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 With Introductions and NoteJ Volume 41 P. F. Collier & Son Corporation NEW YORK Copyright, 1910 BY P. F. COLLIER & SON MANUFACTURED 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 542 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 JELLA 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 AW A' 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 SONC 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) MICHAEL YARROW UNVI SITED YARROW VISITED YARROW REVISITED LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY . THE DAFFODILS To THE DAISY . To THE CUCKOO THE GREEN LINNET WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING To THE SKYLARK THE AFFLICTION OF MARGARET SIMON LEE THE OLD HUNTSMAN ODE TO DUTY SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT To THE HIGHLAND GIRL OF INVERSNEYDE THE SOLITARY REAPER THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN To TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE LAODAMIA WE ARE SEVEN LUCY THE INNER VISION BY THE SEA UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE To A DISTANT FRIEND DESIDERIA WE MUST BE FREE OR DIE ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC .... LONDON, MDCCCII THE SAME WHEN I HAVE BORNE THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US WITHIN KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE VALEDICTORY SONNET TO THE RIVER DUDDON COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, THE PROPERTY OF LORD QUEENSBERRY ADMONITION TO A TRAVELLER To SLEEP THE SONNET CONTENTS 469 WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES PAGE DOVER CLIFFS 682 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER 682 KUBLA KHAN 701 YOUTH AND AGE 7°3 LOVE 704 HYMN BEFORE SUNRISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI . 707 CHRISTABEL 709 DEJECTION: AN ODE 72^ 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 74X ELEU LORO 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*>9 THOMAS CAMPBELL THE SOLDIER'S DREAM 77° To THE EVENING STAR 771 ODE TO WINTER 771 LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER 773 THE RIVER OF LIFE 775 To THE EVENING STAR 77^ THE MAID OF NEIDPATH 777 YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND 777 BATTLE OF THE BALTIC 779 HOHENLINDEN J. CAMPBELL FREEDOM AND LOVE 7^2 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM HAME, HAME, HAME 782 A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA 783 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON YOUTH AND AGE 7^4 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB 785 ELEGY ON THYRZA , 7^5 WHEN WE TWO PARTED 787 FOR MUSIC 7^8 SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY 789 ALL FOR LOVE 789 ELEGY 79° To AUGUSTA 79° EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA 792 MAID OF ATHENS 795 DARKNESS 796 LONGING 79^ 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 :AR . 815 THOMAS MOORE THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS ....816 PRO PATRIA MORI 817 CONTENTS THOMAS MOORE (Continued) THE MEETING OF THE WATERS . THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER . THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS .... A CANADIAN BOAT-SONG THE JOURNEY ONWARDS THE YOUNG MAY MOON ECHO AT THE MID HOUR OF NIGHT CHARLES WOLFE THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT CORUNNA . PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY HYMN OF PAN HELLAS INVOCATION STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES . I FEAR THY KISSES LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR To A SKYLARK LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY To THE NIGHT ODE TO THE WEST WIND WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS, NORTH ITALY . HYMN TO THE SPIRIT OF NATURE A LAMENT A DREAM OF THE UNKNOWN THE INVITATION THE RECOLLECTION To THE MOON A WIDOW BIRD To A LADY, WITH A GUITAR ONE WORD IS TOO OFTEN PROFANED OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT THE FLIGHT OF LOVE THE CLOUD STANZAS—APRIL, 1814 MUSIC, WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE THE POET'S DREAM • THE WORLD'S WANDERERS ADONAIS JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT JENNY KISS'D ME ABOU BEN ADHEM 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 DlRCE 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 9°5 THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS 9°7 CONTENTS 473 THOMAS HOOD (Continued) PAGE THE DEATH BED 910 PAST AND PRESENT 9RO SIR AUBREY DE VERE GLENGARIFF 911 HARTLEY COLERIDGE SHE IS NOT FAIR 912 JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE To NIGHT 9R3 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 BROWNING 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 [1720-1759] FIDELE O fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, TAnd rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherds lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew.