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Robert Browning 246
...James Thomson 246
The Blue and the Gray..................F. M. Finch
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers......
247
George Perkins Morris 264
..........Bayard F. Taylor 264
........N. G. Shepherd 265
The Lark and Her Little Ones with the Owner
of a Field.........
....
265
The Orphan Boy........................ Charles Swain 265
Will the New Year Come To-Night, Mamma?....
Cora M. Eager 267
The Last Time That I Met Lady Ruth....
Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) 267
The Snow-Flake .....
The Minstrel Girl.
A Song of the Mole
............Hannah Flagg Gould 263
..John Greenleaf Whittier 268
Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) 268
Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother..........
Amelia Blanford Edwards 268
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is...... William Byrd 259
The Blind Man... .....................
................. William Lisle Bowles 271
Somebody's Darling..............Marie R. Lacoste 271
Tell Me, Ye Winged Winds....... Charles Mackay 271
The Collier's Dying Child.........
Wind and Rain............Richard Henry Stoddard 272
The Funeral......
Will M. Carleton 272
Nine Graves in Edinboro'..............Irwin Russell 273
When I Beneath the Cold Red Earth am Sleep-
ing.........................
.......... William Motherwell 274
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music......
.......
The Creole Lover's Song..........
254
Art and Nature.........................
Expectation.......
Thomas Gray 254 ............Gerald Massey 255
A Psalm of Life... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 256
Those Evening Bells........... Thomas Moore 256
Dædalus..........
Dickens in Camp .....
272
John Dryden 274
William Shakespeare 275
.......... John Sterling 276
Bret Harte 276
James Melville's Child..........Anna Stuart Menteath 276
Looking into the Future
Thomas Campbell 277
Only Waiting ...............Francis Laughton Mace 277
The Wants of Man.............. John Quincy Adams 278
The Raven.........
.....Edgar Allen Poe 279
There's No Dearth of Kindness... Gerald Massey 281
What I Live For................... G. Linnæus Banks 281
Look Aloft.............. ............. Jonathan Lawrence 282
The Death of Absalom Nathaniel Parker Willis 283
Claude Melnotte's Apology and Defense..........
Lord Lytton 284
The Shaded Water......... William Gilmore Simms 284
The Portrait........
Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith 286
A Mother's Wail....
...Henry Timrod 287
A Common Thought..................Henry Timrod 288
Good-By, Proud World...Ralph Waldo Emerson 288
The Deserted Village.............. Oliver Goldsmith 288
292
Page.
Charlotte M. Griffiths 290
Come to the Sunset Tree..........
The Weaver........
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 312
When the Cows Come Home.....Mary E. Nealey 313
Cornfields...........
...Mary Howitt 313
Driving Home the Cows............. Kate P. Osgood 314
Town and Country.................................. William Cowper 314
My Heart's in the Highlands.........Robert Burns 314
Hunting Song....
Paul Whitehead 314
The Cave........
...James Macpherson 314
Harvest Song...
Eliza Cook 315
The Farmer's Wife..........Paul Hamilton Hayne 315
River and Wood...................... William Barnes 316
Farm-Yard Song.....John Townsend Trowbridge 316
The Horseback Ride.........
Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) 317
The House on the Hill...............Eugene J. Hall 317
On the Banks of the Tennessee..
William D. Gallagher 318
The Happiness of Animals.................. William Cowper 319
On the Bridge of Sighs... Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Parting.....
Thomas Kibble Hervey 323
The Little Match-Girl...Hans Christian Andersen 323
Thou Art Gone to the Grave.........
.....
A Shepherd's Life...........
Your Mission.........
Knocked About...
Tubal Cain...........
Caroline Elizabeth Norton 303 ...Robert Bloomfield 303 304 Daniel Connoly 304 Charles Mackay 304
RURAL LIFE.
Bishop Reginald Heber 324
The Lot of Thousands....................Mrs. Hunter 325
The Little Grave.........
The Widowed Mother............
The Maiden's Grave........
Shipwrecked Hopes...........
325
..John Wilson 325
326
Hiram Rich 326
Lord Macaulay...........
Joseph Mazzini......................
William Shakespeare 350
Walter Savage Landor 350
Laura C. Redden
Howard Glyndon) 350
Daniel Boone........
Lord Byron 351
A Welcome to "Boz"......... .... W. H. Venable 351
To Victor Hugo............. ..Alfred Tennyson 352
The Burial of Moses..... Cecil Frances Alexander 353
To the Memory of Thomas Hood.....
Bartholomew Simmons 353
The Land of the West............ George P. Morris 354
Monody on Samuel Patch.........Robert C. Sands 354
The Orient..........
..........Lord Byron 355
Liberty to Athens............. James Gates Percival 355
Jerusalem Before the Siege of Titus...................
Henry Hart Milman 355
Sunny Italy......................... Edward C. Pinkney 356 !
"Peace I Leave With You"..........Mrs. Waring 367
Herbert Schmolk 367
Nancy Woodbury Priest 368
The Father's Love......Mary, Queen of Hungary 368
The Martyr's Hymn........... ...Martin Luther 369
Rock of Ages...
Edward H. Rice 369
Softly Woo Away Her Breath....
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 369
Resignation ....Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 370
Christ's Presence in the House........
........
James Freeman Clarke 370
There Is No Death..............
Lord Lytton 370
The Sabbath Morning... .............. John Leyden 371
The Drowning Singer......Marianne Farningham 371
Abide with Me..........
Henry F. Lyte 372
Faith and Hope..............
Rembrandt Peale 372
Now and Afterwards. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 372
The Angels' Whisper............ Samuel Lover 372
Hymn of the Hebrew Maid......Sir Walter Scott 373
The Dying Christian to His Soul.........
Alexander Pope 373
Watchman, What of the Night?..........
373
The Changed Cross.......... Mrs. Charles Hobart 374
The Ministry of Angels............Edmund Spenser 375
The Dying Saviour......
..Paul Gerhardt 375
For Love's Sake............ Margaret J. Preston 375
Different Minds. .........Richard Chenevix Trench 376
The Hour of Death..... Felicia Dorothea Hemans 377
The Religion of Hudibras....... ....Samuel Butler 377
Creative Power................... ....Joseph Addison 377
No Sects in Heaven...................Mrs. Cleveland 378
John Jankin's Sermon.
379
We've Always Been Provided For...........
Mercy.........
Last Hymn................
William Shakespeare 380
..........Mary G. Brainard 380
A Father Reading the Bible...........
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 380