Class. Book. i'RKsi:Nn:n m YOUJTH AND AGE. ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK OF Poetry and Song. COxAIPRISING CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM THE POETS OF ALL LANDS AND AGES. EDITED BY ELMO.c IaA;cvv6(. W(WvLLSI1E\ G CO. 1884. COPYRIGHTED, Belford, Clarke & Co. 1884. DoNOHi'K ft Hfnneberry. Printers nnd Biiirler<;, Chicago. ■^ PREFACE. It is impossible to over estimate the value of poetr5^ It stands in the front rank of those great educational forces that serve to develope and enrich the human mind. There is a habit— growing more and more common— on the part of some people, of speaking slightingly of poetry, as though it were almost exclusively the ex- pression of shallow sentiment. This habit is a pure affectation, to be accounted for mainly on the ground of general ignorance, and the absolute lack of any poetic faculty. It is a difficult thing to define poetry; some things are so great, so beautiful, so comprehensive, that they outrun all the limits of possible definition. Our scales are not large enough to weigh the high mountains; our balances are too small for the everlasting hills. Any definition of poetry that regarded it as the expression of sentiment only, would be both misleading and incomplete. The greatest and deepest truths of the ages have fallen from the lips of poets, from the days of Job to the poets of these later years. The gravest and the sweetest lessons of life have come to us robed in poetic garments; the gladdest messages of hope, and the saddest requiems of despair, have alike been swept from the poet's harp. Poets are the revealers and conservators of the highest truth. At their girdles hang the keys that lead to halls of solemn thought, and palaces of sweet enchantment; they are guides to nature's treasured glories, and the best exponents of her beauty. If they cannot solve all the problems of life, they at least succeed in in- vesting life with majestic meanings. Shakspeare, with firm and fearless tread, iias entered the secret chambers of heart and mind, and has penetrated the very Arcana of the soul; he has marched along the sounding corridors of history, and made dead heroes live; and, because he has dealt with primal and universal truths he has become not the English poet of the Sixteenth century alone, but the poet of all lands and ages. John Milton essayed the task of investigating the Origin of Evil, and wrought at his chosen work till Satan looked sublime, and the fallen chiefs of hell assumed an august mien. So fully did he expound that ''great 4 PREFACE. disobedience," that there is but one conclusion left, and that is: — that man must indeed be great or he could not so greatly fall; and in that conclusion the poet discovers for us the only possible germ of future hope, Goethe has fathomed so completely the mystery of ever-recurring temptation, that he has made the world his debtor forever. These poets of the past, are kings and rulers in the realms of thought; kings who abide in power, untouched by the caprices of men, or even the revolution of years. "Behind their forms the form of Time is found, His scythe reversed and both his pinions bound." They were not singers of empty, barren songs; they did not challenge the world's attention to shallow sentiment; but set the greatest truths to glad, sweet, pensive music, and we, through the poets very largely, have become "The heirs of all the a^es in the foremost files of Time." The singers of the elder years deserve a high place in the world's grateful thought. They enriched all ages by their legacies of song; but they have had worthy successors in these later years. It requires diligent study to keep abreast of the growth of modern poetry. We 'may not have every year a Milton or a Longfellow, a Swinburne, a Lowell, or an Elizabeth Barrett Browning; but every spring time brings fresh flowers to make the waste places beautiful; and every autumn brings new corn to enrich the garners of the earth; and every year, new singers break the silence, and gladden the world's heart with melody and song; and, though the old wine may be richer by reason of its age, the new wine should not be despised. And such is the bountifulness of these later songs, that a large volume would be required annually to represent them fully. In this connection it may be remarked that the higher educa- tion of women which has obtained during the last thirty or fort}' years has done much to develope in them the poetic taste, if it has not actually inspired poetic genius. Thomas De Quincey believed and declared that a female poet was an impossibility, but Eliza- BETH Barrett Browning lived to prove how a great Essayist could be mistaken. From her quiet home in Wimpole Street, London, and later from Casa Guidi windows in Florence, she sang through much suffering such songs as have made good the claim of woman' hood to a lofty place in the temple of literature. Indeed, Peter PREFACE. 5 Bayne, a critic of the first order and authority says, writing of Mrs. Browning: ''The reader may not be prepared to sympathize with me in the feelings with which I regard the poems of Mrs. Barrett Browning. * * * * Allowing that between her and Shakspeare, as well as between Shakspeare and many other men, there can be instituted no comparison; I, yet, deliber- ately assign her the same place among women that Shakspeare occupies among men." This is, indeed, high praise, but it is not without sufficient foundation. Mrs. Browning has set the prece- dent, and has been followed by such women as Jean Ingelow, and Adelaide Anne Procter; and, in the days to come, we may fairly anticipate large legacies of song from the daughters of the land. The Illustrated Home Book of Poetry and Song is the result of the study of many years, and aims to present in reasonable compass a comprehensive and exhaustive selection of the bright- est gems of poetry from ancient and modern mines. For the student, this book will be found to be invaluable, containing as it does the choicest and best selections from the poets of all lands, from Chaucer down to the last candidate for poetic fame. In the home, this selection is without a rival, and will be found to be eminently suitable for fireside reading. As a volume for presenta- tion, nothing could be more desirable. The editor, from different standpoints, has surveyed the whole field of poetry, and with long and patient care has sought to gather together in the following pages, only what is best. No great poet has been overlooked, and many unknown poets have been introduced. The singers of the olden times have not been forgotten. He has turned the pages of ancient books " Or at times a modern volume. Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl, Howitt's ballad- vei'se, or Tennyson's enchanted reverie— Or from Browning- some ' pomegranate,' which, if cut deep do-svn the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity." Great care has been taken in the arrangement of a three-fold index to authors, subjects, and first lines, to make the Illustrated Home Book of Poetry and Song a book of easy reference. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Youth and Age— S. T. Coleridge, ______ Compte-Calix. Frontispiece. Poetry — W. E. Channing, _________ Irene Jerome 6 The Watering Place— _/rt?«?j Thomson, _______ Lightfoot 33 Silent Sorrow — "Eimo" __________ Boot 40 The Brooklet — Sir Robert Grant, _________ Swain 43 Playing with Love — Giiy Rosiyn, _________ Dalziel 47 The Welcome — Thomas Davics, _-__-____ Cutts 51 Once AND For Aye — Author of ''^ Songs of Ki Harney " ______ Hollidge 55 O'er Sunny Seas— ^. ^. /"ror/t'^-, _ _ _ . _ _ _ Irene Jerome 81 The Shell — Afionymozis, - - - - _ _ _ _ _ Irene Jerome 85 Yes — Afionymotis, ----------- Buckman 89 Absence — Frances Anna Kemble, --------- Pearson 93 Over the Mountains High — Bjornson, ______ Irene Jerome 9T To THE Daisy — W. Wordsworth, ________ Irene Jerome 101 An Autumn \t>\i.— James Thomson, ________ McLntvre 105 At a Modern Shrine — E.J.M., _________ Harral 109 By the \^i\A^?,— Anonymous, _________ Lumley 113 Paths of the Fields— ^K. C. Bennett, _______ Irene Jerome 119 Sunbeams Pour their Tide— _/o//« Keble, ______ Irene Jerome 125 The Water of Life — Saint John, ________ Irene Jerome 129 Summer Studies — Harriet Beecher Stowe, ______ Irene Jerome 137 Blossom Time — Ina D. Coolbrith, -------- Irene Jerome 163 Chastelard to Mary Stuart — Gi/y Rosiyn, _______ Harral 181 Red and White — B. M. Ranking, --------- Cutts 189 Blighted Love — De Camoens, --------- Lumley 197 Nature — Caroline S. Rogers, _________ Irene Jerome 201 A Rose Song— i?. H. Stoddard, -------- Irene Jerome 205 Love and Friendship, _________ Irene Jero.me 209 Hymn to the Flowers — Horace Smith, ______ Irene Jerome 213 Shipwreck — JVilliam Falconer, --------- McIntyre 217 After the Season — A. E. T. Watson, ______ Kate Greenaway 221 The Useful Plow — Anonymous, _________ McIntyre 237 A Vesper Hymn — W. H. Lyte, -------- Irene Jerome 245 QotiSifMC^— Anonymous, ---------- Wilson 263 The Mourner — George Crabbe, _________ Dalziel 2T1 The Flower o' Dumblane — R. Tannahill, _______ Allen 293 The Wishing Well — C. L. Young, ________ Buckman 315 An Evening in Spring — Lord Byron, ________ McIntyre 321 Costume — Ben Jonson, __________ Dalziel 325 Caught— /K. Shakspeare, ---------- Pearson 332 "Down to the Vale this Water Steers" — //'. Wordsworth, _____ Boot 347 "Love thy Mother, Little One" — Thomas Hood, ______ Taylor 363 At the Window — Richard Reale, - - _____ Irene Jerome 381 Grandsire's Dream — Anonymous, _________ Claxton 385 " Sweet, be not Proud " — Robert Herrick, ________ Allen 399 "Come to these Scenes of Peace" — W. L. Bowles, ______ Boot 421 "Once in the Cool of Early Morn" — Anonymous, ______ Boot 427 Mutability—/". B. Shelley, __________ Boot 439 The Rose — Edmund Waller, ---------- Cutts 453 "She Takes a Side Glance and Looks Down"—//. W. Longfellow, _ _ . Allen 467 Mother shall Thread Them a Daisy Chain— •_/«■«« Ingelow, _____ Boot 491 The Brave Old Oak — H. F. Charley, ________ Boot 495 Long Time Ago — George P. Morris, - - - - - - - - Dalziel 517 Evening Brings Us Home, ________ Irene Jerome 545 INDEX OF AUTHORS. .A ADAM&, CHARLES F. ■■■ "P ot Baby o£F Mine 331 "Little Dan" 458 ADDISON, JOSEPH. Soliloquy on Immortality 377 ALEXANDER, CECIL FRANCES. The Burial of Moses. 63 Gideon's Fleece 453 ALDRICH, JAMES. A Death Bed 536 ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. The Faded Violet 451 ALTENBURG, MICHAEL. The battle-song of Gustavtis Adolphus. . . 505 ANDERSON, J. Cuddle Doon 413 ARNOLD, EDWIN. The Ans-el of the Scales 375 The (Jolden Garden 373 ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Desire 346 Excuse 41 Saint Brandan 73 ASKEWE. ANNE. The Fiffht of Faith 341 ATYOUNB, DR. EDMOUNSTONE. The Buried Flower 379 BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES. Lucifer's Sermon 401 "O Earth is cheating Earth" 60 The True Measure of Life 426 BALLANIINE, JAMES. Castles in the Air 493 "Ilka blade o' grass" 303 BARBAULD, ANNIE LETITIA. " (iood morning" 539 BARHAM, THOMAS. ("Thomas Ingoldsby") As I laye a Thynkynge 456 'Tis sweet to think 413 BARNARD, LADY ANNE. Auld Robin Gray 179 BART LETT GEORGE. Mignonette 510 BARTON, BERNARD. Not ours the Vows 529 BAYLY, THOMAS HAYNES. Isleof Beauty 351 " Oh ! Where do Fairies Hide " 426 The Mistletoe Bough 136 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Spring 239 BEERS, ETHEL LYNN. The Picket Guard 71 BENNETT, WILLIAM COXE. O gentle Summer Rain 280 BERNARD, SAINT. Jesus 497 BENSEL. JAMES BARRY. " Diem Perdide" 529 BLAMIRE, SUSANNA. Auld Robin Forbes 464 BLANCH ARD, LAM AN. The Mother's Hope 123 BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT. Moonlight in Summer 151 BONAR, HORATIUS. How Long 148 BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE. Come to these Scenes of Peace 419 The Greenwood 512 BOWRING, SIR JOHN. God is Love 542 In the Cross of Christ I Glory 376 BRADLEY, MARY E. Heart's Ease 5t2 BRAINERD, J. G. C. Epiphalamium 371 Falls of Niagara 163 The Deep 378 BRETON, NICHOLAS. Phillida and Corridon 533 BRIDGES, MATTHEW. " Crown Him with many Crowns" 65 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE. " Life will be gone e're I have lived" 287 BROOKS, (JHARLES T. Alpine Heights 165 BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD. The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring 30 BROWNING, ROBERT. Evelyn Hope 390 Good News from Ghent 75 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 183 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Catarina to Camoens 379 Exiled but not Lost 281 Futurity 161 Mother and Poet 58 Michael Angelo at Via Larga 279 Tears 544 The Child and the Watcher 308 Cry of the Children 383 The cry of the Human 349 The Sleep 345 Through Casa Guldi Windows 380 Work 388 BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN Robert of Lincoln 63 Thanatopsis 265 The Groves were God's First Temples — 461 To a Waterfowl 71 BUCHANAN, ROBERT. Nell 417 Phil Blood's Leap 227 The Wake of Tim O'Hara 459 BURBRIDGE, THOMAS. " If I Desire with Pleasant Sonffs" 391 BURNS, ROBERT. Auld Lang Syne 336 Duncan Gray cam' here to Woo 420 Holy Willie's Prayer 159 Lament of Glencairn 436 Mary Morrison 308 My Heart's in the Highlands 319 Of a' the Airts 458 Tam O'Shanter . . 193 The Banks O' Doon 512 The Cotters' Saturday Night 172 To Mary in Heaven 438 BYRON, LORD. An Evening in Spring 320 'Tis time this Heart should be Unmoved. . 233 The Coliseum 450 The Isles of Greece — 415 The Night Before the Battle of Waterloo. 478- The Ocean 232 She Walks in Beauty, like the Night 534 "When Coldness Wraps this Suffering Clay" 64 GARY, ALICE. The Fire by the Sea 434 GARY, PHCEBE. Suppose 469 10 INDEX OF AUTHORS. )\ CAMPBELL, THOMAS. Hohenlinden 465 The Exile of Erin 426 The last Man 160 To the Evening- Star 244 CARLETON, WILL. S. Betsy and I are Out 2)9 How Betsy and 1 made it up 506 Out of the Old House, Nancy ... 60 Over the Hill to the Poor-house 472 The Lig-htning- roa Dispenser 276 The New Church Organ 256 CARLVLE, THOMAS. Cui Bono . 515 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. A Ballad 170 CHORLEY, HENRY F. The Brave Old Oak 494 CLAPH, EVA KATHARINE. Goldenrod 447 CLAKK, WILLIS G. The Invitation 226 CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS. NightSong 27 COAN, LEANDER S. Better in the Morning 503 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Hymn before Sunrise in Chamouni 195 ,, The Devil's Thoughts.. 191 •^ Youth and Age 27 COLLIER, ROBERT. Uniler the Snow 29 COOKE, PHILIP P. Florence V ane 283 COOLIDGE, SUSAN. When 249 COWLEY', ABRAHAM. OnMyself 396 COWPER, WILLIAM. Boadicea 437 Diverting History of John Gilpin 266 My Mother's Picture 469 CRABHE, GEORGE. The Mourner 269 CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER P. Thought 157 CRAIK. DINAH MULOCK. Philip, inv King 144 CRAWFORD' MRS. We I'artcd in Silence 200 CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM. Ma.ior and Minor 509 CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN. "Sh<''s (iane to Dwell in Heaven" 77 DANA, RICHARD H. Intimations of Immortality 144 DANTE, GABRIEL. 1 he Throne of Love 530 DANIEL, SAMUEL. Love 510 Soliloquy of Richard II Zil DARLEY, GEORGE. Song of the Winds 143 DAVIES, SIR JOHN. "Oh, What is ManV 374 DAVIS, THOMAS. The Welcome 50 DAY RE, SIDNEY A Letter to Mother Nature — 541 DE BERENGER. Diony sins the Pedagogue 535 DE CAMOENS. Blighted Love 196 DE VERE, AUBREY. Early Friendship 156 The "Passion Flower 543 DERZHAVIN, GABRIEL ROMANOWITCH. God 338 DICKENS, CHARLES. The Ivy Green 203 DODDRIDGE, PHILIP. The Wilderness Transformed 175 DORR, JULIA C. R. The Fallow Field 312 DUFFERIN, LADY. Lament of the Irish Emigrant 45 DUNLOP, J. "Dinna Ask Me." 7T DY'ER, SIR EDWARD. My Mind to me a Kingdom Is 519^ ELLIOT, MADGE. No Kiss 144 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Boston Hymn 507 Eaeh and Ail 437 Good Bye 345 The Problem 357 FABER, FREDERIC WILLIAM. The Eternal Years 540 The Right nuist Win 156 FALCONER, WILLIAM. The Shipwreck 216 FANSHAWB, CATHERINE. The Letter " H" 340 FIELDS. JAMES T. Courtesy 288 Patient Mercy Jones 501 FINCH, F. M. The Blue and the Gray 253 FORD, JOHN. The Nightingale and the Lute 537 FRITH, H. Mv Valentine 244 GARFIELD, JAMES A. Memory 397 GLYNDON, HOWARD. The Door Between 539 GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. " Hasre nof. Rest not" 278 The Minstrel 88 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. Elegv (Ml the Death of a Mad Dog 313 GOULD,' HANNAH The Frost 283 GRANT, SIR ROBERT. The Brooklet 43 GREENE, ROBERT. Content 396 GREENWELL, DORA. The Sunflower 70 HALLECK, FITZGREENE. Marco Bozzaris 293 HANDFORD, REUBEN FINN. A Classic Love Song 367 HARRIS, THOMAS L. Fear Not 158 HARTE, P. BRET. Chicago 458 Dow's Flat 460 Jim 441 The Heathen Chinee 388 HAY, JOHN Good Luck and Bad Luck 151 How it Happened . . 444 JimBludso 482 Little Breeches — 254. When the Boys Come Home 33ft HAYNES, HAl L H. Pre-Existence 275. HEBER. REGINALD. "If Thou wert by my side, Love" 5'dO HERBERT, GEORGE. Easter 393 The Gifts of God 148 Virtue »5 HERRICK, ROBERT. A Sweet Disorder 334 Gather the Rosebuds . 73 Sweet, be not Proud 397 To Blossoms 521 INDEX OF AUTHORS. 11 To Perilla To Violets HEMANS, FELICIA. Lajitliiigof the Pilgrim Fathers Lights and Shades The Better Land The Stately Homes of England The Hour of Death HOOD, THOMAS. Diversities of Fortune Faithless Nelly Gray Gold I Remember, I Remember . Love thy Mother, Little one No! The Death Bed The Lady at Sea The Sonir of the Shirt ToMv Infant son HOGG, JAMES (" The Ettrick Shepherd. 'Ihe Lark HOLLAND, DR. J. G. Baby Song David Gray What will it Matter HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Bill and Joe Katydid The Boys The Steamboat Welcome to the Nations HOPPIN, WILLIAM J. Charlie Machree HOSMEK, W. H. C The Immortality of Genius HOUGHTON, GEORGE. Charity My Daughter and the Daisies HOUGHTON, LORD ("iMoNCKTON Milnes) Good Night and Good Morn nig The Brookside HOWELL, WILLIAM DEANS. Pleasure-pain Thanksgiviny , HOWITT, WILLIAM. Sweet Summer Time HUNT, HELEN. My Legacy ,, HUNT, LEIGH. Abou Ben Adhem Jenny Kissed Me May "le Glove and the Lions le Nun INGELOW, JEAN. High Tide on the Lincolnshire Coast — Love "Mother shall thread them a Daisy-chain' JAMIESON, DR. A. E. A Valentine JONES, SIR WILLIAM. What Constitutes a State? JONSON, BEN. Costume Good Life, Long Life Triumph of Charis JUDSON, MRS. ADONIRAM. The Missionary's Wife's Farewell KEATS, JOHN. Fairy Song TheEve of Saint Agnes The Grasshopper and Cricket The Human Seasons The Nightingale To Autimin KEBLE, JOHN. Happiness Morning The Lilies of the Field ^_ Maj The 139 5:il 41 429 461 377 247 143 49 510 243 362 167 151 178 261 408 ') ' 524 39 147 78 466 369 255 91 362 171 38 279 bl5 151 167 535 192 176 91 41 212 161 341 168 287 489 532 423 324 540 494 KEMBLE, FRANCES, ANNE. Absence 92 KEV, FRANCIS SCOTT. The Star Spam; led Banner 146 KINGSLEY, CHARLES. The Day of the Loi d 352 The Three Fishers 409 The Sands o' Dee 462 KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN. Tell among the Mountains 302 LAMB, CHARLES. Farewell to Tobacco f>0 Hester 303 The Old Familiar Faces. r>^ 291 LANDON, LETITIA E. Death and the Yo'..th 362 We might have been 402 LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE. Children 235 Christine 128 Memory 140 1 he One Gray Hair 139 LAY COCK, SAMUEL. Welcome, bonny brid 395 ■ LELAND. CHARLES G. The I'hree Friends 343 LISLE, ROUGET DE The Marseilles Hymn 511 LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Excelsior 262 Hiawatha's Departure. 479 Hymn to the Night 520 -King Robert of Sicily 308 "She gives aside glance and looks Down" 466 The Children's Hour 447 The Day is Done 154 The Village Blacksmith 92 Weariness 414 LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Abraham Lincoln 441 " Children are God's Apostles" 373 June 373 My Love. 212 The Courtin' 335 The First Snowfall 446 The Heritage 407 The Pious Editor's Creed 251 To the Future 67 , LOVER, SAMUEL. T^^Rory O'Moore 376 What I'd do . 423 Widow Machree 219 LUTHER, MARTIN. " A Fortress firm" . . , 150 ■ LYTLE, WILLIAM H. Antony and Cleopatra ^16 LYNCH, THOMAS T. "Gracious Spirit, DwellAVith Me" 483 " Heart of Chi-ist " 464 . "Jesus Took Him by the Hand" 387 LYTTON, L'ORD BULWEK. As Stars Look on the Sea 536 The Blind Flower-Girl's Song 414 There is no Death 490 MACAU LAY, LORD. Horatius ,. 429 *'***""|s|y^y ' 187 Naseby ••• 28 The Armada ,475 313 MACDONALD, GEORGE, IXB. 324 O, Lassie Ayont the Hill 163 235 Hope ■ • • • 281 539 The Earl o' Quarterdeck 353 .M5 MACKAY, CHARLES, LL. D. 320 Cleon and 1. Eternal Justice doa 278 Small Reginnmsrs '.'.■..•...., '. 158 274 What Might be Done ;.,:.A63 248 537 12 INDEX OF AUTHORS. MACON, J. A. Nigger Mifihty Happy 3IAH0NEY, FKANCES, ("FATHER PrOUT. The Hells of Shannon MARVEL, ANDREW. T Drop of Dew The Death of Cromwell MCLELLAN, ISAAC. New Eng-land's Dead MCM ASTER, HUMPHREY GUY. The Old Continentals MAYNE, JOHN. Helen of Kirkconnel MESSINGER, ROBERT H. Give Me the Old MILMAN, HENRY HART. Son of Mary, hear., MILTON, JOHN. L'Alleg-ro Let there be Light Morning- in Paradise Satan in Council Sonnet to Cromwell Soimet on his Blindness. . Sonnet on his Twenty-third Birthday — To be no more MILLER, JOAQUIN. The People's Song of Peace MILLER, WILLIAM. Wee Willie Winkie MONTGOMERY, JAMES. Night To a Daisy MOORE, THOMAS. Canadian Boat Song Evening Bells God the Light and Life of all Love's Young Dream The Coquette The Dismal Swamp The Harp that Once through Tara's Halls The Last Rose of Summer " The World Is all a Fleeting Show" MORRIS, WILLIAM. August I Know a Little Garden Close . The Singer of an Empty Day MORRIS, GEORGE P. Long Time Ago Woodman, Spare that Tree MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM. They Come, the Merry Summer Months. . MUNBY, ARTHUR J. Mary Ann NAIRN, BARONESS CAROLINE. The Land o' the Leal NEWMAN, CARDINAL. Lead Kindly Light NORTON, LADY ELIZABETH CAROLINE. ■Bingen on the Rhine Fleurette Love not Recollections The Fallen Leaves The Mother's Heart ■OSGOOD, KATE P. Driving Home the Cows PARK, BENJAMIN. " I am not Old" PIERPONT, JOHN. Warren's Address POE, EDGAR A. Helen For Annie -The Bells ,„___The Raven TOLLOK, ROBERT. Wisdom ■. . POPE, ALEXANDER. The Dying Christian to his Soul 513 ) 537 41J 37 456 445 300 493 425 74 498 487 449 35 514 33 36 177 140 65 155 The Messiah 410 The Temple of Fame 455 POWERS, NELSON HORATIO. The New Year 307 PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH. Kuimus 457 Memory 289 PRIEST, NANCY W. Over the River 405 PRENTICE, GEORGE D. La Belle Americaine 520 PRINCE, JOHN C. Who are Free? 394 PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE. A Woman's Question 118 A Doubting Heart 318 Per Pacem ad Lucem 410 The Lost Chord 389 The storv of a Faithful Soul 336 PROCTER, BRYAN W. (" Barry Cornwall.") Life 3W Peace, What can Tears Avail 407 Softly Woo Away her Breath 239 The Hunter's Song 319 The Mother's Last Song 261 The Sea 498 The White Squall 165 QUARLES, FRANCIS. lU-evity of Life 509 Sonnets 358 The Life of Man 70 RALEIGH, SIR WALTER. The Pilgrimage 354 RANKING, MONTGOMERIE B. Red and White 188 The Ivv Maiden 80 READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN. .. Sheridan's Ride 365 READE, COMPTON. Amid the Roses 203 RICHARDS, PROF. W. C. Spring Steps 296 ROBINSON, WADE. Hymn to Christ 153 I>ife's Crown 420 Music 311 ROBERTSON, T. H. An Idle Poet 509 KOSSETTI, CHRISTINE. An Easter Carol 375 Up-hill 3'I1 Weary 311 ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. The Blessed Damozel 443 ROSLYN, GUY. Chastelard to Mary Stuart 180 Playing with Love ■• 46 SAINT GRECiORY THE GREAT. Darkness is thinning. . 37 SAXE, JOHN G. Early Rising 497 SCOTT, CLEMENT W. Sappho and Phaon 96 SCOTT. SIR WALTER. — " De ath of Marmion 484 Hellvellyn 225 Lochinvar 211 Pibrock of Donuil Dhu 528 Proud Massie is in the Wood 314 SHAKSPEARE, WILLIAM. Caught... 332 Clarence's Dream 404 Dawn 282 Fall of Wolsey 462 Perfection 281 Reputation 373 Romeo and Juliet 533 Seven Ages of Man 408 Sleep 299 Sonnets ^*^ INDEX OF AUTHORS. 