CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION Page [13]
I. The Flower and the Leaf.
The Flower and the Leaf [36]
II. The Bee.
To the Bees Page [54]
On a Bee’s Nest [54]
The Bee [55]
Management of Bees [55]
From Shakspeare [59]
The Drone [59]
Memory of the Bee [60]
The Death of the Bee [60]
Sonnet [61]
III. Spring.
The Return of Spring in Greece [63]
Spring [64]
Description of Spring [64]
Spring [65]
On Spring [65]
Sonnet on Spring [66]
Spring, at Easter [66]
The Airs of Spring [69]
Return of Spring [69]
Ode to Spring [70]
The Flower [71]
Ode [73]
To Spring [74]
To Spring [75]
Spring [76]
Ode [76]
The Awakening Year [77]
Spring Scene [78]
Spring [79]
IV. Morning.
Morning Melodies [80]
Morning Walk [81]
Hymn [81]
Morning [83]
Spring Morning in Italy [84]
Up, Amaryllis! [85]
The Morning Walk [86]
Danish Morning Song [87]
Summer Morning Song [88]
V. Lark and Nightingale.
The Note of the Nightingale [92]
Sonnet [93]
The Nightingale [94]
Ode to a Nightingale [95]
The Nightingale [97]
The Nightingale [98]
The Mother Bird [99]
The Mother Nightingale [99]
The Nightingale [100]
Nest of the Nightingale [101]
The Nightingale [103]
The Lark [103]
To the Skylark [104]
A Lark Singing in a Rainbow [107]
The Skylark [107]
The Moors of Jutland [108]
The Rising of the Lark [108]
The Lark [109]
Lark [109]
Lines [110]
VI. May.
May Morning [112]
Emilia on May Day [112]
Salutation of Maia [113]
Song [114]
May [115]
Song [116]
May [117]
VII. The Flock.
On a Rural Image of Pan [121]
Pastoral Scene from “The Arcadia” [121]
From the “Faithful Shepherdess” [122]
The Shepherd’s Life [122]
The Shepherd’s Address to his Muse [123]
Phillida and Corydon [125]
Shearing Time [126]
A Fayre and Happy Milk-Maid [128]
Sheep Pastures [129]
The Spinner’s Song [130]
Song for the Spinning-Wheel [130]
Wurtha [131]
To Meadows [132]
French Song [132]
VIII. The Garland.
Flowers [136]
Spring-Flowers [136]
Arrangements of a Bouquet [137]
Heart’s-Ease [138]
The Garland [139]
To Primroses [140]
To the Narcissus [141]
The Rose [142]
Ancient Servian Song [142]
To Blossoms [143]
Children’s Posies [143]
Love’s Wreath [144]
To Daffodils [144]
The Lily [145]
Wild Flowers [145]
To the Sweet-Brier [147]
The Wild Honeysuckle [148]
Wild Flowers [148]
Beau and the Lily [149]
Flowers [150]
Alpine Flowers [153]
To the Bramble Flower [153]
The Painted Cup [154]
The Wreath of Grasses [155]
Divination [155]
Grass [155]
Daffodils [156]
IX. Medley.
Grongar Hill [157]
Letter on Certain Trees [161]
A Sketch [162]
An English Peasant’s Cottage [163]
Ruth [163]
Simple Pleasures [164]
From “The Complete Angler” [164]
The Milk-Maid’s Song [166]
The Milk-Maid’s Mother’s Answer [167]
The Solitary Reaper [168]
The Husbandman [169]
X. The Garden.
The Garden [171]
Of Gardens [171]
A Garden [172]
The Garden of Alcinous [172]
The Garden of Eden [173]
Of Gardens [174]
Gardening [175]
Flowers and Art [176]
Chinese Gardening [177]
Employment [177]
The Garden [178]
The Gardeners [179]
Lines [181]
XI. Summer.
Saxon Song of Summer [182]
Lines [183]
The Summer Months [183]
Virtue [184]
From the “Holy Dying” [185]
Simile [185]
The Sun [186]
The Sun [187]
Delight in God [188]
Noon [189]
Summer Dream [191]
Summer [192]
Portuguese Canzonet [193]
XII. The Forest.
From “Evangeline” [194]
Song [194]
A Grove [195]
Of the Seminary, and of Transplanting [196]
Windsor Forest [196]
Fairlop [197]
An Old Oak [198]
Yardley Oak [198]
The Groaning Elm of Badesley [200]
Yew-Trees [201]
Lines [202]
Lime-Trees [202]
The Birch-Tree [203]
The Hemlock-Tree [204]
The Oak [205]
On an Ancient Oak [205]
Wood Notes [205]
A Pine-Forest [207]
A Wood in Winter [208]
“Leaves have their Time to Fall” [208]
Sonnet [209]
XIII. Birds.
Lines [211]
A Flight of Cranes [211]
The Swallow and the Grasshopper [212]
The Same [212]
Song of the Swallow [213]
Swallows [214]
Lines [214]
The Black Cock [215]
To the Mocking-Bird [215]
The Bob-o-Linkum [216]
The Owl [217]
Extract [218]
The Pattichap’s Nest [219]
A Thought [219]
The Birds of Passage [220]
The Dove [222]
The Dying Swan [223]
The Twa Corbies [224]
The Redbreast in September [224]
