"This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing base."

To the Queen.

"And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet."

To the Queen.

"Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea."

To the Queen.

"For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid."

Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

"Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love."

The Poet.

"Like glimpses of forgotten dreams."

The Two Voices. Stanza cxxvii.

"Across the walnuts and the wine."

The Miller's Daughter.

"O love! O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew."

Fatima. Stanza 3.

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-- These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

OEnone.

"Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence."

OEnone.

"I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell."

The Palace of Art.

"Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere."

Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Stanza 5.

"From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent."

Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Stanza 7.

"Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood."

Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Stanza 7.

"You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,-- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be queen o' the May."

The May Queen.

"Ah, why Should life all labour be?"

The Lotus-Eaters. iv.

"A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair."

A Dream of Fair Women. Stanza xxii.

"God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone."

To J. S.

"Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace! Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll."

To J. S.

"Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet! Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change."

To J. S.

"More black than ash-buds in the front of March."

The Gardener's Daughter.

"Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?"

Love and Duty.

"The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end."

Love and Duty.

"Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?"

The Golden Year.

"I am a part of all that I have met."

Ulysses.

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,-- As tho' to breathe were life!"

Ulysses.

"It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew."

Ulysses.

"Here at the quiet limit of the world."

Tithonus.

"In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."

Locksley Hall. Line 19.

"Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight."

Locksley Hall. Line 33.

"He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse."

Locksley Hall. Line 49.

"This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things."

Locksley Hall. Line 75.

"Like a dog, he hunts in dreams."

Locksley Hall. Line 79.

"With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart."

Locksley Hall. Line 94.

"But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels."

Locksley Hall. Line 105.

"Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new."

Locksley Hall. Line 117.

"Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns."

Locksley Hall. Line 137.

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Locksley Hall. Line 141.

"I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race."

Locksley Hall. Line 168.

"I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time."

Locksley Hall. Line 178.

"Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change."

Locksley Hall. Line 182.

"Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."

Locksley Hall. Line 184.

"I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this."

Godiva.

"And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old."

The Day-Dream. The Departure, i.

"And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him."

The Day-Dream. The Departure, iv.

"We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times."

L'Envoi.

"As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid."

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere.

"For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry."

To ----, after reading a Life and Letters.

"But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!"

Break, break, break.

"But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me."

Break, break, break.