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1,100 | 39,784 | A collection of
A B C, Tumble down D
A Diller, a Dollar, a Ten o'Clock Scholar
A Farmer went Trotting upon his Grey Mare
A little Boy went into a Barn
A little Cock Sparrow sat on a Tree
A Man went Hunting at Reigate
A-milking, a-milking, my Maid
As I was going along, long, long
As I was going up Pippin Hill
As I was g... | William U. Moulton | The Life and Beauties of Fanny Fern | null |
1,101 | 39,796 | Come, let us go and be glad again together
Where of old our eyes were opened and we knew that we were free!
Come, for it is April, and her hands have loosed the tether
That has bound for long her children.--who her children more
than we?
Hark! hear you not how the strong waters thunder
Down through the alders with the ... | Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks | Brooks's Readers: First Year | 1869 |
1,102 | 39,797 | Watching the tremulous flicker of the green
Against the open quiet of the sky,
I hear my ancient way-fellows convene
In the great wood behind me. Where I lie
They may not see me; for the grasses grow
As though no foot save June's had wandered by;
Yet I, who am well-hidden, surely know,
As I have waited them, they year... | Franklin Matthews | With the Battle Fleet Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 | 1858 |
1,103 | 39,798 | I marked the slow withdrawal of the year,
Out on the hills the scarlet maples shone--
The glad, first herald of triumphant dawn.
A robin's song fell through the silence--clear
As long ago it rang when June was here.
Then, suddenly, a few grey clouds were drawn
Across the sky; and all the song was gone,
And all the gold... | J. J. (John Jennings) Moorman | A Guide to the Virginia Springs Giving, in addition to the routes and distances, a description of the springs and also of the natural curiosities of the state | 1802 |
1,104 | 39,804 | the destroyer
This edition first published 1991 by
Thalba the destroyer 1801.--(Revolution and
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
to doxan to poiete.]
_Lucian, Quomodo Hist. scribenda._
The second Book
The third Book
The fourth Book
The fifth Book
How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air,
No mis... | Alphonse de Lamartine | Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 14 | 1790 |
1,105 | 39,821 | _By the same Author, 6s. each_.
The Potter's Thumb
Miss Stuart's Legacy
_All rights reserved_
Shah Sujah's Mouse.
Cotton-picking Song.
atmosphere.
remind the inhabitants that their origin was dust, their end the
grave.
He drew a long breath that was half a sigh. A stir in the thorn
enclosures where the cattle were fold... | Harris W. Moore | Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop | null |
1,106 | 39,844 | Ascend, oh my Soul, with the wings of the lark ascend!
Soaring away and away far into the blue.
Or with the shrill seagull to the breakers bend,
Or with the bee, where the grasses and field-flowers blend,
Drink out of golden cups of the honey-dew.
Ascend, oh my Soul, on the wings of the wind as it blows,
Striking wild ... | Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge | New Homes for Old | 1866 |
1,107 | 39,909 | These Hills, the pride of all the coast,
To mighty distance seen,
With aspect bold and rugged brow,
That shade the neighbouring main:
These heights, for solitude design'd,
This rude, resounding shore--
These vales impervious to the wind,
Tall oaks, that to the tempest bend,
Half Druid, I adore.
From distant lands, a th... | Helen Sherman Griffith | Letty and the Twins | 1873 |
1,108 | 40,124 | _Post 8vo, cloth limp, 2s. 6d. per volume._
JEUX D'ESPRIT. Collected and Edited by HENRY S. LEIGH.
Illustrated by J. G. THOMSON.
_Other Volumes are in preparation._
"Sing, O celestial goddess, Eurymedon, foremost of gluttons,
"'Sing, heavenly muse!
Things unattempted yet, in prose or rhyme,'
A shilling, breeches, and c... | Charles Warren Stoddard | South-Sea Idyls | 1843 |
1,109 | 40,134 | Authors of "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"
"The Modern Traveller" etc.
stands for
Archibald who told no lies,
And got this lovely volume for a prize.
