THE HOME BOOK

OF VERSE
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH

1580-1912

With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems

in Other Languages

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART III

POEMS OF NATURE

“The World is too Much With Us”.. William Wordsworth. ...... 1254

MOTHER NATURE

The Book of the World ............ William Drummond ....... 1255

Nature........

.Jones Very ........... 1255

Compensation .................... Celia Thaxter ............. 1256

The Last Hour .................

..Ethel Clifford .............. 1257

Nature . :

..Henry David Thoreau ..... 1257

Song of Nature ...........:::;;:

..Ralph Waldo Emerson ..... 1258

“Great Nature is an Army Gay”.... Richard Watson Gilder ..... 1260

To Mother Nature .. ...........Frederic Lawrence Knowles.. 1261

The Pipe of Pan .....

Elizabeth Akers ............ 1262

The Golden Silence ....

...William Winter ........... 1264

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DAWN AND DARK

Song, “Phoebus, arise” ............William Drummond ....... 1265

Hymn of Apollo . .....

...Percy Bysshe Shelley ..

Prelude to “The New Day”.. ... Richard Watson Gilder ..

Dawn on the Headland ............William W

..William Watson........... 1268

The Miracle of the Dawn ..........Madison Cawein .....

Dawn-angels .....................A. Mary F. Robinson ... 1269

Music of the Dawn ....

.... Virginia Bioren Harrison... 1270

A Summer Noon .

....William Howitt

1271

Rêve du Midi .................... Rose Terry Cooke .......... 1271

Ode to Evening .

.William Collins ........... 1273

“It is a Beauteous Evening Calm ,

and Free”..........

........William Wordsworth h....

Gloaming ........ ............ Robert Adger Bowen

1275

Evening Melody ...

... Aubrey de Vere ...........

1275

In the Cool of the Evening ......... Alfred

Alfred Noyes . ...........

1276

Twilight ..........

....Olive Custance ......

At Perivale .......................A

... Arthur Joseph Munby... 1277

Song to the Evening Star ........ Thomas Campbell .........

The Evening Cloud .

John Wilson .............

Song: To Cynthia ................

My Star ..............

.... Robert Browning ........

Night.

... William Blake ...

1280

To Night ..

....Percy Bysshe Shelley ....... 1282

To Night.

....Joseph Blanco White ....... 1283

Night....

....John Addington Symonds ... 1283

Night........:::.........

..James Montgomery ........ 1284

He Made the Night .

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Hymn tu the Night ...............Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1286

Dawn and dark ..

....Norman Gale ............. 1287

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Spring ....

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THE CHANGING YEAR

A Song for the Seasons . .....

.... Bryan Waller Procter ......

A Song of the Seasons .............Cosmo Monkhouse ......... 1289

Turn o' the Year ...........

...Katherine Tynan .......... 1 290

The Waking Year ....... ... Emily Dickinson ...

1 290

Song, “The year's at the spring” ... Robert Browning ....... 1291

Early Spring ..

. Alfred Tennyson . . . ... 1291

Lines Written in Early Spring....... William Wordsworth .... 1292

In Early Spring .....

Alice Meynell ............. 1293

......... Thomas Nashe ............ 1294

The Spring :

...John Lyly ................ 1295

“When Daffodils begin to Peer”. ...William Shakespeare ....... 1295

Spring ..........

...........Alfred Tennyson .......... 1296

The Spring Returns ...............!

....Charles Leonard Moore ..... 1297

“When the Hounds of Spring" . . . . . Algernon Charles Swinburne 1297

Song, “Again Rejoicing Nature

Sees” .......................... Robert Burns ... ..... 1299

To Spring ....

.William Blake ............ 1300

An Ode on the Spring ..... .. Thomas Gray ............. 1301

Spring ...........................Henry Timrod .. ......... 1302

The Meadows in Spring ... .Edward Fitzgerald ......... 1304

The Wistful Days .......

Robert Underwood Johnson.. 1305

March ...........ccccrrr.

...W wliam M orris ........... 1300

Song in March .......... ...William Gilmore Simms .... 1307

March

Nora Hopper ............. 1307

Written in March ......

William Wordsworth ..... 1308

The Passing of March ...

Robert Burns Wilson ..... .. 1309

Home Thoughts from Abroa Robert Browning ........ 1309

Song, “April, April".

William Watson........... 1310

An April Adoration...

Charles G. D. Roberts ...... 1310

Sweet Wild April..................William Force Stead ...

Spinning in April. ....... ...Josephine Preston Peabody.. 1313

Song: on May Morning ... ...John Milton .............. 1314

A May Burden.

... Francis Thompson ........ 1314

Corinna's Going a-Maying . ...Robert Herrick ..

DETTICR ............ 1315

“Sister, Awake” ...........

Unknown ......

..... 1317

May....

. Edward Hovell-Thurlow . ... 1317

..Henry Sylvester Cornwell ... 1318

A Spring Lilt ....

