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• Lauriger Horatius

  Translated by John Addington Symonds
  LAUREL-CROWNED Horatius,
  True, how true thy saying! …

  From the Medieval Latin

• The “Old, Old Song”

  When all the world is young, lad,
  And all the trees are green;
  And every goose a swan, lad, …

  Charles Kingsley

• Gaudeamus Igitur

  Translated by John Addington Symonds
  LET us live, then, and be glad
  While young life ’s before us! …

  From the Medieval Latin

• To Thaliarchus

  From the Latin by Sir Stephen Edward de Vere
  A SPECTRAL form Soracte stands, snow-crowned,
  His shrouded pines beneath their burden bending; …

  Horace

• A Knot of Blue

  For the Boys of Yale
  SHE hath no gems of lustre bright
  To sparkle in her hair; …

  Samuel Minturn Peck

• Dollie

  She sports a witching gown,
  With a ruffle up and down
  On the skirt; …

  Samuel Minturn Peck

• Beware!

  Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  I KNOW a maiden fair to see,
  Take care! …

  From the German

• Peg of Limavaddy

  Riding from Coleraine
  (Famed for lovely Kitty),
  Came a Cockney bound …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• The Girl of All Periods

  “and even our women,” lastly grumbles Ben,
  “Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!”
  A damsel, as our train stops at Five Ashes, …

  Coventry Patmore

• On a Distant Prospect of Eton College

  Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
  That crowned the watery glade,
  Where grateful Science still adores …

  Thomas Gray

• Spring Song

  Make me over, mother April,
  When the sap begins to stir!
  When thy flowery hand delivers …

  Bliss Carman

• Youth and Love

  From “Festus”
  SAY gray-beards what they please,
  The heart of age is like an emptied wine-cup; …

  Philip James Bailey

• The Joys of the Road

  To R. H.
  NOW the joys of the road are chiefly these:
  A crimson touch on the hard-wood trees; …

  Bliss Carman

• Hope and Fear

  Beneath the shadow of dawn’s aerial cope,
  With eyes enkindled as the sun’s own sphere,
  Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer …

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• The Heritage

  The Rich man’s son inherits lands,
  And piles of brick, and stone, and gold,
  And he inherits soft, white hands, …

  James Russell Lowell

• To Youth

  Where art thou gone, light-ankled Youth?
  With wing at either shoulder,
  And smile that never left thy mouth …

  Walter Savage Landor

• Ode to Solitude

  Happy the man, whose wish and care
  A few paternal acres bound,
  Content to breathe his native air …

  Alexander Pope

• Home

  From the Greek by Robert Bland
  CLING to thy home! if there the meanest shed
  Yield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head, …

  Leonidas of Alexandria

• “The day is done”

  The Day is done, and the darkness
  Falls from the wings of Night,
  As a feather is wafted downward …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Homes of England

  The Stately Homes of England,
  How beautiful they stand!
  Amidst their tall ancestral trees, …

  Felicia Hemans

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