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• The Castle Ruins

  A Happy day at Whitsuntide,
  As soon ’s the zun begun to vall,
  We all strolled up the steep hill-zide …

  William Barnes

• The Deserted Village

  Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
  Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain,
  Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, …

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802

  Earth has not anything to show more fair;
  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
  A sight so touching in its majesty: …

  William Wordsworth

• The Village Schoolmistress

  From “The Schoolmistress”
  AH me! full sorely is my heart forlorn,
  To think how modest worth neglected lies, …

  William Shenstone

• The Forging of the Anchor

  Come, see the Dolphin’s anchor forged; ’t is at a white heat now:
  The bellows ceased, the flames decreased; though on the forge’s brow
  The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound: …

  Samuel Ferguson

• Newport-Beach

  Wave after wave successively rolls on
  And dies along the shore, until more loud
  One billow with concentrate force is heard …

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

• Weehawken and the New York Bay

  From “Fanny”
  WEEHAWKEN! In thy mountain scenery yet,
  All we adore of Nature in her wild …

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

• The Brooklyn Bridge

  A Granite cliff on either shore,
  A highway poised in air;
  Above, the wheels of traffic roar, …

  Edna Dean Proctor

• Scythe Song

  Mowers, weary and brown, and blithe,
  What is the word methinks ye know,
  Endless over-word that the Scythe …

  Andrew Lang

• The Mowers

  The Sunburnt mowers are in the swath—
  Swing, swing, swing!
  The towering lilies loath …

  Myron B. Benton

• Château Papineau

  (Afloat)
  I.
  THE Red-tiled towers of the old Château, …

  Susan Frances Harrison

• The Fall of Troy

  From the Latin by Sir Charles Bowen
  From The “Æneid”
  ÆNEAS, speaking to Dido, Queen of Carthage …

  Virgil

• Horatius at the Bridge

  Lars Porsena of Clusium,
  By the Nine Gods he swore
  That the great house of Tarquin …

  Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

• Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym

  From the Icelandic by W. Herbert
  WROTH waxed Thor, when his sleep was flown,
  And he found his trusty hammer gone; …

  William Herbert

• Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr

  From the Swedish by William Strong
  From the “Frithiof Saga,” Canto XI.
  ’T IS time to tell how Angantyr, …

  Esaias Tegnér

• The Nobleman and the Pensioner

  From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks
  “OLD man, God bless you! does your pipe taste sweetly?
  A beauty, by my soul! …

  Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

• Mahmoud

  There came a man, making his hasty moan
  Before the Sultan Mahmoud on his throne,
  And crying out, “My sorrow is my right, …

  Leigh Hunt

• Prince Adeb

  In Sana, O, in Sana, God, the Lord,
  Was very kind and merciful to me!
  Forth from the Desert in my rags I came, …

  George Henry Boker

• The Leper

  “ROOM for the leper! room!” And as he came
  The cry passed on,—“Room for the leper! room!”* * * * *
  And aside they stood, …

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

• Erminia and the Wounded Tancred

  From “Jerusalem Delivered”
  From the Italian by Edward Fairfax
  “THOUGH gone, though dead, I love thee still; behold …

  Torquato Tasso

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