Chapter XXIV: Part VII (9)

The fable that the Bird of Paradise is "legless" was set abroad by travellers who had seen in old days its exquisite dismembered carcase prepared for merchandise. It is hard to explain that Man, capable of imagining a bird "whose fixed abode is the region of the air," sustaining itself "solely on dew," can also slaughter it and tie it up in bundles for feminine finery. But so it is.

"AT VENICE...." (p. 471)

So Keats left--unfinished--this, one of the happiest of his poems. There are others in this volume: but not the _Eve of St. Agnes_, or _Hyperion_, or the odes, _to a Nightingale, on a Grecian Urn_, or the strange _On Melancholy_. Nor are any of his Letters here--as full a revelation of the powers and understanding of that rare mind, as the poems are of his imagination.

466. "LOW IN THE SOUTH THE 'CROSS'."

We peoples of the Northern hemisphere, from the Chinese and Chaldaeans until this last flitting hour have the joy of so many brilliant and neighbouring stars in our night sky that for us it is now full of stories, and thronged with constellations of our own fantasy and naming. The Chair of Cassiopeia, for instance, is but a feigned passing picture. Nevertheless, how pleasant it is to recognise it set zigzag in the night. For this reason the peoples of the Southern hemisphere, with their Crown and Net, their Phoenix and Peacock, hold dear the Southern Cross. It marks their very home.

And, once more, let me repeat what Miss Taroone said to me: Learn the common names of every thing you see, Simon; and especially of those that please you most to remember: then give them names also of your own making and choosing--if you can. Mr. Nahum has thousands upon thousands of words and names in his mind and yet he often fails to understand what I say to him. Nor does he always remember that though every snail is a snail and a Hoddydoddy, and every toad is a toad and a Joey, and every centipede is a centipede and a Maggie-monyfeet, each is just as much only its own self as you, Simon, are You.

469. "ONCE A DREAM DID WEAVE A SHADE."

Full in the passage of the vale, above,
A sable, silent, solemn, forest stood,
Where nought but shadowy forms was seen to move,
As idless fancy'd in her dreaming mood;
And up the hills, on either side, a wood
Of blackening pines, ay waving to and fro,
Sent forth a sleepy horror thro' the blood;
And where this valley winded out, below,
The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.

A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was,
Of Dreams that wave before the half-shut eye,
And of gay Castles in the clouds that pass,
For ever flushing round a summer sky....

JAMES THOMSON

470. "AWAKE, AWAKE!"

"I thank God for my happy dreams," wrote Sir Thomas Browne in the _Religio Medici_, "as I do for my good rest.... And surely it is not a melancholy conceit [or fancy] to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams to those of the next as the phantasms of the night to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem or picture of the other; we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul...."

The Door of Death is made of gold,
That Mortal Eyes cannot behold;
But, when the Mortal Eyes are closed,
And cold and pale the Limbs reposed,
The Soul awakes; and, wondering sees
In her mild Hand the golden Keys:
The Grave is Heaven's golden Gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England's Fold,
Behold this Gate of Pearl and Gold!...

I give you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven's gate,
Built in Jerusalem's wall.

WILLIAM BLAKE

473. "DOES THE ROAD WIND UP-HILL ALL THE WAY."

"Gentle herdsman, tell to me,
Of courtesy I thee pray,
Unto the town of Walsingham
Which is the right and ready way."

"Unto the town of Walsingham
The way is hard for to be gone;
And very crooked are those paths,
For you to find out all alone...."

Not so Babylon:

How many Miles to Babylon?
_Three score and ten._
Can I get there by candle-light?
_Ay: and back again._

477.

This poem for its full beauty must be read very slowly. Eve in long memory is musing within herself, hardly able to utter the words, because of her grief and sorrow, and of the heavy sighs between them.

"DEATH IS THE FRUIT."

I am Eve, great Adam's wife,
'Tis I that outraged Jesus of old;
'Tis I that robbed my children of Heaven,
By rights 'tis I that should have gone upon the Cross....

There would be no ice in any place,
There would be no glistening windy winter,
There would be no hell, there would be no sorrow,
There would be no fear, if it were not for me.

TR. KUNO MEYER

"THE KIND HART'S TEARS WERE FALLING." (stanza 7)

To day my Lord of Amiens, and my selfe,
Did steale behinde him as he lay along
Under an oake, whose anticke roote peepes out
Upon the brooke that brawles along this wood.
To the which place a poore sequestred Stag
That from the Hunter's aime had tane a hurt,
Did come to languish; and indeed my Lord
The wretched annimall heaved forth such groanes
That their discharge did stretch his leatherne coat
Almost to bursting, and the big round teares
Coursed one another downe his innocent nose
In pitteous chase....

_As You Like It_

483. "THIS IS THE KEY."

And so--like the mediaeval traveller who had made a complete circuit of the world without knowing it--we have come back to the place which we started from. "The Elephant," says Topsell, in his _Historie of Foure-footed Beastes_, "is delighted above measure with sweet savours, ointments, and smelling flowers, for which cause their Keeper will in the summer time lead them into the meadows of flowers, where they of themselves will by the quickness of their smelling, choose out and gather the sweetest flowers, and put them into a basket if their Keeper have any....

