OXFORD GARLANDS

SONNETS

SELECTED BY

R. M. LEONARD

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of
Songs and Sonnets here.-SHAKESPEARE

HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK
TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY

1914

OXFORD: HORACE HART

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN Disraeli, EARL OF (1804-81)

BLUNT, WILFRID Scawen (b. 1840)

69

118, 119
20, 33, 98
112

BRIDGES, ROBERT (b. 1844)

BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591-1643 ?)

BROWNING, Elizabeth BarRETT (1806–61)
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824)
CAMPION, THOMAS (1567-1620)

COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)

COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800)

DANIEL, SAMUEL (1562-1619)
DOBSON, AUSTIN (b. 1840)
DONNE, JOHN (1573-1631)
DRAYTON, MICHAEL (1563-1631)

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM (1585-1649)

27, 28, 54, 113

ELLIOTT, EBENEZER (1781-1849)
FLORIO, JOHN (1553 ?-1625)
GARNETT, RICHARD (1835-1906)
HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845)

HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)

INGELOW, JEAN (1820-97)

26

89

40

15, 84

KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821)

LAMB, CHARLES (1775-1834)

LANG, ANDREW (1844-1912)

LEE-HAMILTON, EUGENE (1845-1907)

23, 25, 90, 91, 95, 116

82

92

7,32

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (1807-82)
MEREDITH, GEORGE (1828-1909)
MEYNELL, ALICE

RALEGH, SIR WALTER (1552 ?-1618)

271986

INDEX OF AUTHORS

ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA (1830–94)

PAGE

18, 19

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-82) 17, 29, 60, 103, 104

SPENSER, EDMUND (1552 ?-99)

SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF (1517 ?-—47)

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837-1909)
SYLVESTER, Joshua (1563-1618)

SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON (1840-93)
TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord (1809-92)
TRENCH, RICHARD CHEVENIX (1807-86)
TURNER, CHARLES TENNYSON (1808-79)
VERE, SIR AUBREY DE (1788-1846).
VERE, AUBREY THOMAS DE (1814-1902)
WARREN, THOMAS HERBERT (b. 1853)
WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE (1836-1914)
WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
WOODS, MARGARET L.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850)

5, 6, 67, 68, 71-4, 86, 87

SONNETS

SCORN not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honours; with this key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody
Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound;
A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound;
With it Camöens soothed an exile's grief;
The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf
Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned
His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp,

It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land
To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand

The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew
Soul-animating strains-alas, too few!

W. WORDSWORTH,