1. century

  • Century Magazine/Volume 47/Issue 3/The Masquerade of Time

  • Century Magazine/Volume 49/Issue 1/The Mother Who Died Too

  • Century Magazine/Volume 57/Issue 3/The Blessed Present

  • The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 4

                                  "Hinc pallidorum longa morborum cohors

                                   Turpisque egestas sequitur," &c.

  • The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 6

                        "Chez cette race nouvelle

                             Où j'aurai quelque crédit,

                         Vous ne passerez pas pour belle

                             Qu'autant que je l'aurai dit.


                         Pensez-y, belle Marquise;

                             Quoiqu'un grison fasse effroi,...

  • Funny — to be a Century —

    Funny — to be a Century —

    And see the People — going by —

    I — should die of the Oddity —

    But then — I'm not so staid — as He —


    He keeps His Secrets safely — very —

    Were He to tell — extremely sorry

    This Bashful Globe of Ours would be —

    So dainty of Publicity —

  • The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 1

          "North and South too many an hour

                I've by the skipper held the wheel;

           Seen too many a hissing shower

                O'er my old sou'-wester reel."

  • To the century plant

                Plant of a hundred years! destroying Time

                Passes thy gentle race with hurrying trend,

                Leaves their bright petals colorless and dim,

                Strews with their withered leaves the mossy bed,

                And sweeps them onward with the countless dead,

                Ere the swift...