POEMS Chosen by Boys and Girls - Book IV
Arranged by Fowler Wright
and Crompton Rhodes
Basil Blackwell
Broad Street, Oxford
MDCCCCXXIV
BOOK IV
... Again, the dream is true:
Again, to each, the well-worn path is new.
PREFACE
The poems in these little books of verse have been chosen, not by a man or a woman, but by ten thousand boys and girls. This needs some explanation. They are the result of an appeal in Poetry for the assistance of those teachers who love poetry, and who have conveyed their love of poetry to their boys and girls. The appeal at once received the cordial sympathy and support of the entire educational press, and the response was a large number of essays containing lists of poems which were received from teachers in every type of school, public and private, urban and rural, primary and secondary. The poems in each list were those which had appealed most to scholars, which had given them the deepest joy, the highest delight. With singular generosity these lovers of poetry placed at the disposal of the editors the wisdom and experience of years, often with hundreds of children, in many schools. Ten thousand is, indeed, too low a figure to cover the number of collaborators, and to those teachers who contributed these most valuable essays the warm thanks of the publishers and the editors are tendered.
Apart from the arranging of the poems into books and negotiating copyrights, the editors' work has been, and been only, the ensuring that the poems chosen are those which, under the guidance of lovers of poetry, have carried their beauty into the hearts of the boys and girls - the real collaborators of these books.
S. F.W. & R. C. R.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for permission to reprint are due to John Murray (for Robert Bridges), A. P. Watt and Son (for William Butler Yeats), Hilaire Belloc, John Drinkwater, the Merton Press, Ltd. (for Constance A.Renshaw and Anita Moor), John Masefield, Sidgwick and Jackson (for Rupert Brooke), and Macmillan, Ltd. (for Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Edward Brown).
CONTENTS
A Passer-by | Robert Bridges |
The Vagabond | John Drinkwater |
Sea-Fever | John Masefeld |
Yorkshire Ways | Constance H. Renshaw |
From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' | Sir Walter Scott |
The South Country | Hilaire Belloc |
Ozymandias of Egypt | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Buy my English Posies | Rudyard Kipling |
The Fatherland | James Russell Lowell |
Roofs | Joyce Kilmer |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree | William Butler Yeats |
The Shell | Lord Tennyson |
The Chambered Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
La Belle Dame Sans Merci | John Keats |
Sir Galahad | Lord Tennyson |
The Little Tower | William Morris |
The Battle of Naseby | Lord Macaulay |
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | John Milton |
The Revenge | Lord Tennyson |
'How they Brought the Good News | |
from Ghent to Aix' | Robert Browning |
From'Childe Harold' | Lord Byron |
From 'Paradise Lost' (Book I) | John Milton |
The Parting | Michael Drayton |
Saturn and Thea (From 'Hyperion') | John Keats |
When Love Meets Love | Thomas Edward Brown |
Brignall's Banks | Sir Walter Scott |
True Love | William Shakespeare |
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love | Christopher Marlowe |
It was a Lover | William Shakespeare |
Counsel to Girls | Robert Herrick |
Go, Lovely Rose | Edmund Waller |
The Blessed Damozel | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
The Valley of Humiliation | John Bunyan |
A Lyric | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Trust Thou Thy Love | John Ruskin |
The Happy Heart | Thomas Dekker |
On his Blindness | John Milton |
From 'The Light of Asia' | Edwin Arnold |
Where Lies the Land? | Arthur Hugh Clough |
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth | Arthur Hugh Clough |
A Christmas Hymn | Alfred Domett |
Up-hill | Christina G. Rossetti |
Sit Lightly in the Saddle, Lads | Anita Moor |
We Cannot Kindle When We Will | Matthew Arnold |
The Dead | Rupert Brooke |
Prospice | Robert Browning |
Crossing the Bar | Lord Tennyson |
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