i ■ Q^Q- k. -■'•:/ -tyMMall ySmi-Heti"^ THE FAMILY LIBRARY OF Poetry and Song BEING €)^om ^clcrtions frnm t^t gcsl gotts, ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH, AND AMERICAN ; INCLUDING TRANSLATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES. EDITED BY ^ WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. tCHitl) an iSntrotJuctorj Crcatior bj tftt ESitor " POETS AND POETRY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." REVISED, AND ENLARGED. m JnlrejEcs, Jfllustrotions, anb 'ia.ntograpljic i^ac-similcs. NOV /^I886 NEW YORK: /^ ' FORDS, HOWARD, AND HULBERT. \ ft-' -^ f^ \Nl < ^X Copyright, In 1870 AND 1877, By J. B. Ford and Company. In 1880 AND i886, By Fords, Howard, and Hulsert. l^ ■B' r- -a PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. rriJIE marked success of "A Library of Poetry and Song," as first issued in -L the year 187U, showed that the work supplied a real need of the public, whose confidence in Mr. Bryant, as its editor, has been borne out by the worlc itself. •Shortly before his death, observing with gratification tlie great jjopularity attained by his book and the growing demand for it, Mr. Bryant desired to thoroughly revise the work and make it still more worthy of the public esteem and his own fame. And, although its popular acceptability seemed no whit diuiiuished in its original form, tlie publishers thought it wortliy of a thorougli revision, enlargement, and improvement. Accordingly, witli Mr. Bryant's active co-(jperation, the work was subjected to an entire reconstruction, both as to matter and form; the laljor having been finished just before Mr. Bryant's death in 1878, and being, as has been stated, the latest of his completed literary tasks. About one fifth of the material of the former volume was eliminated, and twice as much new matter added; great pains having been taken to insure the correctness of the text, witli a view to making it a standard for reference, as well as to give an ample provision for general or special reading. Tlie name "Library," which has been given it, indicates the principle upKii which the book has been made, namely: that it might serve as a book of reference ; as a comprehensive exhibit of the history, growth, and condition of poetical literature ; and, more especially, as a companion, at the will of its possessor, for the varying moods of the mind. Necessarily limited in extent, it yet contains one quarter more matter than any similar publication, presenting nearly two thousand selections, from more than five hundred autliors ; and it may be claimed that of the poetical writers whose works have caused their names to be held in general esteem or affection, none are unrepresented ; while scores of the productions of unknown authors, verses of merit though not of fame, found in old books or caught out of the passing current of literature, have been here presented side by side with those more notable. And the chief object of the collection — to present m f"'l r-h iv PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. an array of good poetry so widely representative and so varied in its tone as to offer an answering chord to every mood and phase of human feeling — has been carefully kept iu view, both in the selection and the arrangement of its contents. So that, in all senses, the realization of its significant title has been an objective point. In inirsuauce of this plan, the highest standard of literary criticism has not been made the only test of worth for selection, since many poems have been included, which, though less perfect than others in form, have, by some power of touching the heart, gained and maintained a sure place iu the poi)ular esteem. The enlargement and reconstruction of this work entailed upon Mr. Bryant much labor, in conscientious and thorough revision of all the material, — cancelling, inserting, suggesting, even copying out with his own hand many poems not readily attainable except from his private library, — in short, giving the work not only the sanction of his widely honored name, but also the genuine influence of his fine poetic sense, his unquestioned taste, his broad and scholarly acquaintance with literature. To assist him, especially in the principal gathering and classification of the material, the Publishers, with his concurrence, obtained the services of Mr. Edward H. Knight, of Washington, I). C, of whose good taste, wide reading, and peculiar talent for systematiza- tion they had availed themselves in the first preparation of the original work. This edition also had the advantage of the critical discrimination of Professor Eobert E. Eaymoud, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who made it his care to revise all the copy before sending it to the printers, to correct erroneous readings per- petuated from careless editions of various authors, and to add the numberless touches of the literary artist. The Publishers desire to return their thanks for the courtesy freely extended to them, by which many copyrighted Americau poems have been allowed to ajipear in this collection. In regard to a large number of them, permission has been accorded by the authors themselves; other poems having been gathered as waifs and strays, have been necessarily used without special authority, and where due credit is not given, or where the authorship may have been erroueously ascribed, future editions will afford opportunity for the correc- tion, which will be gladly made. Particular acknowledgments are offered to Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. for extracts from the works of Fitz-Greene Halleck, and from the poems of William Cullen Bryant ; to Messrs. Harper and Brotliers for poems of Charles G. Halpine and Will Carleton ; to Messrs. J. B. Lippin- cott & Co. for quotations from the writings of T. Buchanan Bead ; to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for extracts from Dr. J. G. Holland's poems; and more especially to the house of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., — whose good taste and intelligent enterprise have given them an unequalled list of American fl ^ a I PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. V | poeticiil writers, comprising many of the most eminent poets of the land, — for tlieir courtesy in the liberal extracts granted from the writings of Thomas Bailey Aldricli, lialph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wad.s- worth Longfellow, James liussell Lowell, Florence Percy, John Godfrey Saxe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edmund Clarence Stedmau, Bayard Taylor, Bret Harte, John Townsend Trowbridge, Mrs. Celia Thaxter, John Greenleaf Whittier, and others. In addition to the above acknowledgments, readers will see in the " Index of Authors" references enabling tlieni to find the publi.shers of the entire works of any American writer to whom theii" attention has Iteen called by any fragment or poem printed in this volume. This "Library" contains specimens of many styles, and it is believed that, so far from preventing the purchase of special authors, it serves to draw attention to their merits ; and tlie courtesy of their publishers in granting the use of some of their poems, here will tind ample and practical recognition. U^ ^ [fi- ^ TABLE OF CONTENTS. I'Atii: PUBLISHERS' PHEFACE iii TABLE OF CONTENTS vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix INDEX OF AUTIIOL'S xi THE EDITOR TO THE READER 1 THE POET (Fat-siniilu of Mr. Bryant's Manuscript) 3 INTRODUCTION : Pdeth and Poetky ok the Englihii Language .... 7 POEMS OF INFANCY AND YOUTH 17 POEMS OF FRIENDSHIP 53 POEMS OF LOVE 63 POEMS OF HOME 159 POEMS OF PARTING AND ABSENCE 183 POEMS OF DISAPPOINTMENT AND ESTRANGEMENT 205 POEMS OF SORROW AND DEATH 235 POEMS OF RELKilON 311 POEMS OF NATURE 301 POEMS OF PEACE AND WAR 453 POEMS OF TEMPERANCE AND LABOR 4iil POEMS OF PATRIOTISM AND FREEDOM :>":. I'DEMS OF THE SEA 5r,;» [g . ^ f viii TABLE OF coy TENTS. I'OEMS OF ADVENTUKE AND RUIUL SPOKTS 591 DKSl'KirTIVE I'OEMS 623 rOEMS OF SENTIMENT AND UEFI.ECTION 665 I'OEilS OF FANCY 74S POEMS OF TRAGEDY 71'1 PERSONAL POEMS 813 HUMOROUS POEMS 853 IN'DEX OF FIRST LINES 921 INDEX OF TFl'LES 935 -a -^ [0-^- n LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. STEEL ENGRAVING. PoiiTBAiT OF William Cullen Buvant . Frontispiece, EAC-SIMILES OF AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. William Wordsworth William Cullen Bryant (tlu-ee-pac:^ MS. Edmund Clarknce Steuman John Kkat.s Edgar Allan Poe .... John Howard Payne .... "H. H." — Helen Hunt Jackson . Thomas Hood A\'n,i,iAM GiLMORE Simms . Lku^u Hunt .... JosiAH Gilbert Holland . Alfred Tennyson . Walt Whitman . Gkorge H. Boker . Nathaniel Parker Willis John Greenleap Wiiittier . Oliver Wendell Holmes . Fitz-Greene Halleck . Bayard Taylor . George Perkins Morris Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Quincy Adams Jean Ingelow . George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron Hunry Wadswortii Longfellow Uam'h Waldo Emerson Tlio Poet") To front par/e xli 3 17 17 17 .53 .53 235 235 311 311 311 301 453 491 491 505 505 559 559 591 591 G23 065 748 791 ^- ^^ [0 -^ ^ X LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Thomas Gkay 813 IIaRIUET 15EUCUEB Stowe SI I! Ltdia Huntley Sigouuney 8L'5 JouN G. Saxe 858 RiciiABD Heney Stoddakd 853 James Russell Lowell 853 WOOD ENGRAVINGS. Bryant in uis Library, at Cedarmkke xli Longfellow in jus Study 21 TiiK Old Arm-Cuair 10 IlKIGIl-Ilo! 70 Tell me how to Woo Tiiek . . 8(i Summer Days 107 The First Kiss 13-I' BlRTII-PLACE OF JolIN HOWARD ?AYNE 175 Wiiittiee's Home in Amesbury 2G3 After a Summer Shower 392 Longfellow's Home, in Cambridge 495 Bridge and Battle-Ground, at Concord 533 Lowell's Home, in Cambridge OS-t Emerson's Home, in Concord 721 The Bower of Bliss 752 Stratford-upon-Avon S13 ^2- [? r -a INDEX OF AUTHORS. NaTfies of A Publisfurs of the poetical works of A Authors' tu lur iters may be found in cottnection with t/te ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Pa^f tjiiincy, St.iss.. ij'.. The Wants of M.m 668 ADAMS, SARAH FLOWER. Ennliml, 1805-1848. " Nearer, my God, to thee " . . 337 " The mourners came at break of day " . 261 ADDISON, JOSEPH. Hn^-t.incl, 1672-1719. Cato's Soliloquy 734 Scmpronius's Speech for War . . 511 '* The spacious firmament on high " . . 33S AKENSIDE, MARK. IiiiKl..iil, i;-.-i77'). Delif^hts of Fancy 748 Virtuoso, The 859 AKERMAN, LUCY E. " NothinR but leaves" 333 AKERS, MRS. ^lAZX-R-ETH (Florence Percy). b,-i- ALLliN, ELlZAIlUni AKIiKS. ALDRICH, JAMES. IliMlli-Ile.l, A 293 y- AI.DRUH. IHD.MAS TiAILEY. "lS.!re''.,ii(l aficr llic'Rain . . . .638 li,l.,Kli" Head of Minerva, On an . . 708 " When the Sultan goes to Ispahan " . . 150 Ii,l,;,.l,. r .; Iloutlit^n, Mftllin & Co., Uoilon. ALK.XANDER, CECIL FRANCES. '"Buriarof'Moses"' 344 ALEXANDER, H. W. Poor Fisher Folk (Frcmi the French : yictor Hugo) 577 ALGER, WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE. Frcoli.wn. M.iss.. 1.. I«Ji. Parting Lovers, The {.From llu Chinese) . i86 "To Heaven approached a Sufi Saint" {From the Persian : Dscliellaleddin Rumt) . . 327 rulilishcrs : Kolterts Brothers, Boston. ALISON. RICHARD, lll.t'l'll'l. 1'- 161I1 I NJllurV. " There is a Rarden in her face" ... 64 ALLEN, ELIZAHETH AKERS. Left Hehind 207 My Ship 23,S Rock mc to Sleep 73 The Bobolink 440 i'ul.li.hir, : llr.ii^.|iion, Mifflin & Co., Boston. ALLINCHAM, WILLIAM. H.illv ,1' iMi'.r), Ircl.uid, li. i8:iJJ. Lives In London, Eng. Fairies, The 763 Lovely Mary Donnelly .... 155 Touchstone, The 742 ALI.STON, WASHINOTON. (..jori;ttf,wn, S. C. 1779-1843. America to Great Britain 532 Koyhood 37 Rosalie 237 ALTENBURG. MICHAEL. Gcnii.iiiy, 1185-1640. Battle-Song of Guslavus Adolphus, The (Tr.) 468 r.xii ANACREON. (.I.:...-, .t 4;6n. C. ( ira^shopper, The i.CoT.vley's Translation) .Spring {^tf(?r*'f Translation) . ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. I>ciiiii.irk, 1«05-I87S. The Little Match-Girl [From tlit Danish) ANDROS, R. S. S. lltrkclcy. Mass.. d. i8». Perseverance . ANGELO, MICHAEL. Ilaly, 1474-1S6J. •'If it be true that any beauteous thing" l.y.E Taylor^s Trafulation) ..... "The might of one fair face " {Taylor's Trans. ARNOLD, EDWIN. lini;l.iTii].l. i8,i Almond Blossoms The Secret of Death ARNOLD, (iEORGE. I„.rospc.,:t,on Jolly ()ld Pedagogue . . . . Seijlernber I'ul.lisfiuis: llouBlilori, MilUn & Co., Boston. ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Ecirf.ui(l, I). 1823. Desire Dover Beach 69 ) 69 For! I Me , The ofUhland). Gravi Philomela .... Terrace at Berne, The ASKEWE, ANNE. lin^;l.ind. i^ao-1546. The Fight of Faith . AU.STIN, SARAH. ILiifil.iiKl, I7g3-i8'>7 The Passage {Front the Germ AVERILL, ANNA liOYNTON. The Birch Stream AYTON, SIR ROBERT. Scllaiid. i57.^i(,,'!. On Love W(,man's Inconstancy .... AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE. ™l!'u'i'ied Flower, The Execution of Montrose, The Heart of the Bruce, The BAILEY, WILLIAM WHITMAN. Epigaja Asleep BAILLIE, JOANNA. .Stntlaiifi, lyfc'-iSsr. McathCock, The "U])! Quit thy bower " .... BARBAUI.D, ANNA L^ETITIA. i;r,i;l.""l. .7.n-■R^S- "I.lfel I know not what thou art" S,ild)ath of the Soul, The . Summer Evening's Meditation, A . BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS {.Thomas In- gotdsby^ Esq.). Ent.'l.iTi<; BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, awl FLETCHER, JOHN. liii|jkiiiJ, 1580-1610 !uul is;(^iOas. Disguised Maiden, The 6SS Folding the Flocks 431 " Hence, all yc vain delights" , . . 3.^5 Invocation to Sleep 677 BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL. -,8«. I Wilt ca case thine heart*' BEERS, MRS. ETHELIN ELIOT ili/M Ly>. GosliL-ii, N.V,. i.ij ,-ia;i The Picket-Guard ... rublishers; I'ortur A; contcs, Thiladclphia. BENNETT, WILLIAM COX. lirconwiili. iMi);., li. i&jo. Lives In London. Babv May Baby's Shoes Invocation to Rain in Sununcr Worn Wcdding-Ring, The .... BENTON, MYRON B. AiiLMii.,, N. v., I.. 18J4. ■Ihe Mowers linKl.m,l, 16S4-.75,. Westward Ho 1 BETHUNE, GEORGE WASHINGTON. N.-1V Votk. iajs-J.%a. Hvnin to Night .... BLAKE, WILLIAM. linfl.liul. .7.,7-lfc7. Garden of Love, The Sunflower. The . Tiger, The BLANCHARD. I.AMAN. Um-I,iii."« llltGrtck) BLOOMKIELD, ROBERT. Farmer's Hoy, The . Lambs al Play . Moonlit;ht in Sntnmcr Soldier's Return, The . ^. Black Reoimcm, The Dirge for a Soldier . Prince .\dcb Fublishcrs ! J. li. Lljiiiincotl & Co., PhlLrdclphll BOLTON, SARAH T, Su«i.ort, Ky..l.. ii,.«. Lett on the Battle-Field . . . . IIONAR. HORATIUS. .■>c..lL,li,l, li. iSoS " Beyond the smiling and the weeping '' How Long ? IIOURDILLON, FRANCIS W. U„Kl.o„l. Now living. Light BOURNE, VINCENT. lillKl.in.l. I6y5-i;47. '■ Busy, curious, thirsty fly" . lUnVl.ls, 1 VKiHlNE ANNE. 'I . ■ '1 I'll,. Mks. Cakcu-ink Bowles. Hiiw I 1 , w 1 1 I lAM LISLE. " tniiic 111 thc-^c scenes of peace " . BOWKING, SIR JOHN. l.iiKl.m.l. .;9.-H!?.'. , , , .... " From the recesses of a lowly spirit God (From tht Rmsiait of Drrzlinvm) . Nightingale, The (From the rorliieiuse) Nightingale, The {From tht Dutch) . Not Ripe for Political Power .... BRAINARI), JOHN GARDINER CALKINS. New LoluK.il. Colin., 179(1-1838. Deep, The " I saw two clouds at moming" . Niagara, The Fall of BRANCH, MARY L. BOLLES. ■Ihc P. rifled Fi BRENAN, JOSEPH. Ireliiml. li. iB.-y ; il. ill New Orlcllis, 1857. " Come to me, dearest" 204 BRETON, NICHOLAS. hllKl.iiiil. 155S-16114- Passage in the Life of St. Augustine, A . . j2s Piiillida and Corydon 44 Phillis the Fair 09 BRLSTOL, LORD. Sec John Dir.tiv, Earl of Bristol. BROOKS, CHARLKS T, I tie Gtr ,0/K, Tjb Alpine Heights f/^f. m.uhrr) Fisher, The [From tht GermaH 0/ Got I he) Good Night [Frotii the German 0/ Kilmer) . , . Men and Boys(»(;w* the German t^f Kdmrr] 527 Nobleman and the Pensioner, The (From the Geriiiati 0/ l^^e/Ytt) ..... 476 XT ,.. ^»f_._l. I •!'„ /..*.■■ \ "/ WMchCrrans/ation) Sword Song, The (From the Gtrmt K'drfitr) Winter Song (From th* Gemtan) I'liWislmn i lloiii;litoii. Millliii & Co.. Boston. BROOKS, MARIA GOW EN (Maria del Occidtnte). 