The Upper School had combed and oiled their hair,
And all the Parents of the Boys were there.
In words that ring like thunder through the Hall,
Draw tears from some and ... | A. L. (Alfred Lys) Baldry | Burne-Jones | 1858 |
1,110 | 40,152 | Habitant," etc.
"O ma ole canoe, wat 's matter wit' you,
an' w'y was you be so slow?
Don't I work hard enough on de paddle, an'
still you don't seem to go--
No win' at all on de fronte side, an' current
she don't be strong,
Den w'y are you lak' lazy feller, too sleepy for
move along?
"I 'member de tam, w'en you jomp de... | Mór Jókai | Magyarhon szépségei; A legvitézebb huszár | 1825 |
1,111 | 40,188 | _Meo deo irato._ TER. PHOR.
The author of the following Eclogue, having requested my
assistance to introduce it to the world; it was with more
indignation than surprize I was informed of your having used your
entitled to the appellation of Roscius but yourself? Does Nyky
resemble any nick-named favourite of yours? Or d... | Murray Leinster | The Forgotten Planet | 1896 |
1,112 | 40,200 | _I am an eternal spirit and the things I_
_make are but ephemera, yet I endure:_
_Yea, and the little earth crumbles beneath_
_our feet and we endure._
"_amicitiae longaevitate_"
I have to thank the Editors of the _English Review_ and the
_Evening Standard_ and _St. James's Gazette_ for permission to
include in this vo... | John M. (John Mason) Tyler | The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | 1851 |
1,113 | 40,237 | By the Sea
Psalm CXXI
Be Ye also Ready
"Paradise will Pay for All"
Philistia's Triumph
To-day
There are only myself and you in the world,
There are only myself and you;
'Tis clear, then, that I unto you should be kind,
And that you unto me should be true.
And if I unto you could be always kind,
And you unto me could be... | Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly | How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries | 1874 |
1,114 | 40,344 | SONG (ii)
SONG (iii)
When the evening came my love said to me:
Let us go into the garden now that the sky is cool,
The garden of black hellebore and rosemary,
Where wild woodruff spills in a milky pool.
Low we passed in the twilight, for the wavering heat
Of day had waned, and round that shaded plot
Of secret beauty th... | M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel | The Last Miracle | 1865 |
1,115 | 40,345 | _A Song of the Guns_ was written under what are probably the most
These are our masters, the slim
Grim muzzles that irk in the pit;
That chafe for the rushing of wheels,
For the teams plunging madly to bit
As the gunners wing down to unkey,
For the trails sweeping half-circle-right,
For the six breech-blocks clashing a... | Howard Pease | Tales of Northumbria | 1863 |
1,116 | 40,379 | the late Captain George L. Garrett, of the Union
Army, during the Civil War
whose lifelong devotion, unselfishness, tenderness
and loyalty to me, as to all her family and
friends, make this dedication a pleasure
and a joy only commensurate
with my thought of her.
_The Salvation Army with the A. E. F._
_You chose no eas... | Guy Thorne | The Serf | 1876 |
1,117 | 40,425 | Attention is called to the affection manifested in such rhymes as
My little baby, little boy blue,
Is as sweet as sugar and cinnamon too;
Isn't this precious darling of ours
Sweeter than dates and cinnamon flowers?
The small-footed girl
With the sweet little smile,
She loves to eat sugar
And sweets all the while.
Her m... | null | null | null |
1,118 | 40,442 | "I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;
"And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go.
But I go on for ever."
_In the same Series._
loveliness of Farringford embowered in trees.
"Where, far from noise ... | William Walker Atkinson | Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy | 1862 |
1,119 | 40,444 | ----_Dubiam facientia carmina palmam._ JUV.
As the mind of man is ever fond of variety, nothing seems better
Archibald Scott, written before the Year 1600.
