken Mistress Robert AytonTo an Inconstant Robert Ayton Advice to a Girl Thomas CampionSong, “Follow a shadow, it still flies you” Ben JonsonTrue Beauty Francis Beaumont The Indifferent Francis BeaumontThe Lover’s Resolution George Wither His Further Resolution UnknownSong, “Shall I tell you whom I love” William BrowneTo Dianeme Robert HerrickIngrateful Beauty Threatened Thomas Carew Disdain Returned Thomas Carew“Love Who Will, for I’ll Love None” William BrowneValerius on Women Thomas Heywood Dispraise of Love, and Lovers’ Follies Francis Davison The Constant Lover John SucklingSong, “Why so pale and wan, fond Lover” John SucklingWishes to His Supposed Mistress Richard CrashawSong, “Love in fantastic Triumph sate” Aphra BehnLes Amours Charles CottonRivals William WalshI Lately Vowed, but ‘Twas in Haste John OldmixonThe Touchstone Samuel Bishop Air, “I ne’er could any luster see” Richard Brinsley Sheridan “I Took a Hansom on Today” William Ernest Henley Da Capo Henry Cuyler BunnerSong Against Women Willard Huntington Wright Song of Thyrsis Philip FreneauThe Test Walter Savage Landor “The Fault is not Mine” Walter Savage Landor The Snake Thomas Moore“When I Loved You” Thomas Moore A Temple to Friendship Thomas MooreThe Glove and the Lions Leigh Hunt To Woman George Gordon ByronLove’s Spite Aubrey Thomas de Vere Lady Clara Vere de Vere Alfred Tennyson Shadows Richard Monckton Milnes Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray The Age of Wisdom William Makepeace Thackeray Andrea del Sarto Robert BrowningMy Last Duchess Robert Browning Adam, Lilith, and Eve Robert Browning The Lost Mistress Robert BrowningFriend and Lover Mary Ainge de Vere Lost Love Andrew LangVobiscum est Iope Thomas Campion Four Winds Sara TeasdaleTo Marion Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Crowned Amy LowellHebe James Russell Lowell “Justine, You Love me Not” John Godfrey Saxe Snowdrop William Wetmore Story When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan Thomas Bailey Aldrich The Shadow Dance Louise Chandler Moulton “Along the Field as we Came by” Alfred Edward Housman “When I was One-and-Twenty” Alfred Edward Housman “Grieve Not, Ladies” Anna Hempstead Branch Suburb Harold MonroThe Betrothed Rudyard Kipling LOVE’S SADNESS “The Night has a Thousand Eyes” Francis William Bourdillon “I Saw my Lady Weep” UnknownLove’s Young Dream Thomas Moore “Not Ours the Vows” Bernard BartonThe Grave of Love Thomas Love Peacock “We’ll go no More a Roving” George Gordon Byron Song, “Sing the old song, amid the sounds dispersing” Aubrey Thomas de Vere The Question Percy Bysshe Shelley The Wanderer Austin DobsonEgyptian Serenade George William Curtis The Water Lady Thomas Hood“Tripping Down the Field-path” Charles SwainLove Not Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton “A Place in Thy Memory” Gerald Griffin Inclusions Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mariana Alfred TennysonAsk Me no More Alfred Tennyson A Woman’s Last Word Robert BrowningThe Last Ride Together Robert Browning Youth and Art Robert BrowningTwo in the Campagna Robert Browning One Way of Love Robert Browning“Never the Time and the Place” Robert BrowningSong, “Oh! that we two were Maying” Charles Kingsley For He Had Great Possessions Richard Middleton Windle-straws Edward DowdenJessie Thomas Edward Brown The Chess-board Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Aux Italiens Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Song, “I saw the day’s white rapture” Charles Hanson Towne The Lonely Road Kenneth RandEvensong Ridgely Torrence The Nymph’s Song to Hylas William Morris No and Yes Thomas AsheLove in Dreams John Addington Symonds “A Little While I fain would Linger Yet” Paul Hamilton Hayne Song, “I made another garden, yea” Arthur O’Shaughnessy Song, “Has summer come without the rose” Arthur O’Shaughnessy After Philip Bourke MarstonAfter Summer Philip Bourke Marston Rococo Algernon Charles Swinburne Rondel Algernon Charles Swinburne The Oblation Algernon Charles Swinburne The Song of the Bower Dante Gabriel Rossetti Song, “We break the glass, whose sacred wine” Edward Coote Pinkney Maud Muller John Greenleaf Whittier La Grisette Oliver Wendell Holmes The Dark Man Nora HopperEurydice Francis William Bourdillon A Woman’s Thought Richard Watson Gilder Laus Veneris Louise Chandler Moulton Adonais Will Wallace HarneyFace to Face Frances Cochrane Ashore Laurence HopeKhristna and His Flute Laurence Hope Impenitentia Ultima Ernest DowsonNon Sum Quails Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae Ernest Dowson Quid non Speremus, Amantes? Ernest Dowson “So Sweet Love Seemed” Robert Bridges An Old Tune Andrew LangRefuge William WinterMidsummer Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ashes of Roses Elaine GoodaleSympathy Althea GylesThe Look Sara Teasdale“When My Beloved Sleeping Lies” Irene Rutherford McLeod Love and Life Julie Mathilde Lippman Love’s Prisoner Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer Rosies Agnes I. HanrahanAt the Comedy Arthur Stringer “Sometime It may Be” Arthur Colton“I heard a Soldier” Herbert Trench The Last Memory Arthur Symonds“Down by the Salley Gardens” William Butler Yates Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay A Farewell Alice Brown THE PARTED LOVERS Song, “O mistress mine, where are you roaming” William Shakespeare “Go, Lovely Rose” Edmund WallerTo the Rose: A Song Robert Herrick Memory William BrowneTo Lucasta, Going to the Wars Richard LovelaceTo Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas Richard Lovelace Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going out of the Town in the Spring John DrydenSong, “To all you ladies now at land” Charles Sackville Song, “In vain you tell your parting lover” Matthew Prior Black-Eyed Susan John GayIrish Molly O UnknownSong, “At setting day and rising morn” Allan RamsayLochaber no More Allan Ramsey Willie and Helen Hew AinslieAbsence Richard Jago“My Mother Bids me Bind my Hair” Anne Hunter“Blow High! Blow Low” Charles Dibdin The Siller Croun Susanna Blamire“My Nannie’s Awa” Robert Burns “Ae Fond Kiss” Robert Burns“The Day Returns” Robert Burns My Bonnie Mary Robert BurnsA Red, Red Rose Robert BurnsI Love My Jean Robert Burns and John Hamilton The Rover’s Adieu, from “Rokeby” Walter Scott“Loudoun’s Bonnie Woods and Braes” Robert Tannahill“Fare Thee Well” George Gordon Byron “Maid of Athens, Ere We Part” George Gordon Byron “When We Two Parted” George Gordon Byron “Go, Forget Me” Charles WolfeLast Night George DarleyAdieu Thomas CarlyleJeanie Morrison William Motherwell The Sea-lands Orrick JohnsFair Ines Thomas HoodA Valediction Elizabeth Barrett Browning Farewell John Addington Symonds “I Do Not Love Thee” Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton The Palm-tree and the Pine Richard Monckton Milnes “O Swallow, Swallow Flying South” Alfred TennysonThe Flower’s Name Robert Browning To Marguerite Matthew ArnoldSeparation Matthew ArnoldLonging Matthew ArnoldDivided Jean IngelowMy Playmate John Greenleaf Whittier A Farewell Coventry PatmoreDeparture Coventry Patmore A song of Parting H. C. Compton Mackenzie Song, “Fair is the night, and fair the day” William Morris