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    A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers
    A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers
    A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers
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    A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers

    By Gladys Sidney Crouch

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers - Gladys Sidney Crouch

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Little Book of Old Time Verse, by Various

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      Title: A Little Book of Old Time Verse

      Old Fashioned Flowers

      Author: Various

      Editor: Gladys Sidney Crouch

      Release Date: February 12, 2012 [EBook #38839]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LITTLE BOOK OF OLD TIME VERSE ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      A Little Book of

      Old Time Verse

      Old-fashioned Flowers

      Gathered by

      Gladys Sidney Crouch

      Published by

      P. F. Volland Company

      NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO

      Copyright, 1917

      P. F. Volland Company

      Chicago

      To My Father

      That the verses in this little book will bring back sweet memories of the long ago to every reader, as they do to me, is the earnest wish of the humble gatherer of these old-fashioned flowers. G. S. C.

      CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS

      Sir Edward Dyer. (Born 1550—Died 1607.)

      To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess

      Sir Philip Sidney. (Born 1554—Died 1586.)

      A Ditty

      John Lyly. (Born 1554—Died 1606.)

      Appelles' Song

      Thomas Lodge. (Born 1556—Died 1625.)

      Love's Wantonness

      Thomas Campion. (Born (unknown)—Died 1619.)

      Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air

      Come, O come, my life's delight

      Robert Green. (Born 1560—Died 1592.)

      Content

      Christopher Marlowe. (Born 1562—Died 1593.)

      The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

      William Shakespeare. (Born 1564—Died 1616.)

      O Mistress Mine, Where are you Roaming

      Ben Jonson. (Born 1573—Died 1637.)

      To Celia

      John Donne. (Born 1573—Died 1631.)

      Song

      Francis Beaumont. (Born 1584—Died 1610.)

      Fie on Love

      George Wither. (Born 1588—Died 1667.)

      The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet

      Thomas Carew. (Born 1589—Died 1639.)

      Song

      A Fragment

      Truce in Love Entreated

      Phillida Flouts Me

      Robert Herrick. (Born 1591—Died 1674.)

      A Hymn to Love

      To Anthea

      To Daffodils

      To Electra

      To his Mistress

      To his Mistress, Objecting to his Neither Toying nor Talking

      To the Virgins, to make much of Time

      Henry King. (Born 1592—Died 1669.)

      On the Life of Man

      Thomas Bateson. (Born 1600—Died (no record).)

      Her hair the net of golden wire

      Sir William D'Avenant. (Born 1605—Died 1668.)

      The Lark now Leaves his Watr'y Nest

      Edmund Waller. (Born 1605—Died 1687.)

      Song: Go Lovely Rose

      Song to Flavia

      Sir John Suckling. (Born 1609—Died 1641.)

      Why so pale and wan, fond lover

      Song: O pr'y thee send me back my heart

      The Constant Lover

      Richard Lovelace. (Born 1618—Died 1658.)

      Stone walls do not a prison make

      To Althea, from Prison

      To Lucasta, on going to the wars

      Thomas Stanley. (Born 1625—Died 1678.)

      Speaking and Kissing

      Walter Porter. (Born (no record)—Died 1649.)

      Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise

      George Granville (Lord Lansdowne). (Born 1668—Died 1735.)

      Adieu L'Amour

      William Congreve. (Born 1672—Died 1728.)

      Song: Though she be false to me and love

      John Oldmixon. (Born 1673—Died 1742.)

      Song: I lately vowed but 'twas in haste

      Dr. Isaac Watts. (Born 1674—Died 1748.)

      Few Happy Matches

      Aaron Hill. (Born 1684—Died 1749.)

      Song: Gentle love, this hour befriend me

      William Somerville. (Born 1692—Died 1742.)

      Cupid Mistaken

      Song: Hard is the fate of him who loves

      To a discarded toast

      Thomas Walker. (Born 1698—Died 1743.)

      Sweet love, I will no more abuse thee

      James Thomson. (Born 1700—Died 1748.)

      Unless with my Amanda blest

      George Lyttleton. (Born 1709—Died 1773.)

      Song: When Delia on the plain appear

      Edward Moore. (Born 1711—Died 1757.)

      Song: How blest has my time been

      John Wilke. (Born 1727—Died 1797.)

      Love not me for comely grace

      Robert Burns. (Born 1759—Died 1796.)

      Delia

      My Jean

      Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw

      The Bonnie Wee Thing

      Sir Walter Scott. (Born 1771—Died 1832.)

      The Truth of Woman

      Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Born 1772—Died 1834.)

      Names

      Walter Savage Landor. (Born 1775—Died 1864.)

      The Maid I love ne'er thought of me

      William Stanley Roscoe. (Born 1782—Died 1841.)

      To Spring: On the Banks of the Cam

      Leigh Hunt. (Born 1784—Died 1859.)

      Jenny Kissed Me

      The Nun

      Bryan Waller Proctor. (Born 1787—Died 1874.)

      Hermione

      George Gordon (Lord Byron). (Born 1788—Died 1824.)

      There be none of Beauty's daughters

      William Cullen-Bryant. (Born 1794—Died 1878.)

      The Forest Maid

      George Darley. (Born 1795—Died 1846.)

      Love's Likeness

      Hartley Coleridge. (Born 1796—Died 1849.)

      Song: She is not fair to outward view

      To a lofty beauty, from her poor kinsman

      Thomas Hood. (Born 1798—Died 1845.)

      Time of Roses

      Sir Henry Taylor. (Born 1800—Died 1886.)

      Song: The bee to the heather

      Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Born 1803—Died 1882.)

      Days

      James Clarence Mangan. (Born 1803—Died 1849.)

      Advice against travel

      Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Born 1806—Died 1861.)

      My Kate

      Grief

      John Greenleaf Whittier. (Born 1807—Died 1892.)

      Memories

      All's

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