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• The King’s Highway

  October 6, 1892 1
  I ’LL wake and watch this autumn night,
  Till the slow dawn is gray; …

  Harriet Waters Preston

• Rhœcus

  God sends his teachers unto every age,
  To every clime, and every race of men,
  With revelations fitted to their growth …

  James Russell Lowell

• Una and the Red Crosse Knight

  From “The Faërie Queene,” Book I. Canto I.
  A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine,
  Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, …

  Edmund Spenser

• Una and the Lion

  From “The Faërie Queene,” Book I. Canto III.
  ONE day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way,
  From her unhastie beast she did alight; …

  Edmund Spenser

• The Bower of Bliss

  From “The Faërie Queene,” Book II. Canto XII.
  THERE the most daintie paradise on ground
  Itselfe doth offer to his sober eye, …

  Edmund Spenser

• The Cave of Sleep

  From “The Faërie Queene,” Book I. Canto I.
  HE, making speedy way through spersèd ayre,
  And through the world of waters wide and deepe, …

  Edmund Spenser

• From “The Castle of Indolence”

  From Canto I.
  The castle hight of Indolence,
  And its false luxury; …

  James Thomson

• Outward Bound

  I Leave behind me the elm-shadowed square
  And carven portals of the silent street,
  And wander on with listless, vagrant feet …

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• From “The Lady of Shalott”

  Part I.
  on either side the river lie
  Long fields of barley and of rye, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  In Seven PARTS
  ARGUMENT.—How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere c…

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Sunken City

  From the German by James Clarence Mangan
  HARK! the faint bells of the sunken city
  Peal once more their wonted evening chime! …

  Wilhelm Müller

• The Walker of the Snow

  Speed on, speed on, good Master!
  The camp lies far away;
  We must cross the haunted valley …

  Charles Dawson Shanly

• The Pied Piper of Hamelin

  HAMELIN Town ’s in Brunswick,
  By famous Hanover City;
  The river Weser, deep and wide, …

  Robert Browning

• A Yellow Pansy

  To the wall of the old green garden
  A butterfly quivering came;
  His wings on the sombre lichens …

  Helen Gray Cone

• Echo and Silence

  IN 1 eddying course when leaves began to fly,
  And Autumn in her lap the store to strew,
  As mid wild scenes I chanced the Muse to woo, …

  Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges

• Sherwood

  Sherwood in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake?
  Gray and ghostly shadows are gliding thro’ the brake;
  Shadows of the dappled deer, dreaming of the morn, …

  Alfred Noyes

• Far-Away

  As chimes that flow o’er shining seas
  When Morn alights on meads of May,
  Faint voices fill the western breeze …

  George Sigerson

• Time the Supreme

  From “Night Thoughts,” Night I.
  THE BELL strikes one: we take no note of time,
  But from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue, …

  Edward Young

• Three Days

  So much to do: so little done!
  Ah! yesternight I saw the sun
  Sink beamless down the vaulted gray,— …

  James Roberts Gilmore

• Procrastination

  From “Night Thoughts,” Night I.
  BE wise to-day; ’t is madness to defer;
  Next day the fatal precedent will plead; …

  Edward Young

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