OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774).

The Deserted Village.

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800).

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827).

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850).

Lines, Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

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The Daffodils; or, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Ode to Duty

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GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824).

Vision of Belshazzar

The Destruction of Sennacherib

The Isles of Greece

Sonnet on Chillon

The Prisoner of Chillon

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822).

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

Adonais

A Lament

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

La Belle Dame sans Merci.

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

The Eve of St. Agnes.

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208

209

THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845).

I Remember, I Remember.

THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859).

The Battle of Naseby.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801-1890).

Lead Kindly Light

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278

289

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861).

Sonnets from the Portuguese- XXII, XLIII

A Musical Instrument .

ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889).

The Blessed Damozel

My Sister's Sleep

Sonnet XIX-Silent Noon.

Sonnet LXXXVI- Lost Days

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-

Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon

The Salt of the Earth.

ALFRED TENNYSON (1809-1892).

ENGLISH POEMS

PERIOD OF PREPARATION

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

1340?-1400

NOW WELCOM SOMER

[From The Parlement of Foules]

'Now welcom somer with thy sonne softe, That hast this wintres weders over-shake, And driven awey the longe nightes blake!

Seynt Valentyn, that art ful hy on-lofte;-
Thus singen smale foules for thy sake-

Now welcom somer, with thy sonne softe,
That hast this wintres weders over-shake.

Wel han they cause for to gladen ofte,
Sith ech of hem recovered hath his make;
Ful blisful may they singen whan they wake;
Now welcom somer, with thy sonne softe,
That hast this wintres weders over-shake,
And driven awey the longe nightes blake.'

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