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Tables of Contents for The Portable Romantic Poets
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xii
General Principles
xxv
A Calendar of British and American Poetry
xxvi
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757--1827)
1
31
Song: Memory hither come
1
1
Mad Song
1
1
Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
2
1
To Spring
3
9
From Songs of Innocence
Introduction: Piping down the valleys wild
4
1
The Little Black Boy
4
1
The Divine Image
5
1
On Another's Sorrow
6
1
From Songs of Experience
Introduction: Hear the voice of the Bard!
7
1
The Tyger
8
1
A Poison Tree
9
1
The Sick Rose
10
1
Ah! Sun-Flower
10
1
London
10
1
Infant Sorrow
11
1
The Human Abstract
11
1
Never seek to tell thy love
12
1
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
13
1
The Mental Traveller
13
4
The Crystal Cabinet
17
1
Auguries of Innocence
18
4
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
22
2
From Milton: And did those feet in ancient time
24
1
The Book of Thel
25
7
ROBERT BURNS (1759--1796)
32
31
The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
32
12
Address to the Deil
44
4
Holy Willie's Prayer
48
3
Tam Samson's Elegy
51
4
Open the Door to Me, Oh!
55
1
The Poet's Welcome to His Love-begotten Daughter
55
2
A Red, Red Rose
57
1
Ye flowery banks
58
1
Simmer's a pleasant time
59
1
O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad
59
1
It was a' for our rightfu' king
60
1
Ae fond kiss
61
2
GEORGE CRABBE (1754--1832)
63
31
From The Village: Village Life
63
10
From The Borough: Peter Grimes
73
12
From Sir Eustace Grey: Peace, peace, my friend
85
9
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752--1832)
94
14
From The House of Night: By some sad means
94
2
The Wild Honeysuckle
96
1
The Indian Burying Ground
97
1
The Adventures of Simon Swaugum, a Village Merchant
98
10
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK (1790--1867)
108
5
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake
108
1
The Field of the Grounded Arms
109
4
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771--1832)
113
17
The Eve of Saint John
113
15
From Marmion
Song: Where shall the lover rest
120
1
The Battle
121
2
The Lady of the Lake
The western waves of ebbing day
123
3
Boat Song
126
2
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
128
1
Proud Maisie
129
1
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772--1834)
130
35
Phantom
130
1
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
130
22
Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream
152
3
Dejection: An Ode
155
4
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
159
3
Frost at Midnight
162
3
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770--1850)
165
64
There was a Boy
165
1
To H. C.
166
1
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
167
1
The world is too much with us
168
1
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
168
1
London, 1802
169
1
Where lies the Land
169
1
Ruth
170
8
Resolution and Independence
178
5
The Affliction of Margaret
183
2
Three years she grew in sun and shower
185
2
A slumber did my spirit seal
187
1
She was a Phantom of delight
187
1
Stepping Westward
188
1
The Solitary Reaper
189
1
A Complaint
190
1
Great men have been among us
191
1
Mutability
192
1
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
192
5
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
197
32
From The Prelude (1850)
Introduction---Childhood and School-Time
204
5
Summer Vacation
209
2
Books
211
3
Cambridge and the Alps
214
1
Residence in London
215
3
Residence in France
218
1
Residence in France (continued)
219
2
Imagination and Taste
221
4
Conclusion
225
4
HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796--1849)
229
2
Long time a child, and still a child, when years
229
1
To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
229
1
Lines---: I have been cherished and forgiven
230
1
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794--1878)
231
7
To a Waterfowl
231
1
Summer Wind
232
1
The Prairies
233
5
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775--1864)
238
7
Lately our poets Rose Aylmer
238
1
Ianthe Grateful Acacia!
239
1
To Our House-Dog Captain
240
1
Dirce
240
1
Death stands above me Age
241
1
Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways
241
1
Mimnermus incert.
