The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes

Name: The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes
Author: Palgrave

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PrefaceSample
Book IV.
THE FAIRY LIFE
SUMMONS TO LOVE
TIME AND LOVE
OMNIA VINCIT
VIA AMORIS
THE UNCHANGEABLE
Preface
TO HIS LOVE
ADVICE TO A GIRL
LOVE'S PERJURIES
TO AURORA
IN LACRIMAS
LOVE'S OMNIPRESENCE
AN HONEST AUTOLYCUS
THE LIFE WITHOUT PASSION
THE LOVER'S APPEAL
THE NIGHTINGALE
LOVE'S FAREWELL
IN IMAGINE PERTRANSIT HOMO
BLIND LOVE
THE UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS
Preface
SEPHESTIA'S SONG TO HER CHILD
DIRGE OF LOVE
TO HIS LUTE
POST MORTEM
THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH
YOUNG LOVE
ROSALYND'S MADRIGAL
CUPID AND CAMPASPE
THE HAPPY HEART
SOUL AND BODY
Preface
THE LESSONS OF NATURE
THE WORLD'S WAY
SAINT JOHN BAPTIST
ODE ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY
THE HYMN
ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT
HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND
Preface
THE LAST CONQUEROR
DEATH THE LEVELLER
Chapter
ON HIS BLINDNESS
CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE
THE GIFTS OF GOD
THE RETREAT
TO CYRIACK SKINNER
HYMN TO DIANA
THE GREAT ADVENTURER
CHILD AND MAIDEN
COUNSEL TO GIRLS
TO THE LADY MARGARET LEY
TO DIANEME
TO CELIA
CHERRY-RIPE
CORINNA'S MAYING
Preface
ON A GIRDLE
TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON
TO LUCASTA, GOING BEYOND THE SEAS
ENCOURAGEMENTS TO A LOVER
THE MANLY HEART
FAIR HELEN
THE TWA CORBIES
FRIENDS IN PARADISE
TO BLOSSOMS
TO DAFFODILS
THE GIRL DESCRIBES HER FAWN
THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN
Preface
IL PENSEROSO
SONG OF THE EMIGRANTS IN BERMUDA
AT A SOLEMN MUSIC
HYMN TO DARKNESS
ALEXANDER'S FEAST, OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC
ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE
Preface
THE BLIND BOY
C. Cibber
TO CHARLOTTE PULTENEY
RULE BRITANNIA
THE BARD
LAMENT FOR CULLODEN
LAMENT FOR FLODDEN
THE BRAES OF YARROW
WILLY DROWNED IN YARROW
LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE
BLACK-EYED SUSAN
SALLY IN OUR ALLEY
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Preface
LOVE'S SECRET
THE PROGRESS OF POESY
THE PASSIONS
THE SONG OF DAVID
INFANT JOY
ODE ON THE SPRING
THE POPLAR FIELD
TO A MOUSE
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD
Preface
MARY MORISON
BONNIE LESLEY
HIGHLAND MARY
AULD ROBIN GRAY
DUNCAN GRAY
THE SAILOR'S WIFE
JOHN ANDERSON
THE LAND O' THE LEAL
Chapter
THE SHRUBBERY
ALEXANDER SELKIRK
TO THE SAME
THE CASTAWAY
TO THE MUSES
ODE ON THE POETS
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
ALL FOR LOVE
THE OUTLAW
THE INDIAN SERENADE
THE EDUCATION OF NATURE
LUCY GRAY
Preface
LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY
TO THE EVENING STAR
TO THE NIGHT
TO A DISTANT FRIEND
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
THE ROVER
THE FLIGHT OF LOVE
THE MAID OF NEIDPATH
THE TERROR OF DEATH
ELEGY ON THYRZA
GATHERING SONG OF DONALD THE BLACK
Preface
ODE TO DUTY
ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND, 1802
LONDON, 1802
THE SAME
AFTER BLENHEIM
PRO PATRIA MORI
SIMON LEE THE OLD HUNTSMAN
THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES
THE JOURNEY ONWARDS
YOUTH AND AGE
PAST AND PRESENT
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
Preface
THE SCHOLAR
THE MERMAID TAVERN
THE PRIDE OF YOUTH
THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS
TO MARY
C. Wolfe
THE DEATH BED
Chapter
THE AFFLICTION OF MARGARET
HUNTING SONG
TO THE SKYLARK
TO A SKYLARK
Preface
TO THE CUCKOO
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE
OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT
COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, THE
ADMONITION TO A TRAVELLER
TO THE HIGHLAND GIRL OF INVERSNEYDE
THE REAPER
THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN
TO A LADY, WITH A GUITAR
THE DAFFODILS
TO THE DAISY
ODE TO AUTUMN
ODE TO WINTER
Preface
YARROW VISITED
THE INVITATION
THE RECOLLECTION
BY THE SEA
TO SLEEP
THE SOLDIER'S DREAM
THE INNER VISION
THE REALM OF FANCY
WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING
Preface
ODE TO THE WEST WIND
NATURE AND THE POET
THE POET'S DREAM
GLEN-ALMAIN, THE NARROW GLEN
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
YOUTH AND AGE
THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS
THE FOUNTAIN
THE RIVER OF LIFE
Preface
Act II, Scene 3: 'The grey-eyed morn smiles,' &c.—It should be added
Preface
3 Hybla: near Syracuse.
WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH
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