Songs of Three Centuries. Edited by J. G. W

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. IT would be doing injustice to the compiler of this volume to suppose that his work implied any lack of appreciation of the excellent antholo gies already published in this country. Dana's "Household Book of Poetry" is no misnomer ; and the honored names of Bryant and Emerson are a sufficient guaranty for "Parnassus" and the "Library of Song." With no thought of superseding or even of entering into direct competition with these large and valuable collections, it has been my design to gather up in a comparatively small volume, easily accessible to all classes of readers, the wisest thoughts, rarest fancies, and devoutest hymns of the metrical authors of the last three centuries. To use Shelley's definition of poetry, I have en deavored to give something like " a record of the best thoughts and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."

The plan of my work has com pelled me to confine myself, in a great measure, to the lyrical productions of the authors quoted, and to use only the briefer poems of the old drama tists and such voluminous writers as Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Cowper, Pope, Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and the Brownings. Of course, no anthology, however ample its extracts, could do justice to the illimitable genius of Shakespeare. It is possible that it may be thought an undue prominence has been given to the poetry of the period beginning with Cowper and reaching down to Tennyson and his living contemporaries. But it must be considered that the last century has been prolific in song; and, if Shakespeare and Milton still keep their unapproachable position, " souls like stars that dwell apart," there can be little doubt that the critical essayist of the twentieth century will make a large advance upon the present estimate, not only of Cowper and Burns, but of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Ten nyson, and Emerson.

It will be seen that the middle of the sixteenth century is the earliest date of my citations. The great name of Chaucer does not appear ; and some of the best of the early ballad poetiy of England and Scotland has been reluc-

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. tantly omitted. James L, whose Queen's Quhair has hidden his kingly crown under the poet's garland, William Dunbar, and Sackville, Earl of Dorset, may well be thought worthy of a place in any collection of English verse, but the language and rhythm of these writers render them wellnigh unintelligible to the ordinary reader. The selections I have made indicate, in a general way, my preferences ; but I have not felt at liberty to oppose my own judgment or prejudice to the best critical authorities, or to attempt a reversal of the verdicts of Time. It would be too much to hope that I have, in all cases, made the best possi ble exposition of an author's productions. Judging from my own experi ence in looking over selected poems, I cannot doubt that my readers will often have occasion to question the wisdom of my choice, and regret the omission of favorite pieces.

It is rarely that persons of equal capacity for right judging can be found to coincide entirely in regard to the merits of a particular poem. The canons of criticism are by no means fixed and infalli ble ; and the fashion of poetry, like that of the world, " passeth away." Not only every age, but every reader, holds the right of private judgment. It would be difficult for any literary inquisitor-general to render a good reason for condemning as a heretic the man who finds the "Castle of Indo lence " pleasanter reading than the " Faerie Queene," who prefers Cowper to Dryden, Scott to Byron, and Shelley to Scott, who passes by Moore's " Lalla Eookh " to take up Clough's " Bothie of Tober-na Vuolich," who thinks Emerson's " Threnody " better than Milton's " Lycidas," and who would not exchange a good old ballad or a song of Burns for the stateliest of epics.

The considerable space which I have given to American authors will, I trust, fihd its justification in the citations from their writings. The poetical literature of our country can scarcely be said to have a longer date than that of a single generation. As a matter of fact, the very fathers of it are still living. It really commenced with Bryant's " Thanatopsis " and Dana's " Buccaneer." The grave, philosophic tone, chaste simplicity of language, freedom of versification, and freshness and truth of illustration, which marked the former poem, and the terse realism of the " Buccaneer," with its stern pictures of life and nature drawn with few strokes sharp and vigorous as those of Betzsch's outlines, left the weak imitators of an artificial school without an audience. All further attempts to colonize the hills and pastures of New England from old mythologies were abandoned ; our boys and girls no longer figured in impossible pastorals.

If we have no longer ambitious Columbiads and Conquests of Canaan, we have at least truth and nature, wit and wisdom, in Bryant's " Robert of Lincoln," Emerson's " Hum blebee," Lowell's " Courtin'," and " The One-Hoss Shay " of Holmes. In dealing with contemporary writers I have found myself embarrassed by

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. V the very large number of really noticeable poems, many of which, although in my own estimation vastly better than those of some of the old versifiers whose age and general reputation have secured them a place in this volume, I have been compelled to omit solely from lack of space. The future gleaner in the fields over which I have passed will doubtless find many an ungar nered sheaf quite as well worth preserving as these I have gathered within the scanty limits of my compendium. The rare humorists of our time, espe cially such poets as Holmes and Lowell, can be only partially represented in these necessarily brief selections. It may be observed that the three divisions of the book do not strictly correspond to the headings which indicate them, — the first, for instance, beginning before Shakespeare and ending somewhat after Milton.

It is difficult to be quite exact in such classifications ; and as it seemed desirable to make their number as small as possible, I trust the few leading names mentioned may serve to characterize the periods they accompany with a sufficient degree of accuracy. Pope was doubtless the great master of what is sometimes spoken of as artificial verse, shaping the mould of poetic thought for his own and the succeeding generation ; but as Dryden stands in point of time nearer to the colossal name which closes the first period of English song, he has been chosen as a representative of the second, in connection and contrast with Burns, who, in his vigorous rebound from the measured pomp of rhymed heroics to the sturdiest and homeliest Scottish simplicity, gave to the modern lyric its inspiration, striking for the age the musical pitch of true and tender emotion, as decidedly as Wordsworth has touched for it the key-note of the thoughtful harmonies of natural and intellectual beauty.

Tennyson undoubtedly stands at the head of all living singers, and his name might well serve as the high-water mark of modern verse ; but as our vol ume gives a liberal space to American authorship, I have ventured to let the name of the author of " Evangeline " represent, as it well may, the present poetic culture of our English-speaking people at home and abroad. While by no means holding myself to a strict responsibility as regards the sentiment and language of the poems which make up this volume, and while I must confess to a large tolerance of personal individuality manifesting it self in widely varying forms of expression, I have still somewhat scrupu lously endeavored to avoid in my selections everything which seemed liable to the charge of irreverence or questionable morality. In this respect the poetry of the last quarter of a century, with a few exceptions, has been note worthy for purity of thought and language, as well as for earnestness and religious feeling.

The Muse of our time is a free but profoundly reverent inquirer ; it is rarely found in " the seat of the scorner." If it does not always speak in the prescribed language of creed and formula, its utterances often give, evidence of fresh communion with that Eternal Spirit whose

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. VI responses are never in any age or clime withheld from the devout ques tioner. My great effort has been to make a thoroughly readable book. W nil this in view I have not given tedious extracts from dull plays and weary epics, but have gathered up the best of the old ballads and short, time approved poems, and drawn largely from contemporary writers and the waifs and estrays of unknown authors. I have also, as a specialty of the work, made a careful selection of the best hymns in our language. I am prepared to find my method open to criticism from some quarters, but I have catered not so much for the scholarly few as for the great mass of readers to whose "snatched leisure" my brief lyrical selections would seem to have a special adaptation. It only remains for me to acknowledge the valuable suggestions and aid I have received from various sources during the preparation of this volume, and especially the essential assistance I have had from Lucy Larcom of Beverly Farms, to whose services I have before been indebted in the com pilation of " Child Life."

J. G. W. Amesbuet, 9th mo., 1875. CONTENTS. FROM SHAKESPEARE TO MILTON. Page Thought Lord Thomas Vaux . 3 Majesty of God Thomas Sternhold . . 3 No Age content with his own Estate . . H. Howard, Earl of Surrey 3 Pleasure mixed with Pain Sir Thomas Wyatt . . 4 A Description of such a one as he would love " " " . . 4 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love . . Christopher Marlowe . 4 The Nymph's Reply Sir Walter Raleigh . . 5 The Pilgrim " " " . . 5 The Soul's Errand " " " . . 5 Sonnets Sir Philip Sidney . . 6 Lament for Astrophel (Sir Philip Sidney) Matthew Roydon ... 7 Angelic Ministry Edmund Spenser ... 7 The True Woman " "... 7 From the Epithalamium " " ... 8 Una and the Lion " "... 8 The House of Riches " " ... 9 The Bower of Bliss " "... 9 Content and Rich Robert Southwell ... 10 A Summer's Day Alexander Hume . . 10 The Soul Sir John Davies ... 11 Contentment Thomas Nash. ... 12 The Lessons of Nature William Drummond . 12 To his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia .

Sir Henry Wotton . . 13 The Good Man " " " . . 13 RevengEitOF Injuries Lady Elizabeth Carew . 13 From an Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland Samuel Daniel . . . 14 My Mind to me a Kingdom is William Byrd ... 15 Songs : Ariel's Song William Shakespeare . 16 The Fairy to Puck " " .16 CONTEXTS. Amiens's Song William Shakespeare . . 16 A Sea Dirge " " . . 16 Hark ! hark ! the Lark ! " . . 16 Under the Greenwood-Tree .... . . 16 Dirge for Fidele . . 16 Sonnets . . 17 The Noble Nature Ben Jonson 18 Song of Hesperus " " IS On Lucy, Countess of Bedford .... " " 19 The Sweet Neglect " " 19 How near to Good is what is Fair ! . . " " 19 Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H " " 19 Love will find out the Way .... Unknown 19 May-Day Song " 20 Begone Dull Care ! " 20 Farewell to the Fairies Bishop Richard Corbctt . . 20 Robin Goodfellow Unknoicn 21 Edom o' Gordon " 22 Take thy Auld Cloak about thee ...

" 24 The Barring o' the Door " 24 He that loves a Rosy Cheek Thomas Carew .... 25 The Sirens' Song William Browne ... 25 Song " " .... 25 Fair and Unworthy Sir Robert Ayton .... 26 "Music William Strode .... 26 Good-Morrow Thomas Heywood ... 26 Search after God ... 26 Sic Vita Henry King 27 Elegy " " 28 I 'll never love thee more Marquis of Mont rose . . 28 Death the Leveller James Shirley .... 23 Celinda E. Herbert (Earl of Chcrbury) 29 Evening Hymn Sir Thomas Browne ... 29 Wishes Richard Crashaw ... 29 To Althea Sir Richard Lovelace . . 30 To Lucasta " " "... 30 To Daffodils Robert Hcrrick .... 30 To Blossoms " " .... 31 To keep a true Lent " " . . ■ . . 31 AriRTUE George Herbert .... 31 The Flower " " .... 31 Rest " " .... 32 The Bird Henry Vaughan .... 32 They are all gone " " .... 33 For one that hears himself much praised George Wither ....

CONTEXTS. IX Companionship of the Muse George Wither ... 34 Thoughts in a Garden Andrew Marvcll ... 34 The Bermudas " " ... 35 Hymn on the Nativity John Milton .... 35 Sonnets : On arriving at the Age of twenty'-three " " .... 38 On his Blindness " " . . . . 3S Prayer Thomas Elwood ... 39 Resignation Richard Baxter ... 39 In Prison Sir Roger L 'Estrange . 39 Old Age and Death Edmund Waller . . 40 Of Myself Abraham Cowley . . 40 Liberty " " . . 41 FROM DRYDEN TO BURNS. Song for Saint Cecilia's Day-, 1687 . . . John Dryden .... 45 Under Milton's Picture " " .... 46 Character of a Good Parson " " .... 46 Reason " " ... 46 Morning Hymn Thomas Ken .... 46 Hymn Joseph Addison ... 47 Paraphrase of Psalm XXIII " " ... 47 The Universal Prayer Alexander Pope ... 48 Happiness "... 48 Soxg Allan Ramsay ... 49 The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody John Gay 50 Careless Content John Byrom .... 51 From the "Castle of Indolence" ....

