PEACE, Shepherd, peace! What boots it singing on?Since long ago grace-giving Phœbus died,And all the train that loved the stream-bright sideOf the poetic mount with him are goneBeyond the shores of Styx and Acheron,In unexplorèd realms of night to hide.The clouds that strew their shadows far and wideAre all of Heaven that visits Helicon.Yet here, where never muse or god did haunt,Still may some nameless power of Nature stray,Pleased with the reedy stream’s continual chantAnd purple pomp of these broad fields in May.The shepherds meet him where he herds the kine,And careless pass him by whose is the gift divine.
PEACE, Shepherd, peace! What boots it singing on?Since long ago grace-giving Phœbus died,And all the train that loved the stream-bright sideOf the poetic mount with him are goneBeyond the shores of Styx and Acheron,In unexplorèd realms of night to hide.The clouds that strew their shadows far and wideAre all of Heaven that visits Helicon.Yet here, where never muse or god did haunt,Still may some nameless power of Nature stray,Pleased with the reedy stream’s continual chantAnd purple pomp of these broad fields in May.The shepherds meet him where he herds the kine,And careless pass him by whose is the gift divine.
PEACE, Shepherd, peace! What boots it singing on?Since long ago grace-giving Phœbus died,And all the train that loved the stream-bright sideOf the poetic mount with him are goneBeyond the shores of Styx and Acheron,In unexplorèd realms of night to hide.The clouds that strew their shadows far and wideAre all of Heaven that visits Helicon.Yet here, where never muse or god did haunt,Still may some nameless power of Nature stray,Pleased with the reedy stream’s continual chantAnd purple pomp of these broad fields in May.The shepherds meet him where he herds the kine,And careless pass him by whose is the gift divine.
1825-1900
883.
IN the hour of death, after this life’s whim,When the heart beats low, and the eyes grow dim,And pain has exhausted every limb—The lover of the Lord shall trust in Him.When the will has forgotten the lifelong aim,And the mind can only disgrace its fame,And a man is uncertain of his own name—The power of the Lord shall fill this frame.When the last sigh is heaved, and the last tear shed,And the coffin is waiting beside the bed,And the widow and child forsake the dead—The angel of the Lord shall lift this head.For even the purest delight may pall,And power must fail, and the pride must fall,And the love of the dearest friends grow small—But the glory of the Lord is all in all.
IN the hour of death, after this life’s whim,When the heart beats low, and the eyes grow dim,And pain has exhausted every limb—The lover of the Lord shall trust in Him.When the will has forgotten the lifelong aim,And the mind can only disgrace its fame,And a man is uncertain of his own name—The power of the Lord shall fill this frame.When the last sigh is heaved, and the last tear shed,And the coffin is waiting beside the bed,And the widow and child forsake the dead—The angel of the Lord shall lift this head.For even the purest delight may pall,And power must fail, and the pride must fall,And the love of the dearest friends grow small—But the glory of the Lord is all in all.
IN the hour of death, after this life’s whim,When the heart beats low, and the eyes grow dim,And pain has exhausted every limb—The lover of the Lord shall trust in Him.
When the will has forgotten the lifelong aim,And the mind can only disgrace its fame,And a man is uncertain of his own name—The power of the Lord shall fill this frame.
When the last sigh is heaved, and the last tear shed,And the coffin is waiting beside the bed,And the widow and child forsake the dead—The angel of the Lord shall lift this head.
For even the purest delight may pall,And power must fail, and the pride must fall,And the love of the dearest friends grow small—But the glory of the Lord is all in all.
The references are to the numbers of the poems
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,V,W,Y.
