C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Tacitus to Zorrilla y Moral

Tacitus. 56–c. 120 A.D.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles E. Bennett
	The Training of Children
	Domitian’s Reign of Terror
	Apostrophe to Agricola
	Manners and Customs of the Germans
	Scene of the Defeat of Varus
	Servility of the Senate
	Death and Character of Tiberius
	The Great Fire at Rome, and Nero’s Accusation of the Christians
Rabindranath Tagore. 1861–1941.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson
	From ‘The Post Office’
	The Second Birth
Tahitian Literature.	The Teva Poets: Notes on a Poetic Family in Tahiti by John LaFarge
	Song of Reproof
	Soliloquy of Teura
	Song for the Crowning of Pomare
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. 1828–1893.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ferdinand Brunetière
	Characteristics of the English Mind
	Typical English Men and Women
	The Race Characters Expressed in Art
	The Comedy of Manners at Versailles
	The Tastes of Good Society
	Polite Education
	Drawing-Room Life
	The Disarming of Character
The Talmud.	Critical Introduction by Max Leopold Margolis
Booth Tarkington. 1869–1946.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Franklin Thomas Baker
	A Boy and his Dog
	From ‘The Turmoil’
Torquato Tasso. 1544–1595.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham
	The Crusaders’ First Sight of the Holy City
	Episode of Olindo and Sophronia
	Description of the Sorceress Armida
	Flight of Erminia
	The Crusaders Go in Procession to Mass, Preparatory to the Assault
	Clorinda’s Eunuch Narrates her History
	Tancred in Ignorance Slays Clorinda
	Armida Ensnares Rinaldo
	The Two Knights in Search for Rinaldo Reach the Fortunate Island, and Discover the Fountain of Laughter
	Erminia Cures Tancred, and is Supposed to Become his Bride
	The Reconciliation of Rinaldo and Armida
	The Aminta: ‘I Am Content, Thyrsis’
	The Aminta: The Golden Age
	Ode to the River Metauro
	Congedo at the Conclusion of the ‘Rinaldo’
	To the Princess Leonora When Forbidden by Her Physicians to Sing
	To the Princess Leonora Written Soon After the Poet’s Arrival at Ferrara
	To Leonora of Esté
	To the Princess Lucretia
	To Tarquinia Molza
	To the Duke of Ferrara
	To the Princesses of Ferrara
	To the Duke Alphonso
	Or Che L’aura Mia
Bayard Taylor. 1825–1878.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Albert Henry Smyth
	Fitz-Greene Halleck
	Charmian
	Ariel in the Cloven Pine
	Bedouin Song
	Hylas
	The Song of the Camp
Sir Henry Taylor. 1800–1886.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Song: ‘Down lay in a nook my lady’s brach’
	Aretina’s Song
	To H. C.
	The Famine
	Vengeance on the Traitors
	Artevelde Refuses to Dismiss Elena
Jeremy Taylor. 1613–1667.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
	Of the Authority of Reason
	The True Prosperity
	The Merits of Adversity
	The Power of Endurance
	On Husband and Wife
	The Value of an Hour
	Life and Death
	The Rose
	Remedies against Impatience
Esaias Tegnér. 1782–1846.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne
	Frithiof and Ingeborg
	Frithiof Goes into Banishment
	The Viking Code
	The Reconciliation
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1809–1892.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry van Dyke
	The Lady of Shalott
	Choric Song: ‘There is sweet music here that softer falls’
	Ulysses
	Locksley Hall
	“Break, Break, Break”
	The Brook
	Song: ‘The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls’
	Song: ‘Tears, Idle Tears’
	Perfect Unity
	The Charge of the Light Brigade
	From ‘In Memoriam’
	“Come into the Garden, Maud”
	“Oh That ’Twere Possible”
	The Farewell of King Arthur to Queen Guinevere
	In the Children’s Hospital: Emmie
	The Throstle
	The Oak
	Crossing the Bar
Terence. c. 195/185–159 B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Bond Lindsay
	From ‘The Self-Tormentor’
William Makepeace Thackeray. 1811–1863.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Crary Brownell
	Beatrix Esmond
	The Duke of Marlborough
	The Famous Mr. Joseph Addison
	Beatrix Esmond and the Duke of Hamilton
	Before the Battle of Waterloo
	Becky Admires her Husband
	Colonel Newcome in the Cave of Harmony
	Colonel Newcome’s Death
	From ‘The Chronicle of the Drum’
	What is Greatness?
