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0113 DSIS Qil3D THE HARVARD CLASSICS The Five-Foot Shelf of Books THE HARVARD CLASSICS EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D. English Poetry IN THREE VOLUMES VOLUME II From Collins to Fitzgerald ^ith Introductions and l>iotes Yolume 41 P. F. Collier & Son Corporation NEW YORK Copyright, igro By p. F. Collier & Son uanufactuked in v. s. a. CONTENTS William Collins page FiDELE 475 Ode Written in mdccxlvi 476 The Passions 476 To Evening 479 George Sewell The Dying Man in His Garden 481 Alison Rutherford Cockburn The Flowers of the Forest 482 Jane Elliot Lament for Flodden 483 Christopher Smart A Song to David 484 Anonymous Willy Drowned in Yarrow 498 John Logan The Braes of Yarrow 500 Henry Fielding A Hunting Song 501 Charles Dibdin Tom Bowling 502 Samuel Johnson On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet 503 A Satire 504 Oliver Goldsmith When Lovely Woman Stoops 505 Retaliation 505 The Deserted Village 509 The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society 520 Robert Graham of Gartmore If Doughty Deeds 531 Adam Austin For Lack of Gold 532 465 466 CONTENTS William Cowper page Loss OF THE Royal George 533 To A Young Lady 534 The Poplar Field 534 The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 535 To Mary Unwin 536 To the Same 537 Boadicea: An Ode 539 The Castaway 54" The Shrubbery 54^ On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk 543 The Diverting History of John Gilpin 546 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Drinking Song 554 Anna Laetitia Barbauld Life 555 IsoBEL Pagan (?) Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes 556 Lady Anne Lindsay AuLD Robin Gray 557 Thomas Chatterton Song from ^lla 558 Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne The Land o' the Leal 560 He's Ower the Hills that I Lo'e Weel 560 The Auld House 561 The Laird o' Cockpen 563 The Rowan Tree 564 Wha'll Be King But Charlie? 564 Charlie Is My Darling 566 Alexander Ross Wooed and Married and A' 567 John Skinner Tullochgorum 568 Michael Bruce To THE Cuckoo 570 George Halket Logie o' Buchan 571 William Hamilton of Bangour The Braes of Yarrow 572 CONTENTS 467 Hector MacNeil page I Lo'ed Ne'er a Laddie but Ane 576 Come Under My Plaidie 577 Sir William Jones An Ode 579 On Parent Knees a Naked New-born Child 580 Susanna Blamire And Ye Shall Walk in Silk. Attire 580 Anne Hunter My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair 581 John Dunlop The Year, That's Awa' 581 Samuel Rogers A Wish 582 The Sleeping Beauty 582 William Blake The Tiger 583 Ah! Sun-Flower 584 To Spring 584 Reeds of Innocence 584 Night 585 Auguries of Innocence 586 Nurse's Song 590 Holy Thursday 590 The Divine Image 591 Song 591 John Collins To-Morrow 592 Robert Tannahill Jessie, the Flower o' Dunblane 593 Gloomy Winter's Now Awa' 594 William Wordsworth Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections OF Early Childhood 595 My Heart Leaps Up 600 The Two April Mornings 600 The Fountain 602 Written in March 604 Nature and the Poet 605 Ruth: Or the Influences of Nature 607 A Lesson 614 468 CONTENTS William Wordsworth {Continued) pace Michael 615 Yarrow Unvisited 627 Yarrow Visited 629 Yarrow Revisited 631 Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey . 635 The Daffodils 639 To THE Daisy . 640 To THE Cuckoo 641 The Green Linnet 642 Written in Early Spring 643 To the Skylark 644 The Affliction of Margaret 644 Simon Lee the Old Huntsman 647 Ode to Duty 649 She Was a Phantom of Delight 651 To THE Highland Girl of Inversneyde 652 The Solitary Reaper 654 The Reverie of Poor Susan 655 To ToussAiNT L'Ouverture 655 Character of the Happy Warrior 656 Resolution and Independence 658 Laodamia 662 We Are Seven 667 Lucy 669 The Inner Vision 672 By the Sea 673 Upon Westminster Bridge 673 To A Distant Friend 674 Desideria 674 We Must Be Free or Die 675 England and Switzerland 675 On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic .... 676 London, mdcccii 676 The Same 677 When I Have Borne 677 The World is Too Much With Us 678 Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge 678 Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon 679 Composed at Neidpath Castle, the Property of Lord Queensberry 679 Admonition to a Traveller 680 To Sleep 680 The Sonnet 681 CONTENTS 469 William Lisle Bowles page Dover Cliffs 682 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 682 KuBLA Khan joi Youth and Age 7°3 Love 704 Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni . 707 Christabel 709 Dejection: an Ode 7^^ Robert Southey After Blenheim 732 The Scholar 734 Charles Lamb The Old Familiar Faces 735 Hester 735 On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born 736 Sir Walter Scott The Outlaw 73^ To a Lock of Hair 740 Jock of Hazeldean 74^ Eleu Lord 742 A Serenade 743 The Rover 743 The Maid of Neidpath 744 Gathering Song of Donald the Black 745 Border Ballad 746 The Pride of Youth 746 Coronach 747 Lucy Ashton's Song 74^ Answer 74^ rosabelle 74^ Hunting Song 750 LocHiNVAR 751 Bonny Dundee 752 Datur Hora Quieti 754 Here's a Health to King Charles 754 ' Harp of the North, Farewell! . 755 James Hogg KiLMENY 756 When the Kye Comes Hame 765 The Skylark 767 Lock the Door, Lariston 767 470 CONTENTS Robert Surtees page Barthram's Dirge 7% Thomas Campbell The Soldier's Dream 77° To THE Evening Star 77^ Ode to Winter 77^ Lord Ullin's Daughter 773 The River of Life 775 To THE Evening Star 77^ The Maid of Neidpath 777 Ye Mariners of England T]^ Battle of the Baltic 779 Hohenlinden 7^1 J. Campbell Freedom and Love 7^^ Allan Cunningham Hame, Hame, Hame 782 A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 783 George Gordon, Lord Byron Youth and Age 784 The Destruction of Sennacherib 785 Elegy on Thyrza 785 When We Tvs^o Parted 787 For Music 788 She Walks in Beauty 789 All For Love 789 Elegy 79° To Augusta 79° Epistle to Augusta 79^ Maid of Athens 795 Darkness 79^ Longing 798 Fare Thee Well 799 The Prisoner of Chillon 801 On the Castle of Chillon 811 Song of Saul Before His Last Battle 812 The Isles OF Greece 812 On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Y iAR . 815 Thomas Moore The Light of Other Days .... 816 Pro Patria Mori 817 1 CONTENTS 471 Thomas Moore {Continued) page The Meeting of the Waters ... 817 The Last Rose of Summer 818 The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls 819 A Canadian Boat-Song 819 The Journey Onwards 820 The Young May Moon 821 Echo 821 At the Mid Hour of Night 822 Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna 822 Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of Pan 823 Hellas 824 Invocation 825 Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples .... 827 I Fear Thy Kisses 828 Lines to an Indian Air 828 To a Skylark 829 Love's Philosophy 832 To the Night 832 Ode to the West Wind 833 Written Among the Euganean Hills, North Italy . 835 Hymn TO THE Spirit OF Nature .841 A Lament 842 A Dream of the Unknown 842 The Invitation 843 The Recollection 845 To the Moon 847 A Widow Bird 848 To a Lady, with a Guitar 848 One Word is Too Often Profaned 850 OZYMANDIAS OF EgYPT 85 The Flight of Love 851 The Cloud 852 Stanzas—April, 1814 854 Music, When Soft Voices Die 855 The Poet's Dream 855 The World's Wanderers 856 Adonais 856 James Henry Leigh Hunt Jenny Kiss'd Me 870 Abou Ben Adhem 870 472 CONTENTS John Keats paob The Realm of Fancy 871 Ode on the Poets 873 The Mermaid Tavern 874 Happy Insensibility 875 Ode to a Nightingale 876 Ode on a Grecian Urn 878 Ode to Autumn . 879 Ode to Psyche 880 Ode on Melancholy 882 The Eve of St. Agnes 883 La Belle Dame Sans Merci 893 On the Grasshopper and Cricket 895 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 895 To Sleep 896 The Human Seasons 896 Great Spirits Now on Earth Are Sojourning .... 897 The Terror of Death 897 Last Sonnet 898 Walter Savage Landor Rose Aylmer 898 Twenty Years Hence 898 Proud Word You Never Spoke 899 Absence 899 Dirce 899 CORINNA TO TaNAGRA, FROM AtHENS 899 Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel 901 Well I Remember 901 No, My Own Love 901 Robert Browning 902 The Death of Artemidora 902 Iphigeneia 903 'Do You Remember Me?' 904 For an Epitaph at Fiesole 904 On Lucretia Borgia's Hair 904 On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday 905 To My Ninth Decade 905 Death Stands Above Me 905 On Living Too Long 905 Thomas Hood Fair Ines 905 The Bridge of Sighs 9°? CONTENTS 473 Thomas Hood (Continued) page The Death Bed 910 Past and Present 910 Sir Aubrey De Verb Glengariff 911 Hartley Coleridge She is Not Fair 912 Joseph Blanco White To Night 913 George Darley The Loveliness of Love 913 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay The Armada 915 A Jacobite's Epitaph 917 Sir William Edmondstoune Aytoun The Refusal of Charon 917 Hugh Miller The Babie 918 Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Lament of the Irish Emigrant 919 Charles Tennyson Turner Letty's Globe 921 Sir Samuel Ferguson The Fair Hills of Ireland 921 Elizabeth Barrett Brow^ning A Musical Instrument 922 Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1-44 923-941 The Sleep 941 Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur 943 WILLIAM COLLINS [1720-17^9} 294 FIDELE fair Fidele's grassy tomb TO Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring.