The Editor wishes to express his thanks to Hallam, Lord Tennyson; to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.; and to Mrs. Matthew Arnold, for the permission which they have kindly given him to print extracts from the poems of Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Matthew Arnold.

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Yew Trees

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the

Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth.

-The Green Linnet

-To a Highland Girl

-The Solitary Reaper.

-Yarrow Unvisited

To the Cuckoo .

- At the Grave of Burns

Thoughts suggested the day following

- She was a Phantom'

I wandered lonely'

Ode to Duty

35

37

The Nightingale

53

[Miss Blackett] on her first Ascent to the Summit of Hel-

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Sonnets:

[The Gains of Restraint]

[On the Beach at Calais]

Composed upon Westminster Bridge.

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

Milton

[The World's Ravages]

The Throne of Death]

[The Shock of Bereavement]

85

86

86

To Lady Fitzgerald

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford to Naples

[Past Years of Home]

SAMUEL ROGERS (1763-1855)

Extract from The Pleasures of Memory

87

87

88

Human Life

Ginevra

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)

Sonnets:

Written at Ostend

Influence of Time on

November 1793

Bereavement

ΙΟΙ

Ode, written during the Negociations with Buonaparte

Funeral Ode on the Death of the Princess Charlotte.

The Holly Tree

The Battle of Blenheim

Stanzas written in his Library

WALTER SCOTT (1771-1836)

Goldwin Smith 186

The Last Minstrel (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel)

The Camp (from Marmion)

Battle of Beal' an Duine (from The Lady of the Lake)

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