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• Two Pictures

  An Old farm-house with meadows wide,
  And sweet with clover on each side;
  A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out …

  Annie D. Green

• A Shepherd’s Life

  From “Third Part of Henry VI.,” Act II. Sc. 5.
  KING HENRY.—O God! methinks, it were a happy life,
  To be no better than a homely swain; …

  William Shakespeare

• The Country Life

  Not what we would, but what we must,
  Makes up the sum of living;
  Heaven is both more and less than just …

  Richard Henry Stoddard

• The Swiss Peasant

  From “The Traveller”
  TURN me to survey
  Where rougher climes a nobler race display, …

  Oliver Goldsmith

• When the Cows Come Home

  WITH klingle, klangle, klingle,
  Way down the dusty dingle,
  The cows are coming home; …

  Agnes E. Mitchell

• Home Song

  There is rain upon the window,
  There is wind upon the tree;
  The rain is slowly sobbing, …

  Duncan Campbell Scott

• Labor Song

  From “The Bell-Founder”
  AH! little they know of true happiness, they whom satiety fills,
  Who, flung on the rich breast of luxury, eat of the rankness that kills. …

  Denis Florence Mac Carthy

• Christmas

  So now is come our joyful’st feast;
  Let every man be jolly;
  Each room with ivy-leaves is drest, …

  George Wither

• The Auld Folks

  The Auld folks sit by the fire,
  When the winter nichts are chill;
  The auld wife she plies her wire, …

  Andrew Park

• A Petition to Time

  Touch us gently, Time!
  Let us glide adown thy stream
  Gently,—as we sometimes glide …

  Bryan Waller Procter

• Early Friendship

  The Half-seen memories of childish days,
  When pains and pleasures lightly came and went;
  The sympathies of boyhood rashly spent …

  Aubrey Thomas de Vere

• Young Friends

  From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act III. Sc. 2.
  O, IS all forgot?
  All school-days’ friendship, childhood innocence? …

  William Shakespeare

• The Memory of the Heart

  If stores of dry and learnèd lore we gain,
  We keep them in the memory of the brain;
  Names, things, and facts,—whate’er we knowledge call,— …

  Daniel Webster

• A Wayfaring Song

  From The Outlook
  O WHO will walk a mile with me
  Along life’s merry way? …

  Henry Van Dyke

• Parted Friends

  Friend after friend departs:
  Who hath not lost a friend?
  There is no union here of hearts …

  James Montgomery

• “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”

  Sonnet Xxx.
  when to the sessions of sweet silent thought
  I summon up remembrance of things past, …

  William Shakespeare

• Jaffar

  Jaffar, the Barmecide, the good vizier,
  The poor man’s hope, the friend without a peer,
  Jaffar was dead, slain by a doom unjust; …

  Leigh Hunt

• The Vale of Avoca

  There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet
  As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
  O, the last ray of feeling and life must depart …

  Thomas Moore

• “Too late I stayed”

  Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime!
  Unheeded flew the hours:
  How noiseless falls the foot of Time …

  William Robert Spencer

• “We are brethren a’”

  A Happy bit hame this auld world would be
  If men, when they ’re here, could make shift to agree,
  An’ ilk said to his neighbor, in cottage an’ ha’, …

  Robert Nicoll

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