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[Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn -- unavailable]
Volume 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
The Apology, by Plato
Phaedo by Plato
Crito, by Plato
The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus
The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
Volume 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWN
Essays, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
Areopagitica, by John Milton
Tractate of Education, by John Milton
Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
Volume. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON
Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton
Volume 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
[English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- unavailable]
Volume 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS
Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns
Volume 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST
The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis
Volume 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS
The House of Atreus: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies by Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus
Oedipus the King & Antigone, by Sophocles (in The Oedipus Trilogy)
Hippolytus and The Bacchæ, by Euripides (in Tragedies of Euripides
volume 1)
The Frogs, by Aristophanes
Volume 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY
On Friendship and On Old Age, by Cicero
Letters, by Cicero
Letters, by Pliny the Younger
Volume 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH
Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
Volume 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
Volume 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES
Lives, by Plutarch
Volume 13. AENEID, VIRGIL
Aeneid, by Virgil
Volume 14. DON QUIXOTE, Part 1, CERVANTES
Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes (in the complete book)
Volume 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON
The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
part 1
part 2
[The Life of Donne by Izaak Walton -- unavailable]
The Life of Herbert, by Izaak Walton (in Walton's Lives, volume 2)
Volume 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights (in the complete The Book of a
Thousand Nights and a Night, translated by Richard Burton)
volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4
volume 5
volume 6
volume 7
volume 8
volume 9
volume 10
supplemental volume 1
supplemental volume 2
supplemental volume 3
supplemental volume 4
supplemental volume 5
supplemental volume 6
Volume 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON
Fables, by Aesop
Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
Volume 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA
All for Love, by John Dryden
The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
Manfred, by Lord Byron
Volume 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE
Faust, Part I, by J.W. von Goethe
Egmont by J.W. von Goethe
Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe
Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
Volume 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
Volume 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI
[I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni -- unavailable]
Volume 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER
The Odyssey of Homer
Volume 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr..
Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE
On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke
Reflections on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke
A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke
Voume. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE
Autobiography, by John Stuart Mill
[On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill -- unavailable]
[Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott,
by Thomas Carlyle -- unavailable]
Volume 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA
Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
Phèdre, by Jean Racine
Tartuffe, by Molière
Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller
Volume 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY
Sir Philip Sidney
The Defense of Poesy
[Ben Jonson: On Shakespeare, On Bacon -- unavailable]
Abraham Cowley
Of Agriculture
Joseph Addison
The Vision of Mirza
[Westminster Abbey -- unavailable]
[Sir Richard Steele: The Spectator Club -- unavailable]
[Jonathan Swift: Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation, A Treatise on
Good Manners and Good Breeding, A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet, On
the Death of Esther Johnson [Stella] -- unavailable]
[Daniel Defoe: The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters; The Education of Women
-- unavailable]
Samuel Johnson
Life of Addison, 1672–1719
[David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste -- unavailable]
[Sydney Smith: Fallacies of Anti-Reformers -- unavailable]
[Samuel Taylor Coleridge: On Poesy or Art -- unavailable]
[William Hazlitt: Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen -- unavailable]
[Leigh Hunt: Deaths of Little Children, On the Realities of Imagination
-- unavailable]
Charles Lamb
On the Tragedies of Shakspeare
[Thomas De Quincey: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow -- unavailable]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Defence of Poetry
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Machiavelli (included in Critical and Historical Essays volume 2)
Volume 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN [all in a single file]
[William Makepeace Thackeray: Jonathan Swift -- unavailable]
