One Star only for Love's Heaven, Star that gathers all stars' glory, AUGUSTA WEBSTER. PREFACE. THE present work differs, it is believed, from previous collections of the kind, in these particulars: (1) that it consists entirely of short lyric poems, (2) that each poem exhibits some phase of the "tender passion," and (3) that it includes specimens of the genius of the latest, as well as of the earliest, writers. These particulars are, indeed, to be found separately in other compilations; but never before, so far as I am aware, have they all been included in one and the same volume. Further, I have attempted-not quite unsuccessfully, I hope to arrange the pieces in something more satis- I need scarcely say I should have failed completely to Arnold, Morris, Swinburne, Allingham, Rossetti, Mac- It is my hope that this volume may be welcomed, not only by the "maids" for whom it is primarily intended, but by all those persons-and how numerous they are, I need not say who are sensible to the "passion" of which it treats. IN PRAISE OF VENUS (William Morris), The Shepherd's Description (Sir Walter A Sickness full of Woe (Samuel Daniel), iii. LOVE THE ADVENTURER (Anonymous), iv. FANCY (William Shakespeare), v. LE PUITS D'AMOUR (Elizabeth Bullock), vi. A WELL OF LOVE (George MacDonald), vii. LOVE THE RANGER (Thomas Campbell), viii. The Perfect Lover (Sir John Suckling), xii. Can this be Love? (George, Lord Lyttelton), xiii. 12 THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE (Thomas Hood), xiv. LOVE'S LOVERS (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), xviii. 13 14 14 15 15 LOVE'S ECHOES (Alfred Tennyson), xix. THE LOOK OF LOVE (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), xx. LOVE'S COLOURS (C. C. Fraser-Tytler), xxi. THE SWEETS OF LOVE (John Dryden), xxii. LOVE'S SORROWS (Thomas Campbell), xxiii.. LOVE'S ETERNITY (George MacDonald), xxiv. LOVE'S GOOD-MORROW (Thomas Heywood), xxv. . Awake, Awake! (Sir William Davenant), xxvii. Come, then, Belovèd (William Morris), xxviii. The Nymph's Reply (Sir Walter Raleigh), xxx, 'Tis not Hereafter (William Shakespeare), xxxi. 25 Leonard (Sir Walter Scott), xxxiii.. County Guy (Sir Walter Scott), xxxiv. LOVE'S PRESENT (Augusta Webster), xxxv. TRUE LOVELINESS (Anonymous), xxxvii. LOVE'S IDEAL (William Browne), xxxviii. A Sweet Neglect (Ben Jonson), xxxix. Not too Precise (Robert Herrick), xl. LOVE'S RESTING PLACE (Thomas Lodge), xliii. For her dear Sake (Graham of Gartmore), xlvi. 35 |