13 Soliloquy on Death 398 Wolsov's speech to Cromwell 415 SHAKSPEAKE AND FLETCHER. Take, O Take those Lips away 236 SHELLEV, PERCY BYSSHE. Autumn, a Dirge 323 Love's Philosophy 212 Mutability 439 Son- S<5 The Cloud 500 To lanthe Sleeping 477 SHENSl'ONE, WILLIAM. The Schoolmistress 149 SMITH. HORACE. Address to a Mummv 273 Hvmn to the Flowers 499 SMITH, SY'DNEY, THE REV. A Receipt for Salad 235 SOUTH EY, ROBERT. The Cataract of Lodore 474 The Hollv Tree Ill SPENSER, EDMUND. Treasures at Home 533 Wake now mv Love, awake 531 STANLEY, DEAN. Do this in remembrance of me 442 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. Touiours Amour 145 STEPHEN, SAINT, OF SABAS. •'Art thou Weary?" 396 STODDARD, R. H. A Dirge 146 Country Life 359 The Two Anchors 290 There are Gains for all our Losses 289 SWAIN, CHARLES. Love 127 Smile and never Heed me 290 SWINBURNE, CHARLES ALGERNON. A Match 100 A Child of Seven 150 All Interlude 471 Kissing Her Hair 290 Love 393 Love at Sea 28« The Oblation 384 The Disappointed Lover 463 When the hounds of Spring 318 SWING, PROF. DAVID. InMemoriam: President Garfield 286 TANNAHILL, ROBERT. The Braes O'Balquhither 519 The Flower O'Dumblaue 291 TAYLOR, BAY'ARD. " Shalll wed thee?" 287 Song of 1876 301 The Arab to the Palm 370 The Phantom 87 To my Daughter 286 TAYLOR, JEREMY. Of 1 leaven 501 TAULER, JOHN. There comes a GaUey sailing 538 TELLER, CORA. The Countess of Lunn 234 TENNYSON, ALFRED . " I Charge of the Light Brigade 42 Come into the Garden, Maud 215 De Profundis 440 Dora 355 Enid's Song 514 L<-— G odiva 368 ^""■'"Locksley Hall 128 Lu 1 1 aby 235 King out the Old, Ring in the New 155 Song of the Brook 520 St. Agnes Eve 538 The I)avs that are No More 393 The First Quarrel 223 The Miller's Daughter 379 The May Queen 239 THACKERAY', W. M. r. Moloney's Account of the Ball 83 The Age of Reason 143 ^he Battle of Limerick 79 The End of the Play 135 THOMSON, JAMES. An Autumn Idyl 103 The Watering Place 32 TRAQUAIR, M. E. The Old Dame's Prayer 525 TRENCH. ARCHBISHOP. Some Murmur 498 The Kingdom of God 33 The Nightingale 375 XfMxesatthe Hellespont 50t TROWBRIDGE, J. T. The Farm-yard Song 408 The Vagabonds 250 UHLAND, LUDWIG. The Passage 544 VAUGHAN, HENRY^ Peace 296 Rules and Lessons 33 VERY, JONES. The World 298 WALLER, EDMUND. The Rose 453 WARING, A. L. " My Times are in Thy Hand" 511 WATSON, ALFRED E. T. After the Season '220 WAUGH, EDWIN. The Dule's i' this Bonnet o' Mine 419 What Ails thee, my son Robin 3.54 Willy's Grave 487 WESTWOOD, THOMAS. Little Bell 31 WHEELER, ELLA. Half way 536 Take time for Love 528 The Lost Garden 78 WHITE, HENRY KIRKE. The Star of Bethlehem 543 WHITTIRR, J. (>. - Barbara Freitchie 317 Benedicite 387 Centennial Hymn 298 Laus Deo 344 Maud Miiller 199 WHITMAN, WALTER. The Mocking Bird 403 What is the Grass? 343 WILDE, OSCAR. Her Voice 388 Impressions 64 Requiescat 343 To Milton 256 WILSON, ALEXANDER. A Village Scold 448 WILLARD, EMMA. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep 523 WILLIS, NATHANIEL P. Saturday Night 57 WINTER, WILLIAM. After All, 1862 253 The Heart's Anchor il WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. " Down to the Vale" 346 Fidelity jO? Lucv *'* The'Kitten and the Falling Leaves 204 The World is too much with us 483 WOTTON, SIR HENRY. _^ A Happy Life 295 Maud, Queen of Bohemia 447 YOUNG. CHARLES LAURENCE. The Wishing Well 314 14 INDEX OF AUTHORS. YOUNG, Dr. EDWARD. Procrastination 359 Author of " SONGS OF KILLARNBY." Once and For Aye 54 "A. L. B." The Painter's Walk 113 "E.J. M." At a Modern Shrine 107 "ELMO." Brig hove to for a Pilot VO "Laborare est Orare" 360 Leaves from Fatherland 91 Nine times One 541 Silent Sorrow 40 "ELIOT, GEORGE." " o May I Join the Choir Invisible " .57 The Two Lovers 874 "RITA" Mv Harvest Eve 117 ANONYMOUS. Affinity 53S " "nAnnie Laurie 20'5 A Modest Creed 378 A Rhyme of one 534 An April Violet 461 Be Patient, oh be Patient 303 ^^■-Before Sedan 343 Blossoms beneath the Sod ■. 319 By the Lilies 113 Call to the Flowers 544 Civil War 416 Constancy 263 —Comin' thro' the Rye 313 Did yon ever start out of your Sleep? 424 Doris, the Shepherd Maiden 435 Echo 157 Fairer than Thee. . . # lOO Fifty Years Ago. 383 Half-way in Love 533 Henry Ashland, one of my Lovers 360 Humility 513 I wonder ! 526 " It singeth low in every Heart" 339 Life is Beautiful 312 Mary Stood the Cross beside 311 Obscure Martyrs 398 Old Folks 2.54 Once in the cool of Early Morn 425 Release 289 Rise and Labor 515 Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale .-. . ..-Trr.T. 96 Shaping the Future 51* Tired Mothers 165 That Night .543 The Boy's Complaint 420 The Butterflv's Funeral 434 The Cosmic Egg 383 The Dowie Dens of Yarrow 152 The Farm and the Convent 370 The Future Meeting 369 " The Savior once lay Sleeping" 303 The Tapestry Wearers 288 The Telltale 479 The New Jerusalem 304 The Useful Plow 236 The World is very Evil 145 The World is not HuDpy 3.51 There is a Green Hill Far Away 434 Three Little Nest Birds 366 Unfinished Still 343 Yes 88 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. POEMS OF NATURE. .Shelley, p. B... .Marvel, A 323 537 .Bums, R Shelley, P. B..,. 512 500 A Drop of Dew The Cloud An Autumn Idyl An Evening' in Spring ..Thomson, J ... . Byron, Lord 103 320 283 299 The Fallen Leaves ..Norton, Lady... Helivellyn .Scott, SirW.... 225 The Greenwood ..Bowles, W. L,.. 513 Hvmn before Sunrise in Cha- The Lawyer's Invocation to mouni .Coleridge, S. T. 195 Spring .Brownell, H. H. 30 June .Lowell, J. R.... 373 The Mocking Bird .Whitman, W.... 403 My Harvest Eve ..Rita 117 The JNightingale .Trench, Arch... 375 Night Song ..Claudius, M 27 The Nightingale .Keats, John 515 O gentle Summer Rain .Cox, W. B 280 The Ocean .Byron, Lord 233 On the Grasshopper and The Telltale ..Anonymous 479 Cricket .Koats, J 235 The Watering Place ..Thomson, Jas.. 33 Sleep ..Shakespeare W 299 They come, the Merry Sum- Spring Beaumont and Fletcher 239 mer Months .Motherwell, W. 84 Spring Steps The Arab and the Palm .Richards, W. C .Ta.vlor, B 296 370 ..Keats, John — .Campbell, Thos. 330 344 To the Evening Star The Brave Old Oak .Chorley. H. F.. .Grant, Sir E.. 494 42 What is the Grass? ..Whitman, W..., 343 The Brooklet SONGS OF THE FLOWERS. Amid the Roses ..Reade, C 203 The Blind Flower Girl's Song.Lytton, Bulwer. 4U An April Violet ..Anonymous... 461 The Faded Violet .Aldrich, T. B... 451 Blossoms beneath the Sod.. ..Anonymous... 349 The Holly Tree .Southey, R in )!v the Lilies ..Anonymous... 113 The Ivy Green ..Dickens, C 203 (all to the Flowers .Anonymous... 544 The Last Rose of Summer. . . Moore, T 323 Goldenrod . .Clapp, E. C... 447 The Lilies of the Field ..Keble, J 248 Heart's Ease ..Bradley, M. E. 543 The Passion Flower .. I'e Vere, A 543 Hymn to the Flowers ..Smith, Horace. . 499 The Rose ..Waller, E 453 Leaves from Fatherland... .Elmo . 91 The Sunflower . .Greenwell,Dora 70 Mignonette ..Bartlett, G. B. 510 To a Daisy . . Montgomery, J 488 My Daughter and the Daisies. Houghton, G.. . 515 PASTORAL POEMS. Barbara Frietchie ..Whittier, J. G. . 317 My Heart's in the Highlands. Bums, R 319 Come to these Scenes Df Over the HiU to the Poor- Peace ..Bowles, W. L.. . 419 house ..Carleton. W. S 47!} Dora ..Tennyson, A.. . 355 0\it of the Old House, Nancy .Carleton, W. S 60 1 Doris the Shepherd Maiden ..Anonymous... 435 Robert o' Lincoln . Bryant, W. (;.. 63 Godiva ..Tennyson, A. . . 368 The Homes of England ..Hemans, F 377 How Betsy and I made up.. ..Carleton, W. S 506 The May Queen ..Tennyson, A.. 239 Maud MuUer 1 ..Whittier, J. G. . 196 The Miller's Daughter ..Tennyson, A.. 379 16 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. POEMS OF RURAL LIFE, Country Life Stoddard, R H. 359 Down to the Vale Wordsworth, W 34(1 Driving Home the Cows Osgood, K. P. .. 449 Farmyard Song. Trowbridge,J.T 406 Good Bye Emerson. R. W. 34.5 Moonlight in Summer Bloomtield, J. . . 151 Once in the Cool of Early Morn Anonymous 42"> Patient Mercy Jones Fields, J. T... 501 Proud Masie is in the Wood . . Scott, Sir W — 31* Robin Hood and Allen-a.Dale. Anonymous .... 9ti Small Beginnings Mackay, Chas.. 158 The Farm auc" the Convent. . .Anonymous — 370 The Groves were God's First Temples Bryant, W. C. . . 461 The Hunter's Song Proctor, W. B . . 31'.t The Schoolmistress Shenstone, W.. 14* POEMS OF FANCY, Address to a Mummy Smith, Horace. . 373 An Elegv on a Mad Dog Goldsmith, O. . . 313 At a Modern Shrine B. J. M 107 Echo! : Anonymous 157 Excelsior Longfellow 3fi3 FairvSong Keats, J 313 Oh ! where do Fairies Hide ?. Bayly, T. H 426 Pleasure-Pain Howells, W. D.. 68 Song Shelley, P. B... 95 The Bells Poe, E. A 17T The Bells of Shandon Mahoney, F ... 486 The Butterfly's Funeral Anonymous — 4 '4 The Coquette Moore, T 156 The Devil's Thoughts Coleridge, S. T.. 191 The Last Man Campbell, T.... 160 The Phantom Taylor, B 87 The Raven Poe, E. A 140 The Steamboat Holmes, O. W . . 91 DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. August Morris, W 384 A Canadian Boat Song Moore. T 87 Clarence's Dream Shakspearo, W. 404 Hvmn to the Night Longfellow — 530 L' Allegro Milton, J 300 " Let there be Light" Milton, J 493 Morning Hymn in Paradise. Milton, J 425 Satan in Council Milton, J 74 Song of the Brook Tennyson, A . . . 530 Song of the Winds Darley, Geo — 143 Sweet Rummer Time Howitt, W 192 The Blessed Damozel Rossetti , D. G . . 443 The Cataract of Lodore Southey, R 474 The Deep Brainerd, J. G.C 378 The Falls of Niagara Brainerd, J. G.C 163 The Glove and the Lions Hunt, Leigh — 161 The Golden Garden Arnold, E 373 The Sea Proctor, B W.. 498 The Shipwreck Falconer, W. .. 216 The Wishing Well Young, C. L.... 314 The White Squall Proctor, B. W. . 165 When the hounds of Spring.. Swinburne, C. A 318 HUMOROUS POEMS. After the Season Watson, A. E. T 320 A Receipt for Salad Smith, Sydney. 335 A Village Scold Wilson, Alex... 448 Dionysius the Pedagogue Berengcr, De. . . 535 Diversities of Fortune Hood, T 143 Dow's Flat Harte, Bret... 460 Earlv Rising Saxe, John G.. . 497 Faithless Nelly Gray Hood, T 49 Farewell to Tobacco Lamb, C 50 Good Luck and Bad Luck... Hay, J 151 Holy Willie's Prayer Burns, R 1.59 Jim" Harte, B 441 Jim Bludso Hay, J 483 Katvdid Holmes, O. W . . 369 Little Breeches Hay, J 254 Mr. Maloney's Account of the Ball Thackeray 83 " Nigger Mighty Happy" Macon, J. A — 513 No! Hood. T 167 Rory O'Moore Lover, S 376 The Age of Wisdom Thackeray.. 143 The Battle of Limerick Thackeray 79 The Boy's Complaint Anonymous. . . 420 The Cosmic Egg Anonymous 283 The dule's i' this Bonnet o' Mine Waugh. E 419 The Heathen Chinee Harte, B 388 The Letter "H" Fanshawe, C... . 340 TheLightningRodDispenser.Carleton, W. S. 376 The New Church Organ Carleton, W. S. . 256 The Nun Hunt. Leigh.... 341 The Pious Editor's Creed Lowell, J. R ... 251 The Wake <>f Tim O'Hara.. ..Buchanan, R... 459 Widow Machree Lover, S 219 What ails thee my Son Robin. Waugh, E 354 INDEX OF SUBJECTS POEMS OF SENTIMENT, IT Abou Ben Adhem Hunt, Leigh.... 91 A Doubting- Heart Procter, A. A.. 318 An Idle Poet Robertson, T. H 5U9 A Modest Creed Anonymous.... 278 Be Patient, oh be Patient!.. .Anonymous 3n3 Brevity of Life... Quarles, F -509 Charity Houghton, Geo. 379 Ceon and 1 Mackay, C 66 Content Greene, Robt... 396 Costume — Jonson, B 324 Courtesy Fields, J. T 288 Cui Bono Carlyle, T 515 " Diem Perdidi" Bensel, J. B 5% Each and All Emerson, K. W 437 Enid's Song Tennyson, A. . 514 Eternal Justice Mackay, C 3»9 Excuse Arnold M 41 Exiled but not Lost Browning, B. B 281 Fairer than Thee Anonymous 100 Fear not Harris, T. L.... 158 Fuimus Praed, W. M... 4.57 Good Life, Long Life Jonson, B 540 Good Morning. . - Barbauld, A. L. 53J Gold Hood, T 510 Half-way Wheeler, Ella. . 536 Happiness Keble, J 278 Haste not. Rest not! Goethe, J. W... 278 Hope Macdonald, Geo 281 Innnortality of Genius Hosmer, W. H.C 38 Impressions Wilde, Oscar. .. 64 I am not Old Park, B 35 " I know a Little Garden Close" Morris, W 523 I Wonder! Anonymous 536 "Laborare est Orare " Elmo 360 Lament of the Irish Emi- grant Dufferin, Lady. 45 Life Procter, W. B. . 307 I ife is Beautiful Anonymous... 