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EXGLISH POEMS
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English Poems
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SELECTED, ARRANGED d- 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 j
New York : The Macmillan Company
1904
All rights res2->yjed - -
First Edition 1903.
Reprinted 1904.
GLAS':;ow : printed at the uxiversity press
BY ROBERT MACLKHOrfE AND CO. LTD,
PREFACE.
The arrangement of the following poems is based upon
the belief that poetry appeals to, exercises, and strengthens
the best feelings of the human heart. Indeed, poetry
may be defined as the fit expression of fit emotion. This
does not preclude its being intensely intellectual, as the
noblest emotion follows on and is a result of the pro-
foundest thought, and there is no right emotion that
does not arise from a truthful view of things. To be a
poet a man must see clearly, as well as feel deeply ; and
be able to express his feelings in such a way that kindred
emotions rise in the hearts of others. Imagination— as
distinguished from fancy — is an essential characteristic of
poetry, 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,
science is not, as is maintained with painful frequency,
inimical to poetry, but essential to its existence ; the
former, with its logical method, supplying the knowledge
of truth, -without which there can be neither poetry nor
anything 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
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VI PREFACE.
that he can, but feel its beauty ; whilst, on the other hand,
feeling based on ignorance is either feeble or dangerous.
The Notes are as brief and simple as I could make them.
No attempt has been made to supply philological or critical
information, but their aim is merely to render the text
readily intelligible to young people. Most young readers
are discouraged somewhat easily — and very naturally, as
it seems to me — by the difficulties of English poetry, and
I 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 just enough of the incalculable beauties
of their minds to attract for life those who might other-
wise have maligned and reviled them. Some half dozen
poems have been included which contain a few lines of
a difficulty above the standard proposed for this collec-
tion, though otherwise, in my opinion, suitable. In such
cases I have put notes at the foot of the page, where
reference to them may be readily made. The rest of the
notes have been placed at the end of the book. After
preparing a poem with their aid a class, I think, should
be able to show, in response to questions, a real grasp
of its meaning.
I am especially indebted to the anthologies of Messrs.
F. T. Palgrave, C. M. Vaughan, Mowbray Morris, and
Gr. Cookson, all published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co.,
and to those of Canon H. C. Beeching, published by
Messrs. Eivington, Percival & Co., of Mr. W. E. Henley,
published by Mr. David Nutt and by Messrs. Methuen &
Co., and of Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch, published by the
PREFACE. vii
Clarendon Press. AVithout the advantage of reference to
these the labour of making the following Selections would
have been incalculably increased. My thanks are also due
to Messrs. Macmillan & Co., who have kindly permitted
me to include much copyright matter which they control.
J. G. JENNINGS.
CONTENTS.
SECTION I.— HOME.
POEM PAGE
1. R. SouTHEY, The Traveller's Return, .... 1
2. J. Howard Payne, Home, Sweet Home, .... 2
.3. TjOrd Tennyson, 8weet and Low, ..... '2
4. Felicia D. Hemans, The Graves of a Household, . . .3
5. C. Tennyson-Turner, A Legend, 4
SECTION II.— BEASTS, FLOWERS, AND BIRDS.
6. W. CowPER, To a Spaniel on his killing a Young Bird, . 7
7. W. Wordsworth, The Daffodils, 9
8. Michael Bruce, To the Cuckoo, 10
9. H. S. CoRNWELL, The Stormy Petrel, . = .11
10. W. C. Bryant, To a Waterfowl, 12
SECTION III.— THE BEAUTY OF NATURE.
11. Shakespeare, Under the Greenwood Tree, . . .14
12. T. Nash, Spring, 15
1.3. Lord Tennyson, The Brook, . . . . 16
14. W. Wordsworth, To Sleep, 18
15. Shakespeare, Winter (When icicles hang by the wall), . ^8
ix
X CONTENTS.
SECTION IV.— TENDERNESS FOR THE WEAK AND AFFLICTED, AND
THE SENSE OF HUMAN FELLOWSHIP.
POEM PAGE
16. W. CowPER, On a Goldfinch starved to death in his Cage, 20
17. T. GiSBORNE, The Worm, 21
18. 0. Goldsmith, When Lovely Woman stoops to Folh', . 22
19. Adelaide A. Procter, God's Gifts, 22
20. Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel, . . 24
SECTION v.— ROMANCE AND WONDER.
21. Shakespeare, Hark ! Hark I the Lark,
22. Lord Tennyson, The Ladj^ of Shalott,
23. C. Kingsley, The Sands of Dee,
24. Anonymous, Robin Goodfellow,.
25. J. Fletch^-". Orpheus with his Lute,
25
25
31
32
34
SECTION VI.— COURAGE AND MANLINESS
26. C. Kingsley, The Three Fishers,
27. Felicia D. Hem an s, Casabianca,
28. H. W. Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith,
29. C. Mackay, My Good Right Hand, .
30. C. Mackay, The Miller of the Dee, .
35
36
37
39
40
SECTION VII.— PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY.
31. Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib,
32. R. Burns, My Heart's in the Highlands,
33. Lord Macaulay, A Jacobite's Epitaph, .
34. Felicia D. Hemans, The Homes of England, .
35. Anonymous, The British Grenadiers,
42
43
44
44
46
CONTEXTS. xi
SECTION Vril.— IXXOCENX'E, GOODNESS, AND WISDOM.
POEM PAGE
36. W. Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper, . . . .47
37. W. Barnes, The Surprise, 48
38. A. Pope, Solitude, . 49
39. T. Dekker, Content, 50
40. Sir W. Jones, Epigram, . . . . . . .51
SECTION IX.— THE COXTEMPLATIOX OF LIFE AND DEATH.
41. Henry King, Such is Life (Like to the falling of a star), . 52
42. T. Moore, The Light of Other Days, . . . .53
43. Shakespeare, Fidele (Fear no more the heat o' the sun), 54
44. W. S. LajsDOR, Rose Aylmer , . 54
45. Felicia D. Hemans, Death's Seasons, . . . , i^o
SECTION X.— THE WORLD AND THE CREATOR.
46. R. Browning, Pippa's Song (The year's at the spring), . 57
47. Christina G. Rossetti, Buds and Babies, . .57
48. Lord Tennyson, A Farewell, 58
49. Felicia D. Hemans, The Hour of Prayer, . . .58
50. B. W. Procter, Stars, 59
Notes, 61
Index of Authors, 75
Index of First Lines 77
SECTION L
HOME.
1.
THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN.
Sweet to the morning traveller
The song amid the sky,
Where, twinkling in the dewy light,
The skylark soars on high.
And cheering to the traveller 5
The gales that round him play,
When faint and heavily he drags
Along his noontide way.
And when beneath the unclouded sun
Full wearily toils he, 10
The flowing water makes to him
A soothing melody.
And when the evening light decays,
And all is calm around.
There is sweet music to his ear 15
In the distant sheep-bell's sound.
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2 SOUTHEY: PAYNE.
But 0 ! of all delightful sounds
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 !
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek thro' the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! 5
There's no place like home !
There's no place like home !
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain.
Oh ! give me my lowly thatch'd cottage again !
The birds singing gaily that came at my call, ■ 10
Give me them, with the peace of mind dearer than all.
Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home !
There's no place like home !
There's no place like home !
J. Howard Payke.
3.
SWEET AND LOW.
Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea !
TENNYSON: FELICIA HEMANS. 3
Over the rolling waters go, 5
Come from the dying moon, and How,
Blow him again to me ;
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon ; lo
Rest, rest, on mother's breast.