4C8 Mo . Mas ■1845. citing purple dying" . Dis.ippoiiitment BROt>KS. CHARLES SHIRLEY. iMlgl.OKl. 1815-1874- The Philosopher and his D,lughter BROUCH. KOrF.RT B. \r|.'l.l'iii Xi-llv BKn« N. 1 1; \\i I'S. " 11 Iho pleasant d.iys of old! " BROWNE, WILLIAM. i;ii,:l,iiiil. i-.9ii-"i4< " Shall 1 tell vou whom I love " . Siren's Song, The ... " Welcome, welcome, do I sing" BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD. I'rovi.loiioo, U, I., I.s..4-i87a. Burial of the D.ane ... Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The " Let us alone " . . . . PiiWisliiTs ; Houghton, Mifflin & Co.. Boston. -ff \n INDEX OF AUTHORH. Xllt BKfJWNING, EMZABKTM IIARKKT A •- tr„„\ iirl L.i.ly. A M M I'. „„..,. S.„„l, S-„w,c .\y\ VcB, TIlO rrl Wallcr'i Wifo (llirr and I'ocl ■ •ticiil IiiBlrnnicnti rliiiK l.ovcri,. slo A SIrcp . . Sritinclii from tlio Portugticso VInw acrons the Koman CamiKigna, A Wordsworlli, On a Portrait of BROWNINf), ROIiERT. Iliii;h.ii.I. I.. iBi!., livelyn Mope MowcrV Name, The . Mcrvd Kiel How tliey IjrouKlit ttioOood N . Ai> In Itir.idcnt of the French Camp M<:<:tinj< I'ic'J Piper of Mamelin, The 'I'lic Kinif h cold " 'I'ho \I.,lh's kiBn, flr«t ! " . BRYANT, JOHN MOWAKI), Clliiiiiiliii;l'.ii, M-i'/.;.. n. 1^^//. I.iltle Cloud. The . Valley Brook, 'Iho Winter BRVANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. tuiii".ili>!t'.ll, MliM.. .79»-lKj8. Panic- Kieltl, The . " Bloftcd arc they that mourn*' Di-alh of the Floworn, 'I'ho KvtninK Wind, The . Palima and Kadiian . Flood of Viars, The , T'orc^tt Hymn, A ,' Anli(|nity of ian, To the FrinKcd fl Future Lii Love of flod. The (Fram llu Pmtnfal) mosMinlo, lo a My Anlunio Walk Oh, Fairest of rhc Rural Maids PlaoiiuK of the Apple-Trce, The . ow-Sl.owcr,The . n|{ of Marion's Men ir of l!clhl..hcm, 'llic To .T Waterfowl 1 & Co.. New Y',tk & Little Milliner, The . Wakeof Titn O'flara . BURLKIfJH, Gi:ORGIi; 8. AlN.fl. i.. A Prayer for Life liUKLI'.lfill, WILLIAM H. ''l')cl)orali'i','c'e '"''.''''■ . BURNS, ROIiKKT. Br.oll,nirl, ,,-., ,,,/,. " Ac fond kiRR before wc part " Afion Water Auld Lang Sync PankBo'Doon.Tho . P.annockhurn .... Ilard'n Kpit.aph, A Ponnio Wee Ihinff . " (-'a' the yowcts to the knowca" Comin' through the Rye . ill (.'otler'n Saturday Nluht, Tho DavlcSillar, To . . " Duncan Gray cam' hero lo w( FJc((y on Captain Hendcrnon . " For a' Ihat and a' that " . ) rashes, ^> I " •MirccnKrowlh. IliKhland Mary '•/..ho Ande .myjo" . li-ycorn . . . woman o'or complain " Mary Mori«on Mountain Daisy, To a < ye h. Tar Th( Lesley?" n O'Shanler .... he day returns, my Ijostim burns' "There's nae luck ahout the house" Toolliachc. Address to the To the Unco Guid . " Whisllo antl I '11 come lo you, my lad BUTLER, SAMUF.L. i;.,Ki,....i, ,&,,,v„, Hildlhras' Sword and DatHfor . , 1 1 udibras, I'he LokIc of . . . Hndiliras, The Philosophy of . Hiidibras, The Rclixion of . WILLI, ll..iMV, N " NotliiiiK lo wear " , iil.l|..lir,« : ir.iu/liloii, Miraili /V Co., llo«n l;VPf)N CFOPG i^ohMMim hy r Coliseum, 'fhi iJanlcl lioruie . iJealh (•//// G(V<«»-) . Dream, Ihc . KvcnitiK iOon yuan) . F'ilial \Atsz First Love . (Jrcco- ( The Giaour') fJrecco Whildn l/aroM) Greek Poel, Son^ of tho ' akc L< : GORDON, LORD. I my native shore " . [.mnliKht' . ■ . ■ . Latest Vrrws .... " .Maid of Alliens, ere wc pari " . Man -Woman Mazeppa's Ride .... Mural Napoleon {Chl/(h llarM). Napfileon, Ode to NiKhl Orient, The .... " O, snatched away in beauty's bloi Outward Pound Princess Charlotte, Tho Rhine, 'Ih'. .... Rwer, Soiijtof Ihc .Sea Grot .Sea, Realm of the .... Sea, The " she walks in beauty" Skull, The .... Klorm at NiKliI on Lake Lcman . Sunset S« I'he k dear maid ' CALDWICI.L, WILLIAM W. ,NowlMiry|i<,rl. .Mncs., Ii. I'.d,^ In Slimmer Time R<«c Hush, 'llie U'rom llu- GrrmuH) CALIDASA. Imli.n. itl (.csl.iry 1!. (;. Raby, The ( Tramlalion i>/Slr William '/m Woman { TransttUiott of IVilsoii) ^ 10^ INDEX OF AUTUOliS. --a lAl.l.AN.VN. lAMKS JOSEPH. li.l.m.l. v.^v iS-<) llouii.imu- ll.ui.i CALVERl.l V, I. IIAKl.KS U '' AMii/'riio ''' Cock nml llle Uiill. I'hs CAMOENS, I.IUS Uli. '"I'lilKhiV'n'.ovi (/V.iiw. o/Li>nl Stnuts/i'nl) CAMl'lSKl.l., rilOMAS. CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM. liuuliiiul, 1619-16^ Chastity CHANNINC;, WILLLVM liLl.KKY. uIp 10 WaUlegrave, The Kvoiuui; M.ir, riie Kxile >.l' Krm . U.ino«<-,U;r..i"ul. HohcnliiuU-u . Kiis, I'hr Kirsl . Lpvhicl'a Wuruinis . M, lid's Rcimm»lraii«, The M.irli.\l Elegy ( From tht Grttk of Tyrlitm) . 454 Nanuleuii aiid the liritish Sailor I'oUiml Kiver of Life, The Soulier's Ore.lni, The " Ye Mariners of Enslaml " CANNINC., C.EOKOE. !■ rieiid of Humanity and the KnifcQrindcr . 863 CAREW (or CAREY). LADY ELIZABETH. l-.iH5l,m.i. ful.liNhcl 1N3. Kevenge of InjuriM 740 CAUEW, THOMAS. ^' Oive me more love or more disdain " . , ha " He (hat loves a rosy cheek "... 75 " I do not love thee for th.it t.lir " ... 75 " Sweetly breathing, veriiiU air " . . . s^i CAREY. HENRY. li.itl.iml, i«.,-i74,i. Sally in our Alley 54 CARLETON, WILL M. llluo, l>- l.St3. The New Church Orean .... f'")^ riiWUhi.-.^ I llaci.cr.\: lli.-llu-r-.. New York. CAKY, ALICE .~1S71. Dying Hymn, A Enchantments b'ire t>v the Sea, The Make Believe Ottler lor a I'icture, An Pictures of Memory Spinster's Stint, A . Uncle Jo CHARLES OK ORLEANS. Ir.iiuv. I WI-14P5. "The fairest thing in mortal eyes' (Tntn /(itioH (if /ferny /*. Cary) . SpiiiiK CHAKl IS nil IIRST. CHAl I I K U'N. I IK)M.-\; Minstrel's Song . CHAIH'ER. GEOFFREY. I.mi Pilgrin CHORLEV. HENRY FOTHERGILL. LllUluiul, 18.*-|N'J. The Brave 6ld Oak .... CHURCHILI, CHARLES, liiiKlanil. i;,»-ijfH. Smollett SS6 4.6 H-l.lll.l, lOTl-l?'^. The Blind tloy "SS CLARE, lOHN. l.iiKl.ui.l. i:.ji-iSr4. l,.il.,.i.-i,riie mWivhcn. 1 ll.MiKhlon. MWIIn .iWiOu'is 1 IIoii|;lil,M\. Mliniii ,* C,-.. Uwton, C.\SIMIR THE C.RE.Vr, KINO OF POL.VND, "'"Vt kindles all my soul" (From Iht t'olisV) CASWALL, EDWARD. ^' Nly C.od, I love thee " (From Ikt Latin) . CELANO, THOMAS DE, l)ies \rx\rmnslitlioH o/yoin .-1. Di.r) CHADWICK, lOHN WHITE. MatWdu-.l.l. Mi^v, t.. 1S4.V The IVo Waitings CHALKHII.I, lOHN 0'rob.iWy /..i.<* HW/.".). The .Angler SiTininc-i M.io.ls . CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN. ll.uu.v.i, S. 11., I.. 18|,>. Cana , _ . The Caliph and Satan . I'ul.lMicrs 1 lloii^liion. Miltllii S to.. 1 CLAUDIUS, The Hen('/'m«-.v'.>/i.'>i) . CLEl Wli. wn I lAM. CLl \ II w 1 '. liUIN. To liie .Miiiioiy of Ben Jonson CLOUC.H, ARTHl^R HUGH. UlluLuul, iSi..-iaoi, ** As ships becalmed" . '• With whom is no variableness " 5o,S S41 748 S15 COFFIN, ROBERT BARRY (il.irrr Gnty). IIiuIm.h. N. Y., iSao-iSSO. Shiiw at Sea ''i COLERIDGE. HARTLEY. liuiJlfliul. i7,JO-l849- Sli.akespeare ^i.^ ".She is not fair to outward view" . . . !*'* COLERIDGE. SAMUEL TAYLOR. liiw'l.m.l. i'>-isj<- .'\nswer to a Child s Question ... 143 Cologne ''N Epigrams R'*4 Fancy in Nubibus 7.5o Genevieve '07 Good Great Man, The . . . . ; (>?" Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni 33S Knight's Tomb, rhe 4*^ Metric.rl Feet ....... 9>9 Quan-el of Friends, The (C*rislahl) . Rime of the Ancient Mariner . I COLES. ABRAHAM. 7*3 Stab.\t Mater Dolorosil (From Ikt Lalm) Vr- -^ a-^- jnjjkx of a unions. ■a COLLINS, ANNE. " The winter being over" COLLINS, MORTIMER. hn'^Uwl, tsti-i-iiii. Comfort . . . . Darwin .... COLLINS, WILLIAM. I.n'l, ijw^ty/i. linK, Ode to ,w [ileejj tlic IJrave " 'iiv », The COLMAN, GEORGE (The Younger). I!ii;;lan.|. 176a i8j6. GluggityGluK .... .Sir M.trniaduke .... Toby TohHpot .... CONGREVE, WILLIAM. Mui»ic ..... Silly Eair COOK, CLARENCE. COZZENS, FREDERICK SWARTWOUT. .New V«jrk. f'it»-t>J^ An Ex|)ericticc and a Moral I'uMishcrs ! J|.,i,ylit.,n, MiJIlm U t;o., U'j^loa CRAIJRE, GEORGE. liUiil.,n.I. ,Tjri'.y. Approach of Age, Tlic ... Mourner, The ... Peasant, The Quack Medicines CRAIK, DI.VAH MARIA MULOCK. Al Kii Uorcln- :... b. iHtH. Abram and Zimri COOK, ELIZA. liiiXlari.l, 1,. 1817. " Hang up his harp ; he Ml wake no more* Old Arni-Cbair, The .... Sea Murmurs COOKE, PHILIP PENDLETON. Ucrklc-y C>j., V;i.. iHid-tHyi. Florence Vane COOKE, ROSE TERRY. Hartror'l, C'jnri.. b. 1827. RJive du Midi I>u>,libli..'r> : Houghton. Mlinin & Co., Dotton. COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. IJurliiitjloii. .N, J., 1789-1^51. My Hrigantine CORNWELL, HENRY SYLVESTER. The Sunken City COTTON, CHARLES. Eii;;lan.l. i6y>-i(«7. Contentation Retirement COTTON, NATHANIEL. EnaLin.!, ir.,i-/7a8. The Fireside COURTHOPE, WILLIAM JOHN. i;ni;l..n.l. Chorus of English Songsters . Ribc of Specieij, 'i"hc .... Cht licle. The Grasshopper, The (From tht Greek) . Hymn to Light, From the Invocation, The Of Myself COWPER, WILLIAM. lioadicea _. Ojntradiction Cricket, The Dueling I'reenian, The Happy Man, The ^- He Humanity My Country My Mother's Picture Nightingale and Glow- Worm, The . Oaths Rose, The Royal George, On the Loss of the Russian Ice-Palace, A Slavery "Sweet stream, that winds" .... The Nose and the Eves .... Verses supposed to be written by Alexander .Selkirk Winter Winter Walk at Noon By the . * liuried tf>-day " Dead Czar .Nicholas, The Fletcher Harper, lo the Memory of . Her Likeness Lancashire Doxology, A . , . Mercen.iry Marriage, A . . . Now aiifj Afterwards .... Only a Woman .... Philin, my King in, m Too Late CRANCH. CHRISTOPHER PEARSE. Alcun.ltu. li. C, I,. ,i,,j. Correspondences 3^,1 Thouglit «/j I'uUiihcfs; Houghton, Mifflin ai Co., and Koberu Bros. CRASHAW, RICHARD. I:n>it,n.l. ii„^A,j. Music's Duel 7^, Supposed .Mistress, U'ishes for the \\h "Two men went up to tlie Teropie to pray" . 324 CRAWFORD, MR.S, JULIA. Ircl;iri.i. " We parted in silence " i:,i CROLY, GEORGE. Irebn.), iir,^,u„. Genius of Death, The 720 Leonirtis, The Death of ... , 5,/^ Pericles and Aspasia 5,/j CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN. .Sc.Ml.,,,.!, if'.i-i'.ifi. "Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie" . 159 Poet's Bridal-Day Song, T)ie . . ,-1S41. .-Ul'sWell 5S5 SnuK Liiile Island, The .... 516 DICKENS, CHARLES. Ivy Green, The 4-i* DICKINSON, CHARLES M. l...«viUc. N. v.. K 1&4.-. The Children ..... iSi DICKSON, DAVID. i;i«l.m.l, .*S!-it«-.-. The New .Icrusalem .V3 DIGBY, JOHN, EARL OF BRISTOL. ^' Sec, O, Seel" ibb DIMOND, WILLIAM. The Mariner's Dream 5^7 DIX, JOHN ADAMS. B,-sc.»«vll. S. 11.. 179S>-lS70. Dies Ira; (.^ri>/KM--i7fl. ^'.Amasing, beanteous change I . . . SJ") Duni Vivunus, Vivamus .... 335 DORR, JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY. ChniK'Ston. S. C, li. 1835. Outgrown 336 Three Ships, The 759 l'\iMisliei!. ! .1. 11. Llpi>li\cc.|t & Co., Pliilii, iSu\ The Private of the Buffs . ... 473 DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN. New V,.ii; Oily. i7ms-..<.-.v American F'.iK. *l'he ..... 536 Culprit Fay, 'rhe 769 DRAYTON, MICHAEL. lini;l.uul. i56!-,6,i,. Ballad of Agincourl, The .... 456 " Come, let ns kisse and parte " . . . 191 DRUMMOND, WILLIAM. Scothiul, itSi-iSjo. Ends of Life, The J04 Thrush, The 43* l)l;\ I'l N. lOMN'. \l.-\,in.i. 1 ^ I'cMsl, or the Power of Music . I'.leonol.l t Hiver tJromwell _. Portrait of Joltn Milton, Lines written underthe Og Song for St. Cecilia's Day, .A . . . Veui Creator Spiritus(.A>i»M Mi- liitiM) Zirari . . DSCllKLLAl.EDDIN RUMI. IVisIn, " To heaven approached a Sufi saint " ( Trans- /.ition ,/ U: K. .^/J:er) .... nUKFEUlN, I. ADV. ll.-liuul, iS..7-i8t..-. L.miem ol the Irish Kmii;l.lnt .... IHINI.IIP. .lOllN. 'Oil I ask I DUKYEA, WILLIAM RANKIN. A Song for the " Hearth and Home" DWIGHT, JOHN SULLIVAN. l!u>t,.ii, Mil>s.. 1>. 1813. True Rest 107 DWIGHT, TIMOTHY. Nv'ilhiduj.ton. M.,Si., i7S-.-iSr7. Columbm 533 DYER. JOHN. Aunli.i, r.. DYER, SlU Hill 1 lAVAUD. ■* My minde to me a kingdom is" , EASl'MAN, CHARLES GAMAGE lU,tl.„Kl...i, VI., isit^isoi, ,'\ Suow-Storm EDWARDS, AMELIA BLANDFORD three grains of corn, ELLIOT, El!ENEZER(7'Af 0.r« ther" . : !«• Rhymer). Burns S37 Poet's Epitaph, A s.-; Spring j.'ij ELTON, CHARLES ABRAHAM. liiii;UiiKl. 1.. iil'oul 1770, I>ameut for Bion (Fri/m the Gretk q/Moschus) jSj EMBURY. EMMA C. .NVvv Y,.tk. iSo.v.i;*.i, Duke of Reichstadt, On the Death of . . S33 riiWisliets : ll.iii».r & lirolheis. New York. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. UoMoii, .\l.i^.v. i!»,;-iSSa. Borrowing 746 Boston Hvmn 5i<. Brahma ' 73.- Conci^rd Monument Hymn .... 53,? Each and All 305 Friendship 59 Good By 71'^ Hen. Cras, Hodie 74*' He Humble-Bee, To the 44^ lustice 71* Northman. . 74*' Poet 7-1*'' Problem, The (-73 Qualru. FLETCHER, GILES, *' Drop, drop, slow tears" .... 322 FORD. JOHN. 'iTie MusicalDuel 7+, FORRESTER, ALFRED H. (X^rfAt, My Old Kentucky Home FOX, W. J, En^Und, b- 1785, The Martyr's Hymn (German 0/ Lulher) FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, Paper y-^ FREILIGRATH, FERDINAND, Gcmiany, b. i^jo. Lion's Ride, The (.From the German) Traveler's Vision, The GALLAGHER, WILLIAM D. PhiUddj/hia. Pa-, b. i&jg- Autumn .... GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD. NcwUjryi>-jn, Mai^, 1804-1^79. Sonnet written in Prison . GAV, JOHN. tu'/LinJ, i6%!-i732. Black-eyed Susan Hare and many Friends, The GAYLORD, WILLIS. Lines written in an Album GERHARDT, PAUL llie Dying Saviour . GERMAN, DELIA R. Amenca- The Wood of Chancellorsville GILBERT, WILLIAM SCHWENfK. liUifiiti-i. b. i8/.. I o the Terrestrial Globe . Yarn of the " Nancy Bell," The . GILDER, RICHARD WATOON. lioicc, K. 1„ i3vj-t2<8. "Old Grimes is dead" Publisher : S, S, Rider, Providence, R. L GREENE, ROBERT. England, 1 560-1592, "Ah! what is love" Content Samela Shepherd's Wife, Song of the ... GREE.NWOOD, GRACE. See LiPFi.s'cr>TT, Sakah J. GREGORY THE GREAT, ST. Darkness is thinning (TVdw/. 7. jV: AVa^) , Veni Creator Spiritus (Prom tlu Latin by jfohn Drydinj HABINGTON, WILLIAM. En^jland, 1655.^645, 4, -tr e-- -^ IXPEX OF AUTHOKS. HALLECK, FITZ-GRKENE. Guilfor\l. Conn.. i;oo-i86;. Alnwick Castle 635 Burns Sa? Fortune 696 Jt^eph Rodman Drake .... 854 Rl.irco l!oz<.iris 524 On A Portr.^il of Red J.ickcl . S43 Wcchawkcn 633 PtiWishors : P. Appleton S; Co., New York. HALPINE, CHARLES G. (.AfiUs 0'Jitt/(y). Ufl.uui. iS>)-iSt-j. Quakei-dom — The Formal Call ... 106 rubii^hcrs : ll.irpcr vS: Brothers. New York. HARRINGTON. SIR JOHN. Hllgl.lilJ. ISM-16I3. Kortune ^55 Of a cerlaine Man SS.<; Of Writers that cirp at other Men's Books . Sjs Treason ^.^5 W.irres in Ireland, Of the .... 405 HARTF, nRET. Allvinv. N.V.. Iv 1S35. Dickens in Oimp S40 Dow's Flat Sq9 Her Letter SSg 900 Plain L,ans^i.-ne from Truthful James (Heathen Chinee) . ^ SSS Pliocene Skull, To the .... Sgj Ramon SoS The Society upon the Stanislaus . . SSS !\iblislicri : HoiigluoH, ^timil\ & Co., Boston. HARTE, WALTER. >V.Ues. I7^x>-x;;4. A Soliloquy 44' HAY, JOHN. S.ilcm. In.l.. Iv iSjs B.nnlvTim V" Woni.ui's Low 334 Pul»Ii.;hcrs : Houffhton. Miffiln & Co.. Boston. HAYNE. PAUL H.^MILTON. Ch.irU-htoll. S. C, iSj.-lSSS. Love scorns Degrees 69 Preexislence 734 PiiWislicrs : 11. J. Hale & Son. NewYVrk. HEBER. REGINALD. Enjjlaiul. irS3-vS.«. " If thou wert by my Side, my love . . 171 HEDGE, FREDERICK HEN'RY. C;uul>ridifc. Mass.. b. 18^. , „ „ "A mightv fortress is our l.od" {FntH tht GfrmoH of Martin Litlier^ . . . .335 HEMANS. FELICIA DOROTHEA. Enijlanil. 1TS4-ISW. Craves of a Household, The . . . • 305 Homes of Etvsland, The .... iSo Kindred Hearts 5* landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, The . 551 Meetins of the Shiiis. The . .^ . . 57 Mignon's Song iFromthc Gfrman o/Gcel/u) 737 Treasures of the Dceft The . . . .57^ Wordswirth, To S3 5 HERBERT, GEORGE. Church Porch, The 33? Gifts of God, The 696 Life 717 Praise Lent, A True . Night Piece. The Primrose, Tile , Primroses, To " Sweet, be not proud " . Thanksgiving for his House & Revival " Said I not so ? " Virtue Iinmort.il HERRICK, ROBERT. Ennl.m.l. i5.)i-it,-». " .V sweet disorder in the dress Ben lonson, Ode to . Ber. Jonson, Prayer to . Blossoms, To . ; . Corinna's ^ing a Maying Country late. The . Daffodils '* Go, happy rose 1 " . Holy Spirit, The . ■:iss,The .... Time Violets ... . . Virgins. To the .... HERVEY, THOMAS KIBBLE. Elislalul. ir99-l8;». '* Adieu, adieu 1 our dream of love" Love HEVWOOD, THOMAS. l.n,;l:.n,l. HIGGINS, JOHN. EnelanJ. Tinic of gii. Books HILL, THOMAS. Nov Hrun>»i.-k. N. J., h. iSlS. The Bobolink . HOFFMAN, CHARLES FENNO. New York tTity, 1S06-1S34. ity, i8o6-l8S4. Monterey IHiblishi HOGG, lAMES. Scoti.uia, i7r--isi?. lock Johnstone, the Tinkler . kilmenv Skvlark, The .... When tlie Kyc come Hame HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT. Uclchcnovvn. M.