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• Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music

  An Ode
  ’T WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won
  By Philip’s warlike son: …

  John Dryden

• Beethoven’s Third Symphony

  Passion and pain, the outcry of despair,
  The pang of the unattainable desire,
  And youth’s delight in pleasures that expire, …

  Richard Hovey

• On an Intaglio Head of Minerva

  Beneath the warrior’s helm, behold
  The flowing tresses of the woman!
  Minerva, Pallas, what you will— …

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• On a Fan

  That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour
  (Ballade)
  CHICKEN-SKIN, delicate, white, …

  Austin Dobson

• Hack and Hew

  Hack and Hew were the sons of God
  In the earlier earth than now:
  One at his right hand, one at his left, …

  Bliss Carman

• The Axe

  From “Malcolm’s Katie”
  HIGH grew the snow beneath the low-hung sky,
  And all was silent in the wilderness; …

  Isabella Valancy Crawford

• Labor

  Pause not to dream of the future before us;
  Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o’er us;
  Hark! how Creation’s deep, musical chorus, …

  Frances Sargent Osgood

• The Song of the Lower Classes

  We plough and sow—we ’re so very, very low
  That we delve in the dirty clay,
  Till we bless the plain with the golden grain, …

  Ernest Charles Jones

• “The Man with the Hoe”: a Reply

  “Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way: she better understands her own affairs than we.”
  —MONTAIGNE, Of Experience.
  NATURE reads not our labels, “great” and “small”; …

  John Vance Cheney

• Corn-Law Hymn

  Lord! call thy pallid angel,
  The tamer of the strong!
  And bid him whip with want and woe …

  Ebenezer Elliott

• For a’ That and a’ That

  Is there for honest poverty
  Wha hangs his head, and a’ that?
  The coward slave, we pass him by; …

  Robert Burns

• The Good Time Coming

  There ’s a good time coming, boys.
  A good time coming:
  We may not live to see the day, …

  Charles Mackay

• The Lotus-Eaters

  I.
  “courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land;
  “This morning wave shall roll us shoreward soon.” …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• The Happy Heart

  From “Patient Grissell,” Act I. Sc. 1.
  ART thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
  O sweet content! …

  Thomas Dekker

• The Cobbler and the Financier

  From the French by Elizur Wright
  A COBBLER sang from morn till night:
  ’T was sweet and marvellous to hear; …

  Jean de La Fontaine

• Labor Done

  From the German by Samuel Atkins Eliot
  From “Song of the Bell”
  LET us with care observe …

  Friedrich Schiller

• Haste not! Rest not!

  Anonymous translation from the German
  “Ohne Hast, ohne Rast.”
  WITHOUT haste! without rest! …

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• Contentment

  I Weigh not fortune’s frown or smile;
  I joy not much in earthly joys;
  I seek not state, I reck not style; …

  Joshua Sylvester

• Song: “He that is down need fear no fall”

  He that is down need fear no fall;
  He that is low, no pride;
  He that is humble ever shall …

  John Bunyan

• Cleon and I

  Cleon hath a million acres, ne’er a one have I;
  Cleon dwelleth in a palace, in a cottage I;
  Cleon hath a dozen fortunes, not a penny I; …

  Charles Mackay

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