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English Poems
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SELECTED, ARRANGED

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ANNOTATED FOR THE

USE OF SCHOOLS BY

J.

G. Jennings, M.A.

Professor of English Literature,

Muir Central College, Allahabad

London
Macmillan and Co., Limite
New

York

The Macmillan Company

1904
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First Edition 1903.

Reprinted

1904.

printed at the uxiversity press


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PREFACE.
The arrangement

of the following

the belief that poetry appeals


the

best

may be

feelings

the

of

defined as the

does not preclude

its

fit

human

fit

is

is

a result of

man must
rise

in

To be

see clearly, as well as feel deeply

be able to express his feelings in such a

emotions

the pro-

no right emotion that

does not arise from a truthful view of things.


poet a

This

emotion.

being intensely intellectual, as the

and there

foundest thought,

is based upon
and strengthens

Indeed, poetry

heart.

expression of

emotion follows on and

noblest

poems

to, exercises,

way

and

that kindred

Imagination as

the hearts of others.

distinguished from fancy

is an essential characteristic of
and imagination, after all, is nothing but an insight
into the truth
which no man knows fully, yet some know
far less imperfectly than others.
If this \dew is correct,

poetry,

science

not, as

is

inimical

to

maintained with painful frequency,

but essential to

existence

its

the

method, supplying the knowledge


truth, -without which there can be neither poetry nor

former, with
of

is

poetry,

anything

its logical

else that is excellent

among men.

In education

they are complementary to each other, the one training


the reasoning side and the other the emotional side of our
nature.

A man

should not only learn

all

of

the truth

PREFACE.

VI

that he can, but feel

its

beauty

feeling based on ignorance

The Notes

No

are as brief

is

on the other hand,

whilst,

either feeble or dangerous.

and simple

as I could

make them.

attempt has been made to supply philological or

information, but their aim

is

critical

merely to render the text

young people. Most young readers


somewhat easily and very naturally, as

readily intelligible to

are discouraged
it

seems to

me by

the difficulties of English poetry, and

cannot say that in

my

opinion the best

way

to

make

them appreciate it is to leave them alone with the poets.


The poets are in the end "their own best interpreters,"
but they are foreigners in the view of most young people
and often frighten them away.
A careful rendering of
some of their phrases into the language of ordinary
thought

may reveal

of their

minds

just

enough

of the incalculable beauties

to attract for life those

wise have maligned and reviled them.

who might otherSome half dozen

poems have been included which contain a few

lines

of

a difficulty above the standard proposed for this collec-

though otherwise, in

tion,

reference to

my

opinion, suitable.

put notes at the foot

cases I have

of

them may be readily made.

The

rest of the

notes have been placed at the end of the book.

preparing a

poem with

In such

the page, where

After

their aid a class, I think, should

be able to show, in response to questions, a real grasp


of its

meaning.

am

especially indebted to the anthologies of Messrs.

Palgrave,

F.

T.

Gr.

Cookson,

and

to

all

those

of

C.

M. Vaughan, Mowbray Morris, and

published by Messrs. Macmillan

Canon H.

Messrs. Eivington, Percival

C.

&

Beeching,

Co., of

Mr.

&

Co.,

published by

W.

E. Henley,

published by Mr. David Nutt and by Messrs. Methuen


Co.,

and

of

&

Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch, published by the

PREFACE.
Clarendon Press.

vii

AVithout the advantage of reference to

these the labour of

making the following

have been incalculably increased.

My

Selections

would

thanks are also due

& Co., who have kindly permitted


much copyright matter which they control.

to

Messrs. Macmillan

me

to include

J.

G.

JENNINGS.

CONTENTS.
SECTION I. HOME.
POEM
1.

R. SouTHEY, The Traveller's Return,

2.

J.

Howard Payne, Home, Sweet Home,

....
....

.....

.3.

TjOrd Tennyson, 8weet and Low,

4.

Felicia D. Hemans, The Graves of a Household,

5.

C.

Tennyson-Turner,

Legend,

PAGE
1

2
'2

.3

SECTION II. BEASTS, FLOWERS, AND BIRDS.


6.

W. CowPER, To

a Spaniel on his killing a

7.

W. Wordsworth, The

8.

Michael Bruce, To

9.

H.

10.

W.

S.

C.

Young

Bird,

the Cuckoo,

CoRNWELL, The Stormy

10

Petrel,

.11

Bryant, To a Waterfowl,

SECTION

III. THE

Daffodils,

12

BEAUTY OF NATURE.

11.

Shakespeare, Under the Greenwood Tree,

12.

T.

1.3.

Lord Tennyson, The Brook,

.14

Nash, Spring,

15

14.

W. Wordsworth, To

15.

Shakespeare, Winter (When

18

Sleep,

ix

16

icicles

hang by the

wall),

^8

CONTENTS.

SECTION IV. TENDERNESS FOR THE WEAK AND AFFLICTED, AND


THE SENSE OF HUMAN FELLOWSHIP.
PAGE

POEM
16.

W. CowPER, On

a Goldfinch starved to death in his Cage,

The Worm,

17.

T. GiSBORNE,

18.

0.

19.

Adelaide A. Procter, God's

20.

Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel,

When

Goldsmith,

20
21

Lovely

Woman

stoops to Folh',

22

24

22

Gifts,
.

SECTION v. ROMANCE AND WONDER.


21.

Shakespeare, Hark

22.

Lord Tennyson, The

23.

C.

24.

Anonymous, Robin Goodfellow,.

Hark

the Lark,

25

Ladj^ of Shalott,

25

Kingsley, The Sands

25. J. Fletch^-".

of Dee,

Orpheus with

31

32

his Lute,

34

SECTION VI. COURAGE AND MANLINESS


Kingsley, The Three Fishers,

26.

C.

27.

Felicia D.

28.

H.

Hem an s,

Casabianca,

W. Longfellow, The

My

35

29.

C.

Mackay,

30.

C.

Mackay, The Miller

36

Village Blacksmith,

Good Right Hand,


of the Dee,

37

39

40

SECTION VII. PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY.


31.

Lord Byron, The Destruction

32.

R. Burns,

33.

Lord Macaulay,

34.

Felicia D. Hemans, The

35.

Anonymous, The

My

of Sennacherib,

42

Heart's in the Highlands,

Jacobite's Epitaph,

Homes

of

British Grenadiers,

43

44

England,

44
46

CONTEXTS.

xi

SECTION Vril. IXXOCENX'E, GOODNESS, AND WISDOM.


POEM

PAGE

36.

W. Wordsworth, The

37.

W.

38.

A. Pope, Solitude,

39. T.
40.

Sir

Solitary Reaper,

.47

Barnes, The Surprise,

48
.

Dekker, Content,

W.

49

50

Jones, Epigram,

.51

SECTION IX. THE COXTEMPLATIOX OF LIFE AND DEATH.


41.

Henry King, Such

42.

T.

43.

Shakespeare, Fidele (Fear no more the heat

44.

W.

45.

Felicia D. Hemans, Death's Seasons,

is

Life (Like to the falling of a star),

Moore, The Light

S.

of

Other Days,

54

the sun),

LajsDOR, Rose Aylmer


.

52

.53

o'

54

i^o

57

SECTION X. THE WORLD AND THE CREATOR.


46. R.

Browning, Pippa's Song (The

year's at the spring),

47.

Christina G. Rossetti, Buds and Babies,

48.

Lord Tennyson,

49.

Felicia D. Hemans, The Hour of Prayer,

50. B.

W.

.57

58

Farewell,

Procter, Stars,

.58
59

Notes,

61

Index of Authors,

75

Index of First Lines

77

SECTION L
HOME.
1.

THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN.


Sweet

to the

morning

The song amid the


Where, twinkling

The

And

traveller

sky,

in the

dewy

light,

skylark soars on high.


5

cheering to the traveller

The

When

gales that round


faint

Along

play,

and heavily he drags

his noontide

And when

him

way.

beneath the unclouded sun


10

Full wearily toils he,

The flowing water makes

to

him

soothing melody.

And when the evening light


And all is calm around.
There

is

decays,

sweet music to his ear

In the distant sheep-bell's sound.

15

SOUTHEY: PAYNE.

of all delightful sounds


But
Of evening or of morn,
The sweetest is the voice of love
That welcomes his return.
!

20
E. SoUTHEY.

2.

HOME, SWEET HOME.


'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

skies seems to hallow us there,

charm from the

Which, seek

thro' the world,

Home home
!

is

ne'er

There's no place like


There's no place like

An
Oh

exile
!

give

met with elsewhere.

sweet, sweet

home
home

home

from home splendour dazzles in vain.

me my

lowly thatch'd cottage again

came at my call,
Give me them, with the peace of mind dearer than

The

birds singing gaily that

Home

home

sweet, sweet

There's no place like


There's no place like

home
home

home

Howard Payke.

3.

LOW.

Sweet and low, sweet and


Wind of the western sea,

low,

Low, low, breathe and blow,

Wind

of the

J.

SWEET AND

10
all.

western sea

TENNYSON: FELICIA HEMANS.

Over the rolling waters go,


Come from the dying moon, and How,
Blow him again to me
While my little one, while my pretty one,

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,


Father will come to thee soon
Rest, rest, on mother's breast.

Father

will

come

to thee soon

Father will come to


Silver sails

Under
Sleep,

all

lo

in the nest,

out of the west

the silver

my

babe

his

sleeps.

little

moon

15

one, sleep,

my

pretty one, sleep.

Tennyson.

4.

THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD.


They grew
They

in beauty, side

by

side.

one home with glee


Their graves are severed far and \Wde,
filled

By mount, and

stream, and sea.

The same fond mother bent at night


O'er each fair sleeping brow
She had each folded flower

Where
One

in sight

are those dreamers

now ?

'midst the forests of the West,

By

a dark stream

The Indian knows


Far

is

laid

his place of rest,

in the cedar-shade.

10

;;

FELICIA HEMANS: TEXXYSOX-TURNER.

The

sea,

the blue lone sea, hath one

He lies where pearls lie deep


He was the loved of all, yet none
O'er his low bed may weep.
One sleeps where southern
Above the noble slain

15

vines are dressed

He wrapt his colours round his breast,


On a blood-red field of Spain.
And

one

o'er her the myrtle showers

Its leaves,

by

soft

She faded, 'midst

The

And

20

winds fanned

Italian flowers

last of that bright

parted thus they

band.

rest,

who played

25

Beneath the same green tree

Whose voices mingled as they prayed


Around one parent knee
!

They

that with smiles

And

lit

up the

hall.

cheered with song the hearth

Alas for love

if

And nought

thou wert

beyond,

all,

Earth

Felicia Hemaxs,

5.

A LEGEND.
It was upon a

Two

Lammas

brothers

As each upon

night

woke and

said,

the other's weal

Bethouo:ht him on his bed

30

TENNYSON-TURNER.
The

elder spake unto his wife,

"Our

brother dwells alone

No little babes to cheer his life,


And helpmate hath he none

"

Up

will I get

and

of

my

heap

sheaf l)e.stow or twain,

The while our Ahmed

And

10

lies asleep,

wots not of the

gain."'

So up he got and did address


Himself with loving heed,
Before the dawning of the day,

To do

Now

15

that gracious deed.

to the younger, all unsought.

The same kind fancy came


Nor wist they of each other's thought,
Though moved to the same.
!

"

Abdullah he hath wife," quoth

20

he,

And
What would be slender boot to me
Would make his heart o'erflow
"

"

Up

little

will I get,

babes also

and

of

my

heap

25

sheaf bestow or twain.

The while he sweetly

And

wots not

of.

lies asleep,

the gain."

So up he got and did address


Himself with loving heed,
Before the dawning of the day.

To mate

his brother's

deed

30

TENNYSOX-TUKNER.
Thus played they

And

oft their gracious parts,

marvelled oft to view

Their sheaves

still

equal

for their hearts

35

In love were equal too.

One morn they met, and, wondering, stood


To see by clear daylight

How

each upon the other's good


Bethought him in the night.

40

So when

this tale to him was brought,


The Caliph did decree,
Where twain had thought the same good thought,

There Allah's house should

be.
C.

Tennyson-Turner.

SECTION
BEASTS, FLOWERS,

11.

AND

BIRDS.

6.

TO A SPAN/EL ON HIS KILLING A YOUNG BIRD.


"

SPANIEL, Beau, that fares like you,

fed, and at his ease.


Should wiser be than to pursue
Each trifle that he sees.

Well

"

But you have

Which
Against

kill'd

flew not

my

a tiny bird,

till

orders,

to-day,

whom you

heard

Forbidding you the prey.

"Nor did^you

And

kill

that

you might

eat,

ease a doggish pain,

10

For him, though chased with furious heat


You left where he was slain.
"

Nor was he of the thievish sort,


Or one whom blood allures,
But innocent was all his sport
Whom you have torn for yours.

15

COWPER.
"

My

dog

what remedy remains,


you all I can,

Since, teach

you after all my pains


So much resemble man 1 "

I see

" Sir,

when

I flew to seize

20

the bird

In spite of your command,

louder voice than yours

And
"

cried forbear

mightier cried

'Twas Nature,
Impell'd

much

Sir,

me
as

in

whose strong behest

Nature

I respect,

ventured once to break

Her precept

25

to the deed.

(As you, perhaps,

"

but my breast
proceed

You

" Yet,

heard.

harder to withstand.

for

And when your

may

30

recollect)

your sake
on a day.

linnet,

Passing his prison door.

Had

flutter'd all his strength

And, panting, press'd the


"

Well knowing him a sacred

Not destined
I

my

35

thing.

tooth,

only kiss'd his ruflled wing,

And
"

to

away,

floor

Let

my

My

lick'd the feathers smooth.

40

obedience then excuse

disobedience now,

Nor some reproof yourself refuse


From your aggrieved Bow-wow

the bark of a dog


''

If killing birds

(Which

be such a crime

can hardlv

see).

45

"

COWPER: WORDSWORTH.
What

think you,

With

Sir, of killing time,

me

verse addressed to

W. CoWPER.
7.

THE DAFFODILS.
I

WANDERED
That

When

floats

all

loiiely as a

on high

at once I

cloud

and

o'er vales

hills,

saw a crowd,

host, of golden Daffodils

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And
They

twinkle in the Milky

Way,

stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay


Ten thousand saw I at a glance.

10

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced,

luit

they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee

poet could not but be gay


In such a jocund company

gazed

and gazedbut

What
For

oft

15
:

little

wealth the show to

when on my couch

thought

me had

brought.

I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

20

They flash upon that in^vard eye


Which is the bliss of solitude

And then my heart with pleasure


And dances with the Daffodils.

fills.

Wordsworth.

BRUCE.

10

8.

TO THE CUCKOO.
Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove

Thou messenger of spring


Now Heaven repairs thy rural

And woods thy welcome

seat,

sing.

What time the daisy decks the


Thy certain voice we hear
Hast thou a

Or mark

green,

star to guide thy path,

the roiling year

Delightful visitant, with thee


I hail

the time of flowers,

10

And hear the sound of music sweet


From birds among the bowers.
The schoolboy wandering through the wood
To pull the primrose gay,
Starts the

And
What

voice of spring to hear,

15

time the pea puts on the bloom.

Thou

An

new

imitates thy lay.

fliest

thy vocal

vale.

annual guest in other lands^

Another spring to

Sweet bird
Thy sky

Thou

No

is

20

hail.

thy bower
ever clear

is

ever green,

hast no sorrow in thy song.

winter in thy year

could

I fly, I'd fly

with thee

25

We'd make, with joyful wing,


Our annual visit o'er the globe,
Companions

of the spring.

Michael Bruce.

CORNWELL.

11

9.

THE STORMY PETREL.

When

fierce

along his ocean -path

The north wind rushes in his wrath,


And down the vast, insatiate wave
The great ship shudders to her grave,

Whence

is it

that thy tiny form

Exults, and challenges the storm

5
%

Oh, not for thee the bloom-sweet gales

Of orchards or in thymy vales


The bee's low hum
the rush and roar
Of breakers on some savage shore,
Or organ- winds through sea caves blown,
Are harmonies for thee alone
;

10

Man's argosies are swept to naught


Yet o'er the havoc, tempest-wrought.
Companion of the wandering sea
Tumult and Death but toy with thee,

And

cheer thee in thy lonely

Making our horror thy

along

life's

too could sweep

Like thee could

The mists

20

angry deep,

Nor heed the lowering clouds

And darken round

flight.

delight

Oh, would, strange bird,

Unharmed

that roll

the struggling soul

soar,

15

and

breast, elate.

of doubt, the storms of fate.

H.

S.

CoRNWELL.

BRYANT.

12

10.

TO A WATERFOWL.
Whither,

'midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,


Far through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue

Thy

solitary

way %

Vainly the fowler's eye

Might mark thy distant

do thee wrong,

flight to

As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,

Thy

figure floats along.

Seek'st thou the plashy brink

Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,


Or where the rocking billows rise and sink

On

the chafed ocean side

There
Teaches thy

The

is

that pathless coast,

desert and illimitable

All

a power whose care

way along

16

air,

Lone wandering, but not

At

10

day thy wings have

lost.

fann'd.

that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere

Yet stoop

not, weary, to the

welcome

Though the dark night

And

soon that

Soon shalt thou

find a

And scream among


Soon

o'er

is

toil shall

land,

end

summer home, and

thy fellows

thy shelter'd

20

near.

rest

reeds shall bend


nest.

BRYANT.
Thou'rt

gone the

Hath swallow'd up thy form

13

abyss of heaven

25

yet on my heart

Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,

And

shall not soon depart.

He, who from zone to zone

Guides through the boundless sky thy certain


In the long

way

that I

Will lead

my

must tread

flight,

alone,

steps aright.

W.

C.

Bryant.

30

SECTION

III

THE BEAUTY OF NATURE.


11.

UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.


Under

Who
And

the greenwood tree

loves to

with me,

lie

turn his merry note

Unto the sweet bird's throat,


hither, come hither, come

Come

hither

'

Here shall he see


Xo enemy,
Bnt winter and rough weather.

Who

doth ambition shun

And

loves to

lie

in the sun,

Seeking the food he

10

eats,

And pleased with what he gets.


Come hither, come hither, come hither
Here

shall

he see

No enemy,
But winter and rough weather.

15

Shakespeare.
14

15

NASH.

12.

SPRING.
Spring, the sweet Spring,
Is the year's pleasant

Then blooms each


Then maids dance

king

thing,
in a ring,

Cold doth not sting,

The pretty

birds do sing.

Cuckoo, jug- jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo

The palm and may

Make country houses gay,


Lambs frisk and play,
The shepherds pipe all day,
And we hear aye

10

Birds tune this merry lay.

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo

The fields breathe sweet,


The daisies kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet.
Old wives a-sunning

15

sit.

In every street

These tunes our ears do gi'eet,


Cuckoo, jug- jug, pu-we, to witta-woo
Spring the sweet Spring
!

20
!

T.

Nash.

TENNYSON.

18

13.

THE BROOK,
COME from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern.
To bicker down a valley.
I

By

thirty hills I hurry

Or

slip

down

between the ridges.

By twenty thorpes, a little town,


And half a hundred bridges,
Till last

To

by

Philip's

farm

I flow

brimming river
For men may come and men may
But I go on for ever.
join the

I chatter

In
I

10
go,

over stony ways,

little

sharps and trebles,

bubble into eddying bays,


I

15

babble on the pebbles.

many a curve my banks I


By many a field and fallow.
And many a fairy foreland set

"With

fret

With willow-weed and mallow.

2C

I chatter, chatter as I flow

To join the brimming river


For men may come and men may
But I go on for ever.

go,

;;;

TENNYSON.
I

wind about, and

With here a

in

and

17

out,

25

l)lossom sailing,

And here and there a lusty trout,


And here and there a grayling.
And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak

30

Above the golden gravel

And draw them

all along, and flow


brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

To

join the

I steal

by lawns and grassy


by hazel covers ;

35

plots,

I slide

move

the sweet forget-me-nots

That grow

for

happy

gloom,

I slip, I slide, I

I glance,

Among my skimming
I

make

swallows

the netted sunbeam dance

my

Against
I

40

lovers.

sandy shallows.

murmur under moon and

stars

45

In brambty wildernesses
I linger

by

I loiter

And

my

shingly bars

round

my

cresses

I curve and flow


brimming river
For men may come and men may
But I go on for ever.

To

out again
join the

50
go.

Tennyson.

WORDSWORTH: SHAKESPEARE.

18

14.

TO SLEEP.

FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by


One after one the sound of rain, and bees
Murmuring the fall of rivers, winds and seas
Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky
I've thought of all by turns, and yet do lie
;

Sleepless

Must

And

hear, first utter'd

the

from

birds' melodies

my

orchard trees.

cuckoo's melancholy cry.

first

Even thus

And

and soon the small

last night,

and two nights more

I lay,

could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth

Dear mother

of fresh

10

So do not let me wear to-night away


Without Thee what is all the morning's wealth
Come, blessed barrier between day and day.

'?

thoughts and joyous health

Wordsworth.

15.

WINTER.

When icicles

hang by the

wall.

And Dick the Shepherd blows his nail


And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail

When

blood

is nipt,

Then nightly

and ways be

foul,

sings the staring owl


"

Tuwhoo

Tuwhit tuwhoo " A merry note,


While greasy Joan doth keel the pot,
!

SHAKESPEARE.

19

When all around the wind doth blow,


And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw.
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,

10

Then nightly

15

sings the staring owl


" Tuwhoo
!

Tuwhit

tuwhoo

"
I

merry

note,

"While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

Shakespeare.

SECTION

IV.

TENDERNESS FOR

THE WEAK AND AFFLICTED, AND


THE SENSE OF HU.MAN FELLOWSHIP.
16.

ON A GOLDFINCH STARVED TO DEATH IN HIS


CAGE.

Time was when I was free as air,


The thistle's downy seed my fare,
My drink the morning dew
I

perched at will on every spray,

My form genteel, my plumage


My strains for ever new.

gay,

But gaudy plumage, sprightly

strain,

And form genteel, were all


And of a transient date

in vain.

For caught and caged, and starved


In dying sighs my little breath
Soon passed the mry grate.
20

to death,

10

COWPER

GISBORXE.

Thanks, gentle swain, for

And thanks
And cure
More

all

21

my

woes,

for this effectual close,


of every

15

ill

cruelty could none express

And I, if you had shown me less.


Had been your prisoner still.
W. CoWPER.

17.

THE WORM.
Turn, turn thy hasty

foot aside.

Nor crush that helpless worm


The frame thy wayward looks deride
Required a God to form.
!

The common Lord

A portion
On
The

sun, the
all

worm

bestow'd.

moon, the

He made

stars,

His creatures free

10

spread o'er earth the grassy blade,

For worms

as well as thee.

Let them enjoy their


Their humble
1

flow'd,

His boundless love

that poor

For

And

of

move,

of all that

From whom thy being

little

day,

bliss receive

do not lightly take away

The

life

thou canst not give

15
1

T.

