Tacitus.
56–c. 120 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles E. Bennett |
The Training of Children |
Domitian’s Reign of Terror |
Apostrophe to Agricola |
Manners and Customs of the Germans |
Scene of the Defeat of Varus |
Servility of the Senate |
Death and Character of Tiberius |
The Great Fire at Rome, and Nero’s Accusation of the Christians |
Rabindranath Tagore.
1861–1941. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
From ‘The Post Office’ |
The Second Birth |
Tahitian Literature. |
The Teva Poets: Notes on a Poetic Family in Tahiti by John LaFarge |
Song of Reproof |
Soliloquy of Teura |
Song for the Crowning of Pomare |
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine.
1828–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ferdinand Brunetière |
Characteristics of the English Mind |
Typical English Men and Women |
The Race Characters Expressed in Art |
The Comedy of Manners at Versailles |
The Tastes of Good Society |
Polite Education |
Drawing-Room Life |
The Disarming of Character |
The Talmud. |
Critical Introduction by Max Leopold Margolis |
Booth Tarkington.
1869–1946. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Franklin Thomas Baker |
A Boy and his Dog |
From ‘The Turmoil’ |
Torquato Tasso.
1544–1595. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham |
The Crusaders’ First Sight of the Holy City |
Episode of Olindo and Sophronia |
Description of the Sorceress Armida |
Flight of Erminia |
The Crusaders Go in Procession to Mass, Preparatory to the Assault |
Clorinda’s Eunuch Narrates her History |
Tancred in Ignorance Slays Clorinda |
Armida Ensnares Rinaldo |
The Two Knights in Search for Rinaldo Reach the Fortunate Island, and Discover the Fountain of Laughter |
Erminia Cures Tancred, and is Supposed to Become his Bride |
The Reconciliation of Rinaldo and Armida |
The Aminta: ‘I Am Content, Thyrsis’ |
The Aminta: The Golden Age |
Ode to the River Metauro |
Congedo at the Conclusion of the ‘Rinaldo’ |
To the Princess Leonora When Forbidden by Her Physicians to Sing |
To the Princess Leonora Written Soon After the Poet’s Arrival at Ferrara |
To Leonora of Esté |
To the Princess Lucretia |
To Tarquinia Molza |
To the Duke of Ferrara |
To the Princesses of Ferrara |
To the Duke Alphonso |
Or Che L’aura Mia |
Bayard Taylor.
1825–1878. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Albert Henry Smyth |
Fitz-Greene Halleck |
Charmian |
Ariel in the Cloven Pine |
Bedouin Song |
Hylas |
The Song of the Camp |
Sir Henry Taylor.
1800–1886. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Song: ‘Down lay in a nook my lady’s brach’ |
Aretina’s Song |
To H. C. |
The Famine |
Vengeance on the Traitors |
Artevelde Refuses to Dismiss Elena |
Jeremy Taylor.
1613–1667. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Of the Authority of Reason |
The True Prosperity |
The Merits of Adversity |
The Power of Endurance |
On Husband and Wife |
The Value of an Hour |
Life and Death |
The Rose |
Remedies against Impatience |
Esaias Tegnér.
1782–1846. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
Frithiof and Ingeborg |
Frithiof Goes into Banishment |
The Viking Code |
The Reconciliation |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
1809–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry van Dyke |
The Lady of Shalott |
Choric Song: ‘There is sweet music here that softer falls’ |
Ulysses |
Locksley Hall |
“Break, Break, Break” |
The Brook |
Song: ‘The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls’ |
Song: ‘Tears, Idle Tears’ |
Perfect Unity |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
From ‘In Memoriam’ |
“Come into the Garden, Maud” |
“Oh That ’Twere Possible” |
The Farewell of King Arthur to Queen Guinevere |
In the Children’s Hospital: Emmie |
The Throstle |
The Oak |
Crossing the Bar |
Terence.
c. 195/185–159 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Bond Lindsay |
From ‘The Self-Tormentor’ |
William Makepeace Thackeray.
