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Love me Little, Love me Long. Page 16. This poem dates from the latter half of the 16th century.

Good Ale. Page 18. STILL (d. 1607), Bishop of Bath and Wells, was the author of "Gammer Gurton's Needle," one of the earliest of English comedies, in which this poem occurs.

Exequy. Page 19. KING (b. 1592, d. 1669) was chaplain to James I. and became Bishop of Chichester. A single stanza exactly imitating those of Simon Wastel given at page 6 of this volume, is attributed to him. He turned the Psalms of David into verse, and wrote other poems. The Angler's Wish. Page 23. These lines occur in the "Complete "When Angler" of IZAAK WALTON (b. 1593, d. 1683). Old Piscator says,

I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence, 'that they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.' As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my pleasant thoughts into verse." Bryan, mentioned in the last stanza, is supposed to be his dog.

Death's Final Conquest. Page 24. SHIRLEY (b. in London, 1596, d. 1666) was a dramatist, and this poem occurs in his "Contention of Ajax and Ulysses."

The Bride. Page 24. SUCKLING'S (b. 1609, d. 1641) "Ballad upon a Wedding," from which these stanzas are taken, is never printed complete now-a-days; for reasons which would be obvious if it were.

Ye Gentlemen of England. Page 26. These verses have probably attracted much more attention than they ever would if Campbell had not The three stanzas here re-written them as "Ye Mariners of England."

given are the best of a long ballad which is not worth printing entire. PARKER lived in the 17th century.

Song. Page 26. SEDLEY (b. 1639, d. 1701) was one of the wits of the Restoration.

My Dear and Only Love. Page 27. The author of this poem (b. 1612, "Execution of hanged in Edinburgh in 1650) is the hero of Aytoun's Montrose."

The Splendid Shilling. Page 32. PHILIPS (b. 1676, d. 1708) wrote this poem to parody the style of Milton.

Bonnie George Campbell. Page 36. Motherwell, in his "Minstrelsy," says this is" probably a lament for one of the adherents of the house of Argyle, who fell in the battle of Glenlivat, Oct. 3, 1594."

The Hermit. Page 37. PARNELL (b. 1679, d. 1718) was a native of Dublin, and became Archdeacon of Clogher.

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On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. Page 44. for Bishop BERKELEY (b. in Ireland, 1684, d. 1753) formed a scheme converting the American savages to Christianity, by a college to be erected in the Summer Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda,'

obtained a royal charter, and with several friends came to Rhode Island. But his promised funds were not forthcoming, and at the end of seven years he returned. This poem was an expression of his enthusiastic faith in the scheme.

Sally in our Alley. Page 44. CAREY (d. by his own hand, 1743) was an Englishman and a musical composer.

Grongar Hill. Page 46.

DYER (b. in Wales, 1698, d. 1758) was a landscape painter, but afterward entered holy orders. Grongar Hill is in Caermarthen, Wales.

A Soliloquy. Page 51. HARTE (b. about 1700, d. 1774) was a clergyman of the Church of England.

The Braes of Yarrow. Page 52. HAMILTON (b. 1704, d. 1754) wrote this ballad in imitation of an old one with the same refrain.

The Schoolmistress. Page 56. SHENSTONE (b. 1714, d. 1763) published this poem in 1742. Goldsmith said, "It is one of those happinesses in which a poet excels himself, as there is nothing in all Shenstone which any way approaches it in merit."

The Chameleon. Page 65. MERRICK (b. 1720, d. 1769) was an eminent Greek scholar at Oxford, and published a versification of the Psalms, and other poems.

Waly, Waly, but Love be Bonny. Page 68. Percy says the heroine o. this ballad was the wife of James, second Marquis of Douglas. "This lady, married in 1670, was expelled from the society of her husband in consequence of scandals which a disappointed lover basely insinuated into the ear of the Marquis."

The Tears of Scotland. Page 69. SMOLLETT the novelist (b. in Scotland, 1721, d. 1771) produced a few poems, of which this, written just after the battle of Culloden, is the most successful.

Cumnor Hall. Page 72. MICKLE (b. in Scotland, 1734, d. 1788) was a printer, and used frequently to put his poetry into type without writing it. This ballad suggested to Scott his novel of "Kenilworth."

The Sailor's Wife. Page 76. This poem has been commonly attrib uted to Mickle, author of "Cumnor Hall," because an imperfect copy of it was found among his papers. He never claimed it, nor would he be likely to have written it, as he never lived in a seaport. Miss ADAM was a schoolmistress, who lived near Greenock, and died in Glasgow in 1765. She published a volume of poems, and claimed this as one of hers.

The Toper's Apology. Page 78. Captain MORRIS (b. in England, 1739 or 1749, d. 1838) published a great numoc. o songs, scarcely another one of which rises above doggerel.

The Three Warnings. Page 80. It is said that Mrs. THRALE (b. 1740, d. 1821) was indebted to her good friend Dr. Johnson for much of the finish of this poem.

Life. Page 83. Mrs. BARBAULD (b. 1713, d. 1825) wrote numerous short poems, including some hymns. This one was greatly admired by Rogers.

When Shall we Three Meet Again? Page 84. There is no very satisfactory theory as to the authorship of this poem. The one which ascribes it to three early students at Dartmouth College rests on slender evidence.

Gaffer Gray. Page 85. HOLCROFT (b. 1745, d. 1809), author of "The Road to Ruin," was successively a shoemaker, horse-jockey, schoolmaster, actor, playwright, and novelist.

What Constitutes a State. Page 86. JONES (b. 1746, d. 1794) tells us he got the idea of this poem from one of the extant fragments of Alcæus:

Οὐ λίθοι, οὐδὲ ξύλα, οὐδὲ

Τέχνη τεκτόνων αἱ πόλεις εἰσὶν,
̓Αλλ' ὅπου ποτ' ἂν ὦσιν ̓́ΑΝΔΡΕΣ
Αὐτοὺς σωζεῖν εἰδότες,

Ενταῦθα τεῖχη καὶ πόλεις.

To the Cuckoo. Page 87. LOGAN (b. 1748, d. 1788) was a Scottish minister. Edmund Burke, when in Edinburgh, sought him out, solely Decause of his admiration for this poem. Its authorship has been claimed for MICHAEL BRUCE (b. 1746, d. 1767), whose manuscript poems were entrusted to Logan for editing and publication.

Auld Robin Gray. Page 88. LADY BARNARD (b. in Scotland, 1750, d. 1825) published this ballad anonymously, about 1771, and it excited so much comment that a reward of twenty guineas was offered for discovery of the authorship. She never acknowledged it till two years before her death. Scott said, "Auld Robin Gray' is that real pastoral which is worth all the dialogues which Corydon and Phillis have had together, from the days of Theocritus downwards."

Mary's Dream. Page 89. LOWE (b. in Scotland, 1750, d. in Virginia, 1798) wrote this poem on the loss at sea of a young surgeon named Miller, the fiancé of a Miss McGhie in whose father's family Lowe wan tutor.

What is Time? Page 90. MARSDEN (b. in Dublin, 1754, d. 1886), who spent thirty years in India, was famous as an orientalist.

The Groves of Blarney. Page 92. MILLIKIN (b. in Ireland, 1767, d. 1815) was a lawyer, painter, and littérateur. The intention of this poem, written about 1798, was to ridicule the songs of the Irish village bards. There are several versions, and it is said that the fifth stanza was inserted by John Lander, when singing the song at an electioneering dinner.

Helen of Kirkconnel. Page 93. There are numerous versions of this

poem. The one here given, by MAYNE (b. in Scotland, 1759, d. 1836), is metrically the most perfect. It was published by Scott, in the "* Edinburgh Annual Register" for 1815, who says: "A lady of the name of Helen Irving, or Bell (for this is disputed by the two clans), daughter of the laird of Kirkconnel, in Dumfriesshire, and celebrated for her beauty, was beloved by two gentlemen in the neighborhood. The name of the favored suitor was Adam Fleming of Kirkpatrick; that of the other has escaped tradition, although it has been alleged that he was a Bell of Blacket House. The addresses of the latter were, however, favored by the friends of the lady, and the lovers were therefore obliged to meet in secret, and by night, in the church-yard of Kirkconnel, a romantic spot surrounded by the river Kirtle. During one of these private interviews, the jealous and despised lover suddenly appeared on the opposite bank of the stream, and leveled his carabine at the breast of his rival. Helen threw herself before her lover, received in her bosom the bullet, and died in his arms. A desperate and mortal combat ensued between Fleming and the murderer, in which the latter was cut to pieces. Other accounts say that Fleming pursued his enemy to Spain, and slew him in the streets of Madrid." These events occurred in the reign of Mary Queen of Scots.

Connel and Flora. Page 94. WILSON (b. in Scotland, 1766, d. in Philadelphia, 1813) wrote several poems, but was only famous as an ornithologist.

The Soldier. Page 95.

The Beggar. Page 96.

SMYTH (b. 1766, d. 1849) was an Englishman.

Moss (d. 1808) was an English clergyman. He published anonymously in 1769 a small volume of poems, of which this one alone has survived.

The Orphan Boy. Page 97. Mrs. OPIE (b. 1769, d. 1853) was the wife of a portrait painter of considerable celebrity. She was better known for her novels and tales than for her poems.

Night. Page 99. WHITE was born in Spain in 1775, and died in England in 1841. Coleridge considered this sonnet one of the finest in the language.

The Tears I Shed. Page 99. HELEN D'ARCY CRANSTOUN (b. in Scotland, 1765, d. 1838) became in 1790 the second wife of Prof. Dugald Stewart. The first four lines of the last stanza were inserted by Burns.

To an Indian Gold Coin. Page 100. LEYDEN (b. in Scotland, 1775) went to India as a surgeon in 1803, and died in 1811, of a malignant fever which he caught while searching the town library of Batavia, in the island of Java, for Indian manuscripts.

A Visit from St. Nicholas. Page 102. MoORE (b. in New York, 1779 d. in Newport, R. I., 1863) was a professor in the Protestant Episcopal Seminary in New York, and published a volume of poems in 1844.

The Star Spangled Banner. Page 108. KEY (b. in Maryland, 1779 d

1843) began writing this song while he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British in 1814. A collection of his poems was published in 1857.

Lucy's Flittin'. Page 105. WILLIAM LAIDLAW (b. in Scotland, 1780, d. 1845) was the amanuensis and confidential friend of Sir Walter Scott. "Lucy's Flittin'' was contributed to Hogg's "Forest Minstrel," and Hogg himself wrote the closing stanza.

A Litany for Doneraile. Page 106. O'KELLY published two volumes of poems in Dublin (1808 and 1812), the former of which contained this famous litany. When Lady Doneraile read it, she sent the poet a splen did gold watch, "with chain and seal," whereupon he wrote a palinode, calling down all sorts of blessings on Doneraile. When he was intro duced to Scott, at Limerick in 1825, he got off, as impromptu, the follow ing parody on Dryden's epigram:

Three poets, of three different nations born,
The United Kingdom in this age adorn :
Byron of England; Scott of Scotia's blood;
And Erin's pride, O'Kelly, great and good.

A Riddle. Page 109. This enigma has been frequently attributed to Lord Byron, and printed in two or three editions of his works. The answer is, the letter H. Miss FANSHAWE was a contemporary of Byron's.

The Philosopher's Scales. 1783, d. 1824) was a sister of

Page 109. Miss TAYLOR (b. in England Isaac and Jeffreys Taylor.

A Modest Wit. Page 111. OSBORN (b. in Trumbull, Conn., 1783, d. in Philadelphia, 1826) was editor of various newspapers, in Connecticut, Vermont, and Delaware, and published a small volume of poems in Boston in 1823.

Saint Patrick. Page 113. According to Croker, this ballad was composed by HENRY BENNETT and a Mr. TOLLEKEN, of Cork, who sang it in alternate lines at a masquerade in that city in the winter of 1814-15. They at first made only the first, second, and fifth stanzas; after it had become popular, Tolleken added the sixth at the request of Webb the comedian. The third and fourth are the work of some other hand.

The Cloud. Page 114. CHRISTOPHER NORTH (b. in Scotland, 1785, d. 1854) wrote an abundance of poems, long and short, but this sonnet seems to be the only one that anybody now cares to read.

The Bucket. Page 115. WOODWORTH (b. in Massachusetts, 1785, d. 1842) produced this poem by some happy accident. His other verses are scarcely more than doggerel.

The Sout's Defiance. Page 116. LAVINIA Stoddard was born in Guil ford, Conn., in 1787, and died in 1820.

The Mitherless Bairn. Page 117. THOM (b. in Scotland, 1789, d. 1848) was a weaver, and became a peddler, flute-player, and wandering poet. Speaking to a friend of this poem, he said, "When I was living in Aber

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