PREFACE. The title of this publication is chosen less for appropriateness than for originality. Poetical selections, as various in talent as in name, have been so multiplied of late, that we have been at no small pains to discover an appellation sufficiently distinctive for our purpose. It is for this reason that we have a certain pleasant melancholy upon our brow, and not because we have banished our readers into the wild waste, far from the strife and turmoil of congregated thousands and the populous city; on the contrary, wherever man hath tabernacled or nature dwelt, there, with a joyous gladness have we followed the leadings of the Muse :-we have tracked her from sea to sea and from shore to shore; the Old and the New Worlds have alike furnished contributions; and wherever her gifts have been most prodigally dispensed, have we put in our sickle and gathered in the harvest : TO OUR READERS WE DEDICATE THE FRUITS. CHELMSFORD, INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Page. A Still Place . . . Proctor 37 A Maiden's Fantasy , Miss Jewsbury 39 A Farewell Song . . • Mrs. Hemans 49 Address to the Ocean. Barry Cornwall 80 A Wren's Nest . . . . Wordsworth 82 Address to a Wild Deer . Wilson 85 An Evening Walk in Bengal. . Heber 95 A Young Girl . . . L. E. Landon 129 A Churchyard Scene . . Wilson 176 A Still Winter's Night. . Shelley 188 A Mother's Lament J. Montgomery 201 Bright Thoughts for Dark . .R. F. Housman 36 Waterloo . . Byron 109 Page. . . L. E. Landon 98 162 grimage . . . Bowles 235 Flowers for Mary's Garland . Anonymous 134 - 300 I am come back to my Bower Miss Jewsbury 31 Moore 200 |