John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University
I. What Is a University?
II. Site of a University
III. University Life at Athens
Matthew Arnold
The Study of Poetry
John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies
Lecture I.—Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries
Lecture II.—Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens
[Walter Bagehot: John Milton (1859) -- unavailable]
Thomas Henry Huxley
Science and Culture
Edward Augustus Freeman
Race and Language
Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth of Intercourse
Samuel Pepys
William Ellery Channing
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
Introductory Remarks
Lecture I
Lecture II
Edgar Allan Poe
The Poetic Principle
Henry David Thoreau
Walking [1862]
James Russell Lowell
Abraham Lincoln, 1864–1865
Democracy
Volume 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN
The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC
Michael Faraday
[The Forces of Matter -- unavailable]
The Chemical History of a Candle
[Hermann von Helmholtz: On the Conservation of Force, Ice and Glaciers,
Ice and Glaciers: Additions -- unavailable]
Lord Kelvin: The Wave Theory of Light, The Tides --unavailable]
Simon Newcomb
The Extent of the Universe (included in Sidelights on Astronomy)
Sir Archibald Geikie: Geographical Evolution -- unavailable]
Volume 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Volume 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The Author to the Reader
That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until after Our Death
That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix,
Countesse of Gurson
Of Friendship
Of Bookes
All of the above are found in the Complete Essays of Montaigne --
volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4
volume 5
volume 6
volume 7
volume 8
volume 9
volume 10
[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: Montaigne, What Is a Classic? -- unavailable]
[Ernest Renan: The Poetry of the Celtic Races -- unavailable]
[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: The Education of The Human Race -- unavailable]
J. C. Friedrich von Schiller
Letters upon the Æsthetic Education of Man
Immanuel Kant
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
[Giuseppe Mazzini: Byron and Goethe -- unavailable]
Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
Herodotus
The History, translated by Macaulay
Tacitus
Germany
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake Revived by Philip Nichols
Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty
Drake’s Great Armada by Captain Walter Bigges
Edward Haies
Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Discovery of Guiana
Volume 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE,
ROUSSEAU, HOBBES
Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
On the Inequality among Mankind, Jean Jacques Rousseau
[Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau -- unavailable]
Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes (in the complete
Leviathan)
Volume 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD
Chronicles, by Jean Froissart
The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison
Volume 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER
The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
[The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper -- unavailable]
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Ninety-Five Theses, by Martin Luther
Address to the Christian Nobility, by Martin Luther
Introduction
Cover Letters
The Three Walls of the Romanists
Abuses to be Discussed in Council
Proposals for Reform
part 1
part 2
part 3
Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
Volume 37. LOCKE, BERKELY, HUME
[Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke -- unavailable]
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and
Atheists, by George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
Volume 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR [all in a single file]
The Oath of Hippocrates
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward
Jenner
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur
Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell
Volume 39. FAMOUS PREFACES [all in a single file]
William Caxton
The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy
Title and Prologue to Book I
Epilogue to Book II
Epilogue to Book III
Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
Prologue to Golden Legend
Prologue to Caton (1483)
Epilogue to Aesop (1483)
Proem to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Prologue to Malory’s King Arthur (1485)
John Calvin
Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
Nicolaus Copernicus
Dedicati0n of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III
John Knox
Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland
Edmund Spenser
Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh On The Faerie Queene
Sir Walter Raleigh
Preface to the History of the World
Francis Bacon
Proœmium of the Instauratio Magna
Epistle Dedicatory to the Instauratio Magna
Preface to the Instauratio Magna
The Plan of the Instauratio Magna
Preface to the Novum Organum
Henrie Condell and Iohn Heminge
Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays
Sir Isaac Newton
Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
John Dryden
Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern
Henry Fielding
Preface to Joseph Andrews
Samuel Johnson
Preface to the English Dictionary
Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield
Preface to Shakespeare
J. W. von Goethe
Introduction to the Propyläen
William Wordsworth
Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Appendix to Lyrical Ballads
Preface to Poems
Essay Supplementary to Preface
Victor Hugo
Preface to Cromwell
Walt Whitman
Preface to Leaves of Grass
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Introduction to the History of English Literature
Volume 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1 CHAUCER TO GRAY
Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(included in Canterbury Tales)
[Traditional Ballads -- unavailable]
[Anonymous: Balow, The Old Cloak, Jolly Good Ale and Old, A Sweet Lullaby,
Preparations, The Unfaithful Shepherdess -- unavailable]
[Sir Thomas Wyatt: A Supplication, The Lover’s Appeal -- unavailable]
[Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover,
The Means to Attain Happy Life -- unavailable]
[George Gascoigne: A Lover’s Lullaby -- unavailable]
[Nicholas Breton: Phillida and Coridon -- unavailable]
[Anthony Munday: Beauty Bathing -- unavailable]
[Richard Edwardes: Amantium Irae -- unavailable]
[Sir Walter Raleigh: His Pilgrimage, The Lie, Verses, What Is Our Life
-- unavailable]
[Sir Edward Dyer: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is -- unavailable]
[John Lyly: Cupid and Campaspe, Spring’s Welcome -- unavailable]
[Sir Philip Sidney: Song, A Dirge, A Ditty, Loving in Truth,
Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware, To Sleep, To the Moon --
unavailable]
Thomas Lodge.
