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.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

The Reverie of Poor Susan

Expostulation and Reply

The Tables Turned

Lines composed near Tintern Abbey

Lines written in Early Spring

A Poet's Epitaph

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

Lucy

The Two April Mornings

The Fountain.

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The Green Linnet

Yew Trees

To a Highland Girl

The Solitary Reaper.

Yarrow Unvisited

Laodamia.

A Conversation

'She was a Phantom'

'I wandered lonely'

To

To the Cuckoo .

At the Grave of Burns

Thoughts suggested the day following

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Ode to Duty

The Nightingale

The Mountain Echo.

Ode. Intimations of Immortality

There was a Boy

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the
Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth.

vellyn

Evening Voluntary

Extracts from the Prelude:

[Apparition on the Lake]

[Morning after the Ball]

[Defile of Gondo]

[Ascent of Snowdon].

Extracts from the Excursion :

[Twin Peaks of the Valley]

[Mist opening in the Hills]

[Among the Mountains]

[The Moon among Trees]

The Sea Shell] .

[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

SAMUEL ROGERS (1763-1855)

[The World's Ravages]

The Throne of Death]

[The Shock of Bereavement]

After-Thought

Mutability

To Lady Fitzgerald

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford to Naples

[Past Years of Home]

Extract from The Pleasures of Memory

Human Life

Italy

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Ginevra

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)

Sonnets:

Written at Ostend

Influence of Time on Grief

November 1793

Bereavement

ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)

Extract from Roderick

Thalaba
Kehama

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)

Time, Real and Imaginary

Love

Sonnet

The Eolian Harp

Frost at Midnight

Dejection. An Ode

Sonnet. Composed on a Journey Homewards

First Part of Christabel

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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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

Austin Dobson

WALTER SCOTT (1771-1836)

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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