THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863). At the Church Gate 218 The Mahogany Tree 220 THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER (1828-1876). Dayrise and Sunset 223 The Three Troopers 225 The Cuckoo 228 [Decoration] [Illustration] AN INDEX TO FIRST LINES Listen--Songs thou 'lt hear Through the wide world ringing. Barry Cornwall. Page A baby was sleeping _Samuel Lover_ 141 "A cup for hope!" she said _Christina G. Rossetti_ 190 A golden bee a-cometh _Joseph Skipsey_ 198 A little shadow makes the sunrise sad _Mortimer Collins_ 52 A little while a little love _Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 191 A thousand voices fill my ears _F. W. Bourdillon_ 45 Across the grass I see her pass _Austin Dobson_ 81 Ah, what avails the sceptered race! _Walter Savage Landor_ 127 Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon _Charles Kingsley_ 121 All glorious as the Rainbow's birth _Gerald Massey_ 153 All through the sultry hours of June _Mortimer Collins_ 54 Along the garden ways just now _Arthur O'Shaughnessy_ 156 Although I enter not _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 218 As Gertrude skipt from babe to girl _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 139 As I came round the harbor buoy _Jean Ingelow_ 116 Awake!--The starry midnight Hour _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 174 Awake thee, my Lady-love! _George Darley_ 64 Back flies my soul to other years _Joseph Skipsey_ 199 Break, break, break _Alfred Tennyson_ 212 Came, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet _Thomas Ashe_ 23 Christmas is here _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 220 Come, rosy Day! _Sir Edwin Arnold_ 20 Come sing, Come sing, of the great Sea-King _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 172 Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas _Dinah Maria Mulock Craik_ 56