-issi.. iSi»-iSSi. Cradle Song ( Bitlrr-Stvtet) Publislicni : Cli.irlcs Scribncr's Sons, Nci HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Cnmliri.lse. Mass., Iv 1S09. Bill and Joe ... . City .ind Country Coutentnient .... Daniel Webster . Height of the Ridiculous, The Kalvdid Ode for a Social Meeting Old Ironsides . One-Hoss Shay, The . Plowman, The . Rudolph the Headsman IMl.lisl.ci •• • "'"'"■ '■ (>6<) S44 S7C, i:lnon, Mifflin &■ Co., Boston. HOLTY, LUDWIG. "^ Winter Song ( TranshUiex p/CharUsT. . HOME, JOHN. HOOD, THOMAS. Englaml. i;5S-iS45. Autumn 395 Bridge of Sighs, The . . Diversities of Fortune Dream of Eugene jVram, The F.aithless Sally Brown " Farewell, life !" Flow Forlorn Shepherd's Complaint, The CKjld! Heir, The Lost . . ■ ■ Infant Son, To my . " I remember, I remember ' Moniing Meditations No Nocturn.al Sketch .... Ruth Sailor's Consolation, The Song of the Shirt. The " We watched her breathing " " What can an old man do but die " -^ a- INDEX OF AUTHOnS. ^ HOOPER, LUCY Ncwl)ury|;ort, Mass., 1816-1841. Three Loves I'ulilislKTN : J. H. Ulpiiincolt & Co., PhUaiklplila. HOPPIN, WILLIAM J. Charlie Machree HOWE, JULIA WARD. Sew York r:ity. h. if.it). Battle Hymn of the Republic . Royal Guest, The I'liblklicrs : Moii^'hton, MiHIin & Co., Boston. HOWITT, MARY. Enj,'l,iii(l, b. 1799. liroom Flower, The Use of Flowers, The HOWITT, WILLIAM. Hiit(l.iiirl. i;9>-i«7o. Departure ol the Swallow, The Summer Noon, A HOWLAND, MRS. MARY WOOLSEV. EnAin.l, 1,. iSp; il. New York. .864. First SprinK Flowers .... ** Now I lay me down to sleep " . Rest PublUhtTs : E.I". Dullon & Co.. New York. HOVT, RALPH. .Mew Y.jrk. ig'jS-lSya. Old Snow. — A Winter Sketch . . . . HUGHES, DR. RICHARD. Enn!;m'l. i8Ih century. A Doubt HUGO, VICTOR. Ir.ince, iSo2-i>a^. The Poor Fisher Folk {^Alexander's Tratts.) HUME, ALEXANDER Scoilind, 1711-1776. The Story of a Summer Day HUNT, LEIGH. Jin^land. 1784-1857. Abou Ben Adhcm Child durinj; Sickness, To a Cupid Swallowed Fairies' .SonK Glove and the Lions, The Grasshopper and Cricket, The laffar f' Jenny kissed me " . Love-Lelters made of Flowers Miy Mahmoud .... ■Mji Trumpets of Doolkamcin, The HUNTER, ANNE HOME. En^.la,..], 174-.-182.. Indian Death-Song HURDIS, JAMES. A Bird's Nest INGELOW, JEAN. liii^iaiid, b. tHy}. Divided High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire Like a Laverock in the Lift . Maiden with a Milking-Pai), A Seven Times One Seven Times Two .... Seven Times Three .... iFo ' of Sunderland INGOLDSEY, THOS. See Barham. R. H, JACKSON. HELEN HUNTC'H. H."). A.nh.;rst. M.'.v... ,8j:.,385. Coronation My Legacy PublisJiLTs : Roberts Eroihcrs, Boston. JACKSON, HENRY R. Savaniwh, Ga., b. 1810. My Wife and Child JACOPONE, FRA. Slabat Malcr Dolorosa {Co/es's Translalion) . JAMES, PAUL MOON. Eni;l.,n.|, <1. 1854. The Beacon 574 JENKS, EDWARD A. .New|,ort, .S. It., b. 18)5. Going and Coming 728 JENNER, DR. EDWARD. Eii|;);in.l. i;4;)-i3i-,. Signs of^Rain 381) JOHNSON, EDWARD, M.D. EnL.|.,n.|. I',ib. 1817. The Walcr-Drinkcr . . ... 494 JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Elinlrin.l. ir.,^i-?4. Charles XII 816 JONES, SIR WILLIAM. Eniil.ind. 174(^1704. liaby. The (From tlu Saiiskril) *' Vvhat constitutes a State ?" JONSON, BEN. lii.i-l.in.l. 1574-1637. " DrinK to me only with thine eyes " . Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H . Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke Fantasy ...... " Follow a shadow, it still flics you " . Freedom in Dress .... Good and Fair Noble Nature, The .... Robin GofidfcUow .... Those Eyes .Shakespeare True Growth, The .... Vision of Beauty, A . . , . Mv Bird . Watching KEATS, JOHN Enirl.imfTi.-'/^i^si. Eve of St. Agnes, The . . . . Fairy Song Grasshopper and Cricket, The . Ode on a Grecian Urn . Ode to a Nightingale . . . . KEBLE, JOHN. En;;l.iiidT i7r^ifi66. Example KEMBLE-BUTLER, FRANCES ANNE. Absence Faith . KENNEDY, CRAMMOND. Scotlanfl, b. 1S41. Greenwood Cemetery KEPPEL, LADY CAROLINE. Scotland. Robin Adair KETCHUM, ANNIE C. Benny KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT. Prt.|..rick Co.. M.I.. I77'^i843. The Star-spangled Banner . KIMBALL, HARRIET McEWEN. New H.impslMrc, b. 1814. All's Well . . KING, HENRY. Death < if a Beautiful Wife En^Und, 1819-1875. A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter Merry Lark, The .... Sands o' Dee Three Fishers, The ... KINNEY, COATES. I'cnn Y..n, N. Y.. b. i8s6. Rain on the Roof e-.- 724 748 84 S13 66s 65 -^ 0-- INDEX OF AUTHORS. -^ ^- KNOWLES, HERBERT. Richmond Cluircliyard, Lines written m . 309 KNOWI.ES, JAMES SHERIDAN. Iri:l,.ll,l, .7.-.4-iSt..., Swilzcrl.iiul 529 KNOX, WILLIAM. Scotlaiul, i7if./-isj5. "O, why siiould the spirit uf mortal be proud ? " 301 KORNER, CHARLES THEODORE. IkTiiiany. lyji-iSi.i. Good TSlighHTram/alwa <>/ C. T. £>-aoAs) . 504 Men and Hoys " " " . 527 Sword Song, Tlie " " " . 468 KRUMMACHER, FRIEDERICH WILHELM. OcniKiiij', i774-i«(vS. Alpine Hc\^hli (Traris/tttiott t}/ C. T. Broohs) 407 Moss Rose, The (rra«j/«/io«) . . .433 LAMI), CHARLES. EllKlnil,!. I77;-.SM, Farewell to Tobacco, A . , . . 491 Housekeeper, The 451 John Lailiu, Esq., To S32 Old Familiar Faces, The 3O2 LAMB, MARY. UiiltliUid. i;(.5-i847. Choosing a Name 18 LANDON, L^TITIA ELIZABETH. liiK'land, iSo:.-iSiS. Death and the Youth J34 Female Convict, The 294 LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE. Ullj;l.ui(l. I775-I.*4. Macaulay, lo 836 Maid's Lament, The 279 One Gray Hair, The 715 LANIER, SIDNEY. ClKirli;stoil. S. C. iS4?-k';Si. Ccntenuial Meditation of Columbia . . 545 Tublisliors : J. 1!. Uppiiicott & Co.. niilculel|)liin. LARCOM, LUCY. Lowell. Mnss.. l>. 1S36. By the Fireside 176 I'liblisticrs, Hoiijjliton, Millliii & Co., Doston. LE FANU, J. S. Lnjjlaiul. il. 18:4. Shamus O'Brien 519 LEIGH, HENRY S. liiWlaiul. Only Seven 909 The Twins S91 LELAND, CHARLES G. l'lul.uloll>lli;l, I'il., li. 1S24. H.ans Breitmann's Party . . . . 901 Ritter Hugo 902 Publishers : T. U. Peterson & Bros., riiil.idcliiliia. LEONIDAS. Alfxaiulriii. vr-ii^. Wame {Traiislatiott 0/ Roitrl BlatiiO . . 175 The Mother's Stratagem (Tr. J'. /ir.>i"-<:«) . 24 LEVER, CHARLES JAMES. Irdiuul, .S«-iS-j. Widow Malone 905 LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY. niiKlnn.l. 1--S-IS.8. The Mani.ic 256 LEYDEN, lOHN. Scotl.iii.l. 1775-1811, Daisy, The 426 Noontide 370 Sabbath Morning, The 370 LIPPINCOTT, SARAH J. {Grace GreemvooS). I'oini.cv. N. Y.. I). .8.-!. The Poet of Today .... 738 I»iil»liblicrs: Ticknor \- C'o.. Boston. LOCKER, FREDERICK. tnjjhiiKl, l>. ii!-.-4, * My love is .ways near" . . . . 6f> On an Old Muff 876 " The world 's a sorry wench, akin " . . 877 Widow's Mite, The 246 LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. Scntlaiul, 1793-1854. Lord of Bntrago, The Znra's Ear-Rings LODGE, THOMAS. \KN WAD.SWORTH. LOGAN, JOHN. SctHhiiuI, 1748-1789 Cuckoo, Ti. t "Thv trir,, LONGFF.I I .'W, I'orllan.l, M i Agassi.-, I iluctli lUllhd.ly of Birds, I'lea for the .... Carillon Children's Hour, The . D.^iybreak Divina Conimedia . . Evangeline in the Prairie Footsteps of Angels .... God's-Acre Hawthorne . _ . Household Sovereign, The {Ilan^itt^ i Hyniii to tlie Night '..'.'. Launch. Tlu Maidenlwcd Nun St {Evnnsilim) Psalm of Life, A R.nin in Summer . Reaiier and the Flowers, The Resijtnalion .... Retribution Sea-Weed .... Snow- Flakes . Village Blacksmith, The Warden of the Cinque Ports, The IniiL'liton, ^IIB I'ulilisliers ; llniigliton, MllUiii & Co., Boston. LOVELACE, RICHARD. liHt:lau.l. i6iS-i(,sa. Alihca from' Prison, To Lucasta, To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, To LOVER, SAMUEL. trcland, i797-i^''Xi. Angel's Wliisjier, The Father Laud and Mother Tongue Low-backed Car, The . Rory O'More .... Widow Machree .... LOWE, JOHN. Sti.ll.ill.l. 17'.'-17')'<. Mary's Dream .... LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. 1819. First Snow-Fail, The . Freedom, Ode to Henry Wadsworth Longfello Invitation, An . nets Summer Storm .... Villa Franca Washington, To .... What Mr. Robinson thinks William Lloyd Garrison Winter Pictures .... Winter's Evening Hymn to my Fire Yussouf I'lihlishers : Hnii(rhtoii, Mimiii& Co.. Boston. LOWn 1 , "MARIA WHITE. 847 '79 6S4 M, . MiHliii & Co., Uostoii. LOWEl.l,, HUBERT T. S. Cliulin.lijc. Mass.. I). lSl6. The Relief of Lucknow . :^ [&-- INDEX OF AUTHORS. ^ LUTHER, MARTIN. Ocniiany, 1481-1546. "A mighty fonress a oar GoA" (Tra>nlatu>n o/F.H. Hedge) 335 Martyrs' Hymn, The ( Translation a/ W. J. Fax) 328 LUTTRELL, HENRY. EnylaiKl. A contemporary and associate of Byron and Mo 832 On Miss Maria Tree LVLY, JOHN Kniil.uid, 1534-ifco. Cupid and Campaspe 148 LYNCH, ANNIE CHARLOTTE (.Mrs. Bella). Bcnniiiyton. \'t,. b. about 18a). Lives in .New Votlc On a Picture aoi I'ublislicTs: H.irixr & Brothers. New York. LYTLE, WILLIAM HAINES. Cincinnati, o.. 1826-1863. Antony and Cleopatra 293 LYTTELTON, LORD GEORGE. "Tell me, my heart, if this be love" . . 70 LYTTON, EDWARD BULWER, LORD. linylind, i&3,-i3;j. Claude Mehiotte's Apology and Defence 206 Etrurian Valley, In the . . • 628 LYTTON, ROBERT BULWER, EARL(Oa/«< Mere- dith). England, b. 18 ;i. Aux Italicns 228 Changes 230 Possession ■ 'S'* The Chess- Board 106 M.'VCAULAV, THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD. I£ni;l..Tid, 18/^1.57. Horatius at the Bridge 507 Monconlour 516 Naseby 5'7 Roman Father's Sacrifice, The ... 794 MAC-CARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE. Ireland. 1820-18^. 'Ah, sweet Kitty Neil!" 5' Ali< Ireland 523 Labor Song 502 Love and Time <^^ Summer Longings Tfio MACDONALD, GEORGE. 1-nal.ind, b. 1824. Babv, The 18 Earl O'Quarterdeck 603 MACKAY, CHARLES. Scotlanil. b. 1814- Cleon and I 66S Small Beginnings 697 " Tell me, ye wmged winds " . . . .332 Tubal Cain 488 MAGINN, WILLIAM. IrcLinil, 1753-1842. Waiting for the Grapes 142 MAHONY. FRANCIS (Fallier Prmt). Ireland. iSvs-ia/,. liellsof Shandon, The 65S Bonaparte, Recollections of (/"rt^wj^^ra^/^fr) fiz2 Flight into Eg>'pt, The 344 Passage 637 MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE. Ireland. i8o3-i8.',9. The Sunken City {From the German) . . 752 MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER. tni^'ian !. i304-iyy3. X'he .shepherd to his Love . . . .104 MARSDEN, WILLIAM. What is Ti T^'t MARSTON, JOHN. England, 1575-1674. A Scholar and his Dog 855 [&^- Death of the White Fawn Drop of Dew. A . Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda MARY. tjueen of Ilunsary. d. 1558. A Prayer MASSEY, GERALD. EnKl.in.l. b. 18;* " O, lay thv hand in mine, dear" . Our Wee While Rose . Passionate Pilgrim's Song, The McMASTER, GUY HUMPHREY. Clyl.f. N. v.. b. Hi',. The fJld Conlinentals MEEK. ALEXANDER BEAUFORT. Colulllbi,!, S. C. I814-1865. Balaklava MELEAGER. Grcvce, 9li[i. C. The Vow (Translation e/ MerivaU MERIVALE, JOHN HERMAN. LnKl;v-I^;;- Brookside, 'I he . . . . - 92 Good Night and Good Morning . . . 31 London Churches . . .... 25a MILTON, JOHN. Enj:lan-I. 160^1674. Abdiel 347 Adam and Eve, Nuptials of ... 160 Adam's Morning Hymn in Paradise Ada I Ev iiy, Battle of the Angels Blindness, fJn his 330 Blindness. On his own (7a Cyriack Skinner) 672 Christmas Hymn 724 " Comus," Scenes from .... 755 Creation 363 Cromwell, To the Lord-General . . 817 Evening in Paradise 374 Haunt of the Sorcerer .... 756 II Pcnseroso 710 Invocation to Light 3''.'7 L' Allegro TO Lady lost in the Wood .... 755 Lvcidas 2H2 May Morning 384 Nymph of the Severn 75^ Satan's Address to the Sun .... 805 .Samson .Agonistes 241 Selections from " Paradise Lost " . . 241 >bei Tacking Ship oft Shore 57' -& \n- IXDEX OF AUTHORS. -^-a B- MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL. Englaiul. 1780-1855. Rienzi to the Romans 512 MOIR, DAVID MACBETH. Scolland. 1798-1351- Casa Wappy 268 Jaraie 's on the Stormy Sea . . . 574 Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town, The . . 19S Song of the South 415 MONTGOMERY, JAMES. Scotland, 1771-1H54. Birds 433 Common Lot, The 3=9 Coral Insect, The sSt Daisy, The 42. 1843. From "St. Paul" 359 NAIRNE, CAROLINA OLIPHANT, BARONESS. Scotland. 1766-1845. Laird o' Cockpen, The 156 Land 0' the Leal, The 292 NASH, THOMAS. England. 1558-1600. " Spring, the Sweet Spring " . . , . 3S4 NEALE, JOHN MASON. England, 1818-1866. " Art thou wearj. ? " [Lntm of St. Stephen tlu Sabaiie') .327 Celestial Country, The (From tlie Lathi 0/ Bertiard tie lilorlaix) 311 " Darkness is thinning" {From t/ie Latin of St. Gregory the Great) .... 322 \ txi\\d.'B.^%\%(Froi,i the Latin) . . . 319 NEELE, HENRY. England, 1798-1828. " Moan, moan, ye dying gales "... 235 NEWELL, ROBERT HENRY {Orfhem C. Kerr). New Vcrk City. b. 1836. National Anthems gii Publishers: Lee c'i: Sliepard, Boston. NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY. England, b. i8.ji. Flowers without Fruit 741 The Pillar of the Cloud .... 326 NICHOLS, MRS. REBECCA S. Greenwicli, X. I. I'nh. 1844. The Philosopher Toad 7S9 NOEL, THOMAS. Enirland. Pub. 1841. The Pauper's Drive 257 NORRIS, JOHN. England. 1O57-1711. My Little Saint 142 NORTH, CHRISTOPHER. See Wilson, John. NORTON, ANDREWS. Hinghani. Mass., i78'i-lS53. After a Summer Shower 392 NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH S., HON. England. i8.:«-i876. Arab to his favorite Steed, The . . .612 Biugen on the Rhine 47'J King of Denmark's Ride, The . . . 2SS Love Not 24" Mother's Heart, The 32 '* We have been friends togetlier ".,5s O'HARA, THEODORE. Kentucky, ab.nut i82o-i8t)~. The Bivouac of the Dead . . . .54° O'KEEFE, JOHN. Ireland. 1747-1853. " I am a fnar of orders gray " . . , ^''~ -3 [& INDEX OF AUTHORS. --^ OLIPHANT, THOMAS. War's Loud Alarms (J^i Ttilftaiarn) .... " Where are the raen ? " l,From OPIE, AMELIA. England, i76»-i853. The Orphan Boy's Tale . O'REILLY, MILES. See Charles G. Halpine. OSGOOD, FRANCES SARGENT. Boston. M.iss. 1812-1850. To Labor is to Pray . OSGOOD, KATE PUTNAM. FryeburiJ. Me,, h. 1841. _ Driving H " " the IP'eli/t of 1 the same). Publishers : Hougtuon, .Mirtliii & Co., Boston. OUTRAM, GEORGE. Scotlanii, i3o5-iy75-i749. " Blest as the immortal gods " {From tlie Greek) PHILIPS, JOHN. England, 1676-17.18. The Splendid Shilling PHILOSTRATUS. " Drink to me only with thine eyes" {Traits- lation 0/ Ben Jonson) PIERPONT, JOHN. Litchlield, tonn,. 1785-1866. My Child Not on the Battle- Field .... Passing Away Passing Bell, The Warren's Address Whittling PINKNEY. EDWARD CO.\TE. Annapolis, Md„ i8os-l8=8. A Health . C. Armstrong & Son, New York. POLLOK, ROBERT. Scotland, 179>-I837. Byron Ocean . , The POPE, ALEXANDER. England. 16S8-1744, Addison . Author's Mi Belinda . Dying Christian to his Soul, The Fame Future, The Greatness Happiness ..... and Couplets . Nature's Chain Profusion . Quiet Life, The Ruling Passion, The . Scandal . . . . Sporus, —(Lord Hervey) Universal Prayer, The POWERS, HORATIO NELSON. New York, b. 1826. Bums PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH. Eii^lanil. 1802-1^39. Belle of the Ball, The . Campbell PRENTICE, GEORGE DENISON. '°Th"e closing Ye'ar ' PRIEST, NANCY AMELIA WOODBURY. . 1837-1870. r the Rii PRINGLE, THOMAS. Scotland, 1789-1834. " Afar in the desert " PRIOR, M.^TTHEW. En.dnnd, I>^4-1721 The Lady's Looking-Glass 238 -^ & INDEX OF AUTHORS. -^ PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE. biKlnml. iteo-isoj. Doubting Heart, A Lost Cliorrf, A '* Dtily waitiii,^ " l*cr Pacem nd Lucem .... Wmn.iu's Question, A . . . . PROCIEK, BRYAN \\ .[Barry Cornwall). Hiv,:l;in(l. 1787-1874. Address to tlie Ocean .... Blood Horse, Tlie " Kor love's sweet sake " . C.olden tiirl, A . . . . Hnnter's Sons, The. Life IKvl, The " I'eacc ! What can tears avail ? ' Petition to Time, A . Poet's Song to his Wife, The Sea, The *' Sit down, sad soul " . •' Softly woo away her breath " Song of Wood Nymphs Stormy Petrel, Tnc . White Squall, The PUNCH. Homba, King of Naples, Death-Bed c[ . Chemist to his Love, The . Collegian to his Bride, The 1 ones at the Barber's Shop .■ Roasted Sucking Pig QUARLES, FRANCIS. Enetinnl. 1592-1&44 Delight in God Vanity ofthe World, The .... RALEIGH, SIR WALTER. UiiM.^ind, 155^1618. Lines written the Night before his E.Kecution . Nymph's Reply, The Pilgrimage, The ,..,.