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Why fear to-morrow, timid heart.

2799

Why have the mighty lived-why have they died.

2385

Why, having won her, do I woo.

1178

Why I tie about thy wrist..

574

Why, if 'tis dancing you would be..

1948

Why is there in the least touch of her hands

899

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.

1866

"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the Spider to the Fly.

166

With all my will, but much against my heart.

954

With an honest old friend and a merry old song.

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies.

With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh.

Women there are on earth, most sweet and high.

Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build.

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Ye have been fresh and green.

1391

"Ye have robbed," said he, "ye have slaughtered and made an

Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves.

Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more.

3297

Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach..

2922

Yonder in the heather there's a bed for sleeping.

1626

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried.

385

"You are old, Father William," the young man said.

1859

You ask me "Why I like him." Nay.

2856

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come.

1848

You bells in the steeple, ring, ring out your changes.

You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet..

1970

You found the green before the Spring was sweet.

You were always a dreamer, Rose-red Rose.

1029

You Wi'yum, come 'ere, suh, dis minute. Wut dat you got under

dat box....

1973

You would have understood me, had you waited.

Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees..

2507

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass.
Youth hath many charms...

1220

Youth, thou art fled,--but where are all the charms.

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Anger...Charles and Mary Lamb 107
Angler, The......John Chalkhill 1617
Angler's Invitation, The, Stoddart 1615
Angler's Wish, The, Isaac Walton 1616
Annabel Lee.
.E. A. Poe 1077
Annan Water.
Unknown 1036
Annie Laurie...William Douglas 532
Annuity, The.. George Outram 2064
Answer to a Child's Question
S. T. Coleridge 133
Ant and the Cricket, The

Unknown 110
Antony to Cleopatra, W. H. Lytle 2274
Apollo's Song from "Midas" Lyly 500
April Adoration, An Roberts 1310
April Rain, "It is not raining
rain for me". Robert Loveman 1394
April Rain, "The April rain, the
April rain Mathilde Blind 1395
"Are the Children at Home"
Margaret Sangster

297

Are They not all Ministering
Spirits... R. S. Hawker 609
Are Women Fair' .Davison 1834
Arethusa..
.P. B. Shelley 1374
Argument of His Book, The

Robert Herrick 2921
Armada, The, T. B. Macaulay 2298
Around the Child"
W. S. Landor 342
Arrow and the Song, The
H. W. Longfellow 2791
Austin Dobson 2954
Art....
Théophile Gautier 3592
"As I Came Down from Leba-
Clinton Scollard 2531

Ars Victrix...

non

"As I Laye a-Thynkynge"

Aucassin and Nicolete

PAGE

970

F. W. Bourdillon 1706
Auf Wiedersehen...J. R. Lowell
Auld Daddy Darkness
James Ferguson
Auld House, The

67

Carolina Nairne 3036
Auld Lang Syne.... Robert Burns 2807
Auld Robin Gray, Anne Barnard 989
Autumn... Emily Dickinson 1337
Autumn: a Dirge...P. B. Shelley 1336
Autumn Garden, An
Bliss Carman 1403
Autumn Tints. Mathilde Blind 1337
Aux Italiens. Bulwer Lytton 869
Ave Atque Vale, "Farewell, my
Youth! for now we needs must
part".
R. M. Watson
Ave Atque Vale, "You found the
green before the Spring was
sweet'
.T. S. Jones, Jr. 3432
Ave Imperatrix.. Oscar Wilde 2172
"Awake! Awake!" John Ruskin 2868
"Awake, My Heart".... Bridges 489

"

903

896

728

Baby Seed Song..
"Baby Sleeps"
Babylon.
Bacchanalian Song,
Bacchus.
Bachelor's Hall.

R. H. Barham 3161
"As Like the Woman as You
Can"
W. E. Henley 1832
Ashes of Roses...E. G. Eastman
Ashore..
Laurence Hope
Ask and Have. Samuel Lover
"Ask Me no More". Tennyson 855
Asleep.
William Winter 1101
Aspatia's Song from "The Maid's
Tragedy. John Fletcher 1038
Aspects of the Pines, P. H. Hayne 1356
Astrophel and Stella, Sonnets I,
XXXI, XXXIX, LXII, LXIV,
LXXIII, CIII, CVII

Philip Sidney 1199
At a Solemn Music, John Milton 2939
At First.... .A. T. Jones 3258
At Gibraltar...G. E. Woodberry 2157
At Her Window

Frederick Locker-Lampson 682
At Home in Heaven

At Last.

At Night.

James Montgomery 3456

.R. H. Stoddard 1181
Alice Meynell 652
.A. C. Swinburne 958
A. J. Munby 1277

T. B. Aldrich
George Cooper
W. C. Bennett

339

42

179

17

4

54

26

5.3

8

25

Edith Nesbit 127
Samuel Hinds
Viola Taylor 430
A.... Procter 1938
R. W. Emerson 2824
John Finley 1904

Bailiff's Daughter of Islington,

The.

Unknown 2611

Baker's Duzzen uv Wize Sawz, A

E. R. Sill 1847

Ballad, "He said: "The shadows
darken down'"..May Kendall 1060
Ballad, "In the summer even
H. P. Spafford 1575
Ballad, "Sigh on, sad heart. for
love's eclipse". Thomas Hood 606
Ballad, "The auld wife sat at her

ivied door". .C. S. Calverley 1873
Ballad, ""Twas when the seas

were roaring". ..John Gay 1038
Ballad Made in Hot Weather
W. E. Henley 1967
Ballad of Bouillabaise, The

W. M. Thackeray 1668
Ballad of Cassandra Brown, The
H. G. Cone 1840
J. H. McCarthy 1725
Ballad of Dead Ladies, The

At the Church Gate..Thackeray 764
At the Comedy, Arthur Stringer 906 Ballad of Dead Ladies, A

At the Last
.P. B. Marston 1225
"At the Mid Hour of Night"
Thomas Moore 1051
At the Sign of the Jolly Jack
Geoffrey Smith 211
At the Top of the Road

C. B. Going 3349

D. G. Rossetti 1724
Ballad of Dreamland, A
A. C. Swinburne 483
Ballad of Earl Haldan's Daughter
Charles Kingsley 772