I Shakespeare and Milton——what third blazoned name Shall lips of after-ages link to these？ His who， beside the wild encircling seas， Was E...
From yonder gilded minaret Beside the steel-blue Neva set， I faintly catch， from time to time， The sweet， aerial midnight chime—— "Go...
[One of the Bearers soliloquizes：] 。 . . Room in your heart for him， O Mother Earth， Who loved each flower and leaf that made you fair， And sang your ...
"The Southern Transept，hardly known by any other name but Poet's Corner." DEAN STANLEY. TREAD softly here； the sacredest of tombs Are th...
III I see him as men saw him once——a face Of true Napoleon pallor； round the eyes The wrinkled care； mustache spread pinion-wise， Pointing...
II What if the boulevards， at set of sun， Reddened， but not with sunset's kindly glow？ What if from quai and square the murmured woe Swept heavenw...
I Now there was one who came in later days To play at Emperor： in the dead of night Stole crown and sceptre， and stood forth to light In sudden purple...
THE SONG OF STEAM. Harness me down with your iron bands, Be sure of your curb and rein, For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As a tempest scorn...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and f...
THE BROOK. BY ALFRED TENNISON. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By...