THE HARVARD CLASSICS EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D.

The Editor's Introduction

Reader's Guide

Index

TO THE FIRST LINES OF POEMS,

SONGS and CHORUSES, HYMNS and PSALMS

General Index Chronological Index

THE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

TO THE HARVARD CLASSICS

MY PURPOSE in selecting The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing, recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century. Within the limits of fifty volumes, containing about 22,000 pages, I was to provide the means of obtaining such a knowledge of ancient and modern literature as seems essential to the twentieth century idea of a cultivated man.

The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with the prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up. From that store I proposed to make such a selection as any intellectually ambitious American family might use to advantage, even if their early opportunities of education had been scanty.

The purpose of The Harvard Classics is, therefore, one very different from that of the many collections in which the editor's aim has been to select the hundred or the fifty best books in the world; it is nothing less than the purpose to present so ample and characteristic a record of the stream of the world's thought that the observant reader's mind shall be enriched, refined, and fertilized by it.

With such objects in view it was essential that the whole series should be in the English language; and this limitation to English necessitated the free use of translations, in spite of the fact that it is impossible to reproduce perfectly in a translation the style and flavor of the original. The reader of this collection must not imagine that he can find in an English translation of Homer, Dante, Cervantes, or Goethe, all the beauty and charm of the original. Nevertheless, translations can yield much genuine cultivation to the student who attends to the substance of the author's thought, although he knows all the time that he is missing some of the elegance and beauty of the original form. Since it is impossible to give in translation the rhythm and sweetness of poetry—and particularly of lyric poetry—far the larger part of the poetry in The Harvard Classics will be found to be poetry which was written in English.

While with very few exceptions every piece of writing included in the series is complete in itself—that is, is a whole book, narrative, document, essay, or poem—there are many volumes which are made up of numerous short, though complete, works. Thus, three volumes contain an anthology of English poetry comprising specimens of the work of over two hundred writers. There is also a volume of memorable prefaces, and another of important American historical documents. Five volumes are made up of essays, representing several centuries and several nationalities.

The principal subjects embraced in the series are history, biography, philosophy, religion, voyages and travels, natural science, government and politics, education, criticism, the drama, epic and lyric poetry, and prose fiction —in short, all the main subdivisions of literature. The principal literatures represented in the collection are those of Greece, Rome, France, Italy, Spain, England, Scotland, Germany, and the United States; but important contributions have been drawn also from Chinese, Hindu, Hebrew, Arabian, Scandinavian, and Irish sources. Since the series is intended primarily for American readers, it contains a somewhat disproportionate amount of English and American literature, and of documents and discussions relating to American history and to the development of American social and political ideas.

Chronologically considered, the series begins with portions of the sacred books of the oldest religions, proceeds with specimens of the literature of Greece and Rome, then makes selections from the literature of the Middle Ages in the Orient, Italy, France, Scandinavia, Ireland, England, Germany, and the Latin Church, includes a considerable representation of the literature of the Renaissance in Italy, France, Germany, England, Scotland, and Spain, and, arriving at modern times, comprehends selections derived from Italy, three centuries of France, two centuries of Germany, three centuries of England, and something more than a century of the United States.

Nothing has been included in the series which does not possess good literary form; but the collection illustrates the variations of literary form and taste from century to century, the wide separation in time of the recurrent climaxes in the various forms of literary expression in both prose and verse, and the immense widening of the range and scope of both letters and science during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

At the very outset of the work unexpected difficulties arose, some of which, although almost mechanical, proved to be insurmountable. Many famous books were too long to be included in the set, that is, they would have taken a disproportionate number of the fifty volumes. Thus, the English Bible could not be included as a whole, because it was too long; and for the same reason only selections from Shakespeare, and the first part of "Don Quixote," could be included. Many famous and desirable books on history had to be excluded because of their length. The works of living authors were in general excluded, because the verdict of the educated world has not yet been pronounced upon them.

Finally, the whole of nineteenth century fiction, with two exceptions, was excluded; partly because of its great bulk, and partly because it is easily accessible. It proved to be possible, however, to represent by selections complete in themselves the English Bible, Shakespeare, and some other works of the highest order. Some authors whose greatest works were too long to be included in the series could be represented by one or more of their shorter works.

It was hard to make up an adequate representation of the scientific thought of the nineteenth century, because much of the most productive scientific thought has not yet been given a literary form. The discoverers' original papers on chemistry, physics, geology, and biology have usually been presented to some scientific society, and have naturally been expressed in technical language, or have been filled with details indispensable from the scientific point of view but not instructive for the public in general.

Although a good part of the reading provided in The Harvard Classics may fairly be called interesting, there are also volumes or portions of volumes which make hard reading, even for a practised student. In the literature of other days some of the topics treated are unfamiliar, and, moreover, the state of mind of the authors is apt to be strange to the present generation. The sentiments and opinions these authors express are frequently not acceptable to present-day readers, who have to be often saying to themselves: "This is not true, or not correct, or not in accordance with our beliefs." It is, however, precisely this encounter with the mental states of other generations which enlarges the outlook and sympathies of the cultivated man, and persuades him of the upward tendency of the human race.

The Harvard Classics, as a whole, require close attention and a resolute spirit on the part of the reader. Nevertheless large parts of the collection were undoubtedly composed just to give delight, or to show people how to win rational pleasures. Thus, the real values of almost all the tales, dramas, fiction, and poetry in the series are esthetic, not didactic, values. The interested reader ought to gain from them enjoyment and new power to enjoy.

There is no mode of using The Harvard Classics which can be recommended as the best for all readers. Every student who proposes to master the series must choose his own way through it. Some readers may be inclined to follow the chronological order; but shall they begin with the oldest book and read down through the centuries, or begin with the youngest and read backward? Another method would be to read by subjects, and under each subject chronologically. A good field for this method is the collection of voyages and travels. There is also merit in the chronological order in reading the documents taken from the sacred books of the world. Still another method is that of comparison or of contrast. The collection gives many opportunities of comparing the views of contemporaneous writers on the same subject, and also of contrasting the prevailing opinions in different nations or different social states at the same epoch. In government and politics, for example, the collection supplies much material for comparing the opinions of writers nearly contemporary but of different nationality, and for contrasting the different social states at the same epoch in nations not far apart geographically, but distinct as regards their history, traditions, and habits.

Another way of dealing with the collection would be to read first an essay or a group of essays on related subjects, and then to search through the collection to discover all the material it contains within the field of that essay or group of essays. The essays in the collection are numerous, and deal with a great variety of topics both old and new. Whoever should follow the various leadings of the essays in the collection would ultimately cover far the greater part of the fifty volumes.

The biographies, letters, and prefaces contained in the collection will also afford much good guidance to other material. The student who likes the comparative method will naturally read consecutively all the dramas the collection contains; and it will not make much difference at which chronological end he begins, for some persons find the climax of drama in Shakespeare, but others in the Greek tragedies.

The anthology of English poetry is one of the most important parts of the collection, in respect to its function of providing reading competent to impart liberal culture to a devoted reader; but those volumes should not be read in course, but rather by authors, and a little at a time. The poems of John Milton and Robert Burns are given in full; because the works of these two very unlike poets contain social, religious, and governmental teachings of vital concern for modern democracies. Milton was the great poet of civil and religious liberty, Puritanism, and the English Commonwealth, and Burns was the great poet of democracy. The two together cover the fundamental principles of free government, education, and democratic social structure, and will serve as guides to much good reading on those subjects provided in the collection. The poetry contained in The Harvard Classics from Homer to Tennyson will by itself give any appreciative reader a vivid conception of the permanent, elemental sentiments and passions of mankind, and of the gradually developed ethical means of purifying those sentiments and controlling those passions.

In order to make the best use of The Harvard Classics it will be desirable for the young reader to reread those volumes or passages which he finds most interesting, and to commit to memory many of the pieces of poetry which stir or uplift him. It is a source of exquisite and enduring delight to have one's mind stored with many melodious expressions of high thoughts and beautiful imagery.

I hope that many readers who are obliged to give eight or ten hours a day to the labors through which they earn their livelihood will use The Harvard Classics, and particularly young men and women whose early education was cut short, and who must therefore reach the standing of a cultivated man or woman through the pleasurable devotion of a few minutes a day through many years to the reading of good literature.

The main function of the collection should be to develop and foster in many thousands of people a taste for serious reading of the highest quality, outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them.

It remains to describe the manner in which The Harvard Classics have been made up. I had more than once stated in public that in my opinion a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give in the course of years a good substitute for a liberal education in youth to any one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading. Rather more than a year ago the firm of P. F. Collier & Son proposed that I undertake to make a selection of fifty volumes, containing from four hundred to four hundred and fifty pages each, which would approximately fill my five-foot shelf, and be well adapted to accomplish the educational object I had in mind.

I was invited to take the entire responsibility of making the selection, and was to be provided with a competent assistant of my own choice. In February, 1909, I accepted the proposal of the publishers, and secured the services of Dr. William A. Neilson, Professor of English in Harvard University, as my assistant. I decided what should be included, and what should be excluded. Professor Neilson wrote all the introductions and notes, made the choice among different editions of the same work, and offered many suggestions concerning available material. It also fell to him to make all the computations needed to decide the question whether a work desired was too long to be included. The most arduous part of his work was the final making up of the composite volumes from available material which had commended itself to us both.

It would have been impossible to perform the task satisfactorily if the treasures of the general library and of the department libraries of Harvard University had not been at our disposal. The range of the topics in the series was so wide, and the number of languages in which the desired books were originally written so great, that the advice of specialists, each in some portion of the field, had frequently to be sought. We obtained much valuable advice of this sort from scholarly friends and neighbors.

We are under obligations to the following Harvard professors and instructors, whose advice we obtained on questions connected with their several specialties: Crawford Howell Toy, Hancock Professor of Hebrew; George Herbert Palmer, Alford Professor of Natural Religion; William James, Professor of Philosophy; William Morris Davis, Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology; Ephraim Emerton, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History; Charles Rockwell Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanscrit; Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy; George Foot Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion; Edward Stevens Sheldon, Professor of Romance, Philology; Horatio Stevens White, Professor of German; Josiah Royce, Professor of the History of Philosophy; Harold Clarence Ernst, Professor of Bacteriology; Herbert Weir Smyth, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; Frank William Taussig, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History; Morris Hicky Morgan, Professor of Classical Philology; Theobald Smith, George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Albert Andrew Howard, Pope Professor of Latin; George Lyman Kit-tredge, Professor of English; Samuel Williston, Weld Professor of Law; Charles Hall Grandgent, Professor of Romance Languages; Hugo Miinsterberg, Professor of Psychology; Leo Wiener, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Heinrich Conrad Bierwirth, Assistant Professor of German; Theodore William Richards, Professor of Chemistry; George Pierce Baker, Professor of English; James Haughton Woods, Assistant Professor of Philoso phy; Irving Babbitt, Assistant Professor of French; Charles Jesse Bullock, Professor of Economics; Edwin Francis Gay, Professor of Economics; Charles Burton Gulick, Professor of Greek; William Zebina Ripley, Professor of Political Economy; Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy; William Guild Howard, Assistant Professor of German; Fred Norris Robinson, Professor of English; Charles H. C. Wright, Assistant Professor of French; William Rosenzweig Arnold, Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature; John Albrecht Walz, Professor of the German Language and Literature; Jeremiah D. M. Ford, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages; Edward Kennard Rand, Professor of Latin; Oliver M. W. Sprague, Assistant Professor of Banking and Finance; Jay Backus Wood-worth, Assistant Professor of Geology; George Henry Chase, Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology; William Scott Ferguson, Assistant Professor of History; Roger Bigelow Merriman, Assistant Professor of History; Ralph Barton Perry, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Louis Allard, Instructor in French; Harold de Wolf Fuller, Instructor in Comparative Literature; Lawrence Joseph Henderson, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry; F. W. C. Her-sey, Instructor in English; F. W. C. Lieder, Instructor in German; C. R. Post, Instructor in Romance Languages; R. W. Pettengill, Instructor in German; H. W. L. Dana, Assistant in English.

Many other scholars answered specific questions which we laid before them, among whom should be mentioned: Jefferson Butler Fletcher, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University; A. A. Young, Professor of Economics, Leland Stanford Jr. University; G. R. Noyes, Assistant Professor of Slavic, University of California; Lucien Foulet, Professor of French, University of California; Francis B. Gummere, Professor of English, Haverford College; Curtis Hidden Page, Professor of English Literature, Northwestern University; William Draper Lewis, Dean of the Law Department, University of Pennsylvania; James Ford Rhodes, LL.D. (Harvard), Historian; Henry Pickering Walcott, Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Health; William Belmont Parker, New York; John A. Lester, Ph.D., the Hill School, Pennsylvania; Alfred Dwight Sheffield, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The staff of the Harvard Library have also given valuable assistance.

In illustrating the volumes with portraits and facsimiles the publishers are under great obligations to the following owners of valuable prints, manuscripts, and autograph letters, who kindly permitted the publishers to use precious objects from their collections: J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq.; R. H. Dana, Esq.; Wymberley Jones De Renne, Esq.; Harvard University Library; New York Public Library; Boston Public Library; Library of Congress; Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University.

The elaborate alphabetical index is intended to give any person who knows the art of using indexes or concordances, or will acquire k in this instance, immediate access to any author or any subject mentioned in the entire collection, and indeed to any passage in the fifty volumes to which the inquirer has a good clue. This full index should make The Harvard Classics convenient books of reference.

March I0, 1910

Charles W. Eliot

THE EDITOR'S SECOND INTRODUCTION

IN seven years The Harvard Classics have demonstrated their fitness for the special work they were intended to do. They were to provide from famous literature, ancient and modern, an ample record of "the stream of the world's thought"; so that a careful reader of the collection might in the course of years attain the standing of a cultivated man or woman, making up through this long course of reading any deficiencies which might have existed in the early education of the reader. I hoped, too, that in spite of the serious character of the entire collection, an interested and patient reader would gain from the collection much enjoyment and a new power to enjoy.

The experience of seven years has proved that the sale of The Harvard Classics has been large and, on the whole, increasing in amount.

Most owners of the set select occasional reading matter from it; but some have read the fifty volumes through, and a few have read the entire set through twice. I have been surprised to see how often I turn to the collection to enjoy pieces of permanent literature, in contrast with the mass of ephemeral reading matter which I am obliged to go through. Many people might use it in this way to advantage. It has also turned out that the collection, through its excellent index, has value as a book of reference for the general reader, and can be especially helpful to teachers, journalists, and authors.

In the original fifty volumes, for reasons which have turned out not to be of permanent effect, fiction in the modern sense was only slightly represented. Today a supplement of twenty volumes of modern fiction— The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction—provides an ample representation of that new force in the world which the modern historical romance, the novel, and the short story exert. With this supplement The Harvard Classics may fairly be said to provide a permanent record in high literary form of the powers and achievements of "man thinking" down to the end of the nineteenth century, sufficiently comprehensive to illustrate well the chief powers and achievements of the race.

The last half of the nineteenth century and the opening of the twen tieth show a strong tendency to discard the study of the Greek and Latin languages as an indispensable part of American secondary and higher education. This study is to be replaced in part by the study of modern languages, which have many uses in the literary, scientific, and business life of to-day. It is the confident belief of the educational reformers that young people brought up in this new way need not lose the substantial values of ancient thought; because they can get them through translations. The Harvard Classics contain six and a half volumes of choice material for this purpose. The collection contains also three volumes and two half volumes of famous writings belonging to the Middle Ages, writings, which can only be made known to the present generations through translations. The reader who makes himself familiar with these ten volumes and a half, with the Confessions of St. Augustine, and with the two volumes of Sacred Writings, may feel sure that he has followed the course of the best thinking of mankind down to the Italian Renaissance.

From these volumes, the thorough reader may learn valuable lessons in comparative literature. He can see how various the contributions of the different languages and epochs have been; and he will inevitably come to the conclusion that striking national differences in this respect ought in the interest of mankind to be perpetuated and developed, and not obliterated, averaged, or harrowed down. The comparative method has in the study of literature a value similar to that it has recently exhibited in the study of art, government, science, and religion.

One may hope that the collection will endure for some decades to come, not only as a monument or milestone, but also as an active force toward the sound mental equipment of American reading people, both the young and the mature.

February 1, 1917

Charles W. Eliot

List of Volume Numbers

AS DESIGNATED IN THE FOLLOWING INDEXES

Volume I Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn Volume II Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

Volume III Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne

Volume IV Complete Poems in English, Milton

Volume V Essays and English Traits, Emerson

Volume VI Poems and Songs, Burns

Volume VII The Confessions of St. Augustine, The Imitation of Christ Volume VIII Nine Greek Dramas

Volume IX Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

Volume X Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Volume XI Origin of Species, Darwin

Volume XII Plutarch's Lives

Volume XIII Aeneid, Virgil

Volume XIV Don Quixote, Part I, Cervantes

Volume XV Pilgrim's Progress, Donne and Herbert, Walton Volume XVI The Thousand and One Nights

Volume XVII Folk-Lore and Fable, Aesop, Grimm, Andersen Volume XVIII Modern English Drama

Volume XIX Faust, Egmont, etc., Goethe, Doctor Faustus, Marlowe Volume XX The Divine Comedy, Dante

Volume XXI I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni

Volume XXII The Odyssey, Homer

Volume XXIII Two Years Before the Mast, Dana

Volume XXIV On the Sublime, French Revolution, etc., Burke Volume XXV J. S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle

Volume XXVI Continental Drama

Volume XXVII English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay

Volume XXVIII Essays, English and American

Volume XXIX Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin

Volume XXX Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc.

Volume XXXI Autobiography, Cellini

Volume XXXII Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc.

Volume XXXIII Voyages and Travels

Volume XXXIV Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes

Volume XXXV Froissart, Malory, Holinshed

Volume XXXVI Machiavelli, More, Luther

Volume XXXVII Locke, Berkeley, Hume

Volume XXXVIII Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

Volume XXXIX Famous Prefaces

Volume XL English Poetry, i

Volume XLI English Poetry, 2

Volume XLII English Poetry, 3

Volume XLIII American Historical Documents

Volume XLIV Sacred Writings, i

Volume XLV Sacred Writings, 2

Volume XLVI Elizabethan Drama, i

Volume XLVII Elizabethan Drama, 2

Volume XLVIII Thoughts and Minor Works, Pascal

Volume XLIX Epic and Saga

Volume L Introduction, Reader's Guide, Indexes

READER'S GUIDE TO THE HARVARD CLASSICS

THE following lists have been prepared in order to enable the reader more easily to choose and arrange for himself such courses of study as have been suggested in the Introduction. They fall into two classes, the first being selected with respect to subject matter, as History, Philosophy, or Science; the second with respect to literary form, as the Drama or Essay. Within each group the arrangement is in general chronological, but this has been occasionally departed from when it seemed wise to introduce national or geographical cross-divisions. While most of the volumes can be most profitably read in some chronological or other sequence, many others, such as the collections of English Poetry and of Essays, are equally suited for more desultory browsing.

These lists are not intended to relieve the reader from the use of the General Index, which has purposely been made so ample that it is possible by its intelligent use to track almost any line of interest through the entire set of volumes.

CLASS I

A-THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

THE following list is by no means confined to works regarded by their authors as history, but includes letters, dramas, novels, and the like, which, by virtue of their character, period, or scene, throw light upon social and intellectual conditions, enriching and making vivid the picture of human progress which is outlined in the more strictly historical narratives.

Professor Freeman's essay, which is suggested as a general introduction to this division, deals in a highly illuminating fashion with the much misunderstood term, "Race"; and by definition and illustration brings out the elements according to which the historian and the anthropologist determine the relationships among the families of mankind.

The oldest civilization with which the ordinary reader has any acquaintance is that of Egypt, and his knowledge of this is usually confined to the dealings of the Egyptians with the Israelites, as narrated in the first books of the Old Testament.

The account of Egypt by Herodotus gives a picture of this people from the point of view of a Greek, and is made entertaining by the skill of one of the best story-tellers in the world.

A glimpse of life in the days of the patriarchs, in the countries surrounding Palestine, is given in the narrative portions of "The Book of Job," where Job himself is concerned as a powerful and wealthy sheik.

With Homer we come to the civilization which, more than any other, has affected the culture of modern Europe. The wanderings of Odysseus in the "Odyssey" and the account of the fall of Troy in the "Aeneid" contain, of course, a large mythical element; but they leave, nevertheless, a vivid picture which must represent with much essential truth the way of life of the Greeks before the historic period.

The two poems by Tennyson named here were suggested by the "Odyssey," and express with remarkable power and beauty the modern poet's conception of the Greek hero's character, and the mood of reaction from the life of effort and suffering.

The pieces by Wordsworth and Landor are modern retellings of stories from the same treasure-house from which the Greek tragedians drew the plots of those great dramas which, with the dialogues of Plato, represent the height of intellectual achievement in the ancient world.

The five Greek lives by Plutarch give portraits of a group of the most distinguished men of affairs in the same period.

Plutarch again, in his "Lives" of famous Romans, brings before us several of the greatest figures of Republican Rome. His main interest was in personality; but incidentally he gives much information as to the political history of this period.

For the years immediately preceding the end of the Republic, the "Letters" of Cicero give a detailed picture of Roman politics from the inside. In spite of the frequent allusions to events and persons now known only to the scholar, the general reader may easily find interest in the similarities between the political methods of antiquity and those of our own day.

Dryden's "All for Love" is a thorough making-over of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," which in turn is based on Plutarch's "Life of Antony." It is interesting, not only as an excellent example of Dryden's work as a dramatist, but as affording, along with Shakespeare's tragedy, a suggestive study of two of the most picturesque figures of ancient times. From the Alexandrian scenes one can gain an impression of the luxury that was beginning to sap the foundations of the old Roman virtue.

Pliny's "Letters" picture the life of a cultivated Roman under the Empire. Among them, special interest attaches to that giving a graphic account of the eruption of Vesuvius which destroyed Pompeii, and in which the elder Pliny perished, and to those in which Pliny as proconsul consults with the Emperor Trajan about the policy of persecuting the early Christians. The story of the "Aeneid" does not deal with this period; but its patriotic purpose makes it important in judging the spirit of the times.

Tennyson's tribute toVirgil is a superb appreciation of the literary quality of the Roman writer, with whom the Englishman had many points of kinship. In the writings of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the slave Epictetus, the moral philosophy of paganism reaches its highest level.

The condition of our Teutonic ancestors during the period of Roman supremacy is admirably described by the historian Tacitus in 'his account of Germany. The description is external, but well-informed, and is the work of an acute and highly trained observer of society and politics.

More intimate are the poems that have come down from the early period of Germanic culture, represented here by the Old English "Beowulf," and the Icelandic "Song of the Volsungs." These stories deal with incidents and personages whose historic bases belong to continental Europe, though the earliest extant literary poems of both happen to be insular. "Beowulf" is the more circumstantial as a picture of life and manners; the Volsung story in its various versions, through the "Nibelungenlied" down to Wagner's operas, has made a more profound appeal to the imagination.

The splendid though grotesque specimen of Irish saga-writing given in "The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel" belongs to nearly the same period. In the case of all three, the material represents a stage of culture considerably earlier than the date of writing, and still essentially pagan.

The books from the New Testament are selected to give the story of the founding of Christianity; St. Augustine's "Confessions" exhibit the development, after a few centuries, of Christian doctrine, Christian standards of conduct, and Christian ways of thinking; while the Hymns of the Early Church, East and West, represent the lyrical expression of the devotional feeling of the young religion.

While Christianity was gradually overcoming the paganism of Europe, Mohammed appeared in Arabia; and from the chapters of the "Koran," which he claimed to have received by inspiration, we can form an idea of the teaching which, with the aid of the sword, so rapidly conquered the East.

"The Arabian Nights" are Mohammedan in background, the multiplicity of angels and genii which the Prophet admitted into his system playing a large part in the mechanism of the tales. The representation of the social life of the East is, however, more important than the religious element in these.

Omar Khayyam is the free-thinking philosopher in a Mohammedan society, and his quatrains are given here in the free paraphrase of Fitzgerald, a work which ranks higher as an original poem than as an exact translation.

The Middle Ages denotes a period with somewhat vague boundaries; and some of the books already touched on might well be placed within it. Here it includes representative literary products of Western Europe from the time of Charlemagne to the middle of the fifteenth century.

"The Song of Roland" begins, on a slight historical foundation, the great structure of French epic, and is itself a simple and vigorous celebration of heroic loyalty. In the passages from the Norse "Saga of Eric the Red" which describes the discovery of America by Icelanders about 1000 A. D., we get a glimpse of the hardy life of the Vikings.

In "The Divine Comedy" Dante summed up the essential characteristics of the spiritual and intellectual life of the Middle Ages, and by his emotional intensity and the extraordinary distinctness of his imaginative vision gave his result an artistic preeminence that makes it the supreme creation of the epoch.

The pageantry and pomp of the military and court life of this age are seen at their best in the pages of Froissart; and in Marlowe's "Edward the Second" a dramatic genius of the next period interprets a typical tragedy of the medieval contest between king and nobles. Drayton, Marlowe's contemporary, celebrates, in one of our greatest war-songs, the victory of Agincourt.

In contrast with these pictures of the more exciting sides of medieval life is the exquisite series of portraits of typical English men and women which give Chaucer's "Prologue" its unique place among the works, literary and historical, of the time.

Malory, Tennyson, and Morris deal with parts of the great Arthurian legend, the most wide-spread and characteristic of the themes which entranced the imagination of the Middle Ages, and one which continues to attract the modern writer. Romantic in tone, historical in incident, Rossetti's poem on the death of James I. of Scots is one of the most successful modern attempts to render a medieval theme in ballad form; yet its essential literary quality will be apparent at once when it is compared with the popular tone of the genuine traditional ballads.

Our list of the productions of the Renaissance naturally begins with Italy, the country in which the great revival of interest in pagan antiquity first showed itself, and from which came in large measure the impulse to throw off the traditional bonds that had fettered the human spirit in the Middle Ages, and to seek a fuller scope for individual development. Machiavelli and Cellini represent respectively the political and the artistic sides of the Italy of this period; and the impression to be derived from them may be made more distinct by Browning's pictures of the scholar, the painter, and the worldly ecclesiastic, and by Webster's and Shelley's dramas, with their lurid light on the passion and crime which reigned in much of the courtly life of the time.

A pleasing contrast is afforded by Roper's Life of the saintly Sir Thomas More, and by More's own "Utopia," with its vision of a perfect society. Later in the sixteenth century came the struggle of Spain to subjugate the Netherlands, an incident of which forms the plot of Goethe's "Egmont." Sir Walter Raleigh, compiling in his prison his vast "History of the World," prefixed to it a long preface which gives us a most interesting conception of the attitude of an Englishman who had lived and thought not only upon the history of past times, but upon the whole problem of man's relation to God and the universe.

About the same time, in Spain, the great novelist, Cervantes, was showing in his masterpiece how quickly the world was passing from under the domination of the chivalrous ideals of the previous age.

So far we have been enumerating documents representative of the secular Renaissance. But a religious revolution had also taken place, and in the works of Luther, of Calvin, and of Knox, we have a statement in the words of the leaders themselves of the fundamental principles of the Protestant Reformation.

In Science also a new beginning had been made. In the "Journeys" of Ambroise Pare we have, incidentally, a picture of the armies of the sixteenth century in the field, and also, of more importance to posterity, the beginnings of a new and more humane surgery. Copernicus introduced his revolutionary theory by which the sun took the place of the earth as the center of our system, and Columbus, Vespucci, and the great English navigators opened up the Western world and circumnavigated the globe.