• RAMS.W, ALLAN. Scoll.ind, 1685-17SS- Lochabcr no more RANDOLPH, ANSON D. F. Wooilbrid^e. X. I., b. iSi-o. Hopefully Waiting RANDOLPH, THOMAS. Enj^bnd, 1(105-1634. Fairies' Song ( Translation 0/ Lci^h Hunt from the Latin) . . ■ .' . RANKIN, J. E., D. D. ■' "" . iS-8. Pull. Boston. 1867. )!u SlS RASCAS, BERNARD. The^Love of God ( Trans, of W. C. Bryant') 351 RAYMOND, ROSSITER W. Ci.uimnti. llhio. 1>. 1840, Cavalry Song 4C>^> Complinionts of the Season .... 26 Grecian Temples at Pajstum, The . . . 619 Imiironiptu 8<)2 Knth 2J " Shall 1 love you like the wind, love" . 79 .Song of the Sea 7'io Troopers' Death, The {From the German) 467 RE'^D, THOMAS BUCHANAN. Cllcslcr. P.I.. i8i.--l8;5. Angler, The 621 Brave at Home, The 505 Closing Scene, The 651 Drifting 751 Reapei^s Dream, The 347 Sheridan's Ride 539 I'uhlKlicrs 1 J. 11. Uppincott & Co.. Hiil.iclclpliia. REDDEN, LAURA C. (Hmuard Glyndon). SoiinTsct County, Md., b. about 1^40. Ma Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol RICHARDS, WILLIAM CAREY. London, l£ntj., li. 1817. Under the Cross . . 84S RITTEU, MARY LOUISE. City, li, 1837. Bayard .,, Difference, The i ,s s Once . 131 Perished 2 jo Sub Silentio ^,s Why? !(:«j/iz^/tJH) . . . 3S2 ROSCOE, Wll.l.lAM, The '^iother Nighting.ale(^»-D«//«5'/(i«ii/i) 444 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA. ''"ii'i'l'kiiiV'Maid, The f'7 Up-Hill 326 ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. Uligl.ilul, i8-.8-if8=. Blessed Damozel, Tile 75? Lost Days 7'7 Nevermore, The 7-" Sleepless Dreams 70S ROYDEN, MATTHEW. Sir Philip Sidney S16 SANBORN, F. B. River Song 755 SANGSTER, MRS. MARGARET E. M. Nc». Kocliclle. N. Y.. 1.. 1818 " Are the children at home " . . . .270 SAPPHO. of Liiihos I Blest as the immortal gods of A mlrrose Philips) . SAXE. JOHN GODFREY. Higllgatc. \"t.. 1816- American Aristocracy Death and Cupid Echo s me softlv how I lore you " . . Railroad Rhyme .... Stammering Wife, The . Wom.in'sWill .... Publishers : Hoiij,'hlon. MitHiu & Co.. Boston. SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Scotland. 1771-1S32, Bear an Dhuiiie " Breathes there the man " . Christmas in Olden Time Clan-Alpine, Song of . Coronach (Lady ofthe Lake) Gathering Song of Donald the Black Helvellvn . '. . . High Seas, The . Mncgregor's Gathering . Melrose Abbey Norham Castle Rose, The .... Scotland .... " Soldier, rest! thy warfare o -^ f INDEX OF AUTHORS. -^ blag Hunt, llie *' The heath this night must be my bed ' True and the False, The . '* Waken, lords and ladies gay " . Waterloo, The Charge at . SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES. lingUiiKf, i6ii-i;o.. Child and Maiden " Phillis is my only joy " SEWALL, HARRIET WINSLOW. America. <1. .833- Why thus Longing ? SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. liiii;!-""!. 11O4-1616. -Airy Nothings ( Tempest) .... " Dlow, thou winter wind " (/li Vau Lille It) Cleopatra (// ntony and Cleopatra) . Course of true Love, The (.Midsutnmer Night's Dream) ..... Dagt'er ofthe Mind, A (A/ocA'/A) . Dover Cliff (A'/«i- Arar) .... Dream of Clarence [Richard III.) . Fairies' Lullaby ( Midsummer Night's Dream) Fancy {Mercitant 0/ Venice) *' Farewell ! thou art too dear " " Fear no more the heat " {Cymlrelirte) Friendshij) (Hamlet) Grief (//«>«&/) " Hark, hark! the lark " (.Cymieliiu) . Hotspur's description of a Fop {Henry IV.) Imagination (Midsummer Night's Dream) . Lear's Prayer Love (Merchant of Venice) .... Love Dissembled ^As Von Like //) . . Love, Unrequited ( Tivel/lh Night) . Love's Memory (All's iVell timl Ends Well) Martial Friendship (CVrrWrtWKf) Mercy (Merchant 0/ Venice) . • Murder, The (Macbeth) Music (Merchant 0/ Venice) l.\a%\z (Twelfth Night) Old Age of 'rcmperance .... OWv'm (Twelfth Night) " O mistress mine ! " ( Twelfth Night) Ofiportunity (Julius Carsar) .... Othello's Defence Peace, no Peace Peddler's Pack, The (tVintcr's Tale) Perfection (A-Zk^- 70/17/) Portia's Picture (Mercltant 0/ Venice) Queen Elizabeth, Compliment to (Midsummer Night's Dream) Queen Mab (Romeo and fuliel) Reputation (0M.7&) Romeo and Juliet, The Parting of Seven Ages of Man (As You Lite It) Shepherd's Life, A (Henry VI.) Sleep ( Henry IV. Part i) . Sleep (Henry I V. Parti) Sltep iCymleline) .... Sleep (.Wacleth) .... Sleep ( Tempest) .... Soliloquy on Death (//«»//(•/) " Take, O, take thoselips away " i^Md ■efo, Measure^ '* The forward violet " . ** When icicles hang by the wall Labor 's Lost) .... " When I do count the clock " . "When in the chronicle" . . . " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought " Wols^y'sVxlKHenry VIII.). Wolsey's Speech to Cromwell (Henry VIII.) SHANLY, CHARLES DAWSON. Amcric.!. Puh. iS'A Brierwood Pipe Civil War SHARPS, R. S. Engl:tnd, 175^1835. The Minute-Gu SHEALE, RICHARD. Chevy-Chase SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, iiagtand. 1792-1823. Autumn .... Beatrice Cenci Change .... Cloud, The .... lanthe. Sleeping ' ' I arise from dreams of thee ' Lament, A . . . Love's Philosophy Mu Night .... Night, To . . . Ozymandias of Egypt . Skylark, To the "The sun is warm, the sky View from the Euganean Hill War " When the lamp is shattered SHEN.STONE, WILLIA.M. Unf-Lind. I7U-17<'3. Hope .... Schoohnistrcss, The . SHEPHERD, N. G. Auitrica. " Only the clothes she wore " SHIRLEY, JAMES. EnjjIaiKl, i594-i<.66. Death, ihe Levclcr . SIBLEY, CHARLES. ScoiL'itnJ, The Plaidie . lis 656 296 SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP. EngtinrJ. 15^-1 ^^<;. Love's Silence . . , . " My true-love hath my heart ' Sleep .... SIGOURNEY, LYDIA HUNTLEY -Vorwich. O.nn., t-qi-t'^/>^. Coral Insect, The .... " Go to thy rest, fair child " Indian Names Lost Sister, The Man — Woman .... Publishers : H.imcrslcy & Co.. Hartford, Conn. SIMMONS, BARTHOLOMEW. Ireland, pul>. 1843 ; A. 18:0, To the Memory of Thomas Hood . SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE. Cliarlciton. -S. C. ;?f/.-i87o. Gra|>e-Vine Swing, The . Mother and Child .... Shaded Water I'ul.lKlicrs : A. C. Amistrong i Son, New York. SMITH, ALEXANDER. Scotland. i?.yf-i^^. The Night before the Wedding SMITH, CHARLOTTE. Eii;:land. 1747-18-^5. The Swallow ^- SMITH, EMMELINE SHERMAN. New Baltimore. N. V., b. jgsj. Bird Language SMITH, HORACE. Address to the Alabaster S.^rcophagus . Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition Flowers. Hymn to the Moral Cosmetics Tale of Drury Lane, A The Gouty ^terchant and the Stranger SMITH, SEBA. Turner, .M'-., 179^-1828, The Mother's Sacrifice SMITH, SYDNEY. England. I-7I-l>i4S. A Receipt for Salad -^ \Q~^' INDEX OF AUTHORS. -a sornii'v, MKs. Caroline bowlk ' '\->ickwt-Uvti, Tho .... Taupcr's Ucrtth'liriU The . t'lnMTivwiuHl Sluift. Tho . Yovins ^''.\y Hcinl, Tlve SOl'lHKY, ROISI'.KT, Alleuhcim. Tli,- li.vtllc of . Oui«iACIi-f l.oiK.K-, rlio . Kmmcil's KpiiAi'li , , . . Gixl's JlulKliwivloH Uatlo . GireuwoiHl Shrift, The . HoU>- Iref. I'lm .... liUol Hoy, The . . . , iHchcnno kiH'k, The , Well of Si. Kcyiie, The . SPENCKR. C.VROUNE S. C.^t^kill. N. V„ I8,w. l.iviixg \V.Atew I«biul. ir>-lS.i4. liclh Oelert " 'r,K> lute I sli\>>«. The . . . . K.l_Mth;di\mion. The .... Mniistrv of Anijels, The . . . I'na .Old the l.ion .... SPOKFORn, HARRlF.r rRKSCOlT. O.il.ik, Mc. K iSk. Night ,. SPRACl'E, CHARLES. IV , M.v KftiHilv Mcetiivji, Tito Indians . _ . Winced Wonilupiwrs. The ^^lWiJ^^■K ! IL>«|!hlou. MlMln & Co.. liostvw. STARK. ' "TheM.^dern lielle .... STEOMAN. EDMUND CLARENCE. Betrothed .\new .... Cavalry Sonc .... Doorstep, The .... lohn Brown of Osawatoiuio Old Admiral. The .... What the Winds hriltE l\il.lKhMs: ll,.ii,;l,t..i>. Mifflm*Co., tloston. STERHNO, TOHN. Sooll.,...!, ,!\«^,S44 -Alfred the Ilari^jr .... Brantifnl Day, On a . . . Spice-Tree. The .... STEVENS, OEORC.K ALKXANDKR. n.l. >.-S4. T'he Sto STILL, JOHN. '"" Oood '.-lie """' .... STlt.I.M AN, HARRIET W, SnriliitK in his Sleep . STODDARD, I.AVINIA, I'.uiW.ixl. (■.,1111.. i:S-^is.\\ The Soul's Detrance . . STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY. Hills).,,..,, \t.,«,. 1,, i!i!5, Bn^hma's ..\nsvver '* It never eiMnes ag-ain ** T«M Anclwui, The . ^^,t■li^ll,■I^! ll,.,icl,t„ii. MiUlta ,t: C,>.. H,v,l STin^DART, THOMAS TVD. S,VllA\Hl, Iv iSl.V The Anslets' Tn-stins-Tree . srt>RY, ROBKUr, "^'rhc'wluMlo* STORY, WILLIAM WKI'MORE. i>.lloni. MrtSN.. I'. itUv, Cleojwttra Bati «t Low Yiolet, The INilOlslieiM l.llll... Itrown v'6 Co., lliwlon. Sl'inVE, HARRIET BKF.CHER. l.ittliHolil. Cmi., !■. iSi... A Day in the Panifili Dorin . Lines to the Mentory of Annio . '• Only a Year '• .... Other' World. The . . . , rul.llslvcrs,! H,.utlvi,ui. Mlltlln .1: C.v, lloshm, STRANGFORD, LORD. lillvUlut, i7.'',>-it4^.;. lllishted Love (»v». Mv P.vtm'Ms,) STREET. ALFRED B. IViicliViTi.M,-. N. \.. iSii-iSSi. Nishtfall ... Settler. 'The SUCKLING, SIR JOHN. I'.itel.nul, i<»v>-ic,4i. Bride, The *' I prithee send me back mv heart " . M,S;4 SWIFT, lON.-VTHAN. llvl„i.,l,"l«.7-l?4S. " 'I onis ad resto m.trc * . . . . SWINBl'RNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. I.HkI.ouI. Iv. iS.ir. Disappointed Lover, Tho Love Match, A " When the hounds of spriirs " . SYI.YESTER, JOSHUA. l.nijl.m.i. u^3 IMS. "Contentment Soul's Errand, 'The .... " Were 1 as base as is the lowly plain " . TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS NOeW. Symimthy (.From " Ion ") . . . TALHAIARN OF WAIFS, War's Loud Alarms ((Vi>>*.i»/'s T^nMS/afifm) " Where are the men ? " [OlifA.^Hi's Tntus.) TANNAHILL, ROBERT. S,,,|laii,l. ir;4-iSi.'. Flower o" DumWane, I he " The inids*s dance aboon the burn " . TAYLOR, B.'WARD. KcllUftl SiHMff, P-.i.. »S.'S-lSrs. Arab to the Palm, I he . Bedouin Love-SoHR . . . Centennial (^de Kins ol'Thule {From Iht GfrmiiH i>/Gitt*t) Lute-Player, The Passession Ri>se, The Song of the Camf PiiWisliersi Ilouslnon. Mifllin .V C.v. IVvsInn. T.-UI.OR, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. l.„»villo, N. v.. 1>. rS..... Beautiful River, The Northern Lights, The . Old Village Choir, Tho . Athnlfand Ethilda U- --& IMDEX Oh' AUTUOlOi. —a f& TAVLOK, JAM'- l:„y,U,rl, ■-,*)-.«-<- IMiilowjjJicr'ii Scal':», '1 h*; .... 785 Toad's Journal, I he 7«8 TAYI-UK, JKFKEKY.S. ''''■'[■'I'lc'tiiifmafd 7«<' TAVLOK, JKUKMY. Heaven JS'J TAVLOK, TOM. Iin;{l.iii. Abraham Lincoln 846 TENNANT, WILLIAM. »t/,ll.iri.l, ii!!(-iil4», Ode II, I'eatc 4'>4 TENNVSON, ALFKKL). liil;j:..i.l, I,. I»/> Oodiva «44 Ifero to l^andcr rV' " Home they brought her warrior dead " (I'rln- crtM) JV) In Memoriam, Selection> from . . . 2^4 Land of Land., The 5>S l.ocktley Hall ai4 Mariana 233 Miller'n IJaughtcr, The .... 131 New Year's live 725 .N'orthern Farmer, The . . . -/>j " O swallow, swallow, flying south " i,Pritue$i) 120 Ketr«rspection {Prhtceif) .... 235 Sleeping Iteauty, The 124 Song of the Brook 40^ Spnng 379 Vicu.r Hugo, I o 840 TENNYSON, CHARLES. liiii;'ari'I(IV..llu;ror A.r.). igAt^J^. Ihe Ocean 639 TENNV.SON, FREDERICK, hiii;li/il(lir..lli>.r>/f A. T.), b, VI//1. Blackbird 640 TERRET'r, WILLIAM 15. I'latonic 61 THACKKKAV, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Age of Wisdom, TTie »53 Church frflte, At the 67 End of the Play, The ..... 25!! Little Billee -874 Mahogany Tree, The 714 Mr. Molony's Account r,f the Ball . . 904 Peg of Liniavaddy 647 Sorrows of Werlher »75 White Squall, The 588 THAXTBR, MRS. CELIA. l»le>'/»*lj./al>„ I.. lHjy The Sandpiper 446 I'uUiili.:r«, lI'Mjiil'ion, MllHin «j Co., lUnVio. THO.M, WILLIAM. Sc/ilim.l, tr^r''M„ The Mitherless Bairn 39 THOMSON, JAMES. Angling 621 Connubial Life '« Domestic Birds 432 Hymn on the Season! J77 Nightingale Bereaved 441 Plea for the Animali 704 Rule Britannia Songsters, The . 8ug Hunt, 'I'hc Summer Morning War for the Sake of Peace Wii r Seen THOKF.AU, HENRY DAVID. l'ul,llslicr» ; H.AJZlilo". Mldllii Ik to., I>'«.t./ri. THOKNBUKY, GEORGE WALTtIC l'.iigl.init, lii-Jh-tHp. Ihe Jester • Sermon THRALE, HESTER LYNCH (Afri. I'u The Three Warnings •I'H URLOW, XX»RD {.Edward Hcmtl). )-.iizi,.ii.i. i7ai-i»»>. Beauty Bird, To a TICK ELL, THOMAS, I'o a Lady befrjre Marriage • TIMROD, HENRY, Cli^irlot'rti, S. C. ly/jtf-tV/J. Katie I-ubli>lKr.: v.. ]. Male 4 fi'm. New York. TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIX. lillgUn'l, b. !»>?. Ifarmosan TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND. Oifl.-.i. ,•.'. ■{ , I,, lie.;. At Sea . Dorothy in the Garret . fjld Burying Ground, The VagaUjnds, Ihe |-ul,li-j"... : lla.|«r ^ l!r.,li,..,.. :.>» y.,rk. TUCKEKMAN. HENRY THEOIX»RE. b'/»t'.n. M.iv.., i.'.iTi.'^i. NcwjK^ Beach I'ul/liOieri : H'n-ihvm, Mifflin U Co., lloMOO. TUPPER, MARTIN FARf^UHAR. iMigUiul. \, Oil',. Cruelty to Animals, Of TURNER, ELIZA SPROAT. feni../lv;mii.. An Angel's Vi«it TVCHBORN, CHIDIOCK. linzUii.l. Linen written by otie in the Tower . TYRT/F.US. (ifr.'.r. 7ih century B. C. Martial Ehigy ' Trans. Tfujmai Campbelt) UHLAND, LliDWIG, (,.:riri;iiiy. t^''i^-CM. Landlady's Daughter The ITraniUlion 0/ 7. .V. nwiKhf) Passage, The (Trant. It. W. Lmg/rllmui UPTON, JAMES Friends Deparud VENABLE, WILLIAM HENRY, olii... 1. I>i)',. Welcome to " Boz," A . VENANTIUS, FOKTL'NATUS. Vcxilla Regis ( Tramlnlion o/John M. NeaU) VERB, EDWARD, EARL OF OXFORD. I-.iiiffai.'l. ,^5~t'x,4. , . M "If women could be fair VERY, JONES. Salem, M.iv%,, iV.iy^-l- Latter Rain, The Nature .... Spirit Land, 'Hie VICENTE. GIL. fijrtuv^l, 148-rf-iJ^7. Tlie Nightingale {Tram. Sir 7. nmurmg) :^ f XXVUl INDEX OF AUTHOHS. n h VIl.l.KOAS. KSTKVAN MANUKL UK, VISSOHKK, MARIA I KSSKl.SCHADK, riie Nislouviwle ( t\\\m. Sir J, ^toeriof) WAKK. WILLIAM ISASIL. S«,vi«S m>t McAtiiixs WAl.LKR. KOMUNIX ».»\lle, Oil a . lU-, l.wrty Kivtel " The sowl's vlark i.vttAite " WALLKK, lOllN KKANCIS, lnl.lHvl, Iv iSuv 'lUc StMlllllllJi^WhMi Soll^ WALSU. WILLIAM. Riviury lu l.o\< .... WALTON, IZAAK, i,S« John Chaukhi TUf AnsW>"» Wish WARK. JR.. HKNRY. HilV " I will thAt men i>r«,v f v«rywhc« " WARINO., ANNA UtmTI.V. W.vUv I iwt l>uK l«sj\ ■ My limfs .N. THOMAS. UiwUvl. ■•-•O-IMV KctiTvmi^ut WA,>iSON, 11AVU1 ATWOOl^ NUm.\ K life.-!. Lovr .\j;.uii»t Lo\"« , . , . WA.^TKl I, SIMON. liwAn.l. .1. i^.-!, ^Liii's Movulily .... WATSON. JAMKS W. l\p.X(ititiil S«o\v Wo«nv(«U» l">e»th .... W.vnS, ISAAC, i>lwUl\,l. lv\'4~lf*J, (.YwUp Sons. .\ . . lusijsinticiuit K,\i*leiic« Summcv KvcnuxS' A ... WAioiL vnnviN, tiwJ.111.1, iS\'. ii.\\H.r.l * The L»«C4*iJihv iVrt.' ^' Lhc tliilc Si i' lhi» bo«i»( o' miiw " WKUSLKR, nXNMFL. .■vvU,l-»sSS. Wfrsltiixj; jAC«b WKSI.KY. TOHN. ll«!.TO.I, OVJ-i^i, The Lo\Ht v\i Gixl SuiMitme WKSrwOOW THOMAS. liilKl.m.l, K .,vi.U'".,\ K, I , toVt-iSfS. .\ Slill Oiiv in .Vuuuwn . WHITMAN. WAIT'. Wo.t UilK. N.V, K iSm. The MiKkiixii^Rinl . . , . WHl ITTKR, lOHN C-RKKNl.KAF. Ililv.iWll, M.m. K \S>V AKm'ih .^liloi. I'o Iwr Ai.lV-l!, I'l.lVfV o( . , . An^fl ,.1 l\iti<-iKf , The . l!,iiK>u> Kiicidiie lUivUv ,M I'ry R-iirlo,'l Uoy. The , . • Reneilicite (0»"**4*«* Jii^timfi . Ihitns lVnlenni.U Hvmn . K« iM Kleeiion, The b^srfWf II. The . . Kivmoni. lohn 0. H.illcxI., V^it-0.re«ne H,AnuUon l»eAeh . lihaKnl , Kvteph Saii-jie, To Maiul Mnller MieliiiS, riie .... My l'l.ivin,Ale Nesw RMtmeu, Soixgofthc . New Knslanil in Winter . INilm-'lXve. The l\>el'» RewAul, The . INimpkin, The . • Kelortnev, The . Kobin, The .... i\lUustiei> ! ll,*ilRhK>n. MilHin .^ 0'.-i,s\" lieltVy Viiieon, The ... Letvr, The l\i«'h.^sins Wn.l.SON, ARAHKU-A M. 0.>lv>ii,t.AV,;"a. N. V. To the Sextant of the Meelins House. \VII.l.SON, RYRON n^RCEVTHE. The tMd Setseant .... Wn.SON, JOHN {KitStHiy Kv«nin^ Cloud, The Louis XY. Miral>eau . ,■ CoH»s« . Rose and the Oavmtlet. The WfNKWORTH, CATHARINV Yeni Sanct* Spiritus (,F»vm ti^ I. ,tfi\) Ltr INUKX 0/'' AimiOHH. i."^ Wirill'.K, OKOKOK. , „^1,., I lovcil a l.'is»i a fair nnc " . " l, K<:M,» WOOIAVOIITII, SAMUKL. .■;. Iri,,,n-. .Mi,«a,j ijHfiH-J The Old Oaken Ducket 1" WfJOI.SKV, SAKAH CHANNINO (,',uia» ( «,jIi,Iki:). .S.;w I l.i»,:rp, 0,1,11. In the Ml«t Lirilc Van I'ijl,ll5l,,;rai (/.obcrlfl UfrtliTr*. IJ'At'/ii. WOHI.ISWOK'1'II, WILLIAM i),-.(^,i;i» K'liKj.iiior, of Nature, The . lli:lvdlyM (Ii>/lilaii " You meaner Iwaulici* " ^'5 WVA'rr, SIk THO.MAS. I.„«l.i„.|. i'/')-.H>. , Karnest Sint, An The iJeccivi.d l^vcr nueth XAVIEK, ST. I'KANCIS. "My' I lo urUCamell) , voi;l, kuwaiuj. I':r,»l.,ri.|. Song of Spring . voaNf;, UK. kijwaku. Ii;,zr.