GEMS

OF

ENGLISH POETRY,

FROM

Chaucer to the Present Times.

A

LONDON:

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE OFFICE,

2, CASTLE-STREET, CITY-ROAD ;
SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1867.

280.j. 95

LONDON.

R. Needham, Printer, Paternoster-Row.

To my dear Father,

THE REVEREND THOMAS JACKSON,

TO WHOM I OWE

MY APPRECIATION OF ENGLISH POETRY;

AND WHOSE HOLY EXAMPLE AND TENDER LOVE

HAVE BEEN THE CROWNING BLESSING OF MY LIFE ;

I DEDICATE THIS SELECTION OF

“GEMS."