At Parting Algernon Charles Swinburne “If She But Knew” Arthur O’Shaughnessy Kathleen Mavourneen Louisa Macartney Crawford Robin Adair Caroline Keppel“If You Were Here” Philip Bourke Marston “Come to Me, Dearest” Joseph BrenanSong, “‘Tis said that absence Conquers love” Frederick William Thomas Parting Gerald MasseyThe Parting Hour Olive Custance A Song of Autumn Rennell RoddThe Girl I Left Behind Me Unknown“When We are Parted” Hamilton Aide Remember or Forget Hamilton AideNancy Dawson Herbert P. Horne My Little Love Charles B. HawleyFor Ever William Caldwell Roscoe Auf Wiedersehen James Russell Lowell “Forever and a Day” Thomas Bailey Aldrich Old Gardens Arthur UpsonFerry Hinksey Laurence Binyon Wearyin’ fer You Frank L. StantonThe Lovers of Marchaid Marjorie L. C. Pickthall Song, “She’s somewhere in the sunlight strong” Richard Le Gallienne The Lover Thinks of His Lady in the North Shaemas O Sheel Chanson de Rosemonde Richard HoveyAd Domnulam Suam Ernest Dawson Marian Drury Bliss CarmanLove’s Rosary Alfred NoyesWhen She Comes Home James Whitcomb Riley THE TRAGEDY OF LOVE Song, “My silks and fine array” William BlakeThe Flight of Love Percy Bysshe Shelley “Farewell! If ever Fondest Prayer” George Gordon Byron Porphyria’s Lover Robert BrowningModern Beauty Arthur SymonsLa Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats Tantalus–Texas Joaquin MillerEnchainment Arthur O’Shaughnessy Auld Robin Gray Anne BarnardLost Light Elizabeth Akers A Sigh Harriet Prescott Spofford Hereafter Harriet Prescott Spofford Endymion Oscar Wilde“Love is a Terrible Thing” Grace Fallow Norton The Ballad of the Angel Theodosia Garrison “Love Came Back at Fall o’ Dew” Lizette Woodworth Reese I Shall not Care Sara TeasdaleOutgrown Julia C. R. Dorr A Tragedy Edith NesbitLeft Behind Elizabeth Akers The Forsaken Merman Matthew ArnoldThe Portrait Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton The Rose and Thorn Paul Hamilton Hayne To Her–Unspoken Amelia Josephine Burr A Light Woman Robert BrowningFrom the Turkish George Gordon Byron A Summer Wooing Louise Chandler Moulton Butterflies John DavidsonUnseen Spirits Nathaniel Parker Willis “Grandmither, Think Not I Forget” Willa Sibert Cather Little Wild Baby Margaret Thomson Janvier A Cradle Song Nicholas BretonLady Anne Bothwell’s Lament Unknown A Woman’s Love John HayA Tragedy Theophile Marzials “Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel” Walter Savage Landor Airly Beacon Charles KingsleyA Sea Child Bliss CarmanFrom the Harbor Hill Gustav Kobbe Allan Water Matthew Gregory Lewis Forsaken UnknownBonnie Doon Robert BurnsThe Two Lovers Richard Hovey The Vampire Rudyard KiplingAgatha Alfred Austin“A Rose Will Fade” Dora Sigerson Shorter Affaire d’Amour Margaret DelandA Casual Song Roden NoelThe Way of It John Vance Cheney “When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly” Oliver Goldsmith Folk-Song Louis UntermeyerA Very Old Song William Laird “She Was Young and Blithe and Fair” Harold MonroThe Lass that Died of Love Richard Middleton The Passion-Flower Margaret FullerNorah Zoe AkinsOf Joan’s Youth Louise Imogen Guiney There’s Wisdom in Women Rupert BrookeGoethe and Frederika Henry Sidgwick The Song of the King’s Minstrel Richard Middleton Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon Patrick Orr Emmy Arthur SymonsThe Ballad of Camden Town James Elroy Flecker LOVE AND DEATH Helen of Kirconnell UnknownWilly Drowned in Yarrow UnknownAnnan Water UnknownThe Lament of the Border Widow UnknownAspatia’s Song from “The Maid’s Tragedy” John Fletcher A Ballad, “‘Twas when the seas were roaring” John GayThe Braes of Yarrow John LoganThe Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley The Minstrel’s Song from “Aella” Thomas Chatterton Highland Mary Robert BurnsTo Mary in Heaven Robert Burns Lucy William WordsworthProud Maisie Walter ScottSong, “Earl March looked on His dying child” Thomas Campbell The Maid’s Lament Walter Savage Landor “She is Far from the Land” Thomas Moore “At the Mid Hour of Night” Thomas Moore On a Picture by Poussin John Addington Symonds Threnody Ruth Guthrie HardingStrong as Death Henry Cuyler Banner “I Shall not Cry Return” Ellen M. H. Gates “Oh! Snatched away in Beauty’s Bloom” George Gordon Byron To Mary Charles WolfeMy Heart and I Elizabeth Barrett Browning Rosalind’s Scroll Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lament of the Irish Emigrant Helen Selina Sheridan The King of Denmark’s Ride Caroline E. S. Norton The Watcher James StephensThe Three Sisters Arthur Davison Ficke Ballad May Kendall“O that ‘Twere Possible” Alfred Tennyson “Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead” Alfred Tennyson Evelyn Hope Robert BrowningRemembrance Emily BronteSong,”The linnet in the rocky dells” Emily BronteSong of the Old Love Jean Ingelow Requiescat Matthew ArnoldToo Late Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Four Years Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Barbara Alexander SmithSong, “When I am dead, my dearest” Christina Georgina Rossetti Sarrazine’s Song to Her Dead Lover Arthur O’Shaughnessy Love and Death Rosa MulhollandTo One in Paradise Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee Edgar Allan PoeFor Annie Edgar Allan PoeTelling the Bees John Greenleaf Whittier A Tryst Louise Chandler Moulton Love’s Resurrection Day Louise Chandler Moulton Heaven Martha Gilbert Dickinson Janette’s Hair Charles Graham Halpine The Dying Lover Richard Henry Stoddard “When the Grass Shall Cover Me” Ina CoolbrithGive Love Today Ethel TalbotUntil Death Elizabeth Akers Florence Vane Phillip Pendleton Cooke “If Spirits Walk” Sophie JewettRequiescat Oscar WildeLyric, “You would have understood me, had you waited” Ernest DowsonRomance Andrew LangGood-Night Hester A. Benedict Requiescat Rosamund Marriott Watson The Four Winds Charles Henry Luders The King’s Ballad Joyce KilmerHeliotrope Harry Thurston Peck “Lydia is Gone this Many a Year” Lizette Woodworth Reese After Lizette Woodworth Reese Memories Arthur StringerTo Diane Helen Hay Whitney “Music I Heard” Conrad AikenHer Dwelling-place Ada Foster Murray The Wife from Fairyland Richard Le Gallienne In the Fall o’ Year Thomas S. Jones, Jr The Invisible Bride Edwin MarkhamRain on a Grave Thomas HardyPatterns Amy LowellDust Rupert BrookeBallad, “The roses in my garden” Maurice Baring“The Little Rose is Dust, My Dear” Grace Hazard Conkling Dirge Adelaide CrapseyThe Little Red Ribbon James Whitcomb Riley The Rosary Robert Cameron Rogers LOVE’S FULFILLMENT “My True-love Hath My Heart” Philip Sidney Song, “O sweet delight” Thomas Campion The Good-Morrow John Donne“There’s Gowd in the Breast” James Hogg The Beggar Maid Alfred TennysonRefuge A.E.At Sunset Louis V. Ledoux“One Morning Oh! so Early” Jean Ingelow Across the Door Padraic ColumMay Margaret Theophile Marzials Rondel, “Kissing her hair, I sat against her feet” Algernon Charles Swinburne A Spring Journey Alice Freeman Palmer The Brookside Richard Monckton Milnes Song, “For me the jasmine buds unfold” Florence Earle Coates What My Lover Said Homer GreeneMay-Music Rachel Annand Taylor Song, “Flame at the core of the World” Arthur UpsonA Memory Frederic Lawrence Knowles Love