CONTENTS
BALLADS

PAGE

Sir Patrick Spens
Anonymous
3'

Helen of Kirconnell J^osabellc
Anonymous Sir Walter Scott
6
7

Proud Maisie
J?
8

Bishop Hatto
Robert Southey
9

I> Belle Darrift _saps Merci
John Kpfli^
TQ

^TEeKmght's Leap
• ^j Charles' Kingsky
13

JHbratius
Lord Macaulay
15

Shameful Death
William Moms
24

The Ballad of Semmerwater
Sir William Watson
25

NARRATIVE
POEMS

Hart-Leap Well
William Wordsworth
29

The Destruction of Sennacherib
Lord Byron
35

The Armada
Lord Macaulay
36

Morte d' Arthur
Lord Tennyson
40

jhieLadyofShalott
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47

Herv6 Ricl
Robert Browning
53

CThe Pied Piper of Hamf.jin
J5
58

Goblin Market '
Christina Rossetti
67

A Runnable Stag
John Davidson
83

Hawke
Sir Henry Newbolt
86

He Fell Among Thieves
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87

The Highwayman
Alfred Noyes
89

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