857. Bliss Carman. b. 1861.....1033-1034 858. Douglas Hyde. b. 1861.....1034-1035 859. Arthur Christopher Benson. b. 1862.....1035-1036 860. Henry Newbolt. b. 1862.....1036-1037 861. Gilbert Parker. b. 1862.....1038 862-864. William Butler Yeats. b. 1865.....1038-1039 865-867. Rudyard Kipling. b. 1865.....1040-1045 868-869. Richard Le Gallienne. b. 1866.....1045-1047 870-871. Laurence Binyon. b. 1869.....1047 872-873. ‘A. E.’ (George William Russell).....1048-1049 874. T. Sturge Moore. b. 1870.....1049 875. Francis Thompson, b. 1859, d. 1907.....1050-1052 876. Henry Cust. b. 1861, d. 1917.....1053 877. Katharine Tynan Hinkson. b. 1861.....1053-1054 878. Frances Bannerman.....1054-1055 879-880. Alice Meynell. b. 1850.....1055-1056 881. Dora Sigerson. d. 1918.....1056-1057 882. Margaret L. Woods. b. 1856.....1057 883. Anonymous.....1058 [Illustration] _1._ _Cuckoo Song_ c. 1250 Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu-- Sing cuccu! Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu; Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth, Murie sing cuccu! Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu: Ne swike thu naver nu; Sing cuccu, nu, sing cuccu, Sing cuccu, sing cuccu, nu! lhude] loud. awe] ewe. lhouth] loweth. sterteth] leaps. swike] cease. ANONYMOUS _2._ _Alison_ c. 1300 Bytuene Mershe ant Averil When spray biginneth to spring, The lutel foul hath hire wyl On hyre kid to synge: Ich libbe in love-longinge For semlokest of alle thynge, He may me blisse bringe, Icham in hire bandoun. An hendy hap ichabbe y-hent, Ichot from hevene it is me sent, From alle wymmen my love is lent Ant lyht on Alisoun. On heu hire her is fayr ynoh, Hire browe broune, hire eye blake; With lossum chere he on me loh; With middel smal ant wel y-make; Bote he me wolle to hire take For to buen hire owen make, Long to lyven ichulle forsake Ant feye fallen adoun. An hendy hap, etc. Nihtes when I wende and wake, For-thi myn wonges waxeth won; on hyre lud] in her language. ich libbe] I live. semlokest] seemliest. he] she. bandoun] thraldom. hendy] gracious. y hent] seized, enjoyed. ichot] I wot. lyht] alighted. hire her] her hair. lossum] lovesome. loh] laughed. bote he] unless she. buen] be. make] mate. feye] like to die. nihtes] at night. wende] turn. for-thi] on that account. wonges waxeth won] cheeks grow wan. Levedi, al for thine sake Longinge is y-lent me on. In world his non so wyter mon That al hire bountè telle con; Hire swyre is whittore than the swon, Ant feyrest may in toune. An hendy hap, etc.