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| NATURE, COUNTRY AND THE OPEN AIR | ||
| To Meadows | R. Herrick | 1 |
| The Brook | A. Tennyson | 2 |
| Recollections of Early Childhood | W. Wordsworth | 4 |
| To Autumn | J. Keats | 7 |
| Ode to the West Wind | P. B. Shelley | 9 |
| To a Skylark | ” | 13 |
| The Moon-Goddess | Ben Jonson | 18 |
| Home-Thoughts from Abroad | R. Browning | 19 |
| Home-Thoughts from the Sea | ” | 20 |
| GREEN SEAS AND SAILOR MEN | ||
1. The Call of the Sea |
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| Ye Mariners of England | T. Campbell | 21 |
| The Secret of the Sea | H. W. Longfellow | 22 |
| A Dutch Picture | ” | 24 |
| Sea Memories | ” | 26 |
| The Sea Gypsy | Richard Hovey | 27 |
| The Greenwich Pensioner | 28 | |
| The Press-Gang | 30 | |
| A Sea Dirge | W. Shakespeare | 30 |
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2. Its Lawless Joys |
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| The Old Buccaneer | C. Kingsley | 31 |
| The Salcombe Seaman’s Flaunt to the Proud Pirate | 34 | |
| The Smuggler | 36 | |
| ARMS AND THE MAN | ||
| The Maid | Theodore Roberts | 37 |
| The Eve of Waterloo | Lord Byron | 39 |
| The Glory that was Greece | ” | 43 |
| Battle Hymn of the American Republic | Julia Ward Howe | 47 |
| To Lucasta, on going to the Wars | Richard Lovelace | 48 |
| The Black Prince | Sir Walter Scott | 49 |
| The Burial of Sir John Moore | Charles Wolfe | 50 |
| How Sleep the Brave | William Collins | 52 |
| Soldier, Rest! | Sir Walter Scott | 53 |
| THE OTHER SIDE OF IT | ||
| 1. The Patriot | Robert Browning | 54 |
| 2. For those who fail | Joaquin Miller | 56 |
| 3. Keeping On | A. H. Clough | 57 |
| STORY-POEMS | ||
| The Lady of Shalott | Alfred Tennyson | 58 |
| The Forsaken Merman | Matthew Arnold | 65 |
| The Legend Beautiful | H. W. Longfellow | 72 |
| Abou Ben Adhem | Leigh Hunt | 77 |
| The Sands of Dee | Charles Kingsley | 78 |
| Lochinvar | Sir Walter Scott | 79 |
| DAY-DREAMS | ||
| Dreams to Sell | T. L. Beddoes | 83 |
| The Lost Bower | E. B. Browning | 84 |
| Echo and the Ferry | Jean Ingelow | 92 |
| Poor Susan’s Dream | W. Wordsworth | 100 |
| Fancy | W. Shakespeare | 101 |
| TWO HOME-COMINGS | ||
| 1. The Good Woman Made Welcome in Heaven | R. Crashaw | 102 |
| 2. The Soldier Relieved | R. Browning | 103 |
| WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD | ||
| Hunting Song | Sir Walter Scott | 104 |
| The Riding to the Tournament | G. W. Thornbury | 105 |
| VARIOUS | ||
| A Red, Red Rose | Robert Burns | 113 |
| Blow, Bugle, Blow | Alfred Tennyson | 114 |
| West and East | Matthew Arnold | 115 |
| Genseric | Owen Meredith | 116 |
| Kubla Khan | S. T. Coleridge | 118 |
| Something to Remember | R. Browning | 120 |
| Ring Out, Wild Bells | A. Tennyson | 121 |