James Thomson ... 51 . TT It 11 F.O A Hymn . . . on Grongar Hill John Dyer 54 The Braes of Yarrow William Hamilton . . 56 The Heavenly Land Isaac Watts .... 57 Ye Golden Lamps of Heaven, farewell ! . Philip Doddriclge . . 58 Jesus, Lover of my Soul Charles Wesley ... 58 Love Divine, all Love excelling .... Augustus M. Toplady . 58 On the Death of Dr. Levett Samuel Johnson ... 59 The Schoolmistress William Slicnslone . . 59 Elegy, written in a Country Churchyard . Thomas Gray .... 60 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College .... 62 Dirge in Cymbeline William Collins ... 63 Ode to Evening ... 04 The Chameleon J«mes Merrick ... 64 From "The Deserted Village" Oliver Goldsmith . . . CONTEXTS. X The Friar of Orders Gray TJiomas Percy ... 67 Loss of the Royal George William Cowper ... 69 Lines to my Mother's Picture • ■ ■ Mysteries of Providence ■ ' ' ' The Mariner's Wife William Julius Mickle 71 The Hermit James Beattie . . . . .72 The Dead John Langhorne . . . 73 The Three Warnings Mrs. Thrale ... . 73 The Sabbath of the Soul L. Barbauld . 7 i The Death of the Virtuous l_ T . « " . . 75 Life „, AVhat ails this Heart o' mine?

Susanna Bl ami re . . 75 To the Cuckoo John LocJan *» c "".... 75 Yarrow Stream Bonnie George Campbell nifowu-a 7b Waly, waly, but love be Bonny .... .... Lady Mary Ann " .it The Bciatie rows . . ■ " 78 Glenlogie " 78 John Davidson .... Had I a Heart for Falsehood framed . . Richard B. Sheridan . /9 The Minstrel's Song in Ella Thomas Chattcrton . . 79 Isaac Ashford Cmbbe ■ • • ■ M A -\yISH Samuel Rogers ... 81 " " SI Italian Song ... Of a' the Airts the Wind can blaw . . . Robert Bums .... 82 (( tt QO Mary Morison • ■ • • us " " 82 Highland Mary ■ • ■ • M To Mary in Heaven " " .... 83 A Vision " " ■ ■ • • 83 A Bard's Epitaph " " .... 83 Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson . . " " .... 84 Auld Eobin Gray lady Anne Barnard . 85 The Tiger William Blake ... 85 To the Muses " " ... 86 The Gowan glitters on the Sward . . .

Joanna Baillie ... 86 The Land o' the Leal Lady Caroline Nairn . S6 The Soldier's Return Robert Blooms eld . . 87 Lament for Flodden '. • Jane Elliott .... 88 The Midges dance aboon the Burn . . . Robert TannaMU . . 8S The Braes o' Bai.qfhither " ... 88 Tn the Lady Anne Hamilton William R. Spencer . 89 The Dead who have died in the Lord . . James Glassford ... 89 Night and Death Joseph Blanco White . 89 Ode to an Indian Gold Coin John Lcydcn .... CONTENTS. XI Written after Recovery from a Dangerous Illness Sir Humphry Davy . . 90 Cupid grown careful George Croly .... 91 To the Herb Rosemary Henry Kirkc White . . 92 To an Early Primrose " " " . . 92 The Star of Bethlehem " " " . . 93 Lines written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire Herbert Knowlcs ... 93 FROM WORDSWORTH TO LONGFELLOW. Intimations of Immortality The Daffodils William Wordsworth 97 99 To the Cuckoo A Memory . .

" 100 100 She was a Phantom of Delight Yarrowunvisited 100 101 On a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm . Ode to Duty 101 102 To Sleep 103 The World " " 103 To the River Duddon Young Lochinvar . . 103 Sir Walter Scott . . 104 A Serenade Song . . . . . 105 . . 105 It It tt 105 Lay of the Imprisoned Huntsman The Trosachs tt ti it 105 tt it it 106 Coronach " . . 107 Hymn of the Hebrew Maid Christmas-Time " . . 107 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 108 Genevieve Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chatt tt << i09 mouni ,< tt tt 110 Christabel . Stanzas . . Robert Southey . . . 117 "... 117 The Inchcape Rock Brough Bells "... 118 Charles Lamb ... 120 The Housekeeper "... 120 The Old Familiar Faces Hester "... 120 James Hogg . ... 121 AVhen Maggy gangs away The Rapture of Kilmeny Fly to the Desert . . " . . . . 121 Thomas Moore . . ■ 123 " . . . 124 The Mid Hour of Night The ArALE of Avoca . .

"... XJI CONTENTS. 0 thou who dry'st the Mourner's Tear Thomas Moore . . . • 124 Thou art, 0 God! ' ' ' ' " She walks in Beauty George Gor^n(Lord Byron) 125 The Destruction of Sennacherib ... n " " " 12b The Lake of Geneva tt (* tt " l^b Mont Blanc (< t< f( g. The Immortal Mind Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples Percy Bysshe Shelley . . 127 '<"".. 127 To a Skylark u (< f| One Word is too often profaned ... - The Eve of Saint Agnes ■**" Kcats \f The Common Lot James Montgomery . . . 135 T " " 13"> Forever with the Lord " " ... 136 Pp WFP ,*••»■■"" Whilst Thee I seek Berlen Maria Williams . 136 There was Silence in Heaven .... Unknown, 136 To a bereaved Mother Mn Quiney Adams . . 137 Lament Walter Savage Landor . 137 The Last Man '.'.'.'. ™omas Campbell . . . 138 << " ... 138 Glenara Lord Ullin's Daughter Hymn to the Flowers Horace Smith .... 140 Address to an Egyptian Mummy ...

" .... A Ghost at Noon Ebcnezcr Elliott . . . . 142 tt tt 1 40 Forest Worship Corn-Law Hymn " .... 1-4' If thou wert by my Side Reginald Hebcr ... 143 Not ours the Vows Bernard Barton . . . 144 An Angel in the House Le^ Hunt 144 AV>u Ben Adhem and the Angel ... " I44 A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea . . . Allan Cunningham . . 144 Thou hast sworn by thy God . . . . " • • I45 She's gane to dwall in Heaven ..." . . 145 The Evening Cloud John Wilson .... 146 From the Recesses Sir John Bowring ... 146 TT . """... 146 Hymn The Bucket Samuel Woodworth . . 147 After a Summer SnowER Andrews Norton ... 147 Mariner's Hymn Caroline Bowles Soathey . 14S The Soul's Defiance Lavinia Stoddard ... 148 0, WHY SHOULD THE SriRIT OF MORTAL BE proud ? William Knar .... 149 The Jackdaw of Rheims Richard H. Barham . . 150 My Life is like the Summer Rose . . .

Richard Henry Wilde . 152 The Burial of Sir John Moore .... Charles Wolfe .... CONTENTS. XIII Sweet Home John Howard Payne ... 153 The Childe's Destiny Felicia Hemans 153 Kindred Hearts " " 154 Marriage Maria Brooks 154 May James G. Percival .... 155 To Seneca Lake " " " .... 155 The Fall of Niagara John G. C. Brainard ... 155 Epithalamium " " " ... 156 The Memory of the Heart .... Daniel Webster 156 The American Flag Joseph Rodman Drake . . . 156 Passing away John Pierpont 157 To Congress " " 158 Jeanie Morrison William Motherwcll . . . 159 The Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood 160 Morning Meditations " " 160 Song " " 161 Ruth " " 161 Hymn of Nature W. B. 0. Peabody .... 162 I would not live alway W. A. Muhlenbcrg .... 162 The Irish Emigrant Lady Dufferin 163 The Belle of the Ball Winthrop M. Praed . . . 163 Love and Friendship •. .

William Leggett .... 165 A Health Edward Coatc Pinkney . . 165 Burns Filz-GrceneHalleck . . . 165 On a Portrait of Red Jacket ... " " .... 166 Sonnet William Lloyd Garrison . . 168 Ambition John Ncal 168 Pilgrim Song . . George Lunt 168 The Family Meeting Charles Sprague .... 169 Our Mary Henry Scott Riddell . . . 169 The Forging of the Anchor .... Samuel Ferguson . . . . 170 The Bells of Shandon Francis Mahony (Father Prout) 171 Unseen Spirits Nathaniel Parker Willis . . 172 From Melanie " " " . . 172 Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth Norton . 173 The Sabbath Edward Lord Lylton . . . 174 Faith Frances Anne Kcmblc . . . 175 Hymn John Sterling 175 Labor Frances S. Osgood . . . . 175 The Present Heaven Jones Very 176 To the Painted Columbine " " 176 Evening Song Thomas Miller 177 Morning John Keble 177 Inward Music " " 178 O Saviour ! whose Mercy Sir Robert Grant ....

CONTENTS. Trust Dean of Canterbury . ■ ■ 179 A Petition to Time B.W. Procter (Barry Cornvmll) 179 A Prayer in Sickness .....'." " " " ■ 1"9 The Brookside Richard Monckton Milncs . . 181 The Men of Old " " " . . 180 The Palm and the Pine " " " . . 180 Tibbie Inglis Mary Howitt 181 The Departure of the Swallow . . William Howitt .... 182 Lucy's Flittin' William Laidlaw .... 182 Summer Days Unknown 183 Losses Frances Browne 184 We are Brethren a' Robert Nicoll 184 The Island Richard H. Dana .... 185 The Pirate •■■•■• . . . . 1S6 The Spectre Horse <««««■ .... 185 To a Waterfowl William Cultcn Bryant . . 187 Thanatopsis " " " . . 187 The Death of the Flowers .... " " " • • 188 To the Fringed Gentian " " " . . 189 The Battle-Field " " " . . 1S9 Fr.im "The Rivulet" " " " . . 190 The Burial of Love • .

" " " . . 190 The Sleep Elizabeth Barrett Browning . 190 Bertha in the Lane .191 A Musical Instrument • 193 Cowper's Grave • 194 At the Church Gate William Matepeace Tltackcray 195 Mariana Alfred Tennyson .... 195 "Break, break, break!" " .... 196 Memory " " .... 196 Doubt " " .... 197 The Larger HorE " " .... 197 Garden Song " " .... 198 Bugle Song " " .... 199 The Apology Ralph Waldo Emerson . . 199 To Eva " " " . . 199 Thine Eyes still shone " " . . 200 Each and All " " " . . 200 The Problem " " " . . 200 Boston Hymn " " - «' . . 201 The Soul's Prophecy " " " . . 202 The Bells Edgar A. Poe 202 Evelyn Hope Robert Browning .... 203 Rabbi Ben Ezra " " .... 204 The Lost Leader " " ....

CONTENTS, XV Paul Revere's Ride Henry W. Longfellow . . 207 Maidenhood " a tt ong A Psalm of Life " << << 209 Resignation " << << 2io Santa Filomena " << << 2H Hawthorne << << << 911 To-day and To-morrow Gerald Masscy . ... 212 The Grave by the Lake John G. Whittier ... 212 My Birthday " " <-q.j The Vanishers <> " , 215 In School-Days " << 215 Laus Deo ! ' " " 216 The Eve of Election " << ... 216 The Touchstone William Allingham . . 217 Small Beginnings Charles Mackay . ... 218 Tubal Cain " " . 218 The Living Temple Oliver Wendell Holmes . 219 Dorothy Q " " << 219 The Voiceless " " " . 220 Robinson of Leyden " " " , 221 The Deacon's Masterpiece " " " . 221 The Chambered Nautilus " " " . 223 Under the Violets " " " . 223 The Heritage James Russell Lowell . . 224 New England Spring " " " . 224 The Courtin' " " " . , 225 Ambrose " " " . 226 After the Burial " " " . . 227 Commemoration Ode " " " . . 228 The Alpine Sheep Maria White Lowell . . 229 Campanile de Pisa Thomas W. Parsons . . 230 On a Bust of Dante " " . . 231 Wishing John G. Saxe .... 232 Sleep and Death " " .... 232 A still Day in Autumn Sarah Helen- Whitman . 233 The Settler Alfred B. Street ... 234 Knowing C'hristoplier P. Cranch . . 234 Sleepy Hollow William E. Channing . 235 From "A Tribute to a Servant" . . .

Julia Ward Howe . . . 235 Battle Hymn of the Republic .... " " "... 236 Inspiration H. D. Thoreau .... 236 Milton's Prayer in Blindness .... Elizabeth Lloyd Howe/1- . 237 The Burial of Moses C. F. Alexander . . . 237 Christmas Hymn E. H. Sears 238 The Way, the Truth, and the Life . . Theodore Parker . . . CONTENTS. XVI The Will of God Frederic William Faber . 239 The Right must win " ■ 2-39 Seen and Unseen David A. Wasson . . . 240 ALL'S WELL || • • • 241 Royalty ... 241 The Kingdom of God Richard. Chcnevix Trench 241 The New Sinai Arthur Hugh Clough . . 242 From the "Bothie of Tobek-Navuolich" • • 243 The Stream of Life • • 243 Qua Cursum Ventus " " " • • 244 The Golden Sunset Sa.mvxl Longfellow . . . 244 Quiet from God Unknown 244 The Love of God Eliza Scuclclcr .... 245 Nearer, my God, to Thee Sarah F. Adams ... 245 My Times are in Thy Hand Anna L. Waring ... 246 Cana James Freeman Clarke . 246 The Inner Calm Horatius Bonar .... 247 The Master's Touch " " .... 247 Up Above TV.

Alexander .... 247 The other World Harriet Beechcr Stowe . . 248 (i may I join the Choir Invisible ! . . Mrs. Lewes (George El iol) 248 The Three Fishers Charles Kingsley ... 249 The Sands of Dee " " ... 249 A Myth " " ... 250 Coming Home Dinah Mu'ock Craik . . 250 Too Late " " " . . 250 Outward Bound " " " . . 250 Until Death Unknoiai 251 Why7 thus longing ? Harriet Winslow Sewall . 251 Woman Coventry Patmore . . . 252 The Chase " " ... 252 The Lover " " ... 253 The Shepherd-Boy Lctitia E. Land.on . . . 253 Death and the Youth " " ... 254 The Sisters Aubrey De Vere . . . 254 Krumley Alice Carey 254 The Sure Witness " " 255 Her last Poem " " 255 Field Preaching Phcbe Carey 256 Nearer Home " " 256 Peace " " 257 Keith of Ravelston . . Sydney Dobcll .... 257 Eventide Thomas Burbridgc . . . 258 The Iconoclast Rose Terry Cooke . . . 258 "It is more blessed" " " " ...

CONTENTS. XVII LovE Anne C. (Lynch) Botta ... 259 Indian Names Lydia H. Sigourney .... 260 Eternal Light William H. Furncss .... 260 Wordsworth James T. Fields 260 The Burial of the Dane .... Henry Howard Brownell ... 261 The Mountains Bayard Taylor 262 An Oriental Idy7l " " . 9g2 The Voyagers " " , 262 The Song of the Camp " " ..... 263 The Poet of To-day S. J. Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) 263 Lady Barbara Alexander Smith 264 The Terrace at Berne Mattliew Arnold 265 Urania " « 266 The Last Word " " . . 266 The Artist Robert Lord Lytton 266 Bertha j^nne Whitney 268 The Upright Soul J. h. Perkins 269 0 Lassie ayont the Hill ! . . . . George Maedonald 270 Hy7mn for the Mother " " 270 An Angel's Visit Eliza Sproat Turner .... 271 After Death CJiristina Rossctti- 272 Weary " " 272 The Sunflower Dora Greenwell 272 Vespers " " 273 Charity Elizabeth H. Whittier . ... 273 The Meeting Waters " " . . . . 273 When the Grass shall cover me .