INDEX TO FIRST LINES. .................... PAGE 284 A beggar through the world am I .............. 303 A dew drop falling on the wild sea wave.......................................................... 204 Again to the battle, Achaians..................................................................................................... 248 A huntsman, bearing his gun afield................................................................. 21 Ah what pleasant visions haunt me............................................................. 302 A little chick one day.. All are architects of fate. 16 .... 213 ....... 278 63 All ye woods and trees, and bowers.............................................................. 297 ................. Arise my maiden Mabel.. A simple child... As I walked over the hill one day. A thousand miles from land are we........................... Bards of passion and of mirth.. Behold her, single in the field.......... Break, break, break... 245 41 61 ΤΟ Blow, blow, thou winter wind.................................................. ............ 291 Calm was the day and through the trembling air.. Christmas is here... .......... 52 .... 191 Come into the garden, Maud.............................................................................................. Come unto these yellow sands............................................................................... Daffy-Down-Dilly came up in the cold....................... Deep in the wave is a coral grove...... Do you ask what the birds say? the sparrow, the dove.............. Fair daffodils, we weep to see......... Fayre is my love when her fayre golden heares............... .... 217 318 Index to First Lines. PAGE ................. 57 God might have bade the earth bring forth.... .... 198 8 Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair............................................................................ Hail to thee, blithe spirit... Happy insect! what can be.. Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star................... 239 Hast thou seen that lordly castle............................................................ 142 Hence, loathed Melancholy... Hence, vain, deluding joys.. Here is the place; right over the hill..... Home they brought her warrior dead.......................................................... 283 I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn.... 99 If that the world and love were young......................................... 134 ..... I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he. ........................ 220 Is there, for honest poverty.. It was a summer evening. It was fifty years ago.... It was the schooner Hesperus.......................................................... It was the winter wild." ............ Jaffar the Barmecide, the good Vizier............................ 105 .... 308 262 ............. 77 Lackyng my love, I go from place to place................................................ 217 Lady-bird, lady-bird! fly away home.. 36 Lady-moon, lady-moon, where are you roving.......................................................... 49 Let me not to the marriage of true minds........ ................................... 228 Life and thought have gone away.......................................................... 140 Little one, come to my knee... 27 Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown.................. 273 Little white lily.... Merrily swinging on briar and weed............................................................... 113 ........ North wind came whistling through the wood..... 29 ........ 143 ......... 94 Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note.. ............... 98 Now children, said Puss, as she shook her head......................................................... 13 296 ........... 199 O Day most calm, most bright..... PAGE ..... 190 Often I think of the beautiful town............................................................................... 266 Oh! a dainty plant is the ivy green....... O heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale.. On either side the river lie .......... 1 .................. 24 204 On Linden, when the sun was low........................................................... 101 On sunny slope and beechen swell.. Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lowered............. O young Lochinvar is come out of the west.. .............................................. 222 Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies................... 91 ....... 48 Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair......................................................................................... 287 Rest is not quitting... 6 Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky............................................................................................ 151 Said the wind to the Moon, I will blow you out.................................. ............ Soldier rest! thy warfare o'er.... Some will talk of bold Robin Hood.. ............. 291 .................... 28 Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou..... Suppose my little lady............ Sweet and low, sweet and low.. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright.. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. 23 73 307 The autumn has filled me with wonde⚫ to day........... ........... ..... l'he curfew tolls the knell of parting day............... .......... 292 The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. The greenhouse is my summer seat.. The Isles of Greece! the isles of Greece................... The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year. ....... . . . 56 320 Index to First Lines. .......... PAGE The pines were dark on Ramoth hill........ .... .................. 269 112 7 1 There's no dew left on the daisies and clover.................................. The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings.................. 242 The splendor falls on castle walls The wind one morning sprang up from sleep......................................... ........................ 216 To sea! to sea! the calm is o'er...... Up! up! ye dames, ye lasses gay.......................................................... We are the sweet flowers.. ........ ............. 56 58 Wee, modest, crimson tipped flower........................................................ 140 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie.......................................................... 176 Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town.............................................. 50 Welcome, wild Northeaster..... ........................ 2II ... 3 184 Whanné that April with his shourés sote. ......................................................................... 214 When music, heavenly maid, was young....................................................... 230 ...................... 89 Who rideth so late through the night wind wild. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more... ...... 169 You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear...... 264 Important Annoucement to Teachers, Students, and Readers of German Literature. G. P. 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