CONTENTS. PAGE 210 Hood 197 Kazineski 135 Abide with Me Wilcox 106 Adieu to all that is Perishable in Love Campbell 179 Against Distrust of our Maker John Fletcher 104 Albert the Good . Tennyson 164 Angelo, Michael, Last Poems of 234 Angels' Song, The 37 Another Life Spring Apparent Shortening of our Years Campbell 98 Aspirations of Youth James Montgomery 70 At South Kensington on the Prince Consort's Birthday M. R. C. 266 Babe in the House, The Tupper 45 Bacon's, Lord, Sixtieth Birthday Ben Jonson 194 Baillie, To Miss Agnes, on her Birthday Joanna Baillie 204 Barbauld, Mrs., Death of 230 Bark of Life, The Birthday, The 240 Birthday Epigram Hook 49 Birthday Epigram 46 Birthday Epigram on late-acquired Wealth Cowper 195 Birthday Gift of a King of France 131 Birthday Gift, The Landon 67 Birthday of a Conqueror Dryden 132 Birthday of Christ Tennyson 17 Birthday of Love, The Cartwright 77 Birthday of the Soul in Love . Bulwer Lytton 108 Birthday of the World Birthday Poem to Maria Brontë by her Husband . 117 Birthday Reflections Moore 228 Birthday Thought, A 86 Birthday Verses Birthday Verses to Miss Logan Burns 80 Birthnight in Later Life Bishop, To Mrs., on her Birthday Samuel Bishop 116 Blount, To Martha, on her Birthday Pope 78 Boundary of Middle Life, The Burning Babe, The Southwell 5 Burns's Sonnet on his Thirty-fourth Birthday 146 Sir W. Jones . Hood 139 Hood: 120 210 Burns 147 are of various degrees of literary merit, although none have been admitted that are not marked by refinement of feeling or of thought. Thus the favour of the public is hoped for on a double basis. The poetry of human life here commends itself to all cultivated minds, whether they do or do not keep or enjoy actual birthdays; and the Book of Birthdays, as a collection of anniversary poetry never before brought together in a volume, must be acknowledged to be at once curious and of some permanent value. M. B. 1 CONTENTS. . Hood 197 PAGE Abide with Me 210 Action Wilcox 106 Adieu to all that is Perishable in Love Campbell 179 Against Distrust of our Maker John Fletcher 104 Albert the Good . Tennyson 164 Angelo, Michael, Last Poems of 234 Angels' Song, The 37 Another Life Spring Apparent Shortening of our Years Campbell 98 Aspirations of Youth James Montgomery 70 At South Kensington on the Prince Consort's Birthday M. R. C. 166 Babe in the House, The Tupper 45 Bacon's, Lord, Sixtieth Birthday Ben Jonson 194 Baillie, To Miss Agnes, on her Birthday Joanna Baillie 204 Barbauld, Mrs., Death of 230 Bark of Life, The Kazineski 115 Birthday, The 240 Birthday Epigram Hook 49 Birthday Epigram Sir W. Jones 46 Birthday Epigram on late-acquired Wealth Cowper 195 Birthday Gift of a King of France 131 Birthday Gift, The Birthday of a Conqueror Dryden 132 Birthday of Christ Tennyson 17 Birthday of Love, The Cartwright 77 Birthday of the Soul in Love . Bulwer Lytton 108 Birthday of the World Birthday Poem to Maria Brontë by her Husband . 117 Birthday Reflections Moore 228 Birthday Thought, A 86 Birthday Verses Hood Birthday Verses to Miss Logan Burns 80 Birthnight in Later Life Bishop, To Mrs., on her Birthday Samuel Bishop 116 Blount, To Martha, on her Birthday Pope 78 Boundary of Middle Life, The Burns 147 Burning Babe, The Southwell 5 Burns's Sonnet on his Thirty-fourth Birthday 146 Landone 67 . Hood 139 . I 20 . 98 220 2 I 21 222 OON . PAGE Butler, Samuel, Death of 2II Byron's Birthdays 144 Change Young 86 Change in the Spirit of our Birthdays Moore Characters of Youth Young 97 Chatterton Wordsworth 59 Chaucer's Death-bed Verses Childhood. Alexander Smith Children's Birthdays Lamb Christmas in Scotland Scott 33 Christmas Carol for Children Christmas Morning Heber 4 Christ's Nativity, On the Morning of Milton 7 Churchyard, Thomas, at Eighty Coleridge, Hartley, To Wordsworth 57 Commencement of Later Life. 178 Commencement of the Voyage . Béranger 44 Counsel for Middle Life Bishop Mant 94 Cradle Song 49 Dangers of the Voyage before us Cowper 102 Desolated Home Jean Ingelow 198 Devotion to Truth in Manhood Sir William Jones 156 Dirge Mrs. Hemans 153 Disraeli, Isaac, On a Studious oid Age 178 Division of Time in Middle Life Sir William Jones Dream of Home . Moore Dream of the Future, A Campbell 161 Dryden on Life 143 Early Death Ben Jonson 64 Early Tears Earth is full of Love, The 24 Edgeworth, Maria, Death of, at Eighty-four 233 Eldon, Lord Chancellor, to his Wife 181 Emblems James Montgomery 87 End of Life Welcome to the Poor, The Burns 198 Epigram on an Eightieth Birthday Pope 227 Eplgram on Life Dr. Doddridge 101 Epigram on Sir Kenelm Digby's Last Birthday 132 Epithalamion, The Spenser 109 Faith in Later Life Fame, Folly of Trusting in Ann Killigrew 190 Family Union 136 Farewell Life Favourite Song of Charles II. Shirley 133 Fireside Comforts Burns 3 Following Departed Friends Mrs. Hemans 184 . 156 36 63 Heber 192 Hood 154 PAGE 100 Folly of Regretting Youth Crabbe 155 Friendship Dr. Johnson 136 Future, The Goethe 105 George the Third, Birthdays of 224 Goethe, Death of, at Eighty-four 233 Goldsmith's Wish to Die at Home. 154 Good Shepherd, The 213 Good Wishes Browne 194 Great-Grandfather Mackay 237 Happy Youth Lover 70 Hatton, Lord Chancellor, the Lover of Queen Elizabeth at Fifty 179 Hobbes, Ode to, at Ninety-two Cowley 236 Holly Bough Mackay 23 Home and Friends 137 Home Joys 32 How to Live Bryant 142 Hymn for the Opening Year Small 43 Hymn of the Angels at the Birth of Christ Montgomery 13 Hymn on the Nativity of my Saviour Ben Jonson Impromptu on Mrs. Riddle's Birthday Burns 137 Impromptu to Mrs. Thrale on her Thirty-fifth Birthday Dr. Johnson 138 I'm Growing Old Saxe 175 In Praise of Age. Kennedy 176 Jean Paul Richter's Birthdays Johnson's, Dr., Birthdays 208 Joy Athelwold 3 Jubilee for Jubilee 225 Incarnation of Christ Milman 14 Infancy and Childhood Cowper 56 Lament of Tasso 196 Le Brun, Elizabeth, Death of, at Eighty-seven 233 Life Mrs. Barbauld 230 Light of the World, The . Lines for a Birthday Gift P. Fletcher 85 Lines on my Thirty-ninth Birthday Godfrey Saxe 152 Lines suggested by a Picture of the Adoration of the Magians French 17 Lot of Thousands, The Mrs. Hunter 113 Love 76 Love and Death Mrs. Browning 161 Love at Fifty Ben Jonson 198 Love, Honour, and Renown in Age Peacham 176 92 212 |