English Romantic Verse by Wright, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS Introduction Acknowledgements English Romantic Verse

ALEXANDER POPE 1688–1744

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

JAMES THOMSON 1700–1748

From The Seasons

CHARLES WESLEY 1707–1778

Wrestling Jacob

THOMAS GRAY 1716–1771

The Fatal Sisters Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude On Lord Holland’s Seat

WILLIAM COLLINS 1721–1759

Ode on the Poetical Character Ode to Evening Ode on the Death of Thomson

MARK AKENSIDE 1721–1770

From The Pleasures of the Imagination

CHRISTOPHER SMART 1722–1771

A Song to David From Jubilate Agno

WILLIAM COWPER 1731–1800

From The Task Lines Written During a Period of Insanity To the Nightingale Yardley Oak The Castaway

JAMES MACPHERSON 1736–1796

From The Six Bards

THOMAS CHATTERTON 1752–1770

Song of the Three Minstrels Minstrel’s Song Eclogue the Third Songe of Seyncte Warburghe

GEORGE CRABBE 1754–1834

From The World of Dreams

WILLIAM BLAKE 1757–1827

To the Muses Introduction to Songs of Innocence The Ecchoing Green Holy Thursday On Another’s Sorrow The School Boy Introduction to Songs of Experience The Clod & the Pebble Holy Thursday The Sick Rose The Tyger London Infant Sorrow A Little Boy Lost ‘I asked a thief’ ‘My Spectre around me night & day’ Several Questions Answered Two Epigrams ‘When Klopstock England defied’ Morning The Mental Traveller Auguries of Innocence William Bond To the Jews To The Accuser who is The God of This World

ROBERT BURNS 1759–1796

Tam o’Shanter Holy Willie’s Prayer It was a’ for our Rightfu’ King Ye Flowery Banks O, wert thou in the cauld blast

ROBERT BLOOMFIELD 1766–1823

From The farmer’s ‘Boy

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770–1850

Remembrance of Collins From The Borderers Lines Written in Early Spring Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintem Abbey From The Prelude A Poet’s Epitaph Resolution and Independence To Toussaint L’Ouverture The Green Linnet To the Cuckoo The Affliction of Margaret The Small Celandine Fidelity Ode: Intimations of Immortality Elegiac Stanzas ‘Surprised by joy’ After-Thought Mutability Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg ‘Near Anio’s stream I spied a gentle Dove’ Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838

SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771–1832

Helvellyn Boat Song from The Lady of the Lake Ptbroch of Donuil Dhu The Song of the Tempest The Dreary Change

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772–1834

This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Frost at Midnight The Nightingale Dejection A Letter To William Wordsworth Epitaph

ROBERT SOUTHEY 1774–1843

The Pig

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1775–1864

Shepherd and Nymph from Gebir To Wordsworth Hegemon to Praxinoe

THOMAS MOORE 1779–1852

At the Mid Hour of Night A Syrian Evening from Lalla Rookh

EBENEZER ELLIOT 1781–1849

The Fox-Hunters Epigram

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 1785–1866

Chorus Seamen Three The Brilliancies of Winter Taliesin and Melanghel

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 1788–1824

Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull Fare Thee Well So We’ll Go no more A Roving From Don Juan On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792–1822

From The Daemon of the World From The Mask of Anarchy From Letter to Maria Gisborne From Adonais ‘The cold earth slept below’ Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples Song to the Men of England Similes for Two Political Characters Ode to the West Wind The Question The Aziola To Edward Williams

JOHN CLARE 1793–1864

The Nightingale’s Nest Remembrances Love and Solitude From Child Harold The Pale Sun Love Lies Beyond the Tomb Mary Cowper Love’s Story Death Meet Me in the Green Glen Now is Past ’I peeled bits of straw’ I Hid My Love An Invite, to Eternity I Am A Vision

JOHN KEATS 1795–1820

Sonnet Addressed to Haydon Hymn to Pan From Endymion Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Psyche To Autumn Ode on Melancholy Fragment of an Ode to Maia What the Thrush Said From Hyperion Sonnet on the Sea The Poet Teignmouth La Belle Dame Sans Merci Sonnet on the Sonnet Dawlish Fair Hither Hither Love

GEORGE DARLEY 1795–1846

Wherefore, Unlaurelled Boy From Nepenthe Queen Eleanor and her Dwarf from Thomas à Besket The Mermaidens’ Vesper-Hymn

HARTLEY COLERIDGE 1796–1849

November From Country to Town ‘Hast thou not seen an aged rifted tower’

THOMAS HOOD 1799–1845

Autumn Silence The Sea of Death

JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 1803–1849

Twenty Golden Years Ago The Saw-Mill Siberia

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 1803–1849

Song by Two Voices Song by the Deaths The Song that Wolfram Heard in Hell Mandrake’s Song The New Cecilia Song from the Ship Love-in-Idleness Song of the Stygian Naiades The Phantom-Wooer

CHARLES TENNYSON-TURNER 1808–1879

A Summer Twilight A Forest Lake

EDGAR ALLAN POE 1809–1841

Romance The City in the Sea

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1809–1892

Claribel The Dying Swan The Deserted House Song A Character The Kraken

ROBERT BROWNING 1812–1889

Waring

EMILY JANE BRONTË 1818–1848

To a Wreath of Snow R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida Julian M. and A. G. Rochelle Last Lines

INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF FIRST LINES Footnotes

Introduction

Page xi Page xii Page xiii Page xiv Page xv Page xvii Page xviii Page xix Page xx Page xxi Page xxii Page xxiii Page xxv

Chapter 5

Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 18

Chapter 7

Page 24 Page 27 Page 28 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36

Chapter 8

Page 44

Chapter 10

Page 53 Page 54 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61

Chapter 13

Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 100 Page 102 Page 105

Chapter 15

Page 107 Page 119 Page 131

Chapter 16

Page 146

Chapter 17

Page 153 Page 181

Chapter 25

Page 256 Page 257 Page 261

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