In England itself this exploration of the West brought on the conflict with Spain celebrated with fiery patriotism in the poems by Drayton, Macaulay, and Tennyson. How Englishmen lived at home is told in intimate detail in Harrison's "Description," and more dramatically represented by Dekker, Jonson, and Beaumont; while in Keats's lines we have a later poet harking back to those literary triumphs which are perhaps the most permanent of the achievements of the "spacious times of great Elizabeth."

In the seventeenth century we find ourselves in what may be regarded as modern times, though the picture of the plague in Manzoni's great novel still suggests a period far remote from modern science. In the "Areopagitica," however, Milton is arguing for that freedom of the press which is a very living question in many modern states; and in the poems of Marvell and Scott we have echoes of the struggle for constitutional liberty through which modern Britain came into existence.

Voltaire's "Letters" reflect not only the impressions derived by an acute Frenchman from a visit to England, but describe many important phases of the life and thought of the eighteenth century. Burke's "Reflections" recall the excesses through which some of the things which Voltaire envied the English were achieved by France; and Goethe in his exquisite idyl, "Hermann and Dorothea," lets us hear the echoes of the great Revolution in the quiet life of a German village.

In Byron's famous lyric we have a lament over the spirit of liberty not yet reawakened in Greece. Throughout all these later pieces there appear, more or less distinctly, evidences of the gradual spread over the world of the struggle for freedom and equality.

Of this struggle in America the records collected in the "American Historical Documents" and the other works here enumerated need no interpretation.

SUBJECT AND AUTHOR/VOL/PAGE

ANCIENT EGYPT:

Herodotus, Egypt 33 7

THE EAST IN PATRIARCHAL TIMES:

The Book of Job 44 71

ANCIENT GREECE: Legendary

Homer, the Odyssey 22 9

Dramas of Aeschylus 8 7

Sophocles 8 209

Euripides 8 303

Fall of Troy, Virgil's Aeneid, Book II 13 100

Tennyson

- Ulysses 42 977

- The Lotos-Eaters 42 993

Landor, Death of Artemidora 41 902

Iphigeneia 41 903

Wordsworth, Laodamia 41 662

ANCIENT GREECE: Historic

Plato, The Apology of Socrates 2 5

Plutarch

- Life of Pericles 12 35

- Life of Themistocles 12 5

- Life of Aristides 12 78

- Life of Alcibiades 12 106

- Life of Demosthenes 12 191

ANCIENT ROME: Republican

Plutarch

- Life of Coriolanus 12 147

- Life of Cicero 12 218

Cicero, Treatises and Letters 9 9

Plutarch, Life of Caesar 12 264

Life of Antony 12 322

Dryden, All for Love 18 23

ANCIENT ROME: Imperial

Pliny the Younger, Letters 9 187

Virgil, Aeneid 13 73

Tennyson, To Virgil 42 1014

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2 193

Epictetus, Golden Thoughts 2 117

GERMANIC PEOPLES IN PRIMITIVE TIMES:

Tacitus, Germany 33 93

Song of the Volsungs 49 57

Beowulf 49 5

IRELAND IN PRIMITIVE TIMES:

Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel 49 I99

THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH:

The Gospel according to Luke 44 353

The Acts of the Apostles 44 423

The Epistles to the Corinthians 45 491

St. Augustine, Confessions 7 5

Hymns of the Greek Church 45 541

Hymns of the Latin Church 45 546

THE MAHOMMEDAN EAST:

Koran 45 879

The Arabian Nights 16 15

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 4!1943

THE MIDDLE AGES:

The Song of Roland 49 95

Voyages to Vinland 43 5

Dante, The Divine Comedy 20 5

Marlowe, Edward the Second 46

Froissart, Chronicles 35 7

Chaucer, Prologue to Canterbury Tales .... 40 11

Drayton, Agincourt 40 222

Malory, The Holy Grail 35 105

Tennyson

- Morte d'Arthur 42 986

- Galahad 42 1002

William Morris, Defence of Guenevere 42 1183

Rossetti, The King's Tragedy 42 1153

A Gest of Robyn Hode 40 128

Traditional Ballads, especially 40 51

- The Battle of Otterburn 40 88

- Chevy Chase 40 93

- Johnie Armstrong 40 I01

- Kinmont Willie 40 108

THE RENAISSANCE:

Machiavelli, The Prince 36 7

Macaulay, Machiavelli 27 363

Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography 31 5

Browning

- A Grammarian's Funeral 42 1083

- Andrea del Sarto 42 1087

- The Bishop Orders his Tomb 42 1075

Webster, The Duchess of Malfi 47 755

Shelley, The Cenci 18 281

Sir Thomas More, Utopia 36 135

Roper, Life of Sir T. More 36 89

Goethe, Egmont 19 253

Raleigh, Preface to History of the World .... 39 66

Cervantes, Don Quixote ....14 17

Luther

- Ninety-five Theses 36 251

- Address to the German Nobility 36 263

- Concerning Christian Liberty 36 336

Calvin, Dedication of the Institutes 39 27

Knox, Preface to History of the Reformation in Scotland 39 58

Pare, Journeys in Diverse Places 38 9

Copernicus, Dedication of Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies 39 52

Columbus, Letter Announcing Discovery of America .43 21

Amerigo Vespucci, Account of his First Voyage . 43 28

Cabot, Discovery of North America 43 45

Sir H. Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland .... 33 263

Sir Francis Drake Revived 33 129

Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World . . . 33 199

Drake's Great Armada 33 229

Raleigh, Discovery of Guiana 33 311

Drayton, To the Virginian Voyage 40 226

Macaulay, The Armada 41 915

Tennyson, The Revenge 42 1007

Harrison, Elizabethan England 35 217

Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday 47 469

Jonson, The Alchemist 47 543

Beaumont, Letter to Ben Jonson 40 319

Keats, The Mermaid Tavern 41 874

MODERN EUROPE:

Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi 21 7

Milton, Areopagitica 3 189

Marvell, Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return 40 372

Scott

- Here's a Health to King Charles 41 754

- Bonny Dundee 41 752

Voltaire, Letters on the English 34 65

Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution 24 143

Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea 19 337

Byron, The Isles of Greece 41 812

(For the history of recent European thought, see under headings, "Science," "Religion and Philosophy," "Politics," "Education," and the various literary types.)

AMERICA:

First Charter of Virginia 43 49

And the later items in volume of American Historical Documents 43 5

Franklin, Autobiography 1 5

John Woolman, Journal 1 169

Dana, Two Years before the Mast 23 7

Bryant, The Death of Lincoln 42 1223

Emerson, Concord Hymn 42 1245

Boston Hymn 42 1261

Longfellow

- Evangeline 42 1300

- Paul Revere's Ride 42 1295

Whittier

- Randolph of Roanoke 42 1341

- Massachusetts to Virginia 42 1344

- Barbara Frietchie 42 1362

Holmes, Old Ironsides 42 1366

Lowell

- The Present Crisis 42 1370

- Ode Recited at Harvard Commemoration 42 1379

- Abraham Lincoln 28 429

Whitman

- War Poems 42 1402

- Pioneers 42 1404

- Poems on Death of Lincoln 42 1412

B-RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

IN THIS division are represented the sacred writings of the chief religions of the world, and characteristic works of the most important philosophers, so far as these can be expected to be intelligible to readers without technical training in philosophy. Here, as elsewhere in The Harvard Classics, the interest and profit of the reader have been preferred to formal completeness; yet it has been possible to bring together a selection of the attempts of thinkers to solve the problems of life for twenty-five centuries, with surprisingly few important omissions.

In Class I, A, of the Reader's Guide we noted the historical interest of the narrative setting of "The Book of Job." The speeches themselves show the Hebrew mind wrestling with the problem of reconciling the justice of God with the misfortunes of the righteous. "Ecclesiastes" consists mainly of a collection of pungent and, for the most part, pessimistic comments on life, interspersed with passages of a more inspiring nature, which may be due to a different author. Both books are marvels of literary beauty. "The Psalms" gave utterance to the religious emotions of the people of Israel through many generations, and have appealed to the devout of races and periods far beyond the limits of their origin.

Plato is at once a philosopher and a great man of letters; and the three dialogues given here not only present some of the main ideas about conduct and the future world which he received from Socrates or developed himself, but also draw a distinct and attractive portrait of his master during the closing scenes of his life. The plays of the Greek tragedians, though ostensibly dramatic entertainments, deal profoundly and impressively with some of the vital questions of religion, as these presented themselves to the Greek mind.

In Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus we have the loftiest expression of the Stoic doctrine in its application to the conduct of life; and in the treatises of Cicero the working philosophy of a great lawyer and politician.

The "Sayings" of Confucius, like these Roman writings, are ethical rather than religious; and while to the Western mind they appear curiously concerned with ceremonial, they still appeal to us through their note of aspiration toward a lofty and disinterested scheme of life. Equally remote in their religious and philosophical background are the examples of Hindu and Buddhist teaching, but here again there is much that is inspiring in the moral ideals.

In the previous section, "The Gospel of Luke," "The Acts of the Apostles," and "The Epistles to the Corinthians" were regarded as giving the history of the founding of the Christian Church. Here they should be read as giving a statement of its principles as laid down by its Founder and His immediate followers. Its development after four centuries is shown in the "Confessions" of one of the greatest of the Fathers; and the height of medieval devoutness is beautifully exhibited in "The Imitation of Christ," ascribed to Thomas a Kempis, one of ithe most widely circulated books in the history of literature. The Hymns of the Early Churches bring out those features of Christian belief which obtained prominence in public worship.

Mohammedanism, with its curious borrowings from Hebrew and Christian scripture and tradition, is more interesting as the religion of many millions of people than as a source of spiritual inspiration. An interesting comparison may be made between Omar Khayyam in his relation to Mohammedanism and the author of "Ecclesiastes" in his relation to Judaism.

With the Reformation opens a new chapter in the history of religion, and the figures of Luther, Calvin, and Knox appropriately represent militant Protestantism in Germany, Switzerland, and Scotland. Raleigh is a Protestant layman, a man of action rather than a theologian or philosopher, yet his "Preface" is a remarkably enlightening presentation of the attitude of a detached thinker at the beginning of the seventeenth century. His poems, with those of Southwell, Habington, Rowlands, Herbert, Donne, Quarles, Vaughan, Crashaw, Drummond, Wotton, Watts, Addison, and Christopher Smart, and the collection of modern hymns, still further express, with varieties of emphasis and shade of opinion, the more popular aspects of modern Christianity.

In Walton's "Lives" of George Herbert and John Donne, Christian ideals are exhibited in the history of two men of strongly marked character and lofty spirituality. Sir Thomas Browne was a member of the Church of England and a physician, and the splendid prose of his "Religio Medici" conveys a quaint mixture of orthodoxy and independent thought. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is the great popular presentation of Puritan theology in imaginative form; and this theology is again the background of the great religious lyrics and epics of John Milton.

Roman Catholic thought on religion and life is brilliantly represented in .the writings of Pascal, one of the most acute minds and most intensely religious spirits of his age. The "Thoughts," collected and arranged after his death, suffer from lack of sequence; but their fragmentary nature cannot disguise from the careful reader the astounding keenness of the intellect behind them.

In the "Fruits of Solitude" of William Penn, and in John Woolman's "Journal," we have a representation of the views and ideals of the Quakers, who contributed so important a stream of spiritual influence to the Colonial life of America.

Modern philosophy is often said to begin with Bacon, and, though the fresh attack upon the problems of the universe made in the seventeenth century can not be credited to any one person, Bacon as much as any has a right to be regarded as the herald of the new era. The prefatory documents listed here indicate not only the nature and scope of his intellectual ambitions, but present in considerable detail his program for the conquest of nature and his "new instrument" for the advancement of science. The "Essays" deal with a thousand points of practical philosophy; and "The New Atlantis" outlines his view of a model state and foreshadows the modern research university.

For philosophy in its more technical sense Descartes is more important than Bacon, and his influence on succeeding thought is more clearly traceable. Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume carried on the quest for philosophical truth in England, and were able to express their views in language that is still intelligible to the ordi nary man.

Pope, in his "Essay on Man," put into polished and elegant verse, the more obvious principles of a group of thinkers of his day; but the ideas are more memorable on account of their quotable form than their profundity or subtlety.

Voltaire, writing on many aspects of English life, includes in his "Letters" a condensed account of the philosophy of Locke and the investigations of Newton. Rousseau in his "Discourse," one of the earliest of his writings, expounds the fundamentals of that social philosophy which he expanded later in the "Social Contract" and elsewhere, and which had so important a place among the influences leading up to the French Revolution. Lessing, clinging much closer to essential Christianity than Voltaire or Rousseau, elaborates in his "Education of the Human Race" the views he upheld in opposition to the less liberal theologians of Protestant Germany.

With Kant and his successors philosophy becomes more a professional subject, and with an increase in depth and subtlety it loses in breadth of appeal to the world at large. Yet the treatises mentioned in this list will yield to the reader who cares to apply his mind an idea of a view of ethics of immense possibilities of influence over his thought and conduct.

A large part of the remaining titles are of poems whose philosophical bearing it is scarcely necessary to point out. More and more during the last hundred years poetry has been made the medium of serious thought on the problems of life; and if one wishes to learn what earnest and cultivated people have thought on such matters in our day and that of our fathers, as much is to be gained from the poets as from the professional metaphysicians or moralists.

In Carlyle and Emerson we have two writers who can not be regarded as systematic philosophers, and who yet have been among the most influential of modern thinkers. Mill has a more definite place in the history of philosophy; but in his fascinating account of his own development, and in his essay "On Liberty," we need have no fear of technical jargon, and may find a clear picture of a mind finely representative of English thought in the middle of the nineteenth century, and an abundance of ideas capable of application to the problems of our own day.

HEBREW:

The Book of Job 44 71

Ecclesiastes 44 335

The Psalms 44 145

GREEK:

Plato, Apology of Socrates 2 5

Phaedo 2 45

Crito 2 31

The Greek Drama:

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 8 7

ROMAN:

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2 193

Epictetus, Golden Thoughts 2 117

Cicero

- On Friendship 9 9

- On Old Age 9 45

CHINESE:

Confucius, Analects or Sayings 44 5

HINDU:

Bhagavad-Gita, or Song Celestial 45 785

Buddhist Writings 45 577

CHRISTIAN: PRIMITIVE AND MEDIEVAL

The Gospel of Luke 44 353

The Acts of the Apostles 44 423

The Epistles to the Corinthians 45 491

St. Augustine, Confessions 7 5

The Imitation of Christ 7 205

Hymns of the Early Churches 45 535

MOHAMMEDAN:

The Koran 45 879

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 41 943

CHRISTIAN: MODERN

Luther

- Ninety-five Theses 36 251

- Address to the German Nobility 36 263

- Concerning Christian Liberty 36 336

Calvin, Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion 39 27

Knox, Preface to History of the Reformation in Scotland 39 58

Raleigh

- Preface to History of the World 39 66

- Poems 40 203

Southwell, The Burning Babe 40 218

Habington, Nox Nocti 40 252

Rowlands, Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby 40 256

Walton, Life of George Herbert 15 373

Herbert, Poems 40 341

Walton, Life of John Donne 15 323

Donne, Hymn to God the Father 40 304

Quarles, Poems 40 341

Vaughan, Poems 40 346

Crashaw, Saint Teresa 40 363

Drummond, St. John Baptist 40 326

Wotton, Character of a Happy Life 40 288

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici 3 253

Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress 15 13

Milton

- Ode on the Nativity 4 7

- Ode on the Passion 4 23

- Paradise Lost 4 87

- Paradise Regained 4 359

Pascal

- Thoughts 48 9

- Minor Works 48 365

Penn, Fruits of Solitude 1 321

Watts, True Greatness 40 398

Addison, Hymn 40 400

Smart, Song to David 41 484

Woolman, Journal 1 169

Hymns of the Modern Churches 45 557

MODERN PHILOSOPHERS:

Bacon

- Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface and Plan of the Instauratio Magna 39 116

- Preface to the Novum Organum 39 143

- Essays 3 7

- The New Atlantis 3 145

Descartes, Discourse on Method 34 5

Hobbes, On Man (Bk. I of the Leviathan) 34 311

Locke, Some Thoughts on Education 37 9

Berkeley, Three Dialogues 37 189

Pope, Essay on Man 40 406

Voltaire, Letters on the English 34 65

Rousseau, Discourse on the Causes of Inequality 34 165

Lessing, Education of the Human Race 32 185

Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding 37 289

Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals 32 305

Kant, Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals 32 318

Wordsworth

- Ode on Intimations of Immortality 41 595

- Ode to Duty 41 649

- Lines Written above Tintern Abbey 41 635

- Character of the Happy Warrior 41 656

Shelley

- Adonais 41 856

- Written among the Euganean Hills 41 835

Mill

- Autobiography 25 7

- On Liberty 25 195

Carlyle, Characteristics 25 319

Emerson

- Essays 5 5

- Poems 42 1241

Tennyson

- The Higher Pantheism 42 1004

- Flower in the Crannied Wall 42 1005

- Wages 42 1005

- Maud 42 1015

- Crossing the Bar 42 1057

Thackeray, The End of the Play 42 1058

Browning

- Prospice 42 1065

- Abt Vogler 42 1100

- Rabbi Ben Ezra 42 1103

- Epilogue 42 1109

Emily Bronte

- Last Lines 42 1110

- The Old Stoic 42 1111

Clough, Poems 42 1119

Arnold

- Rugby Chapel 42 1130

- Dover Beach 42 1137

- The Better Part 42 1138

- The Last Word 42 1139

Henley, Invictus 42 1210

Stevenson, The Celestial Surgeon 42 1212

Bryant, Thanatopsis 42 1213

Whittier, The Eternal Goodness 42 1338

Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus 42 1365

Lanier, How Love Looked for Hell 42 1398

Whitman, One's-Self I Sing 42 1402

C-EDUCATION

THE earlier discussions on education differ from most modern writings on the subject in one important respect: the author had his eye on the single youth, the son of a family of birth and wealth, who was to be educated alone; while the educational theorist of today, even when he is not dealing with popular elementary education, is usually concerned with institutions for training pupils in large groups. This distinction has inevitably a profound effect upon the nature of the principles laid down.

Montaigne, Locke, and Milton are all examples of this earlier kind of discussion. It is assumed that all resources are at command, and the only questions to be settled are the comparative value of subjects and the best order and method of learning. On these points the opinions of these men are still valuable; and all three, but especially Locke, give incidentally much information on the manners and state of culture of their times.

The five "Essays" by Bacon named here do not form an attempt to construct a scheme of education, but deal suggestively with single points of importance in the training of children. "The New Atlantis" describes in "Solomon's House" an elaborate institution for advancing knowledge, which anticipates in many respects the departments for research in modern universities.

Swift's so called "Treatise" deals lightly with social rather than intellectual culture; and the chapter on the "Education of Women" by his contemporary, Defoe, shows how long it is since some views which we are apt to regard as entirely modern have been put forward.

Lessing's treatise is more philosophical than educational in the ordinary sense, being rather an interpretation of history as the record of the development of the race than a plan for the future. The letters in which Schiller discussed the "Aesthetic Education of Man" contain the essence of his views on art.

It is characteristic of American democracy that the lectures by Channing should be on the elevation of the laboring classes, and should take up an educational problem at the end of the social scale most remote from that where Montaigne and Locke found their interest.

Mill's "Autobiography" is an account of great interest of the education of a remarkable son by a remarkable father; and though containing much that has no direct bearing upon the training of the average child, it is valuable as showing what extraordinary results can be achieved under exceptional conditions.

Newman's discussion of "The Idea of a University" deals with the ultimate aims of university education, and some of the more important considerations affecting the means of attaining them. Carlyle's address, delivered at Edinburgh while he was Lord Rector of his own University, is a sort of summary of an old man's wisdom on questions of a student's use of his time and the choice of his reading. Ruskin's well-known lectures, "Sesame and Lilies," deal in very different, but equally characteristic fashion with similar topics.

In "Science and Culture," Huxley presents from the point of view of the scientist his side of the standing question of modern education: the comparative value of science and the classics as a means of culture.

Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of Children 32 29

Bacon

- Of Travel 3 46

- Of Nature in Men 3 96

- Of Custom and Education 3 98

- Of Studies 3 122

- Of Parents and Children 3 19

- The New Atlantis 3 145

Milton, Tractate on Education 3 235

Locke, Some Thoughts on Education 37 9

Swift, Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding 27 99

Defoe, Education of Women 27 148

Lessing, On the Education of the Human Race 32 185

Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man 32 209

Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes 28 311

Mill, Autobiography 25 7

Newman, The Idea of a University 28 31

Carlyle, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University 25 359

Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies 28 93

Huxley, Science and Culture 28 209

D-SCIENCE

THE writings of ancient times on physical science are now mainly of historical and curious interest; but from Greek times have come down these two interesting formulas to which the name of Hippocrates is attached, which show how loftly a conception the ancient physician held of his function, and which form the basis of the professional ethics of the modern doctor.

The army surgeon is a modern official. In the sixteenth century, even an officer who wished medical or surgical attendance had to take his personal doctor with him, or trust to the quacks who swindled the rank and file. Pare was such a personal surgeon to several distinguished generals through many campaigns; and the account of his improvements in the treatment of wounds vies in interest with his description of the battles themselves.

Few single scientific discoveries have influenced the world so profoundly as that which showed that the earth was not the center of the universe. The treatise in which Copernicus put forth the new theory is filled with arguments which are often preposterous, so that for the true explanation of the motions of the heavenly bodies the book is practically useless. But from his "Dedication" we gather something of the spirit of the man who led the way in this momentous reform. The "Principia" of Newton has immeasurably greater scientific value, but the reasoning is highly technical, so that the ordinary reader is glad to get the great physicist's own statement of the purpose and method of the work which first expounded the law of gravitation.

The papers by Harvey and Jenner are landmarks in the history of physiology and medicine, the one explaining for the first time the true theory of the circulation of the blood; the other putting forward the method of vaccination which has relieved the world of the scourge of smallpox.

Faraday was not only a great investigator but also a great teacher, and these two books by him are classical expositions of fundamental laws in physics and chemistry.

Dr. Holmes's paper is an interesting scientific argument, which proved of immense value in saving life; it is also an inspiring instance of the courage of a young scientist in risking professional disaster by attacking the practices and prejudices of his colleagues.

The theories which lie behind Lord Lister's application of the antiseptic principle in surgery are expounded in the fascinating papers in which Pasteur makes the original argument for the germ theory of disease, and founds the science of bacteriology.

In the chapters included in the following list from Sir Charles LyelPs "Principles of Geology," he combats the notion that to explain the present condition of the earth it is necessary to assume a series of great catastrophes. A more comprehensive view of a modern geologist's theory of how the physical world arrived at its present form is given in Geikie's essay on "Geographical Evolution."

The great German physicist, von Helmholtz, is here represented by a lecture on the fundamental principle of the conservation of energy, and one on the theory of glaciers, while his colleague in Britain, Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, expounds the wave theory of light and the movement of the tides.

It was on the voyage of the "Beagle" that Darwin collected the material which suggested to him the great generalization later set forth in "The Origin of Species," and gave currency to a theory of development that has proved to be the most pervasive and influential force in the intellectual progress of modern times.

How enormously modern astronomical investigation has increased our notion of the universe, of which we form so minute a part, is expounded by Newcomb in his essay on "The Extent of the Universe."

Thus in the scientific section of these volumes the reader may gain from the pens of the leaders and discoverers themselves an idea of many of the most important conceptions in the sciences of Medicine, Surgery, Physiology, Biology, Bacteriology, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and Astronomy.

The Oath of Hippocrates 38 3

The Law of Hippocrates 38 4

Pare, Journeys in Diverse Places 38 9

Copernicus, Dedication of Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies 39 52

Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood of Animals 38 75

Newton, Preface to the Principia 39 150

Jenner, The Three Original Publications on Vaccination against Smallpox 38 145

Faraday

- The Forces of Matter 30 7

- The Chemical History of a Candle 30 86

Holmes, The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever 38 223

Lister, On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery 38 257

Pasteur

- The Physiological Theory of Fermentation 38 275

- The Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery 38 364

- On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases 38 371

Lyell

- Prejudices which have Retarded the Progress of Geology 38 385

- Uniformity in the Series of Past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate Worlds 38 398

Von Helmholtz

- On the Conservation of Force 30 173

- Ice and Glaciers 30 211

Darwin

- The Voyage of the Beagle 29 11

- The Origin of Species 11 23

Kelvin

- The Wave Theory of Light 30 251

- The Tides 30 274

Newcomb, The Extent of the Universe 30 311

Geikie, Geographical Evolution 30 325

E-POLITICS

FROM the point of view that "history is past politics," it is evident that such historical documents as those in the "Lives" of Plutarch and the "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny are also of value from the political point of view. Many of the problems of politics change their form rather than their essence from age to age, and in these records of the political struggles and principles of antiquity there are many illuminating parallelisms to the conditions of our own day. Even the contrast to modern democratic ideas of government which the theories of Machiavelli afford is suggestive; and in the institutions of Elizabethan England as described by William Harrison we may often find the germ of practices which persist here today.

More's "Utopia" and Bacon's "New Atlantis" have the value belonging to any sketch of ideal conditions drawn up by men of capacity and experience; and, with much that is fantastic, both books still afford considerable practical suggestion for political progress. Those of Bacon's "Essays" which touch political topics contain abundance of acute observations on the conduct of public men, though the advice is sometimes, but not always, more suited to forming politicians than statesmen.

Though dealing with the special subject of unlicensed printing, Milton, in his "Areopagitica," handles with a noble eloquence many of the fundamental questions affecting free government. Defoe's pamphlet treats in ironical strain the situation during a later period in the progress of England towards freedom and equality—in this case, religious equality; while Voltaire, coming from France a few years later, expresses his admiration for English tolerance.

Of Rousseau's "Discourse" we have already spoken (I. A). "The Wealth of Nations" may be regarded as founding the mod ern science of political economy; and it remains the greatest general treatise on the subject. The present edition has been relieved of those passages which are out of date and no longer of value.

In Burke's eloquent "Reflections" we get the view taken by an English constitutionalist of the principles of the French Revolution while it was still in progress; and in his "Letter to a Noble Lord" a vivid glimpse of the workings of politics in England at the same period.

Mill's treatise "On Liberty" is a classical argument on the relation of the individual to the state.

The poetry of the nineteenth century contains much political as well as philosophical thinking; and the pieces by Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and Tennyson are favorable examples of the impassioned treatment of these themes in verse.

The interest and importance of the American Documents here collected are obvious; and a careful study of these alone will go far to give a basis for an intelligent understanding of contemporary politics.