Ode to Evening, by the same
An Elegy written in a country church-yard, by
On the same, by Mr. James Clitherow of Oxford
formerly of the University of Aberdeen
... | Elizabeth Harrison | Christmas-Tide | 1849 |
1,120 | 40,462 | Obvious punctuation repaired. | Matilda Sager | A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre | 1839 |
1,121 | 40,490 | And other Verse
And other Verse.
There's a whisper of life in the grey dead trees,
And a murmuring wash on the shore,
And a breath of the South in the loitering breeze,
To tell that a winter is o'er.
While free, at last, from its fetters of ice
The river is clear and blue,
And cries with a tremulous quivering voice
For... | Various | The Boston Cooking-School Magazine (Vol. XV, No. 2, Aug.-Sept., 1910) | null |
1,122 | 40,560 | To Thee, My Native Land, AMERICA!
My heart with pride is filled: my lips exult
Because Thou art my Home--my Fatherland.
Set in the firmament of fadeless blue,
I bare my head and hail the Stars and Stripes,
My Country calls! I give what I possess,--
All! _All_ I say! and giving thus, regret
That my poor contribution to ... | William J. (William James) Flynn | The Barrel Mystery | 1867 |
1,123 | 40,562 | "Let's dance to the brown old earth to-night!"
Cried one little flake of snow;
"The autumn days have all passed by,--
I'm tired of my home here in the sky."
So they all agreed to go.
They dressed themselves in a misty film
Of purest pearly white;
Their feet were clad in velvet down,
As soft and white as the filmy gown
... | Anne Douglas Sedgwick | Paths of Judgement | 1873 |
1,124 | 40,598 | _How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome_
_Melchior's Ride_
_The Witch's Child_
_The Apple-blossom Switch_
"_I Ought to Mustn't_"
_The Little Girl from Town_
_The Giant's Daughter_
_The Blossoms of To-morrow_
_Tip's Kitten_
Happy thou, a winter comer,
Happier with the snows around thee
Than if rosy-fingered summer
I... | Various | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lefebvre, Tanneguy" to "Letronne, Jean Antoine" Volume 16, Slice 4 | null |
1,125 | 40,622 | _Head Master of King Edward's School, Retford_;
THE FLIGHT FROM TROY _Frontispiece_
purpose.
And as he spake he cast his great spear at the Horse, so that it
sounded again. But the Gods would not that Troy should be saved.
Then they bade him tell on, and he said,--
sacrifice. Then did many for... | Leader Scott | The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild | 1837 |
1,126 | 40,717 | _All rights reserved_
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1912.
New and revised edition, June, 1913.
They closed her Eyes
Captain Stratton's Fancy
An Old Song re-sung
St. Mary's Bells
The Harper's Song
Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck,
All work aboard was over for the hour,
And some men san... | C. J. (Charles James) Wills | The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3) | 1842 |
1,127 | 40,786 | Black Riders came from the sea.
There was clang and clang of spear and shield,
And clash and clash of hoof and heel,
Wild shouts and the wave of hair
In the rush upon the wind:
Thus the ride of Sin.
Three little birds in a row
Sat musing.
A man passed near that place.
Then did the little birds nudge each other.
They sa... | Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard | Jewels of Gwahlur | 1906 |
1,128 | 40,852 | De Bosschère's study of Elskamp
A divagation from Jules Laforgue
edited by Ezra Pound
I had wished to give but a brief anthology of French poems,
Foreign criticism, if honest, can never be quite the same as home
Mallarmé; that Mallarmé, perhaps unread, is apt to be slightly
After a man has lived a reasonable time with ... | Jan François Elias Celliers | Digters uit Suid-Afrika Bloemlesing uit die poësie van die Twede Afrikaanse-Taalbeweging | 1865 |
1,129 | 40,895 | December. Several reimpressions followed, as did another London
Horace's _Ars Poetica_ was one of the most fertile sources for
Aristotle's _Poetics_.
(217)--constitutes an unspoken comment on Bramston's subject.[E]
Bramston's page 27 corresponds to Horace's brief history of the
theatre, from Thespis's tragedies that he... | Henrietta Christian Wright | Children's Stories in American History | null |
1,130 | 40,906 | VAN ZORN. A Comedy in Three Acts
THE PORCUPINE. A Drama in Three Acts
_All rights reserved_
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1917.
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see,
So far beyond the faint edge of the world?
D'ye look to see the lady Vivian,
Pursued by divers ominous vile demons
That have another kin... | Thomas Wiltshire | On the Red Chalk of England | null |
1,131 | 41,016 | EVENING (Milton)
TO A SKYLARK (Shelley)
TO A SKYLARK (Wordsworth)
Romance of the Swan's Nest
Home Thoughts from Abroad
Song from "Pippa Passes"
"Blessed are They that Mourn"
Oh, wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
There'll Never be Peace
BYRON, LORD (George Noel Gordon).
She walks in Beauty
Lochiel's Warning
Say not, the Stru... | Sir John William Dawson | Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief | 1820 |
1,132 | 41,026 | Whose sharing my pleasures then, makes cherished
the memories of childhood now.
_Oh, the golden age of the barefoot time,
While life was a fairy tale sung in rhyme,
When phantoms grim of a future day
Were hid in the mists of the far away;
When we carved for ourselves from our June daydreams
(Only yesterday now it seems... | Frederick Sessions | Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District | null |
1,133 | 41,059 | Copyright 1907 by JOHN NIENDORFF
For in the morning of our love, there came
The spirit singing such entrancing notes,
As sweeps the whole empyrian with a flame,
Wherein, a dream, pure lofty pleasure floats,
And love and beauty find their mellow throats,
In glorious fervor, drinking from the golden bowl,
The wine of joy... | Jean-François Marmontel | Ο Βελισάριος | 1723 |
1,134 | 41,076 | with an Introduction
Reproduced from a Copy in
and with the permission of
verses deserve attention on their own merits--Dryden may well be
candour.
November, 1685. The date of 1686 on the title page must have been
A bibliographical analysis of the volume is given by Hugh
The poetry in the volume can be described in Dr... | William Eleroy Curtis | Abraham Lincoln | 1850 |
1,135 | 41,077 | New-street Square.
_The right of translation is reserved._
The wisdom of the Church, which consecrates the
fleeting seasons of Time to the interests of Eternity,
has dedicated the month of May (the birthday
festival, as it were, of Creation) to her who was
ever destined in the Divine Counsels to become the
Mother of he... | Helen Fitzgerald Sanders | Trails Through Western Woods | 1883 |
1,136 | 41,162 | "_Make-strong old dreams lest this our world lose heart._"
Grace before Song
Lord God of heaven that with mercy dight
Th' alternate prayer-wheel of the night and light
Eternal hath to thee, and in whose sight
Our days as rain drops in the sea surge fall,
As bright white drops upon a leaden sea
Grant so my songs to this... | Thomas Hastings | The Mother's Nursery Songs | null |
1,137 | 41,215 | _of_ Francis Thompson
The Twenty-fifth
Frontispiece: Portrait of FRANCIS THOMPSON
A Note on FRANCIS THOMPSON _Page_ ix
The Dedications xix, xx
A Child's Kiss
To a Child heard repeating her Mother's Verses
A Foretelling of the Child's Husband
Epilogue to the Poet'... | Leonid Andreyev | Satan's Diary | 1871 |
1,138 | 41,216 | _Sometimes I get to wishin' I might be
A little lamb like Mary's, fond and true,
With Susan Sanderson as Mary, see?
We'd play amidst the clover sweet with dew,
And everywhere that she wast there'd be me,
And if she wasn't, I'dst be elsewhere, too._
_Copyright, 1907, by_ THE CENTURY CO.
_Copyright, 1907, by_ FORBES AND ... | Lady Florence Dixie | Across Patagonia | null |
1,139 | 41,230 | _Come and take a choice of all my library_
A viol, bowstrings torn, cross-wise upon
A glorious folio of Anacreon;
printing,--for their beauty and for their rarity,--or for their
association with some famous man or woman of the storied past
This book a world is; here, if errors be,
The like, nay worse, in the great worl... | Harris Newmark | Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark | null |
1,140 | 41,397 | Registered in Canada in accordance with
the copyright law. Entered at Stationers'
Hall, London. All rights reserved.
The Nation's Hope
The Sexton's Inn
Better than Boodle
Beryl's Boudoir
Tired Man's Sleep
Nero's Fiddle
Woman's Progress
Night's Illusions
Schubert's Serenade
Fashion's Devotee
My Lady's Hair
"Schubert's S... | Carlo Botta | Storia della Guerra della Independenza degli Stati Uniti di America, vol. 3 | null |
1,141 | 41,466 | _All rights reserved_
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1913.
Between the barren pasture and the wood
There is a patch of poultry-stricken grass,
Where, in old time, Ryemeadows' Farmhouse stood,
And human fate brought tragic things to pass.
A spring comes bubbling up there, cold as glass,
It bubbles down, crus... | George P. (George Putnam) Upton | The Standard Light Operas Their Plots and Their Music | 1834 |
1,142 | 41,467 | _First Edition, Crown 8vo, November 1911;_
_Reset December 1912; reprinted January_
_New Edition, Foolscap 8vo, thirteenth_
_Fourteenth thousand, November 1913._
_All rights reserved_
Paper Wrappers, 1s. 6d. net.
_Thy place is biggyd above the sterrys deer,_
_Noon erthely paleys wrouhte in so statly wyse,_
_Com on my f... | C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson | Angel Unawares: A Story of Christmas Eve | 1859 |
1,143 | 41,468 | _All rights reserved_
Down Bye Street, in a little Shropshire town,
There lived a widow with her only son:
She had no wealth nor title to renown,
Nor any joyous hours, never one.
She rose from ragged mattress before sun
And stitched all day until her eyes were red,
And had to stitch, because her man was dead.
Sometimes... | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Good Wolf | 1849 |
1,144 | 41,537 | The Slumber--the Wood--the Hill--the three Beasts--Virgil--the
Dante's misgivings--Virgil's account of how he was induced to
come to his help--the three Heavenly Ladies--the beginning of
The Gate of Inferno--the Vestibule of the Caitiffs--the Great
Refusal--Acheron--Charon--the Earthquake--the Slumber of Dante,
The Fir... | H. G. (Herbert George) Wells | The Plattner Story and Others | 1866 |
1,145 | 41,615 | _The accompanying Rhymes are affectionately dedicated by_
"TUFFY TODD'S ADVENTURE" is the record of
an incident which actually occurred during the
past summer while the writer was spending his
vacation in a retired but charming part of the
It was written for the amusement of the guests
at TODD'S "Hillside Home," to who... | Percy Moore Turner | Millet | 1877 |
1,146 | 41,691 | London NEW YORK Montreal
Mammy's Baby Chile
The Washerwoman's Song
A Seller ob Ole Clo'es
A Well-Cleaner's Revery
Aunty's Affliction
Ike's Temptation
'Fo'e de Wah
Jeff's Fun'ral Sermon
Cotton's Comin' In
Uncle Ben's Superstition
"I rub en I rub"
"En he drive a ox so slow"
"How de News git roun dem posts"
Mammy's Baby... | L. T. Meade | Scamp and I A Story of City By-Ways | 1854 |
1,147 | 41,693 | My thanks are due to the Editors and Publishers who have kindly
allowed me to use here verses written for them.