(Having sought) out water (wherewith) to wash themselves, (they will) of their own accord return back again to the basket of flowers, which, if they find not, they will bray and call for them. Afterward, being led into their stable, they will not eat meat until they take off their flowers and dress the brims of their manger therewith, and likewise strew their room or standing place, pleasing themselves with their meat, because of the savour of the flowers stuck about their cratch." Mr. Nahum himself, it seems to me, might have written that. What was his _Other Worlde_ but such "a Basket of Flowers": the forthshowing in formal beauty--in this world's soil, and beneath ministering rain, sunshine and dew--of the imaginations of men? Even Miss Taroone could have uttered a secret word or two in the great ear of the Elephants at their cratch: and were there not in her garden at Thrae flowers beyond telling?--William Blake's:

First ere the morning breaks joy opens in the flowery bosoms,
Joy even to tears.... First the Wild Thyme
And Meadow-sweet downy and soft waving among the reeds
Light springing on the air lead the sweet Dance: they wake
The Honeysuckle sleeping on the Oak: the flaunting beauty
Revels along upon the wind: the White-thorn, lovely May,
Opens her many lovely eyes: listening the Rose still sleeps:
None dare to wake her: soon she bursts her crimson curtained bed,
And comes forth in the majesty of beauty: every Flower,
The Pink, the Jessamine, the Wall-flower, the Carnation,
The Jonquil, the mild Lilly opes her heavens: every Tree
And Flower and Herb soon fill the air with an innumerable Dance.
Yet all in order sweet and lovely....

_And so, Farewell._

AND SO FAREWELL

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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INDEXES

INDEX OF AUTHORS

[_Poems by writers whose names are unknown will be found marked with an asterisk in the Index of Poems. In the following Index the names of writers still living are similarly denoted._]

*Abercrombie, Lascelles, 154, 636

Allingham, William (1824-1889), 122, 520

*Armstrong, Martin 102

Aubrey, John (1626-1697), 568, 601

Augustine, St. (d. 604), 606

Barnes, William (1801-1886), 272, 280, 282, 461, 540, 581, 594

Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627), 107

*Bashford, H. H., 80

*Batterham, Eric N., 259

Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616), 269, 599

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849), 380, 449, 624

*Belloc, Hilaire, 200

Best, Charles (fl. 1602), 354

*Binyon, Laurence, 197, 212

Blake, William (1757-1827), 22, 23, 42, 66, 66, 93, 98, 112, 140,
161, 167, 198, 373, 450, 452, 453, 475, 476, 477, 507, 535,
545, 652, 666, 668

Blunden, Edmund, 79

*Bottomley, Gordon, 410

Breton, Nicholas (1545?-1626?), 146

*Bridges, Robert, 234, 274, 462, 475, 504

Brontë, Emily (1818-1848), 225, 229, 277, 284, 449, 454

Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915), 172, 263

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), 665

Browne, William (1591-1643?), 151, 604

Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878), 113

Buckhurst, Lord (1536-1608), 115

Bunyan, John (1628-1688), 111, 211, 451, 558, 582, 652

Burns, Robert (1759-1796), 50, 187

Burton, Robert (1577-1640), 548, 613

Byron, Lord (1788-1824), 464

Callanan, Jeremiah John (1795-1829), 354

Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844), 89, 180, 571

Campion, Thomas (1567-1619), 150, 189, 482, 595, 628

Carbery, Ethna (d. 1902), 313

Carew, Thomas (1595?-1639?), 152

Cartwright, William (1611-1643), 101

Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571), 613

Chapman, George (1559?-1634), 635

Charles I. (1600-1649), 467

Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770), 266

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400), 14, 511, 544

Clare, John (1793-1864), 78, 207, 517

Cleland, William (1661?-1689), 376

Coleridge, Mary (1861-1907), 52, 106, 192, 318, 355, 367, 463

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), 24, 270, 331, 335, 337, 373,
383, 405, 514, 516, 548, 611, 620, 625, 638

*Colum, Padraic, 52

Constable, Henry (1562-1613), 351

Corbet, Richard (1582-1635), 553

Cornish, William (fl. 1510), 17

Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667), 564

Cowper, William (1731-1800), 41, 49

Cunningham, Allan (1784-1842), 181, 239

*Dalmon, Charles, 205, 355

Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619), 162

Darley, George (1795-1846), 643

Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668), 6, 596

*Davidson, Edward L., 172

*Davies, William H., 7, 38, 95, 145, 254, 402

Davies, Sir John (1569-1626), 566

Davison, Francis (fl. 1602), 81

*De Bary, Anna Bunston, 159

Dekker, Thomas (1570?-1641?), 253, 281

De Tabley, Lord (1835-1895), 364

Dixon, Richard Watson (1833-1900), 222, 224

Dobell, Sydney (1824-1874), 33, 44, 316

Donne, John (1573-1631), 628, 663

*Doughty, Charles M., 132

Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), 548, 557

*Drinkwater, John, 256, 298

Drummond, William (1585-1649), 162, 252, 585

Dunbar, William (1465?-1530?), 525

Elliot, Jean (1727-1805), 188

*Ellis, Vivian Locke, 369

Emerson, R. W. (1803-1882), 562

Farjeon, Eleanor, 120, 175, 236, 459, 465

Ferguson, Sir Samuel (1810-1886), 125

Flecker, James Elroy (1884-1915), 40, 382

Fleming, Margaret (1803-1811), 652

Fletcher, John (1579-1625), 360, 440, 457, 596, 599, 661

*Francis, Colin, 375

*Freeman, John, 39, 173

*Frost, Robert, 26, 587

*Furse, Margaret Cecilia, 563

*Garstin, Crosbie, 474

*Gibson, Wilfrid, 403, 415

Gifford, Humphrey (fl. 1580), 168

Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774), 626

Googe, Barnabe (1540-1594), 91

*Gosse, Edmund, 318

Graves, John Woodcock (1795-1886), 139

*Graves, Robert, 109, 230, 407

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), 655

Greene, Robert (1560-1592), 503

*Grey, Viscountess, 121

Hamilton, John (1761-1814), 233

*Hardy, Thomas, 10, 26, 175, 176, 177, 273, 298, 455, 570

Hawes, Stephen (d. 1523?), 600

Hayman, Robert (d. 1631?), 189

Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835), 48

Herbert, George (1593-1633), 16, 451, 483

Herrick, Robert (1591-1674), 150, 208, 215, 219, 271, 292, 450,
507, 510, 651

Heywood, Thomas (d. 1650?), 7

*Hodgson, Ralph, 110, 151, 454, 485

Hogg, James (1770-1835), 141

Hood, Thomas (1799-1845), 25, 295, 299, 361, 405, 583

Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910), 170

Howitt, Mary (1799-1888), 94

Hudson, W. H. (1862-1923), 521

Hume, Alexander (1560?-1609), 144

*John, Gwen, 239

Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637), 252, 319, 352, 462, 568, 658