GiSBORNE.

22

GOLDSMITH: ADELAIDE

PROCTER.

A.

18.

When

lovely woman stoops to folly


And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away 1

The only art her guilt to cover,


To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover
And wring his bosom is to die.

Oliver Goldsmith.

19.

GOD'S GIFTS.

God gave a gift to Earth : a child,


Weak, innocent, and undefiled.
Opened its ignorant eyes and smiled.
It lay so helpless, so forlorn.

Earth took

it

coldly

and

Cursing the day when

it

in scorn,

was born.

She gave it first a tarnished name


For heritage, a tainted fame,

Then cradled

it

in

want and shame.

All influence of good or right,

10

All ray of God's most holy light.

She curtained closely from

its

sight

Then turned her heart, her eyes, away,


Ready to look again, the day
Its little feet

began to

stray.

15

ADELAIDE

A.

;;

23

PROCTER.

In dens of guilt the baby played,


Where sin, and sin alone was made,

The law

that

all

around obeyed.
care

With ready and obedient

He

him there

learnt the tasks they taught

20

Black sin for lesson oaths for prayer.

The Earth arose, and, in her might.


To vindicate her injured right.
Thrust him in deeper depths of night
25

Branding him with a deeper brand

Of shame, he could not understand,

The

felon outcast of the land.

God gave

a gift to Earth -.a child.

innocent, and undefiled,

Weak,
Opened

And

its

ignorant eyes and smiled.

Earth received the

Her joy and triumph

and
and wide.

gift,

far

Till

echo answered to her pride.

She

blest the

hour when

30

cried

first

he came

To take the crown of pride and fame,


Wreathed through long ages for his name

35

Then bent her utmost art and skill,


To train the- supple mind and will.

And guard

it

She strewed

And

from a breath

his

of

ill.

morning path with

flowers,

40

Love, in tender dropping showers,

Nourished the blue and dawning hours.

She shed, in rainbow hues of light,


A halo round the good and right,
To tempt and charm the baby's sight.

45

ADELAIDE

24

And
Was
Till

every step, of work or play,


lit by some such dazzling ray,
morning brightened into day.

And
"

PROCTER: HUXT.

A.

then the World arose, and said

Let added honours now be shed

On

such a noble heart and head

50

"
!

O World, both gifts were pure and


Holy and sacred in God's sight
God will judge them and thee aright

bright,

Adelaide A. Procter.
20.

ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL.


Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making

An

rich

it

and

like a lily in bloom.

angel writing in a book of gold

Exceeding peace had made Ben

Adhem

bold,

And to the presence in the room he said,


" What writest thou % "
The vision raised
And with a look made of all sweet accord

Answered, " The names


"

And

is

mine one % "

Replied the Angel.

But cheerly
Write

me

and

said, " I

-with a great

show'd the names


lo

love the Lord."'

Abou. " Nay, not


Abou spoke more low,
said

10

so,"

pray thee then.

wrote, and vanish'd.

came again

And
And

who

head,

as one that loves his fellow-men."

The Angel
It

still,

of those

its

The next night

wakening

whom

Ben Adhem's name

love of

light,

God had

bless 'd,

led all the rest.

Leigh Hunt.

15

SECTION

V.

EOMANCE AND WONDEE,


21.

Hark hark the lark at heaven's


And Phoebus 'gins arise,
!

gate sings,

His steeds to water at those springs

On chaliced flowers that lies


And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes
With everything that pretty
:

My

lady sweet, arise

bin,

Arise, arise

Shakespeare.
^-

22.

THE LADY OF SHALOTT.


On

either side the river

Long

fields of

lie

barley and of rye,

That clothe the wold and meet the sky


And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot

TENNYSON.

26

And up and down


Gazing where the

the people go,


lilies

blow

Round an island there below,


The island of Shalott.
"Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes

10

dusk and shiver

Thro' the wave that runs for ever

By

the island in the river

Flowing down to Camelot.


Four gray walls, and four gray towers,
Overlook a space

And

the silent

isle

The Lady

By

15

of flowers,

imbowers

of Shalott.

the margin, willow-veil'd.

Slide the heavy barges trail'd

By

slow horses

The

shallop flitteth silken-sail'd

Skimming down to Caraelot


But who hath seen her wave her hand ?
Or at the casement seen her stand 1
Or is she known in all the land.
The Lady of Shalott ?
Only
In

20

and unhail'd

25

reapers, reaping early

among

the bearded barley,

Hear a song that echoes cheerly

From

30

the river winding clearly,

Down to tower'd Camelot


And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listening, whispers 'Tis the fairy

Lady

of Shalott.'

35

;;

TENNYSON.

27

she weaves by night and day


magic web with colours gay.

There

She has heard a whisper say

curse

is

on her

if

40

she stay

To look down

to Camelot.

She knows not what the curse may


And so she weaveth steadily,

And

little

be,

other care hath she.

The Lady

45

of Shalott.

And, mo\dng thro' a mirror clear


That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot

50

There the river eddy whirls.

And
And

there the surly village-churls.

the red cloaks of market

girls.

Pass onward from Shalott.

Sometimes a troop of damsels


An abbot on an ambling pad,

glad,

55

Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad,


Or long-^hair'd page in crimson clad,
Goes by to tower'd Camelot

And

sometimes thro' the mirror blue


The knights come riding two and two
She hath no loyal knight and true.

The Lady

60

of Shalott.

But in her web she still delights


To weave the mirror's magic sights

65

; ;;

TENNYSOX.

28
For often

thro' the silent nights

plumes and lights

funeral, with

And

music, went to Camelot

Or when the moon was overhead,


Came two young lovers lately wed
'

am

half sick of

The Lady

70

shadows/ said
of Shalott.

Ill

A BOW-SHOT

from her bower-eaves

He rode between

the barley-sheaves

The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves


And flamed upon the brazen greaves
Of bold

75

Sir Lancelot.

To

red-cross knight for exer kneel'd

a lady in his shield,

That sparkled on the yellow

80

field,

Beside remote Shalott.

The gemmy bridle glitter'd free.


Like to some branch of stars we

Hung
The

see

in the golden Galaxy.

bridle bells rang merrily

As he rode down

to

Camelot

And from

his blazon'd baldric slung

A mighty

silver

And

as

85
:

bugle hung.

he rode his armour rung.


Beside remote Shalott.

90

All in the blue unclouded weather


Thick-jewell'd shone the saddle-leather

The helmet and the helmet-feather


Burn'd

like

one burning flame together.

As he rode down

to

Camelot

95

TENNYSON.
As

29

often thro' the purple night,

Below the starry

clusters bright,

Some bearded meteor, trailing light,


Moves over still Shalott.
His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd

On burnish'd

100

hooves his war-horse trode

From underneath

helmet flow'd

his

His coal-black curls as on he rode,

As he rode down

From

He
'

to Camelot.

the bank and from the river

flash'd into the crystal

Tirra

lirra,'

by

Sang

Sir Lancelot.

105

mirror

the river

She left the web, she left the loom.


She made three paces thro' the room,

110

She saw the water-lily bloom,

She saw the helmet and the plume,

She looked down to Camelot.


Out flew the web, and floated wide
The mirror crack'd from side to side
The curse is come upon me,' cried
The Lady of Shalott.

115

'

IV

In the stormy east-wind straining.


The pate yellow woods were waning,

The broad stream

in his

banks complaining,

120

Heavily the low sky raining

Over

Down

to\\ er'd

Camelot

she came and found a boat

Beneath a willow

And round

left afloat,

about the prow she wrote

The Lady of

Shalott.

125

TENNYSON.

30

And down

dim expanse

the river's

Like some bold seer in a trance,


Seeing

With

all his

own mischance

a glassy countenance

Did she look

And

at the closing of the

She loosed the

130

to Camelot.

day

and down she lay

chain,

The broad stream bore her far away,


The Lady of Shalott.

135

Lying, robed in snowy white

That

The

loosely flew to left

leaves

upon her

and right

falling light

Thro' the noises of the night

She floated down to Camelot

And

as the boat-head

140

wound along

The \Wllowy hills and fields among.


They heard her singing her last song.
The Lady of Shalott.
Heard a
Chanted

carol,

mournful, holy,

145

loudly, chanted lowly.

her blood was frozen slowly,

Till

And

her eyes were darken'd wholly,

Turn'd to tower'd Camelot.

For

ere she reach'd

The

first

upon

the. tide

150

house by the water-side.

Singing, in her song she died.

The Lady

Under tower and

By

of Shalott.

balcony.

garden-wall and gallery,

A gleaming

shape she floated by,

Dead-pale between the houses high.


Silent into Camelot.

155

TEXNYSON: KINGSLEY.

31

Out upon the wharfs they came,


Knight and burgher, lord and dame,
And round the prow they read her name,
The Lady of Shalott.
'

Who
And

is

this

and what

here

in the lighted palace near

Died the sound

And

is

160

of royal cheer

165

they cross'd themselves for

fear.

All the knights at Camelot


But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, She has a lovely face
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.'

'

170

Tennyson.

23.

THE SANDS OF DEE.


"

Mary, go and

And
And

call

the cattle home,

call

the cattle home.

call

the cattle home.

Across the sands

o'

Dee

"'

The western wind was wdld and dank ^nth foam,


And alt alone went she.
The creeping

tide

came up along the sand.

And o'er and o'er the sand.


And round and round the sand.
As far as eye could see
The blinding mist came down and hid the
And never home came she.

10

land,

KINGSLEY: ANONYMOUS.

32

Oh

is it

weed, or

or floating hair

fish,

tress of golden hair,

Of drowned maiden's hair,


Above the nets at sea.

Was

15

never salmon yet that shone so

Among

the stakes at

Dee

fair

They rowed her in across the rolling foam,


The cruel, crawling foam,
The cruel, hungry foam.
To her grave beside the sea
But

still

20

the boatmen hear her call the cattle hom.e

Across the sands

o'

Dee.
C.

KiNGSLEY.

24.

ROBIN GOODFELLOW.
From

Oberon, in fairy land.

The king

of ghosts

Mad Eobin

Am

I,

and shadows
command,

there,

at his

sent to view the night-sports here.

AYhat revel-rout
Is

kept about.

In every corner where I go,


I will o'ersee,

And merry be.


And make good sport,

with ho, ho, ho

More s^vift than lightning can


About this air}^ welkin soon.

I fly

And, in a minute's space, descry


Each thing that's done below the moon.

10

ANONYMOUS.

33

There's not a hag

Or ghost
Or

cry " 'AVare goblins

But Robin,

15

wag

shall

'"'
!

where

I go,

I,

Their feats will spy,

And

send them home, with ho, ho, ho

20

Whene'er such wanderers I meet,


As from their night-sports they trudge home,

With

counterfeiting voice I greet

them on with me to roam


Through woods, through lakes,
Through bogs, through brakes,
Or else, unseen, with them I go,

And

call

25

All in the nick

To

And

frolic

play some trick.


it,

with ho, ho, ho

30

Sometimes I meet them like a man,


Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound

And
To

to a horse I turn

trip

back they

swift than

can,

and trot about them round.


But if, to ride,

My
More

me

35

stride,

wind away

go

O'er hedge and lands.

Through pools ,and ponds,


I hurry, laughing, ho, ho,

By

wells and

We

rills,

in

ho

40

meadows

green.

And

nightly dance our heyday guise


to our fairy

King and Queen,

AVe chant our moonlight minstrelsies.