Addison, Joseph,433.‘A.E.,’872,873.Ainslie, Hew,619.Akenside, Mark,461-463.Alford, Henry,711.Allingham, William,769.Anonymous,1-7,22-29,50-72,367-392.Arnold, Matthew,747-754.Ashe, Thomas,805,806.Ayton, Sir Robert,182,183.Baillie, Joanna,510.Baillie, Lady Grisel,430.Bannerman, Frances,878.Barbauld, Anna Lætitia,474.Barbour, John,9.Barnefield, Richard,203.Barnes, William,658,659.Beattie, James,472.Beaumont, Francis,234.Beaumont, Sir John,223.Beddoes, Thomas Lovell,666-668.Beeching, Henry Charles,855,856.Behn, Aphra,411,412.Benson, Arthur Christopher,859.Binyon, Laurence,870,871.Blackmore, R. D.,883.Blake, William,483-492.Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen,816-823.Bowles, William Lisle,509.Boyd, Mark Alexander,114.Breton, Nicholas,73, 74 (?).Bridges, Robert,832-840.Brome, Alexander,354.Brooke, Lord,96.Broome, William,446,447Brontë, Emily,735-738.Brown, Thomas Edward,790-793.Browne, William, of Tavistock,240-246.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,678-687.Browning, Robert,715-730.Buckinghamshire, Duke of,417,418.Bunyan, John,366.Burns, Robert,493-506.Byron, Lord,597-601.Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph,638.Campbell, Thomas,580,581.Campion, Thomas,168-176.Carew, Thomas,289-295.Carey, Henry,444,445.Carman, Bliss,857.Cartwright, William,330-333.Chapman, George,107.Chatterton, Thomas,479.Chaucer, Geoffrey,10-12.Clare, John,621.Clough, Arthur Hugh,741.Coleridge, Hartley,643-646.Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,549-555.Coleridge, Sara,661,662.Collins, William,457-460.Congreve, William,431,432.Constable, Henry,110.Cory, William (Johnson),758-9.Cotton, Charles,396.Cowley, Abraham,349-353.Cowper, William,470,471.Crabbe, George,480-482.Crashaw, Richard,336-342.Cunningham, Allan,589-591.Cunninghame-Graham, Robert, of Gartmore,469.Cust, Henry,876.Cutts, Lord,421.Daniel, Samuel,111-113.Darley, George,640-642.Davenant, Sir William,301-303.Davidson, John,850,851.Davies, Sir John,181.Davison, F.orW. (?),64.Dekker, Thomas,204.De Vere, Aubrey,732,733.De Vere, Sir Aubrey,602.Dobell, Sydney,765-768.Dobson, Henry Austin,824-826.Donne, John,195-202.Dorset, Earl of,408.Drayton, Michael,116-120.Drummond, William, of Hawthornden,224-232.Dryden, John,398-402.Dufferin, Lady,691.Dunbar, William,18-21.D’Urfey, Thomas,395.Edwardes, Richard,46.Elliott, Ebenezer,587,588.Elliot, Jane,466.Emerson, Ralph Waldo,669-672.Etherege, Sir George,404,405.Fanshawe, Sir Richard,329.Ferguson, Sir Samuel,712-714.FitzGerald, Edward,697,698.Flatman, Thomas,407.Fletcher, Giles,233.Fletcher, John,141-143(?),207-217.Fletcher, Phineas,222.Ford, John,235.Fox, George,734.Gascoigne, George,47.Gay, John,439.Goldsmith, Oliver,467,468.Gosse, Edmund,845.Gray, Thomas,453-456.Greene, Robert,103-105.Greville, Fanny,475.Griffin, Gerald,663.Grimald, Nicholas,42.Habington, William,297,298.Harte, Bret,813.Hawes, Stephen,32,33.Hawker, Robert Stephen,674,675.Hemans, Felicia Dorothea,622.Henley, William Ernest,842-844.Henryson, Robert,16,17.Herbert, George,281-286.Herrick, Robert,247-275.Heywood, John (?),53.Heywood, Thomas,205,206.Hinkson, Katharine Tynan,877.Hoccleve, Thomas,13.Hood, Thomas,647-654.Hogg, James,513,514.Horne, Richard Henry,673.Houghton, Lord,710.Howells, William Dean,82.Hume, Alexander,106.Hunt, Leigh,592.Hyde, Douglas,858.Jago, Richard,452.James I (King of Scotland),15.Johnson, Samuel,450,451.Jones, Ebenezer,745.Jones, Sir William,478.Jonson, Ben,184-194.Jordan, Thomas,335.Keats, John,623-637.Keble, John,620.Kendall, Henry Clarence,827.King, Henry (Bishop of Chichester),278-280.Kingsley, Charles,739,740.Kipling, Rudyard,865-867.Lamb, Charles,577-579.Lamb, Mary,511.Landor, Walter Savage,557-576.Lang, Andrew,841.Le Gallienne, Richard,868,869.Lindsay, Lady Anne,477.Locker-Lampson, Frederick,746.Lodge, Thomas,97-100.Logan, John,476.