I. =The Flower and the Leaf.=
The Flower and the Leaf 36
II. =The Bee.=
To the Bees Page 54
On a Bee’s Nest 54
The Bee 55
Management of Bees 55
From Shakspeare 59
The Drone 59
Memory of the Bee 60
The Death of the Bee 60
Sonnet 61
III. =Spring.=
The Return of Spring in Greece 63
Spring 64
Description of Spring 64
Spring 65
On Spring 65
Sonnet on Spring 66
Spring, at Easter 66
The Airs of Spring 69
Return of Spring 69
Ode to Spring 70
The Flower 71
Ode 73
To Spring 74
To Spring 75
Spring 76
Ode 76
The Awakening Year 77
Spring Scene 78
Spring 79
IV. =Morning.=
Morning Melodies 80
Morning Walk 81
Hymn 81
Morning 83
Spring Morning in Italy 84
Up, Amaryllis! 85
The Morning Walk 86
Danish Morning Song 87
Summer Morning Song 88
V. =Lark and Nightingale.=
The Note of the Nightingale 92
Sonnet 93
The Nightingale 94
Ode to a Nightingale 95
The Nightingale 97
The Nightingale 98
The Mother Bird 99
The Mother Nightingale 99
The Nightingale 100
Nest of the Nightingale 101
The Nightingale 103
The Lark 103
To the Skylark 104
A Lark Singing in a Rainbow 107
The Skylark 107
The Moors of Jutland 108
The Rising of the Lark 108
The Lark 109
Lark 109
Lines 110
VI. =May.=
May Morning 112
Emilia on May Day 112
Salutation of Maia 113
Song 114
May 115
Song 116
May 117
VII. =The Flock.=
On a Rural Image of Pan 121
Pastoral Scene from “The Arcadia” 121
From the “Faithful Shepherdess” 122
The Shepherd’s Life 122
The Shepherd’s Address to his Muse 123
Phillida and Corydon 125
Shearing Time 126
A Fayre and Happy Milk-Maid 128
Sheep Pastures 129
The Spinner’s Song 130
Song for the Spinning-Wheel 130
Wurtha 131
To Meadows 132
French Song 132
VIII. =The Garland.=
Flowers 136
Spring-Flowers 136
Arrangements of a Bouquet 137
Heart’s-Ease 138
The Garland 139
To Primroses 140
To the Narcissus 141
The Rose 142
Ancient Servian Song 142
To Blossoms 143
Children’s Posies 143
Love’s Wreath 144
To Daffodils 144
The Lily 145
Wild Flowers 145
To the Sweet-Brier 147
The Wild Honeysuckle 148
Wild Flowers 148
Beau and the Lily 149
Flowers 150
Alpine Flowers 153
To the Bramble Flower 153
The Painted Cup 154
The Wreath of Grasses 155
Divination 155
Grass 155
Daffodils 156
IX. =Medley.=
Grongar Hill 157
Letter on Certain Trees 161
A Sketch 162
An English Peasant’s Cottage 163
Ruth 163
Simple Pleasures 164
From “The Complete Angler” 164
The Milk-Maid’s Song 166
The Milk-Maid’s Mother’s Answer 167
The Solitary Reaper 168
The Husbandman 169
X. =The Garden.=
The Garden 171
Of Gardens 171
A Garden 172
The Garden of Alcinous 172
The Garden of Eden 173
Of Gardens 174
Gardening 175
Flowers and Art 176
Chinese Gardening 177
Employment 177
The Garden 178
The Gardeners 179
Lines 181
XI. =Summer.=
Saxon Song of Summer 182
Lines 183
The Summer Months 183
Virtue 184
From the “Holy Dying” 185
Simile 185
The Sun 186
The Sun 187
Delight in God 188
Noon 189
Summer Dream 191
Summer 192
Portuguese Canzonet 193
XII. =The Forest.=
From “Evangeline” 194
Song 194
A Grove 195
Of the Seminary, and of Transplanting 196
Windsor Forest 196
Fairlop 197
An Old Oak 198
Yardley Oak 198
The Groaning Elm of Badesley 200
Yew-Trees 201
Lines 202
Lime-Trees 202
The Birch-Tree 203
The Hemlock-Tree 204
The Oak 205
On an Ancient Oak 205
Wood Notes 205
A Pine-Forest 207
A Wood in Winter 208
“Leaves have their Time to Fall” 208
Sonnet 209
XIII. =Birds.=
Lines 211
A Flight of Cranes 211
The Swallow and the Grasshopper 212
The Same 212
Song of the Swallow 213
Swallows 214
Lines 214
The Black Cock 215
To the Mocking-Bird 215
The Bob-o-Linkum 216
The Owl 217
Extract 218
The Pattichap’s Nest 219
A Thought 219
The Birds of Passage 220
The Dove 222
The Dying Swan 223
The Twa Corbies 224
The Redbreast in September 224
XIV. =The Butterfly.=
Muiopotmos; or, the Fate of the Butterflie 227
On a Locust 238
To the Cicada 238
The Grasshopper 239
Insects 240
Flowers and Insects 240
The Dragon-Fly 241
To an Insect 242
The Grasshopper 243
XV. =The Streams.=
The Streams 245
The Thames 245
River and Song 247
Ode to Leven-Water 247
Song 248
The Rivulet 250
The Stream of the Rock 250
A River 252
Life compared to a Stream 252
On the Bronze Image of a Frog 253
Little Streams 253
Frogs 255
The Rivulets 255
Lines 256
The Wayside Spring 257
Gulls 258
The Fountain 258
XVI. =Fairies.=
Elves 262
Hynde Etin 262
The Fairy Queen 268
Merry Pranks of Robin Good-Fellow 270
Slavic 273
Cottage Fairy 274
Fairies in the Highlands 275
XVII. =Medley.=
Of Beauty 278
Fragment 279
The Memory of a Walk 279
A Bower 279
Mist of the Mountain-Top 282
Emblem 283
Song 284
To a Mountain-Daisy 285
Mossgiel 286
The Forest-Leaves in Autumn 287
Bohemian 287
A Landscape and its Associations 288
XVIII. =The Calendar.=
The Opening Year 289
On Observing a Blossom 290
February 290
March 291
April 292
April 293
Ode to First of April 294
April 296
May 298
June 299
July 299
August 300
August 301
September 302
October 302
November 303
November 303
November in England 304
Sonnet 305
Song 305
XIX. =The Schoolmistress.=
The Schoolmistress 308
The Hamlet 313
The Nosegay 314
The Well of St. Keyne 315
Losel’s Farm 316
Gipsies 317
A Sterile Field 318
The English Common 319
Lines 319
Lines 320
XX. =Autumn.=
To Autumn near her Departure 323
Autumn 323
Ode to William Lyttleton, Esq 325
Song 327
Autumn Scene in England 328
Indian Summer 329
An Autumn Landscape 329
Autumn Woods 330
XXI. =Medley.=
A Wish 333
A Country Life 334
Of Building 334
Of Building 336
The Wish 337
A Thanksgiving for his House 338
The Stranger on the Sill 339
The Invitation 340
Icelandic Lines 341
Domestic Peace 341
XXII. =The Hunt.=
Ancient Hunting Song 342
Hounds 343
Deer Leap 343
The Hare 343
A Hunter’s Matin 347
A Sportsman of Olden Time 348
Sonnet 349
Sonnet 350
Lines 350
XXIII. =Medley.=
Ode 351
Letter of Sir Thomas More to his Wife 353
Peasant Pavo 354
Country Life 356
Scene in an American Forest 357
Song 359
Song 359
Blessings of a Country Life 360
Plagues of a Country Life 360
XXIV. =Wind and Cloud.=
A Storm in Autumn 361
To the Rainbow 362
The Windy Night 363
A Shower 364
To the Rainbow 364
The Hurricane 365
The Rainbow 367
XXV. =Medley.=
The Story of Aaron the Beggar 369
Elegy 371
Take Thy Old Cloake about Thee 372
The Country Lasse 374
Harvest Song 375
Song 376
Servian 377
Lines 377
The Balade of the Shepharde 378
XXVI. =Medley.=
Song 382
Song of Colma 383
Song 384
Lines 384
Letter of St. Basil 385
A Vision 386
The Campagna of Rome 389
The Wave of Life 389
Mutability 390
XXVII. =Winter.=
Winter 391
A Winter Scene 392
Winter Song 393
Holly Song 394
An Old-Fashioned Holly Hedge 394
Christmas Carol 394
The Seasons 395
A Winter Song 396
The Thrush 396
Sonnet 397
Spring and Winter 397
Woods in Winter 398
Winter 399
XXVIII. =Medley.=
Fragment from the Greek of Aristotle 400
The Creation of the Earth 401
Earth 402
The Shield of Achilles 403
Lines 404
An Italian Moon 407
Italian Song 408
A Farm Scene in Portugal 408
From “The Lusiad” 411
Paradise 412
Nature Teaching Immortality 413
XXIX. =Evening and Night.=
The Moon 415
Lines 415
To Cynthia 416
To Night 416
Night 417
To the Moon 418
Moonlight 419
Elegy 420
Night Song 422
Progress of Evening 423
Night 423
Evening 424
Spring Evening 424
Song 425
Song 425
Life 426
On Hope 426
Sonnet 426
Twilight 427
[Illustration: [Pastoral Scene]]