on meeting in recent verse new images in their untarnished lustre, like coins fresh from the mint, unworn and unsoiled by passing from pocket to pocket. It is curious, also, to observe how a certain set of hackneyed phrases, which Leigh Hunt, I believe, was the first to ridicule, and which were once used for the convenience of rounding out a line or supplying a rhyme, have disappeared from our poetry, and how our blank verse in the hands of the most popular writers has dropped its stiff Latinisms and all the awkward distortions resorted to by those who thought that by putting a sentence out of its proper shape they were writing like Milton. I have now brought this brief survey of the progress of our poetry down to the present time, and refer the reader, for samples of it in the different stages of its existence, to those which are set before him in this volume. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. England, 1615-1691. Moonlight in Summer From: Love breathing Thanks and Praise. 395 BOKER, GEORGE HENRY. BAYLY, THOMAS HAYNES. England, 1797 - 1839. Philadelphia, Pa., 1824-1890. The Mistletoe Bough 891 Countess Laura From: Ise of Beauty, 248; The Pilot, 632; Dirge for a Soldier The Rose that all are praising, 205; Why don't the men propose? 214. Prince Adeb. Publishers: J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. Newport, Ky., 1815-1893. 553 469 BEATTIE, JAMES. Scotland, 1735-1803. Morning (The Minstrel)' From: The Minstrel, 493, 559, 812. BEAUMONT, FRANCIS. England, 1586-1616. From:- Humorous Lieutenant, 310; Letter to Ben Jonson, 939. BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, and FLETCHER, JOHN. Folding the Flocks 469 "Hence, all ye vain delights" (Nice Valour) 315 BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL. England, 1809 1849- "If thou wilt ease thine heart" BEERS, MRS ETHELIN ELIOT (Ethel Lynn). Goshen, A Y.. b. 1825 Died in Orange, N. J., 1879. The Picket-Guard 303 England, 1762-1850. 630 "Come to these scenes of peace" Greenwood, The 403 447 Rhine, On the Publishers: Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. BENNETT, HENRY. England, b. about 1785. St. Patrick was a gentleman . 1004 England, 1792-1872. "From the recesses of a lowly spirit" 203, 204, 205, 215, 309, 310, 396, 490, 631, 632 Rose-Bush, The (From the German) CALIDASA. India, 1st Century B. C. 741 Baby, The (Sir William Jones's Trans) Gougaune Barra Blighted Love (Lord Strangford's Trans.). 261 England, 1600 1680. Hudibras' Sword and Dagger. 506 Hudibras, The Logic of 945 CAMOENS, LUIS DE. Hudibras, The Religion of From: Hudibras, 108, 205, 215, 309, 347, 395, 387 Hope (Pleasures of Hope) 743 Kiss, The First 185 573 Lord Ullin's Daughter 338 Adieu, adieu! my native shore". 238 Napoleon and the British Sailor 616 Augusta, To Poland 223 Coliseum by Moonlight (Manfred) 680 River of Life, The 583 741 Coliseum, The (Childe Harold). 681 Soldier's Dream, The 529 Greek Poet. Song of the (Don Juan) 580 CAREW, LADY ELIZABETH. Lake Leman, Calm and Storm on (Childe England, pub. 1613. Harold) 685 Revenge of Injuries (Mariam) 789 CAREW, THOMAS. "Maid of Athens, ere we part" 234 England, 1589-1639. Compliment, The 126 144 141 422 CAREY, HENRY 142 198 Ohio, b. 1839 995 342 391 89 172 |