| PRINCIPAL DIVISIONS. |
| PAGE |
| Introduction | [5] |
| The Nineteenth Century | [15] |
| The Eighteenth Century | [95] |
| The Seventeenth Century | [157] |
| The Sixteenth Century | [215] |
| The Fifteenth Century | [267] |
| The Fourteenth Century | [285] |
| Index | [303] |
| |
| POEMS. |
| By Alfred Tennyson:— |
| | The Lady of Shalott | [17] |
| | The Brook | [25] |
| By William Wordsworth:— |
| | Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | [37] |
| | The Two April Mornings | [49] |
| | The Solitary Reaper | [51] |
| By S. T. Coleridge:— |
| | Christabel. Part I | [55] |
| By Percy Bysshe Shelley:— |
| | To a Skylark | [67] |
| | Hymn of Pan | [71] |
| | From Epipsychidion | [74] |
| By John Keats:— |
| | Ode to a Nightingale | [83] |
| | From The Eve of St. Agnes | [87] |
| By Robert Burns:— |
| | The Cotter's Saturday Night | [97] |
| | To a Mountain Daisy | [107] |
| | For a' that and a' that | [109] |
| By William Cowper:— |
| | Boadicea | [113] |
| | On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture | [115] |
| | Epitaph on a Hare | [120] |
| By Oliver Goldsmith:— |
| | The Village Parson | [124] |
| | The Village Schoolmaster | [125] |
| By Thomas Gray:— |
| | The Bard | [129] |
| By Alexander Pope:— |
| | From the Essay on Criticism | [141] |
| | Ode on St. Cecilia's Day | [147] |
| By John Dryden:— |
| | Alexander's Feast | [159] |
| | The Fire of London | [169] |
| | Reason and Religion | [174] |
| By John Milton:— |
| | On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | [177] |
| | Wordsworth's Sonnet to Milton | [196] |
| By Robert Herrick:— |
| | To Phillis | [197] |
| | The Mad Maid's Song | [199] |
| | A Thanksgiving to God | [200] |
| By Edmund Waller:— |
| | Song: Go, lovely Rose | [203] |
| | Of English Verse | [204] |
| | On a Girdle | [205] |
| By Ben Jonson:— |
| | An Ode to Himself | [207] |
| | To Cynthia | [209] |
| | To the Memory of William Shakespeare | [210] |
| | Herrick's Ode for Ben Jonson | [214] |
| By William Shakespeare:— |
| | Venus's Advice to Adonis on Hunting | [217] |
| | A Morning Song for Imogen | [219] |
| | Sigh no more, Ladies | [220] |
| | Sunshine and Cloud (Sonnet xxxiii.) | [220] |
| | The World's Way (Sonnet lxvi.) | [221] |
| By Edmund Spenser:— |
| | The Cave of Mammon | [223] |
| | Prothalamion; or, a Spousall Verse | [235] |
| By Thomas Wyatt:— |
| | A Love Song | [247] |
| | The Courtier's Life | [248] |
| By the Earl of Surrey:— |
| | From Virgil's Æneid | [249] |
| | Sonnet: Geraldine | [250] |
| | On the Death of Sir Thomas Wyatt | [251] |
| Ballads:— |
| | Waly, waly | [253] |
| | Sir Patrick Spens | [255] |
| | The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington | [259] |
| | Robin Hood and the Widow's three Sons | [261] |
| By John Skelton:— |
| | To Maystress Margaret Hussey | [269] |
| | Cardinal Wolsey | [270] |
| By John Lydgate:— |
| | A Visit to London | [273] |
| | The Golden Age | [275] |
| By Robert Henryson:— |
| | The Garmond of Fair Ladies | [277] |
| By William Dunbar:— |
| | A May Morning | [279] |
| By Gawain Douglas:— |
| | In Praise of Honour | [281] |
| By Geoffrey Chaucer:— |
| | From the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales | [287] |
