| Peter Abelard.
1079–1142
Héloïse d’Argenteuil.
1090?/1100?–1164. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson |
| Letter of Héloïse to Abelard |
| Abelard’s Answer to Héloïse |
| The Vesper Hymn of Abelard |
| Edmond About.
1828–1885. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Capture |
| Hadgi-Stavros |
| The Victim |
| The Man Without a Country |
| Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature. |
Critical Introduction by Crawford Howell Toy |
| Supplementary Note on the Literature of the Euphrates Valley by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh |
| I. |
Theogony |
| II. |
Revolt of Tiamat |
| III. |
Fragments of a Descent to the Underworld |
| IV. |
The Flood |
| V. |
The Eagle and the Snake |
| VI. |
The Flight of Etana |
| VII. |
The God Zu |
| VIII. |
Adapa and the Southwind |
| IX. |
Penitential Psalms |
| X. |
Inscription of Sennacherib |
| XI. |
Invocation to the Goddess Beltis |
| XII. |
Oracles of Ishtar of Arbela |
| XIII. |
An Erechite’s Lament |
| Adam de Saint Victor.
Twelfth Century. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
| De Resurrectione Domine, with Translation |
| De Sancto Spiritu (On the Holy Spirit) |
| Abigail Adams.
1744–1818. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Lucia Gilbert Runkle |
| Letters—To her Husband |
| Selected Letters: To her Sister |
| Selected Letters: To her Niece |
| Henry Adams.
1838–1918. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Auspices of the War of 1812 |
| What the War of 1812 Demonstrated |
| The Battle between the Constitution and the Guerrière |
| John Adams.
1735–1826. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| At the French Court |
| The Character of Franklin |
| John Quincy Adams.
1767–1848. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Letter to his Father, at the Age of Ten |
| From the Memoirs, at the Age of Eighteen |
| From the Memoirs |
| The Mission of America |
| The Right of Petition |
| Nullification |
| Sarah Flower Adams.
1805–1848. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower |
| Nearer, My God, to Thee |
| Joseph Addison.
1672–1719. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie |
| Sir Roger de Coverley at the Play |
| A Visit to Sir Roger de Coverley |
| The Vanity of Human Life |
| An Essay on Fans |
| Hymn, ‘The Spacious Firmament’ |
| Claudius Ælianus.
c. 175–c. 235. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Of Certain Notable Men that Made themselves Playfellowes with Children |
| Of a Certaine Sicilian whose Eyesight was Woonderfull Sharpe and Quick |
| The Lawe of the Lacedæmonians against Covetousness |
| That Sleep is the Brother of Death, and of Gorgias drawing to his End |
| Of the Voluntary and Willing Death of Calanus |
| Of Delicate Dinners, Sumptuous Suppers, and Prodigall Banqueting |
| Of Bestowing Time, and how Walking Up and Downe was not Allowable Among the Lacedæmonians |
| How Socrates Suppressed the Pryde and Hautinesse of Alcibiades |
| Of Certaine Wastgoodes and Spendthriftes |
| Æschines.
389–314 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Defense and an Attack |
| Æschylus.
c. 525–456 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Williams White |
| The Complaint of Prometheus |
| A Prayer to Artemis |
| The Defiance of Eteocles |
| The Vision of Cassandra |
| The Lament of the Old Nurse |
| The Decree of Athena |
| Æsop.
c. 620–560 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harry Thurston Peck |
| The Fox and the Lion |
| The Ass in the Lion’s Skin |
| The Ass Eating Thistles |
| The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing |
| The Countryman and the Snake |
| The Belly and the Members |
| The Satyr and the Traveler |
| The Lion and the Other Beasts |
| The Ass and the Little Dog |
| The Country Mouse and the City Mouse |
| The Dog and the Wolf |
| Louis Agassiz.
1807–1873. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Silurian Beach |
| Voices |
| Formation of Coral Reefs |
| Agathias.
c. 530–582. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Apostrophe to Plutarch |
| Grace Aguilar.
1816–1847. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Greatness of Friendship |
| The Order of Knighthood |
| The Culprit and the Judge |
| William Harrison Ainsworth.
1805–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Students of Paris |
| Mark Akenside.
1721–1770. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From the Epistle to Curio |
| Aspirations after the Infinite |
| On a Sermon against Glory |
| Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.
1833–1891. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Woman Viewed from Without |
| How the Orphan Manuel Gained his Sobriquet |
| Alcæus.
c. 620–c. 580 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Palace |
| A Banquet Song |
| An Invitation |
| The Storm |
| The Poor Fisherman |
| The State |
| Poverty |
| Baltasar del Alcázar.
