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Introduction

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Prologue Introduction to Songs of Experience — William Blake

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Phase I: The Quickening

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1. Awakening: “After Dark Vapours Have Oppressed our Plains” To Morning — William Blake Westminster Bridge — William Wordsworth Up! quit thy bower — Joanna Baillie Sonnet: After Dark Vapours Have Oppressed Our Plains — John Keats Home-Thoughts, from Abroad — Robert Browning Spring — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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2. Childhood and innocence: “Laughing is heard on the hill” Nurse’s Song — William Blake Infant Joy — William Blake It Is a Beauteous Evening — William Wordsworth Evening Schoolboys — John Clare

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3. Wonders and discoveries: “Come forth into the light of things” The Tables Turned — William Wordsworth On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer — John Keats A Boy’s Song — James Hogg Memorabilia — Robert Browning London Snow — Robert Bridges

I Love All Beauteous Things — Robert Bridges At Night — Alice Meynell After the Visit — Thomas Hardy

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6. Resonance: “I hear lake water lapping” The Eolian Harp — Samuel Taylor Coleridge There Was a Boy — William Wordsworth My Heart Leaps Up — William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper — William Wordsworth I’m Happiest When Most Away — Emily Brontë Stanzas: ‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning’ — Emily Brontë Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal — Alfred, Lord Tennyson In the Valley of Cauteretz — Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lake Isle of Innisfree — William Butler Yeats In Time of “The Breaking of Nations” — Thomas Hardy

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7. The journey out: “The wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking” Parting at Morning — Robert Browning A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea — Allan Cunningham The Vagabond — Robert Louis Stevenson Sea Fever — John Masefield When I Set Out for Lyonnesse — Thomas Hardy

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8. Passion, desire, despair: “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” Kubla Khan — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known — William Wordsworth A Dirge — Percy Bysshe Shelley To Constantia, Singing — Percy Bysshe Shelley The Faithless Knight — Caroline Norton Rondeau (‘Jenny Kissed Me’) — Leigh Hunt Courage — Matthew Arnold Song — George Darley Elaine’s Song — Alfred, Lord Tennyson No Second Troy — William Butler Yeats

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Phase II: The Surge 4. Youth eternal: “Thou wast not born for death” Are not the joys — William Blake The Fly — William Blake Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott Ode to a Nightingale — John Keats Echoes — Thomas Moore Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa — George Gordon, Lord Byron Ballad: Time of Roses — Thomas Hood No Coward Soul Is Mine — Emily Brontë God’s Grandeur — Gerard Manley Hopkins The Rose of the World — William Butler Yeats 5. Love and beauty: “She walks in beauty, like the night” A Red, Red Rose — Robert Burns She Walks in Beauty — George Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas for Music — George Gordon, Lord Byron Bright Star — John Keats Love’s Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley Song — Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Lost Mistress — Robert Browning Meeting at Night — Robert Browning A Birthday — Christina Georgina Rossetti Love Lives Beyond the Tomb — John Clare Pied Beauty — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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9. Forces of nature: “I Am the Daughter of Earth and Water” The Tyger — William Blake The Cloud — Percy Bysshe Shelley The Kraken — Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle — Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Windhover — Gerard Manley Hopkins 10. Revolution, violence, war: “And who shall bid us nay?” Day — William Blake The Rights of Woman — Anna Letitia Barbauld Jerusalem (‘And did those feet in ancient time’) — William Blake England in 1819 — Percy Bysshe Shelley When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home — George Gordon, Lord Byron The Song of the Western Men — Robert Stephen Hawker The War-song of Dinas Vawr — Thomas Love Peacock The People’s Anthem (‘When wilt thou save the people?’) — Ebenezer Elliott The Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred, Lord Tennyson A Death Song — William Morris

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12. Lost love: “Let us go hence my songs; she will not hear” She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways — William Wordsworth Three Years She Grew — William Wordsworth Rose Aylmer — Walter Savage Landor

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13. Lost response: “The white cup shrivels round the golden heart” The Old Familiar Faces — Charles Lamb Coronach — Walter Scott To Marguerite: Continued — Matthew Arnold Dover Beach — Matthew Arnold Two In the Campagna — Robert Browning Young and Old — Charles Kingsley Barren Spring — Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Thread of Life — Christina Georgina Rossetti The Listeners — Walter de la Mare As the Team’s Head Brass — Edward Thomas

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14. Lost innocence: “Tomb-stones where flowers should be” The Garden of Love — William Blake A Poison Tree — William Blake The Sick Rose — William Blake