Father will come to thee soon ;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon : 15
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
Tennyson.
4.
THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD.
They grew in beauty, side by side.
They filled one home with glee —
Their graves are severed far and \Wde,
By mount, and stream, and sea.
The same fond mother bent at night
O'er each fair sleeping brow ;
She had each folded flower in sight
Where are those dreamers now ?
One 'midst the forests of the West,
By a dark stream is laid —
The Indian knows his place of rest,
Far 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 15
O'er his low bed may weep.
One sleeps where southern vines are dressed
Above the noble slain ;
He wrapt his colours round his breast,
On a blood-red field of Spain. 20
And one — o'er her the myrtle showers
Its leaves, by soft winds fanned ;
She faded, 'midst Italian flowers —
The last of that bright band.
And parted thus they rest, who played 25
Beneath the same green tree ;
Whose voices mingled as they prayed
Around one parent knee !
They that with smiles lit up the hall.
And cheered with song the hearth — 30
Alas for love ! if thou wert all,
And nought beyond, 0 Earth !
Felicia Hemaxs,
5.
A LEGEND.
It was upon a Lammas night
Two brothers woke and said,
As each upon the other's weal
Bethouo:ht him on his bed ;
TENNYSON-TURNER. 5
The elder spake unto his wife, 5
"Our brother dwells alone ;
No little babes to cheer his life,
And helpmate hath he none ;
" Up will I get and of my heap
A sheaf l)e.stow or twain, 10
The while our Ahmed lies asleep,
And wots not of the gain."'
So up he got and did address
Himself with loving heed,
Before the dawning of the day, 15
To do that gracious deed.
Now to the younger, all unsought.
The same kind fancy came !
Nor wist they of each other's thought,
Though moved to the same. 20
" Abdullah he hath wife," quoth he,
" And little babes also ;
What would be slender boot to me
Would make his heart o'erflow ;
" Up will I get, and of my heap 25
A sheaf bestow or twain.
The while he sweetly lies asleep,
And wots not of. the gain."
So up he got and did address
Himself with loving heed, 30
Before the dawning of the day.
To mate his brother's deed !
TENNYSOX-TUKNER.
Thus played they oft their gracious parts,
And 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 11.
BEASTS, FLOWERS, AND BIRDS.
6.
TO A SPAN/EL ON HIS KILLING A YOUNG BIRD.
" A SPANIEL, Beau, that fares like you,
Well fed, and at his ease.
Should wiser be than to pursue
Each trifle that he sees.
" But you have kill'd a tiny bird,
Which flew not till to-day,
Against my orders, whom you heard
Forbidding you the prey.
"Nor did^you kill that you might eat,
And ease a doggish pain,
For him, though chased with furious heat
You left where he was slain.
10
" Nor was he of the thievish sort,
Or one whom blood allures,
But innocent was all his sport 15
Whom you have torn for yours.
COWPER.
" My dog ! what remedy remains,
Since, teach you all I can,
I see you after all my pains
So much resemble man 1 " — 20
" Sir, when I flew to seize the bird
In spite of your command,
A louder voice than yours I heard.
And harder to withstand.
" You cried —forbear ! — but in my breast 25
A mightier cried — proceed !
'Twas Nature, Sir, whose strong behest
Impell'd me to the deed.
" Yet, much as Nature I respect,
I ventured once to break 30
(As you, perhaps, may recollect)
Her precept for your sake ;
" And when your linnet, on a day.
Passing his prison door.
Had flutter'd all his strength away, 35
And, panting, press'd the floor ;
" Well knowing him a sacred thing.
Not destined to my tooth,
I only kiss'd his ruflled wing,
And lick'd the feathers smooth. 40
" Let my obedience then excuse
My disobedience now,
Nor some reproof yourself refuse
From your aggrieved Bow-wow :
'' If killing birds be such a crime 45
(Which I can hardlv see).
COWPER: WORDSWORTH. 9
What think you, Sir, of killing time,
With verse addressed to me ? "
W. CoWPER.
7.
THE DAFFODILS.
I WANDERED loiiely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden Daffodils ;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 5
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle in the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay : 10
Ten thousand saw I at a glance.
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, luit they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee : —
A poet could not but be gay 15
In such a jocund company :
I gazed — and gazed — but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.
For oft when on my couch 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 fills.
And dances with the Daffodils.
Wordsworth.
10 BRUCE.
8.
TO THE CUCKOO.
Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove !
Thou messenger of spring !
Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat,
And woods thy welcome sing.
What time the daisy decks the green, 5
Thy certain voice we hear ;
Hast thou a star to guide thy path,
Or mark 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 new voice of spring to hear, 15
And imitates thy lay.
What time the pea puts on the bloom.
Thou fliest thy vocal vale.
An annual guest in other lands^
Another spring to hail. 20
Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear ;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song.
No winter in thy year !
0 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 5
Exults, and challenges the storm %
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, 10
Or organ- winds through sea caves blown,
Are harmonies for thee alone 1
Man's argosies are swept to naught ;
Yet o'er the havoc, tempest-wrought.
Companion of the wandering sea — 15
Tumult and Death but toy with thee,
And cheer thee in thy lonely flight.
Making our horror thy delight !
Oh, would, strange bird, I too could sweep
Unharmed along life's angry deep, 20
Nor heed the lowering clouds that roll
And darken round the struggling soul —
Like thee could soar, and breast, elate.
The mists of doubt, the storms of fate.
H. S. CoRNWELL.
12 BRYANT.
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 flight to do thee wrong,
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, 10
Or where the rocking billows rise and sink
On the chafed ocean side %
There is a power whose care
Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, —
The desert and illimitable air, — 16
Lone wandering, but not lost.
All day thy wings have fann'd.
At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ;
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near. 20
And soon that toil shall end ;
Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest
And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend
Soon o'er thy shelter'd nest.
BRYANT. 13
Thou'rt gone— the abyss of heaven 25
Hath swallow'd up thy form — 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 flight, 30
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.
W. C. Bryant.
SECTION III
THE BEAUTY OF NATURE.
11.
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither ' 5
Here shall he see
Xo enemy,
Bnt winter and rough weather.
Who doth ambition shun
And loves to lie in the sun, 10
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleased with what he gets.
Come hither, come hither, come hither !
Here shall he see
No enemy, 15
But winter and rough weather.
Shakespeare.
14
NASH. 15
12.
SPRING.
Spring, the sweet Spring,
Is the year's pleasant king ;
Then blooms each thing,
Then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, 5
The pretty birds do sing.
Cuckoo, jug- jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo 1
The palm and may
Make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, 10
The shepherds pipe all day,
And we hear aye
Birds tune this merry lay.
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo !
The fields breathe sweet, 15
The daisies kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet.
Old wives a-sunning sit.
In every street
These tunes our ears do gi'eet, 20
Cuckoo, jug- jug, pu-we, to witta-woo !
Spring ! the sweet Spring !
T. Nash.
18 TENNYSON.
13.
THE BROOK,
I COME from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern.
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down 5
Or slip between the ridges.
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges,
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river ; 10
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays, 15
I babble on the pebbles.
"With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow.
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow. 2C
I chatter, chatter as I flow
To join the brimming river ;
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
TENNYSON. 17
I wind about, and in and out, 25
With here a 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 30
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel ;
And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river ;
For men may come and men may go, 35
But I go on for ever.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers ;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers. 40
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows :
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and stars 45
In brambty wildernesses ;
I linger by my shingly bars ;
I loiter round my cresses ;
And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river ; 50
For men may come and men may go.
But I go on for ever.
Tennyson.
B
18 WORDSWORTH: SHAKESPEARE.
14.
TO SLEEP.
A 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 5
Sleepless ; and soon the small birds' melodies
Must hear, first utter'd from my orchard trees.
And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay,
And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth : 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.
Dear mother of fresh 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, and ways be foul,
Then nightly 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, 10
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,
Then nightly sings the staring owl 15
" Tuwhoo !
Tuwhit ! tuwhoo I " A 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 gay, 5
My strains for ever new.
But gaudy plumage, sprightly strain,
And form genteel, were all in vain.
And of a transient date ;
For caught and caged, and starved to death, 10
In dying sighs my little breath
Soon passed the mry grate.
20
COWPER : GISBORXE. 21
Thanks, gentle swain, for all my woes,
And thanks for this effectual close,
And cure of every ill ! 15
More 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 of all that move, 5
From whom thy being flow'd,
A portion of His boundless love
On that poor worm bestow'd.
The sun, the moon, the stars, He made
For all His creatures free ; 10
And spread o'er earth the grassy blade,
For worms as well as thee.
Let them enjoy their little day,
Their humble bliss receive ;
0 1 do not lightly take away 15
The life thou canst not give 1
T. GiSBORNE.
22 GOLDSMITH: ADELAIDE A. PROCTER.
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, 5
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 in scorn, 5
Cursing the day when it 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. PROCTER. 23
In dens of guilt the baby played,
Where sin, and sin alone was made,
The law that all around obeyed.
With ready and obedient care
He learnt the tasks they taught him there ; 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 ;
Branding him with a deeper brand 25
Of shame, he could not understand,
The felon outcast of the land.
God gave a gift to Earth -.—a child.
Weak, innocent, and undefiled,
Opened its ignorant eyes and smiled. 30
And Earth received the gift, and cried
Her joy and triumph far and wide.
Till echo answered to her pride.
She blest the hour when first he came
To take the crown of pride and fame, 35
Wreathed through long ages for his name ;
Then bent her utmost art and skill,
To train the- supple mind and will.
And guard it from a breath of ill.
She strewed his morning path with flowers, 40
And 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
24 ADELAIDE A. PROCTER: HUXT.
And every step, of work or play,
Was lit by some such dazzling ray,
Till morning brightened into day.
And then the World arose, and said —
" Let added honours now be shed 50
On such a noble heart and head ! "
— O World, both gifts were pure and bright,
Holy and sacred in God's sight : —
God will judge them and thee aright !
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 it rich and like a lily in bloom.
An angel writing in a book of gold : — 5
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
" What writest thou % " — The vision raised its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord
Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord."' 10
" And is mine one % " said Abou. " Nay, not so,"
Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still, and said, " I pray thee then.
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men."
The Angel wrote, and vanish'd. The next night 15
It came again -with a great wakening light,
And show'd the names whom love of God had bless 'd,
And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Leigh Hunt.
SECTION V.
EOMANCE AND WONDEE,
21.
Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
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 bin,
My lady sweet, arise :
Arise, arise !
Shakespeare.
^- 22.
THE LADY OF SHALOTT.
On either side the river lie
Long fields of 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 ;
26 TENNYSON.
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.
"Willows whiten, aspens quiver, 10
Little breezes 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, 15
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle imbowers
The Lady of Shalott.
By the margin, willow-veil'd.
Slide the heavy barges trail'd 20
By slow horses ; and unhail'd
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 - 25
Or is she known in all the land.
The Lady of Shalott ?
Only reapers, reaping early
In among the bearded barley,
Hear a song that echoes cheerly 30
From 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 35
Lady of Shalott.'
TENNYSON. 27
There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say
A curse is on her if she stay 40
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she.
The Lady of Shalott. 45
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 there the surly village-churls.
And the red cloaks of market girls.
Pass onward from Shalott.
Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, 55
An abbot on an ambling pad,
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 60
The knights come riding two and two :
She hath no loyal knight and true.
The Lady of Shalott.
But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights ; 65
28 TENNYSOX.
For often thro' the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot ;
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed ; 70
' I am half sick of shadows/ said
The Lady of Shalott.
Ill
A BOW-SHOT from her bower-eaves
He rode between the barley-sheaves ;
The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves 75
And flamed upon the brazen greaves
Of bold Sir Lancelot.
A red-cross knight for exer kneel'd
To a lady in his shield,
That sparkled on the yellow field, 80
Beside remote Shalott.
The gemmy bridle glitter'd free.
Like to some branch of stars we see
Hung in the golden Galaxy.
The bridle bells rang merrily 85
As he rode down to Camelot :
And from his blazon'd baldric slung
A mighty silver bugle hung.
And as 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. 29
As 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 ; 100
On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode ;
From underneath his helmet flow'd
His coal-black curls as on he rode,
As he rode down to Camelot.
From the bank and from the river 105
He flash'd into the crystal mirror ;
' Tirra lirra,' by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.
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 ; 115
' The curse is come upon me,' cried
The Lady of Shalott.
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 to\\ er'd Camelot ;
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round about the prow she wrote 125
The Lady of Shalott.
30 TENNYSON.
And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance —
With a glassy countenance 130
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay ;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott. 135
Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right —
The leaves upon her falling light —
Thro' the noises of the night
She floated down to Camelot : 140
And as the boat-head wound along
The \Wllowy hills and fields among.
They heard her singing her last song.
The Lady of Shalott.
Heard a carol, mournful, holy, 145
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly.
Till her blood was frozen slowly,
And her eyes were darken'd wholly,
Turn'd to tower'd Camelot.
For ere she reach'd upon the. tide 150
The first house by the water-side.
Singing, in her song she died.
The Lady of Shalott.
Under tower and balcony.
By garden-wall and gallery, 155
A gleaming shape she floated by,
Dead-pale between the houses high.
Silent into Camelot.
TEXNYSON: KINGSLEY. 31
Out upon the wharfs they came,
Knight and burgher, lord and dame, 160
And round the prow they read her name,
The Lady of Shalott.
' Who is this ? and what is here V
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer ; 165
And 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, 170
The Lady of Shalott.'
Tennyson.
23.
THE SANDS OF DEE.
" 0 Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home.
And call the cattle home.
Across the sands o' Dee ! "'
The western wind was wdld and dank ^nth foam, 5
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 ; 10
The blinding mist came down and hid the land,
And never home came she.
32 KINGSLEY: ANONYMOUS.
Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair 1
A tress of golden hair,
Of drowned maiden's hair, 15
Above the nets at sea.
Was never salmon yet that shone so fair
Among the stakes at Dee !
They rowed her in across the rolling foam,
The cruel, crawling foam, 20
The cruel, hungry foam.
To her grave beside the sea :
But still 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 and shadows there,
Mad Eobin I, at his command,
Am sent to view the night-sports here.
AYhat revel-rout 5
Is kept about.
In every corner where I go,
I will o'ersee,
And merry be.
And make good sport, with ho, ho, ho ! 10
More s^vift than lightning can I fly
About this air}^ welkin soon.
And, in a minute's space, descry
Each thing that's done below the moon.
ANONYMOUS. 33
There's not a hag 15
Or ghost shall wag
Or cry " 'AVare goblins ! '"' where I go,
But Robin, 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
And call them on with me to roam ;
Through woods, through lakes, 25
Through bogs, through brakes,
Or else, unseen, with them I go,
All in the nick
To play some trick.
And frolic it, with ho, ho, ho ! 30
Sometimes I meet them like a man,
Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound ;
And to a horse I turn me can,
To trip and trot about them round.
But if, to ride, 35
My back they stride,
More swift than wind away I go ;
O'er hedge and lands.
Through pools ,and ponds,
I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho I 40
By wells and rills, in meadows green.
We nightly dance our heyday guise ;
And to our fairy King and Queen,
AVe chant our moonlight minstrelsies.
When larks 'gin sing, 45
Away we fling ;
I. "^ C
34 ANONYMOUS: FLETCHER
And babes new-born steal as we go,
And elf in bed
We leave instead,
And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho ! 50
From hag-bred Merlin's time have I
Thus nightly revell'd to and fro ;
And for my pranks men call me by
The name of Robin Good-fellow.
Fiends, ghosts, and sprites, 55
Who haunt the nights,
The hags and goblins, do me know ;
And beldames old
My feats have told,
So vdU, vale ! ho, ho, ho 1 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 5
There had made a lasting spring.
Every thing that heard him play,
Ev'n the billows of the sea.
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is 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 went sailing away to the West,
Away to the West as the sun 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, 5
And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbour bar be moaning.
Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower,
And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down ; 9
They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower,
And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown.
But men must work, and women must weep.
Though storms be sudden, and waters deep.
And the harbour bar be moaning.
35
36 KINGSLEY: FELICIA HEMANS.
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 it's over, the sooner to sleep ; 20
And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
C. KiNGSLEY.
27.
CASABIANCA.
A True Story.
The boy stood on the burning deck,
AVhence all but he had fled ;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead ;
Yet beautiful and bright he stood 5
As born to rule the storm !
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though child-like form !
The flames roll'd on — he would not go
Without his father's word ; 10
That father, faint in death below.
His voice no longer heard.
He call'd aloud, " Say, father, say
If yet my task is done ! "
He knew 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. 37
Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair ;
And look'd from that lone post of death
In still, yet brave despair ;
And shouted but once more aloud, 25
" My father ! must I 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, 30
And stream'd above the gallant child
Like banners in the sky.
There came a burst of thunder-sound —
The boy — 0 1 where was he ?
— Ask of the winds that far around 35
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 ! 40
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.
38 LONGFELLOW
His hair is crisp, and black, and long,
His face is like the tan ;
His brow is wet with honest sweat.
He earns whate'er he can, 10
And looks the whole world in the face.
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night.
You can hear his bellows blow ;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, 15
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door : 20
They love 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 25
And sits among his boys ;
He hears the parson pray and preach.
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir.
And it makes his heart rejoice. 30
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in Paradise !
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies ;
And with his hard rough hand he wipes 35
A tear out of his eyes.
LONGFELLOW: MACKAY. 39
Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes ;
Each morning sees some task begun.
Each evening sees its close : 40
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend.
For the lesson thou hast taught I
Thus at the flaming forge of life 45
Our fortunes may be wrought ;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
Longfellow.
Lines 47-48 : Thus, by the exercise of steady resolution such as
yours, we may control our deeds and thoughts, first making them
generous and unselfish, and then directing them to useful purposes
— as the iron is first heated and then shaped for use.
29.
MY GOOD RIGHT HAND.
I FELL into grief, and began to complain ;
I looked for a friend, but 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 is to build on the sand : —
I'll trust but in Heaven and my good Right Hand "
40 MACKAY.
My courage re\'ived, in my fortune's despite,
And my hand was as strong as my spirit was light ; 10
It raised me from sorrow, it saved me from pain ;
It fed me, and clad me, again and again.
The friends who had left me came back every one.
And darkest advisers looked bright as the sun ;
I need them no more, as they all understand, — 15
I thank thee, I trust thee, my good Pdght Hand 1
C. Mackay.
30.
THE MILLER OF THE DEE.
There dwelt a miller, hale and bold,
Beside the river Dee,
He wrought and sang from morn to night,
No lark more blithe than he,
And this the burden of his song 5
For ever used to be,
" I envy nobody, no, not I,
And nobody envies me."
" Thou'rt wrong, my friend ! " said old King Hal,
"Thourt wrong as wrong can be; 10
For, could my heart be light as thine.
I'd gladly change with thee.
And tell me now what makes thee sing
With voice so loud and free.
While I am sad though I'm the King, 15
Beside the river Dee % "
The miller smiled, and doffed his cap :
" I earn my bread," quoth he ;
" I love my wife, I love my friends,
I love my children three ; 20
MACKAY. 41
I owe no penny I cannot pay,
I thank the river Dee,
That turns the mill that grinds the corn,
To feed my babes and me."
" Good friend ! " said Hal, and sighed the while, 25
" Farewell ! 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, my kingdom's fee I 30
Such men as thou are England's l^oast,
0 miller of the Dee ! "
C. Mackay.
SECTION VII.
PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY.
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold,
And 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 is green, 5
That host with their banners at sunset 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 blast.
And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; 10
And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still.
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide.
But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride ;
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, 15
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
42
BYRON: BURNS, 43
And there lay the rider, distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ;
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. 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 in the glance of the Lord I
Byron.
32.
MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS.
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ;
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer ;
Chasing the wild deer and following the roe.
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Farew^ell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, 5
The birth-place of valour, the coimtry of worth ;
AVherever I wander wherever I rove,
The hills of 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 floods.
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ;
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer ;
Chasing the ^\^ld deer and following the roe, 15
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go !
Burns.
44 MACAULAY: FELICIA HEMANS.
33.
A JACOBITE'S EPITAPH.
To my true King I offered free from stain
Courage and faith ; vain faith, and courage vain.
For him I threw lands, honours, wealth, away,
And one dear hope, that was more prized than they.
For him I languished in a foreign clime, 5
Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime ;
Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees.
And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees ;
Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep.
Each morning started from the dream to weep ; 10
Till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave
The resting-place I asked — an early grave.
O 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, 15
By that dear language which I speak like thee.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Macaulay.
34.
THE HOMES OF ENGLAND.
The stately homes of England !
How beautiful they stand,
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
O'er all the pleasant land !
FELICIA HEMANS. 45
The deer across their greensward bound 5
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, 10
What gladsome looks of household love
Meet in the ruddy light !
The blessed homes of England 1
How softly on their bowers
Is laid the holy quietness 15
That breathes from Sabbath hours !
The cottage homes of England !
By thousands on her plains
They 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 bird beneath their eaves.
The free, fair homes of England ! 25
Long, long, in hut and hall,
May 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, 80
Where first the child's glad spirit loves
Its country and its God !
Felicia Hemans.
46 ANONYMOUS.
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 5
There's none that can compare —
With a tow row row row row row —
To the British Grenadier !
Whene'er we are commanded
To storm the palisades, 10
Our leaders march with fusees,
And we with hand-grenades ;
We throw them from the glacis
About the enemies' ears.
Sing tow row row row row row, 15
The British Grenadiers !
Then let us fill a bumper,
And drink a health to those
Who carry caps and pouches.
And wear the louped clothes ; 20
May they and their commanders
Live happy all their years !
With a tow row row row row row
For the British Grenadiers I
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, 5
And sings a melancholy strain :
0 listen ! for the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No nightingale did ever chant
So sweetly to reposing bands 10
Of travellers in some shady haunt
Among Arabian sands ;
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In springtime from the cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas 15
Among the farthest Hebrides.
47
48 WORDSWORTH: BARXES.
Will no one tell me what she sings 1
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-ofl" things
And battles long ago ; 20
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day 1
Some actual sorrow, loss or pain
That has been, and may be again ?
Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang 25
As if her song could have no ending ;
I saw her singing at her work.