1811–1863. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Crary Brownell |
Beatrix Esmond |
The Duke of Marlborough |
The Famous Mr. Joseph Addison |
Beatrix Esmond and the Duke of Hamilton |
Before the Battle of Waterloo |
Becky Admires her Husband |
Colonel Newcome in the Cave of Harmony |
Colonel Newcome’s Death |
From ‘The Chronicle of the Drum’ |
What is Greatness? |
The White Squall |
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse |
Peg of Limavaddy |
The Sorrows of Werther |
Little Billee |
From ‘The Pen and the Album’ |
At the Church Gate |
The Mahogany-Tree |
The End of the Play |
Octave Thanet (Alice French).
1850–1934. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Missionary Sheriff |
Celia Laighton Thaxter.
1835–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Sorrow |
Seaward |
The Sandpiper |
The Watch of Boon Island |
Impatience |
In Death’s Despite |
Wild Geese |
In Autumn |
Theocritus.
fl. Third Century B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John William Mackail |
The Song of Thyrsis |
The Love of Simætha |
The Songs of the Reapers |
To Apollo and the Muses |
Heaven on Earth |
Viol and Flute |
The Sinking of the Pleiad |
Idyl VII.: The Harvest Feast |
Idyl VII.: The Song of Lycidas |
Idyl VII.: The Song of Simichidas |
Idyl XV.: The Festival of Adonis |
Idyl XV.: The Psalm of Adonis |
Theognis.
fl. Sixth Century B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Beloved Youth Gains Fame from the Poet’s Songs |
Worldly Wisdom |
“Desert a Beggar Born” |
A Savage Prayer |
André Theuriet.
1833–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Bretonne |
An Easter Story |
Augustin Thierry.
1795–1856. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frédéric Loliée |
The True History of Jacques Bonhomme |
The Battle of Hastings |
The Story of Fortunatus |
Adolphe Thiers.
1797–1877. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Adolphe Cohn |
Why the Revolution Came |
The Revolutionary War in Western France |
The Height of the “Terror” |
The Policy of Napoleon in Egypt |
Napoleon’s Address to his Army after the Disaster of Aboukir |
Edith Matilda Thomas.
1854–1925. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Syrinx |
Lethe |
Sunset |
Cybele and her Children |
The Grasshopper |
Winter Sleep |
Thomas à Kempis.
1380–1471. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Malone |
On the Joys of Heaven |
On Christian Patience |
Of the Wonderful Effect of Divine Love |
Of the Desire of Eternal Life |
That a Man Should Not be Too Much Dejected |
Francis Thompson.
1859–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joyce Kilmer |
The Hound of Heaven |
James Thomson.
1700–1748. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Rule, Britannia! |
April Rain |
The Lost Caravan |
The Inundation |
The First Snow |
The Sheep-Washing |
From ‘The Castle of Indolence’ |
James Thomson.
1834–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From ‘The City of Dreadful Night’ |
From ‘Art’ |
Henry David Thoreau.
1817–1862. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Burroughs |
Inspiration |
The Fisher’s Boy |
Smoke |
Work and Pay |
Solitude |
The Bean Field |
From ‘Walking’ |
Thucydides.
c. 460–c. 395 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Herbert Weir Smyth |
The Night Attack on Platæa |
Pericles’s Memorial Oration over the Athenian Dead of the First Campaign |
Reflections on Revolution |
The Final Struggle in the Harbor of Syracuse |
Tibullus.
c. 55–19 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Meason Whicher |
On the Pleasures of a Country Life |
Written in Sickness at Corcyra |
The Rural Deities |
Love in the Country |
To Cerinthus, on his Birthday |
Johann Ludwig Tieck.
1773–1853. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Fair-Haired Eckbert |
Henry Timrod.
1828–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Spring |
Sonnet: ‘Most men know love but as a part of life’ |
Alexis de Tocqueville.
1805–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Education of Young Women in the United States |
Political Association |
Cause of Legislative Instability in America |
Tyranny of the Majority |
Power Exercised by the Majority in America upon Opinion |
Dangers from Omnipotence of the Majority |
France under the Rule of the Middle Class |
Leo Tolstoy.
1828–1910. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Dean Howells |
Anna’s Illness |
Anna and her Son |
Anna Kills Herself |
At Borodino |
Anthony Trollope.
1815–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jane Grosvenor Cooke |
War |
The Bishop of Barchester is Crushed |
The Moral Responsibility of the Novelist |
Ivan Turgenev.
1818–1883. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry James |
The Death of Bazarov |
Lavretsky |
The District Doctor |
Byezhin Prairie |
The Singers |
A Living Relic |
Charles Tennyson Turner.
1808–1879. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Lion’s Skeleton |
The Lattice at Sunrise |
The Rookery |
Orion |
Letty’s Globe |
Her First-Born |
Our Mary and the Child Mummy |
The Buoy-Bell |
Mark Twain.
1835–1910. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews |
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
The Child of Calamity |
A Steamboat Landing at a Small Town |
The High River: and a Phantom Pilot |
An Enchanting River Scene |
The Lightning Pilot |
An Expedition against Ogres |
The True Prince and the Feigned One |
Moses Coit Tyler.
1835–1900. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Early Verse-Writing in New England |
On the Declaration of Independence |
John Tyndall.
1820–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Matterhorn |
The Claims of Science |
Tyrtæus, Archilochus, and their Successors in the Development of Greek Lyric.
700–500 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Rushton Fairclough |
Johann Ludwig Uhland.
1787–1862. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
The Shepherd’s Song on the Lord’s Day |
The Luck of Edenhall |
The Minstrel’s Curse |
Entertainment |
The Mountain Boy |
The Castle by the Sea |
The Passage |
The Nun |
The Serenade |
To —— |
The Sunken Crown |
A Mother’s Grave |
The Chapel |
The Smithying of Sigfrid’s Sword |
Ichabod: the Glory has Departed |
Armando Palacio Valdés.
1853–1938. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Belle of the Village Store |
Maria’s Way to Perfection |
A Friendly Argument in the Café de la Marina |
Venturita Wins Away her Sister’s Lover |
Juan Valera.
1824–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Bishop |
Youth and Crabbed Age |
Pepita’s Appearance at the Garden Party |
A Noonday Apparition in the Glen |
The Evenings at Pepita’s Tertulia |
Pepita’s Eyes |
The Struggle between the Interests of Heaven and Earth |
How Young Don Fadrique was Persuaded to Dance |
Henry van Dyke.
1852–1933. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mary Leland Hunt |
From ‘Little Rivers’ |
The Malady of Modern Doubt |
An Angler’s Wish |
Tennyson |
The Veery |
A Wild Strawberry |
Giorgio Vasari.
1511–1574. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Raphael Sanzio |
Henry Vaughan.
1621–1695. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Retreate |
The Ornament |
They are All Gone |
The Revival |
Retirement |
The Palm-Tree |
Ivan Vazov.
1850–1921. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Lucy Catlin Bull Robinson |
The Pine-Tree: Allegory of the Ancient Kingdom of Bulgaria |
The Sewing-Party at Altinovo |
Lope de Vega.
1562–1635. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
Sancho the Brave |
Giovanni Verga.
1840–1922. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole |
Home Tragedy |
Emile Verhaeren.
1855–1916. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Amy Lowell |
The Kitchen |
London |
The Windmill |
The Dead |
The Rain |
The Miller |
The Burning Hayricks |
The Stock Exchange |
Get You Gone |
Paul Verlaine.
1844–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Victor Charbonnel |
Clair de Lune |
Le Faune |
Mandoline |
L’Amour par Terre |
The Spell |
From ‘Birds in the Night’ |
Après Trois Ans |
Mon Rêve Familier |
Le Rossignol |
Inspiration |
Jones Very.
1813–1880. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Tree |
Day |
Night |
The Dead |
Man in Harmony with Nature |
The Giants |
The Humming-Bird |
The Builders |
The Wood-Wax |
Beauty |
The Prayer |
Louis Veuillot.
1813–1883. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frédéric Loliée |
A Remembrance |
Tigruche |
A Bon-Mot |
Bétinet, Avenger of Letters |
Hic Aliquis de Gente Hircosa |
A Duel |
Alfred de Vigny.
1797–1863. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King |
Moses |
From ‘Eloa’ |
Laurette, or the Red Seal |
Pasquale Villari.
1827–1917. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Savonarola |
François Villon.
1431–1463? |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Here Beginneth Villon to Enter upon Matter Full of Erudition and of Fair Knowledge |
Ballad of Old-Time Ladies |
Ballad of Old-Time Lords (No. 1) |
Ballad of Old-Time Lords (No. 2) |
Ballad of the Women of Paris |
Ballad that Villon Made at the Request of his Mother |
Lay, or Rather Roundel |
Ballad of Villon in Prison |
The Epitaph in Ballad Form that Villon Made for Himself and His Companions |
Ballad of Things Known and Unknown |
Ballad against Those Who Missay of France |
Ballad of the Debate of the Heart and Body of Villon |
Virgil.
70–19 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton |
The First Eclogue |
My Heart’s Desire |
The Fall of Troy |
The Curse of Queen Dido |
The Vision of the Future |
Melchior de Vogüé.
1848–1910. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King |
Death of William I. of Germany |
Realistic Literature and the Russian Novel |
Voltaire.
1694–1778. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Adolphe Cohn |
The Irrepressible King |
War |
Appearances |
On the Contradictions of this World |
On Reading |
The Ignorant Philosopher |
Climate |
Luxury |
Passages from the Pamphlets |
Country Life |
Voltaire to Rousseau |
The Drama |
To Theuriet |
Greatness and Utility |
To a Lady |
Joost van den Vondel.
1587–1679. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
To Geeraert Vossius: On the Loss of his Son |
From ‘Lucifer’ |
Hermann Eduard von Holst.
1841–1904. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Mirabeau |
Richard Wagner.
1813–1883. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
Beside the Hearth |
The Function of the Artist |
From ‘The Art Work of the Future’ |
Alfred Russel Wallace.
1823–1913. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
How the Rajah Took the Census |
Life in the Malay Archipelago |
Lewis Wallace.
1827–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Galley Fight |
The Chariot Race |
Edmund Waller.
1606–1687. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From the Poem ‘Of the Danger His Majesty (Being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St. Andero’ |
The Countess of Carlisle: Of Her Chamber |
On a Girdle |
Go, Lovely Rose |
From ‘A Panegyric to My Lord Protector’ |
On Love |
At Penshurst |
Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford.
1717–1797. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Cock-Lane Ghost and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
A Year of Fashion in Walpole’s Day |
Funeral of George II. |
Gossip about the French and French Women |
The English Climate |
The Quipu System; Prophecies of National Ruin |
Walther von der Vogelweide.
c. 1170–c. 1230).
and His Times. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
Walther von der Vogelweide. |
Song: ‘When from the sod the flowerets spring’ |
Lament: ‘Ah me! whither have vanished the years of age and youth?’ |
Wolfram von Eschenbach. |
Song: ‘Would I the lofty spirit melt’ |
Gottfried von Strassburg. |
Blanchefleur at the Tournament |
Heinrich von Veldeke. |
Song: ‘No thanks to Tristan that his heart had been’ |
Heinrich von Morungen. |
Song: ‘My lady dearly loves a pretty bird’ |
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Song: ‘Mine is the fortune of a simple child’ |
Count Kraft von Toggenburg. |
Song: ‘Does any one seek the soul of mirth’ |
Steinmar. |
Song: ‘With the graceful corn upspringing’ |
Anonymous. |
Song of the “Marner” |
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Absence |
Konrad von Würzburg. |
Song: ‘See how from the meadows pass’ |
Johannes Hadloub. |
Song: ‘Far as I journey from my lady fair’ |
Izaak Walton.
1593–1683. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry van Dyke |
From the ‘Life of Mr. Richard Hooker’ |
From the ‘Life of Mr. George Herbert’ |
From ‘The Compleat Angler’ |
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne).
1834–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Frederick Johnson |
Edwin Forrest as Othello |
High-Handed Outrage at Utica |
Affairs Round the Village Green |
Mr. Pepper |
Horace Greeley’s Ride to Placerville |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
1844–1911. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
In the Gray Goth |
Mary Augusta Ward.
1851–1920. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Marcella in Peasant Society |
David and Elise |
Charles Dudley Warner.
1829–1900. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie |
From ‘My Summer in a Garden’: Preliminary |
What I Know about Gardening |
George Washington.
1732–1799. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Washington’s Farewell Address |
David Atwood Wasson.
1823–1887. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Genius of Woman |
Social Texture |
John Watson (Ian Maclaren).
1850–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
A Triumph in Diplomacy |
William Watson.
1858–1935. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
The Turk in Armenia |
Repudiated Responsibility |
England to America |
A Birthday |
The Plague of Apathy |
A Trial of Orthodoxy |
A Wondrous Likeness |
Starving Armenia |
From ‘The Tomb of Burns’ |
The Father of the Forest |
From ‘Wordsworth’s Grave’ |
Autumn |
From ‘England, My Mother’ |
Vita Nuova |
The Lost Eden |
Melancholia |
Isaac Watts.
1674–1748. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past |
Jesus shall Reign Where’er the Sun |
Joy to the World, the Lord is Come |
Thou Whom My Soul Admires Above |
Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest |
Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove |
There Is a Land of Pure Delight |
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross |
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite |
How Doth the Little Busy Bee |
Daniel Webster.
1782–1852. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carl Schurz |
The American Idea |
Massachusetts and South Carolina |
Liberty and Union |
The Drum-Beat of England |
Imaginary Speech of John Adams |
The Continuity of the Race |
John Webster.
c. 1580–1634. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ |
Dirge from ‘Vittoria Corombona’ |
John Weiss.
1818–1879. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Constancy to an Ideal |
The Court Fool |
Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven.
1807–1873. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
A Sonnet from ‘Norway’s Dawn’ |
The Revolution of 1848 |
Goliath |
Protesilaos |
The Paris Morgue |
H. G. Wells.
1866–1946. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Hunter Wright |
From ‘The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman’ |
From ‘Tono-Bungay’ |
John and Charles Wesley. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Potts |
John Wesley.
1703–1791. |
The New Birth |
Our Stewardship |
The Kingdom of Heaven |
The Love that Hopeth and Endureth All Things |
A Catholic Spirit |
The Last Judgment |
Thou Hidden Love of God, Whose Height |
Charles Wesley.
1707–1788. |
Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee |
Light of Life, Seraphic Fire |
Love Divine, All Love Excelling |
Eternal Beam of Light Divine |
Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild |
Thou Very Present Aid |
Hail! Holy, Holy, Holy Lord |
A Charge to Keep I Have |
And Have I Measured Half My Days |
Jesus, Lover of My Soul |
Jesu, My Strength, My Hope |
Edith Wharton.
1862–1937. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mary Leland Hunt |
From ‘The Reef’ |
Thomas Wharton.
1859–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Owen Wister |
Bobbo |
Edwin Percy Whipple.
1819–1886. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Domestic Service |
Andrew Dickson White.
1832–1918. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Reconstructive Force of Scientific Criticism |
Mediæval Growth of the Dead Sea Legends |
Gilbert White.
1720–1793. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Habits of the Tortoise |
The House-Swallow |
The House-Cricket |
Richard Grant White.
1822–1885. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Bacon–Shakespeare Craze |
Big Words for Small Thoughts |
Walt Whitman.
1819–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Burroughs |
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ |
Song of the Open Road |
Dirge for Two Veterans |
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomed |
O Captain! My Captain! |
Hushed Be the Camps To-day |
“Darest Thou Now, O Soul” |
A Noiseless Patient Spider |
John Greenleaf Whittier.
1807–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Rice Carpenter |
Skipper Ireson’s Ride |
Telling the Bees |
Maud Muller |
Barbara Frietchie |
In School Days |
The Eternal Goodness |
Ichabod! |
The Barefoot Boy |
The Farewell |
Barclay of Ury |
Centennial Hymn |
Winter In-Doors |
Child-Songs |
The Yankee Girl |
The Angels of Buena Vista |
The Seer |
Burns |
The Summons |
The Last Eve of Summer |
Christoph Martin Wieland.
1733–1813. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Managing Husbands |
The Deities Deposed |
Oscar Wilde.
1854–1900. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Manning Booker |
From ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ |
From ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ |
From ‘De Profundis’ |
Wilhelmine von Bayreuth.
1709–1758. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Visit of Peter the Great to Frederick William the First |
Pictures of Court Life |
Nathaniel Parker Willis.
1806–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
When Tom Moore Sang |
David and Absalom |
Dedication Hymn |
André’s Request to Washington |
The Belfry Pigeon |
Unseen Spirits |
Dawn |
Aspiration |
The Elms of New Haven |
Lines on the Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College |
Love in a Cottage |
Alexander Wilson.
1766–1813. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Spencer Trotter |
The Bluebird |
The Wild Pigeon |
The Fish-Hawk, or Osprey |
The Fisherman’s Hymn |
John Wilson (Christopher North).
1785–1854. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
In Which the Shepherd and Tickler Take to the Water |
Woodrow Wilson.
1856–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Roscoe Conkling Ensign Brown |
Address of the President of the United States |
The Truth of the Matter |
The West in American History |
William Winter.
1836–1917. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Burton |
Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle |
A Pledge to the Dead |
Edwin Booth |
Violet |
The Golden Silence |
Theodore Winthrop.
1828–1861. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
A Gallop of Three |
William Wirt.
1772–1834. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Personal Characteristics of Henry |
Patrick Henry’s First Case |
Burr and Blennerhassett |
Owen Wister.
1860–1938. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mary Leland Hunt |
Specimen Jones |
George Wither.
1588–1667. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
A Rocking Hymn |
The Author’s Resolution in a Sonnet |
A Christmas Carol |
For Summer-Time |
Mary Wollstonecraft.
1759–1797. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Modern Ideal of Womanhood |
William Wood.
1864–1947. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Cobourg Hodgins |
England’s First Look |
Drake and the Spanish Armada |
George Edward Woodberry.
1855–1930. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Erskine |
At Gibraltar |
From ‘My Country’ |
Lines |
Sodoma’s ‘Christ Scourged’ |
Song: ‘When love in the faint heart trembles’ |
Margaret L. Woods.
1856–1945. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Esther Vanhomrigh’s Confession to Dean Swift |
John Woolman.
1720–1772. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall |
From the ‘Journal’ of John Woolman |
Constance Fenimore Woolson.
1840–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Rodman the Keeper |
William Wordsworth.
1770–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederic William Henry Myers |
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey |
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways |
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower |
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal |
A Poet’s Epitaph |
The Fountain: A Conversation |
Resolution and Independence |
The Sparrow’s Nest |
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold |
Composed upon Westminster Bridge |
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free |
To Toussaint L’Ouverture |
London, 1802 |
It Is Not to be Thought of |
To Hartley Coleridge—Six Years Old |
She Was a Phantom of Delight |
The Solitary Reaper |
To the Cuckoo |
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud |
To a Young Lady |
The World Is Too Much with Us |
Ode to Duty |
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood |
To the Small Celandine |
Sir Thomas Wyatt.
1503–1542. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
A Description of Such a One as He would Love |
An Earnest Suit to his Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him |
Song: The Lover’s Lute Cannot be Blamed |
How the Lover Perisheth in his Delight as the Fly in the Fire |
A Renouncing of Love |
The Lover Prayeth Not to be Disdained, Refused, Mistrusted, nor Forsaken |
John Wycliffe.
c. 1324–1384. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Luke xv. 11–32 |
1 Corinthians xiii. |
John xx. 1–31 |
Apocalypse v. 1–14 |
Xenophon.
c. 430–c. 350 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Training of a Wife |
Xenophon’s Estate at Scillus |
Hardships in the Snow |
The Education of a Persian Boy |
William Butler Yeats.
1865–1939. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Cobourg Hodgins |
From ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ |
Ephemera |
Into the Twilight |
The Valley of the Black Pig |
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time |
From ‘Deirdre’ |
From ‘The Shadowy Waters’ |
The Song of Wandering Ængus |
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty |
Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland |
Under the Moon |
From ‘The Countess Cathleen’ |
Arthur Young.
1741–1820. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Aspects of France before the Revolution |
Edward Young.
1681–1765. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From ‘Night Thoughts’ |
Émile Zola.
1840–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Vallier |
Glimpses of Napoleon III. |
The Attack on the Mill |
José Zorrilla y Moral.
1817–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
To my Lyre |
In the Cathedral of Toledo |
To Spain |
The Dirge of Larra |
Aspiration |