When larks 'gin


Away we fling
"^

I.

sing,

45


34

ANONYMOUS: FLETCHER
And

And

We
And wend

elf in

leave instead,

Thus nightly
for

my

The name

go,

bed

us laughing, ho, ho, ho

From hag-bred

And

we

babes new-born steal as

Merlin's time have I

revell'd to

and

fro

men

call

me by

pranks

of

50

Robin Good-fellow.

Fiends, ghosts, and sprites,

55

Who

haunt the nights,


The hags and goblins, do me know

And beldames

old

My

told,

So vdU,

have

feats

vale

ho, ho,

ho

60

Anonymous.

25.

ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE.


Orpheus with

his lute

made

trees

And the mountain-tops that freeze


Bow themselves when he did sing
To his music, plants and flowers
Ever sprung as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.

Every thing that heard him


Ev'n the billows of the

Hung

their heads,

In sweet music

is

play,

sea.

and then lay by.

such art

10

Killing care and grief of heart


Fall asleep or, hearing, die.
J.

Fletcher.

SECTION VL
COURAGE, AND MANLINESS.
26.

THE THREE FISHERS.


Three

fishers

Away

went

sailing

away

to the West,

went down
Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,
And the children stood watching them out of the town
For men must work, and women must weejD,

And

to the

West

there's little to earn,

Though
Three wives

And

as the sun

sat

up

and many

the harbour bar be moaning.

in the lighthouse tower,


;

and they looked at the shower,


And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown.
But men must work, and women must weep.
at the squall,

Though storms be sudden, and waters

And

to keep,

they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down

They looked

deep.

the harbour bar be moaning.


35

KINGSLEY: FELICIA HEMANS.

36

Three corpses lay out on the shining sands

15

In the morning gleam as the tide went down,

And

the women are weeping and \Yringing their hands


For those who will never come home to the town
For men must work, and women must weep,

And

the sooner

And

it's

over, the sooner to sleep

good-bye to the bar and

20

moaning.
C. KiNGSLEY.

its

27.

CASABIANCA.
A

The boy

True

Story.

stood on the burning deck,

AVhence

but he had

all

The flame that

lit

fled

the battle's wreck

Shone round him o'er the dead


Yet beautiful and bright he stood

As born

to rule the storm

creature of heroic blood,

proud, though child-like form

The flames
Without
That

roll'd

on

he would not go

his father's

father, faint in

word

10

death below.

His voice no longer heard.

He

call'd aloud,

If

yet

my

He knew

task

" Say, father, say


is

done

"
!

not that the chieftain lay

15

Unconscious of his son.


" Speak, father " once again he cried,
" If I may yet be gone "
!

And but the booming shots replied.


And fast the flames roll'd on.

20

FELICIA HEMANS: LONGFELLOW.

Upon

his

brow he

felt their breath,

And in his waving hair


And look'd from that lone
In

And
"

still,

37

post of death

yet brave despair

shouted but once more aloud,

My

father

must

25

stay ?"

While

o'er him fast through sail and shroud


The wreathing fires made way.
They wrapt the ship in splendour wild,
They caught the flag on high,

And

30

stream'd above the gallant child

Like banners in the sky.

There came a burst of thunder-sound


where was he ?
The boy

Ask

of the

winds that far around

With fragments strew'd the sea,


With mast, and helm, and pennon

fair,

That well had borne their part


But the noblest thing which perish 'd there
AVas that young faithful heart
Felicia Hemans.

28.

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.


Under

a spreading chestnut tree

The village smithy stands


The smith, a mighty man is he.
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
;

Are

strong; as iron bands.

35

40

LONGFELLOW

38
His hair

is crisp,

His face

His brow

is

is

and

and

black,

like the tan

long,

wet with honest sweat.

He earns whate'er he can,


And looks the whole world in

10

the face.

For he owes not any man.

Week

in, week out, from morn till


You can hear his bellows blow
You can hear him swing his heavy
With measured beat and slow,

Like a sexton ringing the village

When
And

the evening sun

children coming

Look in
They love

is

sledge,

15

bell,

low.

home from

at the open door

night.

school
20

to see the flaming forge,

And hear the bellows roar.


And catch the burning sparks

that fly

Like chaff from a threshing-floor.

He goes on Sunday to the church


And sits among his boys

25

He hears the parson pray and preach.


He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir.

And
It

it

makes

sounds to him

his heart rejoice.


like her mother's voice

Singing in Paradise

He

30

needs must think of her once more,

How
And

in the grave she lies

with his hard rough hand he wipes


tear out of his eyes.

35

LONGFELLOW: MACKAY.
Toiling,

rejoicing,

Onward through

39

sorrowing,
he goes

life

Each morning sees some task begun.


Each evening sees its close
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.

40

Thanks, thanks to thee,

my

worthy

For the lesson thou hast taught


Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes may be wrought

friend.

45

Thus on its sounding anvil shaped


Each burning deed and thought.
Longfellow.
Lines 47-48

Thus, by the exercise of steady resolution such as

control our deeds and thoughts, first making them


generous and unselfish, and then directing them to useful purposes

yours,

we may

as the iron

is first

heated and then shaped for use.

29.

MY GOOD RIGHT
I

FELL into

looked for a friend, but

grief,

HAND.

and began to complain


I sought him in vain
;

Companions were shy, and acquaintance were cold


They gave me good counsel, but dreaded their gold.
"Let them go," I exclaimed " I've a friend at my side.
To lift me, and aid me, whatever betide.
:

To

trust to the world

I'll

trust but in

is

to build

Heaven and

my

on the sand
good Right Hand
:

"

courage re\'ived, in

my

fortune's despite,

And my hand was as strong


It raised me from sorrow, it
It fed

as

my

saved

spirit

was

me from

light

me, and clad me, again and again.

who had

me came back

friends

And

darkest advisers looked bright as the sun

10

pain

The
I

MACKAY.

40

My

left

every one.

need them no more, as they all understand,


thank thee, I trust thee, my good Pdght Hand
C.

15
1

Mackay.

30.

THE MILLER OF THE DEE.


There dwelt

a miller, hale and bold,

Beside the river Dee,

He wrought and sang from morn


No lark more blithe than he,
And this the burden of his song
"

For ever used to be,


I envy nobody, no, not

And nobody

my

"Thourt wrong

my

I'd gladly

And

tell

With
While

as

I,

friend

said old

"

wrong can be;

thee sing

voice so loud and free.

am

sad though I'm the King,

miller smiled,
I

10

change with thee.

me now what makes

15

"
%

and doffed

his cap

my bread," quoth he
" I love my wife, I love my friends,
I love my children three
"

King Hal,

heart be light as thine.

Beside the river Dee

The

envies me."

" Thou'rt wrong,

For, could

to night,

earn

20

"

MACKAY.
I

owe no penny
I

41

cannot pay,

thank the river Dee,

That turns the mill that grinds the corn,

To
"

feed

Good

my

friend

" Farewell

babes and me."


!

" said Hal,

and sighed the while,

25

and happy be
But say no more if thou'dst be true,
That no one envies thee.
Thy mealy cap is worth my crown,

Thy

mill,

Such men

my

kingdom's fee

30

as thou are England's l^oast,

miller of the

Dee

C.

Mackay.

SECTION

VII.

PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY.

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.


The
And
And

Assyrian came
his cohorts

down

like the wolf

were gleaming

on the

in purple

fold,

and gold,

the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,

When

the blue

wave

rolls

nightly on deep Galilee.

Like the leaves of the forest when summer

That host with

their banners at sunset

is

green,

were seen

Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,

That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown.

For the Angel

of

Death spread

his

wings on the

And
And
And

breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd

And

there lay the steed with his nostril

the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and


their hearts but once heaved,

and

for ever
all

blast.
10

chill,

grew

wide.

But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride


And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,

And

cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.


42

still.

15

;;;

; ;

BYRON: BURNS,

And

43

there lay the rider, distorted and pale,

With

the

dew on

his brow,

and the rust on

And

the tents were

The

lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.

all silent,

his mail

the banners alone,


20

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,


And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal,
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted

like

snow

Lord

in the glance of the

Byron.

32.

MY

HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS.

My heart's in
My heart's in

the Highlands,

my

heart

Chasing the wild deer and following the

My

not here

is

the Highlands, a-chasing the deer

heart's in the

Highlands wherever

roe.

I go.

Farew^ell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The

birth-place of valour, the coimtry of worth

AVherever

The

hills of

wander wherever

I rove,

the Hio-hlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below

10

Farewell to the forests a^id wild-hanging woods


Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring

My
My

heart's in the Highlands,

heart

not here

is

heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer

Chasing the

My

my

floods.

^\^ld

heart's in the

deer and following the roe,

Highlands wherever

go

15

Burns.

MACAULAY: FELICIA HEMANS.

44

33.

A JACOBITE'S EPITAPH.

To my

true

King

Courage and

For him

And

I offered free

faith

from stain

vain faith, and courage vain.

threw lands, honours, wealth, away,

one dear hope, that was more prized than they.

For him

languished in a foreign clime,

my

Grey-haired with sorrow in

Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering


And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees
Beheld each night

my home

manhood's prime
trees.
;

in fevered sleep.

Each morning started from the dream to weep


Till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave
The resting-place I asked an early grave.

10

thou,

whom

chance leads to this nameless stone

From that proud country which was once mine own,


By those white cliffs I never more must see,

By

that dear language which I speak like thee.

Forget

all feuds,

and shed one English tear


A broken heart lies here.

O'er English dust.

Macaulay.

34.

THE HOMES OF ENGLAND.


The

stately

How
Amidst
O'er

homes

of

England

beautiful they stand,


their tall ancestral trees,
all

the pleasant land

15

;
!

FELICIA HEMANS.

45

The deer across their greensward bound


Through shade and sunny gleam

And

the swan glides by them, with the sound

Of some rejoicing stream.

The merry homes of England


Around their hearths by night,

What gladsome

Meet in the ruddy light


The blessed homes of England

How
Is laid

softly

10

looks of household love

on their bowers

the holy quietness

15

That breathes from Sabbath hours

The cottage homes

of

By thousands on
They

England

her plains

are smiling o'er the silvery brooks,

And round

the hamlet fanes

20

Through glowing orchards forth they peep,


Each from its nook of leaves

And

fearless there the lowly sleep.

As
The

the bird beneath their eaves.

free, fair

homes

of

England

Long, long, in hut and

May

25

hall,

hearts of native proof be rear'd

To guard each hallow 'd

wall

And green for ever be the groves,


And bright the flowery sod,
Where
Its

first

80

the child's glad spirit loves

country and

its

God

Felicia Hemans.

ANONYMOUS.

46

35.

THE BRITISH GRENADIERS.


Some talk of Alexander,
And some of Hercules,
Of Hector and Lysander,
And such great names as these

But

of all the world's

brave heroes

There's none that can compare

With
To

a tow row row row

row row

the British Grenadier

Whene'er we are commanded


To storm the palisades,
Our leaders march with fusees,

And we

We

with hand-grenades

throw them from the

About the enemies'

10

glacis

ears.

Sing tow row row row row row,

The

Then

let

And

Who

15

British Grenadiers

us

fill

a bumper,

drink a health to those

carry caps and pouches.

And wear the louped clothes


May they and their commanders

20

Live happy

With

all

their years

tow row row row row row

For the British Grenadiers

Anonymous.

SECTION

VIIL

INNOCENCE, GOODNESS, AND WISDOM.


36.

THE SOLITARY REAPER.


Behold her single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland lass,
Eeaping and singing by herself,
Stop here, or gently pass
!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,


And sings a melancholy strain

listen
Is

for the vale

profound

overflowing with the sound.

