The Blue Poetry Book

Abstract

Collection edited by Andrew Land, with numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. It contains 153 poems by great British and American poets: Anonymous "A Red, Red Rose" "Annan Water" "Battle of Otterbourne" "Cherry Ripe" "The Demon Lover" "Helen of Kirkconnel" "Kinmont Willie" "Lawlands of Holland" "Lyke-Wake Dirge" "Mary Ambree" "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter" "Sir Patrick Spens" "The Twa Corbies" "The Wife of Usher's Well" "Willie Drowned in Yarrow" Richard Barnfield "The Nightingale" William Blake "Night" "Nurse's Song" "The Chimney-sweeper" "The Lamb" Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To Flush, my Dog" William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl" John Bunyan "The Pilgrim" Minstrel Burn "Leader Haughs" Robert Burns "Bannockburn" "I Love my Jean" "O, wert Thou in the Cauld Blast" "The Banks o' Doon" "The Farewell" "There'll never be Peace till Jamie comes Hame" Lord Byron "Could Love for Ever, Run like a River" "So, we'll go no more a Roving" "Stanzas written on the Road between Florence and Pisa" "The Destruction of Sennacherib" Thomas Campbell "Hohenlinden" "Lord Ullin's Daughter" "The Battle of the Baltic" "The Last Man" "The Soldier's Dream" "Ye Mariners of England" Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Christabel" "Kubla Khan" "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" William Collins "Ode written in MDCCXLVI" "To Evening" William Cowper "Boadicea" "Epitaph on a Hare" "John Gilpin" "On a Spaniel called 'Beau' Killing a Young Bird" "The Dog and the Water-lily" "The Poplar Field" "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk" Charles Dibdin "Tom Bowling" Michael Drayton "Ballad of Agincourt" John Dryden "Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music" Jean Elliot "The Flowers o' the Forest" Oliver Goldsmith "Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" Thomas Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" "The Bard" Robert Herrick "To Blossoms" "To Daffodils" Thomas Heywood "Morning" James Hogg "A Boy's Song" "The Skylark" Thomas Hood "A Lake and a Fairy Boat" "I Remember, I Remember" Ben Jonson "Hymn to Diana" John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Mercy" "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" "Winter" Charles Lamb "Hester" Mary Lamb "The Child and the Snake" Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer" Lady Anne Barnard "Auld Robin Gray"