Italy . . . 215 239 Rogers, Samuel. 1 Warton, Thomas, (b. 1728, d. 1832.) Ætna, a Sketch . . 304 An Epicedium . . Voyage through the Western *** On the Massacre of Glencoe 250) 251 The Shipwrecked Solitary's 252 Elegy on the Death of Mr. Gill 241 Death of De Boune . . 255 The Star of Bethlehem. .241 Wilson, John. 191 . . . . . . 193 A Churchyard Scene . . The Cataract of Lodore . . 394 Spenser, Edmund, (6. about Lament of Mary, Queen of . 200 Obligations of Civil to Reli- gious Liberty . . 201 202 Ruth 203 210 . 114 211 116 The Castle of Indolence . 119 Young, Edward, (b. 1681, d. 1765.) God's Address to Job . 128 To the Earl of Warwick, on The Behemoth and Leviathan 130 132 272 274 Scots Brainard, John G. C. (6. 1796, Neal, John.' Departure of the Pioneer • 361 Bryant, William Cullen. Peabody, William B. O. Dana, Richard H. Percival, James G. 344 The Coral Grove . . . 346 345 347 The Grave of the Indian Chief 348 The Pilgrim Fathers . 337 Napoleon at Rest . . 338 Death of an Infant 335 Finn, Henry J. Sprague, Charles. The Funeral at Sea . . 376 The Winged Worshippers . 387 Halleck, Fitz-Greene. Whittier, James G. Irving, Washington. Wilcox, Carlos, (d. 1827.) Active Christian Benevolence 339 Vernal Melody in the Forest . 340 The Sudden coming on of Hymn of the Moravian Nuns. 364 Earth, with her thousand Willis, Nathaniel P. The Soldier's Widow . . The Boy . . . 368 Absalom . . . . 373 391 380 377 . 379 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Page 398 The Burial of Sir John Moore . Address to an Egyptian Mummy . The Answer of the Egyptian Mummy Lines to an Alabaster Sarcophagus. The Stranded Bark and the Life-boat The Invitation to Selborne . . Can y Tylwyth Teg; or, the Fairies' Song The Musk-rat . In making these selections from the works of our best English poets, the Editor has endeavoured to combine several important objects. He has laboured to choose such extracts as convey some useful and moral lesson, and, at the same time, best illustrate the style of the respective writers. He has also been guided in his choice by an anxiety to insert nothing that was beyond the level of a youthful capacity; and, as it was manifestly impossible to find such in every poet's works, he has added notes, explaining obsolete words, and allusions to historical or mythological circumstances, not within the range of a school-boy's reading. The extracts are arranged in chronological order, and may, therefore, serve to illustrate the progress both of our language and literature. To the collection are prefixed literary notices of the different writers: they are necessarily brief, but they will, perhaps, have the effect of stimulating the student to the exercise of his own taste and his own . judgment. B The preliminary pieces prefixed to the extracts will be found to contain more information respecting the nature of English poetry than is usually contained in similar volumes. The writer has been as simple and brief as he could; for his object is not to display multifarious learning, but to simplify and condense the elements of knowledge. Considerable additions have been made to the original selection, particularly from the writings of American Poets, whose works were comparatively unknown in this country until introduced by the Editor of the present volume. |