TO HELEN 93 SONNET: TO SCIENCE 94 SPIRITS OF THE DEAD 95 EVENING STAR 96 FAIRYLAND 99 THE LAKE: TO —— 101 A DREAM 102 A PÆAN 103 “THE HAPPIEST DAY” 105 ALONE 106 STANZAS (“In youth I have known one”) 107 TO —— (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”) 110 TO THE RIVER 111 TO —— (“I heed not that my earthly lot”) 111 SONG 112 DREAMS 113 ROMANCE 114 TAMERLANE 115 AL AARAAF 127 NOTES TO AL AARAAF 144 SCENES FROM “POLITIAN” 149 LETTER TO MR. ——: Introduction to Poems (1831) 171 ESSAY ON THE POETIC PRINCIPLE 185 ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION 211 [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration] FRONTISPIECE: “AL AARAAF.” PAGE TITLE-PAGE. CONTENTS (_headpiece_) vii (_Tailpiece_) ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (_headpiece_) xi (_Tailpiece_) xiv INTRODUCTION (_headpiece_) xv (_Tailpiece_) xxxii PREFACE AND DEDICATION OF THE VOLUME OF 1845 (_decorated title_) xxxiii HEADPIECE TO PREFACE xxxv BORDER TO DEDICATION xxxvii POEMS (_decorated title_) 1 THE RAVEN (_headpiece_) 3 “THE NIGHT’S PLUTONIAN SHORE” 8, 9