No

nightingale did ever chant

So sweetly to reposing bands


Of travellers in some shady haunt

Among

Arabian sands

10

voice so thrilling ne'er

was heard

In springtime from the cuckoo-bird,

Breaking the silence

Among

of the seas

the farthest Hebrides.


47

15

WORDSWORTH: BARXES.

48

Will no one

tell

me what

she sings

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For

old,

And
Or

unhappy,

far-ofl"

battles long ago

is it

things
20

some more humble

Familiar matter of to-day

Some

lay,

actual sorrow, loss or pain

That has been, and may be again

Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang


As if her song could have no ending
I

saw her singing

And

at her work.

o'er the sickle

I listened,

And, as

25

bending

motionless and

still

mounted up the

30

hill,

The music in my heart I bore


Long after it was heard no more.
Wordsworth.

37.

T//E SURPRISE.

As

there I left the road in

And
I

took

my way

found a glade ^Wth

May,

along a ground,
girls at play,

By leafy boughs close-hemm'd around,


And there, with stores of harmless joys,

They plied their tongues, in merry noise


Though little did they seem to fear
So queer a stranger might be near.
" Teeli^ hee, look here! Hah, ha, look

And oh

so playsome,

oh

so fair,

there

!"
10

;;

BARNES: POPE.

And

one would dance as one would spring,

Or bob

And

49

or

bow with

leering smiles,

sit and sing,


two at whiles

one would swing, or

Or sew a

And one

stitch or

skipped on with downcast face,

All heedless, to

my

15

very place,

Ajid there, in fright, with one foot out

Made one dead

step

and turn'd

''Heelif heef oh! oh.' ooh

And oh

so playsome,

oh

aljout.

/Look

there/"
20

so fair.

Away they scamper'd all,


By boughs that swung

oo

full speed,

along their track,

As rabbits out of wood at feed


At sight of men all scamper back.

And

one pull'd on behind her heel

A thread

of cotton, off her reel,

And

to follow that white clue

oh

I felt I fain

could scamper too.

" Teeh / hee

And

oh

Bun

here /

Eeh

so playsome, oh

ee /

so

fair.

25

Look

there I"

30

W. Barnes.
38.

SOL/TC/DE.

Happy

A few

the man, whose wish and care

paternal acres bound,

Content to breathe his native


In his

air

own ground.

Whose

herds with milk, whose


AMiose flocks supply him with

Whose

trees in

summer

yield

In \vinter
J. I.

fields

with bread,

attire

him

fire.

shade.

!!

!!

; ;

POPE: DEKKER.

50
Blest

who can unconcern'dly

find

Hours, days, and years, slide soft away

10

In health of body, peace of mind,

Quiet by day

Sound

sleep

by night

study and ease

Together mixt, sweet recreation

And

innocence, which most does please,

With

15

meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown


Thus unlamented let me die
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
;

20
Pope.

39.

CONTENT.

Art

thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers %


0, sweet content

Art thou

yet

rich,

is

thy mind perplexed %

0, punishment

Dost thou laugh to see how

To add

fools are vexed


numbers golden numbers %

to golden

0, sweet content

Work

apace, apace, apace, apace

Honest labour bears a lovely face


Then hey ndney, noney hey noney, noney
;

10

Canst drink the waters of the crisped spring"?


0, sweet content

Swimm'st thou

in wealth, yet sink'st in thine

0, punishment

own

tears

DEKKEK
Ijurden bears, but

is

51

JONES.

Then he that patiently want's

No

15

Ijunlen bears,

a king, a king

O, sweet content

Work

apace, apace, apace, apace

Honest labour bears a lovely face


Then hey noney, noney hey noney, noney
;

T.

Dekker.

40.

EPIGRAM.

On

parent knees, a naked new-born child,


sat'st while all around thee smiled

Weeping thou
So

live,

that sinking to thy

Calm thou may'st

last sleep.

life's

smile, whilst all

around thee

Aveep.

Sir William Jones.

SECTION

IX.

THE CONTEMPLATION OF LIFE

AND DEATH.
41.

SUCH

IS LIFE.

Like to the falling of a star,


Or as the flights of eagles are
Or like the fresh Spring's gaudy hue,
Or silver drops of morning dew
Or like a wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles Avhich on water stood
E'en such is man, whose borrow'd light
Is straight call'd in and paid to-night.
The wind blows out, the bubble dies
The Spring entomb'd in Autumn lies
The dew dries up, the star is shot.
The flight is past ; and Man forgot.
;

Henry King.
52

10

MOORE.

53

42.

THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.


Oft

in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me,

Fond Memory

brings the light

Of other days around

The

me

smiles, the tears

Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken

The eyes that

Now

shone,

dimniVl and gone.

The cheerful hearts now broken


Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad Memory brings the light

10

Of other days around me.


AVhen

The

remember

15

all

friends so link'd to^-ether

I've seen

around

me

fall

Like leaves in wintry weather,


I feel like

Who
Some

one
20

treads alone

banquet-hall deserted,

AVhose lights are

fled,

Whose garlands dead.


And all but he departed

Thus in the stilly night


Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
T.

25

Moore.

;
:

SHAKESPEARE: LANDOR.

54

43.

FIDELE.

Fear no more the heat o' the sun


Nor the furious winter's rages
Thou thy worldly task hast done,

Home art gone and ta'en thy wages


Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come
Fear no more the frown

Thou

o'

to dust.

the great,

art past the tyrant's stroke

Care no more to clothe and eat

To thee
The

the reed

is

All follow this, and

come

10

must

to dust.

Fear no more the lightning

Nor

oak

as the

sceptre, learning, physic,

flash

the all-dreaded thunder-stone

Fear not slander, censure rash

Thou

hast finished joy and

All lovers young,

all

lovers

15

moan

must

Consign to thee, and come to dust.


Shakespeare.

44.

ROSE AYLMER.
Ah, what avails the sceptred
Ah, what the form divine,

What

race,

every Aartue, every grace

Rose Aylmer,

all

were thine.

!;

55

LANDOR: FELICIA HEMANS.


Rose Aylmer,

May

whom

these wakeful ey%s

weep, but never

night of

see,

memories and sighs

I consecrate to thee.

W.

S.

Landor.

45.

DEATH'S SEASONS.
Leaves have

their time to

fall,

flowers to wither at the north wind's breath,

And
And
Thou

stars to set,

hast

Day

is

all

but

all,

seasons for thine own,

for mortal care

Death

^
;

Eve for glad meetings round the joyous hearth


Night for the dreams of sleep, the voice of prayer
But

all

for thee, thou mightiest of the earth.

We

know when moons shall wane,


When summer birds from far shall cross

When
But who
Is it

Comes
Is it

the sea,

10

autumn's hue shall tinge the golden grain,


shall teach us when to look for thee ?

when

spring's first gale

forth to whisper where the violets lie


when roses in our path grow pale I

15

They have one season // are ours to die

Thou art where billows foam.


Thou art where music melts upon the air
Thou art around us in our peaceful home,

And

the world calls us forth and thou art there.

20


FELICIA HEMANS.

56

Thou

art

where friend meets

friend,

Beneath the shadow of the elm to rest


Thou art where foe meets foe, and trumpets rend
The skies, and swords beat down the princely crest.
Leaves have their time to

And flowers
And stars
Thou

hast

25

fall,

to wither at the north wind's breath,

to set,

all

but

all,

seasons for thine own,

Death

Felicia Hemans.

SECTION

X,

THE WOELD AND THE CEEATOE.


46.

PIPPA'S SONG.

The
And

year's at the spring,

day's at the

morn

Morning's at seven

The
The
The

hillside's

lark's
snail's

dew-pearled

on the ^^^ng

on the thorn

God's in His heaven


All's right

with the world.


Browning.

47.

BUDS AND BABIES.

MILLION buds are born that never blow,


That sweet mth promise lift a pretty head,
To blush and wither on a barren bed,
And leave no fruit to show.
57

;;

58

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

TENNYSON.

Yet have I understood


by their fragility made plain
Nothing was ever beautiful in vain,
Or all in vain was good.
Sweet, unfulfilled.

One

joy,

Christina Eossetti.

48.

A FAREWELL.

Flow
Thy

down, cold

rivulet, to the sea,

tribute Avave deliver

No more by

thee

For ever and

my

steps shall be,

for ever.

Flow, softly flow, by lawn and

rivulet

then a river

No where by

thee

For ever and

But here

steps shall be,

for ever.

will sigh thine alder tree,

And here thine


And here by thee
For ever and

my

lea,

aspen shiver
will

hum

10

the bee,

for ever.

thousand suns will stream on thee,

thousand moons will quiver


But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

15

Tennyson.

49.

THE HOUR OF PRAYER.


Child, amidst the flowers at play,

While the red

light fades

away

;;

FELICIA HEMANS: PROCTER.

59

Mother, with thine earnest eye,

Ever following silently


Father, by the breeze of eve

Called thy harvest work to leave

Pray

ere yet the dark hours be,

and bend the knee

Lift the heart,

Traveller, in the stranger's land,

Far from thine own household V)and


Mourner, haunted by the tone
Of a voice from this world gone
Captive, in whose narrow

on the darkening

Warrior, that from battle


Breathest

Woman,

15

sea,

and bend the knee

Lift the heart,

now

won

at set of sun

o'er the

lowly slain

Weeping on his burial-plain


Ye that triumph, ye that sigh,
Kindred by one holy tie.
Heaven's

10

cell

Sunshine hath not leave to dwell


Sailor,

first star alike

Lift the heart,

20

ye see

and bend the knee

Felicia Heiians.

50.

STARS.

They

glide upon their endless way,


For ever calm, for ever bright
No blind hurry, no delay,
Mark the Daughters of the Night
They follow in the track of Day,

In divine delight.

PROCTER.

60

Shine on, sweet orbed Souls for aye,

For ever calm,

We

for ever bright

ask not whither

lies

your way,

Nor whence ye came, nor what your


Be still a dream throughout the day,

light

A blessing

through the night.


B.

W. Procter (Barry

Cornwall).

10

NOTES.
PART

I.

1.

Robert Southey,

1774-1843.

ticinUing^ fluttering in the bright light. 3. deicy, morning (adj. ).


13. decays, grows
\\. jHoicinn rater
of streams.
6. jya/e.s, breezes.
16. sheep-bell, bells on the necks of the bell-wethers or leaddim.
ing sheep sing, for pi.
3.

2.

John Howard Payne,


charm, blessing.
4. seek, even
tection.
3.

felt

so

making

3.
if

a?i

American

ivriter,

halloiv us, place us

we

should seek

it.

4.

1792-1852.

under Heaven's prone'er met irith, never


8. in vain, without

obj. of 'dazzles.'
strongly.
8. exilr
him cease to long for home. 11. tvifh, and.

3.

Alfred Texnysox, aftenvards Lord Tennyson,

lullaby sung

setting.

him the

baby's father.
with moonlit sails.

7.

silver sails,

by a fisherman's wife
13.

1809-1892.

6. dying,
14.
loving home.

to her babe.
nest,

Felicia Dorothea Browne, aftervards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.


sleeping child. 9. IFe-s^, N. America.
Indian, N. American Indian sing, for pl.
lone, uninhabited.
15. loved, most loved.

7. /o/f/ec?.^Oi'vr,

shaded.

11.

10.

darlc,

11. rest,

16. bed,
18. slain
pl.
dressed, cultivated.
20. Spain
19. wrapt
19. his, his regiment's.
23. faded,
where the Peninsular War raged, from 1808 to 1814.
slowly died the word suggests a flower, with which she is com29.
24. band, family.
pared.
23. 'midst Italian flowers, in Italy.
31. alas
30. hearth, hovae.
?iY wp, made cheerful.
29. A a//, house.
32.
for love, it would be sad for those who love. 31. thou. Earth.
nought beyond, there were nought beyond, there were no life after
this.
32. Earth, life on earth.

burial.

