Great Relatives Poetry Schoolbook

210 England and Switzerland The two-hundred and tenth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: Switzerland was usurped by the French under Napoleon in 1800: Venice in 1797 (211).

209 On The Castle Of Chillon The two-hundred and ninth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: Bonnivard, a Genevese, was imprisoned by the Duke of Savoy in Chillon on the lake of Geneva for his courageous defence of his country against the tyranny with which Piedmont threatened it during the first half of the seventeenth century. This noble Sonnet is worthy to stand near Milton's on the Vaudois massacre.

208 Ode To Duty The two-hundred and eighth poem in the collection.

207 Battle of the Baltic The two-hundred and seventh poem in the collection.

206 Ye Mariners of England The two-hundred and sixth poem in the collection.

205 A wet sheet and a flowing sea The two-hundred and fifth poem in the collection.

204 Gathering Song of Donald The Black The two-hundred and fourth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK (from 202): A masterly example of Byron's command of strong thought and close reasoning in verse:—as the next is equally characteristic of Shelley's wayward intensity, and 204 of the dramatic power, the vital identification of the poet with other times and characters, in which Scott is second only to Shakespeare.

203 One word is too often profaned The two-hundred and third poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK (from 202; next is this poem, 203): A masterly example of Byron's command of strong thought and close reasoning in verse:—as the next is equally characteristic of Shelley's wayward intensity, and 204 of the dramatic power, the vital identification of the poet with other times and characters, in which Scott is second only to Shakespeare.

202 Elegy on Thyrza The two-hundred and second poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK : A masterly example of Byron's command of strong thought and close reasoning in verse:—as the next is equally characteristic of Shelley's wayward intensity, and 204 of the dramatic power, the vital identification of the poet with other times and characters, in which Scott is second only to Shakespeare.

201 At the mid hour of night The two-hundred and first poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK : It is impossible not to regret that Moore has written so little in this sweet and genuinely national style.

200 Desideria The two-hundredth poem in the collection.

199 The Terror of Death The one-hundred and ninety-ninth poem in the collection

198 Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art The one-hundred and ninety-eight poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK : Nature's Eremite: refers to the fable of the Wandering Jew.—This beautiful sonnet was the last word of a poet deserving the title "marvellous boy" in a much higher sense than Chatterton. If the fulfilment may ever safely be prophesied from the promise, England appears to have lost in Keats one whose gifts in Poetry have rarely been surpassed. Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, had their lives been closed at twenty-five, would (so far as we know) have left poems of less excellence and hope than the youth who, from the petty school and the London surgery, passed at once to a place with them of "high collateral glory."

197 The Maid of Neidpath The one-hundred and ninety-seventh poem in the collection.

196 The Maid of Neidpath The one-hundred and ninety-sixth poem in the collection.

195 The Flight of Love The one-hundred and ninety-fifth poem in the collection.

194 The Rover The one-hundred and ninety-fourth poem in the collection.

193 La Belle Dame Sans Merci (The Fair Lady Without Mercy) The one-hundred and ninety-third poem in the collection.

192 Where shall the lover rest The one-hundred and ninety-second poem in the collection.

191 Happy Insensibility The one-hundred and ninety-first poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK : The Editor in this and in other instances has risked the addition (or the change) of a Title, that the aim of the verses following may be grasped more clearly and immediately.

190 When we two parted The one-hundred and ninetieth poem in the collection.

189 To A Distant Friend

188 To The Night The one-hundred and eighty-eighth poem in the collection.

187 To The Evening Star The one-hundred and eighty-seventh poem in the collection.

186 A Serenade The one-hundred and eighty-sixth poem in the collection.