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,689.Lovelace, Richard,343-348.Lydgate, John,14.Lyly, John,85,86.Lyttelton, Lord,449.Lytton, Earl of,794,795.Macaulay, Lord,657.MacDonald, George,770.Mahony, Francis,677.Mangan, James Clarence,664,665.Mannyng, Robert, of Brunne,8.Marlowe, Christopher,121.Marvell, Andrew,355-361.Mayne, Jasper,296.Melcombe, Lord,443.Meredith, George,772-776.Meynell, Alice,879,880.Milton, John,307-324.Montgomerie, Alexander,48.Montrose, Marquis of,334.Moore, Thomas,582-585.Moore, T. Sturge,874.Morris, William,800-802.Munday, Anthony,87.Nairne, Carolina Lady,512.Nashe, Thomas,166,167.Newbolt, Henry,860.Noel, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley,803,804.Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah,692.Oldham, John,420.Oldys, William,438.O’Reilly, John Boyle,831.O’Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar,828-830.Otway, Thomas,419.Pagan, Isobel,473.Parker, Gilbert,861.Parnell, Thomas,436.Patmore, Coventry,760-764.Peacock, Thomas Love,593-595.Peele, George,101,102.Philips, Katherine (‘Orinda’),397.Philpot, William,757.Poe, Edgar Allan,694-696.Pope, Alexander,440-442.Praed, Winthrop Mackworth,660.Prior, Matthew,422-428.Quarles, Francis,276,277.Raleigh, Sir Walter,75-78,122.Ramsay, Allan,437.Randolph, Thomas,299,300.Rands, William Brighty,755,756.Reynolds, John,177.Rochester, Earl of,413-416.Rolleston, T. W.,849.Rossetti, Christina Georgina,779-789.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,771Rowe, Henry,507,508.Rowlands, Richard,165.Ruskin, John,744.Russell, George William,872,873.Scott, Alexander,43,44.Scott, Sir Walter,542-548.Scott, William Bell,731.Sedley, Sir Charles,409,410.Shakespeare, William, 56 (?),123-164.Shelley, Percy Bysshe,605-618.Shirley, James,287,288.Sidney, Sir Philip,88-95.Sigerson, Dora,881.Skelton, John,30,31.Smart, Christopher,465.Smith, Alexander,777,778.Smollett, Tobias George,464.Southey, Caroline,596.Southey, Robert,556.Southwell, Robert,108,109.Spenser, Edmund,79-84.Stanley, Thomas,394.Stevenson, Robert Louis,846-848.Stevenson, William,49.Stirling, Earl of,221.Strode, William,393.Suckling, Sir John,325-328.Surrey, Earl of,39-41.Swinburne, Algernon Charles,808-811.Sylvester, Joshua,115.Taylor, Sir Henry,656.Tennyson, Frederick,688.Tennyson, Lord,699-709.Thom, William,655.Thompson, Francis,875.Thomson, James,448.Thomson, James,796-799.Thurlow, Lord,586.Todhunter, John,814,815.Traherne, Thomas,406.Turner, Charles Tennyson,693.Vaughan, Henry,362-365.Wade, Thomas,676.Walker, William Sidney,639.Waller, Edmund,304-306.Walsh, William,429.Watson, William,852-854.Watts, Isaac,434,435.Watts-Dunton, Theodore,807.Webbe, Charles,403.Webster, John,218-220.Wever, Robert,45.Whitman, Walt,742,743.Whittier, John Greenleaf,690.Wither, George,236-239.Wolfe, Charles,603,604.Woods, Margaret L.,882.Wordsworth, William,515-541.Wotton, Sir Henry,178-180.Wyatt, Sir Thomas,34-38.Yeats, William Butler,862-864.