I was intrigued about Aunt Maud's book of verse and its
Index.
I considered that it might refer to an Index of
First Lines and the book, an Anthology.
Google-search suggested to me two possible editions:
The Oxford Book of English Verse; Harvard's Classics
Here is a sample:
MOON
William Wordsworth, To the
Moon (on the coast of cumberland )
THE Crescent-moon, the Star of
Love,
Robert Graves (1895–1985). Fairies and Fusiliers. 1918.
The Cruel Moon
THE CRUEL Moon hangs out of reach
Carl Sandburg.
Cornhuskers
THE BABY moon, a canoe, a silver papoose canoe, sails and
sails in the Indian west.
separate entries:
TSEliot: Prufrock : I OBSERVE:
“Our sentimental friend the moon!
MOONSHINE
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Song CLXVIII
The
moonshine stealing o'er the scene
Had blended with the lights of
eve;
both in Oxford Book of English Verse; Harvard
Classics
John Gay. 1688–1732 439.
Song
O RUDDIER than the cherry!
O sweeter than the berry!
O nymph more bright
Than
moonshine night,
Like kidlings blithe and
merry! 5
Oxford Anthology
James Russell Lowell . The
Courtin’
GOD makes sech nights, all white an’ still
Fur ’z you can
look or listen,
Moonshine an’ snow on field an’ hill,
All
silence an’ all glisten.
Matthew Arnold, Philomela: And
moonshine, and the dew,
To thy rack'd heart and
brain
MOOR
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Remorse
AWAY! the moor
is dark beneath the moon,
(both in The Oxford Book of English Verse
and in Harvard's Classics)
William Worsdworth: Hart Leap
Well
THE Knight had ridden down from Wensley Moor
Thomas Hardy
(1840–1928). Wessex Poems and Other Verses. 1898.A Meeting with
Despair
AS evening shaped I found me on a moor
Robert Burns
Song 415
THE LAST time I came o’er the moor,
Harvard's
Classics
MORAL
Wordsworth: ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE
TYROLESE
IT was a
'moral' end for which they
fought;
Else how, when
mighty Thrones were put to shame,
SONNETSUPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATHIN SERIES,
1839VIII
FIT retribution, by the moral
code
Determined, lies beyond the State's embrace,
John Drinkwater. 1882– 126. Reciprocity
I DO not think that skies and meadows are Moral,
or that the fixture of a star
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