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Chapter 410: Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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This collection features a diverse array of poems centered on nature, exploring its beauty, cycles, and the human connection to the natural world. The verses reflect on themes such as the changing seasons, the tranquility of landscapes, and the profound impact of nature on the human spirit. Various poets contribute their perspectives, celebrating elements like dawn, twilight, and the life of flora and fauna. The anthology emphasizes the importance of appreciating the natural environment and finding solace in its presence, inviting readers to reconnect with the world around them.

DREAM SONG

FAIRY SONG

QUEEN MAB

THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON-LOW

THE FAIRIES

THE FAIRY THRALL

FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES

THE FAIRY FOLK

THE FAIRY BOOK

THE VISITOR

THE LITTLE ELF

THE SATYRS AND THE MOON


THE CHILDREN

THE CHILDREN

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

LAUS INFANTIUM

THE DESIRE

A CHILD'S LAUGHTER

SEVEN YEARS OLD

CREEP AFORE YE GANG

CASTLES IN THE AIR

UNDER MY WINDOW

THE BAREFOOT BOY

THE HERITAGE

LETTY'S GLOBE

DOVE'S NEST

THE ORACLE

TO A LITTLE GIRL

TO A LITTLE GIRL

A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON

A NEW POET

TO LAURA W—, TWO YEARS OLD

TO ROSE

TO CHARLOTTE PULTENEY

THE PICTURE OF LITTLE T. C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS

TO HARTLEY COLERIDGE

TO A CHILD OF QUALITY

EX ORE INFANTIUM

OBITUARY

THE CHILD'S HERITAGE

A GIRL OF POMPEII

ON THE PICTURE OF A "CHILD TIRED OF PLAY"

THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN

CHILDREN'S SONG

THE MITHERLESS BAIRN

THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN

THE SHADOW-CHILD

MOTHER WEPT

DUTY

LUCY GRAY

IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

"IF I WERE DEAD"

THE TOYS

A SONG OF TWILIGHT

LITTLE BOY BLUE

THE DISCOVERER

A CHRYSALIS

MATER DOLOROSA

THE LITTLE GHOST

MOTHERHOOD

THE MOTHER'S PRAYER

DA LEETLA BOY

ON THE MOOR

EPITAPH OF DIONYSIA

FOR CHARLIE'S SAKE

"ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME?"

THE MORNING-GLORY

SHE CAME AND WENT

THE FIRST SNOW-FALL

"WE ARE SEVEN"

MY CHILD

When at the day's calm close,

THE CHILD'S WISH GRANTED

CHALLENGE

TIRED MOTHERS

MY DAUGHTER LOUISE

"I AM LONELY"

SONNETS

ROSE-MARIE OF THE ANGELS


MAIDENHOOD

MAIDENHOOD

TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME

TO MISTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY

ON HER COMING TO LONDON

"O, SAW YE BONNY LESLEY"

TO A YOUNG LADY

RUTH

THE SOLITARY REAPER

THE THREE COTTAGE GIRLS

A PORTRAIT

TO A CHILD OF FANCY

DAISY

TO PETRONILLA WHO HAS PUT UP HER HAIR

THE GYPSY GIRL

FANNY

SOMEBODY'S CHILD

EMILIA

TO A GREEK GIRL

"CHAMBER SCENE"

"AH, BE NOT FALSE"

A LIFE-LESSON


THE MAN

THE BREAKING

THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH

"DAYS OF MY YOUTH"

AVE ATQUE VALE

TO YOUTH

STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA

STANZAS FOR MUSIC

"WHEN AS A LAD"

"AROUND THE CHILD"

ALADDIN

THE QUEST

MY BIRTH-DAY

SONNET

ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR

THE ONE WHITE HAIR

BALLADE OF MIDDLE AGE

MIDDLE AGE

TO CRITICS

THE RAINBOW

LEAVETAKING

EQUINOCTIAL

"BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF YEARS"

MAN

THE PULLEY

ODE ON THE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY


THE WOMAN

WOMAN

WOMAN

SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS

DELIGHT IN DISORDER

A PRAISE OF HIS LADY

ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT

PERFECT WOMAN

THE SOLITARY-HEARTED

OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE

"SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY"

PRELUDES

A HEALTH

OUR SISTER

FROM LIFE

THE ROSE OF THE WORLD

DAWN OF WOMANHOOD

THE SHEPHERDESS

A PORTRAIT

THE WIFE

"TRUSTY, DUSKY, VIVID, TRUE"

THE SHRINE

THE VOICE

MOTHER

AD MATREM

C. L. M.


STEPPING WESTWARD

STEPPING WESTWARD

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

THE WORLD

"WHEN THAT I WAS AND A LITTLE TINY BOY"

OF THE LAST VERSES IN THE BOOK

A LAMENT

TOMORROW

LATE WISDOM

YOUTH AND AGE

THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS

TO AGE

LATE LEAVES

YEARS

THE RIVER OF LIFE

"LONG TIME A CHILD"

THE WORLD I AM PASSING THROUGH

TERMINUS

RABBI BEN EZRA

HUMAN LIFE

YOUNG AND OLD

THE ISLE OF THE LONG AGO

GROWING OLD

PAST

TWILIGHT

YOUTH AND AGE

FORTY YEARS ON

DREGS

THE PARADOX OF TIME

AGE

OMNIA SOMNIA

THE YEAR'S END

AN OLD MAN'S SONG

SONGS OF SEVEN

Seven Times Two.—ROMANCE

AUSPEX


LOOKING BACKWARD

THE RETREAT

Happy those early days, when I

A SUPERSCRIPTION

THE CHILD IN THE GARDEN

CASTLES IN THE AIR

SOMETIMES

THE LITTLE GHOSTS

MY OTHER ME

A SHADOW BOAT

A LAD THAT IS GONE

CARCASSONNE

CHILDHOOD

THE WASTREL

TROIA FUIT

TEMPLE GARLANDS

TIME LONG PAST

"I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER"

