INTRODUCTION The most noticeable characteristic of the extraordinary literary development of the South since the Civil War is that it is almost entirely

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. The dramatic power of the dialogues of Plato appears to diminish as the metaphysical interest of them increases (compare Introd. to

Contents DEDICATION SONS OF THE SOIL PART I CHAPTER I. THE CHATEAU CHAPTER II. A BUCOLIC OVERLOO

SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC by William Shakespeare I. It was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three, That liked of her master as well as well might be.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES I I thought once how Theocritus had sung II But only three in all God’s universe III Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!

SONGS OF TWO I   Last night I dreamed this dream: That I was dead;       And as I slept, forgot of man and God,       That other dreamless sleep of rest,       I hea

I—THE VAGABOND (To an air of Schubert) Give to me the life I love,    Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above    And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars

Preface Abut two years ago I published a collection of Yorkshire dialect poems, chosen from many authors and extending over a period of two hundred and fifty years[1]. The vol

Contents In the Factory My Boy The Nightingale to the Workman What is the World? Despair Whither? From Dawn to Dawn The Candle Seller The Pale Operator The Beggar Famil

INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild,     Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child,     And he laughing said to me: ‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!’     

CONTENTS PAGE The Darned Mounseer 6 The Englishman 13 The Disagreeable Man 16 The Coming By-and-By 22 The Highly Respectable

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by John Charles McNeill [American (North Carolina) poet. 1874-1907.] To JOSEPH P. CALDWELL ("The Old Man") CONTENTS

Dedication Here's a rhyme for Barbara, Laughing white and pink, Here's a rhyme for smiling Ted, And on

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SOMETHING NEW by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse CHAPTER I The sunshine of a fair Spring morning fell graciously on London town. Out in Piccadilly its heartening warmth seemed

BROOKSMITH We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other.

ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI We have lately made the acquaintance of an old lady of ninety, who has passed the last twenty-five years of her old life in a great metropolitan esta

I. All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure rec

SOME CITIES AND SAN FRANCISCO There had been some discussion as to improving and beautifying the city of San Francisco prior to the catastrophe of April 18th.

CONTENTS. PAGE A Christmas Tree 1 What Christmas is as we Grow Older 23 The Poor Relation’s Story 31 The Child’s Story 47 Th

SOME CAUSES OF THE PREVAILING DISCONTENT By Charles Dudley Warner The Declaration of Independence opens with the statement of a great and fruitful political truth. But if it