13.

grave.

16.

may, can.
to save them.

17.

61

NOTES.

62

5.

ChaPwLES Tennyson'-Turner, an

elder brother of Alfred Tennyson,

1808-1879.

LainmoLs night, night of the harvest-festival August 1st.


2.
ai-e the speeches beginning at lines 6 and 21.
11. tJie
13-14, address himself, make haste.
12, icofs, knows.
while, while.
20. same
thought. 23. slender hoot,
17. unsought, spontaneously.
24. make o'erfloic, fill with joy.
of little use.
32. mate, match.
44.
33. played their gracious yart-i. did deeds of loving-kindness.
44. Allah's house, a mosque.
there
in the village.
1.

mid the objs.

6.

William Cowper,
hunger.

1731-1800.

14. one, a bird


of prej'.
20. 77ian,
in their thoughtyours, j-our amusement (sport).
21. Here Beau's reply begins.
23. louder voice,
less cruelty.
27. Nature, instinct.
32. precept,
stronger order that of instinct.
36. pressed, lay on.
promptings.
34. prison, cage.
37. sacred,
38. destined, allowed.
38. tooth
sing, for pi.
valued by j'ou.
44. aggrieved, unfairly treated.
39. kiss'd, tenderly touched.
47.

10.

2'jai}i,

11.

heat, eagerness.

men

16.

killing,

wasting.
7.

William Wordsworth,

1770-1850.

dancing, swaying.
9. in never-ending line,
from one end of the bay to the other out of sight. 10. hciy of the
lake.
13. danced, sparkled as they moved in the sunlight.
14.
18. icealth, store of pleasure.
glee, apparent joy, bright beauty.
22. is, is the source of, brings.
21. that inward eye, the memory.
24. dances, rejoices.
4.

golden, yellow.

6.

8.

Michael Bruce, a
The poem

is

Scottish writer,

by some attributed

Logan, 1748-1788.

1.

1746-1767.

to another Scottish author,

stranger, ne,v>'-coxmT.

2.

messenger of

John

siga. oi

the coming of.


3. Heaven, the season.
3. thy rural seat, the trees.
4. woods, woodland birds.
4. thy welcome sing, sing as though to
welcome you. o. what time, when. 5. daisy, green sings, for pis.

regularly heard each early


such as the Pole Star to mariners. 7- pafA, migrations.
8. rolling year, advance of the seasons
8. mark, show you.
progress of spring
see line 21.
9. with thee, when you come.
15. voice, signal.
15. starts; makes a gJad movement.
17. the

green, lawn,
spring.
7. star
5.

grass.

6.

certain,


NOTES.

63

bloom, its blossoms when summer comes.


18. thou Jliesi, yoi\\ea.ve.
18. thy vocal vale, the vale where your notes were heard.
19. annual
guest, visitant regularly returning
with their spring.
21. bower,
haunts sing, for pi.
21. erer (jreen
because the bird migrates
North or South, following the temperate weather. 20. ^iing, flight

sing, for pi.

9.

Henry

Corn well.

S.

might.
3. wave, stormy sea sing, for pi.
4.
the,
4. sMidders, sinks
some, a.
the word suggests the shaking frame
of the vessel, and also the horror of the scene.
5. ichenc, why.
6. challenges, dares to face.
7. not for thee, unknown to you.
7.
gales, breezes.
10. savage, perilous.
11. organ-winds, loud blasts
resembling in sound tlie notes of the most powerful of wind-instru12. harmonies for thee, sweet sounds to you.
ments.
12 alone
agreeing with 'rush,' 'roar,' and 'winds.' 13. argosies, ships.
13.
14. o'er
to naught, to destruction.
following after 'toy' (line 16).
1.5. n'andering, restless
in apposition to 'thee.'
15. companion
the word suggests the notion of the ceaseless currents and waves of
the ocean.
16. Tumult and Death, the deadly tempests.
16. but,
only.
16. toy with, bring delight to.
18. our horror, scenes horrible
to us.
19. siveep, move securely.
20. along, amidst.
20. angry
21. heed, fear.
deep, trials.
21. lowering clouds, troubles.
21. roll,
approach.
22. darken, increase
intrans.
23. soar, meet turmoil
gladly.
23. breast, firmly encounter
a verb, of which the objs. are
'mists' and 'storms.' 24. mist^, difficulties in which it is hard to
decide, as in a mist it is hard to see.
24. storms, struggles.
24.
wrath,

2.

fate,

life.

10.

William Cullen Bryant, an American

writer,

1794-1878.

gleams.
3. depths, expanse.
6. ivrong, harm.
7. darldij
painted, seen like a dark spot.
13-14.
12. chafed, wave-beaten.
u'hose care teaches, who cares for you and gives you the instinct to
find.
14. that coast, the sky the word sugge'sts the additional
picture of the long coasts of the illimitable ocean, which latter the
sky resembles. 16. lost, ignorant of the way.
17 fann'd, beaten.
19. stoop, descend.
22. summer home
the bird is migrating to a
cooler land for the summei\
25. abyss of heaven, distance.
26.
svjollow'd up, hidden.
29. He
see line 13.
29. zo7ie, place, point
the word here means 'circle,' and the bird, seeing equally in all
directions as it flies, moves from centre to centre of ever-changing
circles of vision.
30. certain, unerring.
31. way, course of life.
31. tread, pursue.
32. steps, conduct.
2. steps,


NOTES.

64

11.

William Shakespeare,

1564-1616.

Taken from Shakespeare's Comedy, An You Like It, in which this


1. fjreenivood, forest.
1. the,
song is sung by an exiled forester.
sing, for pi.
3. 7iote
4. luito, in harmony
some, a. 3. turn, tune.
11. the food he eats, no more
with.
4. bird, throat sings, ior -pis.

than the food he needs.

12.

ivhat,

whatever.

12.

Thomas Nash,

1567-1601.

pleasant king, sweetest season.


8. palm,
mxiy flowering
2.
15. the fields breathe,
shrubs; sings, for pis. 9. make gay, adorn.
16. kiss our feet, bloom round our
breezes blow from the fields.
feet.

13.

Alfred Tennyson, afterwards Lord Tennyson,


1.

/the Brook sings.

1.

coot,he'rn

1809-1892.

sings,

11-12. /or...

for pis.
the verbs of

motion in the
though... yet 'for' follows on
11. 'may come and may go, are born and die.
ten preceding lines.
17. fret, wear away.
19.
14. sharps and trebles, sounds of music.
19-20. se< m<^, covered with.
31. ivaterfairy foreland, liny Qa,^e.
41, gloom,
.32. golden, yellow.
38. covers, copses.
hreak, ripple.
43. the netted s^inbeam, the
grow dark. 41. glance, grow bright.
sunlight flecked with shade the chequered light and shade of
'netted'
rippling water are like the meshes and threads of a net
may mean either 'net-like," or 'caught in a net' (of shade). 43.
44. against, over.
47. shingly bars^ bars of sand
dance, glitter.
hindering the flow.
hut, for

14.

William Wordsworth,

1770-1850.

see line

8. first
at dawn.
12. wealth, beauty.
stealth, by any means.
14. mother, source, origin.
of rest.

3. fall, flow.

7. first,

13.

7.

10.

by any

barrier, interval

15.

William Shakespeare,

1564-1616.

beside from the overhanging eaves of the roof of the


sing, for
2. nail, finger-tips
sing, for pi.
1.
icall
farm-house.
5. xvays, roads.
6. staring,
pi.
4. pail, the pails sing, for pi.
with kitchen-work. 9,
9. greasy
8. merry ironical.
big-eyed.
1.

by,


65

NOTES.
keel

pot,

the

around the

skim the boiling broth an obsolete phrase.


village.

ishioners iu church.

11.
11.

sajfc-,

raw, chapped.
14. crabs, crab-apples.
bold, float
the hot liquor,
13.

less.

10.

coughs of the chilly par12. bi-oodiii;/, motionspeech, words.

cou</hm(/, the

hiss

14.

in the

IG.

William Cuwper,

1731-1800.

neiv, fresh, sprightly- see


9. date, duration.
line 7.
8. in vain to make men spare the bird.
13. fhaidyhecsLUse thu
10. s^ari'eo? by neglect.
11. breath, Vde.
'woes' bring deatla and so escape, 13. gaitle -m-ain, gentle sir
5, 6.

Three absolute constructions.

the wretch

6.

who

death.
16.
starved the bird.
14, 15. c/ose, cure
18. had, should have subjunctive mood.

express, describe, tell of.

17.

Thomas Gisborne,

1758-1846.

glances.
4. to form,
10. free for, to be
6. floiiyd, originated.
to form it.
6. being, life.
13. day, life.
freely enjoyed by.
sing, for pi.
11. blade
3.

thy icayward looks,

you with thoughtless

18.

Oliver (tOldsmith,
wash aicay
bosom, heart.

4.
8.

guilt

is

the Irish author, 1728-1774.

spoken

of

as

stain.

5.

art,

action.

19.

Adelaide Anne Procter,

the

daughter of B. W. Procter, 1825-1864,

1. Earth, mankind, men the more prosperous^ classes of^ man6.


kind are here intended, see especially lines 13-15 and 22-27.

7. she, the Earth,


a tanmhed name, a tainted fame, part of the illrepute of its parents and relations they suspected it of vicious
9. cradled it in, left it to be
inclinations like those of its relations.
brought up in. 11. m.iy, knowledge. 11. most holy light, great truths.
13. heart,
13. fuimed a>vay, withheld.
12. curtained, concealed.
15. its little feet,
14. look, take notice.
care.
13. 62/66% attention.
23, her
21. for, instead of.
the child.
15. stray, commit evil,
25.
24. depths of night, misery.
injured right, the broken law.
understand
branding, disgracing. 25. brand, infamy. 26. could not
his stunted intellect was not sensitive to shame, but sullenly
resented the vengeance of the law-abiding classes ; the poem does

cursing the

men, they.

day

ichen, deploring the fact that.

7, 8.

J.

NOTES.

66

not maintain that the dangerous criminal should be allowed to go


and so to terrorize society, for that would be downright folly,
but it points out how potent is an adverse lot over the human soul
and enjoins on each the duty of striving to mitigate its power over
the children of the less fortunate classes. 27. outcast, gaol-bird.
33. answered to, repeated.
33. her pride, the sounds of rejoicing.
34.
blest,
honoured.
35.
take the cronni, receive the inheritance the babe was born into a princely or powerful house.
crown in the figure is
36.
wreathed, formed, acquired the
made of flowers or leaves, and so a wreath.
36.
his name,
him.
39. a breath, even the faintest influence.
37. hent, used.
40.
streioed ivith flowers, made pleasant.
40. inorning path,
youthful course. 41. Love, loving friends. 41. in tender dropping showers, with tender care this line and the next suggest
a scene in an English April, wlien transient showers foster the
growing herbage. 42. the blue and dawning hours, his bright youth
the
a picture of morning with its clear- blue skies is suggested
phrase is, apparently, elliptical for the blossoms of the blue and
dawning hours.' 43-44. shed a halo round the goodj, made goodness
seem lovely to him 'halo' here means 'pleasing brightness.' 43.
45.
in, amid, with.
43. rainbow hues of light, radiant beauty.
47. dazzling ra.y, allurement.
47. lit, made attractive.
sightf mind.
48. tnoming,
the youth.
brightened, advanced.
48. day,
48.
manhood. 50. shed, freely bestowed.
free

'

'

'

20.

Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859.


making, agreeing with 'moonlight.' 4. rich, full of radiance.
see
of mind
6. pjeace
4. lihe a lily in bloom, gleaming like a lily.
a term of deep respect suggesting royal
line 2.
7. presence, angel
4.

9. accord, concord,
dignity.
9. made of, full of, expressive of.
peace the word suggests the likeness of peace to music, wherein
17. ichom, of men
the notes agree with each other in harmony.
another book,
for them
whom.
17. love of God, God's love
apparently, was shown, since Abou's answer had not increased his
love for God.

21.

William Shakespeare,

1564-1616.

3. his steeds
at heaven's gate, on high.
2. Phoebus, the sun.
3. springs, drops.
4. lies
to ivater at, to draw the dew from.
agreeing with ' springs, that ' ; in modern English 'lie.' 5. unnlcing,
waking, stirring the flowers are represented as waked by the
morning light and closing their eyes again for a moment because of
1.

its

brightness.

6.

eyes, blossoms.

7.

bin, is

obsolete.

NOTES.

67

22.

Alfred Tennyson, afterwards Lord Tennyson,


Shalott

an

1809-1892.

imaginary island in the neighbourhood of Camelot,

the fabulous capital of King Arthur in the West of Britain in


the period between the Roman evacuation and the Saxon conquest.
3. clothe, cover.
3. icold, upward sloping land.
3. ski/, horizon.
4. by, past Shalott.
11. tcJiiten, show the pale under-sides of their
leaves stirred by the breezes.
11-12. dnsJc and shiver thro', course
over and make dark and ruffled.
12. icave, water
sing, for pi.
15. walls, tourers
on the island. 17. imhoivers, is the abode of.
19. willoic-veiVd, where willows overshadow the banks of the island.
from the mysteriously silent isle
see line 17.
21. unhaWd
22.
shallop sing, for pi.
33. reaper
sing, for pi.
34. uplands
see
line 3.
sing, for pi.
52. chiLrls,
48. shadows, Ye^eciions.
51. eddy
peasants.
60. blue, reflecting the blue sky above and the blue stream
below.
62. knight, knightly lover.
see line 38.
64. web
65. ma(/ic
see line 115.
71. half sick of shadow's, weary of reflections
she
enter
into
the
of
real
world,
but
not
even gaze
would
joys
the
may
upon it ; see lines 39-41. 78. red-cross, wearing a red-cross badge.
80. yelloiv field, barley78. for ever kneel' d, was depicted kneeling.
field
82. free, loose.
see line 74.
83. branch, constellation.
84.
Galaxy, Milky Way. 87. blazon'd, richly worked. 87. shmg pt.
part, agreeing with 'bugle.'
91. W?<e, blue-skied.
96. piu^ple night,
deep blue sky of night. 98. bearded, with a train. 106. flash'd
into, was reflected brightly in.
107. tirra lirra
a careless refrain.
110. thro' the room
to the casement.
111. lily
sing, for pi.
114.
119. yellow
in autumn.
119. waning,
floated from the loom.
shedding all their leaves. 120. complaining, making a sad sound.
124. left
pt. part, agreeing with 'boat.'
128. in a trance, in?>^iredi.
130. glassy, deathly
suggests the notion of eyes from
' glassy
which all animation has departed.
137. flev', fluttered in the
breeze.
148. ivholly
in death.
149. turn'd pt. part, agreeing
with 'eyes.' \o\. first house of Camelot. 152. {/?, in the middle

'

154, 155, 160. Sings, for pis.


165. cheer, feasting.
166.
cross'd themselves
with the sign of the cross in the air before their
breasts.
168. space, while.
170. Ipid, show.
170. grace, his
of.

favour.
23.

Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875.


Dee, the English River Dee flowing into the Irish

of the weirs in the river.

Sea

18.

stakes

her, her spirit.

23.

24.

Ano>'ymous.
Robin Goodfellow
fairy King.
.7. -J

2.

otherwise
shadows, sprites.

known

e2

4.

as Puck.
1.
here on earth.

Oberon
5.

the

revel-rout,


NOTES.

68

sport.
6. ahoiit, up.
12. ahoiit this airy welkin, through the air.
12. soon, with speed.
16. tcag, come out.
15. ha(j, witch.
17.
18-19. hut I will spy,
cry to frighten folks.
o'are, beware of.
17.
without ni}' seeing. 21. such, any. 28. counterfeit inrj see lines
31-34.
an adverbial
28. all in lite nick, when the chance comes
34. trip, run.
phrase qualifying 'to play.'
30. it
redundant.
Titania.
42. our heyday guise, in our sportive way.
43. queen
44. minstrdsies, s,ong^.
48. e(/', a fairy changeling
4&. fling, ^ee.
sing, for pi.
51.
50. its
^redundant
51. hag-hred, witch-born.
Merlin the famous wizard of the legends of King Arthur. 58.
beldames, crones.
60. vald, fare thee well Latin.

25.

John Fletcher,

1579-1625.

1. Orpheus
This poem is by some attributed to Shakespeare.
to hear.
a mythical Greek poet and harper.
3. boir
4. to, at the
sound of. 5. sprung, grew. 5. as, as though. 9. hung their heads,
11. killing,
paused to hear. 9. lay by, lay still. 10. art, power.
carking adj. agreeing with care.'
12. fall asleep, are forgotten.
12. hearing
sweet music this should be taken before 'fall asleep.'

12.

'

die, end.

26.

Charles Kingsley,

1819-1875.

iveepioY their men in danger.


7. harhonr
6. keep, support.
bar, waves on the bar
where the protection of the harbour ceases
and the open sea l^egins. 7. moaning, sounding ominous of storm.
9. lamps
of the lighthouse.
11. night-roxk, storm-clouds as night
16. gleam, stormy
approached.
11. ragged, with jagged edges.
sunshine sing, for pi. 20. it, life with its labours and sorrows.
21. the bar and
20. to sleep, they get to sleep, they win peace.
its moaning, work and grief.
5.

27.

Felicia Dorothea Browne, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.

The hero of this story was the son of a French Admiral who was
killed in the battle of the Kile (1798), one of Nelson's famous victories over the French.
It is said that the father, bidding his
young sou to stay during the battle in a certain spot of comparative
safety till he returned for him, left him
and the boy obeyed his
father to the death.
6. rule the
3. battle's wreck, ruined ships.
15.
storm, be a leader amidst storms.
to stay.
14. task, duty
chieftain, admiral
19. replied, were
his father.
18. yet, now.
heard
sing, for pL
27. sazY sing, for pi.
27. shroud, rigging
;


NOTES.

G9

thunder-sound, the thunderous explosion of tlie sliip's powder


36. fra-jmentn, the broken timbers of the ship.
37.
magazine.
mast sing, for pi. 38. home their part, shared storms and battles
with the seamen.
33.

28.

Henry Wadswop.th

Lontgfellow,

the

American

poet,

1807-1882.
8. like, as brown as.
strong and inclined to curl.
12.
owes nothing to. 13. iveek in, week out, throughout the
44. lesson
16. measured, regular.
week.
15. sledge, hammer.
taur/ht, example set me.
45. at the forge of life, in this life which
resembles your forge. 45. fiaming, active, eventful. 46. fortunes,

7.

crisp,

oices not,

46. man ^^ rrrought, we may


spiritual fortunes, souls, characters.
make sound and strong. 47. on its anvil, in the world which is like
your anvil see the footnote to the text. 47. sounding, resoundmg
with blows, busy. 47. [may he) sharped, we may control.

29.

Charles Mackay, a

Scottish ivriter,

1814-1889.

4. dreaded their gohl,


3. shy, chary of help.
grief poverty.
were afraid of lending me money. 7. the v-orld, others. 7. the
sand, weak foundations.
8. my good Bight Hand, my own exer1.

tions.

9.

cheerful.

in fortune's

despite,

spite

in

again and again, well.

12.

of
14.

ill fortune.
darkest, the

10.

most

light,

dis-

14. looked bright, looked


couraging, the least helpful formerly.
cheerful when the}' saw me they were glad to associate with him
now that he had money.

30.
2.

river

Dee

in the West of England,

flowing into the Irish Sea.

Hal, Henry the Eighth.


29. thy mealy caji, your trade
' mealy
means white with flour
the phrase brings up before the
mind a picture of the miller in his dusty clothes. 29. is worth,
brings more happiness than.
30. {is'^irorth) my kingdom's fee,
fee means
brings more content than the kingdom which I hold
9.

'

'

'

'possession.'

31.

6oas-^ just

'

'

cause of pride.

31.

George Gordon Xoel, Lord Byron,

1788-1824.

Sennacherib an Assyrian king who invaded Judah in the year


710 B.C., when his army was attacked by a plague of such virulence
The poet has imagined
that he hastily withdrew from the country.
1.
a Jewish song of triumph on the retreat of the iIl^aders.

a
NOTES.

70
Assyrian
pi.

4.

Sennacherib.
Lake

Galilee, the

in number and

stars,

3.

of Galilee

starlight.
wave sing,
in Northern Palestine.
4.

5.

for
like

vigour.
7. autumn hath hloum, autumn has come
withered, dead.
8. strown, scattered.
9. spread
his wings, flew
over them.
10. face
sing, for pi.
14. j^^id^^
vigour.
15. gasping in the agony of death.
19. alone, deserted.
21. Ashur, Assyria.
22. Bacd the Assyrian god.
23. Gentile,
heathens sing, for pi. 24. in the glance of, before the wrath of.

with

its

winds.

8.

32.

Robert Burns, the Scottish poet,


Written when the poet feared that he must

1759-1796.

leave his native land.


1. my heart's in, if I had my wish I should be in.
6. valour, icorth,
brave and upright men. 10. straths, glens. 10. helow the mountains.
11. ivild-hanging woods, wild woods upon the hill-side^^.

33.
TiiOxAiAS

Babixgton Macaulay, afterwards Lord Macadlay,


1800-1859.

the

Old Pretender, who called himself James III.,


and
whom the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745 were raised.
2. faith, lidelit}'.
2. vai^i, without success.
3. threw aicay, risked
and lost. 4. hope of union with his beloved.
5. languished, suffered exile.
7. heard, imagined,
pondered on.
7. Lavemia
mt. in the Apennines.
Scargilla,
hill
in
the
North Riding of
7.
Yorkshire, near the R. Tees and the exile's home. 7. whispering,
1,

true
for

King

leafy.
11. tried, troubled.
the coast-clifis of England.
I.

13.

stone, grave-stone.

17.

all feuds,

our feuds.

15.

ivhile cliffs,

18. dust

see

13.

34.

Felicia Dorothea Browxe, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.


ancestral, old.
5. greensioard,
grass, parks.
6. shade, the
of the trees.
6. sunny gleam, sunlit spaces.
7. swan
sing, for pi.
7. hy, past.
7. with the sound, upon the murmuring
ripples.
8. rejoicing, delightful
the writer transfers the joy of the
3.

shadows

spectator to the stream.


12. light
cast by the tire.
14. softly,
peacefully.
14-15. on their boivers is laid, in them is felt.
16.
breathes from, comes with
breathes suggests the notion of air,

and the peace

'

an English Sunday

'

as intangible and yet as perstand prettily. 19. o'er, near.


20. hamlet
adj.
20. fanes, churches.
21. glowing, ripening.
24.
bird sing, for pi. 27. hearts of native proof men of proven valour
'proof means 'tested strength,' especially of steel, with which brave
hearts are compared; the epithet 'native' belongs rather to hearts,'
to which it may be transferred.
30. sod, grass.
31. child, spirit
of

ceptible as quiet airs.

is

19. are smiling,

'

sings, for pis.

