IMORE America, 1848-1894
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM England, 1770-1850
WOTTON, SIR HENRY England, 1568-1639
WROTHER, MISS England,
YALDEN, REV. THOMAS England, 1671-1736
YOUNG. DR. EDWARD England, 1684-1765
YOUNG, SIR JOHN England,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY:
"AFTER ALL, WHAT IS POETRY?"
By _John Raymond Howard_

PREFACE.

INDEX OF TOPICS, WITH CROSS-REFERENCES

LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

POETICAL QUOTATIONS

GENERAL INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

GENERAL INDEX OF FIRST LINES AND TITLES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ALEXANDER POPE _Frontispiece_
_After photograph from a portrait_.

JOHN GODFREY SAXE
_After a photograph from life_.

JOHN DRYDEN
_From an engraving after a painting by Hudson,
in Trinity College, Cambridge, England_.

SAMUEL, BUTLER
_After an engraving from contemporary portrait_.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
_From an etching after a life-photograph_.

VICTOR MARIE HUGO
_After a life-photograph of Walery, Paris_,

POETICAL QUOTATIONS

"_Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of
it.... We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects
as by what he originates_."--R.W. EMERSON.

From "QUOTATION AND ORIGINALITY."

ABSENCE.

'T is said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not.
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.
_Absence Conquers Love_. F.W. THOMAS.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder;
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
_Isle of Beauty_. T.H. BAYLY.

Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see.
_Sonnet_. M. DRAYTON.

There's not a wind but whispers of thy name.
_Mirandola_. B.W. PROCTER.

Short absence hurt him more,
And made his wound far greater than before;
Absence not long enough to root out quite
All love, increases love at second sight.
_Henry II_. T. MAY.

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere.
_Sonnet XCVII_. SHAKESPEARE.

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow