Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires,
Bad husbands of their fires,

Who, when they gave thee breath,
Failed to bequeath

The needful sinew stark as once,
The Baresark marrow to thy bones,
But left a legacy of ebbing veins,
Inconstant heat and nerveless reins,一
Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb,
Amid the gladiators, halt and numb."

As the bird trims her to the gale,
I trim myself to the storm of time,
I man the rudder, reef the sail,
Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime:
"Lowly faithful, banish fear,
Right onward drive unharmed;

The port, well worth the cruise, is near,
And every wave is charmed."

EMERSON (Terminus).

LIST OF AUTHORS

WITH THE NUMBERS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PIECES.

BARBAULD, Anna Lætitia (1743-1825), English, 48.
BLAKE, William (1757-1828), English, 21, 32.
BURNS, Robert (1759-1796), Scotch, 24, 39.

CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844), Scotch, 4, 11.

CARLYLE, Thomas (1795-1881), Scotch, 35.

CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861), English, 47, 65, 67, 75, 76, 77. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), English, A, 23, 27, 42, 43,

64.

COWPER, William (1731-1800), English, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10.

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American, 1, 31, 56, 63, 71, 72, 74, 82, 83, Ω.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), German, 35.
GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771), English, 37.

HEMANS, Felicia Dorothea (1794-1835), English, 79.

HERBERT, George (1593-1632), English, 61, 62.

HERRICK, Robert (1591–1674), English, 45.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (born 1809), American, 20, 66.

HOOPER, Ellen Sturgis (1812-1848), American, 51.

HUNT, Leigh (1784-1859), English, 12, 14, 16.

JONSON, Ben (1574-1637), English, 44.

KEMBLE, Frances Anne (born 1811), English, 84.

KINGSLEY, Charles (1819-1875), English, 41.

LONGFELLOw, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), American, 19, 34, 46, 60.

LOWELL, James Russell (born 1819), American, 13, 29, 36, 40, 53, 55, 78, 81.

MARVELL, Andrew (1620-1678), English, 54.

MONTGOMERY, James (1771-1854), Scotch, 33.

Moss, Thomas (1740-1808), English, 22.

PASTORIUS, Franz Daniel (1651-1719), German, 80.

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), English, 28.

SHAKSPERE, William (1564-1616), English, 26, 49, 70.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), English, 17.
SOUTHEY, Robert (1774-1843), English, 18.
SPRAGUE, Charles (1791-1875), American, 50.

TENNYSON, Alfred (born 1809), English, 38, 52, 57, 59, 68.
THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863), English, 25.
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (born 1808), American, 15, 80.
WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850), English, 7, 8, 30, 69, 73.
WOTTON, Henry (1568-1639), English, 58.

INDEX TO FIRST LINES.

7 A barking sound the Shepherd hears..

16 Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!).
25 Ah! bleak and barren was the moor....

34 Ah! if thy fate, with anguish fraught.

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27 Alas! they had been friends in youth.
6 Androcles from his injured lord, in dread..

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9 A peasant to his lord paid yearly court.

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2 A poet's cat, sedate and grave........

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65 Are there not, then, two musics unto men?.

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20 As Life's unending column pours.

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13 A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent..

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45 A wearied pilgrim I have wandered here.

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10 A youngster at school, more sedate than the rest.

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26 Blow, blow, thou winter wind..

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63 But if thou do thy best....

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83 By the rude bridge that arched the flood.

72 Hast thou named all the birds without a gun ?....

58 How happy is he born and taught..

43 How seldom, Friend, a good great man inherits.

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