„|.l. I'^fiy'-i- kan, NarciKffa . . . FrocntHitnation . . Time .... ANONYMOUS. An Invective against Love Anne Hathaway April Violet, An . A Voice and Nothing Elue liookA .... Christian Calling, The CVioking and Courting . Cra/lle Song Diego OnLis in Kldorado Dreamer, 'I'll,! . Drurnmcr-lioy'n Burial, The Only nly for Liberty 'anilatioH o/ ICtt- ^y-- ,.,. .,,,,1 I'aulinus I the ll,yrw:B, The . ..„ ...n's Valentine, The il.,.„.l'» Wish, Ihc ,;r,;r ihanlhee" ll.-l,-n of Kirkc/jnncll . n the Well entlernan, 'Hie . 0.i,iilv/o,i,an, loa ('>. K.). i,.r..l,M,i,,noflheOldS<.hool, A iit'ii/.: Wiifthington, To '■ I ,■.. |.,| what I have fell" . o'ri.n.lMhc Oead' .'.'.' Oiiylawke'. " Marry Ashland, one of my lovers Ifiimilily Ind,,>n Slimmer I,,,1m„ Summer .... Ii,l.u,i ■, Oeath, Onan . I Church an.'l Willie f;re'y . ' . " K. >M, "ly memory (rreen " K niv John and llie Ahhol of (Janterhury K,>,>.„,z'snoSin . . . KiMyoK.olpraine Lady Ann Dolhwell's Lament . I,am,:iil of the liorder Widow Life and Kurrnily . Lillh- Ke,:t .... Litile fioldenhair l.illle I'us l.ove li^hlcns Labor e, The ^:±. : lillK lov : for r./,mely grace" LykeWake Oirge, The . M.ikiMi? I'ort .... Melrri;'iii oflbeOpal Ori.liaii.,, The . I'olal/,, Ihe .... I'raxil,;le> . Ouiet from fjod . ,Mlen-a-OaIe II, Tlie . ' . Siecc of li,dgrade . Slt'l,, A . Sk;ii,:r lielle, Our . Sk>l,:lon, To a . SkulU, On some Snails, l. , 9.7 Unsatisfactory 157 Umil Death 159 Useful Plow, The 496 Vicar of Kray, The S57 When Eve Ijrought woe .... S7S " When I am dead " " When I think on the happy days " When shall we all meet again ?'' White Rose, The .... " Why, lovely charmer " . Wife to her Husband, The . *' Will you love me when 1 'in old " PSEUDONYMS. Alfrfd Cro^vgitiU B,i>0' Cormvall . Bttrry Gmy Ethit Lynn . Fitther Proul . FIcrtnct Percy Cttr»-L(KV Rhymer Grace Greenwood , H.H. /fo-Mini GlymioH . yohn Chalkhill . Kit North . Maria del Occidente lilarian Douglas . Miles O' Reilly . OrfheHS C. Kerr . Lhi'eii Meredith . Peter Pindar Susan Ci'olidge . Thomas Ingoidsbyt Esg. ALFRED H. FORRESTER. HRVAN W. I'ROfTER. Rdl'.l u I' i;ai;i;\ COFKIN. ETllI I 1\ 1 1 1. 1 I' HKKKS. FRAN' i -- M \llo\V. El.l,- Nil Ml \kl.KS ALLF.N. Er.K\ 1 .1 K 111 I or. SAK Ml I \M I irmNCO'iT. HKI r\ III \ 1 lACKSON. LAl'K \ I KIUDEN. IZAAK WAl.TdN. JOHN Wll.SON MARl \ COWKN FROOKS. ANNIl^' 11, (IK I IN CllAKI Is C. II \1 PINK Ri>l;i K r II I \ i;\ \ 1 w M.L, R(iiii:i; I 1:1 I w I R 1 \ rroN. DR. liMl.X W OLCUTl. SARAH C. WOOl.SliV. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM. L & £] -a THE EDITOrt TO THE KEADER. [extract from MI{. lillVANT'S PREFACE TO "A NEW LIBRARY OF POETRY AND S0NO."j ''f^ H I-; present enlarged edition of t lie " Library of Poetry and Song" hag liceii projected with a view of making the collection more perfect, both ill the choice of iioems and the variety of sources from which they are derived. Within a very few years past several names of eminence have been added to the list of poets in our language, and every reader would expect to find samples of their verse in an anthology like this, to say nothing of the air of fresiuiesK which these would give. That tlu^ demand for compilations of this character is genuine and very general is sufficiently demonstrated by the appearance, since the first edition of this was published, of Emerson's " Parnassus" and Whittier's " Songs of Three Centuries." These, however, do not seem to have suiipjanted liana's "■ Household Book of Poetry," which still retains its popularity. It often hap- pens that the same household contains several of these publications. The first edition has proved, commercially speaking, one of the most success- ful |)ubiications of the day ; and if the c-ompilation in its present shape should meet with the same favor, the Publisliers, it seems to me, can ask no more. When 1 saw tliat Mr. Emerson had omitted to include any of his own poems in the collection entitled '• Parnassus," I doubted, for a while, whether I ought not to have jiracticeil the same reserve. Vet when I considered that h ^ ' — d^ :i THE EDITOR TO THE READER. the omisiiioii on his part was so fur a defect, and that there is not a reader of his vohuiie who would not have been better jik^ased to jiossess several of lii> poems ahmg with the otliei's, I 1)eeaine better satisfied witli what I had done, and allowed such of my poems as I had inehided to remain. In one respeet, at least, the present compilation will have the advantage over Mr. Emerson's, namely, that it contains several of the poems with which he has ciiricheil lur literature. AVILLIAM CULLEN BUY ANT. New York, July, 1876. ^ S ^ J] &- ~ ^ e .^ tja y^- -^' s a INTRODUCTION: POETS AND I'OETUY OF THE EMiEISIl LANGUAGE. U- I.SUri'OSE it is not necessary to givi; a reason for adding anotlier to tlie collections of this nature, already in print. They abound in every language, fur the sinijile reason that there is a demand fur them. German literature, prolilic as it is in vers(;, has many of them, and some of them compiled by distinguished authors. 'J'he parlor tiiblo and the winter fireside reipiire a book which, when one is in the humor for reading poetry and knows not what author to take up, will sujiply exactly what he wants. I Iiave known persons ulm frankly said that they took no pleasure in reading piiili T, and perhaps the inindier nl' those who make this adruission would be greater were it ncit for the fear of ai)pearing singular. But to the great mass of mankind liijctry is really a delight and a refreshment. To many, perhaps to most, it is unt ifipiisite tliat it should bo of the highest degree of merit. Xur, although it bo true that the poems which are most famous and most highly prized are works of con- siilcrablc length, can it be saiil that thi' pleasure they give is in any degree proptu-- liiiHute Id the extent of their plan. It seems to me that it is only poerus of a ninilcrate length, or else portions of the greater works to wdiich I refer, that pro- duce tlie effect upon the mind and heart which make the charm of this kind of writing, 'i'he proper office of poetry, in filling the mind with delightful images and awakiuiing the gentler emotions, is not accomi)lished on a first and rapid jierusal, but re(i\iires that tlii! words should lie dwelt upon until they become in a certain sense our own, and arc^ adopfi'd as the utterance of our own minds. A collection such as this is intended to 1)0 furni.shes for this purpose portions of the Ijcst Eng- lish verso suited to any oi' thi' varying moods of its readers. Such a work also, if suliiciently extensive, gives the reader an opportunity of com- ]iaring the poetic literature of one period with that of another; of noting the fluctu- ations of taste, and how the poetic forms which are in fashion iluring one age are laid aside in the next; of observing the changes which take place in our language, and the sentiments which at different periods challengo the public apjinibation. Specimens of the poetry of different centuries presented in this wa}' show how the great stream of humc'in thought in its poetic form eddies now to the right and now to the left, wearing away its banks first on one side and then on the other. .Some author of more than common faculties and more than common boldness catches the pulilic attention, and immediately ho has a crowd of followers who form their taste on his and seek to divide willi him the jiraisi;. Thus Cowley, with his nndeniable [7] 0- IXrUdDUCTIUX. L;ciiius, was tho lic;ul of a miiiionni.s class wlio made poetry consist iu lar-l'etchcj con- t'fils, ideas oddly brought tugutlici', and (niaiiit turns of thought. Pope, following close upon l)ryd(^n, and learning nnicli from him, was the founder of a school of longer duration, which found its models in ISoilcau and other poets of the reign of Louis the Fourteimth, — a school in which the wit predominated over the poctrj^, — a school marked hy striking oppositions of thought, frequent happinesses of expression, and a caielully liahuieed modulation, — numbers pleasing at first, but in tho end fiitiguing. As this school degenerated the wit ahnost disappeared, but there was no new infu- siiui of poetry iu its place. When Scott gave the public the Lai/ of the Last Jfiii- .s7rc/, and other poems, which certainly, considered as mere narratives, are the best ve have, carrying tho reader forward without weariness and with an interest which tlie author never allows to suliside, a crowd of imitators pressed after him, the greater |iait of whom are no longer read. "Wordsworth hail, and still has, his school; the stamp of his example is visible on the writings of all the poets of the present dav. Even Byron showed himself, in the third canto of (Jhilde Harold, to be one of his disciples, though he tiercely resented being called so. The same poet did not disdain to learn of Scott in composing his narrative poems, such as the Bride of Ahij- dos and the Giaour, though he could never tell a story iu verse without occasional tediousness. In our day the style of writing adopted by eminent living poets is often seen reflected in the verses of their younger contemporaries, — sometimes with an eflect like that of a face belield in a tarnished mirror. Thus it is that poets are formed by their inlluence on one another; the greatest of them are more or less indebted fiu' what they are to their predecessors and their contemporaries. While speaking of these changes in the public taste, 1 am tempted to caution tho reader again.st the mistake often made of estimating the merit of one poet by the tno easy ]irocess of comparing hiin with another. The varieties of poetic excellence are as great as the varieties of beauty in flowers or iu the female face. There is no poet, indeed no author in any departnuMit of literature, who can be taken as a standard in judging of others; the true standard is an ideal one, and even this is not the same in all men's minds. One delights in grace, another in strength ; one in a fiery vehe- mence ami enthusiasm on tho surface, another in majestic repose and the expre,ssion of fooling too deep to be noisy ; one loves simple and obvious images strikingly em- ]iloyod, or familiar thoughts placed in a new light, another is satisfied only with nov- elties of thought and expression, with >incommon illustrations and images far sought. It is certain that eaidi of these modes of treating a subject may have its peculiar merit, and that it is absurd to recjuire of those whose genius inclines them to one that they should adopt its opposite, or to sot one down as inferior to another be- cause he is not of tho isame class. As well, in looking through an astronomer's telescope at tliat beautiful phonomonon, a doid)Ie star, in which the twin flames are one of a roseate and the other of a golden tint, might we quarrel with either of them because it is not colored like its fellow. Some of tho comparisons made by critics between one poet and another are scarcely less jirepostorous than would be a comparison between a river and a mountain. The compiler of this collection has gone as far back as to the author who may le ^ ^ [9-^ -FV, IXTUUijVCTlUX. proporJy be called the father of En,i,'lish jioetiT, anil who wroto while our luiif^niaj^e was like the lion in Milton's account of the (■n'ation, when rising' from tlie earth at tlio Divine connnanil and " . . . . pawin;; to get IVfo His liiiiilcr parts," — lor it was still clogged by the iinassinjilated ])ortinn-; nf (he French tongue, to wii!:^h ill i)art is owed its origin. These were to be thrown aside in after years. 'J'lic vers' liralinn had also one characteristic of French vei'so which was soon after Chaucer's tiiue laid aside, — the mute or final e had in his lines the value of a syllalile by itself, especially when the next word began with a consonant. liut though these lieculiarities somewhat embarrass the reader, he still finds in the writings of the old ]ioet a fund of the good old English of the Saxon fireside, which makes them worthy to be studied were it only to strengthen our hold on our language, lie delighted in describing natural objects which still retained their Sa.xou names, and this he did with great beauty and sweetness. In the sentiments also the critics ascribe to him a de- gree of delicacy which one could .scarcely have looked for in the age in which he wrote, tiiough at other times he avails himself of the license then allowed. There is no majesty, no stately march of numbei-s, in Ids poetry, still less is there of lire, rapidity, or conciseness ; the French and Italian narrative poets from whom he learned his art wriite as if the people of their time had nothing to d(j but to attend to long sto- ries, and Chaucer, who translated from the French the lioinaiiut of the Jiose, though a .i;reater poet than any of those whom he took for his models, made small improve- niinit upon them in this respect. His Troylus and Cr//si'i/ilc, witii but little action and incident, is as long as either of the epics of Homer. The Canterbury y'ale.t, Chaucer's best things, have less of this defect; but even there the narrative is over- iniiiiite, and the personages, as Taine, the F'rench critic, remarks, although they t:ilk Well, talk too much. The taste for this prolixity in narratives and convei-sations Ijad a long duration in Fugiish poetry, since we find the same tcdiousuess, to call it by its true name, in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and his Liia-eee, written more than two hiiiidre(l years jati'r. Yet in the mean time the old popular ballads of ICng lanil and Scotland had been composed, in which the imidents follow each other in ipiiek succession, and the briefest possible speeches are uttered by the personages. The scholars and court poets doubtless disdained to learn anytldng of these poets of the people, and the Davideis of Cowley, wdio lived three hundreil years after Chaiici'r, is as remarkable for the sluggish progress of the story and the teiliousness of tlie harangues as for any other characteristics. JJetween the time of Chaucer and that of Sidney and Spenser we liiid liltl" in the poetic literature of our language to detain our attention, i'hat age produced many obscure versifiers, and metrical romances continued to be written after the fashion of the French and Italian poets, wdiom Chaucer acknowledgeil as his masters. During this period appeared Skeltcni, the poet and jester, whose sjiecial talent was facility in ihyniing, who rhymed as if he could not help it, — as if he had only to put pen to papin-, iuiil the words leaped of their own accord into regular measure with an inev- itable jingle at the en whicli so perplexes the modern reader in Chau- cer's vei'se was no longer permitted to ligure as a distinct syllable. The poets, how- ever, still allowed themselves the liberty of sometimes making, after the French man- ner, two syllables of the terminations tioii and ion, so that nation became a word of three syllables ami opinion a wonl of four. Tlie Sonnets of Sidney, written on the Italian model, have all the grace and ingenuity of those of Petrarch. In the Faerie Qiieene of Spenser it seems to me that we find the English language, so far as the purposes of poetry require, iu a degree of }ierfection beyond which it has not been siuee carrietl, anil, 1 suppose, never will be. A vast assemblage of poetic endowments contributed to the composition of this poem, yet I think it would not be easy to name one of the same length, and the work of a geuius equally great, in any language, which more fatigues the reader in a steady perut.al fronw beginning to end. In it we ha\-o an invention ever awake, active, ami apparently inexhaustible ; an affluence of imagery grand, beautiful, or magnilicent, as the subject may require; wise observa- tions on human life steeped in a poetic coloring, and not without touches of pathos ; a wonderful luastery of versification, and the aptest forms of expression. We read at first with admiration, yet to this erelong succeeds a sense of satiety, and we lay down the book, not unwilling, however, after an interval, to take it up witli renewed admiration. I once heard an eminent poet say that he thought the second part of tlu' Faerie Queene inferior to the first ; yet 1 am inclined to ascribe the remark rather to a falling oif iu the attention of the reader than iu the merit of the work. A jioet, luiwever, would be more likely to persevere