The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics


THE

GOLDEN TREASURY

OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS
IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE


SELECTED AND ARRANGED WITH NOTES BY
FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE
FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD

Cambridge
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND 23 HENRIETTA STREET COVENT GARDEN
London
1861

Contents

page
Dedication
Preface
Book I 1
Book II 41
Book III 107
Book IV 160
Notes 308
Index of Writers 324
Index of first Lines 327

Εἰς τον λειμῶνα καθίσας,
ἔδρεπεν ἕτερον ἐφ᾽ ἑτέρῳ
αἰρόμενος ἄγρευμ᾽ ἀνθέων
ἁδομένᾳ ψυχᾷ
——


This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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