But remember that you can not get the value of even a single poem of his at a single reading.

We have become so much accustomed to conventional forms of literature that the simple art of poetry like this quite escapes us at first sight.

We have to read it over and over again many times, and to think about it; then only we feel the wonderful charm.
INDEX [Transcriber's note: Page numbers have been converted to chapter numbers in this index.] "A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay," 14 Aicard, Jean, 11 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 4 "Along the garden ways just now," 2 "Amaturus," 3 "A Ma Future," 3 "Amelia," 2 "Amis and Amile," Introduction, 13 "Amphibian," 10 Andrews, Bishop Lancelot, 6 "Angel in the House, The," 2 "An Invocation," 14 "Appreciations of Poetry," Introduction "Arabian Nights, The," 13 "Arachne," 10 Arnold, Sir Edwin, 3 Arnold, Matthew, 7, 15 "Art of Worldly Wisdom, The," 7 Ashe, Thomas, 3 "A simple ring with a simple stone," 3 "Atalanta in Calydon," 12 "Atalanta's Race," 2 "Bhagavad-Gita, The," 6 Bible, The, Introduction, 3, 6, 12, 13 Bion, 14 Blake, William, 6, 10 Book of Common Prayer, The, 12 Breton, Jules, 11 "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art," 2 Browning, Robert, 2, 3, 10, 14 "Burly, dozing humble bee," 10 "Busy, curious thirsty fly," 10 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 2, 3 Carew, Thomas, 3 Carlyle, Thomas, 5, 6 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of, 7 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 2 Coleridge, Hartley, 3 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 2, 6, 10 "Conservative, A," 10 Cooke, Rose Terry, 10 Cory, William, Introduction, 3, 14 Crashaw, Richard, 3 Dante Alighieri, 2 "Daughter of Cleomenes, The," 14 Descartes, Rene, 10 "Deteriora," 14 Dickens, Charles, Introduction "Djins, Les," 4 "Dream of Fair Women, A," 14 "Emaux et Camees," 11 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 10 "Epigramme Funeraire," 11 "Evelyn Hope," 3 "Fable, A," 14 "Fifine at the Fair," 10 Francis of Assisi, Saint, 10 Freneau, Philip, 10 Gautier, Theophile, 11 "Gazing on stars, my star ?" 2 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 4 "Golden Legend, The," 13 Gracian, Baltasar, 7 "Grasshopper, The," 11 Gray, Thomas, 10 "Greater Memory," 2 Greek Anthology, Introduction, 4, 14 "Grillon solitaire," 11 "Havamal, The," Introduction, 6 Hearn, Lafcadio, Introduction Heredia, Jose, Maria de, Introduction, 5, 11 Herodas, 15 Herrick, Robert, 4 "He that loves a rosy cheek," 3 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 10 Hood, Thomas, 3 Hugo, Victor, 2, 2, 4, 5, 11 "Idyls of the King," 14 "I love to hear thine earnest voice," 10 "In a branch of willow hid," 10 "Interpretations of Literature," Introduction "Ionica," Introduction, 3 "I strove with none, for none was worth my strife," 4 "It is a golden morning of the spring," 2 Jonson, Ben, 3, 4 "Kalevala, The," Introduction, 12 Keats, John, Introduction, 2, 6, 10 "King Solomon and the Ants," 10 "La Demoiselle," 11 "Lady of Shalott, The," 11 Landor, Walter Savage, 4 Lang, Andrew, Introduction, 15 Lamartine, 11 Lamb, Charles, 10 "Le Daimio," 5 Lemerre, Alphonse, 10 "Le Samourai," 5 "Les Cigales," 11 "Life and Literature," Introduction de Lisle, Leconte, 87 "Lives there whom pain has evermore passed by," 4 Locker-Lampson, Frederic, 3, 10 "Locksley Hall," 2 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13 Loennrot, 12 Lovelace, Richard, 11 Lubbock, Sir John, 8 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 10 "Ma Libellule," 11 "Maud," 2 Meredith, George, Introduction, 7 "Mimes," 15 "Mimnermus in church," 14 Moschus, 14 "Nay but you, who do not love her," 3 "Never the time and the place," 2 "New Ethics, The," Introduction "New Year's Day, A," 14 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 8 "Njal-Saga, The." 1 "Ode on the Spring," 10 Oldys, William, 10 O'Shaughnessy, Arthur, 2 "Pansie," 3 "Patchwork," 3 Pater, Walter, Introduction, 13 Patmore, Coventry, 2, 10 "Pause, A," 2 Plato, 2 Poe, Edgar Allan, 12 "Poems of Places," 5 Porson, Richard, 10 Powell, Frederick York, 7 "Princess, The," Introduction Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas, 10 "Reparabo," 14 Rossetti, Christina, 2, 3 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 2, 11 Ruskin, John, 6, 9 "Ruth," 3 "Saga of King Olaf, The," 7 Sainte-Beuve, 15 Saintsbury, Professor George, 6 "Scheveningen Avenue," 14 Scott, Sir Walter, 7 Shakespeare, William, 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 2 "She walks in beauty, like the night," 3 "She was a phantom of delight," 3 "Solitary-Hearted, The," 3 "Somewhere or other," 3 "Song in time of Revolution, A," 12 "Song of Hiawatha, The," 12 "Song of Songs," 10 Spencer, Herbert, 2, 7, 8 "Stay near me, do not take thy flight" 10 Stetson, Charlotte Perkins, 10 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 2 "Story of Burnt Njal, The," 1 "Studies in Greek Poets," 4 "Such Kings of shreds have wooed and won her," 4 "Sudden Light," 2 Sully-Prudhomme, Rene, Francois Armande, 5 "Summum Bonum," 3 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 12 Symonds, John Addington, 2, 4 Ten Brink, Bernhard Egidius Konrad, 13 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Introduction, 2, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14 Tennyson, Frederick, 2 Thackeray, William Makepeace, Introduction "The butterfly the ancient Grecians made," 10 Theocritus, Introduction, 14, 15 "The poetry of earth is never dead," 10 "The thousand painful steps at last are trod," 4 "The trembling arm I pressed," 2 "They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead," 14 "Think not thy wisdom can illume away," 4 Thompson, Maurice, 2 "Thou canst not wave thy staff in air," 4 "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars," 11 "Two Fragments of Childhood," 14 "Two Voices, The," 10 "Unknown Eros, The," 2 Vigfusson, Gudbrandt, 7 "Voice of the summer wind," 10 Watson, William, 4, 10 "When spring grows old," 2 "White Moth, The," 10 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 10 "Wishes to the Supposed Mistress Wordsworth, William, 2, 3, 6, 10 Wycliffe, John, 6.