to the end than any other reader, since in e\ery staii/a he would meet with some lesson in his art. In that fortunate age of English literature arose a greater than Spi>uscr. Let me only say of Shakespeare, that in his dramas, amid certain faults imputable to the taste of the English public, there is to be found every conceivable kind of poetic excellenee. At tlie same time and immediately after him flourished a group of dra- matic iiocis who drew their inspiration from nature and wrote with manly vigor, t lue would naturally suppose that their example, along with the more illustrious ones of Spenser and Shakespeare, would influence and form the taste of the succeed- ing ago ; but almost before tliey had ceased to claim the attention of the public, and while the eminent divines, Barrow, Jeremy Taylor, and others, wrote nobly in jirose with a geiuiine eloi]uenee and a fervor scarcely less than poetic, appeared the school of writers iu verse whom Jolinson, by a phrase the propriety of which has been dis- puted, calls the metaphysical poets, — a class of wits whose whole aim was to extort admiration by ingenious conceits, thouglits of such unexpectedness and singularity that one womlered how they could ever conio into the mind of the author. For what they regarded as poetic clfect they depended, not upon the sense of beauty or grand- eur, not upon depth or earnestness of feeling, but simply upon surprise at (juaiut and strange resemblances, contrasts, ai^l combinations of ideas. These were dcli\- ered for the most part in rugged diction, and in numbers so harsh as to be almost 1 gi h [f] — a INTRODUCTION. Hi unmanageable by the reader. Cowley, a man of real genius, and of a more musical versification than liis fellows, was the most distinguished example of this school. Milton, born a little before Cowley, and like him an eminent poet in his teens, is almost the only instance of escape from the infection of thi.s vicious style ; his genius w;is of too robust a mold for such petty employments, anil he would have made, if lie had condescended to them, as ill a figure as his own Samson on the stage of a mountebank. Dryden himself, in some of his earlier poems, appears as a pupil of this school ; but ho soon outgrew — in great part, at least — the false taste of the time, and set an example of a nobler treatment of poetic subjects. Yet though the genius of Dryden reacted against this perversion of tiie art of verse,. it had not the power to raise the poetry of our language to the height which it occu- pird in the Elizabethan age. Within a limited range lie was a true poet; his imagi- nation was far from fertile, nor had he much skill in awakening emotion, but he (•nil Id treat certain subjects magnificently in verse, and often where his imagination fails him he is sustained by tbe vigor of his understanding and the largeness of his kiiiiwledge. He gave an example of versification in the heroic couplet, which haa cniiimanded the admiration of succeeding poets down to our time, — a versification manly, majestic, and of varied modulation, of which Pope took only a certain part as the model of his own, and, contracting its range and reducing it to more regular ]jause.s, mailo it at first appear more musical to the reader, but in the end fatigued him by its monotony. Dryden drew scarcely a single image from his own observa- tion of external nature ; and Pope, though less insensible than he to natural b(;auty, was still merely the poet of the drawing-room. Yet he is the author of more haj)py lines, which have passed into the connnon speech and are quoted as proverbial say- ings, tlian any author we have save Shakespeare ; and, whatever may be said in his dispraise, he is likely to be quoted as long as the English is a living language. The footjirints of Pojie are not those of a giant, but ho has left them scattered all over the field of our literature, although the fashion of writing like him lias wholly passed away. Certain farulties of the poetic mind seem to have slumbered from the time of ]\Iilton to that of TJiomson, who showed the literarj' world of Great Britain, to its astonishment, what a profusion of materials for poetry Nature offers to him who directly consults her instead of taking his images at second-hand. Thomson's blank verse, however, is often swollen and bladdery to a jiainful degree. He seems to have imagined, like many other writers of his time, that blank verse oould not su[i])ort itself without the aid of a stilted phraseology ; for that fine poem of his, in the Spenserian stanza, the Castle of Indolence, shows that when he wrote in rhyme he- did not think it necessary to depart from a natural style. ^VordswoI•th is generally spoken of as one who gave to our litr^rature that imiiulse which brought the poets back from the capricious forms of expression in vogue before his time to a certain fearless simplicity ; for it must be acknowledged that until he arose there was scarce any English poet who did not seem in some degree to labor under the apprehension of becoming too simple and natural, — to imagine that a certain pomp of words is necessary to elevate the stj'le and make tliat grand and noble which in ^ [0 a 12 IXTKODUCTTON. its iliroct expression woiiM be homely and trivial. Yet the poetry of Wordsworth was but the eonsunmintioii of a temloncy ivlreiuly existing and active. Cowpor had ah-eaily felt it in writiiii>- his Tad; and in his longer rhymed poems had not only at- tempted n freer veKilication than that of I'ope, Init had clothed his thoughts in the manly English of the better age of onr poeti-y. Percy's IMitjiies had accustouu'il Knglish roadei's to pneeive tlie extreme beauty of tlie old ballads in their absolute simiilicity, and shown liow much superior these were to such productions as Percy's own llerntit of Warkimrth anil troldsmith's Bdwiii and Aiiijelina, in their feeble ele gauce. Burns's inimitable Scottish poems — his English versos are tumid and woivlv — had taught the same lesson. We may infer that the genius of Woixlswortli was in a groat degree intluenced by these, just as he in his turn contributed to form tiie t^isto of those who wrote after him. It was long, however, before ho reached the eminence which he now holds in the estinuxtion of tho litemvy world. His Lyrlml Ba/lmls, published about the close of the last century, were at first little read, and of those who liked them theiv wero few who wero not afraid to express their admi- ration. Yet his fame has slowly climbed from st«g6 to stage until now his influence is perceived in all the English poetry of the day. If this were tho place to critici.se his poetry, 1 should say, of his more stately poems in blank verse, that they often lack compression, — that tho thought sutfei's by too great expansion. Wordsworth was unnecessarily afwid of being epigrammatic. He abhorred what is called a point as much as Dennis is said to have abhorred a pun. Yet I must own that even his most ditl'use amplifications have in them a certain grandeur that fills the mind. At a somewhat later period arose tho poet Keats, who wrote in a manner which carried the ivader back to the time when those charming passages of lyrical enthu- siasm were produced which we occasionally find in the (ilays of Shakespeare, in those of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in Milton's Comiis. Tho verses of Keats are occa- sionally disfigured, especially in his jEiKlijmion, by a flatness almost childish, but in the finer passages they clothe tho thonght in the richest inuvgory and in words each of which is a poem. Lowell has justly called Keats " ovei'-languaged," but there is scarce a word that wo should bo willing to part with in his Ode to the yi<>/itiii;/ale, ami that on a (?recia>i r'>-», and the same thing may lie said of the greater part of his J/v/'erioii. His poems were ridiculed in tho Edinburgh Keviow, but they sur- vived the ridicule, and now, fifty years after their first publication, the poetrj- of the present day, by certain resemblances of manner, testifies to the admiration with which ho is still read. The genius of Byron was of a more vigoi\nis mold than that of Keats ; but not- withstiinding his great popularity and the number of his imitators at one time, he made a less permanent impression on the character of English poetry. His misan- thropy and gloom, his scoffing vein, ami the fieiveness of his animosities, after tho fii-st glow of admiration was over, had a repellent otTeet upon readei's, and made them turn to more cheerful strains. Moore had in his time nuvny iniitatoi's, but all his g'ayety, his brilliant fancy, his soniewhat feminine graces, ami the elaborate music of his numbei-s, have not savetl him from tho fate of being imitated no more. Cole- ridge and Southey were of the siuue school with Woixlsworth, and only added to the ^ ^ e^ f hSTUouucriuN. 1.-^ k^ cflect of \im t'xaniiile upon our literatim;. Colcridgo Lb the autlior of tlic two iiioxt pr;rf(;(;t jjonticiil traimlutiojiB whicli our larigiiagi; in liis day couW boawt, tliow; of .Scliilicr'H I'icml'indni ami JJealli, nf IValleniitein, in wliicli thf; Eii^li«h v.nt; fali« in no rf'Sjioot wliort of iIkj original Ocnnan. Houtliey diviiloH with fSwjtt the h'Jiior of writinjj the fir»t lonj; narrative ]>oi;inH in our lanj/ua;.;'; whicli can he read without occasional weari ihmh. Of the later poet;<, educated in \tiat hy the yeueration of author/) which produced W'ordrtworth and JJyroii aiicl in j)ai-t by each other, yet pOHSCHwing their individual pecidiarilien, I HJiould perhaps Hpeak with more reserve. The number of thow; who are attempting; to win a name in thiw walk of liti.-rature is gn^t, and Heveml of them have already gained, and through many years held, the public favor. To some of tliiiij will be assigned an enduring station among the eminent of their chiHH. There are two tendencies by which the s<;eker« after jtoetic fame in our day an- a|>t to be misled, through both the exanjple of others and the applause of critics. One of these in the desire to cxtoit admiration by striking novelties of expression ; and tlie other, the ambition to distinguish thenisi.dves by subtilties of thought, renioU; from the common apprehension. With regard to thi; first of these I have only to say what has been often said bi;- I'on-, that, however favorable may Ije the idea which this luxuriance of poetic imagery and of epithet at first gives us of the author's talent, our admiration s/jon exhausts itself. We feel that the thouglit mov<;s heavily under its load of garments, some of whicli perhaps strike us as tawdry and olhera a.-s ill-fitting, and we lay down the book to take it up no more. The other mistake, if I may so call it, deserves more attention, since we find abh: critics speaking with high praise of passages in the poetry of the day to which the general reader is jiu/zled to attach a meaning. This is often the cas^j wlien tiie words themselves seem sim|ile enough, and keep within the range of the Saxon or house- jiold element of our language. The obscurity lies sometimes in the jihrase itself, and sometimes in the recondite or remote; allusion. I will not say that certain minds are not afl'ected by this, as others are by verses in ])iuiner Knglish. To the few it may lie genuine poetry, although it may be a riddle to the mass of ri^a'lers. I remember reading somewhere of a mathematician who was affected with a sense of sublimity by the ha|)py solution of an algebraical or geometrical jiroblem, and I have been assured by one who devoted liinjself to the science of mathematics that the phenomenon is no unconimon one. Let us beware, therefore, of assigning too narrow limits U} the causes whiidi produce the politic exaltation of mind. The genius of those who write in this manner may be freely acknowledged, I)ut they do not write for mankind at large. 'I'o me it .seerus that one of the most important requisites for a great jxjet is a lu- luiiions style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of hiinian life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. lie who can present them in combinations and lights which at once affect the mind with a deep sense of their truth and beauty is the poet for liis own age ami the ages that succeed it. It is no disitaragement either to his skill or his power that he finds them n«ir at hand ; the nearer they lie to the common track of the human intelligence, -^ ^ a 14 INTRODUCTION. the more certain is lie of tlie sympathy of his own generation, and of those which sliall come after him. The metaphysician, the subtile thinker, the dealer in abstruse sjieculations, whatever his skill in versification, misapplies it when he abandons the more convenient form of prose and perplexes himself with the attempt to exjiress his iileas in poetic numbers. ]>et me say for the poets of the present day, tliat in one important respect they have profited by the example of their immediate predecessors; they have learned to go directly to nature for their imagery, instead of taking it from what had once lieen regarded as the common stock of the guild of poets. I have often had occasion to verify this remark with no less delight than surprise on meeting in recent verse new images in their untarnished luster, like coins fresh from the mint, unworn and unsoilod by jiassing from pocket to pocket. It is curious, also, to observe how a certain s(!t of hackneyed phrases, which Leigh Hunt, I believe, was the first to ridicule, and which were once used for the convenience of rounding out a line or supplying a rhyme, have disapjieared from our poetry, and how our blank verse in the hands of the most popular writers has dropped its stiff Latinisms and all the awkward distor- tions resorted to by those who thought that by putting a sentence out of its proper shape they were writing like Milton. I have now brought this brief survey of the jirogress of our poetry ilown to the present time, and refer the reader, for samples of it in tlic dillerr iit stages of its exist- ence, to those which are set before him in this vohime. Such is the wide range of English verse, and such the abundance of tlie materials, tljat a compilation of this kind must be like a buucjuet gathered from the fields in June, when hundreils of flowers will be left in unvisited spots, as beautiful as those which have been taken. It may happen, therefore, that many who have learned to delight in some particular poem will turn these pages, as they might those of other collections, without finding their favorite. Nor should it be matter of surprise, considering the multitude of authors from whom the compilation is made, if it be found that some are overlooked, especially the more recent, of equal merit with many whose poems appear in these pages. It may happen, also, that the compiler, in consequence of some particular association, has been sensible of a beauty and a power of awakening emotions and recalling images in certain poems which other readers will fail to perceive. It should be considered, moreover, that in poetry, as in painting, different artists have different modes of presenting their con- ceptions, each of which may possess its peculiar merit, yet those whose taste is forincMJ by contemplating the productions of one class take little pleasure in any otlui'. Crabb Robinson relates that Wordsworth once admitted to him that he did m t much admire contemporary poetry, not because of its want of poetic merit, but liecause he had been accustomed to poetry of a different sort, and added that but for this ho might have read it with pleasure. I quote from memory. It is to 1 ic hoped that every reader of this collection, however he may have been trained, will find in the great variety of its contents something conformable to his taste. ■WILLIAM CULLEX BRYAXT. I&^- --Qi '^^ -^ / fr^lA. rize such sinning ; Breakings diiv of plates and glasses ; Craspings small at all that pas-ses ; PulUngs ofl" of all that "s able To be caught from tray or t«ble ; Silences, — small meditations Peep as thoughts of caivs for nations ; Breaking into wisest speeches In a tong\ie that nothing teaches ; All the thoughts of who.se pos.sessing Must lie wooed to light by guessing : Slumliers, — such .sweet angel-.seeniings That we 'd ever have such dreamings : Till from sleep we see thee breaking, Anil we 'd always have thee waking ; Wealth for which we know no measure ; ricasnre high above all pleasure ; (Uadness brimming over gladness ; •loy in care ; delight in sadness ; Loveliness beyond completeness ; Sweetness distancing all sweetness ; Beauty all that beauty may bo ; — That 's May Bennett ; that's my baby. William C. Bennett. CHOOSING A NAME. 1 M.WK got a ncw-born si.ster ; 1 was nigh the lirst that kissed her. When the nursing-woman brought lier To papa, his infant daiiglitcr. How papa's dear eyes did gfisten ! — She will shortly be to christen ; Ami pajia has made the otVer, 1 shall have the naming of her. Now I wonder what would please her, — Charlotte, Julia, or Louisa? Ann and Mary, they're too common; .loan 's too formal for a woman ; .lane 's a prettier name beside ; But we had a .Tane that died. They would say, if 't was Rebecca, That she was a little Quaker. Edith 's pretty, but that looks Better in old English books ; ICllen "s left otf long ago ; Blanche is out of fashion now. Kone that 1 have named as yet Arc so good as ilargai-et. Emily is neat and line ; What do you think of Caroline ? How I 'm puzzled and perple.xed Wliat to choose or think of next ! 