Transcribed from the 1891 Cassell & Company edition byDavid Price,

CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY

THE
Angel in the House.

BY
COVENTRY PATMORE.

“Par la grace infinie, Dieu les mist aumonde ensemble.”

Rousier des Dames.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:
LONDON, PARIS &MELBOURNE.
1891.

p. vTHIS POEM
IS INSCRIBED
TO
THE MEMORY OF HER
BY WHOM AND FOR WHOM I BECAME APOET.

p.viiINTRODUCTION.

There could be but one answer tothe suggestion of Mr. Coventry Patmore that his “Angel inthe House” might usefully have a place in this“National Library.”  The suggestion was madewith the belief that wide and cheap diffusion would not take fromthe value of a copyright library edition, while the best use ofwriting is fulfilled by the spreading of verse dedicated to thesacred love of home.  The two parts of the Poem appeared in1854 and 1856, were afterwards elaborately revised, and havesince obtained a permanent place among the Home Books of theEnglish People.  Our readers will join, surely, in thanks tothe author for the present he has made us.

H. M.

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