Plutarch, Lives of Greeks and Romans 12 5

Cicero, Letters 9 81

Pliny the Younger, Letters to Trajan 9 356

Machiavelli, The Prince . 36 7

Macaulay, Machiavelli . 27 363

More, Utopia • 36 135

Harrison, Elizabethan England -35 2I 7

Bacon,

- The New Atlantis 3 145

- Essays: Of Unity in Religion, Of Great Place, Of Nobility, Of Seditions and Troubles, Of Empire, Of Counsel, Of Delays, Of Cunning, Of Innovations, Of Despatch, Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates, Of Plantations, Of Ambition, Of Usury, Of Negotiating, Of Followers and Friends, Of Suitors, Of Faction, Of Judicature, Of Vicissitudes of Things 3 7

Milton, Areopagitica 3 189

Defoe, The Shortest Way with Dissenters 27 133

Voltaire, Letters on the English 34 65

Rousseau, Discourse on the Causes of Inequality 34 165

Smith, The Wealth of Nations 10 9

Burke

- Reflections on the French Revolution 24 143

- Letter to a Noble Lord 24 381

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 41 509

Wordsworth, Political Sonnets 41 675

Tennyson

- Locksley Hall 42 979

- Maud 42 1015

Sydney Smith, Fallacies of Anti-Reformers 27 225

Mill, On Liberty 25 195

Emerson, Politics 5 239

Lowell

- Democracy 28 451

- The Present Crisis 42 1370

American Historical Documents, especially

- The First Charter of Virginia 43 49

- The Mayflower Compact 43 59

- The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 43 60

- The Massachusetts Body of Liberties 43 66

- Winthrop, Arbitrary Government Described 43 85

- The Instrument of Government 43 106

- Sir Henry Vane, a Healing Question 43 118

- Declaration of Rights 43 147

- Declaration of Independence 43 150

- Constitution of the United States 43 180

- The Federalist, I and II 43 199

- Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall 43 208

- Washington, First Inaugural Address 43 225

- Washington, Farewell Address 43 233

- The Monroe Doctrine 43 277

- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address 43 415

F-VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

THE story of travel has always held a general fascination; and little is needed to introduce to the reader such a list as follows. Beginning with the account of ancient Egypt by Herodotus, the collection gives the narratives of the early voyages to America of Leif Ericsson, Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Cabot; the campaigns followed by the French surgeon, Ambroise Pare, in the sixteenth century; the voyages, partly for exploration, largely for plunder, of the great seamen of Elizabeth's time, Drake, Gilbert, and Raleigh; and, in striking contrast, John Eliot's "Brief Narrative" of his travels in the attempt to propagate the Gospel among the American Indians.

Goldsmith's "Traveller" describes many scenes in eighteenth century Europe; and in Dana's absorbing "Two Years Before the Mast" we have the double interest of a picture of life on a sailing vessel two generations ago, and an admirable account of California as it was under the Spaniards, and before '49.

Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle," apart from its scientific importance, is a highly interesting and modestly told story of exploration in remote seas. Emerson's "English Traits" is a penetrating description and criticism of England, its people and its institutions, as the American philosopher saw it in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Herodotus, Egypt 33 7

Voyages to Vinland from Saga of Eric the Red 43 5

Pare, Journeys in Diverse Places 38 9

Columbus, Letter Announcing Discovery of America 43 21

Amerigo Vespucci, Account of his First Voyage 43 28

Cabot, Discovery of North America 43 45

Sir Francis Drake Revived 33 129

Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World 33 199

Drake's Great Armada 33 22 9

Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland 33 263

Raleigh, Discovery of Guiana 33 311

Eliot, Brief Narrative 43 138

Goldsmith, The Traveller 41 520

Dana, Two Years Before the Mast 23 7

Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle 29 11

Emerson, English Traits 5 315

G-CRITICISM OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS

WILLIAM CAXTON, the first printer in England, took a much more personal interest in the productions of his press than does the modern publisher. He himself made several of the translations which he printed; and to other books he attached Prologues and Epilogues, which, if not quite literary criticism after the modern manner, are yet interesting indications of the qualities which made the works which Caxton selected for publication the favorite reading of the end of the Middle Ages.

Of the three critical writings selected from the sixteenth century, Montaigne's is a delightful talk on his personal tastes (see essay by Sainte-Beuve below); Sidney defends imaginative literature against the assaults of an extreme Puritan; and Spenser explains to his friend Raleigh the plan and purpose of "The Faerie Queene."

Shakespeare, as is well known, paid no attention to the printing of his plays; and it was left for two of his fellow actors to make the first collected edition of them, seven years after his death. The unique importance of the volume makes the address of its editors to the readers a matter of curious interest. Of more real significance are the opinions, friendly yet candid, which Ben Jonson has left of his great fellow dramatist, and of his patron, Bacon.

But it is with Dryden that we come to the first English critic on a large scale; and in his discussions on Chaucer and on Heroic Poetry we have him, both for style and matter, at his best. Swift's "Advice" is slighter, and, like all his work, displays his ironic temper. Fielding, in a prefatory chapter, defines and expounds his idea of a novel. Dr. Johnson's famous essay on Shakespeare originally formed the Preface to his edition of the plays; and it remains one of the most important estimates of the genius of our greatest writer. In the "Life of Addison," Johnson was dealing with a subject where his eighteenth century limitations hampered him less, and the result is a delightful piece of appreciative criticism.

So far the criticism in this list has been wholly literary. The next four writers are concerned with aesthetic principles in general, with, perhaps, a special interest in painting and sculpture. Goethe, in this manifesto of a new periodical to be devoted to the Fine Arts, gives impressively his view of the fundamentals of artistic training. Schiller, on a more extensive scale, treats of the cultivation of taste and the nature of the pleasure to be derived from art; while Hume and Burke deal with similar problems from different points of view.

The "Prefaces" of Wordsworth and Hugo express in different but equally characteristic terms the revolt of the romantic poets of England and France respectively against the classical conventions that dominated poetry and the drama. Coleridge discourses in his own profound and often illuminating fashion on the essentials of poetry, as does Shelley in his eloquent and philosophical "Defense." Those who know Shelley only as the most exquisite of lyric poets will find that this essay will increase enormously their respect for his intellectual power.

In the essay "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare" Lamb utters some of the most penetrating criticism ever passed upon the tragedy of "King Lear," and presses to an extreme his view of the inferiority of the stage to the study for the enjoyment of Shakespeare.

Thackeray's lecture on Swift is a fine example of the biographical essay, and may be compared with Carlyle's estimate of Scott with interesting results. Both men deal more with character than style, and both care passionately for moral quality.

Walt Whitman's "Preface," like his poems, stands by itself, the outspoken plea for an astounding extension of the limits of form and matter in poetry. His poems in the third volume of "English Poetry" in The Harvard Classics should be read in connection with this "Preface."

Sainte-Beuve is generally placed at the head of European criticism in the nineteenth century; and the two papers here given are good examples of his manner. Renan, one of the most eloquent of mod ern writers in any country, discourses on "The Poetry of the Celtic Races" to which he himself belonged. Mazzini, purest of patriots, is represented by a paper which shows his fine power of generalization and of taking large views. An Italian nationalist in feeling, Mazzini was continental in the range of his intellect.

Taine's famous "Introduction" expounds his formula for explaining the characteristics of a literature. Whatever objections may be raised to his theory, there is no question of the brilliance of the presentation.

Few critical writings of our own day have influenced the study of poetry so much as this of Matthew Arnold's. It is an excellent example of his style, and exhibits both the strength and the weakness of his critical thinking.

"Sesame and Lilies" consists of two lectures, largely hortatory, but incidentally containing some notable criticism. Bagehot, best known as a writer on finance, appears here as a specimen of a strong non-literary intellect applying itself to the discussion of a literary topic. At the opposite extreme is the paper in which Poe, a master of the technical side of his art, treats of what he regards as its essence. In three essays, Emerson discourses suggestively, if unsystematically, on "The Poet," on "Beauty," and on "Literature." Finally, in Stevenson's essay on "Samuel Pepys," one of the most expert of literary craftsmen of modern times sketches the personality of the writer who wrote the most remarkable "Diary" in English Literature.

Caxton

- Prologue and Epilogue to the Histories of Troy 39 5

- Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers 39 9

- Prologue to the Golden Legend 39 13

- Prologue to Caton 39 15

- Epilogue to Aesop 39 17

- Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 39 18

- Prologue to Malory's King Arthur 39 20

- Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos 39 24

Montaigne, Of Bookes 32 87

Sidney, Defense of Poesy 27 5

Spenser, Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie Queene 39 61

Heminge and Condell, Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays 39 148

Jonson, On Shakespeare 27 55

Jonson

- On Bacon 27 56

- To the Memory of Mr. William Shakespeare 40 301

Dryden

- Preface to Fables (On Chaucer) 39 153

- Dedication of the Aeneis (On Heroic Poetry) 13 5

Swift, Advice to a Young Poet 27 104

Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews (On the Comic Epic in Prose) 39 176

Johnson

- Preface to Shakespeare 39 208

- Life of Addison 27 155

Goethe, Introduction to the Propylaen (On Fine Art) 39 251

Schiller, Letters upon the Esthetic Education of Man 32 209

Hume, On the Standard of Taste 27 203

Burke

- On Taste 24 11

- On the Sublime and Beautiful 24 29

Wordsworth

- Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems 39 267

- Appendix to Lyrical Ballads 39 292

- Essay Supplementary to Preface 39 311

Coleridge, On Poesy or Art 27 255

Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare 27 299

Shelley, A Defence of Poetry 27 329

Hugo, Preface to Cromwell (On Romanticism) 39 337

Thackeray, Jonathan Swift 28 7

Carlyle

- Sir Walter Scott 25 393

- Inaugural Address (On Books and Reading) 25 359

Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass 39 388

Sainte-Beuve,

- Montaigne 32 105

- What is a Classic? 32 121

Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic Races 32 137

Mazzini, Byron and Goethe 32 377

Taine, Introduction to History of English Literature . . 39 410

Arnold, The Study of Poetry 28 65

Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies 28 93

Bagehot, John Milton 28 165

Poe, The Poetic Principle 28 371

Emerson

- The Poet 5 161

- Beauty 5 297

- Literature 5 432

Stevenson, Samuel Pepys 28 285

CLASS II

OF the large variety of literary types represented in The Harvard Classics, only a few of the more prominent have been selected for classification here. Others stand already grouped in the volumes: for, example, the three volumes of English Poetry, along with the works of Milton and Burns, contain most of the Lyric Poetry in the collection; and the Prefaces regarded as independent documents, are in one volume. Still others, such as Allegory, Oratory, the Dialogue, occur in the lists made up according to subject matter; and readers interested in these as forms can easily collect them from the Tables of Contents and the General Index.

A-DRAMA

IN dramatic literature the palm of supremacy lies between Greece and England, and it is natural that these two countries should be most fully represented here. Both countries at a culminating point in their history expressed themselves in this form, and much of the intellectual and imaginative vitality of the Age of Pericles in Greece and the Age of Elizabeth in England can be apprehended from these dramas. Eight of the most distinguished masterpieces of the other countries of Europe have been added; so that the present list represents not unworthily the best in this form that the world has produced.

These thirty-seven plays exhibit a great variety of dramatic form —classical and romantic tragedy, satirical and romantic comedy, chronicle history, masque, and cantata. No less varied are the themes; from gods to beggars all types of character appear, and every variety of human motive, human effort, and human suffering is shown. No other literary form could present in so few pages so just and so impressive a reflection of the pageant of human life.

GREEK:

Eschylus

- Prometheus Bound 8 166

- Agamemnon 8 7

- The Libation-Bearers 8 76

- The Furies 8 122

Sophocles

- Oedipus the King 8 209

- Antigone 8 255

Euripides

- Hippolytus 8 303

- The Bacchae 8 368

Aristophanes, The Frogs 8 439

ENGLISH:

Marlowe

- Doctor Faustus 19 205

- Edward the Second 46 7

Shakespeare

- Hamlet 46 93

- King Lear 46 215

- Macbeth 46 321

- The Tempest 46 397

Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday 47 469

Jonson, The Alchemist 47 543

Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster 47 667

Webster, The Duchess of Malfi 47 755

Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts 47 859

Milton

- Comus 4 44

- Samson Agonistes 4 414

Dryden, All for Love 18 23

Sheridan, The School for Scandal 18 115

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer 18 205

Burns, The Jolly Beggars 6 122

Shelley, The Cenci 18 281

Byron, Manfred 18 407

Browning, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon 18 359

SPANISH:

Calderon, Life is a Dream 26 7

FRENCH:

Corneille, Polyeucte 26 77

Racine, Phaedra 26 133

Moliere, Tartuffe 26 199

GERMAN:

Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm 26 299

Goethe,

- Faust 19 23

- Egmont 19 253

Schiller, William Tell 26 379

B-BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS

MOST of the titles in this list have already been the subject of comment; those that remain speak for themselves. Here are a number of records of actual human lives, all of them of notable people, chosen either for their representative or for their intrinsic value. Some of these records are by skilled biographers like Plutarch; in other cases, by letters, or confessions, or in set narratives, the story is told by the man himself; still others are summaries and estimates rather than detailed biographies. Perhaps the formal autobiographies are the most interesting and significant of all; and of these the personal revelations of St. Augustine, of Benvenuto Cellini, of Benjamin Franklin, and of John Stuart Mill stand in the first rank.

Plutarch

- Life of Themistocles 12 5

- Pericles 12 35

- Aristides 12 78

- Alcibiades 12 106

- Demosthenes 12 191

- Coriolanus 12 147

- Cicero 12 218

- Caesar 12 264

- Antony 12 322

Cicero, Letters 9 81

Pliny the Younger, Letters 9 187

St. Augustine, Confessions 7 5

Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography 31 5

Roper, Life of Sir Thomas More 36 89

Walton

- Life of Dr. Donne 15 323

- Life of George Herbert 15 373

Johnson, Life of Addison 27 155

Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord 24 381

Franklin, Autobiography 1 5

Woolman, Journal 1 169

Macaulay, Machiavelli 27 363

Thackeray, Jonathan Swift 28 7

Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott 25 393

Mill, Autobiography 25 7

Lowell, Abraham Lincoln 28 429

Stevenson, Samuel Pepys 28 285

C-ESSAYS

THERE is almost no limit to the variety of theme which may be treated in the essay, and few rules can be laid down to regulate its form. Montaigne, who may be said to have originated this type of literature, remains one of the greatest masters of it; and in the specimens from his work in the present list one can find the ease and grace and the pleasant flavor of personal intimacy which constitute much of its charm.

A large proportion of these essays deal with books, and of these something has already been said in the section on Criticism. Some, like those of Milton, Swift, Defoe, Newman, and Huxley, fall also under the heading of Education.

A few treat of political matters; such are those of Sydney Smith, Mill, and Lowell.

Others, such as some of Montaigne's, Ruskin's, Carlyle's, Emerson's, and Stevenson's, deal with matters of conduct, though not in the formal manner of the ethical philosopher.

Bacon's "Essays" are concerned with so great a variety of subjects that classification is difficult; but the largest group form a sort of handbook of the principles on which success in public life was achieved in his time. Yet these more severe themes are mingled with others of more charm, where he chats pleasantly on an ideal palace or garden, or on the contriving of courtly entertainments.

Of all prose forms, the essay is that which gives most scope for pure expression of personality. Those in the present list which rank highest as essays do so, not by virtue of the weight of their opinions, or arguments, or information, but by the spontaneity with which the author gives utterance to his mood or fancy. Thus the delightful essay of Cowley "Of Agriculture" is hardly to be recommended as a guide to farming; but as a quarter of an hour of graceful conversation it is charming. Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Lamb, De Quincey, Thoreau, and Stevenson (in "Truth of Intercourse") all exhibit this individual quality, and reveal personalities of different kinds and degrees of attractiveness, but none without a high degree of interest.

Montaigne

- That We Should not Judge of our Happinesse untill after our Death 32 5

- That to Philosophise is to Learne how to Die 32 9

- Of the Institution and Education of Children 32 29

- Of Friendship 32 72

- Of Bookes 32 87

Sidney, Defense of Poesy 27 5

Bacon, Essays 3 7

Milton, Tractate on Education 3 235

Cowley, Of Agriculture 27 61

Dryden

- Preface to Fables 39 153

- Dedication of the Aeneis 13 5

Addison, Westminster Abbey 27 78

Steele, The Spectator Club 27 83

Swift

- Hints towards an Essay on Conversation 27 91

- On Good Manners and Good Breeding 27 99

- A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet 27 104

- On the Death of Esther Johnson (Stella) 27 122

Defoe

- The Shortest Way with Dissenters 27 133

- The Education of Women 27 148

Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews 39 176

Johnson

- Preface to Shakespeare 39 208

- Preface to English Dictionary 39 182

- Life of Addison 27 155

Hume, On the Standard of Taste 27 203

Burke, On Taste 24 11

Goethe, Introduction to the Propylaen 39 251

Sydney Smith, Fallacies of Anti-Reformers 27 225

Wordsworth

- Preface to Various Volumes of Poems 39 267

- Appendix to Lyrical Ballads 39 292

- Essay Supplementary to Preface 39 311

Coleridge, On Poesy or Art 27 255

Hazlitt, Of Persons One would Wish to have Seen 27 267

Leigh Hunt

- Deaths of Little Children 27 285

- On the Realities of Imagination 27 289

Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakspere 27 299

De Quincey, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 27 319

Shelley, A Defence of Poetry 27 329

Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes 28 311

Hugo, Preface to Cromwell 39 337

Macaulay, Machiavelli 27 363

Sainte-Beuve

- Montaigne 32 105

- What is a Classic? 32 121

Thackeray, Jonathan Swift 28 7

Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic Races 32 137

Mazzini, Byron and Goethe 32 377

Newman, The Idea of a University 28 31

Arnold, The Study of Poetry 28 65

Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies 28 93

Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature 39 410

Bagehot, John Milton 28 165

Poe, The Poetic Principle 28 371

Carlyle, Characteristics 25 319

Sir Walter Scott 25 393

Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass 39 388

Emerson

- Essays 5 5

- English Traits 5 315

Mill, On Liberty 25 195

Huxley, Science and Culture 28 209

Freeman, Race and Language 28 227

Thoreau, Walking 28 395

Lowell

- Abraham Lincoln 28 429

- Democracy 28 451

Stevenson

- Truth of Intercourse 28 277

- Samuel Pepys 28 285

D-NARRATIVE POETRY AND PROSE FICTION

IN this section we have the largest proportion of what frankly professes to be the literature of entertainment. All these titles belong to works which are in the first place good stories; and most of them have lived largely by virtue of this quality. They come from all centuries within the historic period, and from all the countries within our range. They deal with war and peace, love and hate, gods and men and animals, angels and demons, historic fact, modern observation, and pure fancy; some mean no more than they seem to—simple tales of the action and suffering of men; others carry mystical significations hidden under the surface.

But, though they may profess no more than a power to entertain, they, in fact, do far more for us. Each of these tales, in proportion to its truth to human nature and the effectiveness with which it is told, helps to make us more fully acquainted with our kind, broadens our sympathies, deepens our insight, serves us, in fact, as a kind of experience obtained at second hand. No less than the most weighty philosophy or the most informing history or science, then, do these stories in prose and poetry deserve their place among the essential instruments of mental and moral culture.

Homer, The Odyssey 22 9

Virgil, The Aeneid 13 73

Aesop's Fables 17 11

Beowulf 49 5

The Song of Roland 49 95

The Song of the Volsungs 49 257

The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel 49 199

The Arabian Nights 16 15

Dante, The Divine Comedy 20 5

Chaucer

- Prologue to the Canterbury Tales 40 n

- The Nun's Priest's Tale 40 34

The Gest of Robyn Hode 40 128

Traditional Ballads 40 51

Malory, The Holy Grail 35 105

Cervantes, Don Quixote 14 17

Drayton

- Agincourt 40 222

- To the Virginian Voyage 40 226

Milton

- Paradise Lost 4 87

- Paradise Regained 4 359

Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress 15 13

Addison, The Vision of Mirza 27 73

Steele, The Spectator Club 27 83

Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea 19 337

Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin . . . .41 546

Burns, Tarn o' Shanter 6 388

Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi 21 7

Wordsworth

- Michael 41 615

- Ruth 41 607

- Laodamia 41 662

Coleridge

- The Ancient Mariner 41 682

- Christabel 41 709

- Love 41 704

Scott

- Rosabelle 41 748

- Lochinvar 41 751

Hogg, Kilmeny 41 756

Byron

- The Prisoner of Chillon 41 801

- The Destruction of Sennacherib 41 785

Campbell

- Lord Ullin's Daughter 41 773

- Battle of the Baltic 41 779

- Hohenlinden 41 781

Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes 41 883

Landor

- The Death of Artemidora 41 902

- Iphigeneia 41 903

Grimm, Household Tales 17 47

Andersen, Tales 17 221

Tennyson

- Maud 42 1015

- Morte d'Arthur 42 986

- The Lady of Shalott 42 967

- The Revenge 42 1007

- Rizpah 42 1011

- Locksley Hall 42 979

- Browning, My Last Duchess 42 1074

- How They Brought the Good News 42 1066

Macaulay, The Armada 41 915

D. G. Rossetti, The King's Tragedy 42 1153

C. Rossetti, In the Round Tower at Jhansi 42 1183

W. Morris, The Defence of Guenevere 42 1183

Dobell, The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston 42 1114

Poe, The Raven 42 1227

Longfellow

- Evangeline 42 1300

- The Wreck of the Hesperus 42 1269

- Paul Revere's Ride 42 1295

Whittier

- Randolph of Roanoke 42 1341

- Barclay of Ury 42 1347

- Maud Muller 42 1351

- Skipper Ireson's Ride 42 1357

- The Pipes at Lucknow 42 1360

- Barbara Frietchie 42 1362

Lowell, The Courtin' 42 1376

Lanier, The Revenge of Hamish 42 1393

INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS

AN INDEX TO THE FIRST LINES OF POEMS, SONGS AND CHORUSES, HYMNS AND PSALMS

FIRST LINES VOL. PAGE

Poems-A

A batter'd, wreck'd old man 42 1420

A book was writ of late called Tetrachordon 4 79

A chieftain to the Highlands bound 41 773

A feeling of sadness and longing 28 382

A fig for those by law protected 6 132

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by 41 680

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot 42 1148

A good sword and a trusty hand 42 1111

A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear 25 86

A guid New-year I wish thee, Maggie 6 147

A head, pure, sinless quite of brain and soul 6 325

A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne 41 933

A high hall is there 49 297

A Highland lad my love was born 6 126

A hundred, a thousand to one; even so 42 1183

A hundred thousand cycles vast 45 577

A king there was once reigning 19 91

A lassie all alone, was making her moan 6 480

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies 42 1209

A little onward lend thy guiding hand 4 414

A man in prosperity resembleth a tree 16 203

A may of all mays 49 396

A mighty fortress is our God 45 557

A million emeralds break from the ruby-budded lime 42 1018

A moody child and wildly wise 5 161

A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade 46 193

A plenteous place is Ireland for hospitable cheer 41 921

A povre widwe somdel stope in age 40 34

A prince can mak' a belted knight 28 85

A robe of seeming truth and trust 6 95

A Rosebud by my early walk 6 287

A School for Scandal! tell me, I beseech you 18 113

A simple Child 41 667

A slave to Love's unbounded sway 6 551

A slumber did my spirit seal 41 672

A sweet disorder in the dress 40 336

A voice by the cedar tree 42 1021

A weary lot is thine, fair maid 41 743

A wet sheet and a flowing sea 41 783

A widow bird sate mourning for her Love 41 848

A wise priest knows he now must reap 45 671

Abide with me! fast falls the eventide 45 566

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) 41 870

Absence, hear thou my protestation 40 313

Abstain from censure; for it will strengthen the censured 16 10

Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear 41 929

Adieu I a heart-warm fond adieu 6 215

Adieu, farewell earth's bliss 40 260

Admiring Nature in her wildest grace 6 276

Adopted in God's family, and so 15 354

Adown winding Nith I did wander 6 469

Ae day, as Death, that gruesome carl 6 59

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever 6 428

Afar the illustrious Exile roams 6 290

Afflicted regents of my soul 31 235

Again rejoicing Nature sees 6 192

Again the silent wheels of time 6 255

Again yourselves compose 5 199

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever . . 42 1224

Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit 40 383

Ah, Chloris, since it may not be 6 500

Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh 41 743

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain 42 1082

Ah, rich in sorrow, thou 19 157

Ah, sun-flower! weary of time 41 584

Ah, wasteful woman!—she who may 28 144

Ah, what avails the sceptred race 41 898

Ah, woe is me, my mother dear 6 24

Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon 42 1060

Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there 40 280

Alexis, here she stayed; among these pines 40 329

All along the valley, stream that flashest white 42 976

All devil as I am, a damned wretch 6 23

All hail! inexorable lord 6 194

All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd 40 402

A' the lads o' Thorniebank 6 283

All they who thoughtless are, nor heed 45 689

All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead 39 323

All thoughts, all passions, all delights 41 704

A' ye wha live by sowps o' drink 6 216

All-conquering have I now become, all-knowing 45 724

All's over, then: does truth sound bitter 42 1069

Altho' he has left me for greed o' the siller 6 415

Altho' my back be at the wa' 6 183

Altho' my bed were in yon muir 6 25

Altho' thou maun never be mine 6 551

Although the Cross could not here Christ detain 15 355

Amang the trees where humming bees 6 479

Amidst the silence of the darkest night 14 331

Among the heathy hills and ragged woods 6 281

An honest man here lies at rest 6 50

An somebody were come again 6 347

An old man bending I come among new faces 42 1408

An ye had been whare I hae been 6 360

Ance crowdie, twice crowdie 6 543

Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy December 6 430

An' Charlie, he's my darling 6 489

And I'll kiss thee yet, yet 6 30

And is this—Yarrow?—This the stream 41 629

And maun I still on Menie doat 6 192

An' O for ane an' twenty, Tarn 6 415

An' O my Eppie, my jewel, my Eppie 6 348

And therefore if to love can be desert, I am not all unworthy 41 927

And thou art dead, as young and fair 41 785

And will he not come again 46 182

And wilt thou have me fashion into speech 41 928

And wilt thou leave me thus 40 192

And ye shall walk in silk attire 41 580

And yet, because thou overcomest so 41 929

And yet I cannot reprehend the flight 40 220

Anna, thy charms my bosom fire 6 309

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness 44 147

Apples were they with which we were beguil'd 15 267

Ariel to Miranda:—Take 41 848

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate 13 73

Art thou pale for weariness 41 847

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? 40 318

Art thou weary, art thou languid 45 544

Artemidora! Gods invisible 41

As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie 39

As cauld a wind as ever blew 6

As down the burn they took their way 6

As father Adam first was fooled 6

As flowers in rich profusion piled 45

As Heaven and Earth are fairer far 5

As cam by Crochallan 6

As gaed down the water-side 6

As gaed up by yon gate-end 6

As in hoary winter's night 40

As stood by yon roofless tower 6

As stood by yon roofless tower 6

As was a-wand'ring ae morning in spring 6

As was walking all alane 40

As was walking up the street 6

As it fell upon a day 40

As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither 6

As oft as she names Phaedria, you retort 9

As on the banks o' wandering Nith 6

As one that for a weary space has lain 22

As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay 42

As slow our ship her foamy track 41

As sunbeams stream through liberal space 42

As Tarn the chapman on a day 6

As the hart panteth after the water brooks 44

As virtuous men pass mildly away 15

As virtuous men pass mildly away 40

As well might corn, as verse, in cities grow 27

As when a wretch, who, conscious of his crime 24

As when it happeneth that some lovely town 40

As, when the laboring Sun hath wrought his track 3

As when 'tis said, The tree bears fruit' 45

As yielding wax the artist's skill commands 9

Ascribe unto Jehovah, O ye sons of the mighty 44

Ask me no more where Jove bestows 40

Ask not the cause why sullen Spring 40

Ask why God made the gem so small 6

At Brownhill we always get dainty good cheer 6

At Flores in the Azores, Sir Richard Grenville lay 42

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears 41

At the last day, men shall wear 5

At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly 41 822

At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time 42 1109

Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise 41 915

Auld chuckie Reekie's sair distrest 6 267

Auld comrade dear, and brither sinner 6 334

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered Saints, whose bones 4 83

Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake 40 453

Awake, awake, my Lyre 40 365

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things 40 407

Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon 41 854

Awa' Whigs, awa' 6 360

Awa' wi' your belles and your beauties 6 469

Awa' wi' your witchcraft o' Beauty's alarms 6 548

Ay flattering fortune look you never so fair 36 124

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down 42 1366

Poems-B

Back and side go bare, go bare 40 190

Balow, my babe, lie still and sleep 40 186

Bannocks o' bear meal 6 490

Bards of Passion and of Mirth 41 873

Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me 44 211

Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up 44 210

Be not dismayed, thou little flock 45 559

Be your words made, good Sir, of Indian ware 40 213

Bear, lady nightingale above 19 86

Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow 42 1402

Beauteous Rosebud, young and gay 6 331

Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead 42 1078

Beauty like hers is genius. Not the call 42 1179

Beauty sat bathing by a spring 40 201

Beauty, sweet Love, is like the morning dew 40 221

Because I feel that, in the Heavens above 42 1236

Because the Few with signal virtue crowned 42 1057

Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace 41 938

Because you have thrown of! your Prelate Lord 4 80

Beer bring I to thee 49 301

Before the starry threshold of Jove's court 4 44

Behind yon hills where Lugar flows 6 46

Behold, bless ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah 44 314

Behold her, single in the field 41 654

Behold, how fitly are the stages set 15 294

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is 44 314

Behold, my love, how green the groves 6 503

Behold the hour, the boat, arrive 6 429

Behold the hour, the boat arrive 6

Being your slave, what should I do but tend 40

Beloved, my Beloved, when I think 41

Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers 41

Below thir stanes lie Jamie's banes 6

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed 41

Best and Brightest, come away 41

Between the dark and the daylight 42

Beyond thee, dearie, beyond thee, dearie 6

Bid me to live, and I will live 40

Bird of the wilderness 41

Birds in the high Hall-garden 42

Bless Jehovah, O my soul 44

Bless Jehovah, O my soul 44

Bless Jesus Christ, O Cardoness 6

Blessed are they that are perfect in the way 44

Blessed be Jehovah my rock 44

Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah 44

Blessed is he that considereth the poor 44

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven 44

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked 44

Bless'd be the Day that I began 15

Blessings on thee, little man 42

Blest be M'Murdo to his latest day 6

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy 4

Blow, blow, thou winter wind 40

Blythe, blythe, and merry was she 6

Blythe hae I been on yon hill 6

Bonie lassie, will ye go 6

Bonie wee thing, cannie wee thing 6

Bonnie Kilmeny gaed up the glen 41

Borders of kohl enhance the witchery of her glance 16

Borgia, thou once wert almost too august 41

Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me 44

Braw, braw lads on Yarrow-braes 6

Break, break, break 42

Brief life is here our portion 45

Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art 41

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning 45

Bring the bowl which you boast 41

Build me straight, O worthy Master 42

Busk ye, busk ye, my bonnie, bonnie bride 41 572

But do not let us quarrel any more 42 1087

But, knowing now that they would have her speak 42 1183

But lately seen in gladsome green 6 503

But only three in all God's universe 41 924

But rarely seen since Nature's birth 6 550

But souls that of his own good life partake 5 133

But warily tent when ye come to court me 6 469

But your allowance, and in that our all 47 943

Buy braw troggin frae the banks o' Dee 6 548

By all I lov'd, neglected and forgot 6 327

By Allah! good sir, I was not a robber 16 130

By Allan stream I chanc'd to rove 6 468

By cool Siloam's shady rill 45 563

By love, and by beauty, by law, and by duty 6 348

By Oughtertyre grows the aik 6 286

By our first strange and fatal interview 27 270

By the cross, on which suspended 45 553

By the rivers of Babylon 44 318

By the rude bridge that arched the flood 42 1245

By what word's power, the key of paths untrod 42 1178

By yon Castle wa', at the close of the day 6 398

Poems-C

Ca' the yowes to the knowes 6 356

Ca' the yowes to the knowes 6 496

Ca' the yowes to the knowes 41 556

Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren 40 322

Calme was the day, and through the trembling ayre 40 229

Can I cease to care 6 532

Can it be right to give what I can give 41 926

Canst thou leave me thus, my Katie 6 509

Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms 4 78

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night 40 222

Carle, an the King come 6 347

Cast the bantling on the rocks 5 59

Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west 6 299

Cauld is the e'enin blast 6 514

Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing 6 264

Cheer up, my mates, the wind does fairly blow 40 366

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry 40 334

Chiefest glory of deathless Gods, Almighty for ever 2 186

Child of Adam, let not hope make game of thee 16 321

Christ is arisen 19 36

Circulate it in the large cup 16 217

Clarinda, mistress of my soul 6

Cold and clear-cut face, why come you so cruelly meek 42

Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain 40

Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain 47

Coldly, sadly descends 42

Come all ye jolly shepherds 41

Come away, come away, Death 40

Come, bumpers high, express your joy 6

Come, dear children, let us away 42

Come, gie's sang, Montgom'rie cried 41

Come hither, lads, and harken, for a tale there is to tell 42

Come hither, you that walk along the way 15

Come into the garden, Maud 28

Come into the garden, Maud 42 1042

Come, let me take thee to my breast 6 470

Come little babe, come silly soul 40 197

Come live with me and be my Love 40 254

Come my tan-faced children 42 1404

Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer 28 384

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace 40 213

Come to me, O ye children 42 1279

Come under my plaidie, the night's gaun to fa' 41 577

Come unto these yellow sands 46 412

Comrades, leave me here a little 42 979

Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine 41 503

Consider mine affliction, and deliver me 44 304

Consider what thou beholdest, O man 16 317

Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair 6 507

"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land 42 993

Courage, poor heart of stone 42 1048

Crabbed Age and Youth 40 267

Creator Spirit, by whose aid 45 547

Creep into thy narrow bed 42 1139

Criticks, I saw, that others' names efface 39 247

Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud 4 82

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd 40 209

Curse on ungrateful man, that can be pleased 6 257

Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in life 6 324

Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear 4 85

Cyriack, whose grandsire on the royal bench 4 85

Poems-D-E

Daughter of Chaos' doting years 6 332

Daughter of Jove, relentless power 40 450

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days 42 1243

Day of wrath, that day whose knelling 45 551

Dead, long dead 42 1052

Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live 44 295

Dear , I'll gie ye some advice 6 263

Dear love, for nothing less than thee 40 306

Dear Myra, the captive ribband's mine 6 361

Dear Sir, at ony time or tide 6 329

Dear Smith, the slee'st pawkie thief 6 167

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee 40 305

Death stands above me, whispering low 41 905

Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy lord 41 679

Deliberate, and haste not 16 155

Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God 44 213

Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man 44 321

Deluded swain, the pleasure 6 474

Depart from a place wherein is oppression 16 286

Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly 40 228

Did I hear it half in a doze 42 1024

Dire was the hate at old Harlaw 6 545

Dizzied faith and guilt and woe 28 170

Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness 44 212

Do you remember me? or are you proud 41 904

Does haughty Gaul invasion threat 6 530

Does the road wind up-hill all the way 42 1182

Dost thou not rise, indignant shade 6 447

Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move 40 327

Doubt thou the stars are fire 46 128

Doubt you to whom my Muse these notes intendeth 40 210

Down in yon garden sweet and gay 41 498

Drink to me only with thine eyes 40 291

Dulcinea here beneath 14 515

Duncan Gray cam' here to woo 6 448

Dweller in yon dungeon dark 6 325

Each altar had his fire 15 343

Earl March look'd on his dying child 41 777

Earth has not anything to show more fair 41 673

Earth'd up, here lies an imp o' hell 6 499

Edina! Scotia's darling seat 6 252

E'en like two little bank-dividing brooks 40 341

Erewhile of music, and ethereal mirth 4 23

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind 41 811

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky 41 644

Even as the dense and solid rock 45

Even as the word of "chariot" means 45

Even in a palace life may be led well 42

Even such is time, that takes in trust 40

Even let the Fancy roam 41

Except Jehovah build the house 44

Excuse me, sirs, I pray—I can't yet speak 18

Expect na, sir, in this narration 6

Poems-F

Faintly as tolls the evening chime 41

Fair and fair, and twice so fair 40

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see 40

Fair Empress of the poet's soul 6

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face 6

Fair is my Love and cruel as she's fair 40

Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs 40

Fair maid, you need not take the hint 6

Fair pledges of a fruitful tree 40

Fair stood the wind for France 40

Fair the face of orient day 6

Fairest maid on Devon banks 6

Fairfax, whose name in arms through Europe rings 4

False friend, wilt thou smile or weep 18

False world, good night! since thou hast brought 40

Fare thee well! and if for ever 41

Farewell to a' our Scottish fame 6

Farewell, dear friend! may guid luck hit you 6

Farewell, master; farewell, farewell 46

Farewell, old Scotia's bleak domains 6

Farewell, rewards and fairies 40

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing 40

Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies 6

Farewell, thou stream that winding flows 6

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North 6

Farewell, ye dungeons dark and strong 6

Farewell, ye green meadows 26

Fate gave the word, the arrow sped 6

Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme 1 83

Fathers that wear rags 46

Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat 42

Fear no more the heat o' the sun 40

Fill me with the rosy wine 6

Fintry, my stay in worldly strife 6

First when Maggie was my care 6 348

Five years have past; five summers, with the length 41 635

Flee with thy life if thou fearest oppression 16 69

Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes 6 417

Flower in the crannied wall 42 1005

Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race 4 39

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow 40 285

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet 40 284

For a' that, an' a' that 6 130

For a' that, an' a' that 6 131

For a' that, an' a' that 6 133

For auld lang syne, my dear 6 317

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove 40 443

For ever, O Jehovah 44 300

For he that can have good and evil doth choose 14 294

For lack of gold she's left me, O 41 532

For lo! thy law is passed 28 141

For lords or kings I dinna mourn 6 323

For never yet hath any one attained 38 76

For oh, her lanely nights are lang 6 501

For sense, they little owe to frugal Heav'n 6 163

For the tired slave, song lifts the languid oar 23 134

Fortress with turrets 19 42

Forlorn, my Love, no comfort near 6 535

Forget not yet the tried intent 40 192

For us, down beaten by the storms of fate 9 49

For thee is laughing Nature gay 6 295

Fortune, that favours fools, these two short hours 47 542

Four and twenty bonny boys 40 81

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year 41 896

Frae the friends and land I love 6 419

Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year 41 591

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers 44 186

Friday first's the day appointed 6 215

Friend of the Poet, tried and leal 6 544

Friendship, mysterious cement of the soul 6 167

From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony 40 389

From midst the barren earth, here overthrown 14 391

From Stirling Castle we had seen 41 627

From the forests and highlands 41 823

From the white-blossom'd sloe my dear Chloris requested 6 498

From thee, Eliza, I must go 6 218

From those drear solitudes and frowsy cells 6 485

From you have I been absent in the spring 40 278

Full fathom five thy father lies 40 270

Full fathom five thy father lies 46 413

Full many a glorious morning have I seen 40 272

Full well thou know'st I love thee dear 6 553

Fy, let us a' to Kirkcudbright 6 521

Poems-G

Gane is the day, and mirk's the night 6 378

Gat ye me, O gat ye me 6 516

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may 40 335

Gazing from each low bulwark of this bridge 41 911

Gem of the crimson-colour'd Even 41 776

Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn 40 339

Gie him strong drink until he wink 6 144

Gifts of one who loved me 5 219

Give a man a horse he can ride 42 1149

Give all to love 42 1244

Give ear, O my people, to my law 44 239

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel 44 245

Give ear to my prayer, O God 44 208

Give ear to my words, O Jehovah 44 148

Give me more love, or more disdain 40 352

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet 40 203

Give me patience, O Allah 16 50

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling 42

Give the king thy judgments, O God 44

Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven 42

Gloomy winter's now awa' 41

Glory be to God on high 45

Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song 42

Go and catch a falling star 40

Go, fetch to me a pint o' wine 6

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand 41

Go, lovely Rose 40

Go not, happy day 42

Go now my little Book, to every place 15

Go, Soul, the body's guest 40

Go, wanton muse, but go with care 9

God be merciful unto us, and bless us 44

God is our refuge and strength 44

God makes sech nights, all white an' still 42

God moves in a mysterious way 45

God standeth in the congregation of God 44 247

Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece 42 1135

Gold and iron are good 5 239

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home 42 1241

Good-morrow to the day so fair 40 334

Grade, thou art a man of worth 6 513

Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live 6 459

Great deeds of bale 49 424

Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised 44 200

Great spirits now on earth are sojourning 41 897

Green grow the rashes, O 6 47

Grow old along with me 42 1103

Gude pity me, because I'm little 6 121

Gudrun of old days 49 329

Guid-mornin' to your Majesty 6 207

Guid speed and furder to you, Johnie 6 102

Poems-H

Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie 6 190

Had I a cave on some wild distant shore 6 467

Had I the wyte, had I the wyte 6 529

Had I wept before she did 16 337

Had we never loved sae kindly 28 87

Hail! beauteous Stranger of the wood 41 570

Hail, famous man! whom fortune hath so blist 14 13

Hail, Native Language, that by sinews weak 4 20

Hail, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd 6 409

Hail, thairm-inspirin', rattlin' Willie 6 245

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit 41 829

Half a league, half a league 42 1005

Hallow the threshold, crown the posts anew 40 358

Hame, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be 41 782

Happy the man, whose wish and care 40 405

Happy those early days, when I 40 347

Happy those which, for more commodity 14 13

Happy were he could finish forth his fate 40 287

Hard Texts are Nuts (I will not call them cheaters) 15 268

Hark, hark, my soul! angelic songs are swelling 45 571

Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings 40 268

Hark! how all the welkin rings 45 561

Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands 42 1401

Hark the mavis' e'ening sang 6 496

Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark 41 755

Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song 4 81

Has auld Kilmarnock seen the deil 6 242

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star 41

Hasten, ye faithful, glad, joyful, and holy 45

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness 44

Have more than thou showest 46

Haymakers, rakers, reapers, and mowers 40

He clenched his pamphlet in his fist 6

He first by Grace must conquer'd be 15

He is dead, the beautiful youth 42

He is gone on the mountain 41

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High 44

He that has and a little tiny wit 46

He that is down needs fear no fall 15

He that loves a rosy cheek 40

He used his lances as pens 16

He who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead 6

He whom we mourned as dead 19

He's ower the hills that I lo'e weel 41

Health to the Maxwells* veteran Chief 6

Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots 6

Hear my cry, O God 44

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah 44

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications 44

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint 44

Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry 44

Hear the sledges with the bells 42

Hear this, all ye peoples 44

Hear what God, the Lord, hath spoken 45

Hee balou, my sweet wee Donald 6

Helen, thy beauty is to me 42

Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth 44

Hence, all you vain delights 40

Hence, loathed Melancholy 4

Hence, overshadowing gloom 19

Hence, vain deluding Joys 4

Hengist had verament 5

Her brother is coming back tonight 42

Her daddie forbad, her minnie forbad 6

Her flowing locks, the raven's wing 6

Her of your name, whose fair inheritance 15

Her skin is like silk, and her speech is soft 16

Here a little child I stand 40

Here am I laid, my life of misery done 12 377

Here awa, there awa, wandering Willie 6 454

Here Brewer Gabriel's fire's extinct 6 513

Here cursing, swearing Burton lies 6 499

Here, ever since you went abroad 41 899

Here Holy Willie's sair worn clay 6 73

Here is the glen and here the bower 6 483

Here lie Willie Michie's banes 6 265

Here lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shamm'd 6 499

Here lies Boghead amang the dead 6 50

Here lies John Bushby, honest man 6 488

Here lies Johnie Pigeon 6 120

Here lies, now a prey to insulting neglect 6 484

Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt 4 26

Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King 40 383

Here lieth Bernardone, ass and pig 31 399

Here lieth one who did most truly prove 4 26

Here, of a loving swain 14 109

Here Souter Hood in death doth sleep 6 50

Here Stuarts once in glory reigned 6 276

Here was a people whom, after their works 16 300

Here, where the Scottish Muse immortal lives 6 494

Here, where the world is quiet 42 1203

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us 1 82

Here's a bottle and an honest friend 6 264

Here's a health to ane I loe dear 6 551

Here's a health to them that's awa 6 449

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen 18 152

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen 41 554

Here's to the year that's awa' 41 581

Here's to thy health, my bonie lass 6 27

Hey, ca' thro', ca' thro' 6 265

Hey, the dusty Miller 6 300

Hie upon Hielands 40 114

High grace, the dower of queens; and therewithal 42 1181

His face with smile eternal drest 6 325

His foundation is in the holy mountains 44 252

Hnikar I hight 49 289

Hold, mighty man, I cry all this we know 34 144

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise 44 284

Holy amity! which, with nimble wings 14 238

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty 45 564

Home they brought her warrior dead 42 973

Homer, thy song men liken to the sea 22 335

Honest Will to Heaven's away 6 288

Honour, riches, marriage-blessing 46

How amiable are thy tabernacles 44

How blest the happy solitude 45

How can my poor heart be glad 6

How cold is that bosom which folly once fired 6

How cruel are the parents 6

How daur ye ca' me howlet-face 6

How delicious is the winning 41

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 41

How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean 40

How good is it to pardon one able to resist 16

How happy is he born and taught 40

How haps it, Rozinante, thou art so lean 14

How hath time made me to tremble 16

How lang and dreary is the night 6

How, Liberty! girl, can it be by thee named 6

How like a winter hath my absence been 40

How long and dreary is the night 6

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever 44

How many companies have alighted 16

How many wretched persons are destitute of ease 16

How near to good is what is fair 5

How often have I stood in fight 16

How pleasant the banks of the clear winding Devon 6

How should I your true love know 40

How should I your true love know 46

How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest 41

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth 4

How sweet the answer Echo makes 41

How vainly men themselves amaze 40

How Wisdom and Folly meet, mix and unite 6

Humid seal of soft affections 6

"Husband, husband, cease your strife" 6

Poems-I

I am a Bard of no regard 6

I am a fiddler to my trade 6

I am a keeper of the law 6

I am a mariner to love 14

I am a son of Mars who have been in many wars 6

I am enamoured of her 16

I am monarch of all I survey 41

I am not of the noble Grecian race 12 5

I arise from dreams of thee 41 828

I arise from dreams of thee 28 373

I bought my wife a stane o' lint 6 432

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers 41 852

I call no Goddess to inspire my strains 6 354

I Catherine am a Douglas born 42 1153

I coft a stane o' haslock woo' 6 526

I cry with my voice unto Jehovah 44 323

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs 4 80

I die, and if I cannot be believed 14 331

I do confess thou art sae fair 6 431

I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing 6 21

I dream'd that as I wander'd by the way 41 842

I du believe in Freedom's cause 42 1373

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden 41 828

I fee'd a man at Michaelmas 6 438

I fill this cup to one made up 28 382

I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen 6 356

I gaed up to Dunse 6 324

I gat your letter, winsome Willie 6 86

I gazed upon the glorious sky 42 1219

I got me flowers to strew Thy way 40 345

I had a dream, which was not all a dream 41 796

I had sax owsen in a pleugh 6 515

I hae a wife of my ain 6 307

I hae been at Crookieden 6 421

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood 42 1015

I hate them that are of a double mind 44 302

I have called with my whole heart 44 304

I have done justice and righteousness 44 302

I have had playmates, I have had companions 41 735

I have heard tell 49 431

I have led her home, my love, my only friend 42 1034

I heard a thousand blended notes 41 643

I heard the trailing garments of the Night 42 1267

I hold it, sir, my bounden duty 6 199

I know a little garden-close 42 1194

I know, Olalia, thou dost me adore 14 82

I know a thing that's most uncommon 40 406

I lang hae thought, my youthfu' friend 6 203

I lift my heavy heart up solemnly 41 925

I like a church; I like a cowl 42 1247

I lived with visions for my company 41 933

I lo'ed ne'er a laddie but ane 41 576

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost 40 309

I love, and he loves me again 40 293

I love Jehovah, because he heareth 44 291

I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength 44 160

I loved a lass, a fair one 40 331

I met a traveller from an antique land 41 851

I mind it weel in early date 6 258

I murder hate by flood or field 6 378

I must not grieve my Love, whose eyes would read 40 221

I never gave a lock of hair away 41 930

I never saw a fairer 6 444

I once was a maid, tho' I cannot tell when 6 124

I put my hat upon my head 39 288

I rede you, beware at the hunting, young men 6 261

I remember, I remember 41 910

I said, I will take heed to my ways 44 190

I said—Then, dearest, since 'tis so 42 1070

I saw him once before 42 1366

I saw where in the shroud did lurk 41 736

I see a form, I see a face 6 537

I see thine image through my tears tonight 41 935

I sing of a Whistle, a Whistle of worth 6 362

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he 42 1066

I stood on the bridge at midnight 42 1275

I strove with none; for none was worth the strife 41 905

I struck the board and cried, No more 40 343

I thank all who have loved me in their hearts 41 939

I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud 41 934

I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide 41 679

I thought once how Theocritus had sung 41 923

I tore, I hackt, abolish'd, said and did 14 11

I travell'd among unknown men 41 670

I waited patiently for Jehovah 44 191

I wander'd lonely as a cloud 41 639

I was glad when they said unto me 44 307

I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile 41 605

I was walking a mile 42 1025

I weep for Adonais—he is dead 41 856

I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung 4 359

I, who was late so volatile and gay 18 196

I will cry unto God with my voice 44 238

I will extol thee, my God, O King 44 326

I will extol thee, O Jehovah; for thou hast raised me up 44 176

I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart .44 152

I will give thee thanks with my whole heart 44 319

I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains 44 307

I will sing of lovingkindness and justice 44 268

I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever 44 254

I wish I were where Helen lies 40 324

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I 40 312

I'll aye ca' in by yon town 6 518

I'm now arrived—thanks to the gods 6 237

I'm o'er young, I'm o'er young 6 295

I'm sittin' on the stile, Mary 41 919

I'm three times doubly o'er your debtor 6 107

I'm wearing awa', Jean 41 560

I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking 41 483

I've seen the smiling 41 482

If age brought nothing worse than this 9 54

