THE

BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY:

WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

sketches of the Ports.

“Thoughts married to immortal verse,

The memories of the past embalmed in song,
And echoes of the dead which still rehearse

Fond melodies that to our sires belong,
Reviving living scenes, for ever bright and young."

London:
T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;

AND EDINBURGH.

MDCCCLIII.

280.s.94.

MODERN ENGLISH POETRY.

Winter,

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Redemption,

43 Verses left at a Reverend

43

Friend's House,

Meeting of the Disciples with

Human Life,

their risen Lord,

44 To a Butterfly,

Report of an Adjuged Case, not My Native Vale,

to be found in any of the The Ruins of Pæstum,

Books,

45 The Nun,

Christian Patriotism,

47 Sabbath Morning,

Hope Beyond the Grave,

48 Scottish Sabbath Evening,

The Minstrel's Grave,

49 Moonlight in Summer,

To the Cuckoo,

50 Lambs at Play,

Resignation,

51 To a Sky-Lark,

Picture of Autumn,

52 On the Extinction of the Vene-

A Boat Race-and Wreck,

53 tian Republic,

Charity,

54 British Freedom,

Danger of a First Transgres- A Poet of Nature,

sion,

54 Confirmation,

From “The Cottar's Saturday

The Beacon Fire,

Night,"

55 Time,

Toa Mountain Daisy, on turning

Love of Country,

one down with the Plough,

58 Our Country and our Home,

To Mary in Heaven,

60 | Friends,

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The Pelican Island,

81 The Nightingale,

144

Liberty,

82 Autumn,

147

The Quarrel of Friends,

83 Adonis Sleeping,

148

To a Friend, proposing to do- The Dream of Eugene Aram,

149
mesticate with the Author, 84 | Friendship,

156

Sonnet,

85 The Genius of Byron,

157

The Sky-Lark,

86 | The Deserted Hall,

159

Kilmeny's return from Fairy The Future,

160

Land,

87 The Forsaken,

160

A Mountain Landscape, 88 Sabbath Evening,

161

The Holly Tree,

89 The Couch by Friendship

The Evening Rainbow,

91 Spread,

Love,

91 Love and Death,

165

Noontide,

92 The Bride, from “In Memo-

Scenes of Youth,

93

riam,”

165

To Ianthe,

94 Godiva,

167

Hope triumphant in Death, 96 | The Statesman, from “In Me-

Ye Mariners of England,

98

moriam,

Gertrude's Childhood,

100 A Child's First Impression of a

The Last Man,

101 Star,

170

The Soldier's Dream,

104 Spring,

171

Love's Dissensions,

105 To Laura,

172

The Glory of God in Nature, 106 The Lady's Yes,

174

Jerusalem,

107 Victoria's Tears,

175

To the Bramble Flower,

108 To a Dying Infant,

177

Steam in the Desert,

109 The Primrose,

181

The Mariner's Song,

110 The Pauper's Death-Bed,

182

Lowliness of Mind,

111 | The Huguenot's Battle-Hymn, 184

My Mother,

112 | The Armada,

187

Instability of Human Glory, 112 Moncontour,

191

The Stormy Petrel,

113

A Butterfly at a Child's Grave, 192

The Linden Tree,

114 Napoleon's Return,

192

Address to the Ocean,

115 Flowers,

194

The Lake of Geneva,

117 A Psalm of Life,

196

The Sun,

119 The Reaper and the Flowers, 198

The Ocean,

119 The Silent Land. From the

The Eve of Waterloo,

122 German of Salis,

199

The Evening Cloud,

124 The Slave's Dream,

200

Moonlight at Sea,

125 The Christian Slave,

202

The Martyr's Funeral Hymn, 126 Our Countrymen in Chains, 204

The Last Day,

127 Lines on reading an account
The Cloud,

128

of the meeting of the Bos-
Lines Written in the Vale of

ton Female Anti-Slavery So-

Chamouni,

131

ciety,

208

The Sky-Lark,

133 The Covenanter's Dream, 210

Returning Spring,

137 On a Deceased Child,

213

The Burial of Sir John Moore, 138 Hymn of Nature,

215

The Homes of England,

139

Excommunication of the Cid, 217

Evening Prayer in a Girls' Zara's Ear-Kings,

219

School,

140 Spring,

221

Death's Seasons,

142 | A Requiem,

222

Loved Ones,

144

A Reverie,

224

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