Rosalind’s Madrigal
Rosaline
Phillis
[George Peele: Paris and Oenone -- unavailable]
[Robert Southwell: The Burning Babe -- unavailable]
Samuel Daniel.
Beauty, Time, and Love Sonnets, To Sleep (included in Elizabethan Sonnet
Cycles)
Michael Drayton.
Agincourt, To the Virginian Voyage, Love’s Farewell (included in Elizabethan
Sonnet Cycles and Minor Poems of Michael Drayton)
Henry Constable.
Edmund Spenser:
Prothalamion, Epithalamion, A Ditty, Perigot and Willie’s Roundelay, Easter,
What Guile Is This? Fair Is My Love So Oft as I Her Beauty do Behold, Rudely
Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart’s Desire, One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the
Strand, Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough (most of these are
included in Poetical Works of Spenser volume 5)
[William Habington: To Roses in the Bosom of Castara, Nox Nocti Indicat
Scientiam -- unavailable]
Christopher Marlowe.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Lovel Her Reply (included in Works of Marlowe
volume 3)
[Thomas Nashe: In Time of Pestilence, Spring -- unavailable
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
[Robert Greene: Connent -- unavailable]
Richard Barnfield.
The Nightingale (included in The Affectionate Shepherd)
[Thomas Campion: Cherry-ripe, Follow your Saint, When to Her Lute Corinna
Sings, Follow thy Fair Sun, Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes, Integer Vitae
-- unavailable]
[Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex: A Passion of my Lord of Essex --
unavailable]
[Sir Henry Wotton: Elizabeth of Bohemia, Character of a Happy Life -- unavailable]
[Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford: A Renunciation -- unavailable]
Ben Jonson.
To Celia, To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
and What He Hath Left Us, Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H., Epode, (included
in discovereis Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems)
[Simplex Munditiis, The Triumph, The Noble Nature, A Farewell to
the World, A Nymph’s Passion,On Lucy, Countess of Bedford, An Ode to Himself,
Hymn to Diana, On Salathiel Pavy, His Supposed Mistress, -- unavailable]
[John Donne: The Funeral, A Hymn to God the Father, Valediction Forbidding
Mourning, Death, The Dream, Song, Sweetest Love I do not Go, Lover’s Infiniteness,
Love’s Deity, Stay O Sweet, The Blossom, The Good Morrow, Present
in Absence -- unavailable]
[John Webster: Call for the Robin-Redbreast -- unavailable]
[Anonymous: O Waly, Waly; Helen of Kirconnell, My Love in Her Attire, Love
Not Me -- unavailable]
[William Drummond: Saint John Baptist, Madrigal, Life, Human Folly,
The Problem, To His Lute, For the Magdalene, Content and Resolute,
Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines; Summons to Love -- unavailable]
[George Wither: I Loved a Lass, The Lover’s Resolution -- unavailable]
[William Browne (?): On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke -- unavailable]
Robert Herrick
Cherry-Ripe, A Child’s Grace, The Mad Maid’s Song, To the Virgins, To Dianeme,
A Sweet Disorder, Whenas in Silks, To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing,
To Daffodils, To Blossoms, Corinna’s Maying (included in Lyrical Poems)
[Francis Quarles: An Ecstasy -- unavailable]
[George Herbert: Love, Virtue, The Elixir, The Collar, The Flower,
Easter Song, The Pulley -- unavailable]
[Henry Vaughan: Beyond the Veil, The Retreat -- unavailable]
[Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban: Life -- unavailable]
[James Shirley: The Glories of our Blood and State, The Last Conqueror
-- unavailable]
[Thomas Carew: The True Beauty, Ask Me No More; Know, Celia; Give Me More
Love -- unavailable]
[Sir John Suckling: The Constant Lover, Why So Pale and Wan -- unavailable]
[Sir William D’Avenant: Dawn Song -- unavailable]
Richard Lovelace.
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars; To Althea from Prison; To Lucasta, Going
Beyond the Seas (included in Lucasta)
Edmund Waller.