242
1
Ternissa! You are fled Dull is my verse
243
2
THOMAS MOORE (1779--1852)
245
9
The Meeting of the Waters
245
1
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
245
1
Ill Omens
246
1
At the mid hour of night
247
1
Oft, in the stilly night
248
1
'Tis the last rose of summer
249
1
To ladies' eyes
250
1
They may rail at this life
251
1
I wish I was by that dim Lake
252
2
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788--1824)
254
63
So, we'll go no more a roving
254
1
She walks in beauty
254
1
And thou art dead
255
2
Fare thee well
257
3
Darkness
260
57
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lake Leman
262
3
The Ocean
265
2
From Don Juan
Donna Julia
267
16
Gulbeyaz
283
6
Lady Adeline Amundeville
289
28
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792--1822)
317
57
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
317
11
From Charles the First: A widow bird
328
1
From Prometheus Unbound: Life of life
328
1
Ode to the West Wind
329
3
The Cloud
332
3
Hymn of Pan
335
1
To---: Music, when soft voices die
336
1
From Hellas: Chorus
336
2
Adonais
338
16
Lines: When the lamp is shattered
354
1
The Triumph of Life
355
19
GEORGE DARLEY (1795--1846)
374
3
From Nepenthe: The Unicorn
374
1
The Mermaidens' Vesper Hymn
375
1
From Ethelstan: O'er the wild gannet's bath
375
2
JOHN KEATS (1795--1821)
377
42
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
377
1
Sonnet: Keen fearful gusts are whispering
377
1
To Sleep
378
1
Sonnet: Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
379
1
A Song About Myself
379
4
Ode to a Nightingale
383
2
Ode on a Grecian Urn
385
2
Ode to Psyche
387
2
To Autumn
389
1
Ode on Melancholy
390
1
Fragment of an Ode to Maia
391
1
From Endymion: Hymn to Pan
392
2
La Belle Dame sans Merci
394
2
The Eve of St. Agnes
396
12
From Hyperion: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale
408
11
LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859)
419
2
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit
419
2
THOMAS HOOD (1799--1845)
421
15
Sonnet to Vauxhall
421
4
A Friendly Address
425
5
Silence I remember, I remember
430
2
The Sea of Death
432
1
Ode: Autumn
433
3
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED (1802--1839)
436
11
From Every Day Characters
The Vicar
436
3
Portrait of a Lady
439
4
Good-Night to the Season
443
4
JOHN CLARE (1793--1864)
447
11
I Am
447
1
The Ploughboy Birds' Lament
448
1
Emmonsail's Heath in Winter
449
1
Schoolboys in Winter Badger
450
2
The Frightened Ploughman
452
1
Gipsies Autumn
453
1
Clock-a-clay (The Ladybird)
454
1
Secret Love
455
1
Invitation to Eternity
456
1
Fragment: Language has not the power
457
1
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803--1882)
458
17
Hamatreya
458
2
Water The Snowstorm
460
1
Parks and ponds
461
1
Give all to love
462
1
Bacchus
463
2
Days
465
1
Merlin: II
466
2
Ode to Beauty
468
3
Limits Experience
471
1
The Past
472
1
Terminus
473
2
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817--1862)
475
12
The Old Marlborough Road
475
2
What's the railroad to me?
477
1
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
477
2
Who sleeps by day and walks by night
479
1
I was born upon thy bank, river
479
1
On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon
479
1
The moon now rises to her absolute rule
479
1
To a Marsh Hawk in Spring Great Friend
480
1
At midnight's hour I raised my head
481
1
Among the worst of men that ever lived
482
1
Tall Ambrosia
482
1
Forever in my dream and in my morning thought
483
1
For though the caves were rabbited
484
1
I was made erect and lone
484
1
To the Mountains
485
1
Between the traveller and the setting sun
485
1
I'm thankful that my life doth not deceive
486
1
WILLIAM BARNES (1801--1886)
487
9
Zun-zet
487
1
The Clote (Water-Lily)
488
1
The Wind at the Door
489
1
The Lost Little Sister
490
1
My Love's Guardian Angel
491
1
To Me
492
2
Tokens
494
1
The Fall
494
2
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)
496
13
Ichabod
496
1
For Righteousness' Sake
497
1
From Among the Hills: Prelude
498
5
The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk
503
3
The Brewing of Soma
506
3
JONES VERY (1813-1880)
509
2
Yourself
509
1
The hand and foot
509
1
Thy Brother's Blood
510
1
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)
511
6
From Death's Jest-Book
Dirge: If thou wilt ease thine heart
511
1
Song: Old Adam, the carrion crow
511
1
Epithalamia
512
1
Dirge: The swallow leaves her nest
513
1
From Torrismond: How many times do I love thee dear
514
1
Dream-Pedlary
514
3
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809--1849)
517
10
The City in the Sea
517
2
The Sleeper
519
2
The Valley of Unrest
521
1
The Haunted Palace
522
1
To Helen
523
1
Israfel
524
2
From childhood's hour
526
1
Index of Titles and First Lines
527
8
Biographical Notes
535