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English Poems
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G. Jennings, M.A.
London
Macmillan and Co., Limite
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York
1904
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1904.
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PREFACE.
The arrangement
of the following
best
may be
feelings
the
of
defined as the
its
fit
human
fit
is
is
a result of
man must
rise
in
To be
emotions
the pro-
This
emotion.
and there
foundest thought,
is based upon
and strengthens
Indeed, poetry
heart.
expression of
noblest
poems
to, exercises,
way
and
that kindred
Imagination as
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
but essential to
existence
its
the
former, with
of
is
poetry,
anything
its logical
among men.
In education
A man
all
of
the truth
PREFACE.
VI
its
beauty
The Notes
No
are as brief
is
whilst,
and simple
as I could
make them.
is
critical
readily intelligible to
are discouraged
it
seems to
me by
my
way
to
make
may reveal
of their
minds
just
enough
lines
of
though otherwise, in
tion,
reference to
my
opinion, suitable.
cases I have
of
The
rest of the
preparing a
poem with
In such
After
meaning.
am
Palgrave,
F.
T.
Gr.
Cookson,
and
to
all
those
of
C.
Canon H.
C.
&
Beeching,
Co., of
Mr.
&
Co.,
published by
W.
E. Henley,
and
of
&
PREFACE.
Clarendon Press.
vii
My
Selections
would
to
Messrs. Macmillan
me
to include
J.
G.
JENNINGS.
CONTENTS.
SECTION I. HOME.
POEM
1.
2.
J.
....
....
.....
.3.
4.
5.
C.
Tennyson-Turner,
Legend,
PAGE
1
2
'2
.3
W. CowPER, To
7.
W. Wordsworth, The
8.
Michael Bruce, To
9.
H.
10.
W.
S.
C.
Young
Bird,
the Cuckoo,
10
Petrel,
.11
Bryant, To a Waterfowl,
SECTION
III. THE
Daffodils,
12
BEAUTY OF NATURE.
11.
12.
T.
1.3.
.14
Nash, Spring,
15
14.
W. Wordsworth, To
15.
18
Sleep,
ix
16
icicles
hang by the
wall),
^8
CONTENTS.
POEM
16.
W. CowPER, On
The Worm,
17.
T. GiSBORNE,
18.
0.
19.
20.
When
Goldsmith,
20
21
Lovely
Woman
stoops to Folh',
22
24
22
Gifts,
.
Shakespeare, Hark
22.
23.
C.
24.
Hark
the Lark,
25
Ladj^ of Shalott,
25
25. J. Fletch^-".
of Dee,
Orpheus with
31
32
his Lute,
34
26.
C.
27.
Felicia D.
28.
H.
Hem an s,
Casabianca,
W. Longfellow, The
My
35
29.
C.
Mackay,
30.
C.
36
Village Blacksmith,
37
39
40
32.
R. Burns,
33.
Lord Macaulay,
34.
35.
Anonymous, The
My
of Sennacherib,
42
Jacobite's Epitaph,
Homes
of
British Grenadiers,
43
44
England,
44
46
CONTEXTS.
xi
PAGE
36.
W. Wordsworth, The
37.
W.
38.
A. Pope, Solitude,
39. T.
40.
Sir
Solitary Reaper,
.47
48
.
Dekker, Content,
W.
49
50
Jones, Epigram,
.51
42.
T.
43.
44.
W.
45.
is
S.
of
Other Days,
54
the sun),
52
.53
o'
54
i^o
57
47.
48.
Lord Tennyson,
49.
50. B.
W.
.57
58
Farewell,
Procter, Stars,
.58
59
Notes,
61
Index of Authors,
75
77
SECTION L
HOME.
1.
to the
morning
The
And
traveller
sky,
in the
dewy
light,
The
When
Along
play,
his noontide
And when
him
way.
to
him
soothing melody.
is
decays,
15
SOUTHEY: PAYNE.
20
E. SoUTHEY.
2.
Which, seek
Home home
!
is
ne'er
An
Oh
exile
!
give
sweet, sweet
home
home
home
me my
came at my call,
Give me them, with the peace of mind dearer than
The
Home
home
sweet, sweet
home
home
home
Howard Payke.
3.
LOW.
low,
Wind
of the
J.
