CONTENTS 



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To a Nightingale 



The Birds of Killingworth . 



The Green Linnet 



The Blackbird . 



Blackbirds and Cherries . 



The Oriole's Secret 



The Song the Oriole Sings . 



The White Peacock . 



The Departure of the Swallow 



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John Keats . . 153 

 H. W. Longfellow . 156 

 William. Wordsworth . 158 

 Alfred Tennyson . 159 

 Joseph Addison . 160 

 Emily Dickinson . 161 

 W. D. Howells . . 161 

 Fiona Macleod . .163 

 William Howitt . 165 



THE LAST AND LEAST OF THINGS 



All Things Wait Upon Thee 



Ariel's Song 



A More Ancient Mariner . 



Ode XXXIV 



To a Butterfly . 



The Humble-Bee 



On the Grasshopper and the 



Cricket John Keats 



C. G. Rossctti . 

 William Shakespeare 

 Bliss Cart/tan 

 Anacreon (Trans.) 

 William Wordsworth 

 R. W. Emerson . 



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177 



VI 

 THE LOVER IN THE GARDEN 



Tranquillity 

 Song from " Maud " . 

 The Flower's Name . 

 " A Garden Enclosed " 

 Stanza from Omar Khayyam 



Cherry-Ripe 



Song Without a Sound 



H. H. Whitney . . 181 



Alfred Tennyson . 181 



Robert Browning . 184 



Sony of Solomon . 185 

 Trans, by Nathan H. 



Dole . . . 186 



Thomas Campion . 186 



Edwin Arnold . . 187 

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