If all the world and love were young 40 255

If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song 41 479

If doughty deeds my lady please 41 531

If from the public way you turn your steps 41 615

I be possessed of wealth and be not liberal 16 201

I fail any day to render thee due thanks 16 37

I freely can discover 40 300

I have faltered more or less 42 1212

I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange 41 937

I, my lord, could show to you the truth 31 244

If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side 44 308

If love were what the rose is 42 1205

If of love we complain, what shall we say 16 63

If one says "No," I answer "No" 9 40

If the red slayer think he slays 42 1243

If thou chance for to find 15 398

If thou must love me, let it be for nought 41 928

If thou should ask my love 6 343

If thou survive my well-contented day 40 271

If to be absent were to be 40 356

If women could be fair, and yet not fond 40 289

If ye gae up to yon hill-tap 6 23

If yet I have not all thy love 40 308

If you rattle along like your Mistress's tongue 6 485

Ilk care and fear, when thou art near 6

Ill-fated genius! Heaven-taught Fergusson 6

In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland 42

In a drear-nighted December 41

In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak 5

In comin' by the brig o' Dye 6

In days long gone 49

In death for life I seek 14

In going to my naked bed as one that would have slept 40

In Jehovah do I take refuge 44

In Judah is God known 44

In London city was Bicham born 40

In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours 42

In Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles 6

In my distress I cried unto Jehovah 44

In Politics if thou would'st mix 6

In proportion to one's labour, eminences are gained 16

In Scotland there was a babie born 40

In se'enteen hunder 'n forty-nine 6

In simmer, when the hay was mawn 6

In Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men 6

In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining 41

In the greenest of our valleys 42

In the highlands, in the country places 42

In the merry month of May 40

In the midway of this our mortal life 20

In the sweet shire of Cardigan 41

In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge 44

In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge 44

In this strange land, this uncouth clime 6

In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers' gang 42

In vain to me the smiling mornings shine 39

In wood and wild, ye warbling throng 6

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 41

In youth, when I did love, did love 46

Indeed this very love which is my boast 41

Inhuman man! curse on thy barb'rous art 6

Instead of a Song, boys, I'll give you a Toast 6

Into the proud erected diamond stock 14

Inverey cam doun Deeside, whistlin and playin 40

Iphigeneia, when she heard her doom 41

Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead 41

Is there a whim-inspired fool 6 218

Is there for honest Poverty 6 511

Is this thy plighted, fond regard 6 509

It befell at Martynmas 40 103

It fell about the Lammus time 40 88

It fell about the Martinmas time 40 87

It fell upon a holly eve 40 247

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free 41 673

It is a good thing to give thanks unto Jehovah 44 260

It is an ancient Mariner 41 682

It is na, Jean, thy bonie face 6 316

It is not Beauty I demand 41 913

It is not growing like a tree 40 291

It is not to be thought of that the flood 41 675

It little profits that an idle king 42 977

It was a dismal and a fearful night 40 367

It was a lover and his lass 40 263

It was a summer evening 41 732

It was a' for our rightfu' King 6 491

It was fifty years ago 42 1293

It was in and about the Martinmas time 40 68

It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral 6 437

It was many and many a year ago 42 1239

It was not like your great and gracious ways 42 1112

It was roses, roses, all the way 42 1082

It was the charming month of May 6 504

It was the schooner Hesperus 42 1269

It was the winter wild 4 8

It was three slim does and a ten-tined buck in the bracken lay 42 1393

It was upon a Lammas night 6 44

Ithers seek they ken na what 6 442

Poems-J-K

Jamie, come try me 6 343

Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble 44 164

Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased 44 146

Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me 44 322

Jehovah is my light and my salvation 44 172

Jehovah is my portion 44 298

Jehovah is my shepherd 44 168

Jehovah, my heart is not haughty 44 312

Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty 44 261

Jehovah reigneth; let the earth rejoice 44 265

Jehovah reigneth; let the peoples tremble 44 266

Jehovah, remember for David 44 313

Jehovah saith unto my lord, Sit thou at my right hand 44 286

Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land 44

Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle 44

Jenny kiss'd me when we met 41

Jerusalem the golden 45

Jesu, the very thought of thee 45

Jesus, lover of my soul 45

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun 45

Jesus, Thou Joy of loving hearts 45

Jockey's taen the parting kiss 6

John Anderson, my jo, John 6

John Gilpin was a citizen 41

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation 44

Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity 44

Just for a handful of silver he left us 42

Kathrina say 19

Kemble, thou cur'st my unbelief 6

Ken ye aught o' Captain Grose?—Igo and ago 6

Kilmarnock wabsters, fidge an' claw 6

Kind gentlemen and ladies fair 19

Kind Sir, I've read your paper through 6

Know, Celia, since thou art so proud 40

Know thou, O stranger to the fame 6

Poems-L

Lady Onlie, honest Lucky 6

Lady! that in the prime of earliest youth 4

Lament him, Mauchline husbands a' 6

Lament in rhyme, lament in prose 6

Lassie wi' the lint-white locks 6

Last May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen 6

Late at e'en, drinkin the wine 40

Late crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg 6

Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon 41

Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son 4

Lay a garland on my hearse 40

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom 45

Lead me, O God, and Thou, O Destiny 2

Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair 28

Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered 44

Let half-starv'd slaves in warmer skies 6

Let ignorance a little while now muse 15

Let me not to the marriage of true minds 40 281

Let me ryke up to dight that tear 6 128

Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah 44 305

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil 6 134

Let not Woman e'er complain 6 502

Let other heroes boast their scars 6 225

Let other poets raise a fracas 6 144

Let others sing of Knights and Paladines 40 222

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain 18 211

Let the Most Blessed be my guide 15 190

Let the toast pass 18 152

Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife 41 932

Let thy lovingkindnesses also come unto me, O Jehovah . 44 297

Let us begin and carry up this corpse 42 1083

Let us drink and be merry, dance, joke, and rejoice 40 364

Let us with a gladsome mind 4 15

Life! I know not what thou art 41 555

Life ne'er exulted in so rich a prize 6 395

Life of Life! Thy lips enkindle 41 841

Light lay the earth on Billy's breast 6 487

Like as the culver, on the bared bough 40 251

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore 40 274

Like some brave steed that oft before 9 50

Like to the clear in highest sphere 40 215

Listen, my children, and you shall hear 42 1295

Listen to me, as when ye heard our father 42 1064

Little I ask; my wants are few 42 1368

Little think'st thou, poor flower 40 311

Live in these conquering leaves 40 363

Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings 49 5

Lo! 'tis a gala night 42 1240

Lo! where the four mimosas blend their shade 41 904

Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours 40 452

Lock the door, Lariston, lion of Liddisdale 41 767

Lone on the bleaky hills the straying flocks 6 292

Long-expected one-and-twenty 41 504

Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man 42 1138

Long have I sighed for a calm 42 1018

Long have I slept 49 300

Long life, my Lord, an' health be yours 6 205

Long, long the night 6 532

Look not thou on beauty's charming 41 748

Look, Nymphs and Shepherds, look 4 41

Lord of all being, throned afar 45

Lord Thomas and Fair Annet 40

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place 44

Lord, to account who dares thee call 6

Lord, we thank, and thee adore 6

Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band 40

Loth am I, sister 49

Loud blaw the frosty breezes 6

Louis, what reck I by thee 6

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back 40

Love guards the roses of thy lips 40

Love in her eyes sits playing 40

Love in my bosom like a bee 40

Love not me for comely grace 40

Love thou thy land, with love far-brought 42

Love thy country, wish it well 40

Lovely was she by the dawn 6

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show 40

Lythe and listen, gentilmen 40

Poems-M

Maid of Athens, ere we part 41

Make a joyful noise unto God, all the earth 44

Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all ye lands 44

Make haste, O God, to deliver me 44

Maker of all, the Lord 7

Mally's meek, Mally's sweet 6

Man is his own star; and the soul that can 5

Many a green isle needs must be 41

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up 44

March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale 41

Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion 6

Martial, the things that do attain 40

Mary! I want a lyre with other strings 41

Maud has a garden of roses 42

Maud Muller on a summer's day 42

Maugre the ravings that are set abroach 14

Maxwell, if merit here you crave 6

May I lose my heart if it cease to love you 16

Meet me on the warlock knowe 6

Merrily swinging on brier and weed 42

Methought I saw my late espoused saint 4

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour 41

Mine adventure to the Meek One 43

Morning arises stormy and pale 42 1021

Mortality, behold and fear 40 319

Most glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day 40 249

Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes 41 672

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel 41 901

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold 41 895

Music, when soft voices die 41 855

Musing on the roaring ocean 6 302

My blessings on ye, honest wife 6 263

My blessin's upon thy sweet wee lippie 6 256

My bonie lass, I work in brass 6 129

My curse upon your venom'd stang 6 239

My days among the Dead are past 41 734

My dear and only Love, I pray 40 358

My faith looks up to thee 45 569

My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O 6 38

My future will not copy fair my past 41 940

My girl she's airy, she's buxom and gay 6 58

My God, I love thee; not because 45 556

My God, my God 15 416

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me 44 166

My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee 15 379

My godlike friend—nay, do not stare 6 308

My good blade carves the casques of men 42 1002

My hair is gray, but not with years 41 801

My Harry was a gallant gay 6 357

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains 41 876

My heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie 6 346

My heart is fixed, O God 44 283

My heart is sair—I dare na tell 6 510

My heart is wae, and unco wae 6 284

My heart leaps up when I behold 41 600

My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter 44 197

My heart was ance as blithe and free 6 296

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here 6 362

My honor'd Colonel, deep I feel 6 546

My lady's gown, there's gairs upon't 6 262

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white 41 934

My life has crept so long on a broken wing 42 1055

My lord a-hunting he is gane 6 262

My lord, I know your noble ear 6 278

My Love in her attire doth shew her wit 40 325

My love, she's but a lassie yet 6 345

My lov'd, my honor'd, much respected friend 6

My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow 40

My mind to me a kingdom is 40

My minnie does constantly deave me 28

My mother bids me bind my hair 41

My mother, the harlot 19

My own Beloved, who hast lifted me 41

My peace is gone 19

My Peggy is a young thing 40

My Peggy's face, my Peggy's form 6

My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes 41

My Sandy gied to me a ring 6

My Sandy O, my Sandy O 6

My sister! my sweet sister! if a name 41

My Son, these maxims make a rule 6

My soul cleaveth unto the dust 44

My soul fainteth for thy salvation 44

My soul waiteth in silence for God only 44

My spotless love hovers with purest wings 40

My sword could not at all compare with thine 14

My thoughts hold mortal strife 40

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his 40

Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew 41

Poems-N

Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair 6

Nae heathen name shall I prefix 6

Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes 41

Nay, with my goodwill 49

Nearer, my God, to thee 45

Never the time and the place 42

Never trust in women; nor rely upon their vows 16

No churchman am I for to rail and to write 6

No cold approach, no altered mien 6

No coward soul is mine 42

No longer mourn for me when I am dead 40

No more of your guests, be they titled or not 6

No more, ye warblers of the wood! no more 6

No, my own love of other years 41

No, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist 41

No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay 6

No song nor dance I bring from yon great city 6

No Spartan tube, no Attic shell 6

Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away 4 2 Io6 9

None keepeth a secret but a faithful person 16 58

Nor grain, nor wealth, nor store of gold and silver 45 676

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note 41 822

Not, Celia, that I juster am 40 384

Not here and there, but everywhere 9 132

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 40 273

Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul 40 279

Not to know vice at all, and keep true state 40 294

Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us 44 290

Now daye was gone, and night was come 39 326

Now haply down yon gay green shaw 6 519

Now in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays 6 509

Now, Kennedy, if foot or horse 6 188

Now Nature deeds the flowery lea 6 505

Now Nature hangs her mantle green 6 396

Now, Reader, I have told my Dream to thee 15 166

Now Robin lies in his last lair 6 93

Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers 6 471

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes 6 277

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white 42 974

Now spring has clad the grove in green 6 538

Now thank we all our God 45 558

Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger 4 39

Now the golden Morn aloft 40 460

Now the last day of many days 41 845

Now this is my first counsel 49 368

Now westlin winds and slaught'ring guns 6 45

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room 41 681

Poems-O

O a' ye pious godly flocks 6 63

O angry fate, forbear 16 25

O aye my wife she dang me 6 515

O blithe new-comer! I have heard 41 641

O bonie was yon rosy brier 6 538

O Brignall banks are wild and fair 41 738

O brother, rest from miserable mee 32 85

O cam ye here the fight to shun 6 358

O can ye labour lea, young man 6 438

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done 42 1412

O could I give thee India's wealth 6 329

O Death, had'st thou but spar'd his life 6 58

O Death! thou tyrant fell and bloody 6 383

O fairest Flower, no sooner blown but blasted 4 18

O for him back again 6 357

O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide 40 280

O Friend! I know not which way I must look 41 676

O Friends! with whom my feet have trod 42 1338

O give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good 44 281

O God, keep not thou silence 44 248

O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance 44 244

O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee 44 217

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down 44 215

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever 44 234

O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung 41 880

O Gowdie, terror o' the whigs 6 94

O gude ale comes and gude ale goes 6 515

O had each Scot of ancient times 6 272

O had the malt thy strength of mind 6 513

O happy dames! that may embrace 40 193

O happy shades! to me unblest 41 542

O happy souls, which from this mortal vale 14 391

O have ye na heard o' the fause Sakelde 40 108

O hearken, ye who speak the English Tongue 49 255

O how can I be blythe and glad 6 304

O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 40 272

O how shall I, unskilfu', try 6 405

O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm 40 314

O Jehovah, my God, in thee do I take refuge 44 150

O Jehovah, our Lord 44 I51

O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger 44 I 49

O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath 44 188

O Jehovah, the God of my salvation 44 253

O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth 44 262

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me 44 319

O ken ye what Meg o' the Mill has gotten 6 456

O Kenmure's on and awa, Willie 6 422

O Lady Mary Ann looks o'er the Castle wa' 6 435

O lassie, are ye sleepin yet 6 517

O lay thy loof in mine, lass 6 550

O leave novels, ye Mauchline belles 6 57

O leeze me on my spinnin-wheel 6 441

O let me in this ae night 6 517

O let the solid ground 42 I028

O listen, listen, ladies gay 41 748

O Logan, sweetly didst thou glide 6 462

O Logic o' Buchan, O Logic the laird 41 571

O Lord, since we have feasted thus 6 461

O Lord, when hunger pinches sore 6 461

O lovely Polly Stewart 6 413

O lovers' eyes are sharp to see 41 744

O luve will venture in where it daur na weel be seen 6 406

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird 42 1109

O Mary, at thy window be 6 31

O Mary, go and call the cattle home 42 1061

O May, thy morn was ne'er so sweet 6 428

O me! what eyes hath love put in my head 40 282

O meikle thinks my luve o' my beauty 6 415

O merry hae I been teethin a heckle 6 134

O mirk, mirk is this midnight hour 6 454

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming 40 262

O Mother Earth! upon thy lap 42 1341

O mount and go, mount and make you ready 6 344

O my Luve's like a red, red rose 6 482

O never say that I was false of heart 40 279

O Nightingale that on yon blooming spray 4 38

O once I lov'd a bonie lass 6 19

O Philly, happy be that day 6 506

O poortith cauld, and restless love 6 451

O praise Jehovah, all ye nations 44 292

O raging Fortune's withering blast 6 36

O rough, rude, ready-witted Rankine 6 53

O rowan tree, O rowan tree! thou'lt aye be dear to me 41 564

O sad and heavy, should I part 6 430

O saw ye bonie Lesley 6 442

O saw ye my Dear, my Philly 6 501

O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab 6 414

O saw ye not fair Ines 41 905

O saw ye not fair Ines 28 385

O say what is that thing call'd Light 40 441

O sing a new song to the Lord 6 336

O sing unto my roundelay 41 558

O snatch'd away in beauty's bloom 41 790

O soft embalmer of the still midnight 41 896

O stay, sweet warbling, woodlark, stay 6 531

O steer her up, an' haud her gaun 6 516

O stream descending to the sea sp 1120

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South 42 974

O sweet and constant hope 14 432

O talk not to me of a name great in story 41 789

O that I had ne'er been married 6 543

O that 'twere possible 42 1049

O that's the lassie o' my heart 6 540

O the month of May, the merry month of May 47 502

O Thou dread Power, who reign'st above 6 238

O Thou Great Being! what Thou art 6 32

O Thou, in whom we live and move 6 428

O thou pale orb that silent shines 6 195

O thou, that sitt'st upon a throne 41 484

O Thou, the first, the greatest friend 6 33

O Thou unknown, Almighty Cause 6 34

O Thou! whatever title suit thee 6 140

O Thou, who in the heavens does dwell 6 70

O Thou who kindly dost provide 6 427

O thou whom Poetry abhors 6 264

O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down 41 584

O Tibbie, I hae seen the day 6 20

O, to be in England 42 1068

O waly waly up the bank 40 323

O wat ye wha that lo'es me 6 540

O wat ye wha's in yon town 6 518

"O well's me o' my gay goss-hawk" 40 69

O were I on Parnassus hill 6 314

O were my love yon Lilac fair 6 464

O wert thou in the cauld blast 6 552

O wert thou, Love, but near me 6 535

O wha my babie-clouts will buy? 6 182

O wha will shoe my fu fair foot 40 65

O wha will to Saint Stephen's House 6 309

O what a plague is love 40 380

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms 41 893

O when shall I a mansion give 45 779

O when she cam' ben she bobbed fu' law 6 432

O whistle an' I'll come to ye, my lad 6 469

O why should Fate sic pleasure have 6 451

O why the deuce should I repine 6 36

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being 41 833

O Willie brew'd a peck o' maut 6 355

O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar .... 6 344

O world of wonders! (I can say no less) 15 69

O worship the King all glorious above 45 540

O ye plants, ye herbs, and ye trees 14 227

O ye wha are sae guid yoursel' 6 184

O ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains 6 50

Obscurest night involved the sky 41 540

Of a' the airts the wind can blaw 6 306

Of all the girls that are so smart 40 403

Of all the numerous ills that hurt our peace 6 49

Of all the rides since the birth of time 42 1357

Of all the thoughts of God that are 41 941

Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing 42 1193

Of Lordly acquaintance you boast 6 427

Of man's first disobedience and the fruit 4 88

Of Nelson and the North 41 779

Of old, when Scarron his companions invited 41 505

Of this fair volume which we World do name 40 327

Oft in the stilly night 41 816

Often I think of the beautiful town 42 1290

Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green 42 1147

Oh clap your hands, all ye peoples 44 200

Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah 44 263

Oh for my sake do you with Fortune chide 27 308

Oh Galuppi, Baldassare, this is very sad to find 42 1080

Oh give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name 44 275

Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good 44 293

Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good 44 316

Oh how love I thy law 44 301

Oh I am come to the low Countrie 6 490

Oh, open the door, some pity to shew 6 455

Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song 44 264

Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song 44 266

Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare 42 1223

Oh that those lips had language! 41 543

Oh, the auld house, the auld house 41 561

Oh, yes! They love through all this world of ours 41 939

Oh! young Lochinvar is come out of the west 41 751

Old Chronos once took queen Sedition to wife 12 37

Old Grahame he is to Carlisle gone 40 121

Old Winter, with his frosty beard 6 475

On a bank of flowers, in a summer day 6 341

On a day, alack the day! 40 266

On a Poet's lips I slept 41 855

On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells 6 28

On either side the river lie 42 967

On his lips Persuasion hung 9 207

On Linden, when the sun was low 41 781

On parent knees, a naked new-born child 41 580

On peace an' rest my mind was bent 6 515

On the brink of the night and the morning 28 89

On the heights peals the thunder, and trembles the bridge 26 380

On the Sabbath-day 42 1146

On the seas and far away 6 495

On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood 41 682

Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee 41 676

Once fondly lov'd, and still remembered dear 6 221

Once in a cellar lived a rat 19 87

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary 42 1227

One day I wrote her name upon the strand 40 251

One more Unfortunate 41 907

One more Unfortunate 28 386

One night as I did wander 6 91

One Queen Artemisia, as old stories tell 6 59

One word is too often profaned 41 850

One's-self I sing, a simple separate person 42 1402

Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care 6 197

Or love of understanding quite is void 14 190

Orthodox! orthodox, who believe in John Knox 6 351

Others abide our question. Thou art free 42 1129

Our band is few but true and tried 42 1217

Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd 41 770

Our God, our help in ages past 45 538

Our signal in love is the glance of our eyes 16 77

Our thrissles flourish'd fresh and fair 6 360

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah 44 312

Out of the night that covers me 42 1210

Out over the Forth, I look to the North 6 398

Out upon it, I have loved 40 353

Over the mountains 40 379

Poems-P-R

Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day 40 316

Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make 41 938

Pausanias you may praise, and Xanthippus he be for 12 23

Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare 6 376

Phoebus, arise 40 329

Pipes of the misty moorlands 42 1360

Piping down the valleys wild 41 584

Poets, like disputants, when reasons fail 18 106

Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing 40 398

Poor Little-jaithl Hast been among the Thieves 15 135

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are 6 248

Poor Soul, the centre of my sinful earth 40 281

Poverty causeth the lustre of a man to grow dim 16 128

Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion 44 219

"Praise Woman still," his lordship roars 6 478

Praise ye Jehovah/Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah 44 288

Praise ye Jehovah/For it is good to sing praises 44 328

Praise ye Jehovah/I will give thanks unto Jehovah 44 287

Praise ye Jehovah/Oh give thanks unto Jehovah 44 277

Praise ye Jehovah/Praise God in his sanctuary 44 331

Praise ye Jehovah/Praise Jehovah, O my soul 44 327

Praise ye Jehovah/Praise, O ye servants of Jehovah 44 289

Praise ye Jehovah/Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens 44 330

Praise ye Jehovah/Praise ye the name of Jehovah 44 315

Praise ye Jehovah/Sing unto Jehovah a new song 44 331

Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge 44 158

Princes have persecuted me without a cause 44 305

Proud Maisie is in the wood 41 746

Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak 41 899

Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane 42 1121Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair 40 299