312 Life will be gone, ere I have Lived Bronte, C 287 Lights and Shades ...Hemans.Felicia 429 Locksley Hall Tennyson, A... 128 Major and Minor Curtis, G. W ,509 Memory Garfield, J A.... 397 Memory Laudor, W. S . . . 140 Memory Praed. W. M ... . 289 Michael Angeloln Via Larga. Browning, E. B 279 Mutability Shelley, P. B... 439 Music Robinson,Wade 311 My Mind to me a Kingdom is. Dyer, Sir Ed... 5l9 Obscure Martyrs Anonymous. . 398 On Myself Cowlej', A 396 Perfection Shakspeare, W . 281 Pre-Existence Haynes, P. H... 275 Ring out Wild Bells Tennyson. A.... 155 Rise and Labor Anonymous 515 Release Anonymous 289 Reputation Shakspeare, W. 373 Seven Ages of Man shakspeare, W. 4U8- Sweet be not Proud Herrick, R 397 Take, oh take Those Lips Away Shakspeare and Fletcher. 236 Tell Among the Mountains.. Sheridan, J. S.. 302 The Angel of the Scales Arnold, Edwin. 375 The Day is Done Longfellow 154 The Days that are no More... Tennyson, A.. . 393 The Heritage Lowell, J. K. . . 407 The Human Seasons Keats, J 539 The Lite of Man Quarles, F 70 The Lost Chord Procter, A. A . . 389 The Lost Garden Wheeler, Ella. . 78 Tde Lady at Sea Hood, T 178 The Minstrel Goethe, J. W... 88 The New Year Powers. H. N... 3(i7 The Nightingale and the Lute.Ford. J 527 I he One Gray Hair Landor, W. S... 139 The Problem Emerson, R. W. 357 The Singer of an Empty Day.Morris, W 444 There are Gains for all our Losses Stoddard, R. H. 289 Those Evening Bells Moore, T 178 Thought .Cranch, C. P... 157 Through Casa Guide Win- dows Browning. E. B. 280 To the Future Lowell, J. R . . . 67 To a Waterfowl Bryant, W. C... 71 Wisdom Poilok, R 65 What might be Done Mackay, C 463 Who are the Free Prince, J. C 394 Youth and Age Coleridge, S. T. 27' POEMS OF SORROW AND ADVERSITY. Auld Robin Gray Barnard. Lady A. 179 As I laye a Thynkynge Barham, T 456 A Dirge Stoddard, R. H. 146 Before Sedan Anonymous 343 Betsy and I are Out Carleton, W. S. 359 Civil War .Anonymous 416 Christine Landor W. S... 128 Dead Aldrich, T. B... 340 De I'rofundis Tennyson, A. .. 440 Evelyn 1 lope Browning, R. . . 390 Florence Vane Cooke, H. P 283 Helen of Kirkconnel Mayne, J 166 Highland Mary Burns, R 167 Ilka Blade o' Grass Ballantuie, J . . . 303 " It "^iiigeth low in every Heart" Anonymous 339 Milton on his Blindness Milton, J 487 Nell Buchanan, R... 417 Night Montgomery, J. 378 Silent Sorrow Elmo 40 Softly woo away her Breath. Procter, B. W.. 239 Soliloquy of Richard II Daniel. S 247 Tears Browning, E. B 544 The End of the Play Thackerav 135 The Exile of Erin Campbell, T.... 436 The Frost Sno^Fall Lowell, J. R.... 446 The First Quarrel Tennyson, A... 233 The Mistletoe Bough Bayly, T. H ]36 The Mourner Crabbe, Geo 269 The Sands o' Dee Kingsle.v, C 463 The Three Fishers Kingsley, C. . . . 409 The \'agabonds Trowbridge 250 'Tls time this Heart should be Unmoved Bvron, Lord 233 To Perilla Herrick, R 139 We might have Been Landon, L. E .. 402 We Parted in Silence Crawford, Mrs. 200 Willy's Grave Waugh, E 487 Woodman Spare that Tree.. .Morris, (i. P 130 Unfinished Still Anonymous 342^^ 18 INDEX OF AUTHORS. POEMS OF RELIGION, .Alpine Hoisrhts Brooks, C. T... 165 "Art Thou Wearv" Stephen, Saint. 396 "A Fortress Firm" Luther, Martin. 150 A Happy Life Wotton, Sir T. . 295 An Easter Carol Rossetti, C 375 An Invitation Clarli, W. G . . . . 226 Benedicite Whittier, J. G. . 387 "Crown Him with many Crowns" Bridges, M. ... 65 Darkness Is Thinning. ...... .Gregory, Samt. 37 Desire Arnold, M 346 'Do this in Bemembrance of Me" Stanley, Dean.. 443 Easter Herbert, Geo... 393 Gideon's Fleece Alexander, C. F 453 God Derzhaven, G .R 338 God is Love Bowring, Sir J. 542 •God the Light and Life of all. Moore, T 340 Gracious Spirit Lynch, T. T . . 483 How Long! Bonar, H 148 Heart of Christ Lynch, T. T.... 464 Humility Anonymous .. 512 Hymn to Christ Robinson, W... 153 .lesus Bernard, Saint. 497 "Jesus took Him by the Hand" Lynch, T. T . . . . 387 " Lead Kindly Light" Newman. Card. 490 1 ucifer's Sermon Bailey, Ph. Jas. 40l "Mary stood the Cross Be- side" Anonymous ... 311 Messiah Pope, A 410 Morning Keble, John — 274 My legacy Hunt, H ... 176 "My Times are in Thy Hand". Waring, A. L... 511 "Oh! Earth is Cheating Ea'th" Bailey, P. J... 60 "Oh! What is Man?" Davies, Sir J... 374 "O may 1 join the Choir In- visible" "Elliot.G eorge" 57 Of Heaven Taylor, Jeremy 501 Over the River Priest, N. W . . . 405 Peace Vaughan, H.... 296 PerPacem ad Lucem Procter, A. A.. 410 Procrastination Young, Dr. Ed. 359 Rocked in the .Cradle of the Deep Willard, E 522 Rules and Lessons Vaughan, H 33 Some Murmur Ti-ench, Arch . . 498 "Son of Mary, Hear" Milman, H. H.. 366 St. Agnes' Eve Tennyson, A... 538 Sweet Day so Cool Herbert, Geo... 95 Thanksgiving Howells, W. D.. 535 The Better Land Hemans, F 461 The Cry of the Human Browning, E. B. 349 The Cross of Christ Bowring, Sir J . 376 '1 he Day of the Lord Kingsley, C 352 The Dying Christian to his Soul Pope, A 155 The Eternal Years Faber, F. W. . . . 540 The Fallow Field Dorr, J. C. R... 312 The Fight of Faith Askewe, A 341 The Fire by the Sea Gary, A 434 The Future Meeting Anonymous 369 The Gifts of God Herbert, G 148 The Kingdom of God Trench, Archb. 32 The New Jerusalem Anonymous 304 The Old Dame's Prayer Traquair, M. E. 525 The Pilgrimage Raleigh, Sir W. 354 The Right must Win Faber, F. W. .. . 156 " The Savior once lay Sleep- ing" — Anonymous 302 The Star of Bethlehem White, H. K. . . . 543 The Tapestry Weavers Anonymous 288 The Wilderness Transformed. Doadridge, P.. 175 " The World is all a Fleeting Show " Moore, T 538 " The World is very Evil" . . .Anonymous 145 " The World is not Happy" . . Anonymous 351 The World is too much with us Wordsworth. W. 482 "There comes a Galley Sail ing" Tauler, J 538 There is a Green Hill Anonymous 424 The World Jones, V 298 Weary Rossetti. C 311 When.... Coolidge, Susan 249 POEMS OF DEATH AND IMMORTALITY. Better in the Morning Coan, L. S 503 Burial of Moses Alexander, C. F 63 Death and the Youth Landon, L. E... 362 Intimations of Immortality.. Dana, R. A 144 In Memoriam Swing, David.. . 286 Peace, what can Tears Avail. Procter, W. B. . 4(17 Requiescat Wilde, Oscar... 343 Shaping the Future Anonymous... 513 She's gane to Dwell In Heaven Cunningham, A. 77 Soliloquy on Death Shakspeare. W. 398 Soliloquy on Immortality Addison, J 377 Thanatopsis Bryant, W. C. . . 265 The Death-bed Hood, T 151 The Hour of Death.... Hemans, F 247 The Land o' the Leal Nairn, Baroness 514 The Sleep Browning, E. B 345 There is no Death Ly tton, B 490 To be no More Milton, J 513 To lanthe Sleeping Shelley, P. B... 477 'Tis Sweet to Think Barham, T 413 What will it Matter? Anonymous ... 98 When Coldness Wraps this Suffering Clay Byron, Lord 64 POEMS OF LOVE Affinity Anonymous 526 Annie Laurie Anonymous 203 A Classic Love Song Handford, R. F 367 A Match Swinburne, C. A 100 A Woman's Question Procter, A. A. . 118 A Valentine Jamieson, Dr.. 532 An Interlude Swinburne, C. A 471 As Stars Look on the Sea Lytton, B 536 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 19 Bligdted Love Camoens, De... 196 Caug-ht Skakspeare, W. 332 Charley Machree Hoppin, Wm. J. 171 ChastclarrI to Mary Stuart.. . Koslyn, G 180 Come Into the Garden, Maud. Tennyson, A... 215 Coming- through the Rye Anonymous 313 Duncan Gray cam here to Woo Rurns, R 420 Epiphalamium Bralnerd, J.G.C 371 Half-way in Love Anonymous 523 Gatherthe Rosebuds llerrick, R 73 Helen Poe, E. A 32 Her Voice Wilde, Oscar. . 388 How it Happened Hay, J 444 "If I Desire with Pleasant Songs" Burbridgo, T. . . 391 Jenny Kissed Me Hunt, Leigh 41 Kissing Her Hair Swinburne, A.C 290 Long Time Ago Morris. G. P 516 Love Daniel, S 510 Love Ingelow, Jean.. 287 Love Swain, Charles. 127 Love Swinburne, C. C 392 La Belle Americaine Prentice, G. D. 520 Love at Sea Swinburne, C.A 286 "Love not, Love not" Norton, Lady... 234 Love's Young Dream Moore, T 446 Mary Ann Munby, A. J ... 522 Mary Morison Burns, R 208 JSlaud of Bohemia Wotton, Sir H . . 447 My Love Lowell, J. R 212 My Valentine Frith, H 244 Not Ours the Vows Barton, B 529 O Dinna ask me if I lo'e ye...Dunlop, J 77 O Lassie Ayont the Hill Macdonald, Geo 162 Of a' the Airts Burns, R 458 Once and for Aye Anon 54 Playing with Love Roslyn, Guy 46 Phlllida and Coridon Breton, N 523 Romeo and Juliet Shakspeare, W. 533 Sappho and Phaon Scott, C. W 96 Shall I Wed Thee Taylor, B 287 " She gives a Side Glance and Looks Down" Longfellow 466 She Walks in Beauty Byron, Lord 524 Smile and Never Heed Me . . ..Swain, C 290 Take time for Love Wheeler, Ella . . 528 That Night Anonymous 543 The Braes o' Balquhither....Tannahill, R... 519 The Countess of Lunn Teller, C. A. . .. 234 The Disappointed Lover... .Swinburne, C A 463 The Door Between Glyndon, H . . . . 539 The Flower o' Dumblane... .Tannahill, R.... 291 The Ivy Maiden Ranking, M. B.. 80 The might of one Fair Face . . Angelo, M 5:30 The Oblation Swinburne, C.A 384 The Throne of Love Dante, G 530 The Welcome Davis, Thomas. 50 Triumph of Chans Jonson, B 494 To Helen Poe, E. A 32 Two Lovers "Eliot, George" 374 Wake, now my Love Awake. Spencer,Ed 531 "What I'd do" Lover, S 423 Yes Anonymous 88 POEMS OF THE AFFECTIONS. Absence Kemble, A. K.. 92 Auld Robin Forbes Blamire, S 464 Brig Hove to for a Pilot "Elmo" 70 Daniel Gray Holland, J. G... 147 Fidelity Wordsworth, W 108 Fifty Y^ears ago Anonymous 383 " If thou wert by my Side, Love" Heber, R 530 Leaves trom Fatherland Elmo 91 My Mother's Picture Cowper, W 469 Old Folks Anonymous... 254 Recollections Norton, Lady . . 297 The Cotter's Saturday Night. Burns, R 172 The Mother's Heart Norton, Lady.. 124 The Mother's Hope Blanehard, L... 123 The Missionai-y's Wife's Fare- well Judson, Mrs. A 537 The Painter's Walk A. L. B 112 The two Anchors Stoddard, R. H. 290 The Village Blacksmith Longfellow 92 Tii'ed Mothers Anonymous 165 To my Daughter Tavlor, Bayard 286 Treasures at Home Spenser, Ed 532 POEMS OF FRIENDSHIP. Auld Lang Syne Burns, Robert. 236 Bill and Joe Holmes, O. W.. 466 Friendship Emerson, K. W. 512 Early Friendship Vere, Aubrey... 156 Fleurette Norton, Lady . . 124 For Annie Poe, E. A 36 Hester Lamb, Charles. . 303 Lament forGlencairn Burns, R 436 The Boys Holmes, O. W. . 255 The Heart's Anchor Winter, W 71 The Old Familiar Faces Lamb, Chas 291 The Passage Uhland,Ludwig 544 The Three Friends .. Leland, C. G... 342 Toujours Amom- Stedman, E. C 145 When the Boys come Home.. Hay, J 336 POEMS OF CHILDHOOD. A Child of Seven Swinburne, C.A 150 A Letter to Mother Nature. . .Dayre, S 541 Baby Song Holland, J.G.... 39 Castles in the Air Ballantine, J... 493 Children Landor, W. S.. 235 Children are God's Apostles.. Lowell, J. R 373 Cuddle Doon Anderson, J 412 Dot Baby off Mine! Adams, C. F.... 231 20 INDEX OF SUBJECTS Good Night and Good Moru- iug Koughton,Lord 151 Harry Ashland Anonymous — 3H0 "I Remember, I Remember". Hood, T 2W John Gilpin Cowper, W 26H Little Bell Westwood, T... 31 "Little Dan" Adams, C. F. . . . 458 " Love thy Mother Little one. Hood, T 302 Lucy Wordsworth, W 414 Lullaby Tennyson, A... 235 " Mother shall thread them a Daisy Chain" lngelow,-J 489 Nine times One "Elmo" 511 No Kiss Elliott, M 144 Philip my King Craik, D. M 144 Saturday Afternoon Wi His, N. P 57 The Child and the Watcher... Browning, E. B 208 The Children's Hour Longfellow 447 1 he Cry of the Children Browning, E. B. 283 The Frost Gould, H. F ... 283 The Kitten and the Falling Leaves Wordsworth, W 204 The Pied Piper of Hamelin.. Browning, R... 183 Three Little Nest Birds Anonymous. . . 366 To my Infant Son Hood, T 408 Weariness Longfellow 414 Wee Willy Winkle Miller, Wm 74 Welcome Bonny Brid Laycock, S. ... 395 SONNETS, A Sweet Disorder Herriek, R... . 324 Futurity Browning, E. B 161 Life's Crown Robinson, W. . . 420 On his 23rd Birthday Milton, J 236 Sonnets Shakepeare, W. H8 Sonnets Quarles, F 358 The true Measure of Life Bailey, P. J. . . . 426 To Milton Wilde, Oscar. . . 2.56 To the Lord General Crom- well Milton, J 498 Work Browning, E. B 288 POEMS OF PATRIOTISM. After AH!— 1862 Winter, W 2.52 Bingenon the Rhine Norton, Lady.. 2.57 Boston Hymn Emerson, R. W. .507 Centennial Hymn Whittier, J. G.. 298 .Isle of Beauty Bayly, .T H 351 Xvry Macauley, Lord 187 Laus ' Deo ! Whittier, J. G . . 344 Marco Bozzaris Halleck, F.. ... 292 Mother and poet Browning, E. B 58 New England's Dead MeClellan, T. . . . 37 Pibroch of iJonuil Dhu Scott, Sir W.... 528 The Battle Songof Adolphus.Altenberg, M... 505 The Blue and the Gray Finch.F.M 253 The Ilarp that Once through Tara's Halls Moore, T 313 The Isles of Greece Byron, Lord 415 The Old Continentals McMaster, G. H 4.56 The People's Song of Peace.. Miller, J 73 1 he Picket Guard Beers, E. Lynn. 71 The Song of 1876 Taylor, Bayard 371 The Star Spangled Banner... Key, F. S 146 Welcome to the Nations Holmes, O. W.. 362 What Constitutes a State? Jones, Sir W... 433 LEGENDS AND BALLADS. A Ballad of Gentleness Chaucer, G.... Hiawatha's Departure Longfellow. . . High tide on the Coast of Lin- colnshire Ingeiow, J Hohenlinden Campbell, T. . How they brought the good news to Ghent Browning, R. King Robert of Sicily liOnglellow. . . Lochinvar Scott, Sir W. . Phil Blood's Leap Buchanan, R. 170 479 168 465 75 308 , 211 , 227 Red and White Ranking, B. M. 188 Saint Brandan Arnold, M 72 St Agnes' Eve Keats, J. Tam O'Shanter Burns, R The dowie dens of Yarrow. ^ Anonymous The Earl O'Quarterdeck Macdonald, G.. The Lake of the Dismal swamp Moore, T , The Story of a Faithful Soul.Procter, A. A... Under the Snow Collier, R 324 192 1.52 352 465 336 29 HISTORIC POEMS. Abraham Lincoln Lowell, J. R — 441 Antony and Cleopatra Tiytle, W. H — 516 Boadicea Cowper, W 437 Charge of the Light Brigade. Tennyson, ... 42 Chicago, Oct. 10th, 1871 Harte, B 458 Fall of Wolsey Shakspeare, W 462 1 loratius at the Bridge Macaulay, Lord 429 Landing of Pilgrim Fathers. Hemans, F 41 Naseby Macaulay, Lord 28 The Armada Macaulay, Lord 475 The Coliseum Byron, Lord 450 The Death of Cromwell Marvel, A 413 The Death of larmion Scott, Sir W 484 The Night before Waterloo. . Byron, Lord 478 Sheridan's Ride Read, T. R 365 Wolsey's speech to Cromwell. Shakspeare, W. 415 Xerxes at the Hellespont Trench, Archb. 504 INDEX OF FIRST LINES. Abou Ron Aflhom 91 Ah ! (lark wore the days of winter b'iii Again I sit within the nuitision 87 Again the trees stand bare upnn the nKJor 46 Arches on arches; as it w(u-e that Koine 450 Around the adjoining brook .)3 Art thou a type of beauty • 54:5 Art thou weary :196 Amazing beauteous change 175 A baby's boot and a skein of wo(j1 34.'i A barking souml the shepherd hears h'S A bird sang sweet and strons 509 A child once said, " What is the grass?" 34;J A country life is sweet 230 A few frail sunircn^rs had touched thee 140 A fair, little girl sat under a tree 151 A tlower unblown, a book unread 3U7 A fortress firm is God our Lord I'O A little elbow leans upim your knee 165 A ruddy drop of manly blood 513 A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers.. 357 A song to the oak, the brave old oak 494 A sorrowful woman said to me 340 A sweet disorder in the dress 334 A traveler through a dusty road 1-58 Attend all ye who list to hear 475 Ah ! dark were the days of winter 535 Ah ! my Perilla, dost thou grieve 139 Ah ! don't be sorrowful, darling 254 All the world's a stage 408 All night long on hotGilboa's mountains 453 All the bells of Heaven may ring 150 All woridlv shapes shall melt in gloom 160 All (juiet along the Potomac they say 71 And auld Robin Forbes has glen tem a dance.40t And O beloved voices 161 And do not fear to hope 281 And hast thou walked about 373 Ask nothing more of me sweet 384 As one who leaves a prison cell 289 As I laye a thynkynge 456 At midnight in his guarded tent 393 As I sit at my desk at the window 510 At last 'tis over, doggie dear 220 Ave Maria ! o'er land and sea 330 Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead 390 Before 1 trust my fate to thee 118 Behold how short a span 509 Believe as I believe, no more no less 278 Blackened and bleeding and helpless 458 Ben Battle was a soldier bold 49 Between the dark and the daylight 447 Between gray trunks the curling pathway runsl 13 Bird of the wilderness 524 Bright on the banners of lily and rose 363 Buy my flowers, O buy my flowers 414 Be patient, oh be patient 303 Be wise to day, 'tis madness to delay 3.59 By Nebo's lofty mountain 63 By the flow of the inland river 253 By the shore of Gitchee Gumee 479 Cables entangling her 178 Calm is now that stormy water 501 ChiMren are what the mothers are 2.J5 " Children are God's Apostles" 373 Cleon hath a million acres ••'o c Come into the garden, Maud 215 Come in the evening or come in the morning. 50 Come listen to me yvo clouds at morning 371 I stood on the banks of a swift flowing river..l.57 I too have suffered, yet I know 41 I waited for the train at Ci )ventry .368 . I wandered by the brook side 167 I will go back to the great, sweet mother 463 I wish I were where Helen lies 166 I won't deny that I love you, Ned 334 I wonder if ever a song was sung 526 I would have gone, God bade me stay 311 If I desire with pleasant songs 391 It is not growing like a tree 740 If you became a nun, dear 341 If life awake and wi 1 never cease 78 If Love were what the rose is 103 If I shall ever win the home in heaven 147 If I were told that 1 must die to-morrow ,249 If thou wert by my side, love 530 I'm a boy 'bout as high as a table 458 I'm sitting on the stile, Mary 45 I'm wearin' awa' Jean 314 In the cross of Christ I glory 376 In the greenest growth of the May time 471 In the merry month of May 523 In the silence of my chamber 379 In their ragged regimentals 456 In vain the cords and axes were prepared 316 Is there when the winds are singing 133 Is it within my ingle nook 383 It is done 344 It is not growing like a tree 540 It is the miller's daughter 379 It must bo so— Plato, thou reasouest W(!ll 377 It singeth low in every heart 339 It was a Christmas Eve 39 It was a gallant sailor man 390 r th' the thraug o' stories tellin' 448 Jenny kissed me when we met 41 J esus the very thought of Thee 497 Jews were wrought to cruel madness 311 John Gilpin was a citizen 366 J ust a few crocus leaves 91 Kicked out in scorn from Syracuse 535 " Kiss me, Will," sang Marguerite 144 Kissing her hair 390 King Francis was a hearty king 161 Laborare est orare 360 La.iguage provides poor symbols 38 Lars Porsena of Clusium 439 Late at e'en, drinking the wine 153 Lead kindly light 490 Leaning my bosom on a pointed thorn. . . .,. .375 Learn to live, and live to learn 286 Leaves have their time to fall 247 Let there be light 493 Let us take to our hearts the lesson 388 Let us go lassie go 519 Life' s fadeless crown is twisted from the leaves430 Life is beautiful — 313 Life! we've been long together 539 Life will be gone ere i have lived 287 Life went a Maying 27 Like as the armed knight 341 Little thinks in the held, yon red-cloaked clown 437 Look at me with thy large, brown eyes 144 Lo! we have told you 373 Lord for the erring thought 535 Love is a sickness full of woes 510 Love not, love not, ye hapless sons of clay. . ..234 Love thy mother little one .362 Love ? I will tell you what it is to love 127 Low on the utmost boundary of the sight 151 Many a year is in its grave 544 Maud Miiller on a summer's day 196 Maxwelton braes are bonnie 303 May, thou month of rosy beauty 313 May the Babylonish curse 50 Merrily swing on brier and weed 63 Milton ! I think thy spirit hath passed away. ..256 Mine cracious, mine cracious 331 Music in the house 311 My God, it is not fretfulness 148 My loved my honoi-ed much respected friend. 173 My little sou, my little son 541 My mind to me a kingdom is 519 My soul, there is a country 396 My lady, here I'll linger 96 My heart's in the Highlands 319 Near the lake where drooped the willow 516 New England's dead ! 37 Kext to thee, O fair gazelle 370 Night is the time for rest 378 No sun — no moon 167 INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 33 Not yet the flowers arc in luy path 36:i Not "what we woulJ. but what we nnist 359 Not as all other women are .312 Not our'8 the ^'ows 5;29 Now all ye flowers make i-oom 286 Now glory to the Lord of Hosts 187 Now the lusty spriug- is seen 239 O beauteous God 507 O brother man tear not 158 O, dinna ask me gin I lo'c ye 77 O gentle, g-entle summer rain 280 O, tor the glory of harvest time 117 O land of Promise 67 O, lassie ayont the hill.'. 102 O, it is hard to work tor God 1.5ti O, listen man 144 (), little feet, that such long years 414 O, Mary, go and call the cattle home 4C2 O mother dear .Tei-usalem 304 O Lydia while no other arms dare twine 367 O Thou wha in the heavens dost ilwell 1,59 O Thou eternal one whose presence bright.. .338 O the days ai-e gone 446 O wherefore came ye forth 28 (), reader, hast thou ever stood to see Ill O, say can you see by the dawn's early light. .H6 < ), the days are gone when beauty bi'i,';ht 140 O, when 'tis summer weather 512 Of all the thoughts of (Jod that are 345 Of all the bonny buds that blow 542 Of all the airts the wind can blow 4.58 Of heaven or hell I shall no power to sing 444 Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green 203 Oh! dalTodil open your balmy buds 544 Oh, earth is cheating earth 60 Oh, I have passed a miserable night 404 Oh, knew he but his happiness 103 Oh, may I join the choir invisible 57 Oh, Mary, at thy window be 208 Oh, never mind, they're only boys 420 C)h. that those lips had language 469 Oh, will ye choose to hear the news 83 Oh, what is man, great Maker of mankind 374 Oh, where do fairies hide their heads 426 Oh, young I;Ochinvar iscome out of the west. . .21 1 Old wine to drink , 445 On Alpine heights the love of God is shed 165 On a day, (aiack the day,) 332 On Linden when the sun was low 4fi5 Only on ■ judge is just 375 On the door you will not enter 379 Once In the cool of early morn 425 Once, on a golden afternoon 479 Once more upon the hills my eager feet 296 Once Paumanok 403 Once upon a midnight dreary 140 One eve of beauty when the sun 262 Our father's God fi-ora out whose hand 298 Our life is nothing but a winter's day 70 Out of the old house, Nancy '. 60 Out of the clover and bhie-eyed gi-ass 449 Out of the deep my child 440 Over the hill to the poor house 472 Over the hill the farm-boy goes 406 Over the river they beckon to me 405 Passing from Italy to Greece .527 Peace, what can tears avail 407 Pibroch of Donuil Dhu .528 Piped the blackbird on the beechwood spray. 31 Prithee, tell me, dimple chin 145 Proud Masie is in the wood 314 Barely, rarely comest thou 95 Rifleman, shoot m(! a fancy shot 416 Hing out wild bolls, to the wild sky 1,55 RiseheartI thy Lord is i-i sen. Sing His praise393 Rise, sleep no more, 'tis a nobh; moon 319 Robert O' Lincoln 62 Robert of Sicily brother of Pope I'rbane. . . .308 Rocked in the cradle of the deep 523 Saint Brundan sails the Northern main 72 Saint Agnes' eve, ah, bitter cold it was 324 Say there! P'r'aps some on you chaps 441 Season of mists and mellow frultfulness 320 Seated one day at the organ 389 See how the orient dew 537 See how yon flaming herald treads 91 S e the chariot at hand here of love 494 Shades of evening close not o'er us 3,51 Shed no tear, oh shed no tear 313 She dwelt amongst the untrodden ways 414 She is right weary of her days 523 She is gane to dwell in heaven 77 She walks In beauty like the night 524 Should auld acquaintance be forgot 236 Sleep, the ghostly winds are blowing 261 Sleep on, baby, on the tlooi- 208 Slow is the painful ascent up to fame 536 Softly wof) awa,\- her breath 239 Some murmur when their sky is clear 498 Spring b\n-sts to-day 375 Stand (in a funeral mound 289 Stand, th(^ gioinid's your own 514 Star that bringest home the bee 244 Still to be neat, still to be drest I324 Sweet are the thoughts that savor of e()ntent!396 Sweet be not proud of those two eyes 397 Sweet brooklet, ever gliding '. 43 Sweet coquette, so blandly smiling '.'. .156 Sweet da.y , so cool, so calm 95 Sweet and low, sweet and low ' '235 Sweet nurslings of the vernal skies ^248 Such was he our mart.yr-chief .4A1 Suppose, my little lady !469 Take, oh take those lips away 236 Tears, idle tears, 1 know not what they mean!393 Till the slow da.vlight pale 70 'Tis all a great show ' " '293 'Tis beauteous night, the stars look brightly- down ggrj- 'Tis the last rose of summer \\\ '323 'Tis said that when the nightingale !509 'Tis sweet to think the pure Ethereal being. 