And o'er the sickle bending ;
I listened, motionless and still ;
And, as I mounted up the hill, 30
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 May,
And took my way along a ground,
I found a glade ^Wth girls at play,
By leafy boughs close-hemm'd around,
And there, with stores of harmless joys, 5
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 there !"
And oh I so playsome, oh ! so fair, 10
BARNES: POPE. 49
And one would dance as one would spring,
Or bob or bow with leering smiles,
And one would swing, or sit and sing,
Or sew a stitch or two at whiles ;
And one skipped on with downcast face, 15
All heedless, to my very place,
Ajid there, in fright, with one foot out
Made one dead step and turn'd aljout.
''Heelif heef oh! oh.' ooh ! oo /—Look there/"
And oh ! so playsome, oh ! so fair. 20
Away they scamper'd all, full speed,
By boughs that swung 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 25
A thread of cotton, off her reel,
And oh ! to follow that white clue
I felt I fain could scamper too.
" Teeh / hee ! Bun here / Eeh I ee / Look there I"
And oh ! so playsome, oh ! so fair. 30
W. Barnes.
38.
SOL/TC/DE.
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, 5
AMiose flocks supply him with attire ;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade.
In \vinter fire.
J. I. P
50 POPE: DEKKER.
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, 15
With 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 rich, yet is thy mind perplexed %
0, punishment !
Dost thou laugh to see how fools are vexed 5
To add to golden numbers golden numbers %
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 I
Swimm'st thou in wealth, yet sink'st in thine own tears ?
0, punishment !
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Then he that patiently want's Ijunlen bears, 15
No Ijurden bears, but is 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,
Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled :
So live, that sinking to thy life's last sleep.
Calm thou may'st 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, 5
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 : 10
The dew dries up, the star is shot.
The flight is past ;— and Man forgot.
Henry King.
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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 me :
The smiles, the tears 5
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken ;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimniVl and gone.
The cheerful hearts now broken ! 10
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
AVhen I remember all 15
The friends so link'd to^-ether
I've seen around me fall
Like leaves in wintry weather,
I feel like one
Who treads alone 20
Some banquet-hall deserted,
AVhose lights are fled,
Whose garlands dead.
And all but he departed !
Thus in the stilly night 25
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
T. Moore.
54 SHAKESPEARE: LANDOR.
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, 5
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Fear no more the frown o' the great,
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke ;
Care no more to clothe and eat ;
To thee the reed is as the oak : 10
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.
Fear no more the lightning flash
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone \
Fear not slander, censure rash ; 15
Thou hast finished joy and moan :
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
Shakespeare.
44.
ROSE AYLMER.
Ah, what avails the sceptred race,
Ah, what the form divine,
What every Aartue, every grace !
Rose Aylmer, all were thine.
LANDOR: FELICIA HEMANS. 55
Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful ey%s
May weep, but never see,
A night of memories and sighs
I consecrate to thee.
W. S. Landor.
45.
DEATH'S SEASONS.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath,
And stars to set, — but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death !
Day is for mortal care ; ^
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 the sea, 10
When autumn's hue shall tinge the golden grain,—
But who shall teach us when to look for thee ?
Is it when spring's first gale
Comes forth to whisper where the violets lie ]
Is it 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
56 FELICIA HEMANS.
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 fall, 25
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath,
And stars to set, — but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death !
Felicia Hemans.
SECTION X,
THE WOELD AND THE CEEATOE.
46.
PIPPA'S SONG.
The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn ;
Morning's at seven ;
The hillside's dew-pearled ;
The lark's on the ^^^ng ;
The snail's on the thorn ;
God's in His heaven —
All's right with the world.
Browning.
47.
BUDS AND BABIES.
A 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.
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58 CHRISTINA ROSSETTI : TENNYSON.
Sweet, unfulfilled. Yet have I understood
One joy, by their fragility made plain :
Nothing was ever beautiful in vain,
Or all in vain was good.
Christina Eossetti.
48.
A FAREWELL.
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute Avave deliver :
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.
Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, 5
A rivulet — then a river ;
No where by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.
But here will sigh thine alder tree,
And here thine aspen shiver ; 10
And here by thee will hum the bee,
For ever and for ever.
A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver :
But not by thee my steps shall be, 15
For ever and for ever.
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 5
Called thy harvest work to leave —
Pray : ere yet the dark hours be,
Lift the heart, and bend the knee !
Traveller, in the stranger's land,
Far from thine own household V)and : 10
Mourner, haunted by the tone
Of a voice from this world gone ;
Captive, in whose narrow cell
Sunshine hath not leave to dwell ;
Sailor, on the darkening sea, 15
Lift the heart, and bend the knee !
Warrior, that from battle won
Breathest now at set of sun ;
Woman, o'er the lowly slain
Weeping on his burial-plain ; 20
Ye that triumph, ye that sigh,
Kindred by one holy tie.
Heaven's first star alike ye see —
Lift the heart, 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, 5
In divine delight.
60 PROCTER.
Shine on, sweet orbed Souls for aye,
For ever calm, for ever bright :
We ask not whither lies your way,
Nor whence ye came, nor what your light ; 10
Be — still a dream throughout the day,
A blessing through the night.
B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall).
NOTES.
PART I.
1.
Robert Southey, 1774-1843.
3. ticinUing^ fluttering — in the bright light. 3. deicy, morning (adj. ).
6. jya/e.s, breezes. \\. jHoicinn i rater — of streams. 13. decays, grows
dim. 16. sheep-bell, bells on the necks of the bell-wethers or lead-
ing sheep — sing, for pi.
2.
John Howard Payne, a?i American ivriter, 1792-1852.
3. charm, blessing. 3. halloiv us, place us under Heaven's pro-
tection. 4. seek, even if we should seek it. 4. ne'er met irith, never
felt — so strongly. 8. exilr — obj. of 'dazzles.' 8. in vain, without
making him cease to long for home. 11. tvifh, and.
3.
Alfred Texnysox, aftenvards Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892.
A lullaby sung by a fisherman's wife to her babe. 6. dying,
setting. 7. him— the baby's father. 13. nest, loving home. 14.
silver sails, with moonlit sails.
Felicia Dorothea Browne, aftervards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.
7. /o/f/ec?.^Oi'vr, sleeping child. 9. IFe-s^, N. America. 10. darlc,
shaded. 11. Indian, N. American Indian — sing, for pl. 11. rest,
burial. 13. lone, uninhabited. 15. loved, most loved. 16. bed,
grave. 16. may, can. 17. dressed, cultivated. 18. slain — pl.
19. wrapt — to save them. 19. his, his regiment's. 20. Spain —
where the Peninsular War raged, from 1808 to 1814. 23. faded,
slowly died — the word suggests a flower, with which she is com-
pared. 23. 'midst Italian flowers, in Italy. 24. band, family. 29.
?iY wp, made cheerful. 29. A a//, house. 30. hearth, hovae. 31. alas
for love, it would be sad for those who love. 31. thou. Earth. 32.
nought beyond, there were nought beyond, there were no life after
this. 32. Earth, life on earth.
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5.
ChaPwLES Tennyson'-Turner, an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson,
1808-1879.
1. LainmoLs night, night of the harvest-festival — August 1st. 2.
mid— the objs. ai-e the speeches beginning at lines 6 and 21. 11. tJie
while, while. 12, icofs, knows. 13-14, address himself, make haste.
17. unsought, spontaneously. 20. same — thought. 23. slender hoot,
of little use. 24. make o'erfloic, fill with joy. 32. mate, match.
