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The Bloom was on the AlderDon Piatt 66

The Gowan Glitters on the Sward Joanna Baillie 67

She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron 68

Aux Italiens

Robert Bulwer Lytton 68

The Welcome

Thomas Davis 69

A Pastoral.

John Byrom 70

Love at First Sight

Jean Ingelow 71

A Spinning-Wheel Song John Francis Waller 72

Philip My King Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 73

Afton Water

Robert Burns 74

The Lily-Pond

George Parsons Lathrop 75

Cupid and Campaspe

John Lyly 76

The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns R. Burns 76

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The Dying Stag

Giles Fletcher 112

Night .

Edward Everett 112

To Seneca Lake

James Gates Percival 113

A Woodnote

Howitt 114

Lambs at Play

Robert Bloomfield 115

The Hare

William Somerville 116

To a Sky-Lark

Percy Bysshe Shelley 116

To a Wild Deer John Wilson (Christopher North) 118

The Heath

Charlotte Smith 119

The Swallow

Charlotte Smih 120

The Sierras

Joaquin Miller 121

Snow-Flakes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 121

The Dog and the Water-Lily William Cowper 122

Planting the Apple-Tree William Cullen Bryant 123

The Daisy

James Montgomery 124

The Robin

Harrison Weir 126

Spring and Winter

William Shakespeare 128

March

William Cullen Bryant 128

To a Young Ass Samuel Taylor Coleridge 129

The First Day of Spring William G. Simms 130

Day is Dying Mrs. Lewes Cross (George Eliot) 131

Song of the Brook

Alfred Tennyson 131

Hail, Holy Light

John Milton 132

Spring

Thomas Gray 133

A Winter Morning

William Cowper 134

Wintry Weather

David Gray 135

May-Day

John Wolcott (Peter Pindar) 136

The Early Primrose Henry Kirke White 136

Loves of the Plants

Erasmus Darwin 137

The Angler

Anonymous 137

To a Nightingale

William Drummond 137

The Tiger

William Blake 138

The Eagle

Alfred Tennyson 139

A Summer Morn

James Beattie 110

Sunset at Norham Castle Sir Walter Scott 111

To the Dandelion

James Russell Lowell 112

Hymn to the Flowers

Horace Smith 1-12

Solace in Nature

William Wordsworth 113

June

James Russell Lowell 144

To a Mountain Daisy

Robert Burns 113

The Angler's Wish

Izaak Walton 116

The Broom

Mary Houilt 117

Ode to Leven Water Tobias George Smollet 117

A Spring Day

Robert Bloomfield 18

The Little Beach-Bird Richard Henry Dana 148

The Aged Oak at Oakley

Henry Alford 119

The Pheasant

Anonymous 150

The Thrush

Anonymous 1.50

Snow

Ralph Hoyt 150

The O‘Lincoln Family

Wilson Flagg 151

Solitude of the Sea

Lord Byron 151

Summer Drought

J. P. Irvine 152

The Rhine

Lord Byron 153

To a Mountain Oak George IIenry Boker 154

Forest Pictures

Paul Hamilton Hayne 155

Flowers,

John Milton 156

Under the Leaves

Albert Laighton 158

Winter

William Couper 115

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A Forest Hymn

William Cullen Bryant 77

Nature

Jones Very 79

The Nightingale Samuel Taylor Coleridge 79

Hymn on the Seasons

James Thompson 80

Night

Lord Byron 83

The Sea

Lord Byron 84

The Rainbow

William Wordsworth 85

The Shepherd

John Dyer 86

The World is Too Much with Us W. Wordsworth 87

Breathings of Spring · Felicia Dorothea Hemans 87

Varying Impressions from Nature W. Wordsworth 88

Evening

William Wordsworth 89

Hymn Before Sunrise . Samuel Taylor Coleridge 90

To the Daisy

William Wordsworth 91

Dawn

Richard Watson Gilder 92

The Barn Owl

Samuel Butler 92

Before the Rain Thomas Bailey Aldrich 94

After the Rain

Thomas Bailey Aldrich 94

Night

Edward Young 94

Summer

John Townsend Trowbridge 95

Day Breaking

John Marston 96
To the Nightingale

Richard Barnfield 98
The Mount of the Holy Cross Anonymous 98
The Heath-Cock

Joanna Baillie 99
A June Day

Howitt 100
The Sky-Lark

James Hogg 101
To the Turtle-Dove

D. Conway 101

The Rainbow

James Thomson 102

To a Water-Fowl William Cullen Byrant 103
Violets

Robert Herrick 103

The Wind-Flower

Jones Very 104

Christmas in the Woods

Harrison Weir 104

The Eagle ..

Anna Letitia Barbauld 105

A Ram Reflected in the Water . W. Wordsworth 106

The Squirrel-Hunt

William Browne 107

Summer Woods

John Clare 108

On a Goldfinch

William Cowper 109

Changes in Nature

Anonymous 109

Morning Song

Joanna Billie 110

The Squirrel

William Cowper 110

The Ivy Green

Charles Dickens 111
The Thrush's Nest

John Clare 111

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The Farmer's Boy

Robert Bloomfield 204

Farmyard Song John Townsend Trowbridge 205
Harvest Song

Eliza Cook 206
The Farmer's Wife

Paul Hamilton Hayne 206
The Pumpkin John Greenleaf Whittier 207
Robert of Lincoln William Cullen Bryant 208
On the Banks of the Tennessee W. D. Gallagher 209
Summer Longings Denis Florence Mac Carthy 210
Farm Life

Anonymous 210
Summer Woods William Henry Burleigh 211
The Village Boy

Clarke 212

The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Whittier 212

The Country Life . Richard Henry Stoddard 214

Happy the Man Whose Wish and Care Ales. Pope 215

Contentment with Nature

James Beattie 215

Nightfall: a Picture

Alfred B. Street 217
The House on the Hill

Eugene J. Hall 218

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The Flower's Name

Robert Browning 159

Spring in Carolina

Henry Timrod 159

The Lark

William Shakespeare 160

Grizzly

Bret Harte 160

The Violet

William Wetmore Story 161

Calm and Storm on Lake Leman · Lord Byron 161

Freedom of Nature

James Thomson 161

Three Summer Studies James Barron Hope 162

Imaginative Sympathy with Nature Lord Byron 164

September

George Arnold 165

Flowers

Thomas Hood 166

Stars

Lord Byron 166

Signs of Rain

Dr. Edward Jenner 167

Daffodils

William Wordsworth 168

Sounet on the River Rhine Wm. Lisle Bowles 169

To the Cuckoo

John Logan 170

March ..

William Morris 170

The Shaded Water William Gilmore Simms 171

November

Hartley Coleridge 172

The Sea in Calm and Storm George Crabbe 173

Midges Dance Aboon the Burn R. Tannahill 175

Nature's Delights

John Keats 175

Ilarvest Time

Paul Hamilton Hayne 175

The Evening Wind William Cullen Bryant 176

Nature's Magnificence James Montgomery 177

Spring

Alfred Tennyson 178

It Snows

Mis, S. J. Hale 179

Sunrise at Sea

Epes Sargent 180

Invocation to Nature Percy Bysshe Shelley 181

Table Mountain, Good IIope James Montgomery 181

The Poet's Solitude

Lord Byron 132

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Our Own Country

James Montgomery 221

The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key 221

Hail Columbia

Joseph Hopkinson 222

The American Flag Joseph Rodman Drake 222

English National Anthem

Henry Carey 223

Rule, Britannia

James Thomson 223

French National Anthem French of Roget De Lisle 223

Prussian National Anthem From the German 224

The German's Fatherland From the German 224

Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Mrs. Hemans 225

Hallowed Ground

Thomas Campbell 226

Harp of the North

Sir Walter Scott 227

Marco Bozzaris

Fitz-Greene Halleck 227

Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights A. Tennyson 228

Freedom.

John Barbour 228

Love of Liberty

William Cowper 229

The Source of Party Wisdom James A. Garfield 229

A Curse on the Traitor

Thomas Moore 230

Downfall of Poland

Thomas Campbell 230

Green Fields of England . Arthur Hugh Clough 230

Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind Lord Byron 230

Bannockburn

Robert Burns 231

Our Country's Call William Cullen Bryant 231

What Constitutes a State Sir William Jones 232

The Love of Country

Sir Walter Scott 232

It's Hame, and It's Hame Allan Cunningham 232

A Country Life

Robert Herrick 183

A Wish.

Samuel Rogers 185

Town and Country

William Cowper 186

The llomestead

Phæbe Cary 186

Sunday in the Fields

Ebenezer Elliot 188

Blossom-Time.

Mary E. Dodge 189

The Praise of a Solitary Life Wm. Drummond 190

The Old Mill

Richard IIenry Stoddard 190

Farming

Edward Everett 191

Two Pictures

Marion Douglass 192

The Ploughman

Oliver Wendell llolmes 192

The Useful Plough

Anonymous 193

Country Life

Anonymous 195

The City and the Country

Anonymous 195

The Haymakers

George Lunt 195

The Song of the Mowers W. H. Burleigh 196

The Cornfield

James Thomson 197

The Mowers

William Allingham 198

When the Cows Come Home Mary E. Nealey 199

Come to the Sunset Tree Felicia D. Hemans 200

My Little Brook

Mary Bolles Branch 201

A larvest Hymn

W. D. Gallagher 202

The Old House

Louise Chandler Moulton 202

Rural Nature

Willian Barnes 203