XIV. The Butterfly.
Muiopotmos; or, the Fate of the Butterflie [227]
On a Locust [238]
To the Cicada [238]
The Grasshopper [239]
Insects [240]
Flowers and Insects [240]
The Dragon-Fly [241]
To an Insect [242]
The Grasshopper [243]
XV. The Streams.
The Streams [245]
The Thames [245]
River and Song [247]
Ode to Leven-Water [247]
Song [248]
The Rivulet [250]
The Stream of the Rock [250]
A River [252]
Life compared to a Stream [252]
On the Bronze Image of a Frog [253]
Little Streams [253]
Frogs [255]
The Rivulets [255]
Lines [256]
The Wayside Spring [257]
Gulls [258]
The Fountain [258]
XVI. Fairies.
Elves [262]
Hynde Etin [262]
The Fairy Queen [268]
Merry Pranks of Robin Good-Fellow [270]
Slavic [273]
Cottage Fairy [274]
Fairies in the Highlands [275]
XVII. Medley.
Of Beauty [278]
Fragment [279]
The Memory of a Walk [279]
A Bower [279]
Mist of the Mountain-Top [282]
Emblem [283]
Song [284]
To a Mountain-Daisy [285]
Mossgiel [286]
The Forest-Leaves in Autumn [287]
Bohemian [287]
A Landscape and its Associations [288]
XVIII. The Calendar.
The Opening Year [289]
On Observing a Blossom [290]
February [290]
March [291]
April [292]
April [293]
Ode to First of April [294]
April [296]
May [298]
June [299]
July [299]
August [300]
August [301]
September [302]
October [302]
November [303]
November [303]
November in England [304]
Sonnet [305]
Song [305]
XIX. The Schoolmistress.
The Schoolmistress [308]
The Hamlet [313]
The Nosegay [314]
The Well of St. Keyne [315]
Losel’s Farm [316]
Gipsies [317]
A Sterile Field [318]
The English Common [319]
Lines [319]
Lines [320]
XX. Autumn.
To Autumn near her Departure [323]
Autumn [323]
Ode to William Lyttleton, Esq [325]
Song [327]
Autumn Scene in England [328]
Indian Summer [329]
An Autumn Landscape [329]
Autumn Woods [330]
XXI. Medley.
A Wish [333]
A Country Life [334]
Of Building [334]
Of Building [336]
The Wish [337]
A Thanksgiving for his House [338]
The Stranger on the Sill [339]
The Invitation [340]
Icelandic Lines [341]
Domestic Peace [341]
XXII. The Hunt.
Ancient Hunting Song [342]
Hounds [343]
Deer Leap [343]
The Hare [343]
A Hunter’s Matin [347]
A Sportsman of Olden Time [348]
Sonnet [349]
Sonnet [350]
Lines [350]
XXIII. Medley.
Ode [351]
Letter of Sir Thomas More to his Wife [353]
Peasant Pavo [354]
Country Life [356]
Scene in an American Forest [357]
Song [359]
Song [359]
Blessings of a Country Life [360]
Plagues of a Country Life [360]
XXIV. Wind and Cloud.
A Storm in Autumn [361]
To the Rainbow [362]
The Windy Night [363]
A Shower [364]
To the Rainbow [364]
The Hurricane [365]
The Rainbow [367]
XXV. Medley.
The Story of Aaron the Beggar [369]
Elegy [371]
Take Thy Old Cloake about Thee [372]
The Country Lasse [374]
Harvest Song [375]
Song [376]
Servian [377]
Lines [377]
The Balade of the Shepharde [378]
XXVI. Medley.
Song [382]
Song of Colma [383]
Song [384]
Lines [384]
Letter of St. Basil [385]
A Vision [386]
The Campagna of Rome [389]
The Wave of Life [389]
Mutability [390]
XXVII. Winter.
Winter [391]
A Winter Scene [392]
Winter Song [393]
Holly Song [394]
An Old-Fashioned Holly Hedge [394]
Christmas Carol [394]
The Seasons [395]
A Winter Song [396]
The Thrush [396]
Sonnet [397]
Spring and Winter [397]
Woods in Winter [398]
Winter [399]
XXVIII. Medley.
Fragment from the Greek of Aristotle [400]
The Creation of the Earth [401]
Earth [402]
The Shield of Achilles [403]
Lines [404]
An Italian Moon [407]
Italian Song [408]
A Farm Scene in Portugal [408]
From “The Lusiad” [411]
Paradise [412]
Nature Teaching Immortality [413]
XXIX. Evening and Night.
The Moon [415]
Lines [415]
To Cynthia [416]
To Night [416]
Night [417]
To the Moon [418]
Moonlight [419]
Elegy [420]
Night Song [422]
Progress of Evening [423]
Night [423]
Evening [424]
Spring Evening [424]
Song [425]
Song [425]
Life [426]
On Hope [426]
Sonnet [426]
Twilight [427]