Triumphant Frederic Lawrence Knowles Lines, “Love within the lover’s breast” George Meredith Love among the Ruins Robert Browning Earl Mertoun’s Song Robert BrowningMeeting at Night Robert Browning Parting at Morning Robert BrowningThe Turn of the Road Alice Rollit Coe “My Delight and Thy Delight” Robert Bridges “O, Saw Ye the Lass” Richard RyanLove at Sea Algernon Charles Swinburne Mary Beaton’s Song Algernon Charles Swinburne Plighted Dinah Maria Mulock Craik A Woman’s Question Adelaide Anne Procter “Dinna Ask Me” John DunlopA Song, “Sing me a sweet, low song of night” Hildegarde Hawthorne The Reason James Oppenheim“My Own Cailin Donn” George Sigerson Nocturne Amelia Josephine Burr Surrender Amelia Josephine Burr “By Yon Burn Side” Robert Tannahill A Pastoral, “Flower of the medlar” Theophile Marzials “When Death to Either shall Come” Robert BridgesThe Reconciliation Alfred Tennyson Song, “Wait but a little while” Norman GaleContent Norman GaleChe Sara Sara Victor Plarr“Bid Adieu to Girlish Days” James Joyce To F.C. Mortimer CollinsSpring Passion Joel Elias Spingarn Advice to a Lover S. Charles Jellicoe “Yes” Richard Doddridge Blackmore Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nested Habberton LulhamThe Letters Alfred Tennyson Prothalamion Edmund SpenserEpithalamion Edmund Spenser The Kiss Sara TeasdaleMarriage Wilfrid Wilson Gibson The Newly-wedded Winthrop Mackworth Praed I Saw Two Clouds at Morning John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Holy Matrimony John KebleThe Bride Laurence HopeA Marriage Charm Nora Hopper“Like a Laverock in the Lift” Jean IngelowMy Owen Ellen Mary Patrick Downing Doris: A Pastoral Arthur Joseph Munby “He’d Nothing but His Violin” Mary Kyle Dallas Love’s Calendar William Bell Scott Home Dora GreenwellTwo Lovers George EliotThe Land of Heart’s Desire Emily Huntington Miller My Ain Wife Alexander LaingThe Irish Wife Thomas D’Arcy McGee My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing Robert Burns Lettice Dinah Maria Mulock Craik “If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love” Reginald HeberThe Shepherd’s Wife’s Song Robert Greene “Truth doth Truth Deserve” Philip Sidney The Married Lover Coventry PatmoreMy Love James Russell Lowell Margaret to Dolcino Charles Kingsley Dolcino to Margaret Charles Kingsley At Last Richard Henry Stoddard The Wife to Her Husband UnknownA Wife’s Song William Cox Bennett The Sailor’s Wife William Julius Mickle Jerry an’ Me Hiram Rich“Don’t be Sorrowful, Darling” Rembrandt PealeWinifreda UnknownAn Old Man’s Idyl Richard Realf The Poet’s Song to his Wife Bryan Waller Procter John Anderson Robert BurnsTo Mary Samuel BishopThe Golden Wedding David GrayMoggy and Me James Hogg“O, Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear” Gerald MasseyThe Exequy Henry King LOVE SONNETS Sonnets from “Amoretti” Edmund Spenser Sonnets from “Astrophel and Stella” Philip SidneySonnets from “To Delia” Samuel Daniel Sonnets from “Idea” Michael DraytonSonnets from “Diana” Henry Constable Sonnets William Shakespeare“Alexis, Here She Stayed” William Drummond “Were I as Base as is the Lowly Plain” Joshua Sylvester A Sonnet of the Moon Charles BestTo Mary Unwin William Cowper “Why art Thou Silent” William Wordsworth Sonnets from “The House of Life” Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sonnets Christina Georgina Rossetti How My Songs of Her Began Philip Bourke Marston At the Last Philip Bourke Marston To One who Would Make a Confession Wilfrid Scawen Blunt The Pleasures of Love Wilfrid Scawen Blunt “Were but my Spirit Loosed upon the Air” Louise Chandler Moulton Renouncement Alice Meynell“My Love for Thee” Richard Watson Gilder Sonnets after the Italian Richard Watson Gilder Stanzas from “Modern Love” George Meredith Love in the Winds Richard Hovey“Oh, Death Will Find Me” Rupert Brooke The Busy Heart Rupert BrookeThe Hill Rupert BrookeSonnets from “Sonnets to Miranda” William WatsonSonnets from “Thysia” Morton Luce Sonnets from “Sonnets from the Portuguese” Elizabeth Barrett Browning One Word More Robert Browning PART III POEMS OF NATURE “The World is too Much With Us” William Wordsworth MOTHER NATURE The Book of the World William Drummond Nature Jones VeryCompensation Celia ThaxterThe Last Hour Ethel Clifford Nature Henry David ThoreauSong of Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson “Great Nature is an Army Gay” Richard Watson Gilder To Mother Nature Frederic Lawrence Knowles Quiet Work Matthew ArnoldNature Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “As an Old Mercer” Mahlon Leonard Fisher Good Company Karle Wilson Baker“Here is the Place where Loveliness Keeps House” Madison Cawein God’s World Edna St. Vincent Millay Wild Honey Maurice ThompsonPatmos Edith M. Thomas DAWN AND DARK Song, “Phoebus, arise” William Drummond Hymn of Apollo Percy Bysshe Shelley Prelude to “The New Day” Richard Watson Gilder Dawn on the Headland William WatsonThe Miracle of the Dawn Madison Cawein Dawn-angels A. Mary F. RobinsonMusic of the Dawn Virginia Bioren Harrison Sunrise on Mansfield Mountain Alice BrownOde to Evening William Collins “It is a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free” William Wordsworth Gloaming Robert Adger BowenEvening Melody Aubrey de Vere In the Cool of the Evening Alfred Noyes Twilight Olive CustanceTwilight at Sea Amelia C. Welby “This is My Hour” Zoe AkinsSong to the Evening Star Thomas Campbell The Evening Cloud John WilsonSong: To Cynthia Ben JonsonMy Star Robert BrowningNight William BlakeTo Night Percy Bysshe Shelly To Night Joseph Blanco WhiteNight John Addington Symonds Night James MontgomeryHe Made the Night Lloyd Mifflin Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Night’s Mardi Gras Edward J. Wheeler Dawn and Dark Norman GaleDawn George B. Logan, Jr A Wood Song Ralph Hodgson THE CHANGING YEAR A Song for the Seasons Bryan Waller Procter A Song of the Seasons Cosmo Monkhouse Turn o’ the Year Katherine TynanThe Waking Year Emily Dickinson Song, “The year’s at the spring” Robert BrowningEarly Spring Alfred Tennyson Lines Written in Early Spring William Wordsworth In Early Spring Alice MeynellSpring Thomas NasheA Starling’s Spring Rondel James Cousins “When Daffodils begin to Peer” William Shakespeare Spring, from “In Memoriam” Alfred Tennyson The Spring Returns Charles Leonard Moore “When the Hounds of Spring” Algernon Charles Swinburne Song, “Again rejoicing Nature sees” Robert BurnsTo Spring William BlakeAn Ode on the Spring Thomas Gray Spring Henry TimrodThe Meadows in Spring Edward Fitzgerald The Spring William Barnes“When Spring Comes Back to England” Alfred NoyesNew Life Amelia Josephine Burr “Over the Wintry Threshold” Bliss Carman March William MorrisSong in March William Gilmore Simms March Nora HopperWritten in March William Wordsworth The Passing of March Robert Burns Wilson Home Thoughts, from Abroad Robert Browning Song, “April, April” William WatsonAn April Adoration Charles G. D. Roberts Sweet Wild April William Force Stead Spinning in April Josephine Preston Peabody Song: On May Morning John MiltonA May Burden Francis Thompson Corinna’s Going a-Maying Robert Herrick “Sister, Awake” UnknownMay Edward Hovell-Thurlow May