	The White Squall
	The Ballad of Bouillabaisse
	Peg of Limavaddy
	The Sorrows of Werther
	Little Billee
	From ‘The Pen and the Album’
	At the Church Gate
	The Mahogany-Tree
	The End of the Play
Octave Thanet (Alice French). 1850–1934.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Missionary Sheriff
Celia Laighton Thaxter. 1835–1894.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Sorrow
	Seaward
	The Sandpiper
	The Watch of Boon Island
	Impatience
	In Death’s Despite
	Wild Geese
	In Autumn
Theocritus. fl. Third Century B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by John William Mackail
	The Song of Thyrsis
	The Love of Simætha
	The Songs of the Reapers
	To Apollo and the Muses
	Heaven on Earth
	Viol and Flute
	The Sinking of the Pleiad
	Idyl VII.: The Harvest Feast
	Idyl VII.: The Song of Lycidas
	Idyl VII.: The Song of Simichidas
	Idyl XV.: The Festival of Adonis
	Idyl XV.: The Psalm of Adonis
Theognis. fl. Sixth Century B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Beloved Youth Gains Fame from the Poet’s Songs
	Worldly Wisdom
	“Desert a Beggar Born”
	A Savage Prayer
André Theuriet. 1833–1907.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Bretonne
	An Easter Story
Augustin Thierry. 1795–1856.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frédéric Loliée
	The True History of Jacques Bonhomme
	The Battle of Hastings
	The Story of Fortunatus
Adolphe Thiers. 1797–1877.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Adolphe Cohn
	Why the Revolution Came
	The Revolutionary War in Western France
	The Height of the “Terror”
	The Policy of Napoleon in Egypt
	Napoleon’s Address to his Army after the Disaster of Aboukir
Edith Matilda Thomas. 1854–1925.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Syrinx
	Lethe
	Sunset
	Cybele and her Children
	The Grasshopper
	Winter Sleep
Thomas à Kempis. 1380–1471.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Malone
	On the Joys of Heaven
	On Christian Patience
	Of the Wonderful Effect of Divine Love
	Of the Desire of Eternal Life
	That a Man Should Not be Too Much Dejected
Francis Thompson. 1859–1907.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joyce Kilmer
	The Hound of Heaven
James Thomson. 1700–1748.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Rule, Britannia!
	April Rain
	The Lost Caravan
	The Inundation
	The First Snow
	The Sheep-Washing
	From ‘The Castle of Indolence’
James Thomson. 1834–1882.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	From ‘The City of Dreadful Night’
	From ‘Art’
Henry David Thoreau. 1817–1862.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Burroughs
	Inspiration
	The Fisher’s Boy
	Smoke
	Work and Pay
	Solitude
	The Bean Field
	From ‘Walking’
Thucydides. c. 460–c. 395 B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Herbert Weir Smyth
	The Night Attack on Platæa
	Pericles’s Memorial Oration over the Athenian Dead of the First Campaign
	Reflections on Revolution
	The Final Struggle in the Harbor of Syracuse
Tibullus. c. 55–19 B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Meason Whicher
	On the Pleasures of a Country Life
	Written in Sickness at Corcyra
	The Rural Deities
	Love in the Country
	To Cerinthus, on his Birthday
Johann Ludwig Tieck. 1773–1853.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Fair-Haired Eckbert
Henry Timrod. 1828–1867.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Spring
	Sonnet: ‘Most men know love but as a part of life’
Alexis de Tocqueville. 1805–1859.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Education of Young Women in the United States
	Political Association
	Cause of Legislative Instability in America
	Tyranny of the Majority
	Power Exercised by the Majority in America upon Opinion
	Dangers from Omnipotence of the Majority
	France under the Rule of the Middle Class
Leo Tolstoy. 1828–1910.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Dean Howells
	Anna’s Illness
	Anna and her Son
	Anna Kills Herself
	At Borodino
Anthony Trollope. 1815–1882.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jane Grosvenor Cooke
	War
	The Bishop of Barchester is Crushed
	The Moral Responsibility of the Novelist