.Unknown ..... ..... 1319

Summer Longings .......

.Denis Florence MacCarthy.. 1319

Midsummer ....

...John Townsend Trowbridge . 1320

A Midsummer Song ......

. Richard Watson Gilder ..... 1322

June........

...James Russell Lowell ...... 1323

.Harrison Smith Morris ..... 1325

Harvest ...........

... Ellen Mackay Hutchinson

Cortissoz ............... 1326

Scythe Song

.... Andrew Lang ..

1327

September .........

... George Arnold.... ..... 1327

Indian Summer ................... Emily Dickinson ........ 1329

Prevision...

Ada Foster Murray ... 1329

A Song of Early Autumn..... ... Richard Watson Gilder

To Autumn ...............

John Keats ............... 1331

Ode to Autumn ...

Thomas Hood ...

1332

Ode to the West Wind ...... ..Percy Bysshe Shelley ....... 1334

Autumn: a Dirge...

..Percy Bysshe Shelley ....... 1336

Autumn...

...Emily Dickinson ........ 1337

Autumn Tints ..

..Mathilde Blind ............ 1337

Kore .

.Frederic Manning .......

Old October ......

... Thomas Constable ......... 1338

November ............

.C. L. Cleaveland......... 1339

Winter ..........

...John Howard Bryant ...... 1340

May .....::::.''

June.............

1338

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Winter Nights ........

Thomas Campion.......... 1341

Winter: a Dirge ...................Robert Burns ............. 1342

Old Winter ...

...... Thomas Noel..

• 1342

The Frost ....

Hannah Flagg Gould ...

UN TIES GOUia ....... 1343

The Frosted Pane .......

.Charles G. D. Roberts ...... 1344

The Frost Spirit .......

John Greenleaf Whittier .... 1344

Snow .....

..Elizabeth Akers ............ 1346

To a Snowflake .......

Francis Thompson ........

• 1347

The Snow-Shower .....

..William Cullen Bryant ..... 1347

Midwinter .......................John Townsend Trowbridge . 1349

A Glee for Winter ....

.Alfred Domelt ............. 1350

The Death of the Old Year ......... Alfred Tennyson .......... 1351

Dirge for the Year .

.....Percy Bysshe Shelley ....... 1352

WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNING BROOK

Waldeinsamkeit .... .........Ralph Waldo Emerson ..... 1354

“When in the Woods I wander all

Alone”.

.... Edward Hovell-Thurlow . ... 1355

Aspects of the Pines ... .......... Paul Hamilton Hayne...... 1356

“The Woods that Bring the Sunset

... Richard Watson Gilder ..... 1356

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Under the Leaves ................. Albert Laighton............ 1357

“On Wenlock Edge" .. . . . . Alfred Edward Housman ... 1357

“What Do We Plant”.. ......Henry Abbey ............. 1358

The Tree.....

........Jones Very ....

1359

The Brave Old Oak .. .... Henry Fothergill Chorley.... 1359

“The Girt Woak Tree that's in the

Dell”..

.William Barnes ........... 1360

To the Willow-tree ................ Robert Herrick ........ 1362

The Willow...................... Elizabeth Akers . ....... 1362

The Holly-tree ...............

Robert Southey ......... 1363

The Pine .........................Augusta Webster .......... 1364

“Woodman, Spare that Tree" ... ... George Pope Morris .... 1365

The Beech Tree's Petition .......... Thomas Campbell ......

The Poplar Field ....... .......... William Cowper ......... 1367

The Planting of the Apple-Tree . ... William Cullen Bryant ..... 1367

Of an Orchard

..Katherine Tynan

1370

An Orchard at Avignon...

.A. Mary F. Robinson ..... • 1370

The Tide River ...

.Charles Kingsley ....... • 1371

The Brook's Song ..............

Alfred Tennyson ...... • 1372

Arethusa ..........

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1374

The Cataract of Lodore ............ Robert Southey ........ 1376

Song of the Chattahoochee .........Sidney Lanier .......

“Flow Gently, Sweet Afton”. ...... Robert Burns ......... 1381

Canadian Boat-Song............... Thomas Moore.........

The Marshes of Glynn .............Sidney Lanier . .......... 1382

The Trosachs .......

....William Wordsworth .......

Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of

Chamouni ....................

..Samuel Taylor Coleridge .... 1386

The Peaks ...

. Stephen Crane ........ 1389

Kinchinjunga ...........

..Cale Young Rice .......... 1390

To Meadows ...........

... Robert Herrick ............

· 1391

The Cloud ..

.Percy Bysshe Shelley ....... 1392

April Rain ...

.... Robert Loveman ........... 1394

Summer Invocation .

... William Cox Bennett ....... 1395

April Rain.

..Mathilde Blind ............ 1395

To the Rainbow ..... ...........Thomas Campbell .......... 1396

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GREEN THINGS GROWING

My Garden ....... ......... Thomas Edward Brown . ... 1398