Keats, John (1795-1821), 107, 129, 220, 231, 256, 283, 380, 468,
527, 545, 660

Killigrew, Henry (1613-1700), 467

King, Henry (1592-1669), 273

Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875), 225, 656

*Kipling, Rudyard, 297

Kirk, Robert (1641?-1692), 615

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864), 365, 597, 604

Lindsay, Lady Anne (1750-1825), 362

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), 32, 533

Lovelace, Sir Richard (1618-1658), 535

Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?), 191, 503

Lyly, John (1554?-1606), 15

*Lysaght, Sidney Royse, 53

MacGillivray, W. (1796-1852), 104

Macleod, Fiona (William Sharp) (1855-1905), 423

Macneill, Hector (1746-1818), 35

Mahony, Francis ("Father Prout") (1804-1866), 210

Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849), 181

*Manning-Sanders, Ruth, 111, 340

Maplet, John (d. 1592), 639

Marriot, John (1780-1825), 270

Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678), 98, 149, 381

*Masefield, John, 27, 56

Mandeville, Sir John (d. 1372), 534, 561, 629

Meredith, George (1828-1909), 332, 638

*Mew, Charlotte, 309

Meyer, Kuno (Tr.), 70, 97, 193, 205, 231, 585, 667

Meynell, Alice (d. 1923) 214, 464, 472

Meynell, Viola, 409

Milton, John (1608-1674), 11, 130, 213, 632

*Monro, Harold, 9, 124

Montgomerie, Alexander (1556?-1610?), 4

*Moore, T. Sturge, 144

More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535), 603

Morris, William (1834-1896), 465, 481

Munday, Anthony (1553-1633), 81

Nash, Thomas (1567-1601), 15, 261

*Newbolt, Sir Henry, 51, 178, 214

North, Sir Thomas (1535?-1601), 574

*Noyes, Alfred, 151

Odoric, Friar (1286-1331), 636, 641

O'Keefe, John (1747-1833), 579

*O'Riordan, Conal, 605

*O'Sullivan, Seumas, 197

Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613), 529

Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918), 173

Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896), 473, 566

*Patmore, F. J., 541

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866), 205, 268, 552

Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703), 505

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), 59, 320, 338, 365, 662

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), 271

Plotinus (205?-270?), 507

Polo, Marco (1254-1323), 642

Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618), 600

*Ramal, Elizabeth, 608

Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758), 623

Ravenscroft, Thomas (1592?-1635?), 120

*Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 277

Rhodes, Hugh (fl. 1555), 592

*Rock, Madeline Caron, 265

Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894), 251, 279, 280, 352, 368, 472, 483, 487

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), 643

Rowlands, Richard (1565-1630?), 22

Rowley, William (1585?-1642?), 374

*Sassoon, Siegfried, 171

Scott, Reginald (1538?-1599), 613

Scott, Alexander (1525?-1584?), 360

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), 174, 185, 279, 330, 357

Scott, William Bell (1811-1890), 324

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), 6, 74, 119, 121, 131, 143, 199,
209, 224, 246, 247, 267, 361, 499, 505, 506, 510, 522, 530,
533, 540, 553, 554, 579, 585, 610, 633, 643, 650, 655, 657,
662, 667

*Shanks, Edward, 331

Sharp, William (Fiona Macleod) (1855-1905), 423

*Sheldon, Gilbert, 404

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), 8, 155, 156, 209, 223, 227,
252, 254, 258, 341, 353, 404, 458, 464, 530, 542, 546, 621

Shorter, Dora Sigerson (d. 1918), 275

Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), 352, 463, 500, 597, 601, 602

*Sitwell, Edith, 198

Skelton, John (1460?-1529), 37

*Sleigh, Bernard, 549

Southwell, Robert (1561?-1595), 242, 259

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599), 153, 190, 339, 491, 567

*Squire, J. C., 379, 422

Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729), 519

*Stephens, James, 61, 96, 157

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894), 28, 31, 40, 54, 615

Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642), 580

Surrey, Earl of (1517?-1547), 472

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909), 358

Temple, Sir William (1628-1699), 578

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), 105, 108, 122, 226, 314, 582, 630

Thomas, Edward (1878-1917), 53, 102, 113, 460, 474, 521, 557

Thomas the Rhymer (1220?-1297?), 550

Thompson, Francis (1859-1907), 262, 285, 637

Thomson, James (1700-1748), 665

*Tomlinson, H. M., 569

Topsell (d. 1638?), 537

Traherne, Thomas (1636?-1674), 160, 564

Trench, Herbert (1865-1923), 171

Trevisa, John de (1326-1412), 537

Turberville, George (1540?-1610?), 584

*Turner, Walter J., 295, 375, 408

*Tynan, Katharine, 49

Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695), 283, 557

Vautor, Thomas (fl. 1619), 104

Walton, Izaac (1593-1683), 505, 543

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), 5

*Webb, Mary, 10, 106, 141

Webster, John (1610-1682), 264, 267, 268

Wedderburn, John (1500?-1556), 597

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), 179

Wither, George (1588-1667), 202

*Woods, Margaret L., 539

Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855), 220

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), 103, 221, 234, 237, 276, 456, 655

Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639), 16

*Wright, Elizabeth M., 532, 559

*Wylie, Elinor, 236

*Yeats, W. B., 296, 312, 608

*Young, Filson, 632

*Young, Francis Brett, 92

INDEX OF POEMS

[_An asterisk denotes that the name of the author of the poem is unknown._]

TEXT NOTES

*Adam lay i-bowndyn 489

Adieu! farewell earth's bliss! 261 _596_

*A dis, a dis, a green grass 203

After the blast of lightning from the east 173

Afterwards 455

Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh 330

Ah! sad wer we as we did peäce 272 _604_

Ah, what avails the sceptred race? 365

Alas, the moon should ever beam 295

Alice, dear, what ails you? 230

A little lonely child am I 423 _645_

A little Saint best fits a little Shrine 510

*All in this pleasant evening, together come are we 12 _501_

All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone 189 _574_

All my stars forsake me 464

All the flowers of the spring 268 _599_

*All under the leaves and the leaves of life 489

Amo, amas 579

*An' Charlie he's my darling 186

Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the 383

And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte 14 _502_

And in the midst of all, a fountaine stood 153 _564_

And like a dying lady, lean and pale 464

And now all nature seemed in love 16 _504_

And then I pressed the shell 61

And there were spring-faced cherubs that did sleep 408 _643_

Angel spirits of sleep 475

Annabel Lee 59

*Annan Water's wading deep 329 _614_

A piper in the streets to-day 197

Are they shadows that we see? 162

A Rose, as fair as ever saw the North 151

Art thou gone in haste? 374 _629_

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? 253

As I in hoary winter's night 242

As it fell upon a day 107 _543_

*As I walked out one night 571

*As I was going by Charing Cross 188

*As I was walking all alane 109

*As I was wa'king all alone 293

As I wer readen ov a stwone 280 _605_

Ask me no more 152 _562_

*A sparhawk proud did hold in wicked jail 108 _543_

A sunny shaft did I behold 373 _628_

*As we dance round a-ring-a-ring 12

At common dawn there is a voice of bird 369

At the corner of Wood Street 103 _540_

Auld Robin Gray 362

Autumn 223

*A vision that appeared to me 70 _527_

Awake, awake, my little Boy! 477 _605_

A weary lot is thine, fair maid 185

A widow bird sat mourning for her love 252

*A wife was sitting at her reel ae night 618

*Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho! 91 _534_

Before my face the picture hangs 259 _594_

Behold her, single in the field 221

Bells have wide mouths and tongues 211 _582_

Beneath our feet, the shuddering bogs 318 _610_

Bermudas 381

Best and brightest, come away! 155

Be thou at peace this night 172

*Bingo 89

Birds, The 112

Blow, blow, thou winter winde 247

Blows the wind to-day 54 _522_

*Bonny Barbara Allan 356

Break, break, break 226

Brief, on a flying night 214

Bright star, would I were stedfast 660

*Bring us in good ale 69

*Bring us in no browne bred 69 _526_

*Brown Robyn 420

*Buckee, Buckee, biddy Bene 292

Burning Babe, The 242

By Saint Mary, my lady 37 _518_

By the Moone we sport and play 120 _547_

Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren 267

Call me no more, O gentle stream 51

*Cam' ye by the salmon fishers? 35

Cauld blows the wind frae north to south 233

Changeling, The 309

Cherrie Ripe, Ripe, Ripe, I cry 150

Cherry and pear are white 173

Child and the Mariner, The 402

Chimney Sweeper, The 42

Christabel 335

Christmas at Sea 31

Christ of His gentleness 109

Cities drowned in olden time 214

Close thine eyes and sleep secure 467

*Cold cold! 231 _586_

Cold in the earth 277

Come, Sleep 605

*Come to me, grief, for ever 269 _601_

Come to me in the silence of the night 472

Come unto these yellow sands 119 _546_

Come wary one, come slender feet 111 _544_

Coronach, The 174

Crystal Cabinet, The 373

*Dalyaunce 28

Dark is the stair, and humid the old walls 212

Dear, dear, dear 104

Dear God, through Thy all-powerful hand 605

Death stands above me 597

Departe, departe, departe 360 _627_

Dew sate on Julia's haire 651

Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly 351 _624_

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? 483 _666_

*Down in yonder meadow 349

*Down in yon garden 647

Do you remember an Inn 200 _580_

Dreams, The Land of 477

D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray? 139 _556_

Eagle, The 108

*Earl of Mar's Daughter, The 307

Easter 16

*Edward 430

Egypt's might is tumbled down 367

Encinctured with a twine of leaves 337

*English Gentleman, The 67

Eve of Saint Mark, The 468

Even such is Time 600

Eve, with her basket 485

*Faht's in there? 293 _607_

*Fair Annie 434

Fairies 122

Fairies Feast, The 132

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away 225

Feare no more the heate o' th' Sun 267 _599_

*Fine knacks for ladies! 74

Flowers of the Forest, The 188

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow 482

*Four and twenty bonny boys 428 _646_

*Four men stood by the grave of a man 191 _574_

From noise of Scare-fires rest ye free 215

Full fathom five 643

Gane were but the winter cauld 239 _587_

Garden, The 149

*Garden, The 492

Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning 125 _549_

*Gilderoy was a bonnie boy 82 _532_

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes 281 _605_

*Golden Vanity, The 418

Gone were but the Winter 251

Good-Morrow to the Day so fair 208

*Green Broom 147

Hallo my Fancy 376

Hame, hame, hame, hame, fain wad I be 181

Hark! now everything is still 264 _597_

Haunted Palace, The 338

Hay, nou the day dauis 4 _497_

Hearke, hearke, the Larke at Heaven's gate sings 6

Hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell 331

He came and took me by the hand 151

He clasps the crag with crooked hands 108

He gave us all a good-bye cheerily 178

He is gone on the mountain 174

He is the lonely greatness of the world 265 _598_

*Helen of Kirkconnell 438

Helen, thy beauty is to me 365 _627_

Here a little child I stand 507

*Here comes a lusty wooer 346 _622_

Here lies a little bird 102

Here lies sweet Isabell 652

Here she lies, a pretty bud 271 _604_

Here she was wont to go, and here, and here! 352 _624_

*Here we bring new water 4

*Here we come a piping 11

Here where the fields lie lonely and untended 53

Her Eyes the Glow-worme lend thee 292

He sees them pass 259 _594_

*He that lies at the stock 466

*Hey, nonny no! 200 _580_

*Hey! now the day dawns 4 _497_

*Hey, Wully wine, and How, Wully wine 348 _623_

*Hie upon Hielands 43 _519_

His eyes are quickened so with grief 407

His stature was not very tall 503

Hohenlinden 180

Holy Thursday 66

Home, home, from the horizon far and clear 472

Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? 28

