POETS

OF

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Poets

OF

ENGLAND AND AMERICA;

Selections from the best Authors of both Countries,

DESIGNED AS

A COMPANION TO ALL LOVERS OF POETRY.

"BLESSINGS BE WITH THEM, AND ETERNAL PRAISE,
WHO GAVE US NOBLER LOVES, AND NOBLER CARES,
THE POETS!"-Wordsworth.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS.

LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.

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280.5.96.

"POETRY IS THE RECORD OF THE BEST AND HAPPIEST MOMENTS OF THE

The Reward of Virtue, (from the "Essay)

on Man,"

Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel,

JOHN LYLY,

11

LONGFELLOW, .

12

EMERSON,

14

The Exile of Cloudland,