Ranged thus for battle on the sacred plain 45 785

Rarely, rarely comest thou 41 825

Rash mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name 6 276

Raving winds around her blowing 6 299

Reader! I am to let thee know 15 368

Rejoice in Jehovah, O ye righteous 44 180

Religion! what treasure untold 39 295

Remember me when I am gone away 42 1182

Remember the word unto thy servant 44 298

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow 41 520

Restore to my eyelids the sleep which hath been-ravished 16 62

Revered defender of beauteous Stuart 6 266

Riches I hold in light esteem 42 nil

Right, sir! your text I'll prove it true 6 225

Righteous art thou, O Jehovah 44 303

Ring out your bells, let mourning shews be spread 40 211

"Rise up, rise up, now, Lord Douglas," she says 40 51

Rivulet crossing my ground 42 1041

Robin shure in hairst 6 324

Robin was a rovin' boy 6 92

Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire 42 1014

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea 42 1069

Rudely thou wrongest my dear heart's desire 40 250

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King 40 456

Rusticity's ungainly form 6 248

Poems-S

Sabrina fair 4 67

Sad thy tale, thou idle page 6 272

Sae flaxen were her ringlets 6 497

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 6 297

Satyr-king, instead of swords 12 70

Save me, O God 44 226

Save me, O God, by thy name 44 208

Say not the struggle naught availeth 42 1119

Say over again, and yet once over again 41 931

Say, sages, what's the charm on earth 6 550

Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn 42 1029

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled 6 472

Search while thou wilt, and let thy Reason go 3 264

Searching auld wives' barrels 6 355

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness 41 879

See how the flowers, as at parade 40 370

See the Chariot at hand here of Love 40 290

See the smoking bowl before us 6 132

See what a lovely shell 42 1046

See where she sits upon the grassie greene 40 245

See with what simplicity 40 371

Sensibility, how charming 6 426

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day 40 270

Shall they who wrong begin yet rightly end 15 46

She came to the village church 42 1025

She dwelt among the untrodden ways 41 670

She is a winsome wee thing 6 444

She is not fair to outward view 41 912

She walks in beauty, like the night 41 789

She was a phantom of delight 41 651

She was so fair 5 277

She which you view, with triple face and sheen 14 514

She's fair and fause that causes my smart 6 328

Shepherd of tender youth 45 541

Should auld acquaintance be forgot 6 317

Shouldst thou think upon me after the length of my age 16 304

Shrewd Willie Smellie to Crochallan came 6 255

Sic a reptile was Wat, sic a miscreant slave 6 485

Sick, am I sick of a jealous dread 42 1026

Sigurd of yore 49 371

Since all that I can ever do for thee 42 1119

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea 40 274

Since cruel thou (I publish) dost desire 14 101

Since I am coming to that holy room 15 355

Since, then, such blessings manifold 45 739

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part 40 228

Sing aloud unto God our strength 44 246

Sing hey my braw John Highlandman 6 126

Sing lullaby, as women do 40 195

Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough 6 452

Sir, as your mandate did request 6 186

Sir, o'er a gill I gat your card 6 189

Sir Wisdom's a fool when he's fou 6 125

Sir, Yours this moment I unseal 6 201

Sleep on, and dream of Heaven awhile 41 582

Sleep'st thou, or wak'st thou, fairest creature 6 502

So all day long the noise of battle roll'd 42 986

So dark a mind within me dwells 42 1032

So every spirit, as it is most pure 5 167

So oft as I her beauty do behold 40 250

Soft on the fell 49 298

Some books are lies frae end to end 6 74

Some say the Pilgrim's Progress is not mine 15 319

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone 42 1180

Souls of Poets, dead and gone 41 874

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife 41 748

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king 40

St. Agnes's Eve!—ah, bitter chill it was 41

Stand close around, ye Stygian set 41

Star that bringest home the bee 41

Stars of the summer night 42

Stay, my charmer, can you leave me 6

Stay, O sweet, and do not rise 40

Stern Daughter of the voice of God 41

Still anxious to secure your partial favour 6

Still to be neat, still to be drest 40

"Stop thief!" dame Nature call'd to Death 6

Strait is the spot and green the sod 6

Strange fits of passion have I known 41

Strange, that I felt so gay 42

Streams that glide in orient plains 6

Strew on her roses, roses 42

Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me 44

Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear 45

Sunset and evening star 42

Sunshine was he 5

Sure never were seen two such beautiful ponies 18

Surely God is good to Israel 44

Surprised by joy—impatient as the wind 41

Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow 42

Sweet and low, sweet and low 42

Sweet are the banks—the banks o' Doon 6

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content 40

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain 41

Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes 40

Sweet closes the evening on Craigieburn Wood 6

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright 40

Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfall 42

Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph, that liv'st unseen 4

Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn 6

Sweet flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love 6

Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower 41

Sweet naivete of feature 6

Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade 41

Sweetest love, I do not go 40

Swiftly walk over the western wave 41

Symmetrical, and square in shape 45

Poems-T

Take, O take those lips away 40

Tarn Samson's weel-worn clay here lies 6 245

Tanagra! think not I forget 41 899

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense 41 678

Teach me, my God and King 40 342

Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of thy statutes 44 296

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean 42 972

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean 28 390

Tell me, Muse, of that man 22 9

Tell me not, in mournful numbers 42 1264

Tell me not of a face that's fair 40 369

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind 40 354

Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light 41 856

Tell me where is Fancy bred 40 263

Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school 18 109

Thank Heaven! the crisis 42 1236

That sir which serves and seeks for gain 46 254

That there is a falsehood in his looks 6 499

That time of year thou may'st in me behold 40 276

That which her slender waist confined 40 357

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall 42 1074

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold 41 785

The bairns gat out wi' an unco shout 6 439

The battle on Thermodon that shall be 12 206

The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way 42 1344

The blear-eyed escapeth a pit into which the clear-sighted falleth 16 122

The blessed Damozel lean'd out 42 1149

The blude-red rose at Yule may blaw 6 303

The bonie lass made the bed to me 6 528

The Brahman who his evil traits hath banished 45 627

The bride cam' out o' the byre 41 567

The cardin' o't, the spinnin' o't 6 527

The castled crag of Drachenfels 41 798

The Catrine woods were yellow seen 6 109

The clatt'ring thunderbolt that did adorn 14 513

The cock is crowing 41 604

The cod-piece that will house 46 264

The Cooper o' Cuddy came here awa 6 527

The crimson light of sunset falls 42 1199

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day 40 443

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary 42 1273

The day is done, and the darkness 42 1274

The day is done, and the darkness 28

The day is past and over 45

The day returns, my bosom burns 6

The deil cam fiddlin' thro' the town 6

The deil's awa, the deil's awa 6

The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying 6

The dusky night rides down the sky 41

The earth is Jehovah's; and the fulness thereof 44

Th' expense of Spirit in a waste of shame 40

The face of all the world is changed, I think 41

The fault was mine, the fault was mine 42

The first time that the sun rose on thine oath 41

The flame flared at its maddest 49

The flower it blaws, it fades, it fa's 6

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God 44

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God 44

The forward youth that would appear 40

The fountains mingle with the river 41

The friend whom, wild from Wisdom's way 6

The future hides in it 25

The gallant Youth, who may have gained 41

The gloomy night is gath'ring fast 6

The glories of our blood and state 40

The Greeks, when by their courage and their might 12

The grief increaseth, and withal the shame 14

The Groups break up, and only they, the wise say 45

The harp that once through Tara's halls 41

The heather was blooming, the meadows were mawn 6

The heavens declare the glory of God 44

The Hill, tho' high, I covet to ascend 15

The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece 41

The King of love my shepherd is 45

The king our Emperor Carlemaine 49

The King shall joy in thy strength, O Jehovah 44

The king sits in Dumferling toune 40

The King's most humble servant, I 6

The Laddies by the banks o' Nith 6

The Laird o' Cockpen, he's proud and he's great 41

The lamp of day with ill-presaging glare 6

The lang lad they ca' Jumpin John 6

The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest 40

The last and greatest Herald of Heaven's King 40

The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill 6 315

The Lord is only my support 15 208

The lovely lass of Inverness 6 488

The Magadhans hold hitherto a doctrine 45 721

The man, in life wherever plac'd 6 33

The man of life upright 40 286

The man whose mind, like to a rock 45 712

The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I 46 428

The merchant, to secure his treasure 40 397

The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken 44 203

The moon becometh perfect once each month 16 331

The more we live, more brief appear 41 775

The murmur of the mourning ghost 42 1114

The news frae Moidart cam* yestereen 41 564

The night is come, but not too soon 42 1265

The night is come, like to the day 3 328

The night was still, and o'er the hill 6 237

The noble Maxwells and their powers 6 419

The play is done; the curtain drops 42 1058

The poetry of earth is never dead 41 895

The poor man weeps—here Gavin sleeps 6 219

The poplars are fell'd, farewell to the shade 41 534

The red rose whispers of passion 42 1198

The Robin to the Wren's nest 6 542

The rounded world is fair to see 5 223

The sacred lowe o' weel-placed love 28 86

The sea is calm tonight 42 1137

The series which doth bear a fruit 45 683

The shadows lay along Broadway 28 374

The shepherd for the dance was dress'd 19 44

The simple bard, rough at the rustic plough 6 230

The simple Bard, unbroke by rules of art 6 221

The skies they were ashen and sober 42 1230

The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning 6 305

The smile-dimpled lake woo'd to bathe in its deep 26 380

The smiling Spring comes in rejoicing 6 417

The Solemn League and Covenant 6 512

The soul's Rial to hath its merchandise 41 930

The spacious firmament on high 40 400

The spacious firmament on high 45 535

The splendor falls on castle walls 42 973

The sun descending in the west 41 585

The sun had clos'd the winter day 6 172

The sun has gane down o'er the lofty Benlomond 41

The sun he is sunk in the west 6

The sun, in ancient guise, competing 19

The sun is warm, the sky is clear 41

The sun set; but set not his hope 5

The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains 42

The sun upon the lake is low 41

The sun (which doth the greatest comfort bring,) 40

The Sundays of man's life 15

The Thames flows proudly to the sea 6

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain 40

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart 44

The tree of deepest root is found 45

The tryals that those men do meet withal 15

The twentieth year is well-nigh past 41

The valiant, in himself, what can he suffer 6

The valiant warrior famoused for fight 5

The victory now hath this illustrious Buddha won 45

The wean wants a cradle 6

The weary pund, the weary pund 6

The whole world was not half so wide 25

The wind blew hollow frae the hills 6

The winter it is past, and the summer comes at last 6

The wintry west extends his blast 6

The word of the Lord by night 42

The World is too much with us; late and soon 41

The world's a bubble and the life of Man 40

The world's great age begins anew 41

The worthy knight lies there 14

The year's at the spring 42

The young May moon is beaming, love 41

Their groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon 6

Then gudewife, count the lawin 6

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now 40

Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher 6

Then mounte! then mounte, brave gallants all 28

Theniel Menzies' bonie Mary 6

There ance was a may, and she lo'ed na men 40

There be none of Beauty's daughters 41

There dwelt a man in faire Westmerland 40

There is a flower, the Lesser Celandine 41

There is delight in singing, though none hear 41 902

There is no flock, however watched and tended 42 1277

There is no writer that shall not perish 16 82

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet 41 817

There is sweet music here that softer falls 42 994

There lived a carl in Kellyburn Braes 6 436

There lived a wife at Usher's Well 40 80

There shall be seen upon a day 3 92

There they are, my fifty men and women 42 1094

There, through the long, long summer hours 28 380

There was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass 6 514

There was a boor from Gelderland 47 481

There was a king in Thule 19 119

There was a lad was born in Kyle 6 92

There was a lass, and she was fair 6 464

There was a lass, they ca'd her Meg 6 301

There was a roaring in the wind all night 41 658

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream 41 595

There was a wife wonn'd in Cockpen 6 433

There was five Carlins in the South 6 367

There was once a day, but old Time was then young 6 329

There was three kings into the east 6 39

There was twa sisters in a bowr 40 54

There were three ladies lived in a bower 40 58

There were three rauens sat on a tree 40 73

There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest 18 372

There's a youth in this city, it were a great pity 6 347

There's Auld Rob Morris that wons in yon glen 6 445

There's Death in the cup, so beware 6 513

There's nane sail ken, there's nane can guess 6 518

There's nane that's blest of human kind 6 264

There's news, lassies, news 6 542

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away 41 784

There's nought but care on ev'ry han' 6 48

These are the five donations great 45 620

These eyes, dear Lord, once brandons of desire 40 328

They all were looking for a king 42 1118

They are all gone into the world of light 40 346

They bore him barefac'd on the bier 46 181

They made use of their power 16 39

They shot him dead on the Nine-Stone rig 41 769

They snool me sair, and haud me down 6 416

They that have power to hurt, and will do none 40 277

They that trust in Jehovah 44 309

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead 42 1113

Thickest night, o'erhang my dwelling 6 281

Thine am I, my faithful Fair 6 475

Thine be the volumes, Jessy fair 6 552

Think me not unkind and rude 42 1242

This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain 6 372

This Doctrine out of toil begot 45 720

This is he, who felled by foes 5 273

This is no my ain lassie 6 537

This is the forest primeval 42 1300

This is the month, and this the happy morn 4 7

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign 42 1365

This is true Liberty when free born men 3 183

This Life, which seems so fair 40 327

This lump of earth has left his estate 42 1032

This morning timely wrapt with holy fire 40 297

This rich marble doth inter 4 27

This Sancho Panza is of body little 14 515

This tale of my sore-troubled life I write 31 4

This winter's weather it waxeth cold 40 188

This wot ye all whom it concerns 6 240

Thou comest! all is said without a word 41 935

Thou flatt'ring mark of friendship kind 6 191

Thou greybeard, old Wisdom! may boast of thy treasures 6 460

Thou hast dealt well with thy servant 44 299

Thou hast left me ever, Jamie 6 473

Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor 41 924

Thou, Liberty, thou art my theme 6 407

Thou ling'ring star, with lessening ray 6 365

Thou, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign 6 320

Thou of an independent mind 6 526

Thou Power Supreme, whose mighty scheme 28 87

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness 41 878

Thou that my doleful life didst imitate 14 n

Thou thoughtest well of the days 16 201

Thou unrelenting Past 42 1221

Thou, who thy honor as thy God rever'st 6 403

Thou whom chance may hither lead 6 307

Thou whom chance may hither lead 6 319

Thou, Whose Almighty word 45 572

Thou's welcome, wean; mishanter fa' me 6 55

Tho' cruel fate should bid us part 6 92

Though fickle Fortune has deceived me 6 36

Though the day of my destiny's over 41 790

Though the day of my destiny's over 28 389

Though thou art not a peer, thou hast no peer 14 12

Tho' women's minds, like winter winds 6 133

Thoughts, words, and deeds, the Statute blames with reason 6 207

Three poets, in three distant ages born 40 396

Three years she grew in sun and shower 41 671

Three years she grew in sun and shower 28 147

Through and through th' inspir'd leaves 6 264

Through birth and rebirth's endless round 45 624

Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts 42 1126

Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts 40 271

Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream 41 500

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me 44 299

Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright 41 740

Thy testimonies are wonderful 44 303

Thy tomb is fairly placed upon the strand 12 34

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet 44 301

Tiger, tiger, burning bright 41 583

Time consists of two days; this, bright; and that, gloomy 16 16

Timely blossom, Infant fair 40 440

Timon, the misanthrope, am I below 12 377

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry 40 275

'Tis Friendship's pledge, my young, fair Friend 6 541

'Tis that, that gives the poet rage 39 309

'Tis the day of resurrection 45 543

'Tis the last rose of summer 41 818

'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock 41 709

'Tis time this heart should be unmoved 41 815

To be or not to be? That is the question 34 132

To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name 40 301

To fair Fidele's grassy tomb 41 475

To heal his heart of long-time pain 42 1398

To him who in the love of Nature holds 42 1213

To John I owed great obligation 40 398

To make a happy fireside clime 28 86

To me, fair friend, you never can be old 40 278

To Megara some of our madcaps ran 12 67

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love 41 591

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on 41 905

To my true king I offered, free from stain 41 917

To paint fair Nature, by divine command 27 299

To Riddell, much lamented man 6 514

To see a world in a grain of sand 41 586

To the Lords of Convention 'twas Claver'se who spoke 41 752

To the weaver's gin ye go, fair maids 6 296

To you, sir, this summons I've sent 6 222

Toll for the Brave 41 533

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day 46 178

Too many leaders are not well; the way 12 384

Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men 41 655

True hearted was he, the sad swain o' the Yarrow 6 455

True Thomas lay o'er yond grassy bank 40 76

Truly, I never have seen the market and street so deserted 19 337

Truly woman is of glass 14 317

Turn again, thou fair Eliza 6 416

Turn all thy thoughts to eyes 40 286

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud 42 976

Turn on the prudent Ant thy heedless eyes 39 294

'Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won 40 391

'Twas even,—the dewy fields were green 6 220

'Twas in that place o' Scotland's isle 6 151

'Twas in the seventeen hunder year 6 524

'Twas na her bonie blue e'e was my ruin 6 534

'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean 41 590

'Twas on a lofty vase's side 40 462

'Twas on a Monday morning 6 489

'Twas on a Monday morning 41 566

'Twas one of the charmed days 42 1252

'Twas when the stacks get on their winter hap 6 231

Twenty years hence my eyes may grow 41 898

Two Voices are there, one is of the Sea 41 675

Poems-U-V

Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite 34 140

Under a spreading chestnut-tree 42 1271

Under the greenwood tree 40 263

Under the wide and starry sky 42 1213

Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward 42 1140

Underneath this sable hearse 40 333

Unhappy they, to whom God ha'n't reveal'd 27 67

Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart 41 924

Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes 44 308

Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul 44 170

Up and waur them a', Jamie 6 371

Up from the meadows rich with corn 42 1362

Up in the morning's no for me 6 300

Up the airy mountain 42 1116

Up the streets of Aberdeen 42 1347

Up wi' the carls o' Dysart 6 265

Upon a simmer Sunday morn 6 96

Upon my lap, my Sovereign sits 40 256

Upon that night, when fairies light 6 in

Vane, young in years but in sage counsel old 4 83

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity 42 1075

Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying 41 703

Victorious men of earth, no more 40 350

Vigil strange I kept on the field one night 42 1403

Virupakkhas, I love them all 45 708

Poems-W

Wae is my heart, and the tear's in my e'e 6 510

Wae worth thy power, thou cursed leaf 6 221

Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea 42 1011

Wake! For the Sun behind yon Eastern bright 41 943

Waken, lords and ladies gay 41 750

Warriors and chiefs! should the shaft or the sword 41 812

We are na fou, we're nae that fou 6 355

We are the music-makers 42 1198

We cam na here to view your warks 6 275

We give thanks unto thee, O God 44 236

We grant they're thine, those beauties all 6 499

We have heard with our ears, O God 44 195

We must resign! heaven his great soul does claim 34 146

We praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to be the Lord 45 546

We talk'd with open heart, and tongue 41 602

We trod the steps appointed for us 16 68

We twa hae paidl't i' the burn 28 89

We walk'd along, while bright and red 41 600

We watch'd her breathing thro'the night 41 910

We'll hide the Cooper behint the door 6 527

We're all deluded, vainly searching ways 3 295

Weak-winged is song 42 1379

Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r 6 193

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie 6 119

Wee Willie Gray, and his leather wallet 6 514

Weep with me, all you that read 40 299

Welcome, wild North-easter 42 1062

Well I remember how you smiled 41 901

Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made 41

Were I as base as is the lowly plain 40

Were I so tall to reach the pole 40

Wha, in a brulyie, will 6

Wha is that at my bower-door? 6

Wha will buy my troggin, fine election ware 6

Whan bells war rung, an mass was sung 40

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote 40

Whare are you gaun, my bonie lass 6

Whare live ye, my bonie lass 6

What ails ye now, ye lousie bitch 6

What bird so sings, yet so does wail? 40

What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie 6

What can I give thee back, O liberal 41

What constitutes a State 41

What danger is the Pilgrim in 15

What dost thou in that mansion fair? 6

What flocks of critics hover here to-day 18

What guile is this, that those her golden tresses 40

What hath wrought Sigurd 49

What have I done for you 42

What I have left, I left not from generosity 16

What is our life? The play of passion 40

What man his conduct guardeth, and hath wisdom 45

What needs my Shakespeare, for his honoured bones 4

What needs this din about the town o' Lon'on 6

What one would think doth seek to slay outright 15

What time my age was twenty-nine, Subhadda 45

What was he doing, the great god Pan 41

What will I do gin my Hoggie die 6

Whatever is, is right. Though purblind man 1 55

When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast 42 1370

When all the world is young, lad 42 1062

When at the first I took my pen in hand 15 5

When biting Boreas, fell and dour 6 248

When Britain first at Heaven's command 40 442

When, by a generous Public's kind acclaim 6 260

When chapman billies leave the street 6 388

When chill November's surly blast 6 60

When Christians unto carnal men give ear 15 24

When daisies pied and violets blue 40 264

When dear Clarinda, matchless fair 6 293

When Death's dark stream I ferry o'er 6 281

When do I see thee most, beloved one 42 1178

When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never 4 81

When first I came to Stewart Kyle 6 57

When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town 6 414

When first the fiery-mantled Sun 41 771

When fortune is liberal to thee 16 202

When God at first made man 40 345

When God willeth an event 16 130

When Guilford good our pilot stood 6 51

When he came to grene wode 28 396

When he who adores thee has left but the name 41 817

When I am dead, my dearest 42 1181

When I consider how my light is spent 4 84

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat 34 134

When I have borne in memory what has tamed 41 677

When I have fears that I may cease to be 41 897

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced 40 274

When I survey the bright 40 252

When icicles hang by the wall 40 262

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes 40 270

When in the chronicle of wasted time 40 278

When Israel went forth out of Egypt 44 289

When Januar's wind was blawing cauld 6 527

When Jehovah brought back those that returned to Zion 44 310

When Lascelles thought fit from this world to depart 6 487

When Letty had scarce pass'd her third glad year 41 921

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd 42 1412

When Love with unconfined wings 40 355

When lovely woman stoops to folly 41 505

When lyart leaves bestrow the yird 6 122

When maidens such as Hester die 41 735

When men shall find thy flow'r, thy glory, pass 40 220

When Morine, deceas'd, to the Devil went down 6 467

When Music, heavenly maid, was young 41 476

When Nature her great master-piece design'd 6 311

When o'er the hill the eastern star 6 443

When on my sickly couch I lay 28 25

When our two souls stand up erect and strong 41 932

When priests are more in word than matter 46 266

When Princes and Prelates 6 450

When rosy May comes in wi' flowers 6 340

When Ruth was left half desolate 41 607

When Saints do sleepy grow, let them come hither 15 139

When the blest seed of Terah's faithful Son 4 15

When the British warrior queen 41 539

When the drums do beat, and the cannons rattle 6 344

When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces 42 1199

When the hours of Day are numbered 42 1267

When the lamp is shatter'd 41 851

When the pine tosses its cones 42 1249

When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame 41 557

When the voices of children are heard on the green 41 590

When to her lute Corinna sings 40 285

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 40 271

When to the strenuous, meditative Brahman 45 626

When we met first and loved, I did not build 41 937

When we two parted 41 787

When wild war's deadly blast was blawn 6 457

Whenas in silks my Julia goes 40 336

Where are the joys I have met in the morning 6 474

Where are the Kings and the peoples of the earth 16 312

Where art thou, my beloved Son 41 644

Where, braving angry winter's storms 6 288

Where Cart rins rowin' to the sea 6 412

Where did you come from, baby dear 42 1118

Where dost thou careless lie 40 298

Where hae ye been sae braw, lad 6 359

Where is the home for me 8 383

Where lies the land to which the ship would go 42 1122

Where shall the lover rest 41 742

Where the bee sucks, there suck I 46 455

Where the bee sucks, there suck I 40 266

Where the remote Bermudas ride 40 376

Where they once dug for money 28 401

Whereas my birth and spirit rather took 15 385

Whereas the wise who cultivate 45 736

Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way 44 295

Whether is better, the gift or the donor .42 1253

Which that the sun with his beams hot 40 199

While at the stock the shearers cow'r 6 104

While briers an' woodbines budding green 6 79

While eagerly man culls life's flowers 45 696

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things 6 446

While larks, with little wing 6 467

While new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake 6 83

While virgin Spring by Eden's flood 6 418

While winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw 6 66

While you here do snoring lie 46 426

Whiles in the early winter eve 42 1197

Whither, midst falling dew 42 1222

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient hardly human 42 1407

Who doth my weal diminish thus and stain 14 237

Who is it worships at my feet 45 706

Who is Silvia? What is she? 40 264

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he 41 656

Who made the heart, 'tis He alone 28 86

Who shall, Mattio, yield our pain relief 31 168

Who would true valour see 15 301

Whoe'er he be that sojourns here 6 272

Whoe'er she be 40 359

Whoe'er thou art, O reader, know 6 219

Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm 40 303

Whom will you send to London town 6 520

Whose is that noble, dauntless brow 6 260

Whoso would know the power of God's dominion 31 251

Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene 6 35

Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant 41 674

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man 44 206

Why, Damon, with the forward day 41 481

Why do the nations rage 44 145

Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid 40 56

Why, let the strucken deer go weep 46 155

Why look the distant mountains 41 917

Why so pale and wan, fond lover 40 353

Who standest thou afar off, O Jehovah 44 153

Why weep ye by the tide, ladie 41 741

Why, why tell thy lover 6 536

Why, ye tenants of the lake 6 285

Will ye go to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay 6 542

Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary 6 201

Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed 6 434

Wilt thou be my Dearie? 6 479

Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun 40 304

Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun 15 352

Winds blow and waters roll 5 97

Wishfully I look and languish 6 404

Wi' braw new branks in mickle pride 6 227

With Esop's lion, Burns says: Sore I feel 6 276

With food and drinks and cunning magic arts 2

With his cross-bow, and his quiver 26

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies 40

With little here to do or see 41

With numerous tribes from Asia's regions brought 12

With Pegasus upon a day 6

With sacrifice before the rising morn 41

With secret throes I marked that earth 6

With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee 41

Within the glen sae bushy, O 6

Word's gane to the kitchen 40

Words of strife heard I 49

Work of his hand 5

Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build 42

Would'st thou hear what man can say 40

Wow, but your letter made me vauntie 6

Poems-X-Z

Ye banks and braes and streams around 6

Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon 6

Ye blushing virgins happy are 40

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers 40

Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriors bright 4

Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon 6

Ye gallants bright, I rede you right 6

Ye Highlands, and ye Lawlands 40

Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks 6

Ye Irish lords, ye knights an' squires 6

Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear 6

Ye learned sisters, which have oftentimes 40

Ye maggots, feed on Nicol's brain 6

Ye Mariners of England 41

Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering 6

Ye sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie 6

Ye true "Loyal Natives" attend to my song 6

Ye twain, in trouble and distress 19

Ye wavering shapes, again ye do enfold me 19

Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear 41

Yes; in the sea of life enisled 42

Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain 6

Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye 41

Yestreen I had a pint o' wine 6

Yestreen I met you on the moor 6

Yet if His Majesty, our sovereign lord 40

Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more 4 72

Yet, pleased with idle whimsies of his brain 34 143

Yon wandering rill that marks the hill 6 414

Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide 6 251

You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease 42 998

You brave heroic minds 40 226

You meaner beauties of the night 40 287

You promise heavens free from strife 42 1114

You render me lovelorn, and remain at ease 16 1111

You spotted snakes with double tongue 40 265

You'll love me yet!—and I can tarry 42 1073

You're welcome to Despots, Dumourier 6 461

You're welcome, Willie Stewart 6 413

Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain 6 483

Young Jockie was the blythest lad 6 342

Young Peggy blooms our boniest lass 6 108

Your billet, sir, I grant receipt 6 269

Your friendship much can make me blest 6 294

Your hands lie open in the long, fresh grass 42 1179

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX

(Names printed in SMALL CAPITALS refer to entries in the General Index}

1316-1307 B. c.—Siege of TROY by the Greeks under AGAMEMNON, King of Argos

900-800 B. c.—Birth of HOMER, Greek epic poet. There is great uncertainty regarding both the date and place of his birth 557 B. c.—Birth of Siddhartha GAUTAMA, known as BUDDHA, founder of Buddhism, the "Light of Asia"

551 B. c.—Birth of CONFUCIUS, Chinese philosopher and moralist

550 B. c.—Birth of AESOP, Greek fabulist (supposed date)

525 B. c.—Birth of AESCHYLUS, father of classic Greek tragedy

500-300 B. c.—The MAHA BHARATA, Hindu epic, probable date of writing, according to the claims of most scholars 495 B. c.—Birth of SOPHOCLES, the "most perfectly balanced among the three great masters of Greek tragedy"

492 B. c.— CORIOLANUS (Gaius Marcius), defeats the Volsci, an Italic tribe, capturing their town Corioli, whence his surname 491 B. c.— CORIOLANUS banished from Rome for demanding the deposition of the plebeian tribunes 490 B. c.—Battle of MARATHON between the Athenians and Platseans under Miltiades and the Persian army of Darius 490 B. c.—Birth of HERODOTUS, the "father of history" (supposed date)

480 B. c.—Birth of EURIPIDES, Greek tragedian, the youngest of the great trio 479 B. c.—The battle of MYCALE, between the Greeks under Leotychides, King of Sparta, and the army of Xerxes 478 B. c.—Death of CONFUCIUS

477 B. c.—Death of BUDDHA

466 B. c.— PERICLES, General of Athenian forces, subdues revolts in Eubcea and Megara 470-460 B. c.—Birth of HIPPOCRATES, Greek physician, the "father of medicine"

469 B. c.—Birth of SOCRATES, Athenian philosopher, the central figure in the history of Greek thought 468 B. c.—Death of ARISTIDES, called "The Just," Athenian statesman and general (supposed date) 456 B. c.—Death of AESCHYLUS (supposed date)

455 B. c.— PERICLES overruns the Peloponnesus

450 B. c.—Birth of ALCIBIADES, Athenian statesman and general

450 B. c.—Birth of ARISTOPHANES, "the greatest of the comic writers in Greek" (supposed date) 444-429 B. c.— PERICLES serves as ruler of the Athenian Commonwealth

428 B. c.—Birth of PLATO, Athenian philosopher, disciple of Socrates

426 B. c.—Death of HERODOTUS (supposed date)

407 B. c.— ALCIBIADES, Athenian statesman, deposed

406 B. c.—Death of EURIPIDES

405 B. c.—Death of SOPHOCLES

404 B. c.—Death of ALCIBIADES

400 B. c.— BOOK OF JOB written, according to many scholars

399 B. c.—Death of SOCRATES

388 B. c.—Death of ARISTOPHANES

384 B. c.—Birth of DEMOSTHENES, Athenian orator

384 B. c.—Birth of ARISTOTLE of Stagira, the famous Greek philosopher, whose theories long dominated the learned world 380-360 B. c.—Death of HIPPOCRATES, Greek physician

356 B. c.—Birth of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, King of Macedon, conqueror of most of the then known world 337 B. c.— DEMOSTHENES chosen as foremost statesman at Athens

323 B. c.—Death of ALEXANDER THE GREAT

322 B. c.—Death of DEMOSTHENES

322 B. c.—Death of ARISTOTLE

106 B. c.—Birth of Marcus Tullius CICERO, the great Roman orator

100 B. c.—Birth of Julius CAESAR, Roman general and statesman (supposed date) 83 B. c.—Birth of Marcus Antonius (Mark ANTONY), Roman triumvir and general

76 B. c.— CICERO elected quaestor to the province of Lilybzum, Sicily

70 B. c.—Birth of Publius Vergilius Maro (VIRGIL), Roman epic poet; author of the AENEID

69 B. c.—Birth of CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt, famous for her intrigues and extravagance 64 B. c.— CICERO elected Consul. Crushes the conspiracy of CATILINE

58—50 B. c.— CAESAR conquers Gaul

58 B. c.— CICERO banished from Rome by the Triumvirate

51 B. c.— CICERO proconsul of Cilicia

49 B. c.—War for supremacy between CAESAR and POMPEY. Caesar crosses the Rubicon 48-44 B. c.—Julius CAESAR made dictator

48 B. c.— POMPEY defeated by CAESAR in the battle of Pharsalia. Later murdered in Egypt 46 B. c.— CATO kills himself at Utica; CAESAR dictator for ten years

45 B. c.— CLEOPATRA marries Mark ANTONY

44 B. c.—Julius CAESAR assassinated in Rome

43 B. c.— CICERO killed by agents of ANTONY

43 B. c.—The second Triumvirate formed by Mark ANTONY, OCTAVIUS and Marcus Aemilius LEPIDUS

42 B. c.—Battle of PHILIPPI; Brutus and Cassius defeated by Antony and Octavius 42 B. c.— CLEOPATRA meets Mark ANTONY by his order at Tarsus

37 B. c.— VIRGIL'S "Eclogues" completed

31 B. c.—Battle of ACTIUM between OCTAVIUS and Mark ANTONY

30 B. c.—Death of CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt, by suicide at Alexandria. ANTONY commits suicide 30 B. c.— VIRGIL'S "Georgics" first issued

19 B. c.—Death of VIRGIL, Roman poet

7-2 B. c.—Birth of CHRIST

46-51 A. D. —Birth of PLUTARCH, Greek biographer—the "great biographer of Antiquity"

50 A. D. —Birth of EPICTETUS, Greco-Roman Stoic philosopher (supposed date)

54-58 A. D. — PAUL'S First and Second Epistles to the CORINTHIANS written (supposed date) 62 A. D. —Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, known as PLINY THE YOUNGER, born 69-70 A. D. —Period covered by the fragments of the "ANNALS" and "Histories" of TACITUS

70 A. D. —The Gospel according to St. LUKE written (supposed date)

80-90 A. D. — ACTS OF THE APOSTLES written, according to accepted chronologies 90 A. D. — EPICTETUS banished from Rome by the Emperor DOMITIAN, who abhorred his Stoic sentiments 100 A. D. — PLINY THE YOUNGER made consul by TRAJAN and governor of Bithynia 113 A. D. —Death of PLINY THE YOUNGER

120-130 A. D. —Death of PLUTARCH, the biographer

121 A. D. —Birth of MARCUS AURELIUS Antoninus, Roman emperor and moralist. Adopted son of the Emperor Aurelius Antoninus 161 A. D. — MARCUS AURELIUS Antoninus succeeds to Imperial throne

170-220 A. D. —Birth of St. CLEMENT of Alexandria, one of the "Fathers" of the Christian Church (supposed date) 180 A. D. —Death of MARCUS AURELIUS Antoninus

354 A. D. —Birth of Aurelius Augustinus, known as Saint AUGUSTINE, Bishop of Hippo, the greatest theologian of the ancient Church 387 A. D. —Saint AUGUSTINE converted to Catholic Christianity from the errors of the Manichzan sect 400 A. D. — GLORIA IN EXCELSIS, great Latin hymn, written (supposed date)

430 A. D. —Death of Saint AUGUSTINE

450-500 A. D. —Birth of BEOWULF, hero of the Saxon epic (supposed date)

571 A. D. —Birth of MOHAMMED, the prophet of Arabia, founder of Mohammedanism 622-624 A. D. —Beginning of the MOHAMMEDAN Era and Holy War

632 A. D. —Death of MOHAMMED

673 A. D. —Birth of the venerable BEDE, Saxon writer in England, most distinguished scholar of his age 676 A. D. —Birth of St. JOHN OF DAMASCUS, great theologian of the Greek Church 725 A. D. —Birth of St. STEPHEN the Sabaite, hymnist

735 A. D. —Death of the Venerable BEDE

742 A. D. —Birth of CHARLEMAGNE (Charles the Great), king of the Franks and Roman Emperor 778 A. D. — CHARLEMAGNE returns from Spain. The rear-guard of his army is annihilated at Roncesvalles by the Basques. Subject of "THE SONG OF ROLAND"

814 A. D. —Death of CHARLEMAGNE

935 A. D. —Birth of FIRDOUSI (Abul Kasim Mausur), Persian epic poet

1000 A. D. —Discovery of North America by LEIF (Ericsson) THE LUCKY (supposed date) 1012 A. D. —Death of FIRDOUSI

1050 A. D. —Birth of OMAR KHAYYAM, Persian astronomer and poet. Author of the "RUBAIYAT"

1091 A. D. —Birth of St. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, mystical theologian and hymnist 1100 A. D. —Period assigned to Irish epic the DESTRUCTION OF DA DERGAS HOSTEL (supposed date) 1112 A. D. —Birth of WACE, Anglo-Norman poet

1125 A. D. —Birth of BERNARD OF MORLAIX (or of Cluny), Benedictine monk; author of Latin poem, basis of JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN (supposed date) 1180 A. D. —Death of WACE, Anglo-Norman poet

1200 A. D. —Period assigned to the composition of the VOLSUNGA SAGA

1200 A. D. —History of the Danes by SAXE GRAMMATICUS written

1200-1275 A. D. —Period of Thomas a CELANO, author of DIES IRAE

1200-1300 A. D. —Period of JACOBUS DE BENEDICTIS, author of "STABAT MATER"

1265 A. D. —Birth of DANTE Alighieri, Italian poet, author of "THE DIVINE COMEDY"

1300-1350 A. D. —Period of Sir John MANDEVILLE, hero and reputed author of the famous work "Travels of Sir John Mandeville"

1302 A. D. — DANTE Alighieri, condemned to death by his political enemies, saves himself by exile 1313 A. D. —Birth of Giovanni BOCCACCIO, Italian poet and novelist; author of the "Decameron"

1321 A. D. —Death of DANTE Alighieri

1326 A. D. —Birth of John GOWER, English poet (supposed date)

1337 A. D. —Birth of Sir John FROISSART, French poet and historian

1340 A. D. —Birth of Geoffrey CHAUCER, English poet

1346 A. D. —The battle of CRECY in which King EDWARD III of England defeated the French Army under PHILIP VI 1356 A. D. —Battle of POITIERS in which Edward the BLACK PRINCE gained a great victory over the French and captured the French king, JOHN II 1356 A. D. —"Voyage and Travaile of Sir John MANDEVILLE" written

1364 A. D. — CHAUCER'S "Canterbury Tales" written

1372 A. D. —Date assigned to death of Sir John MANDEVILLE, hero of book of travels 1375 A. D. —Death of Giovanni BOCCACCIO, "creator of the classic Italian prose and father of the modern novel"

1379-1380 A. D. —Birth of Thomas HAEMMERLEIN, known as Thomas a KEMPIS

1381 A. D. —Wat TYLER'S Rebellion. The name usually applied to the English social revolt of 1381, from Wat Tyler, its chief leader 1388 A, D. —Battle of OTTERBURN, between the forces of PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, and DOUGLAS, in which both leaders fell. The battle is commemorated by the ballad "CHEVY CHASE"

1400 A. D. —Death of Geoffrey CHAUCER

1408 A. D. —Death of John GOWER

1410 A. D. —Death of Sir John FROISSART

1422 A. D. —Birth of William CAXTON, the first English printer (supposed date) 1469 A. D. —Birth of Niccolo di Bernardo MACHIAVELLI

1471 A. D. —Death of Thomas a KEMPIS

1471 A. D. —Birth of Albrecht DURER, German painter, engraver and designer, the "greatest master of the German Renaissance"

1472 A. D. — DANTE'S "DIVINE COMEDY" first printed

1474 A. D. — CAXTON'S translation of "The RECUYELL OF THE HISTORIES OF TROY" published, the first book printed in the English language 1475 A. D. —Birth of Thomas WOLSEY, English Cardinal and statesman (supposed date) 1478 A. D. —Birth of Sir Thomas MORE, English author and statesman

1480-1537 A. D. —Birth of Alessandro de MEDICI, Duke of Florence (supposed date) 1483 A. D. —Birth of Martin LUTHER, the "Founder of Protestant Civilization"

1485 A. D. —Sir Thomas MALORY'S "Morte D'Arthur" published

1491 A. D. —Death of William CAXTON

1492 A. D. —The discovery of the West Indies by Christopher COLUMBUS

1495 A. D. —Birth of Francois RABELAIS, French humorist

1497 A. D. —John CABOT discovers the mainland of North America, probably Labrador 1500 A. D. —Birth of Raphael HOLINSHED, English chronicler

1500 A. D. —Birth of Benvenuto CELLINI, Italian sculptor and goldsmith

1503 A. D. —Birth of Sir Thomas WYATT, English diplomatist and poet (supposed date) 1505 A. D. —Birth of John KNOX, Scottish reformer, statesman and writer

1506 A. D. —Birth of St. FRANCIS XAVIER, Spanish Jesuit missionary

1509 A. D. —Birth of John CALVIN, French reformer and theologian

1513 A. D. —Niccolo MACHIAVELLI imprisoned and tortured

1516 A. D. —Birth of Roger ASCHAM, English classical scholar and author

1516 A. D. — "UTOPIA" by Thomas MORE written

1516 A. D. —"Orlando Furioso" published

1517 A. D. —Birth of Ambroise PARE, French surgeon

1517 A. D. —Birth of Henry HOWARD, Earl of Surrey, English poet (supposed date) 1517 A. D. —Martin LUTHER posts "THE NINETY-FIVE THESES" on the church door at Wittenberg 1519 A. D. —Birth of Cosimo de MEDICI, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1520 A. D. —Martin LUTHER publishes the fundamental principles of the Reformation and is expelled from the Church 1523 A. D. —Pope CLEMENT VII elected

1523 A. D. —Birth of Richard EDWARDS, English dramatist

1526 A. D. —Sack of Rome by the Ghibelline house of Colonna

1527 A. D. —Death of Niccolo MACHIAVELLI

1528 A. D. —Death of Albrecht DURER

1529 A. D. —Sir Thomas MORE made Lord Chancellor of England

1530 A. D. —Death of Cardinal WOLSEY

1533 A. D. —Birth of Michel Eyquem de MONTAIGNE, French philosopher and essayist 1533 A. D. —Death of Ludovico ARIOSTO

1533 A. D. —John CALVIN banished from Paris

1534 A. D. —Martin LUTHER'S translation of the BIBLE published

1535 A. D. —Birth of George GASCOIGNE, English poet (supposed date)

1535 A. D. —Sir Thomas MORE executed on Tower Hill

1536 A. D. — CALVIN'S "INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION" published

1536 A. D. —Birth of Thomas SACKVILLE, Earl of Dorset, English poet

1537 A. D. —Death of Alessandro, Duke de MEDICI

1537 A. D. —Triumphal entry of the Emperor CHARLES V into Rome

1539 A. D. —Birth of Sir Humphrey GILBERT, founder of the first English colony in North America 1540 A. D.—Birth of Sir Francis DRAKE, English navigator (supposed date)

1542 A. D. —John KNOX becomes a convert to Protestant doctrines

1542 A. D. —Death of Sir Thomas WYATT

1544 A. D. —Birth of Torquato TASSO, Italian epic poet

1545 A. D. —Birth of Nicholas BRETON, English poet (supposed date)

1547 A. D. —John KNOX a prisoner in France

1547 A. D. —Birth of Miguel CERVANTES Saavedra, Spanish novelist and poet, author of "DON QUIXOTE"

1547 A. D. —Henry HOWARD, Earl of Surrey, English poet and courtier, beheaded

1549 A. D. —First English prayer-book composed

1550 A. D. —Birth of Edward DE VERE, Earl of Oxford, English poet and courtier 1552 A. D. —Birth of Sir Walter RALEIGH, English navigator, author, courtier and soldier 1552 A. D. —Death of St. FRANCIS XAVIER

1552-1555 A. D. —Period of the War of SIENA, when Piero Strozzi acted as general for Henry II of France against the Spaniards 1553 A. D. —Birth of Anthony MUNDAY, English dramatist, poet and compiler

1553 A. D. —Birth of John FLORIO, English lexicographer, author and translator 1553 A. D. —Birth of Edmund SPENSER, English poet

1553 A. D. —Birth of John LYLY, English dramatist

1553 A. D. —Death of Francois RABELAIS

1554 A. D. —Birth of Sir Philip SIDNEY, English soldier and author

1556 A. D. —Birth of Thomas LODGE, English novelist, dramatist and poet (supposed date) 1558 A. D. —John KNOX'S "First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women" published 1558 A. D. —Birth of George PEELE, English dramatist and poet

1558-1566 A. D. —Period covered by the "Autobiography of Benvenato CELLINI"

1558-1603 A. D. —Reign of ELIZABETH, Queen of England

1560 A. D. —Birth of Robert GREENE, English dramatist, novelist and poet (supposed date) 1561 A. D. —Birth of Francis BACON, English philosopher, jurist and statesman 1561 A. D. —Birth of Robert SOUTHWELL, English poet and Jesuit martyr (supposed date) 1562 A. D. —Lope de VEGA, the "Spanish Shakespeare," born

1562 A. D. —Birth of Henry CONSTABLE, English poet

1562 A. D. —Birth of Samuel DANIEL, English poet and historian

1563 A. D. —Birth of Joshua SYLVESTER, English poet

1563 A. D. —Birth of Michael DRAYTON, English poet

1564 A. D. —Death of John CALVIN

1564 A. D. —Birth of William SHAKESPEARE, English poet and dramatist

1564 A. D. —Birth of Christopher MARLOWE, English poet and dramatist

1565 A. D. —Birth of Richard ROWLANDS, English poet

1566 A. D. —Death of Richard EDWARDS

1567 A. D. —Birth of William ALEXANDER, Earl of Stirling, Scottish poet and states man (supposed date) 1567 A. D. —Sir Francis DRAKE commanding a ship under Sir John Hawkins is defeated by the Spaniards 1567 A. D. —Birth of Robert DEVEREUX, Earl of Essex, English courtier and soldier 1567 A. D. —Birth of Thomas CAMPION, English poet (supposed date)

1568 A. D. —Birth of Sir Henry WOTTON, English diplomatist and author

1568 A. D. —Death of Roger ASCHAM

1569-1574 A. D. —Sir Walter RALEIGH serves in the Huguenot Army in France

1569 A. D. —Death of Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet

1570 A. D. —Birth of Thomas DEKKER, English dramatist (supposed date)

1571 A. D. —Death of Benvenuto CELLINI

1572 A. D. —Death of John KNOX

1573 A. D. —Birth of John DONNE, English poet and divine

1574 A. D. —Birth of Ben JONSON, English dramatist (supposed date)

1571 A. D. —Death of Cosimo de' MEDICI

1574 A. D. —Birth of Richard BARNFIELD, English poet

1575 A. D. —Miguel CERVANTES Saavedra, maimed for life in the battle of Lepanto, is captured by the Moors. He was a slave for five years among them.

1575 A. D. —Birth of Thomas HEYWOOD, English dramatist and miscellaneous writer (supposed date) 1577 A. D. —Birth of Robert BURTON, English writer

1577 A. D. —Death of George GASCOIGNE

1577 A. D. —Sir Francis DRAKE'S voyage in "The Golden Hind"

1578 A. D. —"Chronicles of England," by Raphael HOLINSHED, published

1578 A. D. —Sir Humphrey GILBERT receives from Queen Elizabeth a charter to plant a colony in North America 1578 A. D. —Birth of William HARVEY, English physiologist and anatomist

1578 A. D. —Sir Walter RALEIGH engages with his half-brother Sir Humphrey GILBERT in his first expedition against the Spaniards 1579 A. D. —Birth of John FLETCHER, English dramatist and poet

1579 A. D. —Birth of Captain John SMITH, English adventurer

1579 A. D. —"The Shepherds Calendar," by Edmund SPENSER, published

1580 A. D. —Birth of John WEBSTER, English dramatist (supposed date)

1580 A. D. —Death of Raphael HOLINSHED

1582 A. D. —Birth of Richard CORBET, English prelate and poet

1583 A. D. —Birth of Philip MASSINGER, English dramatist

1584 A. D. —Birth of Francis BEAUMONT, English dramatist and poet

1585 A. D. —Birth of Cornelius JANSEN, who gave his name to the Jansenist school 1585 A. D. —Birth of William DRUMMOND, Scottish poet

1586 A. D. —Birth of Martin RINKART, German hymn writer

1586 A. D. — DRAKE brings home the despairing Virginian colony

1586 A. D. —Death of Sir Philip SIDNEY

1587 A. D. —Christopher MARLOWE'S first tragedy "Tamburlaine" produced

1588 A. D. —Birth of George WITHER, English poet

1588 A. D. —Birth of Thomas HOBBES, English philosopher

1588 A. D. —Christopher MARLOWE'S "Doctor FAUSTUS" first produced

1590 A. D. —"The FAERIE QUEENE," by Edmund SPENSER, published

1590 A. D. —Death of Ambroise PARE

1591 A. D. —Christopher MARLOWE'S tragedy of "EDWARD II" is produced

1591 A. D. —Birth of William BROWNE

1591 A. D. —Birth of Robert HERRICK, English lyric poet

1592 A. D. —Death of Michel de MONTAIGNE

1592 A. D. —Birth of Francis QUARLES, English poet

1592 A. D. —Sir Walter RALEIGH a prisoner in the Tower

1592 A. D. —Death of Robert GREENE

1593 A. D. —Death of Christopher MARLOWE

1593 A. D. —Birth of Izaak WALTON, English author; noted for his "Compleat Angler"

1593 A. D. —Birth of George HERBERT, English poet

1594 A. D. —Birth of GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, King of Sweden

1595 A. D. —Death of Torquato TASSO at Rome

1595 A. D. —Sir Walter RALEIGH discovers Guiana

1595 A. D. —Death of Robert SOUTHWELL

1596 A. D. —Birth of James SHIRLEY, English dramatist

1596 A. D. —Death of Sir Francis DRAKE

1596 A. D. —Birth of Rene DESCARTES, French philosopher

1597 A. D. —Death of George PEELE (supposed date)

1597 A. D. —Francis BACON'S Essays first published

1598 A. D. —Birth of Thomas CAREW, English poet

1599 A. D. —Thomas DEKKER'S play, "The SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY," first acted

1599 A. D. —Death of Edmund SPENSER

1600 A. D. —Birth of Don Pedro CALDERON, Spanish dramatist and poet

1601 A. D. —Death of Robert DEVEREUX, second Earl of Essex, chief favorite of Queen Elizabeth 1603 A. D. —First edition of SHAKESPEARE'S "HAMLET" published

1604 A. D. —Death of Edward DE VERE, Earl of Oxford

1604 A. D. —Beginning of Sir Walter RALEIGH'S imprisonment of twelve years for treason against James I. During this period he wrote his "History of the World"

1605 A. D. — "KING LEAR" first acted

1605 A. D. —The first part of "DON QUIXOTE" published in Madrid

1605 A. D. —Birth of Sir Thomas BROWNE, scholar and antiquary; author of "RELIGIO MEDICI"

1605 A. D. —Birth of "William HABINGTON, English poet

1606 A. D. —Birth of Edmund WALLER, English poet

1606 A. D. —Birth of Sir William D'AVENANT, English poet and play-writer

1606 A. D. —Death of John LYLY, English romancer and dramatist

1606 A. D. —Birth of Pierre CORNEILLE, French dramatist. The works of Corneille represent most fully the ideal of French classical tragedy 1608 A. D. —Birth of Thomas FULLER, English author and divine, famous for his work, the "Worthies of England"

1608 A. D. —Birth of John MILTON, English poet and statesman

1608 A. D. —Death of Thomas SACKVILLE, Earl of Dorset, English poet and statesman 1609 A. D. —Birth of Sir John SUCKLING, English poet

1610 A. D. —Ben JONSON'S play, "The ALCHEMIST," first acted

1610 A. D. — SHAKESPEARE'S tragedy, "MACBETH," first produced

1611 A. D. —Birth of William CARTWRIGHT, English poet and divine

1611 A. D. — SHAKESPEARE'S play, "The TEMPEST," first produced

1611 A. D. —First English translation of "DON QUIXOTE" (first part) by Thomas Shelton is published 1612 A. D. —Birth of Thomas JORDAN, English poet

1612 A. D. —Birth of James GRAHAM, first Marquis of Montrose

1612 A. D. —Birth of Samuel BUTLER, English satirist

1613 A. D. —Birth of Duke de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, French epigrammatic moralist

1613 A. D. —Birth of Richard CRASHAW, English poet (supposed date)

1615 A. D. — CERVANTES'S "DON QUIXOTE" (second part) published

1616 A. D. —Death of Francis BEAUMONT, English poet and dramatist. In collaboration with FLETCHER wrote fifty-four plays 1616 A. D. —Death of Miguel CERVANTES Saavedra

1616 A. D. —Death of William SHAKESPEARE

1618 A. D. —Birth of Abraham COWLEY, English poet and essayist

1618 A. D. —Birth of Richard LOVELACE, English poet

1618 A. D. —Execution of Sir Walter RALEIGH

1618 A. D. —Francis BACON, philosopher and statesman, made Lord Chancellor and Baron Verulam 1619 A. D. —Death of Thomas CAMPION

1620 A. D. —Lord BACON'S "NOVUM ORGANUM" published 1620 A. D. —The MAYFLOWER COMPACT signed 1620 A. D. —Birth of Alexander BROME, English poet and dramatist

1620 A. D. —Birth of John EVELYN, English author

1621 A. D. —Francis BACON, statesman and philosopher, made Viscount St. Albans; convicted of bribery. Sentenced by House of Lords to loss of offices, imprisonment, and fine 1621 A. D. —Birth of Andrew MARVELL, English poet and politician

1621 A. D. —Birth of Jean de LA FONTAINE, French poet and fable writer

1622 A. D. —Birth of Henry VAUGHAN, English poet

1622 A. D. —Birth of Jean Baptiste MOLIERE, the "greatest of French dramatists"

1623 A. D. —Birth of Blaise PASCAL, French philosopher and author

1623 A. D. —John WEBSTER'S play, "The DUCHESS OF MALFI," published

1623 A. D. —First folio edition of Shakespeare's plays published by HEMINGE and CONDELL

1624 A. D. —John SMITH'S "General Historic of Virginia and New England" published 1625 A. D. — MASSINGER'S play, "A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS," first acted

1625 A. D. —Death of John WEBSTER (supposed date)

1625 A. D. —Death of John FLETCHER

1625 A. D. —Death of Thomas LODGE

1626 A. D. —Death of Nicholas BRETON (supposed date)

1626 A. D. —Death of Francis BACON

1627 A. D. —Birth of Jacques Benigne BOSSUET, French pulpit orator

1627 A. D. — BACON'S "NEW ATLANTIS" published

1628 A. D. —William HARVEY'S work on "The Circulation of the Blood" published in Latin at Frankfort 1628 A. D. —Birth of Sir William TEMPLE, English statesman and essayist

1631 A. D. —Death of Michael DRAYTON

1631 A. D. —Death of Captain John SMITH

1631 A. D. —Birth of John DRYDEN English dramatist, poet, and critic

1632 A. D. —Death of GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS

1632 A. D. —Birth of John LOCKE, English philosopher

1633 A. D. —Birth of Samuel PEPYS, English diarist

1633 A. D. —Death of George HERBERT

1633 A. D. —Death of Anthony MUNDAY

1633 A. D. —Abraham COWLEY'S "Poetical Blossoms" published

1635 A. D. —Death of LOPE DE VEGA

1636 A. D. —Birth of Nicolas BOILEAU-Despreaux, greatest French critic of the I7th century 1637 A. D. —Death of Ben JONSON

1637 A. D. —Rene DESCARTES'S "DISCOURSE ON METHOD" published

1639 A. D. —The first American constitution of government, adopted by a popul convention of the towns, Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford 1639 A. D. —Birth of Sir Charles SEDLEY, English poet and dramatist

1639 A. D. —Birth of Jean Baptiste RACINE, greatest of French classical dramatists 1640 A. D. —Death of Philip MASSINGER

1640 A. D. —Death of Robert BURTON

1641 A. D. —Death of Thomas DEKKER (supposed date)

1641 A. D. — MILTON'S "Prelatical Episcopacy" published

1641 A. D. — MILTON'S "Reformation of England" published

1641 A. D. —The first code of laws established in New England; known as "THE BODY OF LIBERTIES"

1642 A. D. —Death of Sir John SUCKLING (supposed date)

1642 A. D. —Sir Thomas BROWNE'S "RELIGIO MEDICI" published

1642 A. D. —The Long Parliament closes the theaters

1642 A. D. —Birth of Sir Isaac NEWTON, "The greatest English mathematician and physicist"

1644 A. D. —John WINTHROP, Deputy Governor of Massachusetts, publishes a document on "ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT"

1644 A. D. —Birth of William PENN, the founder of Pennsylvania

1644 A. D. — MILTON'S "AREOPAGITICA" and "TRACTATE ON EDUCATION" published

1647 A. D. —Abraham COWLEY'S "The Wish" published

1649 A. D. —King CHARLES I of England executed

1650 A. D. —Death of Rene DESCARTES

1651 A. D. —Thomas HOBBES'S "LEVIATHAN" published

1653 A. D. — CROMWELL and his council of Officers adopt "The INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT"

1653 A. D. —Oliver CROMWELL becomes Lord Protector of England

1653 A. D. —Izaak WALTON'S "The Compleat Angler" published

1656 A. D. —Sir Henry VANE published "A HEALING QUESTION" on the subject of civil and religious liberty 1656-1657 A. D. — PASCAL'S "LETTERS" published

1657 A. D. —Death of William HARVEY

1657 A. D. —Birth of John DENNIS, English critic and dramatist

1660-1672 A. D. —John BUNYAN in prison

1661 A. D. —Birth of Charles Montague, Earl of HALIFAX, English statesman and financier 1661 A. D. —Birth of Daniel DEFOE, English novelist, author of "Robinson Crusoe"

1662 A. D. —Death of Blaise PASCAL

1664 A. D. —Birth of Matthew PRIOR, English poet and diplomatist

1665 A. D. —Birth of Lady Grisel BAILLIE, Scottish poet

1666 A. D. —John DRYDEN'S "Annus Mirabilis" published. It procured for him in 1670 the Poet Laureateship 1667 A. D. —Birth of Jonathan SWIFT, "Greatest of English satirists"

1667 A. D. — MILTON'S "PARADISE LOST" published

1667 A. D. —Death of Jeremy TAYLOR

1667 A. D. —Death of George WITHER

1668 A. D. —William PENN a prisoner in the Tower

1670 A. D. —John DRYDEN appointed Poet Laureate

1670 A. D. —John ELIOT'S "BRIEF NARRATIVE" on the Indians published

1670 A. D. —Izaak WALTON'S "LiFF OF GEORGE HERBERT" published

1671 A. D. —Birth of Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of SHAFTESBURY, moralist 1671 A. D. —Birth of Colley GIBBER, English actor and dramatist

1672 A. D. —Birth of Richard STEELE, English essayist and dramatist

1672 A. D. —Birth of Joseph ADDISON, English poet and essayist

1673 A. D. —Death of Jean Baptiste Poquelin MOLIERE

1674 A. D. —Birth of Isaac WATTS, English nonconformist theologian, hymn writer and author 1674 A. D. —Death of Robert HERRICK

1674 A. D. —Death of John MILTON

1675 A. D. —Birth of Ambrose PHILIPS, English poet and dramatist (supposed date) 1678 A. D. —Birth of Henry St. John, first Viscount BOLINGBROKE, English statesman, author and orator 1678 A. D. —First edition of John BUNYAN'S "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS" appears

1679 A. D. —Death of Thomas HOBBES

1680 A. D. —Death of Samuel BUTLER

1681 A. D. —Birth of Esther JOHNSON, Swift's "Stella"

1681 A. D. —Death of Pedro CALDERON de la Barca

1681 A. D. —William PENN obtains a charter creating him proprietor and governor of East New Jersey and Pennsylvania 1682 A. D. —Death of Sir Thomas BROWNE

1683 A. D. —Death of Izaak WALTON

1684 A. D. —Death of Pierre CORNEILLE

1685 A. D. —Birth of George BERKELEY, Bishop of Cloyne, English metaphysical philosopher 1685 A - D -—Birth of John GAY, English poet

1686 A. D. —Birth of Allan RAMSAY, Scottish pastoral poet

1687 A - D -—Sir Isaac NEWTON'S "PRINCIPIA" published

1687 A. D. —Death of Edmund WALLER

1688 A. D. —Birth of Alexander POPE, English poet and critic

1688 A. D. —Death of John BUNYAN

1689 A. D. —Birth of Lady Mary Wortley MONTAGU, English poet and letter writer 1689 A. D. —Birth of Samuel RICHARDSON, "the founder of the English domestic novel"

1690 A. D. —John LOCKE'S "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" published

1694 A. D. —Birth of Lord CHESTERFIELD (Philip Dormer Stanhope), English courtier, wit and orator 1694 A. D. —Birth of VOLTAIRE (Francois Marie Arouet), French philosopher

1695 A. D. —Death of Jean de LA FONTAINE

1699 A. D. —Birth of Alexander Ross, Scottish poet

1699 A. D. —Death of Jean Baptiste RACINE

1700 A. D. —Death of John DRYDEN

1700 A. D. —Birth of James THOMSON, Scottish poet

1703 A. D. —Death of Samuel PEPYS

1704 A. D. —Death of Jacques Benigne BOSSUET

1704 A. D. —Birth of William HAMILTON of Bangour, Scottish poet

1704 A. D. —Death of John LOCKE

1706 A. D. —Birth of Benjamin FRANKLIN, American statesman, scientist and author 1707 A. D. —Birth of Henry FIELDING, English novelist

1707 A. D. —Birth of Charles WESLEY, English hymn writer

1709 A. D. —Birth of Samuel JOHNSON, English lexicographer, essayist and poet 1711 A. D. —Alexander POPE'S "Essay on Criticism" written

1711 A. D. —Birth of David HUME, English philosopher and historian

1711 A. D. —"The Spectator" commenced publication

1711 A. D. —Death of Nicolas BOILEAU-Despreaux

1712 A. D. —Birth of Alison Rutherford COCKBURN, Scottish ballad writer

1712 A. D. —Birth of Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU, French author

1713 A. D. —Bishop George BERKELEY'S "DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS" published 1713 A. D. —Joseph ADDISON'S drama "Cato" appeared

1713 A. D. —Death of Lord SHAFTESBURY (Anthony Ashley Cooper)

1713 A. D. —Birth of Laurence STERNE, English author

1714 A. D. —Jonathan SWIFT appointed Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Ireland

1715 A. D. —Alexander POPE'S translations from Homer published

1715 A. D. —Death of Charles Montague, Earl of HALIFAX

1716 A. D. —Birth of Thomas GRAY, English poet

1718 A. D. —Death of William PENN

1719 A. D. —Death of Joseph ADDISON

1720 A. D. —Birth of John WOOLMAN, English Quaker preacher and social reformer 1721 A. D. —Birth of William COLLINS, English poet

1721 A. D. —Birth of John SKINNER, Scottish poet

1721 A. D. —Death of Matthew PRIOR

1722 A. D. —Birth of Christopher SMART, English poet

1723 A. D. —Birth of Adam SMITH, political economist and moral philosopher

1723 A. D. —Death of Esther VANHOMRIGH, Swift's "Vanessa"

1724 A. D. —Birth of Immanuel KANT, German metaphysician

1726 A. D. —Birth of Adam AUSTIN, English poet (supposed date)

1727 A. D. —Birth of Jane ELLIOT, English poet

1727 A. D. —Death of Sir Isaac NEWTON

1728 A. D. —Death of Esther JOHNSON ("Stella")

1728 A. D. —Birth of Oliver GOLDSMITH, English author and poet

1729 A. D. —Birth of Edmund BURKE, English statesman and orator

1729 A. D. —Death of Sir Richard STEELE

1729 A. D. —Birth of Gotthold Ephraim LESSING, German critic and dramatist

1731 A. D. —Death of Daniel DEFOE

1731 A. D. —Birth of William COWPER, English poet

1732 A. D. —"Poor Richard's Almanac" by FRANKLIN is commenced

1732 A. D. —Death of John GAY

1733 A. D. —Alexander POPE'S "ESSAY ON MAN" published

1734 A. D. —Death of John DENNIS

1735 A. D. —Birth of Robert GRAHAM of Gartmore

I 739-40 A. D -—David HUME'S "Treatise of Human Nature" published

1740 A. D. —Birth of James BOSWELL, "the greatest of English biographers"

1741 A. D. —Birth of Isobel PAGAN, Scottish poet

1742 A. D. —Henry FIELDING'S "Joseph Andrews" published

1742 A. D. —Birth of Anne HUNTER, English poet

1742 A. D. —David HUME'S Essays (first part) published

1743 A. D. —Birth of Anna Letitia BARBAULD, English poet

1744 A. D -—Death of Alexander POPE

1745 A. D. —Birth of Charles DIBDIN, English song writer and dramatist

1745 A. D. —Death of Jonathan SWIFT

1745 A. D. —Birth of Hannah MORE, English religious writer

1746 A. D. —Birth of Sir William JONES, English Orientalist and linguist

1746 A. D. —Birth of Hector MACNEIL, Scottish poet

1747 A. D. —Birth of Susanna BLAMIRE

1748 A. D. —Death of Isaac WATTS

1748 A. D. —Death of James THOMSON

1748 A. D. —Birth of John LOGAN, Scottish poet

1749 A. D. —Birth of Edward JENNER, English physician and discoverer of vaccination 1749 A. D. —Birth of Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE, German poet and critic