Ho, sailor of the sea! 33

How like an Angel came I down! 160 _454_

How lovely is the sound of oars at night 331

How many times do I love thee, dear? 624

How see you Echo? 121

How should I your true love know 361

How strange it is to wake and watch 473

How sweet I roamed from field to field! 161

*Hugh, Sir 428

*I and my white Pangur 97 _536_

I'd a dream to-night 282 _606_

*I'd oft heard tell of this Sledburn fair 75

I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way 8 _499_

I dreamt a Dream! what can it mean? 475

I dug, beneath the cypress shade 268

If I had but two little wings 24 _510_

If I should ever by chance grow rich 521

I found her out there 273 _604_

If souls should only shine as bright 594

If there were dreams to sell 449

I got me flowers to straw thy way 16 _506_

I had a dove and the sweet dove died 107

I had a little bird 44 _519_

*I had a little nut tree 198

*I have a yong suster 58

I have beene all day looking after 319 _610_

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep 382 _635_

*I have twelfe oxen that be faire and brown 148 _559_

I hear a sudden cry of pain! 96

I heard a soldier sing some trifle 171 _568_

I know a little garden-close 481

I know that all beneath the moon decays 585

*I'll sing you a good old song 67 _525_

I Loved a lass, a fair one 202 _580_

I love to rise in a summer morn 140

I met a traveller from an antique land 404

I met the Love-Talker one eve in the glen 313

Immortal Imogen crowned queen above 299

In a drear-nighted December 231 _585_

I never shall love the snow again 274

In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes 562

In melancholic fancy 376 _629_

In somer when the shawes be sheyne 143 _556_

In the greenest of our valleys 338 _621_

In the third-class seat sat the journeying-boy 26

In the wild October night-time 177 _570_

Into the scented woods we'll go 10

Invitation to Jane, The 155

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 405 _641_

I remember, I remember 25 _511_

Irish harper and his dog, The 89

I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn 408 _643_

*I saw a peacock with a fiery tail 294 _607_

I saw with open eyes 110

I see in his last preached and printed Booke 270 _602_

*I sing of a maiden 21 _510_

*It fell upon a Wodensday 420 _644_

It is an ancient Mariner 383 _635_

It was a' for our rightfu' king 187

*It was a jolly bed in sooth 501

It was a Lover and his lasse 199 _579_

*It was in and about the Martinmas time 356 _626_

*It was intill a pleasant time 307

It was many and many a year ago 59 _523_

It was not in the winter 361

I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking 188 _573_

I went out to the hazel wood 296 _608_

*I will sing, if ye will hearken 432 _646_

*I wish I were where Helen lies 438

I would not be the Moon, the sickly thing 463 _659_

Jarring the air with rumour cool 154

John Peel 139

Keith of Ravelston 316

Kubla Khan 405

La Belle Dame sans Merci 129

Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I were 472

*Laird of Logie, The 432

*Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green 148 _560_

Lawne as white as driven Snow 74 _529_

Lay a garland on my hearse 360

Leave Taking, A 358

Leave me, O Love 597

Let us go hence, my songs 358

Let us walk in the white snow 236 _587_

Life of Life 353 _625_

Light the lamps up, Lamplighter 459 _657_

Little Black Boy, The 22

Little Fly 535

Little Lamb, who made thee? 93

*London Bridge is broken down 65 _524_

London Snow 234

Lonely, save for a few faint stars, the sky 197 _575_

Long ago I went to Rome 563

Look how the pale Queen of the silent night 354 _625_

Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed 256 _593_

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back 483

*Love me not for comely grace 366

Lucy Gray 237

*Lully, lullay, lully, lullay 491

Lydia is gone this many a year 277

*Lyke-Wake Dirge, A 264

Mad Maid's Song, The 208

Mariana 314

*Mary's gone a milking 71 _529_

*Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 466 _661_

*May Song 12

*Mermaid, The 423

Messmates 178

Midnight was come, when every vital thing 115

Mine eyes have seen the glory 170 _567_

Mortality, behold and fear! 269 _600_

Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age 271

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold 380

Music, when soft voices die 209 _582_

*My clothing was once of the linsey woolsey fine 90 _533_

*My hand is weary with writing 558

My heart is like a singing bird 352 _624_

*My love he built me a bonnie bower 439 _647_

My love lies in the gates of foam 364

*My Luve's in Germany 184

My master hath a garden 492

*My mistress frowns when she should play 199 _576_

*My mistress is as fair as fine 351

My mother bore me in the southern wild 22

*My plaid awa', my plaid awa' 292

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his 352

*Nay, Ivy, nay 245 _590_

Night-Piece, The 292

*Not full twelve years 596

Not soon shall I forget 49

*Now milkmaids' pails are deckt with flowers 71 _528_

Now some may drink old vintage wine 205 _581_

Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger 11 _500_

Now the hungry Lyon rores 131 _553_

*Now wolde I faine some merthės make 366 _628_

Nurse's Song, The 453

Nymph Complaining, The 98

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? 124

*O Allison Gross, that lives in yon towr 426 _646_

*O Bessie Bell and Mary Gray 523

Ode to the West Wind 227

O'Driscoll drove with a song 312

*Of all the birds that I do know 100 _538_

*O for a Booke and a shadie nooke 147 _558_

Of this fair volume which we World do name 162 _565_

Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray 237

Oh! call my brother back to me 48

*Oh! dear! what can the matter be? 75 _530_

Oh! poverty is a weary thing 94 _536_

Oh, sweet content 254

Oh the falling Snow! 236

*Oh, where are you going to, my pretty little dear? 206 _581_

O, I hae come from far away 324 _613_

Old Ships, The 382

O many a day have I made good ale in the glen 354

O Mary, go and call the cattle home 225

O Mother, lay your hand on my brow 40

O my dark Rosaleen 181 _572_

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose 332

Once a dream did weave a shade 476 _665_

*Once I was a monarch's daughter 105

Once musing as I sat 91 _535_

Once upon a midnight dreary 320 _611_

Once when the sun of the year was beginning to fall 26 _512_

*One Friday morn when we set sail 421

*One king's daughter said to anither 57 _523_

One without looks in to-night 298 _608_

On first looking into Chapman's Homer 380

On Linden, when the sun was low 180

*On the first day of Christmas 589

On the green banks of Shannon 89

O sing unto my roundelay 266

O Sorrow 256

O that those lips had language! 41

O the evening's for the fair, bonny lassie O! 207

O Thou, who plumed with strong desire 341 _621_

O, to have a little house 52

Our King and Queen the Lord God Blesse 568

Our King went up upon a hill high 191 _574_

Out in the dark over the snow 474

Over the bleak and barren snow 375

*O whare are ye gaun? 334 _618_

O, what can ail thee, knight at arms 129

O what if the fowler my blackbird has taken? 355

*O wha will shoe my bonny foot? 519

*O where were ye, my milk-white steed 309 _609_

O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being 227

Oh yes, my dear 565

Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day! 7

Pedlar's Song, The 74

Pleasure it is 17 _507_

*Poacher, The Lincolnshire 204

*Poor old Horse 90

Prayer unsaid, and Mass unsung 330

Prepare, prepare the iron helm of War 167

Proud Maisie is in the wood 357

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair 462

*Queen of Elfland, The 127

Question, The 8

*Quo' the Tweed to the Till 425

*Quoth John to Joan 350 _623_

Rarely, rarely, comest thou 254

Raven, The 320

Recollection, The 156

Remember me when I am gone away 280

*Remember us poor Mayers all 13

Reverie of Poor Susan, The 103

Rich in the waning light she sat 39

Riding through Ruwu swamp, about sunrise 92 _536_

Rosaleen, Dark 181

Rose Aylmer 365

*Rosy apple, lemon, or pear 36 _516_

*Round about, round about 119

Sabrina fair 130 _551_

Sands of Dee, The 225

Schoolboy, The 140

Seamen, three! What men be ye? 205

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness 220 _583_

Secret was the garden 285

*Seven lang years I hae served the King 347

*Seynt Stevene was a clerk 240 _587_

Shed no tear--O shed no tear! 283

*She is so proper and so pure 38 _518_

Shepherds all, and Maidens fair 457 _655_

Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night 450 _651_

Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer 298

Sick Child, The 40

Silent are the woods 27

Silent is the house, all are laid asleep 284

*Silly Sweetheart, say not nay 345

*Sir Patrick Spence 425

*Sister, awake! close not your eyes 11 _501_

*Skip it and trip it 575

Sleep on, my Love, in thy cold bed 273

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears 252 _592_

Sluggard, The 5

Soldiers, For 168

Solitary Reaper, The 221

Some folks as can afford 159

Somewhere, somewhen I've seen 403 _639_

Sorrow 256

So through the darkness and the cold we flew 234

So, we'll go no more a-roving 464

Sparrow, The Dead 101

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king 15 _503_

Stepping Westward 456

Stop, Christian passer-by! 270 _604_

Stupidity Street 110

Swans, The Two 299

Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly 213

Sweet Content 253

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright 451

Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content 38 _518_

Sweet Suffolk Owl, so trimly dight 104 _540_

*Sweet William and May Margaret 443

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave 458

Tell me not of joy 101 _538_

Tell me where is fancie bred 209

That houses forme within was rude and strong 339

That wind, I used to hear it swelling 229

The aïr to gi'e your cheäks a hue 581

The ample heaven of fabrik sure 144 _557_

*The cheerful arn he blaws in the marn 138

The cleanly rush of the mountain air 56

The clouds have left the sky 462

The crooked paths go every way 157

The days are cold, the nights are long 220 _583_

The Door of Death 666

The Dragon that our Seas did raise his Crest 189 _573_

The evening sun was sinking down 449

The feathers of the willow 224

*The fort over against the oak-wood 193 _575_

The four sails of the mill 144 _556_

The fresh air moves like water round a boat 9

The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew 79

The heaving roses of the hedge are stirred 222

*The Holly and the Ivy 243 _589_

The hunt is up, the hunt is up 137 _555_

The King of China's daughter 198

*The king sits in Dumferling toune 425 _645_

*The king's young dochter 576

The lake lay blue below the hill 106 _542_

The lark now leaves his watery nest 6 _498_

*The love that I hae chosen 363

The maiden caught me in the wild 373

The man of life upright 595

*The miller's mill-dog lay at the mill-door 89 _533_

*The moon's my constant mistress 291 _606_

The murmur of the mourning ghost 316

The myrtle bush grew shady 192

The night will never stay 465

The poplars are felled; farewell to the shade 49 _520_

*There came a bird out o a bush 649

*There came a ghost to Margret's door 443 _650_

*There cam' Seven Egyptians on a day 531

The red flame flowers bloom and die 474 _664_

There grew a goodly tree him faire beside 491

There is a Garden in her face 150 _561_

*There is a Lady sweet and kind 366 _628_

There is a silence where hath been no sound 405 _641_

*The reivers they stole Fair Annie 434 _646_

*There lived a wife at Usher's Well 445 _651_

There's no smoke in the chimney 52

*There was a gallant ship and a gallant ship was she 418 _644_

*There was a knicht riding frae the east 333 _615_

There was an Indian, who had known no change 379 _631_

*There was an old man lived out in the wood 147

There was no song nor shout of joy 422

*There were three gipsies a-come to my door 79 _531_

*There were twa brethren in the north 55 _523_

*There were twa sisters sat in a bowr 441 _649_

The sea would flow no longer 409

These hearts were woven of human joys and cares 172 _568_

The sheets were frozen hard 31

The smothering dark engulfs relentlessly 239

The snow falls deep; the forest lies alone 78

The snow had fallen many nights and days 410

The splendour falls on castle walls 122

The sun descending in the west 452

The Sun does arise 23

The trees of the elder lands 404 _640_

The twilight is sad and cloudy 32

The wanton Troopers riding by 98 _538_

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing 223

*The wind doth blow to-day, my love 359 _626_

The wind's on the wold 465 _660_

They are all gone into the world of light! 283

They shut the road through the woods 297

They stole her from the well 549

*This ae nighte, this ae nighte 264 _598_

This city and this country 66 _525_

*This is the Key of the Kingdom 3 { _497_
{ _667_

This is the weather the cuckoo likes 10

This Life, which seems so fair 252 _592_

This sailor knows of wondrous lands afar 402 _638_

Thou Fair-haired Angel of the Evening 450

Though three men dwell on Flannan Isle 415

Thou hast come from the old city 340

Thou simple Bird what mak'st thou here to play? 111

Time, you old gipsy man 454

'Tis the middle of night 335 _620_

'Tis the voice of a sluggard; I heard him complain 5 _498_

To-day a rude brief recitative 179 _571_

Toll no bell for me, dear Father, dear Mother 309 _609_

*Tom o' Bedlam 291

*Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, lend me your gray mare 76 _531_

To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er 380 _632_

*To yon fause stream 423

Trafalgar 177

*True Thomas lay oer yond grassy bank 127 _550_

Turnstile, The 272

*Twa Corbies, The 109

*Twa Sisters, The 441

'Twas on a Holy Thursday 66

Two Swans, The 299

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 98 _538_

Underneath an old oak tree 611

Under the after-sunset sky 113

Under the greenewood tree 143

Upon a dark ball spun in Time 295

Upon a Sabbath-day it fell 468 _663_

Upon my lap my sovereign sits 22

Up the airy mountain 122 _548_

Up, Timothy, up with your staff and away! 276

*Wae's me, wae's me 332 _615_

Wake, all the dead! 596

War Song, A 167

Was it the sound of a footfall I heard? 608

Waterfowl, To a 113

Water Lady, The 295

*We are three Brethren come from Spain 346

We be the King's men, hale and hearty 175 _570_

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan 440

Weep, weep, ye woodmen! 81 _532_

Weep you no more, sad fountain 282

*Wee Wee Man, The 293

*Welcome, fayre chylde, what is thy name? 28 _512_

We wandered to the Pine Forest 156

We were young, we were merry 318

Whar hae ye been a' day, my boy Tammy? 35 _516_

What bird so sings, yet so does wail? 15 _503_

What, hast thou run thy Race? Art going down? 451 _652_

What if some little paine the passage have 190

What is there hid in the heart of a rose 151 _561_

What is this life if, full of care 145

What noise of viols is so sweet 81

What shall I your true-love tell 262 _596_

What wondrous life is this I lead! 149

What, you are stepping westward? 456 _655_

When cats run home and light is come 105 _541_

When I am dead, my dearest 279 _605_

When I crept over the hill, broken with tears 275

When I did wake this morn from sleep 7

When I sailed out of Baltimore 95

When Isicles hang by the wall 246 _591_

*When I was bound apprentice 204

When I was but thirteen or so 375 _629_

When men were all asleep the snow came flying 234 _586_

When my mother died I was very young 42

When night is o'er the wood 541

When once the sun sinks in the west 454

When she sleeps 263

When that I was and a little tinie boy 224 _584_

When the cock begins to crow 553

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy 198 _576_

When the lamp is shattered 258

When the Present has latched its postern 455 _653_

When these old woods were young 53 _521_

When the sheep are in the fauld 362

When the voices of children are heard on the green 453 _652_

When the words rustle no more 40

When we lay where Budmouth Beach is 176 _570_

Where are you going, Master mine? 355

Where are your Oranges? 175 _569_

Where do the gipsies come from? 80 _532_

Where on the wrinkled stream the willows lean 106 _542_

Where shall the lover rest 279

Where the Bee sucks, there suck I 121

Where the pools are bright and deep 141

Where the remote Bermudas ride 381 _633_

Where thou dwellest, in what Grove 112

While I sit at the door 487 _666_

While Morpheus thus does gently lay 467 _663_

Whither, midst falling dew? 113

Who calls? Who calls? Who? 120 _548_

Who can live in heart so glad 146

Who feasts tonight? 132 _554_

Who'll walk the fields with us to town? 141

*Who's at my window? 597

Whose Woods these are I think I know 587

*Who--Who--the bride will be? 105

*Why does your brand so drop wi' blood 430 _646_

Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled 171

*Widdecombe Fair 76

*Wife of Usher's Well, The 445

Will you come? 460

Witch's Ballad, The 324

With blackest moss the flower-plots 314 _609_

With deep affection and recollection 210 _582_

With how sad steps, O Moon 463

*Wolcum be thu, hevene kyng 244 _589_

World of Light, The 283

*Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, The 79

Wull ye come in eärly Spring 461

Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon 50

Ye buds of Brutus' land, courageous youths 168 _566_

Ye have been fresh and green 219

Yes, I remember Adlestrop 102

*Yet if His Majesty our sovereign lord 484

Young Love lies sleeping 368 _628_

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Hedgehogs

[2] Starling

[3] Know but little

[4] Give

[5] Birds

[6] Such

[7] Sorrow

[8] Run quickly, hasten away

[9] Float

[10] Whips, mills, or beats

[11] Refresh; make sweet

[12] Truly, in sooth

[13] Mateless and matchless

[14] Chose

[15] Keep

[16] Young

[17] Call

[18] Heedlessness

[19] Natural

[20] Nimbly

[21] Stick out

[22] Squiggle

[23] Toy or trap

[24] More

[25] Make grimaces

[26] Falsehood

[27] Learning

[28] Yea, sirs

[29] Air, tune, stave

[30] Willow rind

[31] Pears

[32] Feast or fast

[33] Gown or coat-tail

[34] Where

[35] Going

[36] Who's

[37] From

[38] Dale or hollow

[39] Knoll or hillock

[40] Goods and chattels

[41] If

[42] Clothes

[43] Sweet-smelling

[44] Cat-mint

[45] Gillyflower

[46] Empty

[47] Weeping

[48] Every

[49] Stole

[50] Had been

[51] Wrestle

[52] If

[53] Must not

[54] Dare not

[55] Dug. delved

[56] Her death-throes

[57] Bran

[58] Hairs

[59] Yeast

[60] Duck's

[61] Bracken

[62] To

[63] Such two

[64] Scarce

[65] Makes

[66] If

[67] Safely

[68] Lustily

[69] _Cave!_

[70] Pretty dear

[71] Green-walled ditch

[72] Thatch: mend

[73] Briar: wild-wood

[74] Distaff

[75] When the woods are fresh and fair

[76] It

[77] Small birds'

[78] Polished

[79] Which soon

[80] O'er meadow, moor and stream

[81] Herbs, wild flowers

[82] Stir

[83] A bank between ploughlands

[84] More

[85] Preens

[86] Stay

[87] Might

[88] This

[89] Risk, hazard, dare.

[90] Dainty; luxurious.

[91] Dirge, lament

[92] Vast hill-hollow

[93] Danger or defeat

[94] When the half-muffled City Bells rang in commemoration of the Bell-Ringers who fell in the war, the bells of St. Clement Danes could not take part owing to a defect in the framework.

[95] For a moment

[96] Game

[97] Cowering

[98] Glen

[99] Wee bit lassikin

[100] No linnets

[101] Freezing

[102] Worse

[103] Burn

[104] Him

[105] Together

[106] Loved

[107] Are here

[108] Custom

[109] Chilblain

[110] Forester

[111] Them

[112] Hast thou

[113] Cries

[114] Skim

[115] Apples

[116] Once

[117] Locks

[118] Skin

[119] Set

[120] Grow

[121] Elf

[122] Made one

[123] May

[124] Where's

[125] Dove

[126] Trappings

[127] Make

[128] Hold

[129] Bought

[130] The green margin of a river

[131] Wild and lively

[132] Furious

[133] Carousers

[134] Brawling

[135] Cobbler

[136] Spellbound

[137] Chose

[138] Witching

[139] Dust: reek

[140] Road

[141] Nearest

[142] Dove

[143] Asked

[144] Ere

[145] Bold

[146] Than

[147] Worse

[148] Why, sure

[149] Peat for school fire

[150] Who owns

[151] Vessel, ship

[152] Bands

[153] Ere

[154] Slowly, softly

[155] Cows

[156] Husband

[157] Weep

[158] Much

[159] Praises

[160] Good reason why

[161] More

[162] Pool

[163] Leaping

[164] Crooked, awry

[165] Spell

[166] Charmed and cozened

[167] Laughed

[168] Foul

[169] Right loth

[170] Wet

[171] But long ere

[172] If

[173] Hand-bag

[174] Birch-wood

[175] The young wife

[176] Skirts of bright green

[177] Must not

[178] This

[179] High

[180] Hair-comb

[181] Save

[182] The one

[183] Raiders

[184] Gold and silver

[185] Alone

[186] To the gate is gone

[187] Halls

[188] If

[189] One

[190] The twain

[191] Makes her weep

[192] Such lament

[193] Shall not lose

[194] Seized his all

[195] More

[196] Everything

[197] Within

[198] And dashed her backwards into the waves

[199] And I'll make

[200] You shall have

[201] It parted me and my world's mate

[202] Great

[203] If you will stand

[204] Every

[205] Likewise

[206] Visions

[207] Canopy over dais

[208] Mate

[209] Bed

[210] Told

[211] First and foremost

[212] Cap-nets of silk or of gold

[213] Bird

Transcriber's Note:

1. All original spelling has been retained.

2. Possible printing and spelling errors have been silently corrected.

3. Words in hyphenated and non-hyphenated forms have been retained.

4. Superscripts are shown as ^x.