TENNYSON TO CHAUCER TYPICAL SELECTIONS FROM THE GREAT POETS
JAMES BALDWIN, Ph.D. Author of "The Book Lover" etc., etc.
PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
CONTENTS.
The Nineteenth Century.
Alfred Tennyson.
THE LADY OF SHALOTT. PART I. On either side the river lie Long
THE BROOK.
THE LOTOS-EATERS.
CHORIC SONG. I. There is sweet music here that softer falls
William Wordsworth.
ODE. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS.
THE SOLITARY REAPER.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
CHRISTABEL. Part I.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
TO A SKYLARK
HYMN OF PAN.
FROM "EPIPSYCHIDION."
A LAMENT.
John Keats.
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. I My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness
FROM "THE EVE OF ST. AGNES."
The Eighteenth Century.
Robert Burns.
THE COTTER'S 1 SATURDAY NIGHT. Inscribed To R. Aiken, Esq. 2
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. On turning one down with the Plough, in
FOR A' THAT, AND A' THAT.
William Cowper.
BOADICEA.
ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE.
EPITAPH ON A HARE.
Oliver Goldsmith.
THREE PICTURES FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE."
Thomas Gray.
THE BARD. I. 1. "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on
Alexander Pope.
FROM THE "ESSAY ON CRITICISM."
ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. MDCCVIII. I. Descend, ye Nine! 1
The Seventeenth Century.
John Dryden.
ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC: An Ode in Honor of
THE FIRE OF LONDON. [FROM "ANNUS MIRABILIS."] Such was the rise
REASON AND RELIGION. [FROM "RELIGIO LAICI."] Dim as the
John Milton.
ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY. I. This is the month, and
Robert Herrick.
TO PHILLIS.
THE MAD MAID'S SONG.
A THANKSGIVING TO GOD.
Edmund Waller.
SONG.
OF ENGLISH VERSE.
ON A GIRDLE.
Ben Jonson.
AN ODE TO HIMSELF.
TO CYNTHIA.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US.
The Sixteenth Century.
William Shakespeare.
VENUS'S ADVICE TO ADONIS ON HUNTING. [FROM "VENUS AND ADONIS."]
A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN. [FROM "CYMBELINE."] Hark, hark! the
SIGH NO MORE, LADIES. [FROM "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING."] Sigh no
SUNSHINE AND CLOUD. [SONNET XXXIII.] Full many a glorious
THE WORLD'S WAY. [SONNET LXVI.] Tired with all these, for
Edmund Spenser.
THE CAVE OF MAMMON.
PROTHALAMION; or , A SPOUSALL VERSE.
Thomas Wyatt.
A LOVE SONG. The Lover complaineth of the Unkindness of his Love.
THE COURTIER'S LIFE.
The Earl of Surrey.
FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S "AENEID."
A SONNET. Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine. From
ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS WYATT.
Ballads.
WALY, WALY.
SIR PATRICK SPENS. A Scottish Ballad.
THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS.
The Fifteenth Century.
John Skelton.
TO MAYSTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY.
CARDINAL WOLSEY. [FROM "WHY COME YE NOT TO COURT?"]
Selections from Four Minor Poets.
A VISIT TO LONDON. By JOHN LYDGATE. Then unto London I dyd me
THE GOLDEN AGE.
THE GARMOND OF FAIR LADIES. By ROBERT HENRYSON. Wald my gud
A MAY MORNING. By WILLIAM DUNBAR. Quhen Merche wes with variand
IN PRAISE OF HONOUR. By GAWAIN DOUGLAS. O hie honour, sweit
FOUR POETS OF THIS CENTURY.
The Fourteenth Century.
Geoffrey Chaucer.
FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES."
INDEX TO NOTES.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Transcriber's Notes: Some typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list as well as other notes follows the text.
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