SWEET AND
10
all.
western sea
Father
will
come
to thee soon
Under
Sleep,
all
lo
in the nest,
the silver
my
babe
his
sleeps.
little
moon
15
one, sleep,
my
Tennyson.
4.
in beauty, side
by
side.
By mount, and
Where
One
in sight
now ?
By
a dark stream
is
laid
in the cedar-shade.
10
;;
The
sea,
15
one
Its leaves,
by
soft
The
And
20
winds fanned
Italian flowers
band.
rest,
who played
25
They
And
lit
up the
hall.
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,
30
TENNYSON-TURNER.
The
"Our
"
Up
will I get
and
of
my
heap
And
10
lies asleep,
gain."'
To do
Now
15
"
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
And
wots not
of.
lies asleep,
the gain."
To mate
his brother's
deed
30
TENNYSOX-TUKNER.
Thus played they
And
Their sheaves
still
equal
35
How
40
So when
be.
C.
Tennyson-Turner.
SECTION
BEASTS, FLOWERS,
11.
AND
BIRDS.
6.
Well
"
Which
Against
kill'd
flew not
my
a tiny bird,
till
orders,
to-day,
whom you
heard
"Nor did^you
And
kill
that
you might
eat,
10
15
COWPER.
"
My
dog
Since, teach
I see
" Sir,
when
I flew to seize
20
the bird
And
"
cried forbear
mightier cried
'Twas Nature,
Impell'd
much
Sir,
me
as
in
Nature
I respect,
Her precept
25
to the deed.
"
but my breast
proceed
You
" Yet,
heard.
harder to withstand.
for
may
30
recollect)
your sake
on a day.
linnet,
Had
Not destined
I
my
35
thing.
tooth,
And
"
to
away,
floor
Let
my
My
40
disobedience now,
If killing birds
(Which
be such a crime
can hardlv
see).
45
"
COWPER: WORDSWORTH.
What
think you,
With
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,
And
They
Way,
10
luit
they
gazed
and gazedbut
What
For
oft
15
:
little
when on my couch
thought
me had
brought.
I lie
20
fills.
Wordsworth.
BRUCE.
10
8.
TO THE CUCKOO.
Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove
seat,
sing.
Or mark
green,
10
And
What
15
Thou
An
new
fliest
thy vocal
vale.
Another spring to
Sweet bird
Thy sky
Thou
No
is
20
hail.
thy bower
ever clear
is
ever green,
could
with thee
25
of the spring.
Michael Bruce.
CORNWELL.
11
9.
When
fierce
Whence
is it
5
%
10
And
along
life's
The mists
20
angry deep,
flight.
delight
Unharmed
that roll
soar,
15
and
breast, elate.
H.
S.
CoRNWELL.
BRYANT.
12
10.
TO A WATERFOWL.
Whither,
Thy
solitary
way %
do thee wrong,
flight to
Thy
On
There
Teaches thy
The
is
All
way along
16
air,
At
10
lost.
fann'd.
Yet stoop
welcome
And
soon that
find a
o'er
is
toil shall
land,
end
thy fellows
thy shelter'd
20
near.
rest
BRYANT.
Thou'rt
gone the
13
abyss of heaven
25
yet on my heart
And
way
that I
Will lead
my
must tread
flight,
alone,
steps aright.
W.
C.
Bryant.
30
SECTION
III
Who
And
loves to
with me,
lie
Come
hither
'
Who
And
loves to
lie
in the sun,
10
eats,
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
king
thing,
in a ring,
The pretty
birds do sing.
10
15
sit.
In every street
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
Or
slip
down
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,
little
15
"With
fret
2C
go,
;;;
TENNYSON.
I
With here a
in
and
17
out,
25
l)lossom sailing,
30
To
join the
I steal
35
plots,
I slide
move
That grow
for
happy
gloom,
I slip, I slide, I
I glance,
Among my skimming
I
make
swallows
my
Against
I
40
lovers.
sandy shallows.
stars
45
In brambty wildernesses
I linger
by
I loiter
And
my
shingly bars
round
my
cresses
To
out again
join the
50
go.
Tennyson.
WORDSWORTH: SHAKESPEARE.
18
14.
TO SLEEP.
Sleepless
Must
And
the
from
birds' melodies
my
orchard trees.
first
Even thus
And
last night,
I lay,
Dear mother
of fresh
10
'?
