The 200 poems in this last of a three-volume anthology constitute 40 nineteenth-century Britons such as Browning, Arnold and Rossetti and Americans from Bryant and Emerson to Poe and Longellow.
Includes: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (28 poems); Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (Sonnet); William Makepeace Thackeray, (The End of the Play); Charles Kingsley (4 poems); J. Wilson (The Canadian Boat Song); Robert Browning (24 poems); Emily Bronte (Last Lines, and The Old Stoic); Robert Stephen Hawker (And Shall Trelawny Die?); Coventry Patmore (Departure); William (Johnson) Cory (Heraclitus, and Mimnermus in Church); Sydney Dobell (The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston); William Allingham (The Fairies); George Mac Donald (That Holy Thing, and Baby); Edward, Earl of Lytton (The Last Wish); Arthur Hugh Clough (5 poems); Matthew Arnold (11 poems); George Meredith (Love in the Valley); Alexander Smith (Barbara); Charles Dickens (The Ivy Green); Thomas Edward Brown (My Garden); James Thomson (B. V.) (Gifts); Dante Gabriel Rossetti (9 poems); Christina Georgina Rossetti (4 poems); William Morris (5 poems); John Boyle OReilly (A White Rose); Arthur William Edgar O Shaughnessy (Ode); Robert Williams Buchanan (Liz); Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 poems); William Ernest Henley (3 poems); Robert Louis Stevenson (3 poems); William Cullen Bryant (7 poems); Edgar Allan Poe (10 poems); Ralph Waldo Emerson (10 poems); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (19 poems); John Greenleaf Whittier (9 poems); Oliver Wendell Holmes (4 poems); James Russell Lowell (4 poems); Sidney Lanier (3 poems); Bret Harte (The Reveille); Walt Whitman (11 poems).