413 'Tis very sweet to sit and gaze, dear girl 520 'Tis time this heart shcaild be unmoved. . .... .233 The apples are ripe in the orchard ^252 The bonny, bonny bairn '493 Thank heaven the crisis is over at last ... . 36 That way look, my infant, lo ; 204 The bairnies cuddle doon atnicht ! . 413 Thank God, bless God all ye who suffer . . !544 The blessed damozel looked out ^443 The breaking waves dashed high 41 The day of the Lord is at hand .'.'.'. ... ..352 The day is done and the darkness .154 The dnles i' this bonnet o' mine .419 The fettered spirits linger .....!336 The first stock e Father of gentillness ....... .170 The flowers that smile to-day 439 The fountains mingle with the river ...... ....21% 1 he frost looked out one still clear night 283 The frosty wind was wailing wild 487 The gloomiest day hath gleams of light 429 The groves were God's first temples. 461 The grass is green on Bunker Hill .'. 73 The half seen memories of childish davs 156 The harp that once through Tara's halls 313 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece 415 Q'he lily's withered chalice falls 64 The man is thought a knave or fool..! !;S89 The might of one fair face 530 The mistletoe hung in the castle hall 136 The mother of the muses, we are taught 140 The moon is up in splendor 27 The old mayor chmbed the belfry tower . ..168 The play is done, the curtain drops . .135 24 INDEX OF FIRST LINES. The poetry of earth is u <;» sr dead 335 The rich man's son inht rits .auds 407 The Savior once lay sleeping 803 The sea, the sea, the open sea 498 The sea was bright and the bark rode well 165 The shades of night were falling fast 26; The snow had begun in the gloaming 446 The stately homes of England 377 The stir of morn is through the vale 370 The sufferer had been heard to saj' 387 The sun comes up and the sun goes down 312 The sun has gone down o'er the lofty Ben Lomond 291 The sun strikes through the windows 280 The temple shakes, the soumling gates unfold455 The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain 163 The throne of love is in my lady's eyes 530 The violet loves a sunny bank 287 The warm sun is failing 323 The weary voyage is over 70 The wild bee feels from bough to bough 388 The wind it blew, and the ship it Hew 352 The wind blew hollow frae the hills 436 The wisest of the wise 139 The word of the Lord by night 507 The world is very evil 145 The world is too much with us late and soon. .483 The world is wise f(jr the world is old 351 There are gains for all om- losses 289 There are in this rude stunning tide 378 There are pale sweet blossoms beneath the S( id349 There came to the beach a poor exile from Erin426 There comes a galley sailing 538 There is a flower, a little flower 488 There is a green hill far away 434 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods 333 There is no death, the stars go down 490 There is no CJod the foolish saith 349 There is no love like thy love 153 There lived a singer in France of old 393 There was a fair garden sloping 78 There was a sound of revelry by night 478 There were seven fishers with nets 434 There's a happy time coming 336 There's beauty in tlie deep 378 There's some thinks Ingins pison 327 They come, the merry summer months 84 They have no place in storied page 398 They made her a grave too cold and damp 465 They sat in sorrow side by side 40 They told me I was hei r 176 They've got a bran new organ, Sue 256 These are Thy glorious works 425 This is her story as once told to me 501 This only grant me 396 This world is all a fleeting show 538 Tha'rt welcome little bonnie brid 395 Thou art O Lord the life and light 340 Those evening bells, those evening bells 178 Thou happy, happy elf 408 Thou was't not born for death 515 rhou lingering star, with lessening ray 438 Thou who dost dwell alone 346 I'hough when other maids stand by 290 Through the dim chamber of my sacred soul.. 529 Thought is deeper than all speech . 157 Think of mo as your friend I pray 71 Three fishers went sailing out into the west. .409 Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate 74 Thy home is with the humble, Lord 513 To be, or not to be 398 To be no more— sad cure 513 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily 381 To him who in the love of nature 365 To make this condiment your poet sings 335 To the wake of O'Hara came company 4.59 Turn fortune turn thy wheel 514 Tread lightly, she is near ,343 'Twas whispered in heaven 340 Two lovers by a moss-grown spring- 374 Under a spreading chestnut tree 93 Under the larch with its tassels wet 461 Under the trees by the darkling stream 188 Up from the meadows rich with corn 317 Up from the south at break of day 36.i Up the dale and down the bourne 143 Upon a rock yet uncreate 383 Vital spark of heavenly flame 155 " Wait a little" you say 223 Wake, voice of the land's devotion 371 Wake now my li ive awalce 531 Wall, no! Ican't tell whar he lives 482 We are two travelers, Roger and 1 250 We ai-e born, we laugh, we weep 307 We are in love's land to-day 28ft We have been friends together i&i We live in deeds not years 426 We meant to be very kind 366 We might have been 403 We part on this green islet love 537 We shape ourselves the joy or fear 513 We stand among the fallen leaves 399 We parted in silence, we parted by night 200 We watched tier breathing thro' the night 151 Wee Willie Winkle 74 Welcome maids of honor 531 What ails thee, my scm Robin? 354 Whatare we set on earth for? 288 What constitutes a state? 423 What different dooms our birthdays bring 143 What is hope? a smiling rainbow 515 What is th- use of this impetuous haste 528 What thought is folded in thy leaves? 451 What is the little one thinking about? 39 What might be done if men were wise 463 What shall 1 do with all the days and hours ... 93 What voice, what harps are those 88 What will ye do love when I'm going? 423 Whiit, you are come despite your boast? 314 When chapman billies leave the street 192 When coldness wraps this suffering clay 64 When evening spreads her mantle wide 533 When God at first made man 148 When first thou camcst, gentle, shj', and fondl24 When first thy eies unveil 33 AVhen I consider how my light is spent 487 When I do count the clock that tells the time. 188 When maidens such as Hester die 303 When our heads are bowed with woe : 66 When marshalled on the nightly plains 543 When shall we meet again 369 When stars are in the quiet sky .536 When the British warrior queen 437 When the hounds of spring 318 When the sheep are in the fauld 179 When the slow field-sp der weaves 447 When the Paschal evening falls 443 Where are the swallows fled 318 Whereas on certain boughs and sprays 30 Whether the soul receives intelligence 247 Which I wish to remark, and my language is plain 388 Which this railway smash reminds me 276 White swans, beside the lilies.. . 112 Who are the free? 394 Who has not dreamed a world of blessing 192 While sauntering through the crowded street.375 Widow Machree, its no wonder you frown 219 Wilt thou begone? 283 Wisdom took her harp and stood . . 66 With a spray of shower-wet lilac in your handlOT With deep affection 486 With Farmer Allan at the farm 355 With fingers weary ami worn 261 Wither midst falling dew 71 INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 25 Without haste ! Without rest ! 378 Woodman, spare that tree 136 Ye banks and braes and streams around 167 Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon 512 Ye crags and peaks I'm with you once again .a03 Ye genii of the nation 79 Ye nymphs of Solyma, begin the song, 410 Ye tradeful merchants 532 Ye sons of freedom wake to glory 511 Yes, there are real mourners 259 You and I and that; night 543: You can't help the baby parson 503 You came to me by ways that love has shown53fr \(m dear old mother nature 541 You have come then, how very clever 523: Your face sweet Constance 80 You meaner beauties of the night 447 You must wake and call me early 3;i9 You sleep upon your mother's breast 524 Young Kory O'Moore courted Kathleen Bawn37t> You're a kind woman. Nan 417 ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK OF POETEY A:N"D SOl^G. YOUTH AND AGE. Life went a-Majing With Nature, Hope and Poesy, When I was voung! When I was joung? Ah, woful when! Ah, for the change 'twixt now and then ! This breathing house not made with liands, This body that does me grievous wrong. O'er airy clifts and glittering sands, How lightly then it flashed along ; How those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide, . That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spite of wind or tide! Nought cared this body for wind or weather. When Youth and I lived in't together. Flowers are lovely; Love is flowcr-Iike; Friendship is a sheltering tree; O the joys that came down shower-like Of Friendship, Love and Liberty, Ere I was old ! Ere I was old.'' Ah woful Ere, Which tells me Youth's no longer here. Youth! for yeai"s so many and sweet, 'Tis known that thou and I were one; I'll think it but a fond conceit — It cannot be that thou art gone! The vesper bell hath not yet tolled And thou wert aye a masker ball ! What strange disguise hast thou put on. To make-believe that tiiou art gone.^ 1 see these locks in silvery slips. This drooping gait, this altered size; But spring-tide blossoms on thy lips, And tears take sunshine from thine eyes, Life is but thought; so think I will That Youth and I are house-mates still. Dewdrops are the gems of morning. But the tears of mournful eve! Where no hope is life's a warning That only serves to make us grieve When we are old; With oft and tedious taking leave; Like some poor nigh related guest, That may not rudely be dismissed. Yet hath outstayed his welcome while And tells the jest without the smile. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. NIGHT SONG. The moon is up in splendor. And golden stars attend her; The heavens are calm and bright; Trees cast a deepening shadow. And slowly off the meadow A mist is rising silver-white. Night's curtains now are closing Roimd half a w^orld reposing In calm and holy trust. All seems one vast, still chamber, Where weary hearts remember No more the sorrows of the dust. Matthias Claudius. 28 ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK NASEBY. O, WHEREFORE coiiie jc forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and jour raiment all red? And wherefore doth your route send forth a joyous shout? And whence be the grapes of the wine- press that ye tread ? O, evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod ; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of June That we saw their banners dance and their cuirasses shine, And the man of blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Aslley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Ru- pert of the Rhine. Like a servant of the Lord, with his bible and his sword, The General rode along us to form us for the fight; When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into a shout Among the godless horsemen upon the tyrant's right. And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line: For God! for the cause! — for the Church! for the laws! For Charles, king of England, and Rupert of the Rhine! The furious German comes, with his clar- ions and his drums. His bravoes of Alsatia and pages of White- hall; They are bursting on our flanks! Grasp your pikes! Close your ranks! For Rupert never comes but to conquer, or to fall. They are here, — they rush on, — we are broken, — we are gone, — Our left is borne before them like stubble on the blast. O Lord, put forth Thy might! O Lord, de- fend the right ! Stand back to back, in God's name! and fight it to the last ! Stout Skippen hath a wound, — the center hath given ground. Hark! hark! what means the trampling of horsemen on our rear? Whose banner do I see, boys? 'Tis he! thank God! 'tis he, boys! Bear up another minute! Brave Oliver is here ! Their heads all stooping low, their points all in a row. Like a whirlwind on the trees, like a deluge on the dikes. Our cuirassiers have burst on the ranks of the accurst, And at a shot have scattered the forest of his pikes. Fast, fast the gallants ride, in some^afenook to hide Their coward heads, predestined to rot on Temple Bar; And he — he turns! he flies! shame on those cruel eyes That bore to look on torture, and dare not look on war ! Ho, comrades! scour the plain; and ere je strip the slain, First give another stab to make jour search secure; Then shake from sleeves* and pockets their broad pieces and lockets, The tokens of the wanton, the plunder of the poor. Fools ! your doublets shone with gold, and jour hearts were gay and bold. When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans to-day; And to-morrow shall the fox from her chambers in the rocks Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues, that late mocked at heaven and hell and fate? And the fingers that once were so busy with your blades? Your perfumed satin clothes, your catches and your oaths! Your stage-plays and your sonnets, your diamonds and your spades? Down ! down ! forever down, with the miter and the crown ! With the Belial of the court, and the Mam- mon of the Pope! There is woe in Oxford halls, there is wail in Durham's stalls; The Jesuit smites his bosom, the bishop rends his cope. And she of the seven hills shall mourn her children's ills, And tremble when she thinks on the edge of England's sword; And the kings of earth in fear shall shudder when they hear What the hand of God hath wrought for the houses and the word ! Thomas Babington Macaulay. UNDER THE SNOW. A STORY IN RHYME. It was Christmas Eve in the year fourteen, And, as ancient dalesmen used to tell. The wildest winter they ever had seen, With the snow lying deep on moor and fell. When wagoner John got out his team, Smiler and Whitefoot, Duke and Gray, With the light in his eyes of a young man's dream, As he thought of his wedding on New Year's Day To Ruth, the maid with the bonnie brown hair, And eyes of the deepest, sunniest blue, Modest and winsome, and wondrous fair. And true to her troth, for her heart was true. " Thou's surely not going!" shouted mine host; " Thou'll be lost in the drift, as sure as thou's born ; Thy lass cannot want to wed wi' a ghost, And that's what thou'll be on Christmas morn " It's eleven long miles from Skipton toon To Blueberg hooses and Washburn dale; Thou had better turn back and sit thee doon. And comfort thy heart wi' a drop o' good ale." Turn the swallows flying south, Turn the vines against the sun. Herds from rivers in the drouth. Men must dare or nothing's done. So what cares the lover for storm or drift, Or peril of death on the haggard way ? He sings to himself like a lark in the lift. And the joy in his heart turns December to May. 30 ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK But the wind from the north brings a deadly chill, Creeping into his heart, and the drifts are deep Where the thick of the storm strikes Blue- berg hill, He is weary and falls in a pleasant sleep, And dreams he is walking by Washburn side, Walking with Ruth on a summer's day, Singing that song to his bonnie bride. His own wife now forever and ave. Now read me this riddle, how Ruth should hear That song of a heart in the clutch of doom : It stole on her ear, distinct and clear, As if her lover was in the room. And read me this riddle, how Ruth should know. As she bounds to throw open the heavy door. That her lover is lost in the drifting snow, Dying or dead, on the great wild moor. "Help! help! Lost! lost!" Rings through the night as she rushes awav, Stumbling, blinded and tempest-tossed, Straight to the drift where her lover lay. And swift they leap after her into the night, Into the drifts by Blueberg hill, Pullan, Ward, Robinson, each witli his light. To find her there holding him white and still. " He was dead in the drift, then," I hear them say. As I listen in wonder. Forgetting to play, Fifty years since come Christmas Day. " Nay, nay, they were wed I" the dalesman cried, " By Parson Carmalt o' New Year's Day. Bonnie Ruth were me great-great-grand sire's bride. And Maister Frankland gave her away." " But how did she find him under the snow.'"' They cried with a laughter, touched with tears ; " Nay, lads," he said, softly, "we never can know — No! not if we live a hundred years. There's a sight o' things gan To the making o' man." Then I rushed to my play With a whoop and away, Fifty years syne come Christmas Day. Robert Collyer. THE LAWYER'S INVOCATION TO SPRING. Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays Now divers birds are heard to sing. And sundry flowers their heads upraise, Hail to the coming on of Spring! The songs of those said birds arouse The memory of our youthful hours. As green as those said sprays and boughs, As fresh and sweet as those said flowers. The birds aforesaid — happy jairs — Love, mid the aforesaid boughs, enshrines In freehold nests; themselves, their neirs. Administrators and assigns O, busiest term of Cupid's Court, Where tender plaintiffs actions bring. Season of frolic and of sport, Hail, as aforesaid, coming Spring! Henry Howard Brownell. OF POETRY AND SONG. 81 LITTLE BELL. Piped the blackbird on the beachwood spray, "Pretty maid, slow wandering this way, What's your name," quoth he, — " What's your name? O, stop and straight unfold. Pretty maid with showery curls of gold." — " Little Bell," said she. Little Bell sat down beneath the rocks, Tossed aside her gleaming golden locks, — " Bonny bird," quoth she, " Sing me your best song before I go." " Here's tiie very finest song I know, Little Bell," said he. And the blackbird piped ; you never heard Half so gay a song from any bird, — Full of quips and wiles. Now so loud and rich, now soft and slow, All for love of that sweet face below. Dimpled o'er with smiles. And the while the bonny bird did pour His full heart freely o'er and o'er 'Neath the morning skies, In the little childish heart below- All the sweetness seemed to grow and grow. And shine forth in happy overflow From the blue bright eyes. Down the dell she tripped and through the glade. Peeped the squirrel from the hazel shade. And from out the tree Swung, and leaped, and frolicked, void of fear; While the bold blackbird piped that all might hear, — " Little Bell," piped he. Little Bell sat down amid the fern, — " Squirrel, squirrel, to your task return ; Bring me nuts," quoth she. Up away the frisky squirrel hies, — Golden woodlights dancing in his eyes, — •And adown the tree Great ripe nuts, kissed ripe by the July sun, In the little lap dropped one by one. Hark, how blackbird pipes to hear the fun ! " Happy Bell," pipes he. Little Bell looked up and down the glade, — " Squirrel, squirrel, if you're not afraid, Come and share with me ! " Down came squirrel eager for his fare, Down came bonny blackbird, I declare; Little Bell gave each his honest share, — Ah the merry three ! And the while these frolic playmates twain Piped and frisked from bough to bough again, 'Neath the morning skies. In the little childish heart below All the sweetness seems to grow and grow, And shine out in happy overflow From her blue, bright eyes. By her snow-white cot at close of day, Knelt sweet Bell, with folded palms to pray ; Very calm and clear Rose the praying voice to where unseen. In the blue heaven, an angel shape serene Paused awhile to hear. " What good child is this," the angel said, " That with happy heart beside her bed Prays so lovingly.'' " Low and soft, O, very low and soft, Crooned the blackbird in the orchard croft, " Bell, dear Bell ! " crooned he. " Whom God's creatures love," the angel fair Murmured, " God doth bless with angels' .care ; Child, thy bed shall be Folded safe from harm. Love deep and kind. Shall watch around and leave good gifts behind, Little Bell, for thee!" Thomas Westwood. ^'^"" 32 ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK THE WATERING PLACE. And we, on divers shores now cast. Shall meet, our perilous voyage past. Around the adjoining brook that purls All in our Father's house at last, along The vocal grove, now falling o'er a rock. Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now startling to a sudden stream, and now Gently diifused into a limpid plain. And ere thou leave him, say thou this. Yet one word more — they only miss The winning of that final bliss. A various group the herds and flocks com- 1 pose, Who will not count it true, that Love, Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Blessing, not cursing, rules above, Some ruminating lie; while others stand And that in it we live and move. Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle di'oops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, \Vhich incomposed he shakes; and from his sides And one thing further make him know, That to believe these thmgs are so. This firm faith never to forego. The troublous insects lashes with his tail. Returning still. Despite of all which seems at strife With blessing, all with curses rife. James Thomson. That this is blessing, this is life. Archbishop Trench. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. TO HELEN I SAY to thee, do thou repeat To the first man thou mayest meet Helen, thy beauty is to me In lane, highway, or open street — Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea. That he and we and all men move The weary way-worn wanderer bore Under a canopy of love, To his own native shore. As broad as the blue sky above; On desperate seas long wont to roam, That doubt and trouble, fear and pain, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face. And anguish, all are shadows vain, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home } That death itself shall not remain; J « To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. 8 That weary deserts we may tread, 1 A drearv labvrinth may thread. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche 1 ^ - ^ ' j Thro' dark ways underground be led; How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Yet, if we will one Guide obey. Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are holy land ! The dreariest path, the darkest way Shall issue out in heavenly day ; Edgar A. Poe., . < ^ ^ iST OF POETRT AND SONG. 33 RULES AND LESSONS. When first thy eies unveil, give tiiy soul le^ve To do the like, our bodies but forerun The spirit's duty. True hearts spread and heave Unto their God, as flow'rs do to the sun. Give Him Thy first thoughts tiien; soshalt thou keep Him company all day, and in llim sleep. Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours 'Twixt heaven and us. The marina was not good After sun-rising; far-day sullies flowres. Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sins glut, And heaven's gate opens when this world's is shut. Walk with thy fellow creatures ; note the hush And whispers amongst them. There's not a spring Or leafe but hath his morning hymn. Each bush And oak doth know I AM. Canst thou not sing.? O leave thy cares and follies! go this way, And thou art sure to prosper all the day. Serve God before the world; let Him not I go. Until thou hast a blessing; then resigne The whole unto Him ; and remember who Prevail'd by wrestling ere the sun did shine. Poure oyle upon the stones; weep for thy sin ; Then journey on, and have an eie to heav'n. Mornings are mysteries : the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births; the crown of life light, truth Is stil'd their starre, the stone, and hidden food. Three blessings wait upon them, two of which Should move: they make us holy, happy, rich. When the world'^ up, and ev'ry swarm abroad. Keep thou thy temper; mix not with each clay; Dispatch necessities; life hath a load Which must be carri'd on, and safely may, Yet keep those cares without thee, let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. Through all thy actions, counsels, and dis- course, Let mildness and religion guide thee out; If truth be thine, what needs a brutish force } But what's not good and just ne'er go about. Wrong not thy conscience for a rotten stick; That gain is dreadful which makes spirits sick. To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true; If priest and people change, keep thou thy ground. Who sels religion is a Judas Jew ; And, oathes once broke, the soul cannot be sound. The perjurer's a devil let loose: what can Tie up his hands, that dares mock God and man } Seek not the same steps with the crowd ; stick thou To thy sure trot; a constant, humble mind Is both his own joy, and his Maker's too; 34 ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK Let follj dust it on, or lag behind. A sweet self-privacy in a right soul Out-runs the earth, and lines the utmost pole. To all that seek thee bear an open heart; Make not thy breast a labyrinth or trap; If tryals come, this will make good thy part, For honesty is safe, come what can hap ; It is the good man's feast, the prince of flowres, Which thrives in storms, and smels best after showres. Seal not thy eyes up from the poor; but give Proportion to their merits, and thy purse : Thou may'st in rags a mighty prince re- lieve. Who, when thy sins call for't, can fence a curse. Thou shalt not lose one mite. Though waters stray, The bread we cast returns in fraughts one day. Spend not one hour so as to weep another, For tears are not thine own ; if thou giv'st words, Dash not with them thy friend, nor heav'n ; O smother A viperous thought; some syllables are swords. Unbitted tongues are in their penance double; They shaine their owners, and their hearers trouble. Injure not modest bloud, while spirits rise In judgment against lewdness; that's base wit. That voyds but filth and stench. Hast thou no prize But sickness or infection.? stifle it. Who makes his jest of sins, must be at least. If not a very devil, worse than beast. Yet fly no friend, if he be such indeed; But meet to quench his longings and thy thirst; Allow your joyes religion ; that done, speed, And bring the same man back thou wert at first. Who so returns not, cannot pray aright. But shuts his door, and leaves God out all night. To heighten thy devotions, and keep low All mutinous thoughts, what business e'er thou hast, Observe God in His works; here fountains flow, Birds sing, beasts feed, fish leap, and th' earth stands fast; Above are restless motions, running lights, Vast circling azure, giddy clouds, days nights. When seasons change, then lay before tliine eies His wondrous method; mark the various scenes In heav'n ; hail, thunder, rainbows, snow and ice, Calmes, tempests, light, and darknesby His means. Thou canst not misse His praise : each tree, herb, flowre. Are shadows of His wisdome and His pow'r. To meales when thou doest come, give Him the praise Whose arm supplied thee ; take what may suffice. And then be thankful ; O admire His ways Who fills the world's unempty'd granaries! OF POETRT AND SONG. 35 A thankless feeder is a thief, his feast A very robbery, and himself no guest. High-noon thus past, thy time decays; pro- vide Thee other thoughts; away with friends and mirth ; The sun now stoops, and hastes his beams to hide ! Under the dark and melancholy earth. All but preludes thy end. Thou art the man Whose rise, height, and descent is but a span. Yet, set as he doth, and 'tis well. Have all Thy beams home with thee; trim thy lamp, buy oyl. And then set forth : who is thus drest, the fall Furthers his glory, and gives death the foyl. Man is a summer's day; whose youth and fire Cool to a glorious evening, and expire. When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; block it not with delays; But perfect all before thou sleep'st: then say, ■" Ther's one sun more strung on my bead of days." What's good score up for joy ; the bad well scann'd Wash off with tears, and get thy Master's hand. Thy accounts thus made, spend in the grave one hour Before thy time; be not a stranger there. Where thou may'st sleep whole ages; life's poor flow'r Lasts not a night sometimes. Bad spirits fear This conversation ; but the good man lyes Intombed many days before he dies. Being laid, and drest for sleep, close not thy eies Up with thy curtains; give tny soul the wing- In some good thoughts; so when the day shall rise. And thou unrak'st thy fire, those sparks will bring New flames; besides where these lodge, vain heats mourn And die; that bush, where God is, shall not burn. When thy nap's over, stir thv fire, unrake In that dead age; one beam i' th' dark out- vies Two in the day; then from the damps and ake Of night shut up thy leaves; be chaste; God prys Ihrough thickest nights; though then the sun be far, Do thou the works of day, and rise a star. Briefly, doe as thou would'st be done unto, Love God, and love thy neighbour; watch, and pray. These are the words and works of life; this do And live; who doth not thus, hath lost heav'n's way. O lose it not! look up, wilt thou change those lights For chains of darkness and eternal nights.'' Henry Vaughan. I AM NOT OLD. I AM not old — though years have cast Their shadows on my way ; I am not old — though youth has pass'd On rapid wings away. ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK For in my heart a fountain flows, And round it pleasant thoughts repose, And sympathies and feelings high. Spring like the stars on evening's sky. I am not old — Time may have set y His signet on my brow," And some faint furrows there have met, Which care may deepen now : Yet love, fond love, a chaplet weaves Of fresh, young buds and verdant leaves; And still in fancy I can twine Thouglits, sweet as flowers, that once were mine. Park Benjamin. FOR ANNIE. Thank Heaven! the crisis — Tiie danger, is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last — And the fever called " Living' Is conquer'd at last. Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength. And no muscle I move As I lie at full length: But no matter! — I feel 1 am better at length. And I rest so composedly, Now, in my bed. That any beholder Might fancy me dead — Might start at beholding me, Thinking me dead. The moaning and groaning. The sighing and sobbing. Are quieted now. With that horrible thi-obbing At heart : — ah that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness — the nausea — The pitiless pain — Have ceased, with the fever That madden'd my brain — With the fever called " Living " Tliat burn'd in my brain. And oh ! of all tortures, That torture the worst Has abated — the terrible Torture of thirst For the napthaline river Of Passion accurst; I have drank of a water That quenches all thirst: — Of a water that flows. With a lullaby sound, From a spring but a very few Feet under ground — From a cavern not very far Down under ground. And ah! let it never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy And narrow my bed; For man never slept In a different bed — And, to sleepy you must slumber In jus* such a bed. My tantalized spirit Here blandlv reposes,. Forgetting, or never Regretting, its roses — Its old agitations Of myrtles and roses : For now, while so quietly Lying, it fancies A holier odor About it, of pansies — A rosemary odor. Commingled with pansies — With rue and the beautitul Puritan pansies. OF POETRT AND SONG. 37 And so it lies happily, Bathing in many A dream of the truth And the beauty of Annie- Drowned in a batli Of the tresses of Annie. She tenderly kiss'd me She fondly caress'd, And then I fell gently To sleep on her breast — Deeply to sleep From the heaven of her brea st. When the light was extinguish'd, She covered me warm, And she pray'd to the angels To keep me from harm — To the queen of the angels To shield me from harm. And I lie so composedly Now, in my bed, (Knowing her love,) That you fancy me dead — And I rest so contently, Now, in my bed, (With her love at my breast,) That you fancv me dead — That vou shudder to look at me, Thinking me dead: — But my heart it is brighter Than all of the many Stars of the sky, For it sparkles with Annie — It glows with the light Of the love of my Annie — With the thought of the light Of the eyes of my Annie. Edgar A. Poe. DARKNESS IS THINNING. Darkness is thinning; shadows are re- treating: Morning and light are coming in their beauty. Suppliant seek we, with an earnest outcry, God the Almighty. So that our Master, having mercy on us. May repel languor, may bestow salvation, Granting us, Father, of Thy loving kind- ness Glory hereafter! This of His mercy, ever blessed Godhead, Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, give us — Whom through the wide world celebrate for ever Blessing and glory! St. Gregory the Great. NEW ENGLAND'S DEAD. New England's dead! New England's dead 1 On every hill they lie; On every field of strife, made red By bloody victory. Each valley, where the battle pour'd Its red and awful tide, Beheld the brave New England sword With slaughter deeply dyed. Their bones are on the northern hill. And on the southern plain, By brook and river, lake and rill. And by the roaring main. The land is holy where they fought, And holy where they fell; For bv their blood that land was bought. The land they loved so well. Then glory to that valiant band, The honor'd saviours of the land! 38 ILLUSTRATED HOME BOOK O, few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men; But to their God thej gave their praver, And rush'd to battle then. The God of battles heard their crj, And sent to ihem the victory. They left the ploughshare in the mould, Their flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn, half garner'd, on the plain, And muster'd, in their simple dress. For wrongs to seek a stern redress. To right those wrongs, come weal, come wo, To perish, or o'ercome their foe. And where are ye, O fearless men? . And where are ye to-day? I call : — the hills reply again That ye have pass'd away; That on old Bunker's lonely height. In Trenton, and in Monmouth ground. The grass grows green, the harvest bright Above each soldier's mound. The bugle's wild and warlike blast Shall muster them no more; An army now might thunder past, And they heed not its roar. The starry flag, 'neath which they fought, In many a bloody day. From their old graves shall rouse them not. For they have passed away. Isaac McLellan. THE IMMORTALITY OF GENIUS. Language provides poor symbols of ex- pression When roused Imagination, holding rein. Sends airy forms of grace in vast proces- sion Across the poet's brain. An Orphic tongue would be too weak an agent To tell the tale of inspiration's hour; To paint an outline of the gorgeous page- ant, A Titian has no power. The meagre written record of the closet Saves but a few, pale glimmering pearls — no more When the lashed waves roll inland to de- posit Their wealth along the shore The queen of Beauty and her blushing daughters In Crathis bathed — that old poetic stream — And each dark ringlet from the sparkling waters Imbibed an amber gleam. Thus thoughts that send and will send on forever. From the dim plains of long ago, a light. Caught from Imagination's golden river Their glow divinely bright. When done with life, its fever, din, and jostle. How scant and poor a portion after all Of Nature's priest, and Art's renowned apostle Lies hid beneath the pall. Though grazing herd and hosts with clang- ing sabres Their graves forgotten trample rudely o'er. To tribes and nations, through their crown- ing labors. They speak for evermore. Oh, Genius! dowered with privilege im- mortal. Thus from the wastes of time to stretch thy hand, OF POETRr*AND SONG. 39 And, with a touch unfold the glittering portal Of an enchanted land! Death knows thee not, tho' long ago were blended Thy visible forms with undistinguished clay ; The dead are thej whose mission here is ended — Thy voice is heard to-day. Heard on the honeyed lip of Juliet melt- ing— In dreaming Richard's cry of guilty fear — In shouts that rise above the night-storm pelting From old distracted Lear: Heard in the organ-swell of Milton peal- ing— In Gray's elegaic sorrow for the past — In flute-notes from the muse of Spenser stealing, In Dryden's