31.

loves, learns to love.

NOTES.

71

35.

Anonymous.
Lysajidera. celebrated Spartan general who overthrew the
.S.
Athenians, B.C. 405, and died in battle with the Thebans, B.C. 394.
18. those
the Grenadiers. 20. louped clothes, coasts with the covnevs
looped or buttoned back the old uniform of the Grenadiers
louped is obsolete.

'

'

36.

William Wordsworth,

1770-1850.

islands in the Atlantic


16. Hebrides
in her native Gaelic.
to the west of Scotland.
17. what she sings
18-19. flow for, tell of
the phrase suggests the notion of a stream,
with the sound of Vi^hich the song is compared.
8. overfloicing with, full of.

37.

WiLLLiM Barnes,

1801-1886.

a ground, an enclosed space, a field. 4. houghs, trees. 4.


9, 19,
hemrii'd, bordered.
7. fear, suspect.
5. stores of, many.
12. hob, cmtsey.
29. The children's cries.
11, 13. one, one, some.
2.

12.

leering,

roguish

made one dead


22. hy,

fled.

these

IS.
are playing at being fine ladies.
18. tunrd about,
step and stopped.

made one

step,

past.

25.

pulVd on it had got twisted round her

ankle.
38.

Alexander Pope,

1688-1744.

2. bound, satisfy and


paternal, inherited.
linut governing wish and care'
the few acres' satisfy his ambithe few
tion, and limit his cares and responsibilities.
4. ground
acres,' line 2.
6. supply hiin^tra^nsiev to line 5,
9. iinconcern'dly,
without regretting the approach of age. " 12. quiet a noun. 13.
governed by in,' line 11. 15. most does please, of all things
sleep
unbrings the greatest pleasure.
17. unseen, unhnoicn, in peace
troubled by the many. 18. nnlamented, without leaving heavy grief
gravein any heart.
19. steal, pass quietly.
19. not a stone, no
stone recording my name he has no ambition that his name should
i.

wish, ambition.

2.

'

'

'

'

be remembered.
39.

Thomas Dekker,

1575-1641.

5. vexed, troubled.
perplexed, anxious.
6. numbers, sums.
9. bears a lovely face, is agreeable, brings joy
labour is personified as a lovely companion with whom it is well
1.

golden, healthy.

3.


NOTES.

72
to be mated.

sorrows.

13.

want's
perceives.

15.

hears,

16.

13. svimm^st thou in, are


13. tears,
dnk'st in, are overwhelmed by,
16. burden, want, lack.
hurde-n, poverty.
16. a king, master of all that he desires.

crisped, crisp, fresh.

11.

you surrounded by.

40.

Sir William Jones, 1746-1794.

(From the Persian.)


last sleep, close.

3.

41.

Bishop

The poem

Henky King,

1592-1669.

claimed for others, but is most probably King's.


in the transience of
in the brevity of his glory.
2. as
I. like to
in the quick loss of his beauty.
his aspirations.
3. like
3. kue
5. like
5. flood, waters.
sing, for pi.
in the passing of his wrath.
as the light of a
7. borrorc'd light, life derived from the Creator
8. caWd in, recalled
planet from the sun.
8. straight, shortty.
8. paid, returned.
8. to-night,
a picture of the Creditor is raised.
after a little while man's life is but a day.
9. hloics out, ceases.
10. entomh'd, ended, past
the word raises a picture of a grave10. lies in, is followed by.
yard, with which autumn is compared,

is

II.

is

shot, drops.

42.

Thomas Moore,
1.

chain, power.

2.

the Irish poet,

1779-18-52.

sleep pictured as an
thoughts the word suggests

hound, overcome

is

aery potentate.
3. tlie light, sweet
scenes of sunshine and accompanj'ing gladness. 4. around me, to
me it places him in imagination in their midst. 9. gone in
22. are fled,
for their loss.
death.
13. sad
17. ^^all, perish.
have sunk. 24. hut he, but him.

43.

William Shakespeare,

From

1564-1616.

Shakespeare's drama, Cumbeline, in which this song is sung


4. home3. done, finished.
at the burial of Fidele in the forest.
throw^ the grave. 4. thy v:ages, the award to the spirit after
10. the reed is as
death.
5. golden, noble.^ 8. stroke, oppression.
the oak, the small and the great things of this world are alike of no
importance scenes amid marshes and forests are here by the use of
these words called up before the mind.
11. the sceptre, those that
wield the sceptre.
18. consign to, submit to the
14. stone, bolt.
same terms as, do like obsolete ; death is depicted as making all
men siom his bond.

NOTES.

73

44.

Walter Savage Landor,

1775-1864.

a friend of the poet's he laments her death in India


Hceptrtd, ruling.
avails against death.
divine
in 1800.
vhom obj. to both 'weep' and 'see.'
in loveliness.
see her
my.
wakeful eyes, bodilj' eyes in dreams he may
Rose Aylmer

2.

1.

1.

5.

5.

5.

these,

still

with the eyes of the spirit.

9.

cov.secrate to, pass in

thoughts

of.

45.

Felicia Dorothea Browne, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.


5. mortals care, the cares of
4. for thine oion, for your coming.
mortals sing, for pi. 6, hearth ^\\\%. for pi. 7. voice, sounds.
14. to irhl^per where tht violets lie, blowing softly
13. <jale, breeze.
when the first violets grow 15. <jroic pale, fade in autumn. 18.
TYielis,
sounds softly. 19. home sing, for pi. 22. the, some, an.

24.

crest

sing,

for pi.
46.

Robert Browxing,

From Pippa
morning. 4,
pearly dew.

1812-1889.

the song of the child Pippa on a holidayiSings. for pis.


4. dew-pearled,
covered with

passes

5,

6.

6.

thorn,

hawthorn.
47.

Christixa Georgia a Rossetti, 1830-1894.


1. hloic, bloom.
2. 2^'>^omise, signs of
1. a million, unnumbered.
future loveliness.
2. a head
sing, for pi.
3. to
some such word
as 'fated' must be imderstood before 'to.'
3. blush, begin to
blossom.
3. on a barren bed, in barrenness, before the time of
seed, prematurely
'bed' means 'ground'; the word 'barren' is
best converted into an adv., and transferred to the verb 'wither.'
4. fruit, seed
and, as the buds perish and leave no seeds, so the
children dying early seem, at first sight, to have accomplished
nothing lasting. 4. to show, to_be seen. 5. unfulfilled, shortlived their natural course is cut short.
6. joy, consoling thought.
7-8. beauty and innocence are not useless even when they produce
DO eflfect that we can see for they influence the unseen soul of the
beholder.
8. all, altogether.

48.

Alfred Tennysox, aftervmrds Lord Texxtsox,

as

tributary
the river to the sea.

2.

tribute,

the rivulet

is

1809-1892.

tributary to the river, so

2, xcave, waters
sing, for pi.
3. no more
this brief life.
9, sigh, rustle.
5, 9, 10, 11. Sings, for pis.
10. shiver, shake in the breeze.
13, 14. a thousand, unnumbered.

is

after

NOTES.

74

49.

Felicia Dorothea Browne, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.

2. red light
of the setting sun,
4. following
the movements of
.5.
the child.
the breeze of eve, the signs of evening
of which the
breeze that follows the changing temperature as the sun sets is one.
7. he, arrive, come.
8. the heart, your thoughts.
11. haunted hy,
ever thinking of.
14. to dwell, to come.
17-18. that hreathest,

who

rest.

battle.

22.

19.

lowly,

one holy

tie

prostrate.

20.

burial-plain,

the universal Fatherhood.

fatal

field

of

50.

Bryan Waller Procter, whose pseudonym

ivas

Barry Cornwall,

1790-1874.
4. mark, are seen in, are shewn by.
5. iti the track of, behind.
7. orbed soxds, starry beings.
9. ask not, know it to be vain to
ask, can never truly know.
12.
11. a dream, a lovely memory.
blessing, boon, lovely sight
they bring contentment and a sense of
benediction.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.
(The numbers are those of the poems.)

Ais'ONYMOUS

24

35.

Barnes, William (1801-1886)

.37.

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)


Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)

46.

8.

Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)


Burns, Robert (1759-1796):

Byron, Lord (1788-1824):

CoRNWELL, Henry

S.

31.
)

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Dekker, Thomas

(1575-1641)

Fletcher, John (1579-1625)

Jones, Sir

(1784-1859)

William

King, Bishop

Henry

16.

39.

25.

17.

Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774):

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea

9.

6,

GiSBORNE, Thomas (1758-1846)

Hunt, Leigh

18.

(1793-1855)

4,

27, 34, 45, 49.

40.

(1592-1669)

Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875):

41.

23, 26.

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)


:

20.

(1746-1794)

Logan, John (1748-1788)

10.

32.

44.

(?).

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

Macaulay, Lord

Mackay, Charles

(1800-1859)

(1814-1889)

.33.

29,

30.

28.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

76

Moore, Thomas (1779-1852):


Nash, Thomas (1567-1601)
Payxe, John
Pope,

Howard

Alexander

42.
12.

(1792-1852)

2.

(1688-1744): 38.

Anne (1825-1864) 19.


Waller [Barry Cornwall]

Procter, Adelaide
Procter, Bryan

Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616):


SouTHEY, Robert (1774-1843)

Tennyson, Lord (1809-1892)

(1790-1874)

47.

15,21, 25(?), 43.

11,

1.

3,

22, 48.

13,

Tennyson-Turner, Charles (1808-1879):

Wordsworth, William

(1770-1850)

4,

5.

7,

14, 36.

50.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.


A
A
A

flock of sheep that leisurely pass by,

IS

million buds are born that never blow,


spaniel, Beau, that fares like you,

Abou Ben Adheni (may


Ah, what

his tribe increase).

24

avails the sceptred race,

54

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers

As there

57

May,

I left the road in

Behold her single

48

in the field,

47

Child, amidst the flowers at play,

Fear no more the heat

Flow down,

58

the sun,

cold rivulet to the sea,

From Oberon,
God gave a

o'

54
58

in fairy land,

gift to

Earth

32

a child,

22

Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove

10

Happy the man, whose wish and care,


Hark hark the lark at heaven's gate
!

come from haunts

I fell into grief

49
sings,

and hern,

25
16

and began to complain,

wandered lonely

It

of coot

50

39

as a cloud,

was upon a Lammas night,

Leaves have their time to


Like to the falling of a

fall,

55

52

star,

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we

may roam

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

78

My
O

Oft in the

On

my

heart's iu the Highlands,

Mary, go and

call

knees, a naked nevv-])orn child,

talk of Alexander,

....
.

Sweet and low, sweet and low,

Sweet

morning

traveller,

The Assyrian came down

like a wolf

The boy stood on the burning deck,


The

stately

The

year's at the spring,

homes

of

England

....
.

They grew
Three

in

fishers

To my

true

their endless way,

beauty side by

went

Time was when

King

sailing

was

fold.

They

upon

on the

There dwelt a miller, hale and bold,


glide

trees,

Spring, the sweet Spring,

to the

not here,

lie.

Orpheus with his lute made

Some

is

....

stilly night,

either side the river

On parent

heart

the cattle home,

side.

away

to the West,

free as air,

I offered free

from

stain.

Turn, turn thy hasty foot aside,

Under a spreading chestnut


Under the greenwood

tree,

tree,

When fierce along his ocean path.


When icicles hang by the wall,
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
.

Whither, 'midst falling dew.

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