TABLE OF CONTENTS

FAREWELL TO WINTER AND THE TOWN

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THE MEADOWS IN SPRING Edward Fitzgerald

IN CITY STREETS

Ada Smith

GOOD COUNSEL

John Davidson

The LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE W. B. Yeats

THE INVOTATION

. P. B. Shelley

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THE ROAD

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TITANIA'S COURTESY TO THE

WAYFARER

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ALL DAY A-Foot

Kenneth Grahame

THE VAGABOND

R. L. Stevenson

The WHITE ROAD UP ATHIRT

THE Hill

William Barnes

The Joys Of The Road

Bliss Carman

SONG OF THE OPEN Road Walt Whitman

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SPRING AND

THE BEAUTY

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EARTH

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TURN O' THE YEAR

K. T. Hinkson MARCH

Nora Hopper THE SPRING

William Barnes APRIL

William Watson IN EARLY SPRING .

Alice Meynell SONG

Robert Browning LYNTON VERSES

T. E. Brown HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Robert Browning A MAY BURDEN

Francis Thompson
THE SWEETNESS OF ENGLAND E. B. Browning
(ITALY Sweet Too!)

John Keats
BEAUTY TRIUMPHANT
NATURE AND HUMANITY . W. Wordsworth
The RURAL PAN

Kenneth Grahame
Hymn
OF Pan

. P. B. Shelley CALLICLES' SONG

Matthew Arnold BACCHUS

• John Keats

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SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY Lord Byron
" My LUVE IS LIKE RED,
RED

Robert Burns
SONG

Hartley Coleridge BALLAD

Thomas Hood
SONG

James Thomson
THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH
WIND

William Morris
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO
HIS Love .

C. Marlowe
SONG

Anon. HER BEAUTY

. W. Shakespeare CONSTANCY

J. Sylvester SONG

. R. Le Gallienne

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SUN AND CLOUD, AND THE WINDY HILLS

THE SUN
HYMN OF APOLLO .
YOUTH AT THE SUMMIT
MORNING ON ETNA
The HORIZON
THE HILL PANTHEIST

A SMALL SWEET IDYLL"
The South-West Wind
Ode To The West WIND
CLOUDS
The Cloud.
THE DOWNS

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Alice Meynell
P. B. Shelley
Maurice Hewlett
Matthew Arnold
Alice Meynell
Richard Jefferies
Alfred Tennyson

Alice Meynell
. P. B. Shelley
Alice Meynell
P. B. Shelley

Robert Bridges

BIRDS, BLOSSOMS, AND TREES

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THE VERY BIRDS OF THE AIR . Izaak Walton
THE BLACKBIRD

William Barnes
Song

. Thomas Heywood THE GREEN LINNET

. W. Wordsworth PHILOMELA

Matthew Arnold ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

John Keats THE DAISIES

Bliss Carman TO THE DAISY

.W. Wordsworth To DAFFODILS

Robert Herrick “I WANDERED LONELY As A CLOUD

. W. Wordsworth PERDITA'S GIFTS

W. Shakespeare
To PRIMROSES FILLED WITH
MORNING Dew

Robert Herrick
THE WOODLANDS

. William Barnes TAPESTRY TREES

. William Morris THE POET IN THE Woods . William Cowper ON SOLITUDE

. Abraham Cowley SONG

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THE RESPECT DUE TO HUNGER W. Hazlitt
THE POWER OF MALT

A. E. Housman
IN PRAISE OF ALE

. Old Song
THE MEDITATIVE TAN KARD Edward Fitzgerald
Two ReciPES

Gervase Markham
THE HUMBLE FEAST
SALVATION YEo's TESTIMONY TO
TOBACCO

Charles Kingsley

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The SCHOLAR-GIPSY
L'ALLEGRO
SONG

. Matthew Arnold
. John Milton