A Household Book of English Poetry: Selected and Arranged with Notes
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A Household Book of English Poetry: Selected and Arranged with Notes
American poetry; English poetry
Rudely thou wrongest my dear heart’s desire, 20
Sad is our youth, for it is ever going, 362
Say not, the struggle nought availeth, 299
See how the orient dew, 151
See how the small concentrate fiery force, 355
See the chariot at hand here of Love, 25
Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green, 14
She dwells by great Kenhawa’s side, 357
She dwelt among the untrodden ways, 243
She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, 317
She walks in beauty, like the night, 237
She was a queen of noble Nature’s crowning, 233
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part, 32
Softly! she is lying, 378
So now my summer-task is ended, Mary, 277
Stand still, and I will read to thee, 59
Still young and fine! but what is still in view, 82
Sweet Maiden, for so calm a life, 312
Sweet order hath its draught of bliss, 350
Sweet spring, thou turn’st with all thy goodly train, 32
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 381
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, 250
The chief perfection of both sexes joined, 133
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 212
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame, 46
The fairest pearls that northern seas do breed, 2
The flags of war like storm-birds fly, 358
The forward youth that would appear, 113
The glories of our blood and state, 51
The good in graves as heavenly seed are sown, 148
The Lady Mary Villiers lies, 137
The loppèd tree in time may grow again, 47
The lowest trees have tops; the ant her gall, 5
The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime, 162
The Muses’ fairest light in no dark time, 44
The night is come, like to the day, 153
The night is late, the house is still, 371
The Ocean at the bidding of the Moon, 365
The poetry of earth is never dead, 249
The sun is warm, the sky is clear, 298
The twentieth year is well nigh past, 199
The voice which I did more esteem, 130
The waters are flashing, 241
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, 379
The World and Death one day them cross-disguisèd, 10
The world’s a bubble, and the life of man, 4
There’s none should places have in Fame’s high court, 101
There were twa brothers at the scule, 70
There were twa sisters lived in a bouir, 73
They are all gone into the world of light, 158
This Life, which seems so fair, 47
This was the ruler of the land, 233
Thou art returned, great light, to that blest hour, 64
Thou blushing rose, within whose virgin leaves, 63
Though actors cannot much of learning boast, 98
Thou still unravished bride of quietness, 296
Through the night, through the night, 361
’Tis done--but yesterday a King!, 260
’Tis time this heart should be unmoved, 291
Too true it is, my time of power was spent, 246
To these, whom death again did wed, 135
To yield to those I cannot but disdain, 28
Triumphal arch that fill’st the sky, 221
’Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, 232
Two brothers freely cast their lot, 368
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, 317
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