33. played their gracious yart-i. did deeds of loving-kindness. 44.
there — in the village. 44. Allah's house, a mosque.
6.
William Cowper, 1731-1800.
10. 2'jai}i, hunger. 11. heat, eagerness. 14. one, a bird — of prej'.
16. yours, j-our amusement (sport). 20. 77ian, men— in their thought-
less cruelty. 21. Here Beau's reply begins. 23. louder voice,
stronger order — that of instinct. 27. Nature, instinct. 32. ■precept,
promptings. 34. prison, cage. 36. pressed, lay on. 37. sacred,
valued — by j'ou. 38. destined, allowed. 38. tooth — sing, for pi.
39. kiss'd, tenderly touched. 44. aggrieved, unfairly treated. 47.
killing, wasting.
7.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850.
4. golden, yellow. 6. 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.
glee, apparent joy, bright beauty. 18. icealth, store of pleasure.
21. that inward eye, the memory. 22. is, is the source of, brings.
24. dances, rejoices.
8.
Michael Bruce, a Scottish writer, 1746-1767.
The poem is by some attributed to another Scottish author, John
Logan, 1748-1788. 1. stranger, ne,v>'-coxmT. 2. messenger of , 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.
5. green, lawn, grass. 6. certain, regularly heard — each early
spring. 7. star — such as the Pole Star to mariners. 7- pafA, migra-
tions. 8. mark, show you. 8. rolling year, advance of the seasons
— progress of spring ; see line 21. 9. with thee, when you come.
15. starts; makes a gJad movement. 15. voice, signal. 17. the
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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. ^i•ing, flight —
sing, for pi.
9.
Henry S. Corn well.
2. wrath, might. 3. wave, stormy sea— sing, for pi. 4. the,
some, a. 4. sMidders, sinks — 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-instru-
ments. 12. harmonies for thee, sweet sounds to you. 12 alone —
agreeing with 'rush,' 'roar,' and 'winds.' 13. argosies, ships. 13.
to naught, to destruction. 14. o'er — following after 'toy' (line 16).
15. companion — in apposition to 'thee.' 1.5. n'andering, restless —
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
deep, trials. 21. heed, fear. 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.
fate, life.
10.
William Cullen Bryant, an American writer, 1794-1878.
2. steps, gleams. 3. depths, expanse. 6. ivrong, harm. 7. darldij
painted, seen like a dark spot. 12. chafed, wave-beaten. 13-14.
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.
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11.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
Taken from Shakespeare's Comedy, An You Like It, in which this
song is sung by an exiled forester. 1. fjreenivood, forest. 1. the,
some, a. 3. turn, tune. 3. 7iote — sing, for pi. 4. luito, in harmony
with. 4. bird, throat— sings, ior -pis. 11. the food he eats, no more
than the food he needs. 12. ivhat, whatever.
12.
Thomas Nash, 1567-1601.
2. pleasant king, sweetest season. 8. palm, mxiy — flowering
shrubs; sings, for pis. 9. make gay, adorn. 15. the fields breathe,
breezes blow from the fields. 16. kiss our feet, bloom round our
feet.
13.
Alfred Tennyson, afterwards Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892.
1. /—the Brook sings. 1. coot,he'rn — sings, for pis. 11-12. /or...
hut, for though... yet — 'for' follows on the verbs of motion in the
ten preceding lines. 11. 'may come and may go, are born and die.
14. sharps and trebles, sounds of music. 17. fret, wear away. 19.
fairy foreland, liny Qa,^e. 19-20. se< m<^, covered with. 31. ivater-
hreak, ripple. .32. golden, yellow. 38. covers, copses. 41, gloom,
grow dark. 41. glance, grow bright. 43. the netted s^inbeam, the
sunlight flecked with shade— the chequered light and shade of
rippling water are like the meshes and threads of a net ; 'netted'
may mean either 'net-like," or 'caught in a net' (of shade). 43.
dance, glitter. 44. against, over. 47. shingly bars^ bars of sand —
hindering the flow.
14.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850.
3. fall, flow. 7. first, at dawn. 8. first — see line 7. 10. by any
stealth, by any means. 12. wealth, beauty. 13. barrier, interval —
of rest. 14. mother, source, origin.
15.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
1. by, beside — from the overhanging eaves of the roof of the
farm-house. 1. icall — sing, for pi. 2. nail, finger-tips — sing, for
pi. 4. pail, the pails— sing, for pi. 5. xvays, roads. 6. staring,
big-eyed. 8. merry— ironical. 9. greasy — with kitchen-work. 9,
NOTES. 65
keel the pot, skim the boiling broth— an obsolete phrase. 10.
around— the village. 11. cou</hm(/, the coughs of the chilly par-
ishioners iu church. 11. sajfc-, speech, words. 12. bi-oodiii;/, motion-
less. 13. raw, chapped. 14. crabs, crab-apples. 14. hiss in the
bold, float m the hot liquor,
IG.
William Cuwper, 1731-1800.
5, 6. Three absolute constructions. 6. neiv, fresh, sprightly-— see
line 7. 8. in vain— to make men spare the bird. 9. date, duration.
10. s^ari'eo?— by neglect. 11. breath, Vde. 13. fhaidy—hecsLUse thu
'woes' bring deatla and so escape, 13. gaitle -m-ain, gentle sir —
the wretch who starved the bird. 14, 15. c/ose, cure — death. 16.
express, describe, tell of. 18. had, should have— subjunctive mood.
17.
Thomas Gisborne, 1758-1846.
3. thy icayward looks, you with thoughtless glances. 4. to form,
to form it. 6. being, life. 6. floiiyd, originated. 10. free for, to be
freely enjoyed by. 11. blade — sing, for pi. 13. day, life.
18.
Oliver (tOldsmith, the Irish author, 1728-1774.
4. wash aicay — guilt is spoken of as a stain. 5. art, action.
8. bosom, heart.
19.
Adelaide Anne Procter, the daughter of B. W. Procter, 1825-1864,
1. Earth, mankind, men— the more prosperous^ classes of^ man-
kind are here intended, see especially lines 13-15 and 22-27. 6.
cursing the day ichen, deploring the fact that. 7. she, the Earth,
men, they. 7, 8. a tanmhed name, a tainted fame, part of the ill-
repute of its parents and relations — they suspected it of vicious
inclinations like those of its relations. 9. cradled it in, left it to be
brought up in. 11. m.iy, knowledge. 11. most holy light, great truths.
12. curtained, concealed. 13. fuimed a>vay, withheld. 13. heart,
care. 13. 62/66% attention. 14. look, take notice. 15. its little feet,
the child. 15. stray, commit evil, 21. for, instead of. 23, her
injured right, the broken law. 24. depths of night, misery. 25.
branding, disgracing. 25. brand, infamy. 26. could not understand
— his stunted intellect was not sensitive to shame, but sullenly
resented the vengeance of the law-abiding classes ; the poem does
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not maintain that the dangerous criminal should be allowed to go
free 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 inheri-
tance— the babe was born into a princely or powerful house.
36. wreathed, formed, acquired — the ' crown ' in the figure is
made of flowers or leaves, and so a wreath. 36. his name,
him. 37. hent, used. 39. a breath, even the faintest influence.
40. streioed ivith flowers, made pleasant. 40. inorning path,
youthful course. 41. Love, loving friends. 41. in tender dropp-
ing 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
— a picture of morning with its clear- blue skies is suggested ; the
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.
in, amid, with. 43. rainbow hues of light, radiant beauty. 45.
sightf mind. 47. lit, made attractive. 47. dazzling ra.y, allurement.
