The blue poetry book
By: With numerous illus. by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed.
Series: Granger index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Freeport, New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: English poetry.; Children's poetry.
Table of contents: title: Nurse’s song / Blake -- A boy’s song / Hogg -- I remember, I remember / Hood -- The lamb / Blake -- Night / Blake -- On a spaniel called ‘Beau’ killing a young bird / Cowper -- Lucy Gray; or, solituide -- Hunting song / Scott -- Lord Ullin’s daughter / Campbell -- The chimney-sweeper / Blake -- Nora’s vow / Scott -- Ballad of Agincourt / Drayton -- Ye mariners of England / Campbell -- The girl describes her fawn / Marvell -- The soldier’s dream / Campbell -- John Gilpin / Cowper -- Hohenlinden / Campbell -- The village blacksmith / Longfellow -- Elegy on the death of a mad dog / Goldsmith -- The outlaw / Scott -- Battle of the Baltic / Campbell -- Young Lochinvar / Scott -- The wreck of the Hesperus / Longfellow -- The dog and the water-lily / Cowper -- To Flush, my dog / Mrs. Browning -- Alice Brand / Scott -- O, wert thou in the cauld blast / Burns --  I love my Jean / Burns -- There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame / Burns -- The banks o’ Doon / Burns -- As slow our ship / Moore -- A red, red rose / Burns -- Bannockburn / Burns -- The minstrel-boy / Moore -- The farewell / Burns -- The harp that once through Tara’s halls / Moore -- Stanzas / Byron -- A sea dirge / Shakespeare -- Rose Aylmer /  Landor -- Song / Shakespeare -- Lucy Ashton’s song / Scott -- Evening / Scott -- Song / Shakespeare -- The twa corbies -- To One In Paradise / Poe -- Hymn to Diana / Jonson -- County guy / Scott -- Gathering song of Donald Dhu / Scott -- The destruction of Sennacherib / Byron -- The cavalier / Scott -- On first looking into Chapman’s Homer / Keats -- Song / Hood -- Ode written in MDCCXLVI / Collins -- To daffodils / Herrick -- The solitary reaper / Wordsworth -- To blossoms / Herrick -- Proud Maisie / Scott -- Sleep / Sidney -- Hymn for the dead / Scott -- The poplar field / Cowper -- Winter / Shakespeare -- Annabel Lee / Poe -- To Mary / Wolfe -- Twist ye, twine ye / Scott -- To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Colonel Lovelace -- The demon lover / Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border -- The lawlands of Holland / Unknown -- The valley of unrest / Poe -- The burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna / Wolfe -- St. Swithin’s chair / Scott -- Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa / Byron -- Barthram’s dirge / Surtees -- To the cuckoo / Wordsworth -- Helen of Kirkconnel  / Unknown -- To Althea from prison / Colonel Lovelace -- ‘I wandered lonely’ / Wordsworth -- Hester / Lamb -- To evening / Collins -- The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill / Scott -- The wife of usher’s well / Unknown -- Allen-A-Dale / Scott -- The beleaguered city / Longfellow -- Alexander’s feast; or, the power of music / Dryden -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Marlowe -- The flowers o’ the forest / Elliott -- Ulalume / Poe -- Kubla Khan / Coleridge -- L’allegro / Milton -- Il penseroso / Milton -- Jock of Hazeldean / Scott -- The recollection / Shelley -- Auld Robin Gray / Lady A. Lindsay -- Willie drowned in Yarrow / Unknown -- The reverie of poor Susan / Wordsworth -- The armada / Macaulay -- Mary Ambree / Reliques of ancient English poetry -- Elizabeth of Bohemia / Wotton -- Cherry ripe / Anonymous -- Morning / Heywood -- Death the leveler / Shirley -- Annan Water / Unknown -- To a waterfowl / Bryant -- So we’ll go no more a roving / Byron -- Song / Shakespeare -- The land o’ the Leal / Lady Nairne -- Song of the emigrants in Bermuda / Marvell -- The light of other days / Moore -- The fire of driftwood / Longfellow -- The war-song of Dinas Vawr / Peacock -- Arethusa / Shelley -- The day is done / Longfellow -- The -- Song / Scott -- The two April mornings / Wordsworth -- To Helen / Poe -- The skylark / Hogg -- Fidele / Shakespeare -- Cumnor Hall / Mickle -- To a skylark / Shelley -- The nightingale / Barnefield -- The sleeper / Poe -- Spring / Nashe -- The Battle of Naseby / Macaulay -- Rosabelle / Scott -- Rime of the ancient mariner / Coleridge -- The haunted palace / Poe -- The bard / Gray -- Song / Scott -- Kinmont Willie / Minstrelsy of the Scottish border -- The last man / Campbell -- Ivry / Macaulay -- Sir Patrick Spens -- La belle dame sans mercy / Keats -- The child and the snake / M. Lamb -- Tom Bowling / Dibdin -- The kitten and falling leaves / Wordsworth -- The pilgrim / Bunyan -- The solitude of alexander Selkirk / Cowper-- The eve of St. John / Scott -- Leader Haughs / Minstrel Burn -- Epitaph on a hare / Cowper -- Battle of Otterbourne / Minstrelsy of the Scottish border -- Lycidas / Milton -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Gray -- On the morning of Christ’s nativity / Milton -- Winter / Keats -- Yarrow unvisited, 1803 / Wordsworth -- Yarrow visited, September 1814 / Wordsworth -- Sir Hugh; or, the Jew’s daughter / Anonymous -- A lyke-wake dirge -- The red fisherman; or, the devil’s decoy / Praed -- Boadicea / Cowper -- On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford for Naples [1831] / Wordsworth.