1750 A. D. —Birth of Lady Anne LINDSAY

1750 A. D. —Samuel JOHNSON'S "Rambler" started

1751 A. D. —Thomas GRAY'S "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" published

1751 A. D. —Birth of Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN, English dramatist, orator, and statesman 1751 A. D. —Death of Henry St. John, Viscount BOLINGBROKE

1752 A. D. —Birth of Thomas CHATTERTON, English poet

1753 A. D. —Death of Bishop George BERKELEY

1754 A. D. —Death of Henry FIELDING

1754-1762 A. D. —David HUME'S "History of England" published

1755 A. D. —Birth of John DUNLOP, English poet

1755 A. D. —Dr. Samuel JOHNSON'S Dictionary published

1756 A. D. —Edmund BURKE'S Essay on the "SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL" published

1757 A. D. —Thomas GRAY'S "Pindaric Odes" published

1757 A. D. —Birth of William BLAKE, English poet and painter

1757 A. D. —Benjamin FRANKLIN is sent to England to protest against the proprietary government of the colony of Pennsylvania 1758 A. D. —Samuel JOHNSON'S "Idler" started

1759 A. D. —Birth of Robert BURNS, the greatest of Scottish poets

1759 A. D. —Birth of Johann Christoph Friedrich von SCHILLER, German poet, dramatist, and historian 1761 A. D. —Birth of August Friedrich Ferdinand von KOTZEBUE, German dramatist

1761 A. D. —Death of Samuel RICHARDSON

1762 A. D. —Birth of William COBBETT, English political writer

1762 A. D. —Birth of William Lisle BOWLES, English poet and antiquary

1762 A. D. —J. J. ROUSSEAU'S "Contrat Social" published

1762 A. D. —Death of Lady Mary Wortley MONTAGU

1763 A. D. —Birth of Samuel ROGERS, English poet

1764 A. D. — FRANKLIN petitions George III to resume the government of the colony from the hands of the proprietors 1765 A. D. —Samuel JOHNSON'S edition of Shakespeare's works published

1766 A. D. —Birth of Caroline Oliphant, Lady NAIRNE, a Scottish poet known as "The Flower of Strathearn"

1766 A. D. —Oliver GOLDSMITH'S "Vicar of Wakefield" published

1767 A. D. —Birth of August Wilhelm von SCHLEGEL, German poet and critic; trans lator of Shakespeare 1768 A. D. —Oliver GOLDSMITH'S first dramatic attempt, "The Good-Natured Man," produced 1768 A. D. —Death of Laurence STERNE

1770 A. D. —Oliver Goldsmith's "DESERTED VILLAGE" published

1770 A. D. —Death of Thomas CHATTERTON

1770 A. D. —Birth of James HOGG, Scottish poet

1770 A. D. —Birth of William WORDSWORTH, English poet

1771 A. D. —Birth of Sir Walter SCOTT, Scottish novelist and poet

1771 A. D. —Death of Thomas GRAY

1771 A. D. —Birth of Sydney SMITH, English wit and essayist

1772 A. D. —Death of John WOOLMAN

1772 A. D. —Birth of Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE, English poet, philosopher and critic 1773 A. D. —Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE'S first important work, "Goetz von Berlichingen," produced 1773 A. D. —Death of Lord CHESTERFIELD (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

1773 A. D. —Oliver GOLDSMITH'S comedy, "SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER," first produced 1774 A. D. —Birth of Robert TANNAHILL, Scottish poet

1774 A. D. —Birth of Robert SOUTHEY, English poet and prose writer

1774 A. D. —Death of Oliver GOLDSMITH

1775 A. D. —Birth of Charles LAMB, English essayist and critic

1775 A. D. —Birth of Joseph Blanco WHITE, English clergyman and author

1775 A. D. —Birth of Walter Savage LANDOR, English poet and prose writer

1775 A. D. —Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN'S "The Rivals" first produced

1775 A. D. —Benjamin FRANKLIN chosen a member of the Continental Congress

1776 A. D. —The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE adopted by the second Continental Congress 1776 A. D. —Death of David HUME

1776 A. D. — FRANKLIN sent to France as commissioner for the United States

1776 A. D. —Adam SMITH'S "WEALTH OF NATIONS" published

1777 A. D. —Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN'S "SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL" produced

1777 A. D. —Birth of Thomas CAMPBELL, English poet

1778 A. D. —Birth of William HAZLITT, English critic and essayist

1778 A. D. —Death of J. J. ROUSSEAU

1778 A. D. —Death of Jean Francois Marie Arouet, called VOLTAIRE

1779 A. D. —Birth of Robert SURTEES, English author

1779 A. D. —Birth of Thomas MOORE, Irish poet

1780 A. D. —Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN enters Parliament

1780 A. D. —Birth of William Ellery CHANNING, American clergyman, essayist and philanthropist 1781 A. D. —The surrender of Lord CORNWALLIS at York town

1781 A. D. —Immanuel KANT'S "Critique of Pure Reason" published

1781 A. D. —Death of Gotthold Ephraim LESSING

1783 A. D. — TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN, by which the War of the Revolution was ended and the United States recognized by Great Britain as a free and independent nation 1783 A. D. —Birth of Reginald HEBER, English prelate and hymn writer

1783 A. D. —Birth of Washington IRVING, American historian, essayist and novelist 1784 A. D. —Death of Samuel JOHNSON

1784 A. D. —Birth of Allan CUNNINGHAM, Scottish poet and general writer

1784 A. D. —Birth of Leigh HUNT, English essayist and poet

1785 A. D. —Birth of Count Alessandro MANZONI, Italian novelist and poet

1785 A. D. —William COWPER'S "Task" published

1785 A. D. — "FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS," by Immanuel KANT, published 1785 A. D. —Birth of Jakob GRIMM, German philologist and writer

1785 A. D. —Birth of Thomas DE QUINCEY, English essayist and miscellaneous writer 1786 A. D. —Birth of Wilhelm GRIMM, German philologist and writer

1787 A. D. —Birth of Francois Pierre Guillaume GUIZOT, French historian and statesman 1787 A. D. —Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE'S play of "EGMONT" begun, published twelve years later 1787 A. D. —"The FEDERALIST," articles by Alexander HAMILTON, James MADISON and John JAY, begun in "The Independent Journal," New York 1787 A. D. —The CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES is drawn up at Philadelphia 1788 A. D.— Death of Charles WESLEY

1788 A. D. —Birth of Lord BYRON (George Gordon), English poet

1788 A. D. —Birth of Sir Aubrey DE VERE, Irish poet

1788 A. D. —Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN delivers his great speech at the trial of Warren Hastings 1789 A. D. — WASHINGTON delivers his first inaugural address

1789 A. D. —Nine of the thirteen United States ratify the CONSTITUTION

1790 A. D. —Edmund BURKE'S "REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE" published 1790 A. D. —Death of Benjamin FRANKLIN

1791 A. D. —Birth of Charles WOLFE, British clergyman and poet

1791 A. D. —Birth of Michael FARADAY, English physicist and chemist

1792 A. D. —Birth of John KEBLE, English clergyman and religious poet

1792-1793 A. D. —Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE takes part in the wars against France 1792 A. D. —Birth of Percy Bysshe SHELLEY, English poet

1793 A. D. —Birth of Henry Francis LYTE, British hymn writer

1793 A. D. —Queen MARIE ANTOINETTE of France guillotined

1794 A. D. —Birth of John Gibson LOCKHART, Scottish author

1794 A. D. —The United States TREATY WITH THE SiX NATIONS OF INDIANS concluded 1794 A. D. —Edmund BURKE delivers a nine days' speech in the Warren Hastings trial 1794 A. D. —Birth of William Cullen BRYANT, American poet and journalist

1795 A. D. —Birth of George DARLEY, English poet

1795 A. D. —Birth of Thomas CARLYLE, Scottish essayist and historian

1795 A. D. —Birth of John KEATS, English poet

1795 A. D. —Death of James BOSWELL

1796 A. D. — WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS read in the House of Representatives 1796 A. D. —"A LETTER FROM THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE TO A NOBLE LORD" appears 1796 A. D. —Edward JENNER makes his first experiment in vaccination

1796 A. D. —Death of Robert BURNS

1796 A. D. —Birth of Hartley COLERIDGE, English poet

1797 A. D. —Birth of Sir Charles LYELL, English geologist

1797 A. D. —Death of Edmund BURKE

1798 A. D. — JENNER'S FIRST TREATISE ON THE SMALL-POX published

1798 A. D. —Birth of Thomas HOOD, English poet and humorist

1798 A. D. — COLERIDGE'S "ANCIENT MARINER" published

1799 A. D. —Birth of Heinrich HEINE, German poet and critic

1800 A. D. —Death of William COWPER

1800 A. D. —Birth of Thomas Babington MACAULAY, English historian, essayist, poet and statesman 1801 A. D. —Birth of Sir Henry LYTTON, Earl Bulwer

1802 A. D. —Birth of Hugh MILLER, Scottish geologist and writer

1802 A. D. —Birth of Victor Marie HUGO, French lyric poet and novelist

1803 A. D. — TREATY WITH FRANCE, FOR THE CESSION OF LOUISIANA, concluded

1803 A. D. —Birth of Ralph Waldo EMERSON, American essayist, lecturer and poet 1804 A. D. —Death of Immanuel KANT

1804 A. D. —Birth of Robert Stephen HAWKER, English poet and divine

1804 A. D. —Birth of Charles Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE, French critic

1805 A. D. —Death of Johann Christoph Friedrich SCHILLER

1805 A. D. —Birth of Sarah Flower ADAMS, English poet, author of "Nearer, my God, to Thee"

1805 A. D. —Birth of Hans Christian ANDERSEN, Danish novelist, poet and writer of fairy tales 1806 A. D. —Birth of Elizabeth Barrett BROWNING, English poet

1806 A. D. —Birth of John Stuart MILL, English philosopher and economist

1807 A. D. —Birth of Lady DUFFERIN, Irish poet

1807 A. D. —Birth of Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW, American poet

1807 A. D. —Birth of John Greenleaf WHITTIER, American poet

1808 A. D. —Birth of Ray PALMER, American hymn writer

1808 A. D. —Birth of Giuseppe MAZZINI, Italian patriot and writer

1808 A. D. —Birth of Charles Tennyson TURNER, English poet

1809 A. D. —Birth of Edgar Allan POE, American poet and story writer

1809 A. D. —Birth of Oliver Wendell HOLMES, American poet, essayist and novelist 1809 A. D. —Birth of Richard Monckton MILNES, Lord Houghton, English statesman, poet and miscellaneous writer 1809 A. D. —Birth of Alfred TENNYSON, English poet

1809 A. D. —Birth of Charles Robert DARWIN, English naturalist, founder of the "Darwinian" theory of evolution 1809 A. D. —Birth of Edward FITZGERALD, English poet, translator of the "RUBAIYAT" of Omar Khayyam 1810 A. D. —Birth of Sir Samuel FERGUSON, Irish poet

1811 A. D. —Birth of William Makepeace THACKERAY, English novelist, satirist and critic 1812-1815 A. D. —"Kinder-und Hausmarchen," fairy stories by the Brothers GRIMM, published 1812 A. D. —Birth of Robert BROWNING, English poet and dramatist

1812 A. D. —Birth of Charles DICKENS, English novelist

1813 A. D. —Birth of William Edmondstoune AYTOUN, Scottish lawyer, poet and editor 1814 A. D. —Birth of Frederick William FABER, English hymn writer

1816 A. D. —Death of Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN, English orator, wit and dramatist 1817 A. D. —Lord BYRON'S first poetic drama "MANFRED" appears

1817 A. D. — AGREEMENT BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES REGARDING THE NAVAL FORCE TO BE MAINTAINED ON THE GREAT LAKES

1817 A. D. —Birth of Henry David THOREAU, American author

1818 A. D. —Birth of Emily BRONTE, English poet and novelist

1819 A. D. — SPAIN cedes Florida to the United States

1819 A. D. —Birth of Arthur Hugh CLOUGH, English poet

1819 A. D. —Chief Justice John MARSHALL, delivers his opinion in the case of McCuLLOGH vs. MARYLAND

1819 A. D. —Birth of Walt WHITMAN, American poet

1819 A. D. —Birth of James Russell LOWELL, American poet, critic and scholar 1819 A. D. —Birth of John RUSKIN, English art critic

1821 A. D. —Death of John KEATS

1822 A. D. —Death of Percy Bysshe SHELLEY

1822 A. D. —Birth of Louis PASTEUR, French chemist and bacteriologist, founder of modern stereo-chemistry and discoverer of cure for hydrophobia 1822 A. D. —Birth of Matthew ARNOLD, English poet and critic

1823 A. D. —President James MONROE promulgates his doctrine, the so-called MONROE DOCTRINE, against foreign encroachment and interference in the Americas 1823 A. D. —Birth of William Johnson CORY, English poet

1823 A. D. —Birth of Coventry PATMORE, English poet and writer

1823 A. D. —Thomas CARLYLE'S first long work, "Life of Schiller" published

1823 A. D. —Death of Edward JENNER

1823 A. D. —Birth of Professor Max MULLER, German-English philologist

1823 A. D. —Birth of Ernest RENAN, French philologist and religious historian 1823 A. D. —Birth of Edward Augustus FREEMAN, English historian

1823 A. D. —Charles LAMB'S "Essays of Elia" published

1824 A. D. —Birth of Sydney DOBELL, English poet

1824 A. D. —Death of Lord BYRON

1824 A. D. —Birth of George MACDONALD, Scottish novelist and poet

1824 A. D. —Birth of William ALLINGHAM, Irish poet

1825-1826 A. D. —Alessandro MANZONI'S masterpiece, the novel, "I PROMESSI SPOSI" ("The Betrothed"), published 1825 A. D. —Birth of Thomas Henry HUXLEY, English biologist

1825 A. D. —Lord MACAULAY'S Essays published

1826 A. D. —Death of Reginald HEBER

1826 A. D. —Birth of Walter BAGEHOT, English economist, publicist and journalist 1827 A. D. —Birth of Joseph LISTER, founder of antiseptic surgery

1828 A. D. —Birth of Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI, English poet and painter

1828 A. D. —Birth of George MEREDITH, English novelist and poet

1828 A. D. —Birth of Hippolyte Adolphe TAINE, French historian

1829 A. D. —Birth of Alexander SMITH, Scottish poet

1830 A. D. —Birth of Thomas Edward BROWN, English poet

1830 A. D. —Birth of Christina ROSSETTI, English poet

1830 A. D. — LYELL'S "Principles of Geology" published

1830 A. D. —Death of William HAZLITT

1831 A. D. —Birth of Edward, Earl of LYTTON, English poet

1831 A. D. —On the 27th of December Charles DARWIN started on his famous voyage around the world in Her Majesty's ship "Beagle"

1832 A. D. —Death of Sir Walter SCOTT

1832 A. D. —Death of Wolfgang von GOETHE

1832 A. D. — MAZZINI exiled from France

1833 A. D. — BROWNING'S first published poem, "Pauline," appears

1833 A. D. —John Henry NEWMAN cooperates with Froude and others in founding the "Oxford Movement"

1834 A. D. —Death of Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE

1834 A. D. —Birth of William MORRIS, English poet

1834 A. D. —Birth of James THOMSON (B. V.), Scottish poet

1834 A. D. —Death of Charles LAMB

1835 A. D. —Birth of Sir Archibald GEIKIE, Scottish geologist

1835 A. D. —First volume of fairy tales by Hans Christian ANDERSEN is published 1837 A. D. —Birth of Algernon Charles SWINBURNE, English poet

1839 A. D. —Birth of Francis Bret HARTE, American author and poet

1841 A. D. —Birth of Robert BUCHANAN, English poet and novelist

1841 A. D. — EMERSON'S Essays published

1842 A. D. —Birth of Sidney LANIER, American poet and author

1842 A. D. — TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN ON THE BOUNDARIES QUESTION, ratified 1842 A. D. —Death of William Ellery CHANNING

1843 A. D. —John RUSKIN'S "Modern Painters" (First volume) appears

1843 A - D -— BROWNING'S tragedy, "A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON, is published and acted 1843 A. D. —Death of Robert SOUTHEY

1844 A. D. —Birth of Arthur O'SHAUGHNESSY, English poet

1844 A. D. —Birth of John Boyle O'REILLY, Irish-American poet and journalist 1845 A. D. —J. H. NEWMAN leaves the Anglican Church for the Catholic

1845 A. D. — POE'S "RAVEN" published

1845 A. D. —Death of Sydney SMITH

1846 A. D. — THACKERAY'S "Vanity Fair" published

1848-1849 A. D. — MAZZINI returns from banishment to join the Italian revolution when the French besieged Rome and ended the Roman Republic 1848 A. D. — TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, ratified

1848 A. D. — MACAULAY'S "History of England" published

1849 A. D. —Birth of William Ernest HENLEY, English author

1849 A. D. —Death of Edgar Allan POE

1850 A. D. —The FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT passed in the United States

1850 A. D. — THACKERAY'S "Pendennis" published

1850 A. D. —Death of William Lisle BOWLES

1850 A. D. —Birth of Robert Louis STEVENSON, Scottish author

1850 A. D. —Death of William WORDSWORTH

1852 A. D. —Death of Thomas MOORE

1853 A. D. —Irish text and English translation of "The Battle of Gabra" by Nicholas O'KEARNEY first published 1854 A. D. — THOREAU'S "Walden" published

1855 A. D. —Walt WHITMAN'S "Leaves of Grass" published

1855 A. D. — THACKERAY'S "The Newcomes" published

1856 A. D. —Death of Heinrich HEINE

1857 A. D. — MAZZINI joins the insurrection in Italy fighting under Garibaldi 1857-1859 A. D. — THACKERAY'S "The Virginians" published

1859 A. D. — DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES" published

1859 A. D. —John Stuart MILL'S "ESSAY ON LIBERTY" published

1859 A. D. —Death of Leigh HUNT

1859 A. D. —Death of Lord MACAULAY

1859 A. D. —Death of Thomas DE QUINCEY

1861 A. D. —President LINCOLN delivers his first inaugural address

1861 A. D. —Death of Elizabeth Barrett BROWNING

1862 A. D.— Death of H. D. THOREAU

1863 A. D. —President LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

1863 A. D. —President LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF AMNESTY

1863 A. D. —The EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION issued by President Abraham Lincoln 1863 A. D. — TAINE'S "History of English Literature" published

1863 A. D. —Death of William M. THACKERAY

1864 A. D. —Death of Walter Savage LANDOR

1865 A. D. —General Robert E. LEE surrenders at Appomattox

1865 A. D. —General Lee's FAREWELL TO HIS ARMY

1865 A. D. —President LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

1865 A. D. — ]. R. LOWELL'S "Commemoration Ode" published

1866 A. D. —President Johnson's PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE INSURRECTION AT AN END

1866 A. D. —Death of John KEBLE

1867 A. D. —The United States concludes a TREATY WITH RUSSIA, ANNEXING ALASKA by purchase 1867 A. D. —Death of Michael FARADAY

1867 A. D. —John Stuart MILL begins his "AUTOBIOGRAPHY"

1867-1879 A. D. —E. A. FREEMAN'S "History of the Norman Conquest" published

1869 A. D. —Death of Charles Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

1869 A. D. —John Stuart MILL issues his "Subjection of Women," a standard plea for the rights of women 1870 A. D. —Death of Charles DICKENS

1872 A. D. —Death of Giuseppe MAZZINI

1873 A. D -—Death of John Stuart MILL

1874 A. D. —Death of Francois Pierre GUIZOT

1875 A. D. —Death of Sir Charles LYELL

1875 A. D. —Death of Hans Christian ANDERSEN

1878 A. D. —Death of William Cullen BRYANT

1879 A. D. —John Henry NEWMAN made a Cardinal

1881 A. D. —Death of Thomas CARLYLE

1882 A. D. —Death of Charles DARWIN

1882 A. D. —Death of Henry W. LONGFELLOW

1882 A. D. —Death of Ralph Waldo EMERSON

1882 A. D. —Sir Archibald GEIKIE'S "GEOGRAPHICAL EVOLUTION" published

1885 A. D. —Death of Victor HUGO

1888-1894 A. D. —Ernest RENAN'S "History of Israel" published

1888 A. D. —Death of Matthew ARNOLD

1891 A. D. —Death of James Russell LOWELL

1892 A. D. —Death of Walt WHITMAN

1892 A. D. —Death of John G. WHITTIER

1892 A. D. —Death of Alfred, Lord TENNYSON

1892 A. D. —Death of Ernest RENAN

1892 A. D. —Death of Edward Bulwer, Earl of LYTTON

1893 A. D -—Death of Hippolyte Adolphe TAINE

1894 A. D. —Death of Oliver Wendell HOLMES

1895 A. D. —Death of Louis PASTEUR

1895 A. D. —Death of Thomas Henry HUXLEY

1896 A. D. —Death of William MORRIS

1898 A. D. — ANNEXATION OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS by the United States

1898 A. D. — TREATY OF PEACE signed BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN

1898 A. D. — RECOGNITION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA BY THE UNITED STATES

1904 A. D. — CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

SELECTIONS FROM THE FIVE-FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS

For Boys and Girls from Twelve to Eighteen Years of Age "Enclosed please find a list of selections from the Harvard Classics which I have preared in consultation with Dr. Nielson for the use of boys and girls of from twelve to fifteen years of age, in answer to your suggestion of October fourth."

Charles M. Eliot

VOL/PAGE

Aesop's FABLES XVII 11-14

GRIMM'S TALES XVII 47-218

ANDERSEN'S TALES XVII 221-361

HOMER — The Odyssey XXII

VIRGIL— The Aeneid XIII

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS XVI

THE SONG OF ROLAND XLIX 95-195

ROBIN HOOD XL 128-186

TRADITIONAL BALLADS — Selections at pleasure XL

MALORY, SIR THOMAS — The Holy Grail .XXXV 105-214

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS XXXIII

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN — Autobiography 1 5-162

JOHN BUNYAN — The Pilgrim's Progress XV 5-319

SHAKESPEARE — Macbeth and The Tempest XLVI 319-463

THOMAS DEKKER — The Shoemaker's Holiday .XLVII 469-537

PLUTARCH'S LIVES XII

FROISSART XXXV 7-101

AMBROISE PARE — Journeys XXXVIII 9-58

MANZONI— The Betrothed XXI

R. H. DANA— Two Years before the Mast XXIII DARWIN— The Voyage of the Beagle XXIX

JOSEPH ADDISON — The Vision of Mirza XXVII 73~77

GOLDSMITH — She Stoops to Conquer XVIII 205-269

GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village XLI 5 0 9~5 I 9

SCHILLER— William Tell XXVI 379-489

GOETHE — Hermann and Dorothea XIX 337-410

MICHAEL DRAYTON — Agincourt and To the Virginian Voyage XL 222-228

COWPER — John Gilpin XLI 546-554

WORDSWORTH — Michael XLI 615-627

SIR WALTER SCOTT — Poems XLI 738-756

MACAULAY — Poems XLI 915-917

COLERIDGE — The Ancient Mariner XLI 682-701

JAMES HOGG — Kilmeny XLI 756-765

THOMAS CAMPBELL — Poems XLI 770-781

LORD BYRON — The Prisoner of Chilian XLI 801-811

LORD BYRON — The Destruction of Sennacherib XLI 785

LORD BYRON— The Isles of Greece XLI 812-815

THOMAS MOORE — Poems XLI 816-822

LEIGH HUNT — Abou Ben Adhem XLI 870-871

KEATS— The Eve of St. Agnes XLI 883-893

TENNYSON — Morte d'Arthur XLII 986-992

TENNYSON — Sir Galahad XLII 1002-1004

TENNYSON — The Charge of the Light Brigade .XLII 1005-1007

TENNYSON — The Revenge XLII 1007-1010

RUSKIN — Sesame and Lilies XXVIII 93-162

THACKERAY— The End of the Play XLII 1058-1060

ROBERT BROWNING — How They Brought the Good News XLII 1066-1067

SYDNEY DOBELL — The Ballad of Keith of Ravel ston XLII 1114-1116

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI — The King's Tragedy XLII 1153-1178

WILLIAM E. HENLEY — England, My England XLII 1210-1212

BRYANT — Robert of Lincoln XLII 1215-1217

BRYANT — To a Waterfowl XLII 1222-1223

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW — Poems XLII 1264-1338

JOHN G. WHITTIER — Randolph of Roanoke XLII 1341-1344

JOHN G. WHITTIER — Barclay of Ury XLII 1347-1351

JOHN G. WHITTIER — The Barefoot Boy XLII I 355~ I 357

JOHN G. WHITTIER — The Pipes at Lucknow XLII 1360-1362

JOHN G. WHITTIER — Barbara Frietchie XLII 1362-1364

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — The Chambered

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — Nautilus XLII 1365-1366

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — Old Ironsides XLII 1366

SIDNEY LANIER — The Revenge of Hamish . . XLII I 393~ I 398

FRANK A. HASKELL — The Battle of Gettysburg . XLIII 326

ABRAHAM LINCOLN — Speech at Gettysburg . . XLIII 415

SELECTIONS — From Sacred Writings XLIV

SELECTIONS — Some representation of each of the six religions XLV

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations.

Vols. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding Vol. 3: A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne; Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen Vol. 4: Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott

Vol. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray Vols. 7 & 8: David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens Vol. 9: The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

Vol. 10: The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; Three Short Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe; Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte; Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens; The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale Vol. 11: The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James Vol. 12: Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo Vol. 13: Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac; The Devil's Pool, by George Sand; The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset; Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet; Two Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant Vols. 14 & 15: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von Goethe; The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller; The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm; Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane Vols. 16 & 17: Anna Karenina & Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy Vol. 18: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Vol. 19: A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev Vol. 20: Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera; A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

Table of Contents

THE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

THE EDITOR'S SECOND INTRODUCTION

List of Volume Numbers

READER'S GUIDE TO THE HARVARD CLASSICS

CLASS I

A- THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

B- RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

C- EDUCATION

D- SCIENCE

E- POLITICS

F- VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

G- CRITICISM OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS

CLASS II

A- DRAMA

B- BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS

C- ESSAYS

D- NARRATIVE POETRY AND PROSE FICTION

INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS

Poems- A

Poems- B

Poems- C

Poems- D-E

Poems- F

Poems- G

Poems- H

Poems- I

Poems- J-K

Poems- L

Poems- M

Poems- N

Poems- O

Poems- P-R

Poems- S

Poems- T

Poems- U-V

Poems- W

Poems- X-Z

SELECTIONS FROM THE FIVE-FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction