"BLESSINGS BE WITH THEM, AND ETERNAL PRAISE,
WHO GAVE US NOBLER LOVES, AND NOBLER CARES,
THE POETS!" - Wordsworth.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER & CO., AVE MARIA LANE.

LIVERPOOL: EDWARD HOWELL, CHURCH STREET.

MDCCCLIII.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

MAR 28 1939

"POETRY IS THE RECORD OF THE BEST AND HAPPIEST MOMENTS OF THE

HAPPIEST AND BEST MINDS."

D. MARPLES, PRINTER, LIVERPOOL.

Shelley.

The Reward of Virtue, (from the "Essay on Man,") POPE,

Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel,

15

LEIGH HUNT,

17

A Satyr presenting Fruit to a Shepherdess,

FLETCHER,

Page

48

The Bride, (from "A Ballad upon a Wedding,") SUCKLING,

50

The Poet's Bridal-Day Song,

The Grasshopper, (Anacreontic,)

Death's Final Conquest,

Youth and Age,

Sonnet, (29,)

Stanzas for Music,

Lucy Gray; or Solitude,

Song. On May Morning,

Song, (from "As you like it,")

The Romance of the Swan's Nest,

Music, (from "The Faerie Queen,”)

A Pastoral Evening,

Bermudas,

To Althea, (from Prison)

To Daffodils,

Song,

Dirge, (from "The Broken Heart,")

The Past,

Home-thoughts, from Abroad,

Ode to a Nightingale,

Early Morning,

Winter in Scotland, (from "Marmion,”)

The Garden of Adonis, (from "The Faerie Queen,") SPENSER,

Morning; its Music, (from "The Minstrel,") BEATTIE,

93

The Procession of the Seasons, (from "The Faerie Queen,") SPENSER, 94