REAPER, The, William WORDSWORTH RED, RED Rose, A, ROBERT BURNS REQUIEM, ROBERT Louis STEVENSON RESIGNATION, WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR II2 SANDS OF DEE, THE, CHARLES KINGSLEY 13 215 WORDSWORTH Song: “Ask ME NO MORE WHERE JOVE BESTOWS," Song:“How SWEET I ROAM'D FROM FIELD TO FIELD," SONG:“WHEN ICICLES HANG BY THE WALL,” WILLIAM 8 70 SONG, A: "FOR MERCY, COURAGE, KINDNESS, SONG FROM“PIPPA PASSES,” Robert BROWNING 127 SONGS OF INNOCENCE, WILLIAM BLAKE Sonnet: “WHEN TO THE SESSIONS OF SWEET SILENT SPRING MORNING, WILLIAM BROWNE 49 179 24 IO 127 I13 LEY TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY, THE, R. L. GALES 171 THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR HIS HOUSE, A, ROBERT THE FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING RIDE, NURSERY 32 THE GLORIES OF OUR BLOOD AND STATE, JAMES SHIR- The NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW, NURSERY RHYME 37 THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN, NURSERY RHYME 35 THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER, ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE THERE WAS A MAN OF NEWINGTON, NURSERY RHYME 35 THRUSH's Nest, The, John CLARE TIGER, THE, WILLIAM BLAKE, I 20 85 TIME, YOU OLD GIPSY MAN, RALPH HODGSON To his DEAR GOD, ROBERT HERRICK To his Love, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To LUCASTA, GOING TO THE WARS, RICHARD LOVELACE III HAM INTRODUCTION ABOUT POETRY NOTHING in the world gives people so much real pleasure as making things. And have you ever tried to think exactly what making a thing means? It does n't mean making something out of nothing in a magical way, but it means taking a thing, or a number of things that are already in existence, and so arranging them, that in addition to the things that have been used, an entirely new thing comes into being. For instance, a man may take thousands of bricks, each of which is a separate thing that has already been made, and out of them make an entirely new thing, a house. And in building a house the man is happy for two reasons because he is making a useful thing, a place where he or some one else can live, and also because he is able to take a lot of bricks that have been lying in heaps, that do not seem to mean anything, and arrange them so that they become a house, which means a great deal. And there is nothing which gives us so much satisfaction as this ability to make disorder into order and give a useful meaning to things that until we have arranged them just as the man arranges his bricks into a house seemed to ha no use or meaning at all. Now it is a curious thing that by using our minds a |