48. tnoming, the youth. 48. brightened, advanced. 48. day,
manhood. 50. shed, freely bestowed.
20.
Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859.
4. making, agreeing with 'moonlight.' 4. rich, full of radiance.
4. lihe a lily in bloom, gleaming like a lily. 6. pjeace — of mind ; see
line 2. 7. presence, angel — a term of deep respect suggesting royal
dignity. 9. made of, full of, expressive of. 9. accord, concord,
peace — the word suggests the likeness of peace to music, wherein
the notes agree with each other in harmony. 17. ichom, of men
whom. 17. love of God, God's love — for them ; another book,
apparently, was shown, since Abou's answer had not increased his
love for God.
21.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
1. at heaven's gate, on high. 2. Phoebus, the sun. 3. his steeds
to ivater at, to draw the dew from. 3. springs, drops. 4. lies —
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
its brightness. 6. eyes, blossoms. 7. bin, is — obsolete.
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22.
Alfred Tennyson, afterwards Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892.
Shalott — an 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.
21. unhaWd — from the mysteriously silent isle ; see line 17. 22.
shallop — sing, for pi. 33. reaper — sing, for pi. 34. uplands — see
line 3. 48. shadows, Ye^eciions. 51. eddy — sing, for pi. 52. chiLrls,
peasants. 60. blue, reflecting the blue sky above and the blue stream
below. 62. knight, knightly lover. 64. web — see line 38. 65. ma(/ic
— see line 115. 71. half sick of shadow's, weary of reflections — she
would enter into the joys of the real world, but may not even gaze
upon it ; see lines 39-41. 78. red-cross, wearing a red-cross badge.
78. for ever kneel' d, was depicted kneeling. 80. yelloiv field, barley-
field — see line 74. 82. free, loose. 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.
floated — from the loom. 119. yellow — in autumn. 119. waning,
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 — ' glassy ' suggests the notion of eyes from
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
of. 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
favour.
23.
Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875.
Dee, the English River Dee flowing into the Irish Sea . 18. stakes
— of the weirs in the river. 23. her, her spirit.
24.
Ano>'ymous.
Robin Goodfellow — otherwise known as Puck. 1. Oberon — the
fairy King. 2. shadows, sprites. 4. here — on earth. 5. revel-rout,
.7. -J e2
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sport. 6. ahoiit, up. 12. ahoiit this airy welkin, through the air.
12. soon, with speed. 15. ha(j, witch. 16. tcag, come out. 17.
cry — to frighten folks. 17. o'are, beware of. 18-19. hut I will spy,
without ni}' seeing. 21. such, any. 28. counterfeit inrj — see lines
31-34. 28. all in lite nick, when the chance comes — an adverbial
phrase qualifying 'to play.' 30. it — redundant. 34. trip, run.
42. our heyday guise, in our sportive way. 43. queen — Titania.
44. minstrdsies, s,ong^. 4&. fling, ^ee. 48. e(/', a fairy changeling —
sing, for pi. 50. its — ^redundant 51. hag-hred, witch-born. 51.
Merlin — the famous wizard of the legends of King Arthur. 58.
beldames, crones. 60. vald, fare thee well— Latin.
25.
John Fletcher, 1579-1625.
This poem is by some attributed to Shakespeare. 1. Orpheus —
a mythical Greek poet and harper. 3. boir — to hear. 4. to, at the
sound of. 5. sprung, grew. 5. as, as though. 9. hung their heads,
paused to hear. 9. lay by, lay still. 10. art, power. 11. killing,
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.
5. iveep—ioY their men in danger. 6. keep, support. 7. harhonr
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
approached. 11. ragged, with jagged edges. 16. gleam, stormy
sunshine — sing, for pi. 20. it, life with its labours and sorrows.
20. to sleep, they get to sleep, they win peace. 21. the bar and
its moaning, work and grief.
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 vic-
tories 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. 3. battle's wreck, ruined ships. 6. rule the
storm, be a leader amidst storms. 14. task, duty — to stay. 15.
chieftain, admiral — his father. 18. yet, now. 19. replied, were
heard 27. sazY— sing, for pi. 27. shroud, rigging — sing, for pL
NOTES. G9
33. thunder-sound, the thunderous explosion of tlie sliip's powder
magazine. 36. fra-jmentn, the broken timbers of the ship. 37.
mast — sing, for pi. 38. home their part, shared storms and battles
with the seamen.
28.
Henry Wadswop.th Lontgfellow, the American poet,
1807-1882.
7. crisp, strong and inclined to curl. 8. like, as brown as. 12.
oices not, owes nothing to. 13. iveek in, week out, throughout the
week. 15. sledge, hammer. 16. measured, regular. 44. lesson
taur/ht, example set me. 45. at the forge of life, in this life which
resembles your forge. 45. fiaming, active, eventful. 46. fortunes,
spiritual fortunes, souls, characters. 46. man ^^ rrrought, we may
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.
1. grief poverty. 3. shy, chary of help. 4. dreaded their gohl,
were afraid of lending me money. 7. the v-orld, others. 7. the
sand, weak foundations. 8. my good Bight Hand, my own exer-
tions. 9. in fortune's despite, in spite of ill fortune. 10. light,
cheerful. 12. again and again, well. 14. darkest, the most dis-
couraging, the least helpful — formerly. 14. looked bright, looked
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.
9. 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,
brings more content than the kingdom which I hold — ' fee ' means
'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
that he hastily withdrew from the country. The poet has imagined
a Jewish song of triumph on the retreat of the iIl^aders. 1.
70 NOTES.
Assyrian — Sennacherib. 3. stars, starlight. 4. wave — sing, for
pi. 4. Galilee, the Lake of Galilee — in Northern Palestine. 5. like
— in number and vigour. 7. autumn hath hloum, autumn has come
with its winds. 8. 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.
32.
Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, 1759-1796.
Written when the poet feared that he must 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 moun-
tains. 11. ivild-hanging woods, wild woods upon the hill-side^^.
33.
TiiOxAiAS Babixgton Macaulay, afterwards Lord Macadlay,
1800-1859.
1, true King — the Old Pretender, who called himself James III.,
and for 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, suf-
fered exile. 7. heard, imagined, pondered on. 7. Lavemia — a
mt. in the Apennines. 7. Scargill—a, hill in the North Riding of
Yorkshire, near the R. Tees and the exile's home. 7. whispering,
leafy. 11. tried, troubled. 13. stone, grave-stone. 15. ivhile cliffs,
the coast-clifis of England. 17. all feuds, our feuds. 18. dust — see
I. 13.
34.
Felicia Dorothea Browxe, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.
3. ancestral, old. 5. greensioard, grass, parks. 6. shade, the
shadows 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
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 of an English Sunday is as intangible and yet as per-
ceptible as quiet airs. 19. are smiling, stand 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 —
sings, for pis. 31. loves, learns to love.
NOTES. 71
35.
Anonymous.
.S. Lysajider—a. celebrated Spartan general who overthrew the
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.
8. overfloicing with, full of. 16. Hebrides — islands in the Atlantic
to the west of Scotland. 17. what she sings — in her native Gaelic.
18-19. flow for, tell of — the phrase suggests the notion of a stream,
with the sound of Vi^hich the song is compared.
37.
WiLLLiM Barnes, 1801-1886.
2. a ground, an enclosed space, a field. 4. houghs, trees. 4.
hemrii'd, bordered. 5. stores of, many. 7. fear, suspect. 9, 19,
29. The children's cries. 11, 13. one, one, some. 12. hob, cmtsey.
12. leering, roguish — these are playing at being fine ladies. IS.
made one dead step, made one step and stopped. 18. tunrd about,
fled. 22. hy, past. 25. pulVd on— it had got twisted round her
ankle.
38.
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.
i. wish, ambition. 2. paternal, inherited. 2. bound, satisfy and
linut — governing ' wish and care' ; the ' few acres' satisfy his ambi-
tion, and limit his cares and responsibilities. 4. ground — the ' few
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.
sleep — governed by ' in,' line 11. 15. most does please, of all things
brings the greatest pleasure. 17. unseen, unhnoicn, in peace — un-
troubled by the many. 18. nnlamented, without leaving heavy grief
in any heart. 19. steal, pass quietly. 19. not a stone, no grave-
stone recording my name — he has no ambition that his name should
be remembered.
39.
Thomas Dekker, 1575-1641.
1. golden, healthy. 3. perplexed, anxious. 5. vexed, troubled.
6. numbers, sums. 9. bears a lovely face, is agreeable, brings joy —
labour is personified as a lovely companion with whom it is well
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to be mated. 11. crisped, crisp, fresh. 13. svimm^st thou in, are
you surrounded by. 13. dnk'st in, are overwhelmed by, 13. tears,
sorrows. 15. want's hurde-n, poverty. 16. burden, want, lack.
16. hears, perceives. 16. a king, master of all that he desires.
40.
Sir William Jones, 1746-1794.
(From the Persian.)
3. last sleep, close.
41.
Bishop Henky King, 1592-1669.
The poem is claimed for others, but is most probably King's.
I. like to — in the brevity of his glory. 2. as — in the transience of
his aspirations. 3. like — in the quick loss of his beauty. 3. kue —
sing, for pi. 5. like — in the passing of his wrath. 5. flood, waters.
7. borrorc'd light, life derived from the Creator — as the light of a
planet from the sun. 8. straight, shortty. 8. caWd in, recalled —
a picture of the Creditor is raised. 8. paid, returned. 8. to-night,
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 grave-
yard, with which autumn is compared, 10. lies in, is followed by.
II. is shot, drops.
42.
Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, 1779-18-52.
1. chain, power. 2. hound, overcome — sleep is pictured as an
aery potentate. 3. tlie light, sweet thoughts — the word suggests
scenes of sunshine and accompanj'ing gladness. 4. around me, to
me — it places him in imagination in their midst. 9. gone— in
death. 13. sad — for their loss. 17. ^^all, perish. 22. are fled,
have sunk. 24. hut he, but him.
43.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
From Shakespeare's drama, Cumbeline, in which this song is sung
at the burial of Fidele in the forest. 3. done, finished. 4. home-
throw^ the grave. 4. thy v:ages, the award to the spirit after
death. 5. golden, noble.^ 8. stroke, oppression. 10. the reed is as
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. 14. stone, bolt. 18. consign to, submit to the
same terms as, do like— obsolete ; death is depicted as making all
men siom his bond.
NOTES. 73
44.
Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864.
Rose Aylmer — a friend of the poet's ; he laments her death in India
in 1800. 1. avails — against death. 1. Hceptrtd, ruling. 2. divine —
in loveliness. 5. vhom — obj. to both 'weep' and 'see.' 5. these,
my. 5. wakeful eyes, bodilj' eyes — in dreams he may still see her
with the eyes of the spirit. 9. cov.secrate to, pass in thoughts of.
45.
Felicia Dorothea Browne, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.
4. for thine oion, for your coming. 5. mortals care, the cares of
mortals — sing, for pi. 6, hearth— ^\\\%. for pi. 7. voice, sounds.
13. <jale, breeze. 14. to irhl^per where tht violets lie, blowing softly
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, 1812-1889.
From Pippa passes ; the song of the child Pippa on a holiday-
morning. 4, 5, 6. iSings. for pis. 4. dew-pearled, covered with
pearly dew. 6. thorn, hawthorn.
47.
Christixa Georgia a Rossetti, 1830-1894.
1. a million, unnumbered. 1. hloic, bloom. 2. 2^'>^omise, signs of
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, short-
lived— 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, 1809-1892.
2. tribute, tributary — as the rivulet is tributary to the river, so
is the river to the sea. 2, xcave, waters — sing, for pi. 3. no more
— after this brief life. 5, 9, 10, 11. Sings, for pis. 9, sigh, rustle.
10. shiver, shake in the breeze. 13, 14. a thousand, unnumbered.
74 NOTES.
49.
Felicia Dorothea Browne, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, 1793-1835.
2. red light — of the setting sun, 4. following — the movements of
the child. .5. 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. 19. lowly, prostrate. 20. burial-plain, fatal field of
battle. 22. one holy tie — the universal Fatherhood.
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. 11. a dream, a lovely memory. 12.
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) : 46.
Bruce, Michael (1746-1767) : 8.
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) : 10.
Burns, Robert (1759-1796): 32.
Byron, Lord (1788-1824): 31.
CoRNWELL, Henry S. ( ) : 9.
Cowper, William (1731-1800) : 6, 16.
Dekker, Thomas (1575-1641) : 39.
Fletcher, John (1579-1625) : 25.
GiSBORNE, Thomas (1758-1846) : 17.
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774): 18.
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793-1855) : 4, 27, 34, 45, 49.
Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) : 20.
Jones, Sir William (1746-1794) : 40.
King, Bishop Henry (1592-1669) : 41.
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875): 23, 26.
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) : 44.
Logan, John (1748-1788) : 8 (?).
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) : 28.
Macaulay, Lord (1800-1859) : .33.
Mackay, Charles (1814-1889) : 29, 30.
76 INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852): 42.
Nash, Thomas (1567-1601) : 12.
Payxe, John Howard (1792-1852) : 2.
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744): 38.
Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864) : 19.
Procter, Bryan Waller [Barry Cornwall] (1790-1874) : 50.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) : 47.
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): 11, 15,21, 25(?), 43.
SouTHEY, Robert (1774-1843) : 1.
Tennyson, Lord (1809-1892) : 3, 13, 22, 48.
Tennyson-Turner, Charles (1808-1879): 5.
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) : 4, 7, 14, 36.
INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by,
A million buds are born that never blow, .
A spaniel, Beau, that fares like you, .
Abou Ben Adheni (may his tribe increase).
Ah, what avails the sceptred race,
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers ?
As there I left the road in May,
Behold her single in the field,
Child, amidst the flowers at play,
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Flow down, cold rivulet to the sea, .
From Oberon, in fairy land,
God gave a gift to Earth : — a child, .
Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove !
Happy the man, whose wish and care,
Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I fell into grief and began to complain,
I wandered lonely as a cloud,
It was upon a Lammas night,
Leaves have their time to fall, .
Like to the falling of a star,
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
IS
57
7
24
54
50
48
47
58
54
58
32
22
10
49
25
16
39
9
4
55
52
2
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INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
My heart's iu the Highlands, my heart is not here,
O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
Oft in the stilly night, ....
On either side the river lie.
On parent knees, a naked nevv-])orn child, .
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
Some talk of Alexander, . . . .
Spring, the sweet Spring, ....
Sweet and low, sweet and low, .
Sweet to the morning traveller, .
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold.
The boy stood on the burning deck, .
The stately homes of England ! .
The year's at the spring, ....
There dwelt a miller, hale and bold, .
They glide upon their endless way, .
They grew in beauty side by side.
Three fishers went sailing away to the West,
Time was when I was free as air,
To my true King I offered free from stain.
Turn, turn thy hasty foot aside,
Under a spreading chestnut tree,
Under the greenwood 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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