Great Relatives Poetry Schoolbook

235 The Death Bed The two-hundred and thirty-fifth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: Two intermediate stanzas have been here omitted. They are very ingenious, but, of all poetical qualities, ingenuity is least in accordance with pathos.

234 Coronach The two-hundred and thirty-fourth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: correi: covert on a hillside; Cumber: trouble.

233 Hester The two-hundred and thirty-third poem in the collection.

232 Elegy The two-hundred and thirty-second poem in the collection.

231 The Bridge of Sighs The two-hundred and thirty-first poem in the collection.

230 The Pride of Youth The two-hundred and thirtieth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: Maisie: Mary. Scott has given us nothing more complete and lovely than this little song, which unites simplicity and dramatic power to a wild-wood music of the rarest quality. No moral is drawn, far less any conscious analysis of feeling attempted:—the pathetic meaning is left to be suggested by the mere presentiment of the situation. Inexperienced critics have often named this, which may be called the Homeric manner, superficial, from its apparent simple facility: but first-rate excellence in it (as shown here, in 196, 156, and 129) is in truth one of the least common triumphs of Poetry.—This style should be compared with what is not less perfect in its way, the searching out of inner feeling, the expression of hidden meanings, the revelation of the heart of Nature and of the Soul within the Soul,—the analytical method, in short,—most completely represented by Wordsworth and by Shelley.

229 The Mermaid Tavern The two-hundred and twenty-ninth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: The Mermaid was the club-house of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other choice spirits of that age.

228 The Scholar The two-hundred and twenty-eighth poem in the collection.

227 Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples The two-hundred and twenty-seventh poem in the collection.

226 Invocation The two-hundred and twenty-sixth poem in the collection.

225 The Light of Other Days The two-hundred and twenty-fifth poem in the collection.

224 Past and Present The two-hundred and twenty-fourth poem in the collection. Lovely poem; Those flowers made of light! - A parallel of Johnson's lines 'It was the plant the flower of light'.

223 A Lesson The two-hundred and twenty-third poem in the collection.

222 Youth and Age The two-hundred and twenty-second poem in the collection.

221 The Journey Onward The two-hundred and twenty-first poem in the collection.

220 The Old Familiar Faces The two-hundred and twentieth poem in the collection.

219 Simon Lee The Old Huntsman The two-hundred and nineteenth poem in the collection.

218 The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna The two-hundred and eighteenth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: After the capture of Madrid by Napoleon, Sir J. Moore retreated before Soult and Ney to Corunna, and was killed whilst covering the embarcation of his troops. His tomb, built by Ney, bears this inscription—"John Moore, leader of the English armies, slain in battle, 1809."

217 Pro Patria Mori The two-hundred and seventeenth poem in the collection.

216 After Blenheim The two-hundred and sixteenth poem in the collection.

215 Hohenlinden The Two-hundred and fifteenth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: This battle was fought Dec. 2, 1800, between the Austrians under Archduke John and the French under Moreau, in a forest near Munich. Hohen Linden means High Limetrees.

214 When I have borne in memory The two-hundred and fourteenth poem in the collection.

213 The Same The two-hundred and thirteenth poem in the collection.

212 London, MDCCCII London, 1802 The two-hundred and twelfth poem in the collection.

211 On The Extinction of the Venetian Republic The two-hundred and eleventh poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK (from 210): Switzerland was usurped by the French under Napoleon in 1800: Venice in 1797 (211).