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    Under Green Leaves: William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Howitt, Robert Herrick & others
    Under Green Leaves: William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Howitt, Robert Herrick & others
    Under Green Leaves: William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Howitt, Robert Herrick & others
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    Under Green Leaves: William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Howitt, Robert Herrick & others

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    This treasury of verse rejoices in the pleasures of the countryside and the beauty of the outdoors. Originally published in the mid-19th century, Under Green Leaves offers a wealth of poetry inspired by nature, from lyrics by English dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, to works by Metaphysical, Romantic, and Victorian poets.
    Dozens of enchanting verses include William Blake's "Piping Down the Valleys Wild," "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, Andrew Marvell's "The Garden," and Thomas Campbell's "To the Evening Star." No compilation of nature poetry would be complete without contributions from William Wordsworth, whose "Lines Written in Early Spring" and "To a Skylark" appear here. Other featured poets include John Milton, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Mary Howitt, and many other writers whose meditations on flowers, birds, woodlands, and summer evenings remain ever green.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJan 10, 2018
    ISBN9780486828251
    Under Green Leaves: William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Howitt, Robert Herrick & others

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      Under Green Leaves - Dover Publications

      UNDER GREEN LEAVES

      Edited by

      Richard Henry Stoddard

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      MINEOLA, NEW YORK

      DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

      GENERAL EDITOR: SUSAN L. RATTINER

      EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: JANET B. KOPITO

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2018 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an unabridged republication of the work published by Bunce and Huntington, New York, in 1865. The original illustrations have been omitted. A new Note has been prepared specially for this edition.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825–1903, editor.

      Title: Under green leaves / edited by Richard Henry Stoddard.

      Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2018. | Series: Dover thrift editions

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017041273| ISBN 9780486817217 (paperback) | ISBN 0486817210 (paperback)

      Subjects: LCSH: Outdoor life—Poetry. | Nature—Poetry. | English poetry. | BISAC: POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors). | POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

      Classification: LCC PR1195.O8 U53 2018 | DDC 821.008/036—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041273

      Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

      81721001 2018

      www.doverpublications.com

      Note

      RICHARD HENRY STODDARD was born in Massachusetts in 1825. A poet and literary critic, he reviewed literature for the New York World; he was an editor for Vanity Fair, the Mail, and the Mail and Express as well. Stoddard was the city librarian of New York in the mid-1870s. His poem Roses and Thorns, translated into Russian, was set for voice and piano by Tchaikovsky and titled Legend. Stoddard died in New York in 1903.

      This delightful treasury of verse evokes the pleasures of the countryside and the enduring beauty and charm of the natural world. Vivid descriptions of animals and flowers abound: the yellow bee and the noisy rook, the rose-red campion and the reedy marsh. Stoddard’s selections range from pastoral songs by Shakespeare to Wordsworth’s odes to a skylark, cuckoo, and butterfly. Dozens of enchanting poems include William Blake’s Piping Down the Valleys Wild, Andrew Marvell’s The Garden, Mary Howitt’s Summer Words and Birds, Leigh Hunt’s The Grasshopper and the Cricket, William Cullen Bryant’s The Evening Wind, and verse by Milton, Tennyson, Keats, and many others. Come visit this poetic wonderland, where the little birds pipe a merry song and the budding twigs spread out their fan / To catch the breezy air.

      Contents

      Song by William Shakespeare

      The Greenwood by W. L. Bowles

      Summer Woods by Mary Howitt

      In the Wood by Adelaide Anne Procter

      When in the Woods I Wander by Lord Thurlow

      Under the Trees by Anonymous

      Song in Praise of Spring by Barry Cornwall

      Song by Beaumont and Fletcher

      Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

      Song of Spring by Edward Youl

      Song by William Shakespeare

      To Daffodils by Robert Herrick

      To Blossoms by Robert Herrick

      To Primroses by Robert Herrick

      The Primrose by John Clare

      Song: On May Morning by John Milton

      Song to May by Lord Thurlow

      The Queen of the May by George Darley

      Song by Thomas Heywood

      To a Skylark by William Wordsworth

      To the Cuckoo by John Logan

      To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth

      The Green Linnet by William Wordsworth

      Piping down the Valleys Wild by William Blake

      The Lamb by William Blake

      Virtue by George Herbert

      Summer Morning by Thomas Miller

      Birds by Mary Howitt

      The Thrush’s Nest by John Clare

      To the Red-breast by John Bampfylde

      The Grasshopper by Abraham Cowley

      The Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt

      On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats

      To a Bee by Robert Southey

      To a Butterfly by William Wordsworth

      To the Cicada by William Allingham

      The Waterfall by Alfred B. Street

      Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley

      They Come! The Merry Summer Months by William Motherwell

      Unwatched the Garden by Alfred Lord Tennyson

      The Praise of a Countryman’s Life by John Chalkhill

      The Wild Cherry-Tree by Barry Cornwall

      The Garden by Andrew Marvell

      Song by John Ford

      Noon by John Clare

      To a Red Clover Blossom by John Clare

      The Bramble Flower by Ebenezer Elliott

      A Pastoral Song by George Darley

      A Serenade by George Darley

      A Scene by John Clare

      A Lair at Noon by John Clare

      The Summer by Lord Thurlow

      A Summer Ramble by William Cullen Bryant

      A Wish by Samuel Rogers

      Grongar Hill by John Dyer

      The Hamlet by Joseph Warton

      The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant

      The Echoing Green by William Blake

      Ode to Evening by William Collins

      Description of a Summer’s Eve by Henry Kirke White

      The Wood-cutter’s Night Song by John Clare

      To the Nightingale by John Milton

      To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell

      Move Eastward, Happy Earth by Alfred Tennyson

      Song by Joanna Baillie

      To the Glow-Worm by John Clare

      Song: The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson

      To Cynthia by Ben Jonson

      Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

      Alphabetical List of First Lines

      UNDER GREEN LEAVES

      Song

      WILLIAM

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