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THE HOME BOOK
OF VERSE
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH
1580-1912
With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems
in Other Languages
COPYRIGHT, 1912,
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
4:1 AY
blned 1835
GREECEDEILDINAT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART VII
POEMS OF SORROW, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY
“Death be not Proud”. ..... .John Donne
3150
IN THE SHADOW
Melancholy
.John Fletcher ...
3151
On Melancholy
..John Keats.
The Rainy Day
.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3152
The Precept of Silence
Lionel Johnson..
3153
“Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales" ..Henry Neele.
Sorrow...
. Aubrey Thomas De Vere.... 3154
Time and Grief
.William Lisle Bowles
3154
Grief
. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3155
Pain
.St. John Lucas..
3155
A Farewell
.Alfred Tennyson
3156
“The Day is Done"
.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3157
The Bridge
..Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3158
“My Life is Like the Summer Rose” Richard Henry Wilde
3160
“As I Laye A-Thynkynge”
Richard Harris Barham
3161
The Harp of Sorrow.
Ethel Clifford .
3162
The Journey Onwards
Thomas Moore
Song, “I try to knead and spin” . Louise Imogen Guiney
3163
Spirit of Sadness.
. Richard Le Gallienne. 3164
No More.
.Byron Forceythe Willson. . 3164
“ 'Tis But a Little Faded Flower” . Ellen Clementine Howarth . . 3165
To Each His Own
Margaret Root Garvin
3165
Song, “Rarely, rarely comest thou”. .Percy Bysshe Shelley.
3166
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near
Naples ..
.Percy Bysshe Shelley 3167
Sunset Wings
.Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3169
Morality.
Matthew Arnold .
3170
Cui Bono
.Thomas Carlyle
3171
Mutability
.Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Fancy from Fontenelle.
.Austin Dobson ..
3172
“Oh, Earlier Shall the Rosebuds
Blow"
.William Johnson Cory 3172
The Dove
..John Keats
3173
“Sit Down, Sad Soul”
. Bryan Waller Procter .:. 3173
On a Tear
Samuel Rogers
3174
The Rosary of My Tears.
Abram J. Ryan
3175
Endurance
. Elizabeth Akers.
3176
Langley Lane.
. Robert Buchanan...
3177
The Weakest Thing
. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3179
Song—“We only ask for sunshine”..Helen Hay Whitney
3180
The House of Pain ....
.Florence Earle Coates
Lizette Woodworth Reese ....
3181
Wise ,
3182
3185
“Multum Dilexit”
Hartley Coleridge
The Bridge of Sighs
.. Thomas Hood
The Song of The Shirt
Thomas Hood
Stanzas, “In a drear-nighted De-
cember"
.John Keats
The Dead Faith
.Fannie Heaslip Lea.
The Ballad of The Boat.
. Richard Garnett
Eldorado.
.Edgar Allan Poe
A Lost Chord.
. Adelaide Anne Procter
3187
3188
3189
3190
“THE DESPOT'S DESPOT”
Vitæ Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat
Incohare Longam..
Ernest Dowson
3192
Death's Final Conquest.
..James Shirley.
Death's Subtle Ways
James Shirley.
3193
Man's Mortality
.Simon Wastell
To Death
.Anne Finch .
3195
The Genius of Death
George Croly.
3196
“Oh, Why Should The Spirit of Mor-
tal Be Proud”
William Knox
3197
The Hour of Death.
.Felicia Dorothea Hemans 3199
The Sleep.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3200
The Deserted House
.Alfred Tennyson .
3202
“Where Lies the Land
.Arthur Hugh Clough . 3202
Up-hill...
.Christina Georgina Rossetti .. 3203
The Bourne
Christina Georgina Rossetti .. 3203
The Conqueror Worm
3204
The City in the Sea
3205
The Reaper and the Flowers. .Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3206
The Closing Scene..
Thomas Buchanan Read
3207
Mors et Vita.
Samuel Waddington... 3210
“What is to Come"
William Ernest Henley 3210
A Roundel of Rest
.Arthur Symons..
3211
“When the Most is Said"
.Mary Ainge de Vere
The Garden of Proserpine .Algernon Charles Swinburne 3212
The Changing Road
.Katherine Lee Bates .
