SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1812-1890). Parting and Meeting Again 196

SKIPSEY, JOSEPH (1832). A Merry Bee 198 The Songstress 199 The Violet and the Rose 200

STERRY, J. ASHBY. Regrets 201 Daisy's Dimples 203 A Lover's Lullaby 204

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837). A Match 205 Rondel 208 Song 209

TENNYSON, ALFRED (1809-1892). The Bugle Song 210 Break, Break, Break 212 Tears, Idle Tears 213 Sweet and Low 215 Turn, Fortune, Turn thy Wheel 216 Vivien's Song 217

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863). At the Church Gate 218 The Mahogany Tree 220

THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER (1828-1876). Dayrise and Sunset 223 The Three Troopers 225 The Cuckoo 228

[Decoration]

AN INDEX TO FIRST LINES

Listen--Songs thou 'lt hear Through the wide world ringing.

Barry Cornwall.

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A baby was sleeping Samuel Lover 141 "A cup for hope!" she said Christina G. Rossetti 190 A golden bee a-cometh Joseph Skipsey 198 A little shadow makes the sunrise sad Mortimer Collins 52 A little while a little love Dante Gabriel Rossetti 191 A thousand voices fill my ears F. W. Bourdillon 45 Across the grass I see her pass Austin Dobson 81 Ah, what avails the sceptered race! Walter Savage Landor 127 Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley 121 All glorious as the Rainbow's birth Gerald Massey 153 All through the sultry hours of June Mortimer Collins 54 Along the garden ways just now Arthur O'Shaughnessy 156 Although I enter not William Makepeace Thackeray 218 As Gertrude skipt from babe to girl Frederick Locker-Lampson 139 As I came round the harbor buoy Jean Ingelow 116 Awake!--The starry midnight Hour B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 174 Awake thee, my Lady-love! George Darley 64 Back flies my soul to other years Joseph Skipsey 199 Break, break, break Alfred Tennyson 212

Came, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet Thomas Ashe 23 Christmas is here William Makepeace Thackeray 220 Come, rosy Day! Sir Edwin Arnold 20 Come sing, Come sing, of the great Sea-King B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 172 Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 56

Drink, and fill the night with mirth! B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 180

Every day a Pilgrim, blindfold Hamilton Aide 7

Fast falls the snow, O lady mine Mortimer Collins 49 First the fine, faint, dreamy motion Norman Gale 98

Hence, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow Alfred Domett 84 How many Summers, love B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 165 How many times do I love thee, dear? Thomas Lovell Beddoes 38

I bring a garland for your head Edmund Gosse 101 I had a Message to send her Adelaide Anne Procter 162 I have been here before Dante Gabriel Rossetti 193 I leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover Jean Ingelow 118 I looked and saw your eyes Dante Gabriel Rossetti 194 I made another garden, yea Arthur O'Shaughnessy 158 I remember, I remember Thomas Hood 106 I sat beside the streamlet Hamilton Aide 3 I wandered by the brook-side Lord Houghton 111 I walked in the lonesome evening William Allingham 16 If I could choose my paradise Thomas Ashe 22 If love were what the rose is Algernon Charles Swinburne 205 If there were dreams to sell Thomas Lovell Beddoes 30 I 'm sitting on the stile, Mary Lady Dufferin 90 In Clementina's artless mien Walter Savage Landor 131 In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours Alfred Tennyson 217 Into the Devil tavern George Walter Thornbury 225 It was not in the winter Thomas Hood 102 I 've been roaming! I 've been roaming! George Darley 62

King Death was a rare old fellow! B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 176 Kissing her hair I sat against her feet. Algernon Charles Swinburne 208

Lady! in this night of June Alfred Austin 26 Last time I parted from my Dear William Bell Scott 196 Let us wreathe the mighty cup Michael Field 96 Little dimples so sweet and soft J. Ashby Sterry 203 Lullaby! O lullaby! William Cox Bennett 42 Lute! breathe thy lowest in my Lady's ear Sir Edwin Arnold 18

Mirror your sweet eyes in mine, love J. Ashby Sterry 204 Mother, I can not mind my wheel Walter Savage Landor 133 My fairest child, I have no song to give you Charles Kingsley 126 My goblet's golden lips are dry Thomas Lovell Beddoes 34 My love, on a fair May morning Thomas Ashe 24 My roses blossom the whole year round William Cox Bennett 41

O for the look of those pure gray eyes J. Ashby Sterry 201 O happy buds of violet! Mortimer Collins 53 "O Heart, my heart!" she said, and heard Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 58 O lady, leave thy silken thread Thomas Hood 104 O lips that mine have grown into Algernon Charles Swinburne 209 O Love is like the roses Robert Buchanan 48 O May, thou art a merry time George Darley 60 O roses for the flush of youth Christina G. Rossetti 188 O spirit of the Summertime! William Allingham 13 O ye tears! O ye tears! that have long refused to flow Charles Mackay 147 Often I have heard it said Walter Savage Landor 128 Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green Charles Dickens 75 Oh, hearing sleep, and sleeping hear William Allingham 14 Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by Hamilton Aide 6 Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best! William Allingham 9 "Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home" Charles Kingsley 122 One lovely name adorns my song Walter Savage Landor 133

Peace! what can tears avail? B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 182

Seated one day at the Organ Adelaide Anne Procter 160 Seek not the tree of silkiest bark Aubrey de Vere 72 She was not fair, nor full of grace B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 170 She 's up and gone, the graceless Girl Thomas Hood 108 Sing!--Who sings B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 168 Sit down, sad soul, and count B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 178 Sleep sweet, beloved one, sleep sweet! Robert Buchanan 46 Sleep! the bird is in its nest William Cox Bennett 39 Softly, O midnight Hours! Audrey de Vere 70 Strew not earth with empty stars Thomas Lovell Beddoes 35 Sweet and low, sweet and low Alfred Tennyson 215 Sweet is childhood--childhood 's over Jean Ingelow 120 Sweet mouth! O let me take Alfred Domett 86