THE LAND OF SONG
Book III.
FOR UPPER GRAMMAR GRADES
SELECTED BY
KATHARINE H. SHUTE
EDITED BY
LARKIN DUNTON, LL.D.
HEAD MASTER OF THE BOSTON NORMAL SCHOOL
SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY
New York BOSTON Chicago
1899
Copyright, 1899,
By Silver, Burdett & Company.
C. J. PETERS & SON, TYPOGRAPHERS, BOSTON.
Plimpton Press
H. M. PLIMPTON & CO., PRINTERS & BINDERS,
NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.
Compilers' Preface.
The inestimable value of literature in supplying healthful recreation, in opening the mind to larger views of life, and in creating ideals that shall mold the spiritual nature, is conceded now by every one who has intelligently considered the problems of education. But the basis upon which literature shall be selected and arranged is still a matter of discussion.
Chronology, race-correspondence, correlation, and ethical training should all be recognized incidentally; but the main purpose of the teacher of literature is to send children on into life with a genuine love for good reading. To accomplish this, three things should be true of the reading offered: first, it should be literature; second, it should be literature of some scope, not merely some small phase of literature, such as the fables, or the poetry of one of the less eminent poets; and third, it should appeal to children's natural interests. Children's interests, varied as they seem, center in the marvelous and the preternatural; in the natural world; and in human life, especially child life and the romantic and heroic aspects of mature life. In the selections made for each grade, we have recognized these different interests.
To grade poetry perfectly for different ages is an impossibility; much of the greatest verse is for all ages—that is one reason why it is great. A child of five will lisp the numbers of Horatius with delight; and Scott's Lullaby of an Infant Chief, with its romantic color and its exquisite human tenderness, is dear to childhood, to manhood, and to old age. But the Land of Song is a great undiscovered country to the little child; by some road or other he must find his way into it; and these volumes simply attempt to point out a path through which he may be led into its happy fields.
Our earnest thanks are due to the following publishers for permission to use copyrighted poems: to Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for poems by Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Aldrich, Bayard Taylor, James T. Fields, Phœbe Cary, Lucy Larcom, Celia Thaxter, and Sarah Orne Jewett; to D. Appleton & Co. for a large number of Bryant's poems: to Charles Scribner's Sons for two poems by Stevenson, from Underwoods, and A Child's Garden of Verses; to J. B. Lippincott & Co. for two poems by Thomas Buchanan Read; and to Henry T. Coates & Co. for a poem by Charles Fenno Hoffman.
The present volume is intended for the seventh, eighth, and ninth school years, or higher grammar grades. It is the third of three books prepared for use in the grades below the high school. As no collection of this size can supply as much poetry as may be used to advantage, and as many desirable poems by American writers have necessarily been omitted, we have noted at the end of this volume lists of poems which it would be well to add to the material given here, that our children may realize the scope and beauty of the poetry of their own land.
CONTENTS
Ballad of the Boat, The 119 Bannockburn 52 Before Sedan 109 Beggar Maid, The 98 Birkenhead, The
Cavalier, The 230 Consolation, A 261 County Guy 96 Crossing the Bar 269 Cumnor Hall 27
Deathbed, The 152 Death the Leveler 60 Deserted House, The 238 Dora 160 Downfall of Wolsey, The 177
Each and All 172 Elaine 248 Elegy written in a Country Churchyard 184 Evening (Milton) 212 Evening (Scott) 97
Faith 206 Fall of Poland, The 181 Flow Gently, Sweet Afton 196 Forbearance 260
Glenara 104 Good Great Man, The 59 Growing Old 253
Harp that once through Tara's Halls, The 183 Helvellyn 101 Hervé Riel 141 Hester 165
Ichabod 178 Immortality 202 In Heavenly Love abiding 245 Ivry 136
Jacobite's Epitaph, A 236 Jacobite in Exile, A 232 Jaffar 57 John Anderson 113
Knight's Tomb, The 103
Lady of Shalott, The 76 Last Leaf, The 239 Last rose of Summer, The 15 Light of Other Days, The 111 Light shining out of Darkness, The 134 Lochiel's Warning 61 Lochinvar 50 London, 1802 229 Lord of Himself 58 Lost Leader, The 180 Lucy 192
Man and Nature 74 Man that hath no Music in Himself, The 91 Morning 75 My Doves 206 My Love
Neckan, The 116 Night and Death 201 Nora's Vow 255
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 226 Of Old sat Freedom 49 O God, our Help in Ages Past 140 Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids 195 Oh, wert Thou in the Cauld Blast 260 On First looking into Chapman's Homer 218 On his Blindness 46 On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture 241 On the Sea 120 Outlaw, The 257 Ozymandias of Egypt 61
Patriot, The 150 Petition to Time, A 104 Pillar of the Cloud, The 135 Poet and the Bird, The 115
Qua Cursum Ventus 210 Quality of Mercy, The 30 Quiet Work 213
Raising of Lazarus, The 204 Recessional 270 Rhodora, The 174 Romance of the Swan's Nest 82 Rosabelle 24 Rugby Chapel 147
Safe Home 133 St. Agnes' Eve 246 Sands of Dee, The 16 Say not, the Struggle Naught availeth
Telling the Bees 86 Thanksgiving to God for His House, A 157 There'll Never be Peace 231 Three Fishers, The 236 To a Mountain Daisy 95 To a Skylark (Shelley) 261 To a Skylark (Wordsworth) 26 To the Daisy 92 Triumph of Charis 198 True Knighthood 252 Twilight Calm 70
Ulysses 218
Village Preacher, The 190
Waterloo 266 Wendell Phillips 149 Where lies the Land to which the Ship would go 114 White Ship, The 121
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Man and Nature 74 My Doves 206 Romance of the Swan's Nest 82 The Poet and the Bird 115 The Sleep 153
Browning, Robert. Apparitions 253 Boot and Saddle 231 Growing Old: A Selection 253 Hervé Riel 141 Home Thoughts from Abroad 69 Song from "Pippa Passes" 73 The Lost Leader 180 The Patriot 150
Bryant, William Cullen. "Blessed are They that Mourn" 151 Hymn to the North Star 211 Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids 195 The Antiquity of Freedom 13
Burns, Robert. Auld Lang Syne 112 Bannockburn 52 Bonnie Lesley 167 Flow Gently, Sweet Afton 196 John Anderson 113 Oh, wert Thou in the Cauld Blast 260 There'll Never be Peace 231 To a Mountain Daisy 95
Byron, Lord (George Noel Gordon). She walks in Beauty 9 Sonnet on Chillon 14 Stanzas for Music 196 Waterloo: A Selection
Campbell, Thomas. Glenara 104 Lochiel's Warning 61 The Fall of Poland 181
Clough, Arthur Hugh. Qua Cursum Ventus 210 Say not, the Struggle Naught availeth 45 Where lies the Land to which the Ship would go 114
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni 214 The Good Great Man 59 The Knight's Tomb 103
Cornwall, Barry. (See Procter.)
Cowper, William. Light Shining out of Darkness, The 134 On the receipt of my Mother's Picture 241
Dobson, Austin. Before Sedan 109
Douglas, William. Annie Laurie. 168
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Each and All 172 Forbearance 260 The Rhodora 174 The Snowstorm 67
Garnett, Richard. The Ballad of the Boat 119
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Village Preacher 190
Gray, Thomas. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard 184
Hawker, Robert S. The Song of the Western Men 56
Herrick, Robert. A Thanksgiving to God for His House 157
Haywood, Thomas. Morning 75
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Hymn of Trust 159 The Last Leaf 239
Hood, Thomas. The Deathbed 152
Hunt, Leigh.
Ingelow, Jean. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire 17
Johnson, Ben. Hymn to Diana 101 Triumph of Charis 198
Keats, John. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 218 On the Sea 120
Kingsley, Charles. The Sands of Dee 16 The Three Fishers 236
Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional 270
Lamb, Charles. Hester 165
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Annie of Tharaw 199 The Building of the Ship: A Selection 46
Lowell, James Russell. My Love 254 Wendell Phillips 149
Lyte, Henry F. Abide with Me 72
Macauley, Thomas Babbington. A Jacobite's Epitaph 236 Horatius: A Selection 31 Ivry 136
Mickle, William F. Cumnor Hall 27
Milton, John. Evening: A Selection 212 On his Blindness 46
Montgomery, James. Immortality 202
Moore, Thomas. The Harp that once through Tara's Halls 183 The Last Rose of Summer 15 The Light of Other Days 111
Newman, John Henry. The Pillar of the Cloud 135
Procter, Bryan Waller. A Petition to Time 104
Rossetti, Christina G. Twilight Calm
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The White Ship 121
St. Joseph of the Studium. Safe Home. Translated by J. M. Neale 133
Scott, Sir Walter. Bonnie Dundee 53 County Guy 96 Evening 97 Helvellyn 101 Lochinvar 50 Nora's Vow 255 Rosabelle 24 The Cavalier 230 The Outlaw 257
Shakespeare, William. A Consolation 261 Adversity: A Selection 92 Antony's Eulogy on Caesar: A Selection 221 Sleep: A Selection 156 Song: "Who is Silvia? what is she?" From "Two Gentlemen of Verona" 256 The Downfall of Wolsey: A Selection 177 The Man that hath no Music in Himself: A Selection 91 The Quality of Mercy: A Selection 30
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ozymandias of Egypt 61 To a Skylark 261
Shirley, James. Death the Leveler 60
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. A Jacobite in Exile 232
Taylor, Bayard. A Song of the Camp 169
Tennyson, Alfred. Crossing the Bar 269 Dora 160 Elaine: A Selection from "The Idylls of the King" 248 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington: A Selection 226 Of Old sat Freedom 49 St. Agnes' Eve
Waring, Anna L. In Heavenly Love abiding 245
Watts, Isaac. O God, our Help in Ages Past 140
White, Joseph Blanco. Night and Death 201
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Ichabod 178 Telling the Bees 86
Wordsworth, William. Faith: A Selection 206 London, 1802 229 Lucy 192 She was a Phantom of Delight 200 The Seven Sisters: or, The Solitude of Binnorie 106 To a Skylark 26 To the Daisy 92
Wotton, Sir Henry. Lord of Himself 58
Yule, Sir Henry. The Birkenhead 108