THE DEATH OF DEATH.

SONNET CXLVI.

Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
Fooled by those rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?
Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more.
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And, Death once dead, there's no more dying then.

SHAKESPEARE.

[INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES]

For occupation, nativity, etc., of Authors, and the American publishers of the American poetical works, see General Index of Authors, Volume X.

ÆSCHYLUS.
[Wail of Prometheus Bound, The (Mrs. Browning's Translation)]156
AGATHIAS.
[Time's Revenge (Bland's Translation)]72
ALDRICH, JAMES.
[Death-Bed, A]306
ALGER, WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE.
[Parting Lovers, The (From the Chinese)]104
ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM.
[Dirty Old Man, The]55
ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN.
[After Death in Arabia.]452
[Secret of Death, The]434
ARNOLD, MATTHEW.
[Requiescat]307
AUSTIN, ALFRED.
[Agatha]13
AUSTIN, SARAH TAYLOR.
[Passage, the (German of Uhland)]342
AYTON OR AYTOUN, SIR ROBERT.
[Woman's Inconstancy]71
BACON, FRANCIS, BARON VERULAM.
[World, The]151
BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES.
[Death in Youth (Festus)]428
BALLANTINE, JAMES.
["Ilka blade o' grass keps its ain drap o' dew"]241
BARBAULD, ANNA LÆTITIA.
[Life]400
BARNARD, LADY ANNE.
[Auld Robin Gray]32
BARR, AMELIA EDITH.
[Bottom Drawer, The]405
BEAUMONT, FRANCIS.
[On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey]269
BENJAMIN, PARK.
[Old Sexton, The]282
BENNETT, LUCY A.
["Asleep! asleep!"]396
BÉRANGER, PIERRE-JEAN DE.
[Old Vagabond, The (Translation)]188
BETHUNE, GEORGE WASHINGTON.
["It is not death to die"]455
BJÖRNSON, BJÖRSTJERNE.
[Princess, The (Dole's Translation)]9
BLACKIE, JOHN STUART.
[Emigrant Lassie, The]280
BLAMIRE, SUSANNA.
["What ails this heart o' mine"]139
BLAND, ROBERT.
[Time's Revenge (Greek of Agathias)]72
BLOOD, HENRY AMES.
[Song of Savoyards]248
BODENSTEDT, FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON.
[Unchanging (Translation)]242
BONAR, HORATIUS.
["Beyond the smiling and the weeping"]378
BRENAN, JOSEPH.
["Come to me, dearest"]144
BRIDGES, ROBERT (Droch).
[Unillumined Verge, The]308
BROOKS, MARIA GOWEN (Maria del Occidente).
[Song of Egla]138
BROWN, JOSEPH BROWNLEE.
[Thalatta! Thalatta!]388
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT.
[Comfort]433
[De Profundis]421
[Hopeless Grief]217
[Mother and Poet]323
[Sleep, The]389
[Tears]429
[Wail of Prometheus Bound, The (Greek of Æschylus)]156
BROWNING, ROBERT.
[Evelyn Hope]310
[Prospice]391
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN.
[Blessed are They that Mourn]420
[Conqueror's Grave, The]442
[Thanatopsis]264
BURDETTE, ROBERT JONES.
["When my ship comes in"]245
BURNS, ROBERT.
["Ae fond kiss, and then we sever"]98
[Banks o' Doon, The]12
[Highland Mary]329
["I love my Jean"]126
[Mary in Heaven, To]339
["O my Luve's like a red, red rose"]99
["O, saw ye bonnie Leslie"]130
BURROUGHS, JOHN.
[Waiting]238
BYRON, GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD.
["Adieu, adieu, my native shore"]108
[Dream, The]73
[Farewell to his Wife]109
[Latest Verses]169
["Maid of Athens, ere we part"]100
[Picture of Death, A (The Giaour)]261
CAMOËNS, LUIS DE.
[Blighted Love (Strongford's Translation)]81
CARLETON, WILL.
["Over the hill to the poor-house"]175
CARY, HENRY FRANCIS.
["The fairest thing in mortal eyes" (French of Duke of Orleans)]356
CHADWICK, JOHN WHITE.
[Two Waitings, The]409
CHANNING, WILLIAM_ELLERY.
[Sleepy Hollow]277
CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANCOIS AUGUSTE, VICOMTE DE.
[Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur (Translation)]305
CHATTERTON, THOMAS.
[Minstrel's Song]340
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH.
[Despondency Rebuked]235
[Qua Cursum Ventus]107
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR.
[Good, Great Man, The]244
COSTELLO, LOUISE STUART.
[On the Death of Francis I. (French of Marguerite)]338
[Sonnet (French of Labé)]237
[To Diane de Poitiers (French of Marat)]69
COWPER, WILLIAM.
[Present Good, The (The Task)]150
CRABBE, GEORGE.
[Approach of Age, The (Tales of the Hall)]163
CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK.
[Now and Afterwards]268
[Only a Woman]86
[Too Late]335
CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE.
[Compensation]229
CRAWFORD, JULIA (or LOUISA MACARTNEY).
[Kathleen Mavourneen]112
["We parted in silence"]113
DELAND, MARGARETTA WADE.
[Love and Death]394
DE VERE, AUBREY THOMAS.
["Sad is our youth, for it is ever going"]225
DE VERE, MARY AINGE (Madeline Bridges).
[Spinner, The]70
DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON.
[Home, Wounded]58
DOBSON, AUSTIN.
[Sun-Dial, The]15
DODGE, MARY ELIZABETH MAPES.
[Two Mysteries, The (Along the Way)]262
DOLE, NATHAN HASKELL.
[Princess, The (Norwegian of Bjornson)]9
DORR, JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY.
[Hush! (After glow)]400
DRAYTON, MICHAEL.
["Come, let us kisse and parte"]111
DUFFERIN, HELEN BELINDA SHERIDAN, LADY (afterwards LADY GIFFORD).
[Lament of the Irish Emigrant]343
EASTMAN, ELAINE GOODALE.
[Ashes of Roses]51
EDWARDS, AMELIA BLANDFORD.
["Give me three grains of corn, mother"]197
FIELD, EUGENE.
[Jim's Kids]290
FITZGERALD, EDWARD.
[Anne Allen, On]303
FLEMING, PAUL.
[Myself, To (Winkworth's Translation)]218
FLETCHER, JOHN.
["Hence, all ye vain delights"]160
["Take, O, take those lips away" (Bloody Brother)]71
FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS.
[My Old Kentucky Home]147
[Old Folks at Home]148
GANNETT, WILLIAM CHANNING.
[Aunt Phillis's Guest]239
GAY, JOHN.
[Black-Eyed Susan]102
GLADDEN, WASHINGTON.
[Awakening]375
GLUCK, ——
[To Death (Translation)]395
GRAY, THOMAS.
[Elegy written in a Country Churchyard]270
HARDINGE, WILLIAM M.
[Grave of Sophocles (Greek of Simmias)]200
HAWTREY, E.C.
[Hector to his Wife (Greek of Homer)]122
HAY, JOHN.
[Woman's Love, A]52
HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON.
[In Harbor]398
HEBER, REGINALD.
["Thou art gone to the grave"]445
HEINE, HEINRICH.
[Palm and the Pine, The (Houghton's Translation)]40
HEMANS. FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE.
[Hour of Death, The]259
HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST.
[Invictus]221
HERBERT, GEORGE.
[Flower, The]219
[Virtue Immortal]254
HOBART, MRS. CHARLES.
[Changed Cross, The]231
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.
[Last Leaf, The]185
[Voiceless, The]172
HOMER.
[Hector to his Wife (Hawtrey's Translation)]122
[Parting of Hector and Andromache (Pope's Translation)]118
HOOD, THOMAS.
[Bridge of Sighs, The]208
[Death-Bed, The]300
["Farewell, Life"]384
[Song of the Shirt, The]199
["What can an old man do but die"]174
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD.
[London Churches]207
[Palm and the Pine, The (German of Heine)]40
HOWLAND, MARY WOOLSEY.
[Rest]397
HOYT, RALPH.
[Old]180
HUDSON, MARY CLEMMER AMES.
[Something Beyond]234
INGELOW, JEAN.
[Divided]64
JACKSON, HELEN FISKE HUNT (H.H.).
[Habeas Corpus]382
JACKSON, HENRY R.
[My Wife and Child]226
JENKS, EDWARD A.
[Going and Coming]458
KEATS, JOHN.
[Nightingale, Ode to a]166
KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE.
[Absence]133
[Faith]95
KENNEDY, CRAMMOND.
