CONTENTS

e Scholar Gipsy
Itylus
Pied Beauty

A Passer-by

The Vagabond

Romance

Drake's Drum

The Hawk

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Scholars

Jack

The Changeling

Stupidity Street

Roundabouts and Swings

Tit for Tat

I met at Eve

The Donkey

Cargoes

Prometheus

The Ship

The Old Ships

Everyone Sang

The Dead

The Pike

Portrait of a Boy

Matthew Arnold
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A. C. Swinburne
130

Gerard Manley

Hopkins
132

Robert Bridges
133

R. L. Stevenson
134

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Sir Henry Newbolt
135

A. C. Benson
136

W. B. Teats
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E. F. Lucas
138

Charlotte Mew
142

Ralph Hodgson
144

Patrick R. Chalmers
145

Walter de la Mare
146

G. K. Chesterton
148

John Masejield
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Wilfrid Gibson
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Sir John Squire
150

James Elroy Flecker
150

Siegfried Sassoon
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Rupert Brooke
152

Edmund Blunden
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Stephen Vincent Emit
154

Sir Hudibras and his Squire

(from Hudibras}
The Character of Shaftesbury

(from Absalom and Achitophel)
Epitaph on Charles II

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WIT AND HUMOUR

Samuel Butler

John Dryden
Earl of Rochester

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