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• Greatness

  From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV.
  HONOR and shame from no condition rise;
  Act well your part, there all the honor lies. …

  Alexander Pope

• Perseverance

  From the Italian by William Wetmore Story
  IN facile natures fancies quickly grow,
  But such quick fancies have but little root. …

  Leonardo da Vinci

• The One White Hair

  THE Wisest of the wise
  Listen to pretty lies,
  And love to hear them told; …

  Walter Savage Landor

• Growing Gray

  “On a l’âge de son cœur.”
  —A. d’HOUDETOT.
  A LITTLE more toward the light. …

  Austin Dobson

• Healthful Old Age

  From “As You Like It,” Act II. Sc. 2.
  ADAM.—Let me be your servant;
  Though I look old, yet am I strong and lusty: …

  William Shakespeare

• Quack Medicines

  From “The Borough”
  BUT now our Quacks are gamesters, and they play
  With craft and skill to ruin and betray; …

  George Crabbe

• The Three Warnings

  The Tree of deepest root is found
  Least willing still to quit the ground;
  ’T was therefore said by ancient sages, …

  Hester Lynch Thrale

• Old Age and Death

  From “Verses upon His Divine Poesy”
  THE SEAS are quiet when the winds give o’er;
  So calm are we when passions are no more. …

  Edmund Waller

• The Ruling Passion

  From “Moral Essays,” Epistle I.
  SEARCH thou the ruling passion; there, alone,
  The wild are constant, and the cunning known; …

  Alexander Pope

• To a Skeleton

  [The Ms. of this poem, which appeared in 1820, was said to have been found in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, near a perfect human skeleton. It was published in the Morning Chronicle. The author was never discovered, although a reward of fifty guineas was offered.]
  BEHOLD …

  Anonymous

• The True Philosophy of Life

  Modernized by Hugh Haliburton
  Full oft I muse and hes in thocht.
  THE PASSAGE of the speeding year, …

  William Dunbar

• Blest Memory

  From “The Pleasures of Memory”
  ETHEREAL power! who at the noon of night
  Recall’st the far fled spirit of delight; …

  Samuel Rogers

• Sudden Light

  I Have been here before,
  But when or how I cannot tell:
  I know the grass beyond the door, …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Pre-Existence

  While sauntering through the crowded street,
  Some half-remembered face I meet,
  Albeit upon no mortal shore …

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

• A Lost Chord

  Seated one day at the organ,
  I was weary and ill at ease,
  And my fingers wandered idly …

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• The Closing Year

  ’t Is midnight’s holy hour,—and silence now
  Is brooding like a gentle spirit o’er
  The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds …

  George Denison Prentice

• Roma

  From the Italian by Frank Sewall
  From “Poesie”
  GIVE to the wind thy locks; all glittering …

  Giosuè Carducci

• “There is such power”

  From “Sonnets in Shadow”
  THERE is such power even in smallest things
  To bring the dear past back; a flower’s tint, …

  Arlo Bates

• Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk

  During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez
  I AM monarch of all I survey,—
  My right there is none to dispute; …

  William Cowper

• Mignon’s Song

  From the German by Thomas Carlyle
  From “Wilhelm Meister”
  “KNOW’ST thou the land where citron-apples bloom, …

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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