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Phase III: Bereavement 11. Fall: “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” To Autumn — John Keats Ode: Autumn — Thomas Hood The Mermaidens’ Vesper Hymn — George Darley Autumn Idleness — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Binsey Poplars — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I Dug, Beneath the Cypress Shade — Thomas Love Peacock Surprised by Joy — William Wordsworth So We’ll Go No More a Roving — George Gordon, Lord Byron Archy’s Song (from Charles I —‘A Widow Bird Sate Mourning’) — Percy Bysshe Shelley Mariana — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Mary: It Is the Evening Hour — John Clare Remembrance — Emily Brontë A Year’s Spinning — Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Leave-Taking — Algernon Charles Swinburne Neutral Tones — Thomas Hardy A Garden by the Sea — William Morris A Farewell — Coventry Patmore The Garden of Shadow — Ernest Christopher Dowson Bredon Hill — A.E. Housman The Voice — Thomas Hardy After a Journey — Thomas Hardy

When We Two Parted — George Gordon, Lord Byron An Apple-Gathering — Christina Georgina Rossetti From Modern Love (50) — George Meredith The Toys — Coventry Patmore Spring and Fall — Gerard Manley Hopkins Hélas — Oscar Wilde 15. Disenchantment: “They lie with bitter apples in their hands” Harp of the North, Farewell! — Walter Scott Stanzas Written in Dejection-December 1818, Near Naples — Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode on Melancholy — John Keats The Flower That Smiles Today — Percy Bysshe Shelley Lift Not the Painted Veil — Percy Bysshe Shelley Break, Break, Break — Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Nameless One — James Clarence Mangan The Woodspurge — Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Orchard-Pit — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Into My Heart an Air That Kills — A.E. Housman The Way Through the Woods — Rudyard Kipling 16. Approaching darkness: “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Languid, and Sad, and Slow — William Lisle Bowles Ode to the West Wind — Percy Bysshe Shelley If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart — Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Meadows in Spring — Edward FitzGerald Ulysses — Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Tenebris — Thomas Hardy The Call — Charlotte Mew

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Phase IV: The Starlit Night

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17. Night come: “This fragile frame at eve” To Night — Charlotte Smith Frost at Midnight — Samuel Taylor Coleridge To the Moon — Percy Bysshe Shelley Silence — Thomas Hood To Night — Joseph Blanco White I Look Into My Glass — Thomas Hardy

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18. Time and the past: “The same winds sang and the same waves whitened” Dover Cliffs — William Lisle Bowles My Days Among the Dead Are Past — By Robert Southey Ode on a Grecian Urn— John Keats I Remember, I Remember — Thomas Hood Tears, Idle Tears — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sudden Light — Dante Gabriel Rossetti As Slow Our Ship — Thomas Moore A Forsaken Garden — Algernon Charles Swinburne At Castle Boterel — Thomas Hardy

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19. Man ephemeral: “And we drop like the fruits of a tree” The Destruction of Sennacherib — George Gordon, Lord Byron Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley The Leveller — Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) The Splendor Falls — Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Bourne — Christina Georgina Rossetti Dirge in Woods — George Meredith They Are Not Long — Ernest Dowson Cities and Thrones and Powers — Rudyard Kipling

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20. Death and posterity: “And if thou wilt, remember” To—(‘Music, when soft voices die’) — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Stanzas — Emily Brontë Song — Christina Georgina Rossetti Remember — Christina Georgina Rossetti After Death — Christina Georgina Rossetti The Soldier — Rupert Brooke

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21. Death, resignation, relief: “Twilight and evening bell” Sonnet To Sleep — John Keats The Sleep — Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Death-scene — Emily Brontë Stars — Emily Brontë I Am! — John Clare On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday — Walter Savage Landor Crossing the Bar — Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Whaups — Robert Louis Stevenson Sleeping at Last — Christina Georgina Rossetti Lights Out — Edward Thomas

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22. Death, anxiety, fear: “Unwilling, alone we embark” When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be — John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad — John Keats The Inchcape Rock — Robert Southey Summer and Winter — Percy Bysshe Shelley The Sands of Dee — Charles Kingsley The Sleeping House — Alfred, Lord Tennyson E Tenebris — Oscar Wilde No Worst, There Is None — Gerard Manley Hopkins I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day — Gerard Manley Hopkins On a Dead Child — Robert Bridges

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23. Visions of death and transcendence: “It is a land with neither night nor day” Darkness — George Gordon, Lord Byron 228 To Jane (‘The keen stars were twinkling’) — Percy Bysshe Shelley 230 Past Ruined Ilion — Walter Savage Landor 231 Cobwebs — Christina Georgina Rossetti 232 Prospice — Robert Browning 232 Invictus — William Ernest Henley 233 Coda: Final Words The Human Abstract — William Blake Mutability — Percy Bysshe Shelley Abou Ben Adhem — Leigh Hunt Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth — Arthur Hugh Clough Dream-Pedlary — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Up-Hill — Christina Georgina Rossetti Palladium — Matthew Arnold If — Rudyard Kipling

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Epilogue Well I Remember — Walter Savage Landor

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A Note On The Poems

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List Of Poets And Poems

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Editorial Board

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