What far-reaching Nemesis stirred him

What hath he lost that such great grace hath won ?
What ills the scholar's life assail

What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
What man has made of man

What means yon blaze on high?

What's the soft South-Wester?

When at home alone I sit

When half-gods go

When I am dead, my dearest

When I lov'd you, I can't but allow
When Nature shrouds herself, entranced
When Nero perish'd by the justest doom
When our world-deafen'd ear

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Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground!
Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn ?
Where is thy favour'd haunt, eternal Voice ?
Where rests the sap within the leaf
Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew
Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon

Whither, 'midst falling dew

Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round

Who ever saw the earliest rose

Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight'?

Who is he that cometh, like an honour'd guest ?

Who on earth have made us heirs

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Who's striving Parnassus to climb

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Wild as the scream of the curlew

Wind beloved of earth and sky and sea beyond all winds that

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Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her

'You were taken aback, poor boy,' they urge, no time to

regain your wits'

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MANY exquisite lines quoted in the preceding pages are from poems comparatively recent; and I have pleasure in expressing my sense of the courtesy of the copyrightowners which has enabled me to include them. I am thus indebted to Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., in respect of verses by Cardinal Newman; to Messrs. Macmillan, for Lord Tennyson, Edward FitzGerald, Arthur Hugh Clough, and Matthew Arnold; to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., for Robert Browning; to Messrs. Ellis, for Dante Gabriel Rossetti; to Mr. Aldis Wright, FitzGerald's executor, and to William Morris's and Robert Louis Stevenson's trustees; to Mrs. Coventry Patmore, for The Unknown Eros, and to Messrs. George Bell & Sons, its publishers; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for James Russell Lowell; and to Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton, in respect of Algernon Charles Swinburne.

With relation to the work in general of Lowell, Emerson, Poe, Longfellow, Bryant, and Whittier, I must ask pardon of our American kinsmen, with whom we share the heritage of verse, for having yielded to the temptation of numbering all writers of inspired English poetry as members of one brotherhood. To British readers I need make no excuse.

INDEX OF POETS

WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH

ADDISON, JOSEPH (1672-1719).

AKENSIDE, MARK, M.D. (1721-1770).

ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889).

ARNOLD, EDWIN, Sir (1832-1904).

ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822–1888).

AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE, Professor (1813-1865).

BACON, FRANCIS, Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626).

BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES (1816-1902).

BAILLIE, JOANNA (1762-1851).

BARBAULD (AIKIN), ANNA LETITIA, Mrs. (1743–1825).

BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS, Rev. (1788–1845).

BARNARD (LINDSAY), ANNE, Lady (1750-1825).

BARNES, WILLIAM, Rev. (1801–1886).

BEATTIE, JAMES, LL.D. (1735-1803).

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1584-1616).

BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL (1803-1849).

BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827).

BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT (1766-1823).

BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE, Rev. (1762-1850).

BRETON, NICHOLAS (1545 ?–1626 ?).

BRONTË, EMILY JANE (1818-1848).

BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY (1816–1874).

BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD, Rev. (1830-1897).

BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591, or 1590-1643, or 1645 ?).
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT, Mrs. (1806–1861).

BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889).

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878).

BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841-1901).

BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796).

BUTLER, SAMUEL (1612, or 1600-1680).

BYRON, GEORGE Gordon NOEL, Lord (1788–1824).