1 am in a little fever Lest the i.auie that I should give her Should disgnice her or defame her ; — 1 will leave i>aivv to name her. THK BABY. WnEUE did you come from, baby deai- 1 Out of the evertncliere into he^re. Whei-e did you get your eyes so blue ? Out of the si-;/ as I came through. Wheiv did you get that little tear ? I found it waiting u-ken I got hen: -^ INFANCY. 19 a What makes your forehead so smooth anJ high i A soft hand stroked it as I went hij. What makes your cheek like a wann white rose i / saiu something better than any one knows. Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss ? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. Where did you get this pearly ear ? God spoke, and it came out to hear. Wliero did you get those arms and hands ! Love made itself into hooks and banils. Feet, whence did you come, you darling things i Fmin the sit/itc bnj: us the cherubs' wings. How did they all come to be you ? >!od thought about me, and so I grew. I'ut how did you come to us, you dear ? dud thought about you, and so I am liere. gi--ok(;e macdonald. LITTLE FEET. Two little feet, so small that both may nestle In one caressing hand, — Two tender feet upon the untried boriler Of life's mysterious land. Dhnpled, and soft, and pink as peach-tree blos- soms, In April's fragrant days. How can they walk among the briery tangles, Edging the world's rough ways ? These rose-white feet, along the doubtful future. Must bear a mother's load ; Alas ! since Woman has the heaviest burden. And walks the harder road. Love, for a while, will make the path before them All dainty, smooth, and fair, — Will cull away the brambles, letting only The roses blossom there. I'ut when the mother's watchful eyes are .shrouded Away from sight of men. And these dear feet are left without her guiding, Who shall direct them then ? How will they be allured, betrayed, deluded, Poor little untaught feet ! Into what dreary mazes will they wander, What dangers will they meet ? Will they go stumbling blindly in the darkness Of Sorrow's tearful shades ? Or find the upland slopes of Peace and Beauty, Whose sunlight never fades ? WiU they go toiling up Ambition's summit, The common world above ? Or in some nameless vale, securely sheltered, Walk side by side with Love ? Some feet there be which walk LU'e's tiack unwouuded, Whiidi find but pleasant ways : Some hearts there be to which this life is only A round of hapjiy days. But these are few. Far more there are who wander Without a hope or friend, — Who find their journey full of pains and losses, And long to reach the end. How shall it be with her, the tender stranger, Fair-faced and gentle-eyed, Before whose unstained feet the world's rude highway Sti-etches so fair and wide ? Ah ! who may read the future ? For our darling We crave all blessings .sweet. And pray that He who feeds the crj'ing ravens Will guide the baby's feet. A.>fQNYMOL"S. CRADLE SONG. Si.KEr, little baby of mine, Night and th« darkness are near. But .Icsus looks down Through the shadows that fromi, And baby has nothing to fear. Shut, little sleepy blue eyes ; Dear little head, be at rest ; Jesus, like you. Was a baby once, too, And slept on his own mother's breast. Sleep, little baby of mine. Soft on your pillow so white ; Jesus is here To watch over you, dear. And nothing can harm you to-night. 0, little darling of mine, MTiat can you know of the bliss, The comfort I keeji, Awake and asleep. Because I am c?ertain of this ? ^ £r. 20 POEMS OF INFAXOY ANO YOUTH. --a fe- Kkk lust ywu's union liinl loft tho sky A liiixllinjj soiif;lit nij Imliiui lU'st, Ami I'nUlod, oh ! so loviujjly, llor tiuY \viuj;s vipoii my bivast. Wmii nioni till o\oiiiiij;'s nui\>lo tingp, 111 wiiisoino Uoli'UviSuoss slip lips ; Two ivso-ioiivos, with ii silkpu I'liiij^p, Shut solUy o'or hor stiuiy ovt's. Thoiv 's Mot in liui a lovplioi- hiixl ; Utviul oiu'th owns not iv hainiipv uost ; O lloii ! thou hiisl 11 I'ountiiiii stiiml, Wlioso wati'i-s lU'Vi'iiiioiv sliiiU ivst. Tliis Kautilul. mystt'iious thiuj;, This sn'uiius; visitant t'lvm luvivpn, This liii\l with llu' iiiiiiiovtal winj;. To u>i\ to mo riiy hiiml has j;ivoii. Tho (lulso tii-st oaujcht its tiny stivko, Tho blooil its ovimsou hno, I'lvni uiiu« : This lit'o whioh I hino daiva invoko. llonoolovtli is imnillol with Thino ! A silout awo is in my i\Him, 1 tivmlilo with ilolioious t'oar ; Tho futvnv with its light ami gloom, Timo ami otovuity aiv hoiv. fonhts, hojH's, in oagi'r tnnmlt riso ; llrtu-, t^ my t^ml! ouo wivuost piiiyov; Uvwm fov my Innl in ranuliso, Aivil givo hov angv>l-\f W\««K-iv" l uoar. Ovxl knowoth all ; Mousy nihhhvs in tho wall : Tho i-Ux-k stiikos ouo: — liko day, Dreams o'ov thy pillow jJay, Tho matin-K'U AVakt^s tho nun in ivnvont wU ; Tho oliH-k strikos two ; — thoy go To choir in a row. Tlio wiiul il Mows, Tho oofk ho oi'ows ; Tho olook stiikos tliioo ; - tho wagoner In liis stiiiw boil bogius to stir. ■I'll,' stood ho vaws tho lloor, t'lvaks tho slalilo iloor ; Tho oloik strikos lour ; - 'I is plain, Tho ooHohniaii sifts his grain. Tho swallow's laugh llio still air shakos, Tho sun awakos -, 'I'lio olook stiik<>s livo: — tho travollor must bi gono, llo i>uts his stookiiigs on. Tho lion is ctaokiiig, Tho iluoks aiv >|uaoking ; 'l"ho olook strikos six ; — awako, arise, 'I'hou buy ling ; oomo, opo thy oyos. tjuiok to tho Imkor's run ; Tho rolls are ilouo ; Tho oliH-k stiikos sovou ; — 'T is timo tho milk woiv in tho ovoii. l\it in somo buttor, do. And somo tiuo sugar too; Tho olook strikos eight ; — Now bring my liaby's jHirridgo straight. TK.WSIAVION OV OH.\RLKS T, BKOOK& OLD OAEUC LULUABY. Hrsll ! tho waves ai\> ivUiiig in, ^Yllito with loam, whito with foam ; Vathor toils amid tho din, Hut V«by sliH'i>s at homo. Hush! tho winds i\»u- hoai-se luid doop. Itn thoy oonu', on tlioy oomo ! Bivthor seeks tho waudoring slieojs I5ut l«hy sleeps at home. Hnsh ! tho rain swet>i>s o'ov tho kuowos Vhew thoy nvam. whoiv they rwun ; Sister goes to s>vk tho cows, Vhit l>aby sloejis at homo. THK HOFSEH(.^U> SOVEREIGN. FROM TUB ■• IWNCINC OF Tin: CK,*XK." TllR picture fades : as at a villag»> fair A sliowman's views dissolve into tho air. To reivpi«-ar trsusligunHl on tlu' scrwn. So in mv tanov this ; and Jiow once more -^ ■si.' - a ^ I S 5^ 2 a -S [&-- INFANCY. 21 .^ U-- In part transfigured througli the open door Appears the selfsame scene. Seated I see the two again, But not alone ; they entertain A little angel unaware, With face as round as is the moon ; A royal guest with flaxen hair, W'lio, throned upon his lofty chair. Drums on the table with his spoon, 'I'hcu drops it careless on the floor, 'r(j grasp at things unseen before. Are these celestial manners? these The ways that win, the arts that please ? All, yes; consider well the guest. And whatsoe'er he does seems best ; He ruleth by the right divine I X helplessness, so lately born In purple chambers of the mom. As sovereign over thee and thine. He speaketh not, and yet there lies A conversation in his eyes ; The golden silence of the Greek, 'I'lie gravest wisdom of the wise, Xot spoken in language, but in looks More legible than printed books. As if he could but would not speak. And now, monarch absolute, 'I'hy power is put to proof ; for lo ! Resistless, fathomless, and slow. The nurse comes rustling like the sea, And pushes back thy chair and thee. And so good night to King ('anutc. As one who walking in the forest sees A lovely landscape through the parted trees. Then sees it not for boughs that inten'ene, Or as we see the moon sometimes revealed Through drifting clouds, and then again con- cealed. So I beheld the scene. There are two guests at table now ; The king, dejKjsed, and older grown. No longer occupies the throne, — The crown is on hLs sister's brow ; A princess from the Fairy Tales ; The very pattern girl of girls, All covered and embowered in curls, Kose tinted from the Isle of Flowers, And sailing with .soft silken sails From far-off Dreamland into ours. Above their bowls with rims of blue Four azure eyes of deeper hue Are looking, dreamy with delight ; Limpid as planets that emerge Above the ocean's rounded verge. Soft sliining through the summer night. Steadfast they gaze, yet nothing see Beyond the horizon of their bowls ; Nor care they for the world that rolls With all its freight of troubled souls Into the days that are to \ie. Hi-NKY wausworth Longfellow. BABY LOUISE. I 'm in love with you. Baby Louise ! With your silken hair, and your soft blue eyes. And the dreamy wisdom that in them lies. And the faint, sweet smile you brought from the skies, — God's sunshine. Baby Louise. WTien you fold your hands. Baby Louise, Your liand.s, like a fairy's, so tiny and fair, With a pretty, innocent, saint-like air, Are you trying to think of some angel-taught jirayer You learned above. Baby Louise ? I 'm in love with you. Baby Louise ! Why ! you never raise your beautiful head ! .Some d;iy, little one, your cheek will grow red With a flush of delight, to hear the words said, "I love you," Baby Louise. Do you hear mc. Baby Louise ? I have sung your praises for nearly an hour. And your lashes keep drooping lower and lower, And — you 've gone to sleep, like a weary flower. Ungrateful Baby Louise 1 Margarbt EVnSGE. THE ANGEL'S WHISPER. A BABY was sleeping ; Its mother was weeping, For her husband was far on the wild raging sea ; And the t«mpest was swelling Round the fisherman's dwelling; And she cried, " Dermot, darling, come back to me ! " Her beads while she numbered. The baby still slumbered. And smiled in her face as she bended her knee : "0, blest l)e that warning. My child, thy .sleej) adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering with thee. -^ e- POEMS OF INFANCY AND YOUTH. -^ " And while they are keeping Bright watch o'er thy sleeping, 0, pray to them softly, my baby, with me ! And say thou wouldst rather They 'd watch o'er thy father ! For I know that the angels are whispering to thee." An^ The dawn of the morning Saw Dermot returning, the wife wept with joy her babe's father to And closely caressing Her child with a blessing. Said, " I knew that the angels were whispeiing with thee." Samuel lover. t&^ SMILING m HIS SLEEP. The baby sleeps and smiles. What faiiy thought beguiles His little brain ? He sleeps and snules again, Flings his white arms about, Half opes his sweet blue eye As if he thought to spy, By coyly peeping out. The funny elf that brought That tiny faiiy thought Unto his infant mind. Would I some way could find To know just how they seem, Those dreams that infants dream. I wonder what they are, — Those thoughts that seem to wear So sweet a guise ? What picture, tiny, fair, What vision, lovely, rare. Delights his eyes ? See ! now he smiles once more ; Perhaps there is before His mental sight portrayed Some vision blest Of that dear land of rest, That far-off heaven, From whence his new-created sou! Has lately strayed ; Or to his ear, perchance, are given Those echoes sweet that roll From angel harps we may not hear, We, who have added year to year. And sin to sin. As yet his soul is spotless. Wliy Should not angelic harmony Reach his unsullied ear ? Whv not within His infant fancy transient gleams Of heaven find their way in dreams ? And still the baby sleeps, And as he sleeps he smiles. Ah, now He starts, he wakes, he weejis ; Earth-shadows cloud his baby-brow. His smiles how fleeting ; how Profuse his tears ! Dreams he of coming years. Checkered by shadow and by light, Unlike that vision holy, bright, — That fairy gleam, That infant dream That made him sweetly smile ? Do coming sin and son'ow. Phantoms of dark to-morrow. Their shadows cast before. Clouding all o'er His baby-dreams, erewhOe So beautiful ? Harriet w. stillhan. SILENT BABY. The baby sits in her cradle. Watching the world go round, EnwTapt in a mystical silence Amid all the tumult of sound. She must be akin to the flowers, For no one has heard A whispered word From this silent baby of ours. Wondering, she looks at the children, As they merrUy laughing pass, And smiles o'er her face go rippling. Like sunshine over the grass And into the heart of the flowers ; But never a word Has yet been heard From this silent darling of ours. Has she a wonderful wisdom. Of unspoken knowledge a store, Hid away from all curious eyes. Like the mysterious lore Of the bees and the birds and the flowers ! Is this why no word Has ever been heard From this silent baby of ours ? Ah, baby, from out your blue eyes The angel of silence is smiling, — Though silvern hereafter your speech. Your sOence is golden, — beguiling All hearts to this darling of ours, Who speaks not a word Of all she has heard, Like the birds, the bees, and the flowers. Ellen Bartlett cur -^ IN'FA^X•Y. 23 ^ What sliall be the baby's name ! Shall we catch from sounding fame Some far-echoed word of praise Out of other climes or days ? Put upon her brow new-born Crowns that other brows have worn ? Shall we take some dearer word, Once within our circle lieard, Cherished yet, though spoken less, — Shall we lay its tenderness On the baby's little head. So to call again our dead ? Shall we choose a name of grace That befits the baby's face, — Something full of childish glee. To be sjioken joyously ? Something sweeter, softer yet. That shall say, " Behold our jiet ! " Nay ; the history of the great Must not weigh our baby's fate ; Nay ; tlie dear ones disenthralled Must not be by us recalled ; We shall meet them soon again, — Let us keep their names till then ! Nay ; we do not seek a word For a kitten or a bird ; Not to suit the baby ways. But to wear in after days, — Fit for uses grave and good. Wrapped in future womanhood, — For the mother's loving tongue While our daughter still is young; For the manly lips that may Call tlie maiden heart away ; For the time, yet tenderer. When her children think of her. Let us choose a Bible name. One that always bides the same. Sacred, sweet, in every land All men's reverence to command ; For our earthly uses given. And yet musical in heaven. One I know, these names amid, — " Beauty " is its meaning hid ; She who wore it made it good With her gracious womanhood: Name for virtue, love, and truth. Let us call the baby liuth. K05SITER w. Raymond. NO BABY IN THE HOUSE. No baby in the house, I know, 'T is far too nice and clean. No toys, by careless fingers strewn. Upon the floors are seen. No finger-marks are on the panes, No scratches on the chaii-s ; No wooden men set up in rows. Or marshaled off in pairs ; No little stockings to be darned, .All ragged at the toes ; No pile of mending to be done. Made up of baby-clothes ; No little troubles to be soothed ; No little hands to fold ; No grimy fingers to be washed ; No stories to be told ; No tender kisses to be given ; No nicknames, "Dove" and "Mi No merry frolics after tea, — No baby in the lious . G, DOLLIVER BABY'S SHOES. 