Poe, Edgar AllanThe Raven, 289
Pope, AlexanderSolitude, 273
Raleigh, Sir WalterThe Lye, 283
Rankin. Jeremiah EamesThe Babie, 4
Read, Thomas BuchananSheridan's Ride, 68
Riley, James WhitcombLittle Orphant Annie, 54
Rogers, SamuelA Wish, 272
Sargent, EpesA Life on the Ocean Wave, 85
Scott, Sir WalterLochinvar, 103The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 126
Shakespeare, WilliamIngratitude, 58Mercy, 30dPolonius' Advice, 301A Fragment from Julius Cæsar, 301
Shelley, Percy ByssheOde to a Skylark, 268Ozymandias in the Desert, 322
Smith, Samuel FrancisAmerica, 228
Southey, RobertThe Battle of Blenheim, 117The Inchcape Rock, 145The Legend of Bishop Hatto, 166The Well of St. Keyne, 186
Stevenson, Robert LouisMy Shadow, 9
Taylor, BayardThe Song in Camp, 64
Taylor, JaneThe Violet, 27
Tennyson, AlfredSweet and Low, 27The Owl, 40The Bugle Song, 66Lady Clare, 72The Lord of Burleigh, 75The Death of the Old Year, 86The Charge of the Light Brigade, 107Crossing the Bar, 124The Brook, 153The Lotos Eaters, 231The Revenge, 246Sir Galahad, 253
Thackeray, William MakepeaceLittle Billee, 41
Thaxter, CeliaThe Sandpiper, 71
Thomas, EdithMoly, 233The God of Music, 275
Trowbridge, J. T.Farmyard Song, 90
Turner, Charles TennysonLetty's Globe, 115
Watts, IsaacLet Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, 4Love Between Brothers and Sisters, 20
Whitman, WaltO Captain! My Captain! 57Song of Myself, 344
Whittier, John G.The Three Bells of Glasgow, 67Barbara Frietchie, 96
Wolfe, C.The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 176
Woodworth, SamuelThe Old Oaken Bucket, 288
Wordsworth, WilliamThe Rainbow (a fragment), 28I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, 82Fidelity, 120Lucy, 27dThe World is Too Much With Us, 304She Was a Phantom of Delight, 305
Wotton, Sir HenryA Happy Life, 220
PART I.
The Budding Moment
The Arrow and the Song.
"The Arrow and the Song," by Longfellow (1807–82), is placed first in this volume out of respect to a little
