PREFACE,
The Day is done,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
To Memory,
Oliver Goldsmith.
The Old Familiar Faces,
Charles Lamb.
I Remember, I Remember,
Thomas Hood.
Oft in the Stilly Night,
Thomas Moore.
Farewell, but whenever you welcome, Thomas Moore.
Ballad of the Bouillabaisse,
W. M. Thackeray.
The Old Arm-Chair, .
Eliza Cook.
The Old Oaken Bucket,
Samuel Woodworth.
Ships at Sea, Robert Barry Coffin (“ Barry Gray”).
Touch us gently, Time, B. W. Procter (“Barry Cornwall").
Home, Sweet Home,
John Howard Payne.
Ken
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the Lan'? (After Goethe's Song of Mignon),
John T. Napier.
A Wish,
Samuel Rogers.
Bells of Shandon,
Francis Mahony.
Tender and True,
Dinah Muloch Craik.
The Old Clock on the Stairs,
H. W. Longfellow
Too Late,
Fitz-Hugh Ludlow.
Waiting for the May,
Dennis Florence McCarthy.
Spinning-wheel Song,
J. Francis Waller.
An Untimely Thought,
T. B. Aldrich.
Thanatopsis,
W. C. Bryant.
Night and Death,
Blanco White.
The Heavenly Canaan,
Isaac Watts.
The Land o' the Leal,
Lady Nairne.
The Graves of a Household,
Mrs. Hemans.
Life,
Anna Letitia Barbauld.
Tommy's Dead,
Sidney Dobell.
My Child,
John Pierpont.
PAG
Promoted,
Mary S. Bacon. 68
As through the Land,
Tennyson. 69
The Days that are no more,
Tennyson. 70
The Undiscovered Country, .
E. C. Stedman.
72
The Two Villages,
Rose Terry Cooke. 72
Over the River,
Nancy Priest Wakefield.
74
The Death-bed,
Thomas Hood.
76
In Memoriam,
T. K. Hervey.
76
Crossing the Bar,
Tennyson. 77
Lead, kindly Light,
John Henry Newman. 78
There is no Death,
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. 79
If I should Die To-Night,
Belle Eugenia Smith. 81
When the Grass shall cover me,
Anon. 82
Psalm of Life,
H. W. Longfellow.
Segovia and Madrid,
Rose Terry Cooke.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard,
Thomas Gray.
The Greater World,
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. 94
The World is too much with us,
Wordsworth.
95
Sunrise on Westminster Bridge,
Wordsworth.
95
Virtue,
George Herbert. 96
Sands o' Dee,
Charles Kingsley. 97
How's my Boy?
Sidney Dobell.
Three Fishers,
Charles Kingsley. 99
The Toys,
Coventry Patmore.
Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind,
Shakespeare. 102
The Bridge of Sighs,
Thomas Hood.
103
Death of the Old Year,
Tennyson. 108
Death of the Flowers,
W. C. Bryant.
The Rainy Day,
H. W. Longfellow. 113
On his Blindness,
John Milton.
115
Break, Break, Break,
Tennyson. 115
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel,
Leigh Hunt. 116
Too Late,
Tennyson.
118
A Secret,
E. R. Sill.
119
The Raven,
Edgar A. Poe.
119
Thanksgiving,
William D. Howells. 128
The End of the Play,
W. M. Thackeray. 128
I am dying, Egypt, dying,
William H. Lytle. 132
Cleopatra,
W. W. Story.
134
The Burial of Moses,
C. F. Alexander.
140
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