Henry Sylvester Cornwell A Spring Lilt UnknownSummer Longings Denis Florence MacCarthy Midsummer John Townsend Trowbridge A Midsummer Song Richard Watson Gilder June, from “The Vision of Sir Launfal” James Russell Lowell June Harrison Smith MorrisHarvest Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz Scythe Song Andrew LangSeptember George ArnoldIndian Summer Emily Dickinson Prevision Ada Foster MurrayA Song of Early Autumn Richard Watson Gilder To Autumn John KeatsOde to Autumn Thomas HoodOde to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley Autumn: a Dirge Percy Bysshe Shelley Autumn Emily Dickinson“When the Frost is on the Punkin” James Whitcomb Riley Kore Frederic ManningOld October Thomas Constable November C. L. CleavelandNovember Mahlon Leonard Fisher Storm Fear Robert FrostWinter: a Dirge Robert BurnsOld Winter Thomas NoelThe Frost Hannah Flagg Gould The Frosted Pane Charles G. D. Roberts The Frost Spirit John Greenleaf Whittier Snow Elizabeth AkersTo a Snowflake Francis Thompson The Snow-Shower William Cullen Bryant Midwinter John Townsend Trowbridge A Glee for Winter Alfred DomettThe Death of the Old Year Alfred Tennyson Dirge for the Year Percy Bysshe Shelley WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNTNG BROOK Waldeinsamkeit Ralph Waldo Emerson “When in the Woods I Wander All Alone” Edward Hovell-Thurlow Aspects of the Pines Paul Hamilton Hayne Out in the Fields UnknownUnder the Leaves Albert Laighton “On Wenlock Edge” Alfred Edward Housman “What Do We Plant” Henry AbbeyThe Tree Jones VeryThe Brave Old Oak Henry Fothergill Chorley “The Girt Woak Tree that’s in the Dell” William Barnes To the Willow-tree Robert HerrickEnchantment Madison CaweinTrees Joyce KilmerThe Holly-tree Robert Southey The Pine Augusta Webster“Woodman, Spare that Tree” George Pope Morris The Beech Tree’s Petition Thomas Campbell The Poplar Field William CowperThe Planting of the Apple-Tree William Cullen Bryant Of an Orchard Katherine TynanAn Orchard at Avignon A. Mary F. Robinson The Tide River Charles KingsleyThe Brook’s Song Alfred Tennyson Arethusa Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Cataract of Lodore Robert Southey Song of the Chattahoochee Sidney Lanier “Flow Gently, Sweet Afton” Robert Burns Canadian Boat-Song Thomas MooreThe Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier The Trosachs William WordsworthHymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Peaks Stephen CraneKinchinjunga Cale Young Rice The Hills Julian GrenfellHemlock Mountain Sarah N. Cleghorn Sunrise on Rydal Water John Drinkwater The Deserted Pasture Bliss CarmanTo Meadows Robert HerrickThe Cloud Percy Bysshe Shelley April Rain Robert LovemanSummer Invocation William Cox Bennett April Rain Mathilde BlindTo the Rainbow Thomas Campbell GREEN THINGS GROWING My Garden Thomas Edward Brown The Garden Andrew MarvellA Garden Andrew MarvellA Garden Song Austin DobsonIn Green Old Gardens Violet Fane A Benedictine Garden Alice BrownAn Autumn Garden Bliss Carman Unguarded Ada Foster MurrayThe Deserted Garden Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Forsaken Garden Algernon Charles Swinburne Green Things Growing Dinah Maria Mulock Craik A Chanted Calendar Sydney DobellFlowers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Flowers Thomas HoodA Contemplation Upon Flowers Henry King Almond Blossom Edwin ArnoldWhite Azaleas Harriet McEwen Kimball Buttercups Wilfrid ThorleyThe Broom Flower Mary HowittThe Small Celandine William Wordsworth To the Small Celandine William Wordsworth Four-leaf Clover Ella HigginsonSweet Clover Wallace Rice
