THE HOME BOOK
OF VERSE

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH

1580-1912

With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems
in Other Languages

Brick how Bookclops 10 May 1932 (vola 1-8)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART VII

POEMS OF SORROW, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY

"Death be not Proud". ........ John Donne

Melancholy

On Melancholy

The Rainy Day

The Precept of Silence

"Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales'

Sorrow..

Time and Grief

Grief

Pain

A Farewell

IN THE SHADOW

"The Day is Done"

The Bridge

"My Life is Like the Summer Rose" Richard Henry Wilde

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As I Laye A-Thynkynge"

Richard Harris Barham

"Tis But a Little Faded Flower

To Each His Own

Song, "Rarely, rarely comest thou".

Stanzas Written in Dejection Near

Naples

Sunset Wings

Morality.

Cui Bono

Mutability

A Fancy from Fontenelle.

"Oh, Earlier Shall the

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.Alfred Tennyson .

.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3157

.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3158

Ethel Clifford

Thomas Moore

.Louise Imogen Guiney.

Richard Le Gallienne..

Byron Forceythe Willson.

...Ellen Clementine Howarth

.Margaret Root Garvin .

.Percy Bysshe Shelley

..Percy Bysshe Shelley

.Dante Gabriel Rossetti

.Matthew Arnold .

.Thomas Carlyle

.Percy Bysshe Shelley

.Austin Dobson.

Rosebuds

.William Johnson Cory

.John Keats

Bryan Waller Frocter

.Samuel Rogers

.Abram J. Ryan

Elizabeth Akers

sunshine"..Helen Hay Whitney

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..Robert Buchanan..

..Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3179

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.Florence Earle Coates

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Lizette Woodworth Reese.... 3181

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To Death

The Genius of Death

"Oh, Why Should The Spirit of Mor-

tal Be Proud"

"FACING THE SUNSET"

Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

Thomas Nashe

His Winding-Sheet

A Prayer in the Prospect of Death

Song of the Silent Land

June..

Love, Time, and Death..

A Wish

Next of Kin

A Better Resurrection

The Summer is Ended

A Little Parable.

My Cross.

In the Hospital

When.

"Ex Libris"

In Extremis

Spinning

'Some Time at Eve"

Night..

Afterwards

A Hundred Years to Come

The Last Camp-fire.

At First..

Table of Contents

The Lamp in the West.

The Dying Reservist

"If Love were Jester at the Court of

Death"

Constancy

The Wild Ride.

"I Would not Live Alway"

Robert Herrick

Robert Burns.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3242

William Cullen Bryant . 3243

.Frederick Locker-Lampson 3244

Matthew Arnold.
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Christina Georgina Rossetti.. 3246

Christina Georgina Rosselli.. 3247

Christina Georgina Rossetti.. 3248

.Anne Reeve Aldrich

Zitella Cocke

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Mary Woolsey Howland

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Sarch Chauncey Woolsey

.Arthur Upson..

.George Sterling

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..Helen Hunt Jackson

Lizzie Clark Hardy

.T. W. Rolleston

Violet Fane..

William Goldsmith Brown

Sharlot M. Hall.

.Amanda T. Jones

.Ella Higginson

.Maurice Baring

"ONE FIGHT MORE” Á

When I Have Gone Weird Ways

A Rhyme of Life

"Thalatta! Thalatta".

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Robert Browning.

Robert Louis Stevenson

.Frederic Lawrence Knowles. 3260

.Minor Watson

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..Louise Imogen Guiney.

.William Augustus Muhlen-

berg

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.Horatius Bonar

.Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

.Anna Letitia Barbauld

.Alice Cary.

Paul Hamilton Hayne..

"A Late Lark Twitters from the

Quiet Skies"

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.George Eliot.

.Emily Brontë

.Frederic Lawrence Knowles.. 3267

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John Keats

.John Keats

.Alexander Pope

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Walt Whitman

.Walt Whitman

John Burroughs

.George Arnold..

.William Motherwell

William Winter.

.John G. Neihardt.

.Charles Warren Stoddard

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Joseph Brownlee Brown

.F. Norreys Connell.

William Ernest Henley.

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.William Ernest Henley..... 3281