Wordsworth.
15.
WINTER.
When icicles
hang by the
wall.
When
blood
is nipt,
Then nightly
and ways be
foul,
Tuwhoo
SHAKESPEARE.
19
10
Then nightly
15
Tuwhit
tuwhoo
"
I
merry
note,
Shakespeare.
SECTION
IV.
TENDERNESS FOR
gay,
strain,
in vain.
to death,
10
COWPER
GISBORXE.
And thanks
And cure
More
all
21
my
woes,
15
ill
17.
THE WORM.
Turn, turn thy hasty
foot aside.
A portion
On
The
sun, the
all
worm
bestow'd.
moon, the
He made
stars,
10
For worms
as well as thee.
flow'd,
that poor
For
And
of
move,
of all that
little
day,
bliss receive
The
life
15
1
T.
GiSBORNE.
22
GOLDSMITH: ADELAIDE
PROCTER.
A.
18.
When
Oliver Goldsmith.
19.
GOD'S GIFTS.
Earth took
it
coldly
and
it
in scorn,
was born.
Then cradled
it
in
10
its
sight
began to
stray.
15
ADELAIDE
A.
;;
23
PROCTER.
The law
that
all
around obeyed.
care
He
him there
20
The
God gave
Weak,
Opened
And
its
and
and wide.
gift,
far
Till
She
blest the
hour when
30
cried
first
he came
35
And guard
it
She strewed
And
from a breath
his
of
ill.
flowers,
40
45
ADELAIDE
24
And
Was
Till
And
"
PROCTER: HUXT.
A.
On
50
"
!
bright,
Adelaide A. Procter.
20.
An
rich
it
and
Adhem
bold,
And
is
But cheerly
Write
me
and
said, " I
-with a great
10
so,"
came again
And
And
who
head,
The Angel
It
still,
of those
its
wakening
whom
love of
light,
God had
bless 'd,
Leigh Hunt.
15
SECTION
V.
gate sings,
My
bin,
Arise, arise
Shakespeare.
^-
22.
Long
fields of
lie
TENNYSON.
26
blow
10
By
And
the silent
isle
The Lady
By
15
of flowers,
imbowers
of Shalott.
By
slow horses
The
20
and unhail'd
25
among
From
30
Lady
of Shalott.'
35
;;
TENNYSON.
27
There
curse
is
on her
if
40
she stay
To look down
to Camelot.
And
little
be,
The Lady
45
of Shalott.
50
And
And
girls.
glad,
55
And
The Lady
60
of Shalott.
65
; ;;
TENNYSOX.
28
For often
funeral, with
And
am
half sick of
The Lady
70
shadows/ said
of Shalott.
Ill
A BOW-SHOT
He rode between
the barley-sheaves
75
Sir Lancelot.
To
80
field,
Hung
The
see
As he rode down
to
Camelot
And from
A mighty
silver
And
as
85
:
bugle hung.
90
like
As he rode down
to
Camelot
95
TENNYSON.
As
29
clusters bright,
On burnish'd
100
From underneath
helmet flow'd
his
As he rode down
From
He
'
to Camelot.
Tirra
lirra,'
by
Sang
Sir Lancelot.
105
mirror
the river
110
115
'
IV
in his
banks complaining,
120
Over
Down
to\\ er'd
Camelot
Beneath a willow
And round
left afloat,
The Lady of
Shalott.
125
TENNYSON.
30
And down
dim expanse
the river's
With
all his
own mischance
a glassy countenance
And
130
to Camelot.
day
chain,
135
That
The
leaves
upon her
and right
falling light
And
as the boat-head
140
wound along
carol,
mournful, holy,
145
Till
And
For
The
first
upon
the. tide
150
The Lady
By
of Shalott.
balcony.
A gleaming
155
TEXNYSON: KINGSLEY.
31
Who
And
is
this
and what
here
And
is
160
of royal cheer
165
fear.
'
170
Tennyson.
23.
Mary, go and
And
And
call
call
call
o'
Dee
"'
tide
10
land,
KINGSLEY: ANONYMOUS.
32
Oh
is it
weed, or
or floating hair
fish,
Was
15
Among
the stakes at
Dee
fair
still
20
o'
Dee.
C.
KiNGSLEY.
24.
ROBIN GOODFELLOW.
From
The king
of ghosts
Mad Eobin
Am
I,
and shadows
command,
there,
at his
AYhat revel-rout
Is
kept about.
I fly
10
ANONYMOUS.
33
Or ghost
Or
But Robin,
15
wag
shall
'"'
!
where
I go,
I,
And
20
With
And
call
25
To
And
frolic
30
And
To
to a horse I turn
trip
back they
swift than
can,
My
More
me
35
stride,
wind away
go
By
wells and
We
rills,
in
ho
40
meadows
green.
And
I.
sing,
45
34
ANONYMOUS: FLETCHER
And
And
We
And wend
elf in
leave instead,
Thus nightly
for
my
The name
go,
bed
From hag-bred
And
we
revell'd to
and
fro
men
call
me by
pranks
of
50
Robin Good-fellow.
55
Who
And beldames
old
My
told,
So vdU,
have
feats
vale
ho, ho,
ho
60
Anonymous.
25.
his lute
made
trees
Hung
their heads,
In sweet music
is
play,
sea.
such art
10
Fletcher.
SECTION VL
COURAGE, AND MANLINESS.
26.
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
Though
Three wives
And
as the sun
sat
up
and many
And
to keep,
They looked
deep.
36
15
And
And
the sooner
And
it's
20
moaning.
C. KiNGSLEY.
its
27.
CASABIANCA.
A
The boy
True
Story.
AVhence
but he had
all
lit
fled
As born
The flames
Without
That
roll'd
on
he would not go
his father's
father, faint in
word
10
death below.
He
call'd aloud,
If
yet
my
He knew
task
done
"
!
15
20
Upon
his
brow he
And
"
still,
37
post of death
My
father
must
25
stay ?"
While
And
30
Ask
of the
fair,
28.
Are
35
40
LONGFELLOW
38
His hair
is crisp,
His face
His brow
is
is
and
and
black,
long,
10
the face.
Week
When
And
children coming
Look in
They love
is
sledge,
15
bell,
low.
home from
night.
school
20
that fly
25
And
It
it
makes
sounds to him
Singing in Paradise
He
30
How
And
35
LONGFELLOW: MACKAY.
Toiling,
rejoicing,
Onward through
39
sorrowing,
he goes
life
40
my
worthy
friend.
45
yours,
we may
as the iron
is first
29.
MY GOOD RIGHT
I
FELL into
grief,
HAND.
To
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,
as
my
saved
spirit
was
me from
light
who had
me came back
friends
And
10
pain
The
I
MACKAY.
40
My
left
every one.
15
1
Mackay.
30.
And nobody
my
"Thourt wrong
my
I'd gladly
And
tell
With
While
as
I,
friend
said old
"
thee sing
am
miller smiled,
I
10
15
"
%
and doffed
his cap
my bread," quoth he
" I love my wife, I love my friends,
I love my children three
"
King Hal,
The
envies me."
For, could
to night,
earn
20
"
MACKAY.
I
owe no penny
I
41
cannot pay,
To
"
feed
Good
my
friend
" Farewell
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
miller of the
Dee
C.
Mackay.
SECTION
VII.
Assyrian came
his cohorts
down
were gleaming
on the
in purple
fold,
and gold,
When
the blue
wave
rolls
is
green,
were seen
of
Death spread
his
wings on the
And
And
And
And
and
for ever
all
blast.
10
chill,
grew
wide.
And
still.
15
;;;
; ;
BYRON: BURNS,
And
43
With
the
dew on
his brow,
And
The
all silent,
his mail
like
snow
Lord
Byron.
32.
MY
My heart's in
My heart's in
the Highlands,
my
heart
My
not here
is
heart's in the
Highlands wherever
roe.
I go.
The
AVherever
The
hills of
wander wherever
I rove,
10
My
My
heart
not here
is
Chasing the
My
my
floods.
^\^ld
heart's in the
Highlands wherever
go
15
Burns.
44
33.
A JACOBITE'S EPITAPH.
To my
true
King
Courage and
For him
And
I offered free
faith
from stain
For him
my
my home
manhood's prime
trees.
;
in fevered sleep.
10
thou,
whom
By
Forget
all feuds,
Macaulay.
34.
stately
How
Amidst
O'er
homes
of
England
15
;
!
FELICIA HEMANS.
45
And
What gladsome
How
Is laid
softly
10
on their bowers
15
of
By thousands on
They
England
her plains
And round
20
And
As
The
free, fair
homes
of
England
May
25
hall,
wall
first
80
country and
its
God
Felicia Hemans.
ANONYMOUS.
46
35.
But
brave heroes
With
To
row row
And we
We
with hand-grenades
10
glacis
ears.
The
Then
let
And
Who
15
British Grenadiers
us
fill
a bumper,
20
Live happy
With
all
their years
Anonymous.
SECTION
VIIL
listen
Is
profound
No
Among
Arabian sands
10
was heard
Among
of the seas
15
WORDSWORTH: BARXES.
48
Will no one
tell
me what
she sings
For
old,
And
Or
unhappy,
far-ofl"
is it
things
20
Some
lay,
And
at her work.
I listened,
And, as
25
bending
motionless and
still
mounted up the
30
hill,
37.
T//E SURPRISE.
As
And
I
took
my way
May,
along a ground,
girls at play,
And oh
so playsome,
oh
so fair,
there
!"
10
;;
BARNES: POPE.
And
Or bob
And
49
or
bow with
leering smiles,
Or sew a
And one
stitch or
All heedless, to
my
15
very place,
step
and turn'd
And oh
so playsome,
oh
aljout.
/Look
there/"
20
so fair.
oo
full speed,
And
A thread
And
oh
I felt I fain
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
air
own ground.
Whose
Whose
trees in
summer
yield
In \vinter
J. I.
fields
with bread,
attire
him
fire.
shade.
!!
!!
; ;
POPE: DEKKER.
50
Blest
find
10
Quiet by day
Sound
sleep
by night
And
With
15
meditation.
20
Pope.
39.
CONTENT.
Art
Art thou
yet
rich,
is
0, punishment
To add
to golden
0, sweet content
Work
10
Swimm'st thou
0, punishment
own
tears
DEKKEK
Ijurden bears, but
is
51
JONES.
No
15
Ijunlen bears,
a king, a king
O, sweet content
Work
T.
Dekker.
40.
EPIGRAM.
On
Weeping thou
So
live,
last sleep.
life's
around thee
Aveep.
SECTION
IX.
AND DEATH.
41.
SUCH
IS LIFE.
Henry King.
52
10
MOORE.
53
42.
Fond Memory
The
me
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken
Now
shone,
10
The
remember
15
all
I've seen
around
me
fall
Who
Some
one
20
treads alone
banquet-hall deserted,
fled,
25
Moore.
;
:
SHAKESPEARE: LANDOR.
54
43.
FIDELE.
Thou
o'
to dust.
the great,
To thee
The
the reed
is
come
10
must
to dust.
Nor
oak
as the
flash
Thou
all
lovers
15
moan
must
44.
ROSE AYLMER.
Ah, what avails the sceptred
Ah, what the form divine,
What
race,
Rose Aylmer,
all
were thine.
!;
55
May
whom
night of
see,
I consecrate to thee.
W.
S.
Landor.
45.
DEATH'S SEASONS.
Leaves have
their time to
fall,
And
And
Thou
stars to set,
hast
Day
is
all
but
all,
Death
^
;
all
We
When
But who
Is it
Comes
Is it
the sea,
10
when
15
And
20
FELICIA HEMANS.
56
Thou
art
friend,
And flowers
And stars
Thou
hast
25
fall,
to set,
all
but
all,
Death
Felicia Hemans.
SECTION
X,
PIPPA'S SONG.
The
And
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
47.
;;
58
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
TENNYSON.
One
joy,
Christina Eossetti.
48.
A FAREWELL.
Flow
Thy
down, cold
No more by
thee
my
for ever.
rivulet
then a river
No where by
thee
But here
for ever.
my
lea,
aspen shiver
will
hum
10
the bee,
for ever.
15
Tennyson.
49.
light fades
away
;;
59
Pray
on the darkening
Woman,
15
sea,
now
won
at set of sun
o'er the
lowly slain
10
cell
20
ye see
Felicia Heiians.
50.
STARS.
They
In divine delight.
PROCTER.
60
We
lies
your way,
light
A blessing
W. Procter (Barry
Cornwall).
10
NOTES.
PART
I.
1.
Robert Southey,
1774-1843.
