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

p. 1THE SONG OF THE BOW What of the bow?    The bow was made in England: Of true wood, of yew-wood,    The wood of English bows;       So men who are free       Love the old

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

p. vDEDICATION TO JOSEPH MAZZINI Take, since you bade it should bear,    These, of the seed of your sowing,       Blossom or berry or weed. Sweet though they be not, or fai

THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK THE SINGING IN GOD'S ACRE THE DREAM-SHIP TO CINNA BALLAD OF WOMEN I LOVE SUPPOSE MYSTERIOUS DOINGS WITH TWO SPOONS FOR TWO SPOONS

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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

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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

CHAPTER I—HIS LEAVING IT TILL CALLED FOR The writer of these humble lines being a Waiter, and having come of a family of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers wh

SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL If I were just to tell the things that Bessie Bell remembered I should tell you some very strange things. Bessie Bell did not know whether she

I. One of the most amusing questions concerning the short story is why a form which is singly so attractive that every one likes to read a short story when he finds it alone i