ON THE BANKS OF THETENNESSEE BY WILLIAM D. GALLAGHER. I sit by the open window, And look to the hills away, Over beautiful undulations That glow with ...
GOOD WILL. BY JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE. I suppose you all, my boys, are looking for some sort of success in life; it is right that you should; but wha...
A LEGEND OF BREGENZ. BY ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER. Girt round with rugged mountains The fair Lake Constance lies; In her blue heart reflected, Shine back ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
"The Southern Transept,hardly known by any other name but Poet's Corner." DEAN STANLEY. TREAD softly here; the sacredest of tombs Are th...