Ivan Turgenev. 1818–1883.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry James
	The Death of Bazarov
	Lavretsky
	The District Doctor
	Byezhin Prairie
	The Singers
	A Living Relic
Charles Tennyson Turner. 1808–1879.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Lion’s Skeleton
	The Lattice at Sunrise
	The Rookery
	Orion
	Letty’s Globe
	Her First-Born
	Our Mary and the Child Mummy
	The Buoy-Bell
Mark Twain. 1835–1910.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews
	The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
	The Child of Calamity
	A Steamboat Landing at a Small Town
	The High River: and a Phantom Pilot
	An Enchanting River Scene
	The Lightning Pilot
	An Expedition against Ogres
	The True Prince and the Feigned One
Moses Coit Tyler. 1835–1900.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Early Verse-Writing in New England
	On the Declaration of Independence
John Tyndall. 1820–1893.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Matterhorn
	The Claims of Science
Tyrtæus, Archilochus, and their Successors in the Development of Greek Lyric. 700–500 B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Rushton Fairclough
Johann Ludwig Uhland. 1787–1862.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung
	The Shepherd’s Song on the Lord’s Day
	The Luck of Edenhall
	The Minstrel’s Curse
	Entertainment
	The Mountain Boy
	The Castle by the Sea
	The Passage
	The Nun
	The Serenade
	To ——
	The Sunken Crown
	A Mother’s Grave
	The Chapel
	The Smithying of Sigfrid’s Sword
	Ichabod: the Glory has Departed
Armando Palacio Valdés. 1853–1938.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Belle of the Village Store
	Maria’s Way to Perfection
	A Friendly Argument in the Café de la Marina
	Venturita Wins Away her Sister’s Lover
Juan Valera. 1824–1905.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Bishop
	Youth and Crabbed Age
	Pepita’s Appearance at the Garden Party
	A Noonday Apparition in the Glen
	The Evenings at Pepita’s Tertulia
	Pepita’s Eyes
	The Struggle between the Interests of Heaven and Earth
	How Young Don Fadrique was Persuaded to Dance
Henry van Dyke. 1852–1933.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mary Leland Hunt
	From ‘Little Rivers’
	The Malady of Modern Doubt
	An Angler’s Wish
	Tennyson
	The Veery
	A Wild Strawberry
Giorgio Vasari. 1511–1574.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Raphael Sanzio
Henry Vaughan. 1621–1695.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Retreate
	The Ornament
	They are All Gone
	The Revival
	Retirement
	The Palm-Tree
Ivan Vazov. 1850–1921.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Lucy Catlin Bull Robinson
	The Pine-Tree: Allegory of the Ancient Kingdom of Bulgaria
	The Sewing-Party at Altinovo
Lope de Vega. 1562–1635.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan
	Sancho the Brave
Giovanni Verga. 1840–1922.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole
	Home Tragedy
Emile Verhaeren. 1855–1916.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Amy Lowell
	The Kitchen
	London
	The Windmill
	The Dead
	The Rain
	The Miller
	The Burning Hayricks
	The Stock Exchange
	Get You Gone
Paul Verlaine. 1844–1896.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Victor Charbonnel
	Clair de Lune
	Le Faune
	Mandoline
	L’Amour par Terre
	The Spell
	From ‘Birds in the Night’
	Après Trois Ans
	Mon Rêve Familier
	Le Rossignol
	Inspiration
Jones Very. 1813–1880.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Tree
	Day
	Night
	The Dead
	Man in Harmony with Nature
	The Giants
	The Humming-Bird
	The Builders
	The Wood-Wax
	Beauty
	The Prayer
Louis Veuillot. 1813–1883.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frédéric Loliée
	A Remembrance
	Tigruche
	A Bon-Mot
	Bétinet, Avenger of Letters
	Hic Aliquis de Gente Hircosa
	A Duel
Alfred de Vigny. 1797–1863.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King
	Moses
	From ‘Eloa’
	Laurette, or the Red Seal
Pasquale Villari. 1827–1917.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Savonarola
François Villon. 1431–1463?	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Here Beginneth Villon to Enter upon Matter Full of Erudition and of Fair Knowledge