3215
The Great Misgiving
William Watson.
3216
The Dead Coach
Katharine Tynan
3217
L'Envoi..
.Willa Sibert Cather
Death
3218
A Dirge
.John Webster
Dirge from “Cymbeline'
.William Shakespeare
3219
Dirge in Cymbeline.
William Collins.
Hallowed Ground ...
Thomas Campbell .
3220
The Churchyard .
Robert Buchanan
3223
The Old Churchyard of Bonchurch ..Philip Bourke Marston 3224
The Indian Burying-ground .Philip Freneau..
3226
God's-Acre ..
.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3227
The City of the Dead.
. Richard Burton
3228
The Garden that I Love
.Florence L. Henderson
3229
The Old Sexton ..
.Park Benjamin .
Grave-digger's Song
.Alfred Austin
3230
Daybreak
.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3231
Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant ...
3232
The Lie
His Pilgrimage
The Conclusion .
Death's Summons
“FACING THE SUNSET”
.Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
.Thomas Nashe
3235
3237
3239
Table of Contents
V
His Winding-Sheet
Roberi Herrick
3240
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death .. Robert Burns..
3241
Song of the Silent Land
.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3242
June.
W’illiam Cullen Bryant 3243
Love, Time, and Death..
.Frederick Locker-Lampson .. 3244
A Wish
Matthew Arnold
3245
Next of Kin
..Christina Georgina Rossetti .. 3246
A Better Resurrection
Christina Georgina Rossetti . . 3247
The Summer is Ended
.Christina Georgina Rossetti .. 3248
A Little Parable.
.Anne Reeve Aldrich
3248
My Cross
.Zitella Cocke
3249
In the Hospital
.Mary Woolsey Howland
When..
.Sarch Chauncey Woolsey 3250
“Ex Libris
.Arthur Upson..
3252
In Extremis
.George Sterling
Spinning :
.Helen Hunt Jackson
3253
“Some Time at Eve'
Lizzie Clark Hardy
3254
Night..
.T. W. Rolleston
3255
Afterwards
Violet Fane ..
A Hundred Years to Come
William Goldsmith Brown 3256
The Last Camp-fire .
.Sharlot M. Hall ....
3257
At First...
.Amanda T. Jones
3258
The Lamp in the West.
..Ella Higginson
3259
The Dying Reservist.
..Maurice Baring.
3260
"If Love were Jester at the Court of
Death"
.Frederic Lawrence Knowles , 3260
Constancy
Minor Watson
3261
The Wild Ride.
.Louise Imogen Guiney. 3261
"I Would not Live Alway” .William Augustus Muhlen-
berg
3262
3266
3269
“ONE FIGHT MORE”
Prospice.
. Robert Browning
3264
Requiem
. Robert Louis Stevenson 3265
"Oh May I Join the Choir Invi-
sible"
. George Eliot .
3265
Last Lines
Emily Brontë
Laus Mortis
.Frederic Lawrence Knowles.. 3267
“When I Have Fears”
3268
Last Sonnet
The Dying Christian to His Soul . Alexander Pope
“Beyond the Smiling and the Weep-
ing"
Horatius Bonar
3270
“I Strove with None"
Walter Savage Landor .3271
.Walter Savage Landor 3271
Life
..Anna Letitia Barbauld
3271
Dying Hymn
Alice Cary.
3272
In Harbor
.Paul Hamilton Hayne.. 3273
The Last Invocation.
Walt Whitman
3274
“Dacest Thou Now, O Soul”. .Walt Whitman
Waiting .
John Burroughs
3275
In the Dark
.George Arnold.
3276
Last Verses.
William Motherwell
The Rubicon
.William Winter .
3277
When I Have Gone Weird Ways .John G. Neihardt
3278
A Rhyme of Life
.Charles Warren Stoddard,
3279
“Thalatta! Thalatta”.
.Joseph Brownlee Brown
Requiem.
.F. Norreys Connell .
3280
Invictus .
William Ernest Henley.
“A Late Lark Twitters from the
Quiet Skies"
William Ernest Henley .
3281