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CONTENTS.
OLD TIMES.
Old times, old times, the gay old times,
Piped the blackbird on the beechwood spray :
SIR MARMADUKE..
Sir Marmaduke was a hearty knight:
I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER.
SONG OF THE SILENT LAND.
Into the Silent Land!
THE ONE GRAY HAIR...
The wisest of the wise
THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION.
238
COLMAN
241
Shall I, wasting in despair,
· MCMASTER
247
THE OLD CONTINENTALS...
In their ragged regimentals
A CHARADE..
Come from my First-ay, come!
THE FADED VIOLET.....
What thought is folded in thy leaves!
O! SNATCHED AWAY IN BEAUTY'S BLOOM..
253
BYRON.
TO PRIMROSES.
Why do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears
TO THE HUMBLEBEE.....
Fine humblebee, fine humblebee!
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP...
You know we French stormed Ratisbon.
A SPINNING-WHEEL SONG....
Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning;
MY LOVE ........
Not as all other women are
SONG....
Drink ye to her that each loves best,
MADAME LA MARQUISE..
The folds of her wine-dark violet dress
BEWARE..
I know a maiden fair to see:
SONG.....
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
LEFT BEHIND.....
JOHN FRANCIS WALLER 263
It was the autumn of the year;
TAKE, O TAKE, THOSE LIPS AWAY. SHAKSPEARE AND FLETCHER 276
OF A' THE AIRTS THE WIND CAN BLAW..BURNS.
277
No more! a harp-string's deep and breaking tone,
THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES....
....
285
I have had playmates, I have had companions,
A SNOW-STORM.
1
'Tis a fearful night in the winter time,
Why sits she thus in solitude? Her heart
EPITAPH ON EROTION.....
Underneath this greedy stone
SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT....... WORDSWORTH........ 308
KORNER. (German.).. 314
Chorley's Translation.
KÖRNER'S SWORD SONG..
Sword at my left side gleaming!
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THE RIVER TIME.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR 318
O! a wonderful stream is the River Time,
Tears, idle tears! I know not what they mean:
PHILIP, MY KING..............
.MULOCH
327
Look at me, with thy large brown eyes,
IF I HAD THOUGHT THOU COULDST HAVE DIED..
328
SUMMER LONGINGS....
Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
THE FISHER'S COTTAGE..............
We sat by the fisher's cottage,
THE HUNTER'S COTTAGE.
The night is wet and stormy,
THE MERRY LARK WAS UP AND SINGING..........
The merry, merry lark was up and singing,
KINGSLEY.
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren,
...O'BRIEN
338
WEBSTER
340
Not on a prayerless bed, not on a prayerless bed
COLERIDGE
345
THE GOOD GREAT MAN
How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits
DIRGE OF JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER.
. HERRICK
O thou, the wonder of all dayes!
346
THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAWN. 349
MARVELL.
The wanton troopers, riding by,
THE WEEPEN LIADY..
. BARNES
353
When liate o' nights, above the green,
THOU HAST SWORN BY THY GOD, MY JEANIE...
367