On a Girdle; Go, Lovely Rose! (included in Poetical Works of Waller and
Denham)
[William Cartwright: On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries
-- unavailable]
[James Graham, Marquis of Montrose: My Dear and Only Love -- unavailable]
[Richard Crashaw: Wishes for the Supposed Mistress, Upon the Book and Picture
of the Seraphical Saint Teresa -- unavailable]
[Thomas Jordan: Let Us Drink and Be Merry -- unavailable]
[Abraham Cowley: A Supplication; Cheer Up, My Mates; Drinking; On
the Death of Mr. William Hervey -- unavailable]
[Alexander Brome: The Resolve -- unavailable]
[Andrew Marvell: A Garden, The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect
of Flowers, Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland, Song of the
Emigrants in Bermuda, Thoughts in a Garden, Love Will Find
Out the Way, Phillada Flouts Me -- unavailable]
[Earl of Rochester: Epitaph on Charles II -- unavailable]
[Sir Charles Sedley: Chloris, Celia -- unavailable]
John Dryden.
Ode; Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of the Town in the Spring; Song
for St. Cecilia’s Day; Alexander’s Feast; On Milton (included in
Poetical Works of Dryden volume 1 and volume 2)
[Matthew Prior: To a Child of Quality, Cloe, The Dying Adrian to His Soul,
Epigram -- unavailable]
[Isaac Watts: True Greatness -- unavailable]
Lady Grisel Baillie.
Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee (included in Poems Etc.)
Joseph Addison.
Hymn (included in Poetical Works of Addison)
[Allan Ramsay: Peggy -- unavailable]
[John Gay: Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing, Black-Eyed Susan -- unavailable]
[Henry Carey: Sally in our Alley -- unavailable]
Alexander Pope:
Solitude, On a Certain Lady at Court, An Essay on Man (included in Essay
on Man and Pope Poetical Works volume 1 and volume 2
[Ambrose Philips: To Charlotte Pulteney -- unavailable]
[Colley Cibber: The Blind Boy -- unavailable]
[James Thomson: Rule, Britannia; To Fortune -- unavailable]
[Thomas Gray: Elegy, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Hymn
to Adversity, Ode on the Spring, The Progress of Poesy, The Bard, Ode on
the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude, On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a
Tub of Gold Fishes -- unavailable]
[George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe: Shorten -- unavailable]
Volume 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD
[William Collins: Fidele, Ode Written in MDCCXLVI, The Passions,
To Evening -- unavailable]
[George Sewell: The Dying Man in His Garden -- unavailable]
[Alison Rutherford Cockburn: The Flowers of the Forest -- unavailable]
[Jane Elliot: Lament for Flodden -- unavailable]
Christopher Smart. A Song to David
[Anonymous: Willy Drowned in Yarrow -- unavailable]
[John Logan: The Braes of Yarrow -- unavailable]
[Henry Fielding: A Hunting Song -- unavailable]
[Charles Dibdin: Tom Bowling -- unavailable]
Samuel Johnson.
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet, A Satire (included in Works of Johnson
volume 1)
Oliver Goldsmith.
When Lovely Woman Stoops, Retaliation, The Deserted Village, The Traveller;
or, A Prospect of Society (included in Complete Poetical Works of Oliver
Goldsmith)
[Robert Graham of Gartmore: If Doughty Deeds -- unavailable]
[Adam Austin: For Lack of Gold -- unavailable]
[William Cowper: Loss of the Royal George, To a Young Lady, The Poplar
Field, The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, To Mary Unwin, To the Same, Boadicea:
An Ode, The Castaway, The Shrubbery, On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture
out of Norfolk, The Diverting History of John Gilpin -- unavailable]
[Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Drinking Song -- unavailable]
[Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Life -- available]
[Isobel Pagan (?): Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes -- unavailable]
[Lady Anne Lindsay: Auld Robin Gray -- unavailable]
Thomas Chatterton.
Song from Ælla (included in Rowley Poems)
[Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: The Land o’ the Leal, He’s Ower the Hills
That I Lo’e Weel, The Auld House, The Laird o’ Cockpen, The
Rowan Tree, Wha’ll Be King But Charlie? Charlie Is My Darling -- unavailable]
[Alexander Ross: Wooed and Married and A’ -- unavailable]
[John Skinner: Tullochgorum -- unavailable]
[Michael Bruce: To the Cuckoo -- unavailable]
[George Halket: Logie o’ Buchan -- unavailable]
[William Hamilton 0f Bangour: The Braes of Yarrow -- unavailable]
[Hector MacNeil: I Lo’ed Ne’er a Laddie but Ane, Come Under My Plaidie
-- unavailable]
[Sir William Jones: An Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus, On Parent Knees
a Naked New-born Child -- unavailable]
[Susanna Blamire: And Ye Shall Walk in Silk Attire -- unavailable]
[Anne Hunter: My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair -- unavailable]
[John Dunlop: The Year That’s Awa’ -- unavailable]
[Samuel Rogers: A Wish, The Sleeping Beauty -- unavailable
William Blake.
The Tiger, Ah! Sun-Flower, To Spring, Reeds of Innocence, Night, Auguries
of Innocence, Nurse’s Song, Holy Thursday, The Divine Image, Song (included
in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)
[John Collins: To-Morrow -- unavailable]
[Robert Tannahill: Jessie, the Flower o’ Dunblane, Gloomy Winter’s
Now Awa’ -- unavailable]
William Wordsworth.
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,
My Heart Leaps Up, The Two April Mornings, The Fountain: A
Conversation, Written in March, Nature and the Poet, Ruth:
Or the Influences of Nature, A Lesson, Michael, Yarrow Unvisited, Yarrow
Visited, Yarrow Revisited, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour July 13, 1798, The Daffodils,
To the Daisy, To the Cuckoo, The Green Linnet, Written in Early Spring,
To the Skylark, The Affliction of Margaret, Simon Lee the Old Huntsman,
Ode to Duty, She Was a Phantom of Delight, To the Highland Girl of Inversneyde,
The Solitary Reaper, The Reverie of Poor Susan, To Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Character of the Happy Warrior, Resolution and Independence,
Laodamia, We Are Seven, Lucy, The Inner Vision, By the Sea, Upon
Westminster Bridge, To a Distant Friend, Desideria, We Must Be Free or
Die, England and Switzerland, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic,
London MDCCCII, The Same, When I Have Borne, The World is Too Much
With Us, Within King’s College Chapel Cambridge, Valedictory
Sonnet to the River Duddon, Composed at Neidpath Castle the Property of
Lord Queensberry, Admonition to a Traveller, To Sleep, The Sonnet (included
in the Poetical Works of Wordsworth)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Youth and Age, Love, Hymn
Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni, Christabel, Dejection: an Ode (included
in Poems of Coleridge)
[Robert Southey: After Blenheim, The Scholar -- unavailable]
Charles Lamb
The Old Familiar Faces, Hester, On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born (included
in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb volume 4)
[Sir Walter Scott: The Outlaw, To a Lock of Hair, Jock of Hazeldean,
Eleu Loro, A Serenade, The Rover, The Maid of Neidpath,
Gathering Song of Donald the Black, Border Ballad, The Pride of Youth,
Coronach, Lucy Ashton’s Song, Answer, Rosabelle, Hunting Song, Lochinvar,
Bonny Dundee, Datur Hora Quieti, Here’s a Health to King Charles,
Harp of the North Farewell! -- unavailable]
[James Hogg: Kilmeny, When the Kye Comes Hame, The Skylark, Lock
the Door Lariston -- unavailable]
[Robert Surtees: Barthram’s Dirge -- unavailable]
[Thomas Campbell: The Soldier’s Dream, To the Evening Star, Ode to Winter,
Lord Ullin’s Daughter, The River of Life, To the Evening Star, The Maid
of Neidpath, Ye Mariners of England, Battle of the Baltic,
Hohenlinden -- unavailable]
[J. Campbell: Freedom and Love -- unavailable]
[Allan Cunningham: Hame, Hame, Hame; A Wet Sheet and a Flowing
Sea -- unavailable]
George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Youth and Age, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Elegy on Thyrza, When We
Two Parted, For Music, She Walks in Beauty, All for Love, Elegy, To Augusta,
Epistle to Augusta, Maid of Athens, Darkness, Longing, Fare Thee
Well, The Prisoner of Chillon, On the Castle of Chillon, Song of Saul Before
His Last Battle, The Isles of Greece, On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth
Year (most of these are included in Byron's Poetry volume 1, Works of Byron
volume 4, and Works of Byron volume 6)
Thomas Moore.
The Light of Other Days, Pro Patria Mori, The Meeting of the
Waters, The Last Rose of Summer, The Harp that Once Through Tara’s
Halls, A Canadian Boat-Song, The Journey Onwards, The Young May Moon, Echo,
At the Mid Hour of Night (included in Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore)
[Charles Wolfe: The Burial of Sir John Moore At Corunna -- unavailable]
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Hymn of Pan, Hellas, Invocation, Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples,
I Fear Thy Kisses, Lines to an Indian Air, To a Skylark, Love’s Philosophy,
To the Night, Ode to the West Wind, Written Among the Euganean
Hills North Italy, Hymn to the Spirit of Nature, A Lament, A Dream of the
Unknown, The Invitation, The Recollection, To the Moon, A Widow Bird, To
a Lady with a Guitar, One Word is Too Often Profaned, Ozymandias of Egypt,
The Flight of Love, The Cloud, . Stanzas—April, 1814,
Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Poet’s Dream, The World’s Wanderers, Adonais:
An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (included in Complete Poetical Works
of Shelley)
[James Henry Leigh Hunt: Jenny Kiss’d Me, Abou Ben Adhem -- unavailable]
John Keats
The Realm of Fancy, Ode on the Poets, The Mermaid Tavern, Happy Insensibility,
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode to Psyche,
Ode on Melancholy, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, On the
Grasshopper and Cricket, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, To Sleep,
The Human Seasons, Great Spirits Now on Earth Are Sojourning,
The Terror of Death, Last Sonnet (most of these are included in Poems of
1817 and Poems Published in 1820)
[Walter Savage Landor: Rose Aylmer, Twenty Years Hence,
Proud Word You Never Spoke, Absence, Dirce, Corinna to Tanagra, from Athens;
Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel; Well I Remember; No, My Own Love, Robert
Browning, The Death of Artemidora, Iphigeneia, ‘Do You Remember Me?’ For
an Epitaph at Fiesole, On Lucretia Borgia’s Hair, On His Seventy-Fifth
Birthday, To My Ninth Decade, Death Stands Above Me, On Living Too Long
-- unavailable]
Thomas Hood.
Fair Ines, The Bridge of Sighs, The Death Bed, Past and Present (included
in Poetical Works of Thomas Hood)
[Sir Aubrey De Vere: Glengariff -- unavailable]
[Hartley Coleridge: She is Not Fair -- unavailable]
[Joseph Blanco White: To Night -- unavailable]
[George Darley: The Loveliness of Love -- unavailable]
[Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay: The Armada, A Jacobite’s
Epitaph -- unavailable]
[Sir William Edmondstoune Aytoun: The Refusal of Charon -- unavailable]
[Hugh Miller: The Babie -- unavailable]
[Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin: Lament of the Irish Emigrant -- unavailable]
[Sir Samuel Ferguson: The Fair Hills of Ireland -- unavailable]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
[A Musical Instrument -- unavailable]
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Edward Fitzgerald
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur
Volume 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The Lady of Shalott, Sweet and Low, Tears, Idle Tears, Blow, Bugle, Blow;
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, O Swallow,
Swallow; Break, Break, Break; In the Valley of Cauteretz; Vivien’s
Song; Enid’s Song; Ulysses, Locksley Hall, Morte d’Arthur,
The Lotos-Eaters, You Ask Me, Why, Love Thou Thy Land, Sir Galahad, The
Higher Pantheism, Flower in the Crannied Wall, Wages, The Charge of the
Light Brigade, The Revenge, Rizpah, To Virgil, Maud, Crossing the Bar (some
of these are included in Early Poems of Tennyson and Idylls of the King)
[Richard Monckton Milnes: Sonnet -- unavailable]
[William Makepeace Thackeray: The End of the Play -- unavailable]
Charles Kingsley.
Airly Beacon, The Sands of Dee, Young and Old, Ode to the North-east Wind
(included
in Andromeda and Other Poems)
[J. Wilson (?): The Canadian Boat Song -- unavailable]
Robert Browning.
Prospice, ‘How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix’ [16—], The
Lost Leader, Home-thoughts, from Abroad, Home-thoughts, from
the Sea, Parting at Morning, The Lost Mistress, The Last Ride Together,
Pippa’s Song, You’ll Love Me Yet, My Last Duchess, The Bishop Orders
His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church, Evelyn Hope, A Toccata of Galuppi’s,
Memorabilia, The Patriot, A Grammarian’s Funeral, Andrea Del Sarto, One
Word More, Abt Vogler, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Never the Time and the Place, Dedication
of the Ring and the Book, Epilogue (many of these are included
in Browning's Shorter Poems, Dramatic Lyrics, and Dramatic Romances)
Emily Bronte:
Last Lines, The Old Stoic (included in Poems [by the Bronte Sisters])
[Robert Stephen Hawker: And Shall Trelawny Die? -- unavailable]
[Coventry Patmore: Departure -- unavailable]
[William (Johnson) Cory: Heraclitus, Mimnermus in Church -- unavailable]
[Sidney Dobell: The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston -- unavailable]
[William Allingham: The Fairies -- unavailable]
[George MacDonald: That Holy Thing, Baby -- unavailable]
[Edward, Earl of Lytton: The Last Wish -- unavailable]
[Arthur Hugh Clough: Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth, The Stream
of Life, In a London Square, Qua Cursum Ventus, Where Lies the Land?
-- unavailable]
Matthew Arnold.
The Forsaken Merman, The Song of Callicles, To Marguerite, Requiescat,
Shakespeare, Rugby Chapel, Memorial Verses, Dover Beach, The Better
Part, Worldly Place, The Last Word (most of these are included in Sohrab
and Rustum and Other Poems)
[George Meredith: Love in the Valley -- unavailable]
[Alexander Smith: Barbara -- unavailable]
[Charles Dickens: The Ivy Green -- unavailable]
[Thomas Edward Brown: My Garden -- unavailable]
[James Thomson (B. V.): Gifts -- unavailable]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Blessèd Damozel, The King’s Tragedy, Lovesight,
Heart’s Hope, Genius in Beauty, Silent Noon, Love-Sweetness,
Heart’s Compass, Her Gifts (included in House of Life)
Christina Georgina Rossetti.
Song, Remember, Up-Hill, In the Round Tower at Jhansi (included in The
Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems)
William Morris.
The Defence of Guenevere, Prologue of the Earthly Paradise, The Day
is Coming, The Days That Were (included in Poems by the Way and Love is
Enough)
[The Nymph’s Song to Hylas -- unavailable]
[John Boyle O’Reilly: A White Rose -- unavailable]
[Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy: Ode -- unavailable]
[Robert Williams Buchanan: Liz -- unavailable]
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Chorus from ‘Atalanta’ (included in Atalanta in Calydon)
[Itylus, The Garden of Proserpine, A Match, A Forsaken Garden -- unavailable]
William Ernest Henley.
Margaritæ Sorori; Invictus; England, My England (included in Poems
by Henley)
Robert Louis Stevenson.
In the Highlands (included in Songs of Travel)
[The Celestial Surgeon, Requiem -- unavailable]
William Cullen Bryant.
Thanatopsis, Robert of Lincoln, Song of Marion’s Men, June, The Past, To
a Waterfowl, The Death of Lincoln (included in Poems by William Cullen
Bryant)
Edgar Allan Poe.
Lenore, The Haunted Palace, To Helen, The Raven, Ulalume, The Bells,
To My Mother, For Annie, Annabel Lee, The Conqueror Worm (included in Poe's
Complete Poetical Works)
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Good-Bye, The Apology, Brahma, Days, Give All to Love, Concord Hymn, The
Humble-Bee, . The Problem, Woodnotes, Boston Hymn (included in Poems
by Emerson)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
A Psalm of Life, The Light of Stars, Hymn to the Night, Footsteps of Angels,
The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Village Blacksmith, Serenade, The Rainy
Day, The Day is Done, The Bridge, Resignation, Children, The
Building of the Ship, My Lost Youth, The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz,
The Children’s Hour, Paul Revere’s Ride, Killed at the Ford, Evangeline
(included
in Complete Poems of Longfellow)
John Greenleaf Whittier.
The Eternal Goodness, Randolph of Roanoke, Massachusetts to Virginia, Barclay
of Ury, Maud Muller, The Barefoot Boy, Skipper Ireson’s Ride, The Pipes
at Lucknow, Barbara Frietchie (included in Complete Works of Whittier)
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Chambered Nautilus, Old Ironsides, The Last Leaf, Contentment
(included
in Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes)
James Russell Lowell.
The Present Crisis, The Pious Editor’s Creed, The Courtin’,
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration (included in Complete Poetical
Works of James Russell Lowell)
Sidney Lanier.
The Marshes of Glynn, The Revenge of Hamish, How Love Looked for
Hell (included in Poems of Sidney Lanier)
[Bret Harte: The Reveille -- unavailable]
Walt Whitman.
One’s-Self I Sing, Beat! Beat! Drums! Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field
One Night, Pioneers! O Pioneers! Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, The
Wound-Dresser, Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, O Captain! My Captain!
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Prayer of Columbus,
The Last Invocation (ncluded in Leaves of Grass, with many other poems)
Volume 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS 1000-1904
[The Voyages to Vinland (c. 1000), The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant
Angel Announcing His Discovery (1493), Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His
First Voyage (1497), John Cabot’s Discovery of North America (1497), First
Charter of Virginia (1606) -- unavailable]
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
[The Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641), Arbitrary Government Described
and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion,
by John Winthrop (1644), The Instrument of Government (1653), A Healing
Question, by Sir Henry Vane. (1656), John Eliot’s Brief Narrative
(1670) -- unavailable]
Declaration of Rights (1765)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
[The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1775) -- unavailable]
Articles of Confederation (1777)
[Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown (1781), Treaty with Great Britain (1783)
-- unavailable]
Constitution of the United States (1787)
The Federalist, Nos. 1 and 2 (1787) (included in the complete Federalist
Papers)
[Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State
of Maryland (1819) -- unavailable]
Washington’s First Inaugural Address (1789) (included Inaugural Addresses
of the Presidents from Washington to Clinton)
[Treaty with the Six Nations (1794) -- unavailable]
Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
[Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase) (1803), Treaty with Great Britain
(End of War of 1812) (1814), Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively
Maintained on the American Lakes (1817), Treaty with Spain (Acquisition
of Florida) (1819) -- unavailable]
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
[Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain (1842), Treaty with Mexico
(1848), Fugitive Slave Act (1850) -- unavailable]
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (1861) (included Inaugural Addresses
of the Presidents from Washington to Clinton)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
[Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg -- unavailable]
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1863)
[Proclamation of Amnesty (1863), Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864),
Terms of Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox (1865), Lee’s Farewell to His Army
(1865) -- unavailable]
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865) (included Inaugural Addresses
of the Presidents from Washington to Clinton)
[Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End (1866), Treaty with
Russia (Alaska Purchase) (1867), Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898),
Recognition of the Independence of Cuba (1898), Treaty with Spain (Cession
of Porto Rico and the Philippines) (1898), Convention Between the United
States and the Republic of Panama (1904) -- unavailable]
Volume 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1
Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius
Job
Psalms
Ecclesiastes
Luke
Acts
Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2
Corinthians I
Corinthians II
[Christian Hymns -- unavailable]
[Buddhist: Writings -- unavailable]
Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
Volume 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1
Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
King Lear, by William Shakespeare
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Tempest, by William Shakespeare
Voume 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2
[The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker -- unavailable]
The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
[A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger -- unavailable]
Volume 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL
Thoughts [Pensees] by Blaise Pascal
[Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal -- unavailable]
Volume. 49. EPIC AND SAGA
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
The Story of the Volsungs
The Elder Eddas
[Volume 50 INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES, LECTURES -- unavailable]
[Volume 51 LECTURES ON THE HARVARD CLASSICS]
The Harvard Classics
® Shelf of Fiction
Volumes 1 & 2:
The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
Volume 3:
A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Volume 4:
Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
Volumes 5 & 6:
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
Volumes 7 & 8:
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Volume 9:
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
Volume 10:
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
Eleonora, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Luck of Roaring Camp, by Bret Harte
The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte
The Idyl of Red Gulch, by Bret Harte
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain]
The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
Volume 11:
The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
Volume 12:
Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo
Volume 13:
Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac
The Devil's Pool, by George Sand
[The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset -- unavailable]
[Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet -- unavailable]
Walter Schnaffs' Adventure, by Guy de Maupassant
Two Friends, by Guy de Maupassant
Volumes 14 & 15:
[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by J.W. von Goethe -- unavailable]
The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von Goethe
[The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller -- unavailable]
[The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm -- unavailable]
[Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane -- unavailable]
Volumes. 16 & 17:
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
[Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy -- unavailable]
Volume 18:
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Volume 19:
A House of Gentlefolk, by Ivan Turgenev
[Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev -- unavailable]
Volume 20:
[Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera -- unavailable]
A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
[Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland -- unavailable]
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