10491,32.25 NARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF FEBRUARY 19, 1936 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, AND COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. 0. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. PUBLISHERS' NOTE. The present volume completes the reissue of Folk-Songs, under the various titles of SonGS OF LIFE; SONGS OF HOME; SONGS OF THE HEART, and Songs OF NATURE. The comprehensiveness and completeness of each part, with the numerous new forms and additional illustrations, has commended these selections anew to the public favor, and the four volumes now form a choice library of poetry and song. CONTENTS. PAGE 1 6 9 10 11 12 13 1+ 16 17 19 23 25 29 A FOREST Hymn.... William Cullen Bryant.... MIGNONETTE.. . Mary Bradley THE DYING LOVER. Richard Henry Stoddard... PHILOMELA . Matthew Arnold. LUCY Ashton's Song. . Sir Walter Scott.... SPRING AND WINTER.. William Shakespeare. SABINA. William Congreve.. WIND AND RAIN... Richard Henry Stoddard.... THE BELFRY PIGEON. .Nathaniel Parker Willis.... THE SHEPHERD's Son.... ..Joanna Baillie..., THE COUNT'S LITTLE DAUGHTER.. Mrs. R. S. Greenough.. The HOLLY TREE.... ... Robert Southey.... The Nymph COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER Fawn... Andrew Marvell.... COME, BEAUTEOUS DAY.. William Henry Hurlbut.. The Night PIECE... Robert Herrick.... A WINTER SCENE..., .Josiah Gilbert Holland.... UP IN THE TREE. George MacDonald.... HYMN TO THE FLOWERS. Horace Smith... SONG TO MAY.... .Lord Thurlow.... THE RHODORA... .Ralph Waldo Emerson.... UP THE AIRY MOUNTAIN. William Allingham SUMMER DAYS..... ..Anonymous.. THE VIOLET William Wetmore Story.. ROSALIND's MADRIGAL. .Thomas Lodge.. VIRTUE. George Herbert. Charles Kingsley. THE BROOK-SIDE.... ..Richard Monckton Milnes... Little Bell... . Thomas Westwood.... vii 31 33 34 35 39 40 41 44 46 47 48 OF A' THE AIRTS THE WIND CAN BLAW How THICK THE WILD FLOWERS BLOW ABOUT OUR FEET......R. C. Trench.. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER Rose.. .Bayard Taylor after Rueckert.... WHEN SPARROWS BUILD AND THE LEAVES BREAK FORTH... ..Jean Ingelow.... Elizabeth Barrett Browning ... .From the German of Eduard Moerke.. |