SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616).

58. Who will believe my verse?

59. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

60. When to the sessions.

61. Full many a glorious morning

62. Like as the waves

63. Tired with all these

64. No longer mourn

65. That time of year

66. But be contented

67. When in the chronicle

68. Let me not to the marriage

69. Song from "The Tempest "

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70. Song from "Measure for Measure"

71. Song from "Much Ado about Nothing"

72. Song from "Cymbeline"

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SHELLEY (1792-1822).

73. Song from "Prometheus Unbound"

WORDSWORTH (1770-1850).

93. She dwelt among the untrodden ways

94. She was a Phantom of delight

95. The world is too much with us

96. Earth has not anything

97. To a Highland Girl, at Inversneyde, upon Loch

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WOTTON (1568-1639).

100. On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia

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ENGLISH POEMS.

I.

ANONYMOUS.

Madrigal.

Love not me for comely grace,

For my pleasing eye or face;
Nor for any outward part,
No, nor for my constant heart:

For those may fail or turn to ill,
So thou and I shall sever:

Keep therefore a true woman's eye,

And love me still, but know not why;

So hast thou the same reason still

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MATTHEW ARNOLD.

The Forsaken Merman.

COME, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below.

Now my brothers call from the bay;

Now the great winds shorewards blow;
Now the salt tides seawards flow;
Now the wild white horses play,

Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Children dear, let us away.

This way, this way.

Call her once before you go.

Call once yet.

In a voice that she will know:

"Margaret! Margaret!"

Children's voices should be dear

(Call once more) to a mother's ear: