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• Fairies’ Song

  From the Latin by Leigh Hunt
  WE the fairies blithe and antic,
  Of dimensions not gigantic, …

  Thomas Randolph

• The Fairy Child

  The Summer sun was sinking
  With a mild light, calm and mellow;
  It shone on my little boy’s bonnie cheeks, …

  John Anster

• Garden Fairies

  Keen was the air, the sky was very light,
  Soft with shed snow my garden was, and white,
  And, walking there, I heard upon the night …

  Philip Bourke Marston

• To the Spring

  From “Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse”
  E ARTH now is green, and heaven is blue,
  L ively Spring which makes all new, …

  Sir John Davies

• To Mary Stuart

  From the French by Louise Stuart Costello
  ALL beauty, granted as a boon to earth,
  That is, has been, or ever can have birth, …

  Pierre de Ronsard

• To the Lord-General Cromwell

  Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud,
  Not of war only, but detractions rude,
  Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, …

  John Milton

• “O, breathe not his name”

  Robert Emmet
  O, BREATHE not his name! let it sleep in the shade,
  Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid; …

  Thomas Moore

• Charles XII.

  From “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
  ON what foundations stands the warrior’s pride,
  How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide: …

  Samuel Johnson

• Napoleon

  From the French from Fraser’s Magazine
  “Tu domines notre âge; ange ou démon, qu’importe!”
  ANGEL or demon! thou—whether of light …

  Victor Hugo

• On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa

  Italia, mother of the souls of men,
  Mother divine,
  Of all that served thee best with sword or pen, …

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• Washington

  [From “Under the Elm,” read at Cambridge, July 3, 1875, on the Hundredth Anniversary of Washington’s taking Command of the American Army.]
  BENEATH our consecrated elm
  A century ago he stood, …

  James Russell Lowell

• Daniel Webster

  When, stricken by the freezing blast,
  A nation’s living pillars fall,
  How rich the storied page, how vast, …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• William Lloyd Garrison

  “Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors.”
  —Letter of H. G. OTIS.
  IN a small …

  James Russell Lowell

• “What constitutes a state?”

  WHAT constitutes a state?
  Not high-raised battlement or labored mound,
  Thick wall or moated gate; …

  Sir William Jones

• “Breathes there the man?”

  From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto VI.
  BREATHES there the man with soul so dead
  Who never to himself hath said, …

  Sir Walter Scott

• My Country

  There is a land, of every land the pride,
  Beloved by Heaven o’er all the world beside,
  Where brighter suns dispense serener light, …

  James Montgomery

• Father and Mother Tongue

  Our Father Land! and wouldst thou know
  Why we should call it Father Land?
  It is that Adam here below …

  Samuel Lover

• East, West, Home ’s Best

  From “The Traveller”
  AS some lone miser visiting his store,
  Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o’er; …

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Rule, Britannia

  From “Alfred,” Act II. Sc. 5.
  WHEN Britain first, at Heaven’s command,
  Arose from out the azure main, …

  James Thomson

• The Bowman’s Song

  From “The White Company”
  WHAT of the bow?
  The bow was made in England: …

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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