The Flower of the Mind

								

BORDER BALLAD.
A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE                                                204
JOHN DRYDEN (1631–1700).
ODE                                                              205
APHRA BEHN (1640–1689).
SONG, FROM ABDELAZAR                                             209
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719).
HYMN                                                             209
ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744).
ELEGY                                                            210
WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800).
LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER’S PICTURE                          213
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825).
LIFE                                                             217
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757–1828).
THE LAND OF DREAMS                                               217
THE PIPER                                                        218
HOLY THURSDAY                                                    219
THE TIGER                                                        220
TO THE MUSES                                                     221
LOVE’S SECRET                                                    221
ROBERT BURNS (1759–1796).
TO A MOUSE                                                       222
THE FAREWELL                                                     224
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850).
WHY ART THOU SILENT?                                             225
THOUGHTS OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND           226
IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE                         226
ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC                       227
O FRIEND! I KNOW NOT                                             227
SURPRISED BY JOY                                                 228
TO TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE                                         228
WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED                                 229
THE WORLD                                                        229
UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802                           230
WHEN I HAVE BORNE IN MEMORY                                      230
THREE YEARS SHE GREW                                             231
THE DAFFODILS                                                    232
THE SOLITARY REAPER                                              233
ELEGIAC STANZAS                                                  234
TO H. C.                                                         237
’TIS SAID THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE                           238
THE PET LAMB                                                     240
STEPPING WESTWARD                                                243
THE CHILDLESS FATHER                                             244
ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY                                245
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771–1832).