	Ballad of Old-Time Ladies
	Ballad of Old-Time Lords (No. 1)
	Ballad of Old-Time Lords (No. 2)
	Ballad of the Women of Paris
	Ballad that Villon Made at the Request of his Mother
	Lay, or Rather Roundel
	Ballad of Villon in Prison
	The Epitaph in Ballad Form that Villon Made for Himself and His Companions
	Ballad of Things Known and Unknown
	Ballad against Those Who Missay of France
	Ballad of the Debate of the Heart and Body of Villon
Virgil. 70–19 B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton
	The First Eclogue
	My Heart’s Desire
	The Fall of Troy
	The Curse of Queen Dido
	The Vision of the Future
Melchior de Vogüé. 1848–1910.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King
	Death of William I. of Germany
	Realistic Literature and the Russian Novel
Voltaire. 1694–1778.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Adolphe Cohn
	The Irrepressible King
	War
	Appearances
	On the Contradictions of this World
	On Reading
	The Ignorant Philosopher
	Climate
	Luxury
	Passages from the Pamphlets
	Country Life
	Voltaire to Rousseau
	The Drama
	To Theuriet
	Greatness and Utility
	To a Lady
Joost van den Vondel. 1587–1679.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	To Geeraert Vossius: On the Loss of his Son
	From ‘Lucifer’
Hermann Eduard von Holst. 1841–1904.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Mirabeau
Richard Wagner. 1813–1883.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung
	Beside the Hearth
	The Function of the Artist
	From ‘The Art Work of the Future’
Alfred Russel Wallace. 1823–1913.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	How the Rajah Took the Census
	Life in the Malay Archipelago
Lewis Wallace. 1827–1905.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Galley Fight
	The Chariot Race
Edmund Waller. 1606–1687.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	From the Poem ‘Of the Danger His Majesty (Being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St. Andero’
	The Countess of Carlisle: Of Her Chamber
	On a Girdle
	Go, Lovely Rose
	From ‘A Panegyric to My Lord Protector’
	On Love
	At Penshurst
Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. 1717–1797.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Cock-Lane Ghost and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
	A Year of Fashion in Walpole’s Day
	Funeral of George II.
	Gossip about the French and French Women
	The English Climate
	The Quipu System; Prophecies of National Ruin
Walther von der Vogelweide. c. 1170–c. 1230). and His Times.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung
Walther von der Vogelweide.	Song: ‘When from the sod the flowerets spring’
	Lament: ‘Ah me! whither have vanished the years of age and youth?’
Wolfram von Eschenbach.	Song: ‘Would I the lofty spirit melt’
Gottfried von Strassburg.	Blanchefleur at the Tournament
Heinrich von Veldeke.	Song: ‘No thanks to Tristan that his heart had been’
Heinrich von Morungen.	Song: ‘My lady dearly loves a pretty bird’
	Song: ‘Mine is the fortune of a simple child’
Count Kraft von Toggenburg.	Song: ‘Does any one seek the soul of mirth’
Steinmar.	Song: ‘With the graceful corn upspringing’
Anonymous.	Song of the “Marner”
	Absence
Konrad von Würzburg.	Song: ‘See how from the meadows pass’
Johannes Hadloub.	Song: ‘Far as I journey from my lady fair’
Izaak Walton. 1593–1683.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry van Dyke
	From the ‘Life of Mr. Richard Hooker’
	From the ‘Life of Mr. George Herbert’
	From ‘The Compleat Angler’
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne). 1834–1867.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Frederick Johnson
	Edwin Forrest as Othello
	High-Handed Outrage at Utica
	Affairs Round the Village Green
	Mr. Pepper
	Horace Greeley’s Ride to Placerville
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. 1844–1911.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	In the Gray Goth
Mary Augusta Ward. 1851–1920.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Marcella in Peasant Society
	David and Elise
Charles Dudley Warner. 1829–1900.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie
	From ‘My Summer in a Garden’: Preliminary
	What I Know about Gardening
George Washington. 1732–1799.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Washington’s Farewell Address
David Atwood Wasson. 1823–1887.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Genius of Woman
	Social Texture
John Watson (Ian Maclaren). 1850–1907.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	A Triumph in Diplomacy
William Watson. 1858–1935.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson
	The Turk in Armenia
	Repudiated Responsibility
	England to America
	A Birthday
	The Plague of Apathy
	A Trial of Orthodoxy
	A Wondrous Likeness
	Starving Armenia
	From ‘The Tomb of Burns’
	The Father of the Forest
	From ‘Wordsworth’s Grave’
	Autumn
	From ‘England, My Mother’
	Vita Nuova
	The Lost Eden
	Melancholia
Isaac Watts. 1674–1748.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
	Jesus shall Reign Where’er the Sun
	Joy to the World, the Lord is Come
	Thou Whom My Soul Admires Above
	Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest
	Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove
	There Is a Land of Pure Delight
	When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
	Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite
	How Doth the Little Busy Bee
Daniel Webster. 1782–1852.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carl Schurz
	The American Idea
	Massachusetts and South Carolina
	Liberty and Union
	The Drum-Beat of England
	Imaginary Speech of John Adams
	The Continuity of the Race
John Webster. c. 1580–1634.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	From ‘The Duchess of Malfi’
	Dirge from ‘Vittoria Corombona’
John Weiss. 1818–1879.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Constancy to an Ideal
	The Court Fool
Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven. 1807–1873.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	A Sonnet from ‘Norway’s Dawn’
	The Revolution of 1848
	Goliath
	Protesilaos
	The Paris Morgue
H. G. Wells. 1866–1946.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Hunter Wright
	From ‘The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman’
	From ‘Tono-Bungay’
John and Charles Wesley.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Potts
John Wesley. 1703–1791.	The New Birth
	Our Stewardship
	The Kingdom of Heaven
	The Love that Hopeth and Endureth All Things
	A Catholic Spirit
	The Last Judgment
	Thou Hidden Love of God, Whose Height
Charles Wesley. 1707–1788.	Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee
	Light of Life, Seraphic Fire
	Love Divine, All Love Excelling
	Eternal Beam of Light Divine
	Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild
	Thou Very Present Aid
	Hail! Holy, Holy, Holy Lord
	A Charge to Keep I Have
	And Have I Measured Half My Days
	Jesus, Lover of My Soul
	Jesu, My Strength, My Hope
Edith Wharton. 1862–1937.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mary Leland Hunt
	From ‘The Reef’
Thomas Wharton. 1859–1896.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Owen Wister
	Bobbo
Edwin Percy Whipple. 1819–1886.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Domestic Service
Andrew Dickson White. 1832–1918.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Reconstructive Force of Scientific Criticism
	Mediæval Growth of the Dead Sea Legends
Gilbert White. 1720–1793.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Habits of the Tortoise
	The House-Swallow
	The House-Cricket
Richard Grant White. 1822–1885.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Bacon–Shakespeare Craze
	Big Words for Small Thoughts
Walt Whitman. 1819–1892.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Burroughs
	I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
	Song of the Open Road
	Dirge for Two Veterans
	When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomed
	O Captain! My Captain!
	Hushed Be the Camps To-day
	“Darest Thou Now, O Soul”
	A Noiseless Patient Spider
John Greenleaf Whittier. 1807–1892.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Rice Carpenter
	Skipper Ireson’s Ride
	Telling the Bees
	Maud Muller
	Barbara Frietchie
	In School Days
	The Eternal Goodness
	Ichabod!