MY LOST YOUTH

"VOICE OF THE WESTERN WIND"

LANGSYNE, WHEN LIFE WAS BONNIE"

THE SHOOGY-SHOO

BABYLON

THE ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE

THE TRIUMPH OF FORGOTTEN THINGS

IN THE TWILIGHT

AN IMMORALITY

THREE SEASONS

THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES

THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS

"TEARS, IDLE TEARS"

THE PET NAME

THREESCORE AND TEN

RAIN ON THE ROOF

ALONE BY THE HEARTH

THE OLD MAN DREAMS

THE GARRET

AULD LANG SYNE

ROCK ME TO SLEEP

THE BUCKET

THE GRAPE-VINE SWING

THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE

FORTY YEARS AGO

BEN BOLT

"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK"






THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE,

VOLUME 2


By Various


Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson






PART II


POEMS OF LOVE

EROS

"NOW WHAT IS LOVE"

"NOW WHAT IS LOVE"

WOOING SONG

ROSALIND'S MADRIGAL

SONG

LOVE'S PERJURIES

VENUS' RUNAWAY

WHAT IS LOVE?

LOVE'S EMBLEMS

THE POWER OF LOVE

ADVICE TO A LOVER

LOVE'S HOROSCOPE

"AH, HOW SWEET IT IS TO LOVE!"

SONG

THE VINE

SONG

CUPID STUNG

CUPID DROWNED

SONG

"IN THE DAYS OF OLD"

SONG

STANZAS

"THEY SPEAK O' WILES"

"LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY"

A WOMAN'S SHORTCOMINGS

"LOVE HATH A LANGUAGE"

SONG

AMATURUS

THE SURFACE AND THE DEPTHS

A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND

ENDYMION

FATE

"GIVE ALL TO LOVE"

"O, LOVE IS NOT A SUMMER MOOD"

WHEN WILL LOVE COME?

"AWAKE, MY HEART"

THE SECRET

THE ROSE OF STARS

SONG OF EROS

LOVE IS STRONG

"LOVE ONCE WAS LIKE AN APRIL DAWN"

THE GARDEN OF SHADOW

THE CALL

THE HIGHWAY

SONG

"NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART"

SONG

"CHILD, CHILD"

WISDOM

EPILOGUE

ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH

ONCE ON A TIME


IN PRAISE OF HER

FIRST SONG

SILVIA

CUPID AND CAMPASPE

APOLLO'S SONG

"FAIR IS MY LOVE FOR APRIL'S IN HER FACE"

SAMELA

DAMELUS' SONG OF HIS DIAPHENIA

MADRIGAL

ON CHLORIS WALKING IN THE SNOW

"THERE IS A LADY SWEET AND KIND"

CHERRY-RIPE

AMARILLIS

ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA

HER TRIUMPH

OF PHYLLIS

A WELCOME

THE COMPLETE LOVER

RUBIES AND PEARLS

UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES

TO CYNTHIA ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY

SONG

A DEVOUT LOVER

ON A GIRDLE

CASTARA

TO ARAMANTHA

CHLOE DIVINE

MY PEGGY

SONG

"TELL ME, MY HEART, IF THIS BE LOVE"

THE FAIR THIEF

AMORET

SONG

KATE OF ABERDEEN

SONG

CHLOE

"O MALLY'S MEEK, MALLY'S SWEET"

THE LOVER'S CHOICE

RONDEAU REDOUBLE

"MY LOVE SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET"

JESSIE, THE FLOWER O' DUNBLANE

MARGARET AND DORA

DAGONET'S CANZONET

STANZAS FOR MUSIC

"FLOWERS I WOULD BRING"

"IT IS NOT BEAUTY I DEMAND"

SONG

SONG

EILEEN AROON

ANNIE LAURIE

TO HELEN

"A VOICE BY THE CEDAR TREE"

SONG

THE HENCHMAN

LOVELY MARY DONNELLY

LOVE IN THE VALLEY

MARIAN

PRAISE OF MY LADY

MADONNA MIA

"MEET WE NO ANGELS, PANSIE?"

TO DAPHNE

"GIRL OF THE RED MOUTH"

THE DAUGHTER OF MENDOZA

"IF SHE BE MADE OF WHITE AND RED"

THE LOVER'S SONG

"WHEN FIRST I SAW HER"

MY APRIL LADY

THE MILKMAID

SONG

IN FEBRUARY

"LOVE, I MARVEL WHAT YOU ARE"

BALLADE OF MY LADY'S BEAUTY

URSULA

VILLANELLE OF HIS LADY'S TREASURES

SONG

SONG

ANY LOVER, ANY LASS

SONGS ASCENDING

SONG

SONG

TO... IN CHURCH

AFTER TWO YEARS

PRAISE


PLAINTS AND PROTESTATIONS

FAWNIA

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE

THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD

"WRONG NOT, SWEET EMPRESS OF MY HEART"

TO HIS COY LOVE

HER SACRED BOWER

TO LESBIA

"LOVE ME OR NOT"

"THERE IS NONE, O NONE BUT YOU"