[Greenwood Cemetery]279
KEPPEL, LADY CAROLINE.
[Robin Adair]134
KING, HENRY.
[Sic Vita]253
KINGSLEY, CHARLES.
[Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter, A]191
KNOX, WILLIAM.
[Mortality]256
LABE, LOUISE.
[Sonnet (Costello's Translation)]237
LAMB, CHARLES.
[Old Familiar Faces, The]143
LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH (later MRS. MACLEAN).
[Female Convict, The]215
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE.
[Farewell]394
[Man]151
LANG, ANDREW.
[Lament for Heliodore (Greek of Meleager)]337
LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD.
[Song (Robert Louis Stevenson an Elegy and other Poems)]417
[What of the Darkness (English Poems)]360
LE ROUX, GUIRAUD.
[Fidelity in Doubt (Preston's Translation)]95
LINDSAY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH FITZROY, LADY.
[Sonnet]304
LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK.
[Widow's Mite, The]287
LOGAN, JOHN.
["Thy braes were bonny"]314
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH.
[Death of Minnehaha, The (Song of Hiawatha)]319
[Footsteps of Angels]438
[God's Acre]276
[Rainy Day, The]228
[Reaper and the Flowers, The]417
[Resignation]430
LOVELACE, COLONEL RICHARD.
[Lucasta, To]123
[Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, To]97
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL.
[Auf Wiedersehen]114
[First Snow-Fall, The]283
[Palinode]115
LOWELL, MARIA WHITE.
[Morning-Glory, The]285
LYTLE, WILLIAM HAINES.
[Antony and Cleopatra]380
LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER, EARL OF (Owen Meredith).
[Portrait, The]82
MCCLEERY, J.L.
["There is no death"]456
MACMANUS, ANNA JOHNSTON (MRS. SEUMAS) (Ethna Carbery).
[Thinkin' Long]141
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.
[On the Death of Francis I. (Costello's Translation)]338
MAROT, CLEMENT.
[To Diane de Poitiers (Costello's Translation)]69
MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE.
[After Summer]336
MELEAGER.
[Lament for Heliodore (Lang's Translation)]337
MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS.
[Cumnor Hall]41
MILTON, JOHN.
[Lycidas]446
[Samson on his Blindness (Samson Agonistes)]158
[Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner]220
MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR.
[Quaker Graveyard, The]278
MOIR, DAVID MACBETH.
[Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town, The]131
MOORE, THOMAS.
["Alas, how light a cause" (The Light of the Harem)]80
["As slow our ship"]106
["Farewell!—but whenever"]116
["Farewell to thee, Araby's daughter" (Fire Worshippers)]316
[Linda to Hafed (Fire Worshippers)]6
MOSS, THOMAS.
[Beggar, The]189
MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM.
[Jeanie Morrison]127
["My heid is like to rend, Willie"]49
MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.
["I would not live alway"]392
MUNBY, ARTHUR JOSEPH.
[Apres]355
NAIRNE, CAROLINA OLIPHANT, LADY.
[Land o' the Leal, The]379
NEELE, HENRY.
["Moan, moan, ye dying gales"]152
NOEL, THOMAS.
[Pauper's Drive, The]202
NORTON, CAROLINE E.S. SHERIDAN (LADY STIRLING MAXWELL).
[King of Denmark's Ride, The]340
["Love not"]8
O'BRIEN, WILLIAM SMITH.
[Never Despair]246
ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF.
["The fairest thing in mortal eyes" (Cary's Trans)]356
O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR.
["Has summer come without the rose?"]54
PALMER, JOHN WILLIAMSON.
[For Charlie's Sake]411
PATMORE, COVENTRY [KEARSEY DEIGHTON].
[Parting]96
PIATT, SARAH MORGAN BRYAN.
[Term of Death, The]261
PIERPONT, JOHN.
[My Child]415
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.
[Annabel Lee]312
[For Annie]385
POLLEN, JOHN.
[Last Leaf, The (Russian of Poushkin)]187
POPE, ALEXANDER.
[Parting of Hector and Andromache (Greek of Homer)]118
POUSHKIN, ALEKSANDER SERGYEVICH.
[Last Leaf, The (Pollen's Translation)]187
PRESTON, ANNIE A.
["The green grass under the snow"]442
PRESTON, HARRIET WATERS.