	The Barefoot Boy
	The Farewell
	Barclay of Ury
	Centennial Hymn
	Winter In-Doors
	Child-Songs
	The Yankee Girl
	The Angels of Buena Vista
	The Seer
	Burns
	The Summons
	The Last Eve of Summer
Christoph Martin Wieland. 1733–1813.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Managing Husbands
	The Deities Deposed
Oscar Wilde. 1854–1900.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Manning Booker
	From ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’
	From ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
	From ‘De Profundis’
Wilhelmine von Bayreuth. 1709–1758.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Visit of Peter the Great to Frederick William the First
	Pictures of Court Life
Nathaniel Parker Willis. 1806–1867.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	When Tom Moore Sang
	David and Absalom
	Dedication Hymn
	André’s Request to Washington
	The Belfry Pigeon
	Unseen Spirits
	Dawn
	Aspiration
	The Elms of New Haven
	Lines on the Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College
	Love in a Cottage
Alexander Wilson. 1766–1813.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Spencer Trotter
	The Bluebird
	The Wild Pigeon
	The Fish-Hawk, or Osprey
	The Fisherman’s Hymn
John Wilson (Christopher North). 1785–1854.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	In Which the Shepherd and Tickler Take to the Water
Woodrow Wilson. 1856–1924.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Roscoe Conkling Ensign Brown
	Address of the President of the United States
	The Truth of the Matter
	The West in American History
William Winter. 1836–1917.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Burton
	Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle
	A Pledge to the Dead
	Edwin Booth
	Violet
	The Golden Silence
Theodore Winthrop. 1828–1861.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	A Gallop of Three
William Wirt. 1772–1834.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Personal Characteristics of Henry
	Patrick Henry’s First Case
	Burr and Blennerhassett
Owen Wister. 1860–1938.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mary Leland Hunt
	Specimen Jones
George Wither. 1588–1667.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	A Rocking Hymn
	The Author’s Resolution in a Sonnet
	A Christmas Carol
	For Summer-Time
Mary Wollstonecraft. 1759–1797.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Modern Ideal of Womanhood
William Wood. 1864–1947.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Cobourg Hodgins
	England’s First Look
	Drake and the Spanish Armada
George Edward Woodberry. 1855–1930.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Erskine
	At Gibraltar
	From ‘My Country’
	Lines
	Sodoma’s ‘Christ Scourged’
	Song: ‘When love in the faint heart trembles’
Margaret L. Woods. 1856–1945.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Esther Vanhomrigh’s Confession to Dean Swift
John Woolman. 1720–1772.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall
	From the ‘Journal’ of John Woolman
Constance Fenimore Woolson. 1840–1894.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Rodman the Keeper
William Wordsworth. 1770–1850.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederic William Henry Myers
	Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
	She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
	Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
	A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
	A Poet’s Epitaph
	The Fountain: A Conversation
	Resolution and Independence
	The Sparrow’s Nest
	My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
	Composed upon Westminster Bridge
	It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
	To Toussaint L’Ouverture
	London, 1802
	It Is Not to be Thought of
	To Hartley Coleridge—Six Years Old
	She Was a Phantom of Delight
	The Solitary Reaper
	To the Cuckoo
	I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
	To a Young Lady
	The World Is Too Much with Us
	Ode to Duty
	Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
	To the Small Celandine
Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1503–1542.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	A Description of Such a One as He would Love
	An Earnest Suit to his Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him
	Song: The Lover’s Lute Cannot be Blamed
	How the Lover Perisheth in his Delight as the Fly in the Fire
	A Renouncing of Love
	The Lover Prayeth Not to be Disdained, Refused, Mistrusted, nor Forsaken
John Wycliffe. c. 1324–1384.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Luke xv. 11–32
	1 Corinthians xiii.
	John xx. 1–31
	Apocalypse v. 1–14
Xenophon. c. 430–c. 350 B.C.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	The Training of a Wife
	Xenophon’s Estate at Scillus
	Hardships in the Snow
	The Education of a Persian Boy
William Butler Yeats. 1865–1939.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Cobourg Hodgins
	From ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’
	Ephemera
	Into the Twilight
	The Valley of the Black Pig
	To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
	From ‘Deirdre’
	From ‘The Shadowy Waters’
	The Song of Wandering Ængus
	He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
	Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland
	Under the Moon
	From ‘The Countess Cathleen’
Arthur Young. 1741–1820.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	Aspects of France before the Revolution
Edward Young. 1681–1765.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	From ‘Night Thoughts’
Émile Zola. 1840–1902.	Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Vallier
	Glimpses of Napoleon III.
	The Attack on the Mill
José Zorrilla y Moral. 1817–1893.	Critical and Biographical Introduction
	To my Lyre
	In the Cathedral of Toledo
	To Spain
	The Dirge of Larra
	Aspiration

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