0, THOSE little, those little blue shoes ! Those shoes that no little feet use I 0, the price were high That those shoes would buy, Tliose little blue unused shoes : For they hold the small shape of feet That no more their mother's eyes meet. That, by God's good-will, Yeare since, grew still. And ceased from their totter so sweet. And 0, since that baby .slept. So hushed, how the mother has kept. With a tearful pleasure. That little dear treasure. And over them thought and wept ! For they mind her forevermore Of a patter along the floor ; .\nd blue eyes she sees Look up from her knees With the look that in life they wore. As they lie before her there, There babbles from chair to chair A little sweet face That 's a gleam in the place. With its little gold curls of hair. -^ e-^: POEMS OF INFANCY AND YOUTH. ■a 'riion 0, wonder luit that lii>i' licart Frcun nil clso wouUl nitlu'r part 'riiiiii lliiisi' tiny liliio shoes TliMl no litdc IVol use, Anil wlinso sifjlit niukos siu'h fond tonrs start I WILLIAM C. IJIiNNIiTT. A CUADI.K SONG. Ill Nil, niy lU'iir ! Ho still niul sliiiiibi'r I Holy iiiiKi'ls KUiinl tliy Iwl ; ll.';i\i'iily lili'ssiii^s witlioul mimlior (J.nitly riilliii^'oii tliy lii'iid. Slrrp, n\y Imlio ! thy I'oiid iiiul niunoiit, House mill honu', thy friends (irovide; All willunit lliy care or paynieiU, Ml Ihy wiiuts .lie \\A\ supiilied. llnw iiiueh hotter thou'rt attended I'liau the Son of God eould be, Wlioii from hoavon ho doseended. And hooanioa ehihl like thoo. Soil and easy is thy eradle : Coaiso and hard thy Savionv ky : Wluii his l.iilhi.laoo'wasa stnhlo", And his sofl.st hod was hay. Si'o the kindly sho|iherds round him, 'rollinij wonders from the sky ! Where they soiij;lit him, there they fonnd him, With hii ViiKin-Motherhy. Sie the lovely haho a-drossiiif; ; Lovely infant, how lie smiled ! When ho wept, the mother's hlossing Soothed and luislied the lioly eliihi. 1.0, he sliimhei-s in his maiijjer. Where the horm^d oxen fed ; I'eaee, my darliuj; '■ hero's no danger I Here's no ox aiiear thy hed ! May'st lliou live to know and fear him, 'I'rnst and love him all Ihy days : Tlu'ii j:^i dwell foi-ever near him ; Si'e his faee, aiivl sing his praise. I eonld give thee thousand kisses, 1 1 oping what 1 most desii-e : Not a mother's fondest wishes (an to givater joys aspir*. THK MOTHER'S STRATAGEM. AN I.M'ANT PLAYING NliAR A PKGCIPICU. Wlili.Kon the elilVwith calm delight she kneels, And the blue vales a thousand joys reeall, See, to the last, last verge her infant steals ! 0, fly — yet stir not, speak not, lest it fall. — Far better taught, she lays her bosom hare, And the fond boy springs bnek to nestle there. WII.I.IF, VVINKIE. AVl-.l', Willie M'iiikie riiis through the town, I'p stairs and doon stairs, in his niehf-gown, 'rirlin' at the window, eryin' at the look, "Are the weans in their bed ? — for it 's now tvii o'clock." Tiey, Willie Winkio ! are ye eomin' ben ? The eat 'a singin' gay thrums to the slcepin' hen, The doug 's spidcUn-ed on the lloor, and disna gie a cheep ; But here 's a waukrife hiddie, that wiiina fa' asleep. Oiiy thing but sleep, ye rogue : — glow'rin' like the moon, Ihittlin' in an airn jug wi' an aim spoon, Kumblin', tumbliu' roun' about, crawiii' like a cock, >^kirlin' like a keuna-what — waukniu' sleepin' folk ! lli-y, Willie Wiukie 1 the wean 's in a ereei ! Waumblin' alf a bodie's knee like a vera eel, Uuggin' at the cat's lug, ajul ravellin' a' her thrums : Hey, Willie Wiukie ! — See, there he eonn-s I Wearie is the mitlier that has a storie wean, A wee stumpie .stoussie, that eanna riii his lane, That lias a battle aye wi' sleep, hefon' he '11 close an eo ; But a kiss frae alf his rosy lips gies strength aiien to nii>. LITTLE PUSS. Si.KEK coat, eyes of fiif , Four paws that never tii'e, That 's puss. Ways pliiyful, tail on high. Twisting often towanl the sky That 's ]mss. --& f INFANCY. 25 -a In the larder, stealing meat, Patter, patter, little feet, That 's puss. After ball, reel, or string. Wild as any living thing, That 's puss. Round and round, after tail. Fast as any [lostal mail, That 's puss. Culled up, like a ball. On the door-mat in the hall. That 's puss. Purring loud on missis' lap, Having toa.st, then a nap, That 's jjuss. Blai-k as night, with talons long, Scratehing, whieli is very wrong, That 's j)us3. From a saucer lapping milk. Soft, as soft as washing silk, That 's puss. KoUing on the dewy grass, Getting wet, all in a mass. That 's puss. ('limbing tree, and catching bird. Little twitter iievennore heard, Tliat 's puss. Killing Hy, rat, or mouse, As it runs about the house, That 's puss. Pet of missis, " Itte mite," Never must be out of sight, That 's puss. fr*- THE KITTEN AND FALLING LEAVES. That way look, my Infant, lo ! What a pretty baby-show ! See the Kitten on the wall. Sporting with the leaves that fall. Withered leaves — one — two — and three - From the lofty elder-tree ! Through the calm and frosty air <^tf this morning hright ami fair. Eddying round and round they sink Softly, slowly : one might think, From the motions that are made, Everj- little leaf conveyed Sylph or faery hither tending, — To this lower world descending. Each invisible and mute. In his wavering parachute. — But the Kitten, how .she starts. Crouches, stretches, paws, and darts ! First at one, and then its fellow Just as light and jusl as yellow ; There are many now — now one — Now they stop, and there are none : What intenseness of ilcsire In her upward eye of fire ! With a tiger-leap half-way Now she meets the coming prey, Lets it go as fast, and then Has it in her power again : Now she work.s with three or four, Like an Indian conjurer ; Quick as he in feats of art. Far beyond in joy of heart. Were her antics played in th' eye Of a thousand stamlers-by, flapping hands with shout and stare, What would little Tabby care For the plaudits of the crowd ? Over happy to be proud. Over wealthy in the treasure Of her own exceeding pleasure ! "Tis a pretty baby-treat ; Nor, I deem, for me unmeet ; Here, for neither Babe nor me. Other playmate can I see. Of the countless living things. That with stir of feet and wings (In the sun or under .shade. Upon bough or grassy blade) Ami with busy revelings, • hirp and song, and niurmuiings. Made this orchard's narrow space And this vale so blithe a place, — Multitudes are swept away Nevermore to breathe the day : Some are sleeping ; some in hands Traveled into distant lands ; Others slunk to moor and wood. Far from human neighborhood ; And, among the kinds that keep With us closer fellowship. With us openly abide. All have laid their mirth aside. Where is he, that giddy sprite. Blue-cap, with his colors bright. Who was blest as bird could Ije, Feeding in the apple-tree ; -S [& 26 I'UKMS OF INFANCY AND YOUTH. -a Made such wanton spoil and rout, Turning blossoms inside out ; Hung — head ]iointing towards the ground - Fluttered, perched, into a round Bound himself, and then unliound ; Lithest, gaudiest Harleipiin ; Prettiest Tumbler ever seen ; Light of heart and light of limb ; What is now become of him ? Lambs, that through the mountains went Frisking, bleating merriment, When the year was in its prime. They are sobered by this time. If you look to vale or hill. If you listen, all is still. Save a little neighboring rill. That from out the rocky ground Strikes a solitary sound. Vainly glitter hill and plain. And the air is calm in vain ; Vainly Morning spreads the lure Of a sky serene and pure ; Creature none can she decoy Into open sign of joy : Is it that they have a fear Of the dreary season near ? Or that other pleasures be Sweeter e'en than gayety ? Yet, whate'er enjoyments dwell In the impenetrable cell Of the silent heart which Nature Furnishes to every creature ; Whatsoe'er we feel and know Too sedate for outward show, — Such a light of gladness breaks, Pretty Kitten ! from thy freaks, — Spreads with such a living grace O'er my little Dora's face ; Yes, the sight so stirs and charms Thee, Baby, laughing in my arms. That almost I could repine That your transports are not mine, That I do not wholly fare Even as ye do, thoughtless pair ! And I will have my careless season. Spite of melancholy reason ; Will walk through life in such a way That, when time brings on decay, Now and then I may possess Hours of perfect gladsomeness. — Pleased by any random toy ; By a kitten's busy joy. Or an infant's laughing eye Sharing in the ecstasy ; I would fare like that or this. Find my wisdom in my bliss ; Keep the sprightly soul awake ; And liavp fnrulties to take. Even from things by sorrow WTOUght, Matter for a jocund thought ; Spite of care, and spite of grief. To gambol with Life's falling Leaf. "COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON." Little Four Years, little Two Years, Merry Christmas ! Happy New- Year's ! That is what I wish for you ; Shall I tell you what to do That will make my wish come true ? Cheerful looks and words are very Sure to make the Christmas merry : Tongues that speak the truth sincere, Hearts that hold each other dear. These will make a liappy year. Four Years is of Two the doulile, — Should be twice as brave iu trouble, Twice as gentle, twice as kind, Always twice as much inclined Mother's words to keep in mind ; So that Two Years, when she 's older. May remember what is told her, Jnst as Four Years did before, — Only think ! in two years more Little Two Years will be Four ! ROSSITER W. RAVMON y— NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP. Golden head so lowly bending. Little feet so white and bare. Dewy eyes, half shut, half opened. Lisping out her evening praj'er. "Now I lay," — repeat it, darling — " \my me," lisped the tiny lips Of my daughter, kneeling, bending O'er the folded finger-tips. "Down to sleep,"— " To sleep." she murmured, And the curly head bent low ; " 1 pray the Lord," I gently added, " You can say it all, I know." " Pray the Lord," — the sound came faintly, Fainter still, — "my soul to keep" ; Then the tired head fairly nodded. And the child was fast asleep. But the dewy eyes half opened When 1 clasped her to my breast. -^ a- INFANCY. ^ And tlie dear voice softly whispered, "Mamma, God knows all the rest." 0, the trusting, sweet confiding Of the child-heart ! Would that I Thus might trust my Heavenly Father, He who hears my feeblest cry. 0, the rapture, sweet, unbroken. Of the soul who WTote that prayer ! Children's mjTiaJ voices, floating Up to Heaven, record it there. If, of all that has been written, I could choose what might be mine, It should be that child's petition, Kising to the throne di\'ine. MRS. R. S. HO\\1.AND. ty- LITTLE PUSS. A LITTLE golden head close to my knee, Sweet eyes of tender, gentianella blue Fixed upon mine, a little coa.xing voice, — Only we two. "Tell it .igain !" Insatiate demand ! And like a toiling spider where I sat, I wove and spun the many-colored webs Of this and that. Of Dotty Pringle sweeping out her haU ; Of Greedy Bear ; of Santa Claus the good ; And how the little children met the Months Within the wood. " Tell it again ! " and though the sand-man came. Dropping his drowsy grains in each blue eye, "Tell it again ! 0, just once more ! " was still The sleepy cry. My spring-time violet ! early snatched away To fairer gardens all unknown to me, — Gardens of whose invisible, guarded gates I have no key, — • I weave my fancies now for other ears, — Thy sister-blossom's, who beside me sits, Rosy, imperative, and quick to mark My lagging wits. But still the stories bear thy name, are thine. Part of the sunshine of thy brief, sweet day. Though in her little warm and living hands This book I lay. SUSAN COOLrDGE. LITTLE GOLDENHAIR. GoLDENHAlK climbed up on grandpapa's knee ; Dear little Goldenhair, tii'ed Wiis she. All the day busy as busy could be. Up in the morning as soon as 't was light, Out with the birds and butterflies bright, Skipping about till the coming of night. Grandpapa toyed with the curls on her head. " What has my darling been doing," he .said, "Since she rose with the sun from her bed ;" " Pitty much," answered the sweet little one. " 1 cannot tell so much things 1 have done, Played with my dolly and feeded my bun. " .\nd then 1 jumped witli my little junip-roi)e. And 1 made out of some water and sou)) Biiotiful worlds, mamma's castles of hope. "Tluin I have readed in my picture-book. And BeUa and I, we went to look For the smooth little stones by the side of the brook. " And then I comed home and eated my tea. And I climbed up on grandpapa's knee. And I jes as tired as tired can be." Lower and lower the little head pressed, Until it had dropped upon grandpajia's breast ; Dear little Goldenhair, sweet be thy rest I We are but children ; things that we do Are as sports of a babe to the Infinite view That marks all our weakness, and pities it too. God grant that when night ovei-shadows our way, And we shall be called to account for our day, He shall find us as guileless as Goldenhair's lay ! And 0, when aweary, may we be so blest. And sink like the innocent child to our rest. And feel oui'selves clasped to the Infinite bre of mirth and joy ! In love's dear chain so blight a link, Thou idol of thy parents ; — (Drat the boy ! There goes my ink. ) Thou cherub, but of earth ; Fit playl'ellow for fays, by moonlight pale, In hai-mless sport and mirth, (That dog will bite him, if he pulls his tail ! ) Thou human humming-bee, extracting honey From every blossom in the world that blows. Singing in youth's Elysium ever sunny, — (Another tumble ! That 's his precious nose !) Thy father's pride and hope ! (He '11 break the mirror with that skipping- rope !) With pure lieart newly st.imped from nature's mint, (Where did he learn that squint ?) Thou young domestic dove ! (He '11 have that ring oS' with another shove,) Dear nureling of the hymeneal nest ! (Are these torn clothes his liest ?) ^ ttr INFANCY. Little epitome of man ! (He '11 climb upon the table, that 's his plan !) Touched vdih the beauteous tints of dawning life, (He 's got a knife !) Thou enviable being ! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing. Play on, play on. My elfin John ! Toss the light ball, bestride the stick, — (I knew so many cakes would make him sick !) With fancies buoyant as the thistle-down. Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk ! (He's got the scissors, snipping at your gown ! ) Thou pretty opening rose ! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose ! ) Balmy and breathing music like the south, (He really brings my heart into my mouth !) Bold as the hawk, yet gentle as the dove ; (I '11 tell you what, my love, I cannot write unk-ss he 's sent aliove. ■! Thomas Hood. h THE LOST HEIR. One day, as I wa.s going by That part of Holl>orn christened High, I heard a loud and sudden cry That chilled my very blood ; And lo ! fiom out a dirty alley, Where pigs and Irish wont to rally, I saw a crazy woman sally, Bedaubed with gi-ease and muil. She turned her East, she turned her West, Staring like Pythoness possest. With streaming hair and heaving breast. As one stark mad with grief. "0 Lord ! Odear, my heart will break, I shall go stick stark staring wild ! Has ever a one seen anything about the streets like a crying lost-looking child ? Lawk help me, I don't know where to look, or to run, if I only knew which way — A Child as is lost about London streets, and es- pecially Seven Dials, is a needle in a bottle of hay. 1 am all in a quiver — get out of my sight, do, you WTetch, you little Kitty M'Nab ! You promised to have lialf an eye to him, you know vou did, vou dirtv deceitful youn" drab ! The last time as ever I see him, poor thing, was with my own blessed Motherly eyes, Sitting as good as gold in the gutter, a playing at making little dirt-pies. I wonder he left the court, where he was better off than all the other young boys. With two bricks, an old shoe, nine oyster-shells, and a dead kitten, by way of toys. When his Father comes home, and he always comes home as sure as ever the clock strikes one, He'll be rampant, he will, at his child being lost ; and tlie beef and the inguns not done ! La bless you, good folks, mind your own con- sarns, and don't be making a mob in the street ; Sergeant M'Farlane ! you have not come acro.ss my poor little boy, have you, in your beat ? Do, good people, move on ! don't stand st