2.
felt
so
making
3.
if
a?i
American
ivriter,
we
should seek
it.
4.
1792-1852.
obj. of 'dazzles.'
strongly.
8. exilr
him cease to long for home. 11. tvifh, and.
3.
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,
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
1808-1879.
6.
William Cowper,
hunger.
1731-1800.
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.
stranger, ne,v>'-coxmT.
2.
messenger of
John
siga. oi
green, lawn,
spring.
7. star
5.
grass.
6.
certain,
NOTES.
63
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.
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.
12.
ivhat,
whatever.
12.
Thomas Nash,
1567-1601.
13.
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.
by,
65
NOTES.
keel
pot,
the
around the
ishioners iu church.
11.
11.
sajfc-,
raw, chapped.
14. crabs, crab-apples.
bold, float
the hot liquor,
13.
less.
10.
cou</hm(/, the
hiss
14.
in the
IG.
William Cuwper,
1731-1800.
the wretch
6.
who
death.
16.
starved the bird.
14, 15. c/ose, cure
18. had, should have subjunctive mood.
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.
18.
Oliver (tOldsmith,
wash aicay
bosom, heart.
4.
8.
guilt
is
spoken
of
as
stain.
5.
art,
action.
19.
the
cursing the
men, they.
day
7, 8.
J.
NOTES.
66
'
'
'
20.
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.
an
1809-1892.
'
favour.
23.
Sea
18.
stakes
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.
27.
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
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,
29.
Charles Mackay, a
Scottish ivriter,
1814-1889.
tions.
9.
cheerful.
in fortune's
despite,
spite
in
12.
of
14.
ill fortune.
darkest, the
10.
most
light,
dis-
30.
2.
river
Dee
'
'
'
'possession.'
31.
6oas-^ just
'
'
cause of pride.
31.
1788-1824.
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.
1759-1796.
33.
TiiOxAiAS
the
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.
shadows
'
an English Sunday
'
is
'
31.
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.
37.
WiLLLiM Barnes,
1801-1886.
12.
leering,
roguish
fled.
these
IS.
are playing at being fine ladies.
18. tunrd about,
step and stopped.
made one
step,
past.
25.
ankle.
38.
Alexander Pope,
1688-1744.
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.
11.
40.
3.
41.
Bishop
The poem
Henky King,
1592-1669.
is
II.
is
shot, drops.
42.
Thomas Moore,
1.
chain, power.
2.
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.
NOTES.
73
44.
1775-1864.
2.
1.
1.
5.
5.
5.
these,
still
9.
thoughts
of.
45.
24.
crest
sing,
for pi.
46.
Robert Browxing,
From Pippa
morning. 4,
pearly dew.
1812-1889.
passes
5,
6.
6.
thorn,
hawthorn.
47.
48.
as
tributary
the river to the sea.
2.
tribute,
the rivulet
is
1809-1892.
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.
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,
fatal
field
of
50.
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.
.37.
46.
8.
CoRNWELL, Henry
S.
31.
)
Dekker, Thomas
(1575-1641)
Jones, Sir
(1784-1859)
William
King, Bishop
Henry
16.
39.
25.
17.
9.
6,
Hunt, Leigh
18.
(1793-1855)
4,
40.
(1592-1669)
41.
23, 26.
20.
(1746-1794)
10.
32.
44.
(?).
Macaulay, Lord
Mackay, Charles
(1800-1859)
(1814-1889)
.33.
29,
30.
28.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
76
Howard
Alexander
42.
12.
(1792-1852)
2.
(1688-1744): 38.
Procter, Adelaide
Procter, Bryan
(1790-1874)
47.
11,
1.
3,
22, 48.
13,
Wordsworth, William
(1770-1850)
4,
5.
7,
14, 36.
50.
IS
24
54
As there
57
May,
48
in the field,
47
Flow down,
58
the sun,
From Oberon,
God gave a
o'
54
58
in fairy land,
gift to
Earth
32
a child,
22
10
49
sings,
and hern,
25
16
wandered lonely
It
of coot
50
39
as a cloud,
fall,
55
52
star,
may roam
78
My
O
Oft in the
On
my
Mary, go and
call
talk of Alexander,
....
.
Sweet
morning
traveller,
like a wolf
stately
The
homes
of
England
....
.
They grew
Three
in
fishers
To my
true
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