CONTENTS

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[Kubla Khan]Samuel Taylor Coleridge[19]
[Meg Merrilies]John Keats[22]
[Berries]Walter de la Mare[24]
[Romance]Robert Louis Stevenson[28]
[Hymn of Pan]Percy Bysshe Shelley[29]
[Written in March]William Wordsworth[31]
[“When the Hounds of Spring”]Algernon Charles Swinburne[32]
[Song]Robert Browning[36]
[“Under the Greenwood Tree”]William Shakespeare[37]
[To Violets]Robert Herrick[38]
[On May Morning]John Milton[39]
[The Lepracaun]William Allingham[40]
[Hunting Song]Sir Walter Scott[44]
[The Lady of Shalott]Alfred Tennyson[46]
[Hymn to Diana]Ben Jonson[59]
[The Song of Wandering Aengus]William Butler Yeats[60]
[The Shepherd to His Love]Christopher Marlowe[62]
[Robin Hood and the Butcher]Author Unknown[64]
[A Sea Song]Allan Cunningham[72]
[Epitaph on a Hare]William Cowper[73]
[The Pilgrim]John Bunyan[76]
[Lullaby for Titania]William Shakespeare[78]
[Israfel]Edgar Allan Poe[82]
[Jaffár]Leigh Hunt[87]
[A Song of Sherwood]Alfred Noyes[89]
[The Destruction of Sennacherib]Lord Byron[92]
[Ivry]Thomas Babington Macaulay[94]
[The Tiger]William Blake[98]
[The Terrible Robber Men]Padraic Colum[100]
[Sir Patrick Spens]Author Unknown[101]
[“Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind”]William Shakespeare[108]
[The Pied Piper of Hamelin]Robert Browning[109]
[“Time, You Old Gipsy Man”]Ralph Hodgson[124]
[The Solitary Reaper]William Wordsworth[128]
[My Lost Youth]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[130]
[Battle Hymn of the Republic]Julia Ward Howe[133]
[Gathering Song of Donald Dhu]Sir Walter Scott[135]
[The Minstrel-Boy]Thomas Moore[137]
[Bannockburn]Robert Burns[138]
[Fable]Ralph Waldo Emerson[140]
[Good Hours]Robert Frost[141]
[Winter]William Shakespeare[142]
[A Chanted Calendar]Sydney Dobell[143]
[The Cloud]Percy Bysshe Shelley[145]
[Bugle Song]Alfred Tennyson[151]
[The Forsaken Merman]Matthew Arnold[152]
[Nurse’s Song]William Blake[158]
[To a Mouse]Robert Burns[159]
[The Fairies]William Allingham[162]
[La Belle Dame Sans Merci]John Keats[168]
[Spring]Thomas Nashe[175]
[“I Wandered Lonely”]William Wordsworth[176]
[The Gay Gos-Hawk]Author Unknown[178]
[An Old Song of Fairies]Author Unknown[186]
[Moon Folly]Fannie Stearns Gifford[189]
[Star-Talk]Robert Graves[193]
[Jim Jay]Walter de la Mare[197]
[The Ghosts of the Buffaloes]Vachel Lindsay[199]
[A Christmas Carol]Christina Rossetti[203]
[Escape at Bedtime]Robert Louis Stevenson[205]
[Song of the Chattahoochee]Sidney Lanier[206]
[Sea Fever]John Masefield[211]
[O Captain! My Captain!]Walt Whitman[212]
[The Snow]Emily Dickinson[214]
[A Song for My Mother]Anna Hempstead Branch[215]
[The Fountain]James Russell Lowell[217]
[Nature’s Friend]William H. Davies[221]
[Tree-Toad]Hilda Conkling[223]
[An Ancient Christmas Carol]Author Unknown[225]
[An Old Christmas Carol]Author Unknown[226]
[King John and the Abbot of Canterbury]Author Unknown[228]
[The Sands of Dee]Charles Kingsley[234]
[Sister, Awake!]Author Unknown[236]
[The Skeleton in Armor]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[237]
[By Bendemeer’s Stream]Thomas Moore[244]
[A Prayer]Edwin Markham[245]
[Young Lochinvar]Sir Walter Scott[246]
[Off the Ground]Walter de la Mare[249]
[Auld Daddy Darkness]James Ferguson[256]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Kubla Khan]Samuel Taylor Coleridge[Frontispiece]
[“When the Hounds of Spring”]Algernon Charles Swinburne[33]
[The Lady of Shalott]Alfred Tennyson[51]
[Hymn to Diana]Ben Jonson[58]
[Robin Hood and the Butcher]Author Unknown[69]
[Lullaby for Titania]William Shakespeare[79]
[Israfel]Edgar Allan Poe[83]
[Sir Patrick Spens]Author Unknown[105]
[“Time, You Old Gipsy Man”]Ralph Hodgson[125]
[The Cloud]Percy Bysshe Shelley[147]
[The Fairies]William Allingham[165]
[La Belle Dame Sans Merci]John Keats[169]
[Spring]Thomas Nashe[174]
[Moon Folly]Fannie Stearns Gifford[191]
[Star-Talk]Robert Graves[195]
[Sea Fever]John Masefield[210]
[The Fountain]James Russell Lowell[219]
[Off the Ground]Walter de la Mare[251]