[Fidelity in Doubt (French of Le Roux)]95
PRIEST, NANCY AMELIA WOODBURY.
[Over the River]406
PRINGLE, THOMAS.
[Afar in the Desert]222
PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE.
[Doubting Heart, A]171
PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER (Barry Cornwall).
[Life]251
["Softly woo away her breath"]318
QUARLES, FRANCIS.
[Vanity of the World, The]153
RAMSAY, ALLAN.
[Lochaber no More]105
RAYMOND, ROSSITER WORTHINGTON.
["Blessed are They"]425
[Christus Consolator]432
RITTER, MARY LOUISE.
[Perished]169
ROGERS, ROBERT CAMERON.
[Shadow Rose, The]53
ROSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL.
[Nevermore, The]82
SANGSTER, MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON.
["Are the children at home?"]288
SCOTT, FREDERICK GEORGE.
[Van Elsen]361
SCOTT, SIR WALTER.
[Coronach (Lady of the Lake)]309
[Song]31
[Song of the Young Highlander]101
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
["Blow, blow, thou winter wind" (As You Like It)]155
[Course of True Love, The (Midsummer Night's Dream)]3
[Death of Death]460
[Fall of Cardinal Wolsey, The (Henry VIII.)]161
["Farewell! thou art too dear"]112
["Fear no more the heat o' the sun" (Gymbeline)]328
[Grief (Hamlet)]348
[Love's Memory (All's Well that ends Well)]140
[Soliloquy on Death (Hamlet)]252
["Take, O, take those lips away"]71
[Unrequited Love (Twelfth Night)]9
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE.
[Lament, A]173
["The sun is warm, the sky is clear"]164
SHIRLEY, JAMES.
[Death the Leveler]253
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP.
["With how sad steps" (Astrophel and Stella)]13
SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND.
[Morning Thought, A]267
SILLERY, CHARLES DOYNE.
["She died in beauty"]319
SIMMIAS.
[Grave of Sophocles, The (Hardinge's Translation)]269
SMITH, BELLE E.
["If I should die to-night"]374
SOUTHWELL, ROBERT.
["Times go by turns"]228
SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH PRESCOTT.
[Nun and Harp, The]93
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR.
[In Memoriam F.A.S.]428
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.
[Lines to the Memory of"Annie"]426
["Only a year"]418
STRANGFORD, LORD.
[Blighted Love (Portuguese of Camoens)]81
STURM. JULIUS.
[I Hold Still (Translation)]243
SYMONS, ARTHUR.
[Portrait, To a]34
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD.
["Break, break, break"]358
["Home they brought her warrior dead" (Princess)]345
[Lady Clare Vere de Vere]4
[Locksley Hall]17
[May Queen, The]292
["Oh that 'twere possible" (Maud)]331
[Selections from "In Memoriam"]340
["Tears, idle tears"]142
THOMPSON, FRANCIS.
[Daisy]130
TICHEBORNE, CHEDIOCK.
[Lines written in the Tower]159
TIMROD, HENRY.
At Magnolia Cemetery279
TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND.
[Dorothy in the Garret]89
UHLAND, LUDWIG.
[Passage, The (Austin's Translation)]342
ULRICH, ANTON, DUKE OP BRUNSWICK.
[God's Sure Help in Sorrow (Winkworth's Translation)]236
VAUGHAN, HENRY.
["Happy are the dead"]439
["They are all gone"]403
WASTELL, SIMON.
[Man's Mortality]255
WATSON, JOHN WHITTAKER.
[Beautiful Snow]205
WHITMAN, WALT.
["When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed"]362
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF.
[Absent Sailor, To her (The Tent on the Beach)]124
[Angel of Patience, The]402
[Maud Muller]35
WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER.
[Unseen Spirits]204
WINKWORTH, CATHARINE.
[God's Sure Help in Sorrow (German of Ulrich)]236
[Myself, To (German of Flemming)]218
ZANGWILL, ISRAEL.
[Blind]461
ANONYMOUS.
[Absence]141
[Fair Helen]330
[Good Bye]97
[Grief for the Dead]408
[Guilty or Not Guilty]212
[Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament]47
[Lavender]355
[Parting Lovers, The]104
[Peace]437
[Saddest Fate, The]247
["They are dear fish to me"]195
["Waly, waly"]45
[Watching for Papa]414
[Wife to her Husband, The]146