1530–1606. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Sleep |
| The Jovial Supper |
| Alciphron.
Second Century. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harry Thurston Peck |
| From a Mercenary Girl—Petala to Simalion |
| The Pleasures of Athens—Euthydicus to Epiphanio |
| From an Anxious Mother—Phyllis to Thrasonides |
| From a Curious Youth—Philocomus to Thestylus |
| From a Professional Diner-out—Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus |
| Unlucky Luck—Chytrolictes to Patellocharon |
| Alcman.
Seventh Century B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Night |
| Louisa May Alcott.
1832–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Night Ward |
| Amy’s Valley of Humiliation |
| Thoreau’s Flute |
| A Song from the Suds |
| Alcuin.
735–804. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Carpenter |
| On the Saints of the Church at York |
| Disputation between Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic |
| A Letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne |
| Henry Mills Alden.
1836–1919. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Dedication—To My Beloved Wife |
| The Dove and the Serpent |
| Death and Sleep |
| The Parable of the Prodigal |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
1836–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Destiny |
| Identity |
| Prescience |
| Alec Yeaton’s Son |
| Memory |
| Tennyson |
| Sweetheart, Sigh No More |
| Broken Music |
| Elmwood |
| Sea Longings |
| A Shadow of the Night |
| Outward Bound |
| Reminiscence |
| Père Antoine’s Date-Palm |
| Miss Mehetabel’s Son |
| Aleardo Aleardi.
1812–1878. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Cowards |
| The Harvesters |
| The Death of the Year |
| Jean le Rond d’Alembert.
1717–1783. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Montesquieu |
| Vittorio Alfieri.
1749–1803. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Oscar Kuhns |
| Scenes from ‘Agamemnon’ |
| Alfonso X of Castile.
1221–1284. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| ‘What Meaneth a Tyrant, and How he Useth his Power in a Kingdom when he hath Obtained it’ |
| On the Turks, and Why they are So Called |
| To the Month of Mary |
| Alfred the Great.
849–899. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| King Alfred on King-Craft |
| Alfred’s Preface to the Version of Pope Gregory’s ‘Pastoral Care’ |
| Blossom Gatherings from St. Augustine |
| Where to Find True Joy |
| A Sorrowful Fytte |
| Grant Allen.
1848–1899. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Coloration of Flowers |
| Among the Heather |
| The Heron’s Haunt |
| James Lane Allen.
1849–1925. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Courtship |
| Old King Solomon’s Coronation |
| William Allingham.
1824–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Ruined Chapel |
| The Winter Pear |
| Song: ‘O Spirit of the Summer-time!’ |
| The Bubble |
| St. Margaret’s Eve |
| The Fairies |
| Robin Redbreast |
| An Evening |
| Daffodil |
| Lovely Mary Donnelly |
| Carl Jonas Love Almqvist.
1793–1866. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Characteristics of Cattle |
| A New Undine |
| God’s War |
| Johanna Ambrosius.
1854–1939. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Peasant’s Thoughts |
| Struggle and Peace |
| Do Thou Love, Too! |
| Invitation |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel.
1821–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Burton |
| Extracts from Amiel’s Journal: |
Christ’s Real Message |
| Duty |
| Joubert |
| Greeks vs. Moderns |
| Nature, and Teutonic and Scandinavian Poetry |
| Training of Children |
| Mozart and Beethoven |
| Self-interest |
| Wagner’s Music |
| Secret of Remaining Young |
| Results of Equality |
| View-Points of History |
| Introspection and Schopenhauer |
| Music and the Imagination |
| Love and the Sexes |
| Fundamentals of Religion |
| Dangers from Decay of Earnestness |
| Woman’s Ideal the Community’s Fate |
| French Self-Consciousness |
| Frivolous Art |
| Critical Ideals |
| The Best Art |
| The True Critic |
| Spring—Universal Religion |
| Introspective Meditations |
| Destiny (just before death) |
| Anacreon.
582–485 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Drinking I |
| Age |
| The Epicure |
| Gold |
| The Grasshopper |
| The Swallow |
| The Poet’s Choice |
| Drinking II |
| A Lover’s Sigh |
| Hans Christian Andersen.
1805–1875. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Benjamin W. Wells |
| The Steadfast Tin Soldier |
| The Teapot |
| The Ugly Duckling |
| What the Moon Saw |
| The Lovers |
| The Snow Queen |
| The Nightingale |
| The Market Place at Odense (1836) |
| The Andersen Jubilee at Odense |
| ‘Miserere’ in the Sixtine Chapel |
| Leonid Andreyev.
1871–1919. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Fred Newton Scott |
| The Eternal Question |
| Lorenzo’s Duel with Himself |
| After the Murder |
| The Last Journey |
| Aneirin.
fl. Sixth Century. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Slaying of Owain |
| The Fate of Hoel, Son of the Great Cian |
| The Giant Gwrveling Falls at Last |
| Anglo-Saxon Literature. |
Critical Introduction by Robert Sharp |
| From ‘Beowulf’ |
| Deor’s Lament |
| From ‘The Wanderer’ |
| The Seafarer |
| The Fortunes of Men |
| From ‘Judith’ |
| The Fight at Maldon |
| Cædmon’s Inspiration |
| From the ‘Chronicle’ |
| Antar (Antarah ibn Shaddad).
Sixth Century. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Singleton Holden |
| The Valor of Antar |
| Apuleius.
c. 125–c. 180. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Tale of Aristomenes, the Commercial Traveler |
| The Awakening of Cupid |
| Thomas Aquinas.
1225–1274. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward A. Pace |
| On the Value of Our Concepts of the Deity |
| How Can the Absolute be a Cause? |
| On the Production of Living Things |
| The Arabian Nights. |
Critical Introduction by Richard Gottheil |
| From ‘The Story of the City of Brass’ |
| From ‘The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman, and his Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan’ |
| From ‘Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman’ |
| Conclusion of ‘The Thousand Nights and a Night’ |
| Arabic Literature. |
Critical Introduction by Richard Gottheil |
| Imr-al-Kais: Description of a Mountain Storm |
| Zuhéir: Lament for the Destruction of his Former Home |
| Tarafah ibn al ’Abd: A Rebuke to a Mischief-Maker |
| Labîd: A Lament for the Afflictions of his Tribe, the ’Âmir |
| Antar: A Fair Lady |
| Duraid, Son of as-Simmah: The Death of ’Abdallâh |
| Ash-Shanfarà of Azd: A Picture of Womanhood |
| ’Umar ibn Rabí’a: Zeynab at the Ka’bah |
| ’Umar ibn Rabí’a: The Unveiled Maid |
| Al-Nâbighah: Eulogy of the Men of Ghassân |
| Nusaib: The Slave-Mother Sold |
| al-Find: Vengeance |
| Ibrahîm, Son of Kunaif of Nabhan: Patience |
| Abu Sakhr: On a Lost Love |
| Abu l-’Ata of Sind: An Address to the Beloved |
| Ja’far ibn ’Ulbah: A Foray |
| Katari ibn al-Fujâ’ah, ibn Ma’zin: Fatality |
| Al-Fadl ibn al-Abbas, ibn Utbah: Implacability |
| Hittân ibn al-Mu’allà of Tayyi: Parental Affection |
| Sa’d, son of Malik, of the Kais Tribe: A Tribesman’s Valor |
| From George Sale’s Koran |
| al-Hariri: His Prayer |
| al-Hariri: The Words of Hareth ibn-Hammam |
| The Caliph Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets |
| François Arago.
1786–1853. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Singleton Holden |
| Laplace |
| John Arbuthnot.
1667–1735. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The True Characters of John Bull, Nic. Frog, and Hocus |
| How the Relations Reconciled John and his Sister Peg, and What Return Peg Made to John’s Message |
| Of the Rudiments of Martin’s Learning |
| The Argonautic Legend. |
Critical Introduction |
| The Victory of Orpheus |
| Lodovico Ariosto.
1474–1533. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Oscar Kuhns |
| The Friendship of Medoro and Cloridane |
| The Saving of Medoro |
| The Madness of Orlando |
| Aristophanes.
c. 448–c. 388 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Shorey |
| Origin of the Peloponnesian War |
| The Poet’s Apology |
| The Appeal of the Chorus |
| The Cloud Chorus |
| Grand Chorus of Birds |
| A Rainy Day on the Farm |
| The Harvest |
| The Call to the Nightingale |
| The Building of Cloud-Cuckoo-Town |
| Chorus of Women |
| Chorus of Mystæ in Hades |
| A Parody of Euripides’s Lyric Verse |
| The Prologues of Euripides |
| Aristotle.
384–322 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson |
| The Nature of the Soul |
| On the Difference between History and Poetry, and How Historical Matter Should be Used in Poetry |
| On Philosophy |
| On Essences |
| On Community of Studies |
| Hymn to Virtue |
| Jón Árnason.
1819–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Merman |
| The Fisherman of Götur |
| The Magic Scythe |
| The Man-Servant and the Water-Elves |
| The Crossways |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt.
1769–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| What is the German’s Fatherland? |
| The Song of the Field-Marshal |
| Patriotic Song |
| Bettina von Arnim.
1785–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Dedication: To Goethe |
| Letter to Goethe |
| Bettina’s Last Meeting with Goethe |
| In Goethe’s Garden |
| Sir Edwin Arnold.
1832–1904. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Youth of Buddha |
| The Pure Sacrifice of Buddha |
| Faithfulness of Yudhisthira |
| He and She |
| After Death |
| Solomon and the Ant |
| The Afternoon |
| The Trumpet |
| Envoi to ‘The Light of Asia’ |
| Grishma; or The Season of Heat |
| Matthew Arnold.
1822–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Edward Woodberry |
| Intelligence and Genius |
| Sweetness and Light |
| Oxford |
| To a Friend |
| Youth and Calm |
| Isolation—To Marguerite |
| Stanzas in Memory of the Author of ‘Obermann’ |
| Memorial Verses |
| The Sick King in Bokhara |
| Dover Beach |
| Self-Dependence |
| Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse |
| A Summer Night |
| The Better Part |
| The Last Word |
| The Arthurian Legends.
Eighth to Twelfth Centuries. |
Critical Introduction by Richard Jones |
| From Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Historia Britonum’ |
| The Holy Grail |
| The Death of Arthur |
| Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.
1812–1885. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Gudbrand of the Mountain-side |
| The Widow’s Son |
| Roger Ascham.
1515–1568. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| On Gentleness in Education |
| On Study and Exercise |
| Athenæus of Naucratis.
Second Century? |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Why the Nile Overflows |
| How to Preserve the Health |
| An Account of Some Great Eaters |
| The Love of Animals for Man |
| Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom.
1790–1855. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Genius of the North |
| The Lily of the Valley |
| Svanhvit’s Colloquy |
| The Mermaid |
| Aucassin and Nicolette.
Twelfth Century? |
Critical Introduction by Frederick Morris Warren |
| ’Tis of Aucassin and Nicolette |
| John James Audubon.
1785–1851. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Dangerous Adventure |
| Berthold Auerbach.
1812–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The First Mass |
| The Peasant-Nurse and the Prince |
| The First False Step |
| The New Home and the Old One |
| The Court Physician’s Philosophy |
| In Countess Irma’s Diary |
| Émile Augier.
1820–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Conversation with a Purpose |
| A Severe Young Judge |
| A Contented Idler |
| The Feelings of an Artist |
| A Contest of Wills |
| Saint Augustine.
354–430. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Samuel Hart |
| The Godly Sorrow that Worketh Repentance |
| Consolation |
| The Foes of the City |
| The Praise of God |
| A Prayer |
| Jane Austen.
1775–1817. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| An Offer of Marriage |
| Mother and Daughter |
| A Letter of Condolence |
| A Well-matched Sister and Brother |
| Family Doctors |
| Family Training |
| Private Theatricals |
| Fruitless Regrets and Apples of Sodom |
| Averroës.
1126–1198. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Avesta.
c. Sixth Century B.C. |
Critical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson |
| An Appeal to Ahura Mazdah, the Lord, for Knowledge |
| The Angel of Divine Obedience |
| To the Fire |
| The Goddess of the Waters |
| Guardian Spirits |
| An Ancient Sindbad |
| The Wise Man |
| Invocation to Rain |
| A Prayer for Healing |
| Fragment |
| Sir Robert Ayton.
1570–1638. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Inconstancy Upbraided |
| Lines to an Inconstant Mistress (with Burns’s Adaptation) |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun.
1813–1865. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Burial March of Dundee |
| The Execution of Montrose |
| The Broken Pitcher |
| Sonnet to Britain. “By the Duke of Wellington” |
| A Ball in the Upper Circles |
| A Highland Tramp |
| Massimo Taparelli d’Azeglio.
1798–1866. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Happy Childhood |
| The Priesthood |
| My First Venture in Romance |
| Babur.
1483–1530. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Singleton Holden |
| From Babur’s ‘Memoirs’ |
| Babrius.
c. Second Century A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The North Wind and the Sun |
| Jupiter and the Monkey |
| The Mouse that Fell into the Pot |
| The Fox and the Grapes |
| The Carter and Hercules |
| The Young Cocks |
| The Arab and the Camel |
| The Nightingale and the Swallow |
| The Husbandman and the Stork |
| The Pine |
| The Woman and her Maid-Servants |
| The Lamp |
| The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Francis Bacon.
1561–1626. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charlton Thomas Lewis |
| Of Truth |
| Of Revenge |
| Of Simulation and Dissimulation |
| Of Travel |
| Of Friendship |
| Defects of the Universities |
| To My Lord Treasurer Burghley |
| In Praise of Knowledge |
| To the Lord Chancellor, Touching the History of Britain |
| To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount |
| Charge to Justice Hutton |
| A Prayer, or Psalm |
| From the ‘Apophthegms’ |
| Translation of the 137th Psalm |
| The World’s a Bubble |
| Walter Bagehot.
1826–1877. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Forrest Morgan |
| The Virtues of Stupidity |
| Review Writing |
| Lord Eldon |
| Taste |
| Causes of the Sterility of Literature |
| The Search for Happiness |
| On Early Reading |
| The Cavaliers |
| Morality and Fear |
| The Tyranny of Convention |
| How to Be an Influential Politician |
| Conditions of Cabinet Government |
| Why Early Societies Could not Be Free |
| Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times |
| Origin of Deposit Banking |
| Jens Baggesen.
1764–1826. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Cosmopolitan |
| Philosophy on the Heath |
| There Was a Time when I Was Very Little |
| Philip James Bailey.
1816–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Festus’ |
| Joanna Baillie.
1762–1851. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Woo’d and Married and A’ |
| It Was on a Morn when we Were Thrang |
| Fy, Let us A’ to the Wedding |
| The Weary Pund o’ Tow |
| From ‘De Montfort’: A Tragedy |
| To Mrs. Siddons |
| A Scotch Song |
| Song, ‘Poverty Parts Good Company’ |
| The Kitten |
| Henry Martyn Baird.
1832–1906. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Battle of Ivry |
| Sir Samuel White Baker.
1821–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Hunting in Abyssinia |
| The Sources of the Nile |
| Arthur James, Earl of Balfour.
1848–1930. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes |
| The Pleasures of Reading |
| The Ballad. |
Critical Introduction by Francis Barton Gummere |
| Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne |
| The Hunting of the Cheviot |
| Johnie Cock |
| Sir Patrick Spens |
| The Bonny Earl of Murray |
| Mary Hamilton |
| Bonnie George Campbell |
| Bessie Bell and Mary Gray |
| The Three Ravens |
| Lord Randal |
| Edward |
| The Twa Brothers |
| Babylon |
| Childe Maurice |
| The Wife of Usher’s Well |
| Sweet William’s Ghost |
| Honoré de Balzac.
1799–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Peterfield Trent |
| The Meeting in the Convent |
| ‘An Episode Under the Terror’ |
| A Passion in the Desert |
| The Napoleon of the People |
| George Bancroft.
1800–1891. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Austin Scott |
| The Beginnings of Virginia |
| Men and Government in Early Massachusetts |
| King Philip’s War |
| The New Netherland |
| Franklin |
| Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham |
| Washington |
| John Banim.
1798–1842.
Michael Banim.
1796–1874. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Publican’s Dream |
| Ailleen |
| Soggarth Aroon |
| The Irish Maiden’s Song |
| Théodore de Banville.
1823–1891. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Le Café |
| Ballade on the Mysterious Hosts of the Forests |
| Aux Enfants Perdus |
| Ballade des Pendus |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld.
1743–1825. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations |
| A Dialogue of the Dead |
| Life |
| Praise to God |
| Alexander Barclay.
1475?–1552. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Courtier’s Life |
| Richard Harris Barham
(Thomas Ingoldsby).
1788–1845. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| As I Laye A-Thynkynge |
| The Lay of St. Cuthbert, or, The Devil’s Dinner-Party |
| A Lay of St. Nicholas |
| Sabine Baring-Gould.
1834–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| St. Patrick’s Purgatory |
| The Cornish Wreckers |
| Jane Barlow.
1857–1917. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Widow Joyce’s Cloak |
| Walled Out |
| Joel Barlow.
1754–1812. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Feast |
| William Barnes.
1801–1886. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Blackmwore Maidens |
| May |
| Milken Time |
| Jessie Lee |
| The Turnstile |
| To the Water-Crowfoot |
| Zummer an’ Winter |
| Maurice Barrès.
1862–1923. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pierre Dareutiere de Bâcourt |