In token of indebtment.
"Come, fill me flagons full and fair
Of red wine and of white,
And, maidens mine, my bower prepare--
It is my wedding night.
And make me fair and fine--
This is the day that brings the... | L. T. Meade | Turquoise and Ruby | 1854 |
1,148 | 41,760 | Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday
The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes, from the
Epitaph; being part of an Inscription designed for a
Monument erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady
On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster
Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author
Song, in Imitation of Shakspeare's 'Blow... | Dr. Dioscorides | Anno 2070 Een blik in de toekomst | null |
1,149 | 41,808 | Down came the Fish's lower jaw upon her light canoe,
And he asked her if that ladder would answer for her shoe-;
Then tripping up it lightly, she spied a splendid seat,
With wampum it was covered---her lover's it would beat.
At such a sight she fainted, yet still she did not fall,
But straightway told her sorrows, she ... | Moyle Sherer | The Broken Font, Vol. 1 (of 2) A Story of the Civil War | null |
1,150 | 41,810 | Use of the present Anthology in the Spanish classes at Harvard
Errors of judgment in the selection of the poems were perhaps
Id.: _Antología de poetas hispano-americanos_, Madrid, 1893.
F. Wolf: _Floresta de rimas modernas castellanas_, Paris, 1837.
The very best account of Spanish lyric poetry may be found in the
The ... | Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell | The Arrow of Fire A Mystery Story for Boys | 1878 |
1,151 | 41,865 | Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
in the Clerk's Office of
A Letter from Santa Claus,
The School-Teacher's Song,
Letter from the West,
Scraps about Dogs,
A Letter from a little Girl to a Sick School-mate,
A Story told under the Great Elm Tree,
Scraps from a Journal, picked up in a gale of Wind,... | Mary Frances Outram | Tarnished Silver | null |
1,152 | 41,944 | They watch us leaving harbour for the greatest game of all,
And wonder if we're coming back across the greedy sea;
They never know the fighting thrill or high adventure's call--
I rather think the women folk are better men than we.
But I suspect they say of us as out to sea we go,
In all our panoply of pride from Orkne... | Unknown | The Comic English Grammar A New and Facetious Introduction to the English Tongue | null |
1,153 | 41,945 | Summer's Passing
Summer's Passing
WITH dream-blocks I can build
A castle to the sky.
No one can shake it down,
Though he may try and try,
Except myself, and then,
I make another one,
And shape it as I please.
This castle-building fun
Nobody takes away,
And what I like the best--
The dream-blocks change each day.
THERE ... | Kyösti Wilkuna | Erämaan lapset: Historiallisia kertomuksia V | 1879 |
1,154 | 41,955 | "Where rolls the Oregon,
And hears no sound save its own dashing."
woods, camps by night, great wood fires in circles, tents in the
centre like Caesar's battle-camps, painted men that passed like
We who toil and earn our bread
Still have our masters...."
I have been true to my West. She has been my only love. I have
de... | Paul Féval | Les belles-de-nuit, tome I ou les anges de la famille | 1817 |
1,155 | 41,985 | _All rights reserved_
_Fain had I given precious things and sweet,
But having neither frankincense nor gem,
Only sad flowers--last year's fading yield
Gathered about that bitter harvest field--
I made a sorry garland out of them,
And laid it where immortelles had been meet._
Frigga. (Up to date)
Wind-pedlars
"What shal... | comte de Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti Mirabeau | Erotika Biblion | 1749 |
1,156 | 42,034 | A palace he built him in the west,
A palace of vermeil fringed with gold;
And fain would he lie him down to rest
In the palace he built him in the west
Which every heavenly hue had dressed
With halcyon harmonies untold:
That palace, the sun built in the west,
A palace of vermeil fringed with gold.
Wake, love; Aurora's ... | Thomas James Walker | The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross Huntingdonshire 1796 to 1816 | null |
1,157 | 42,041 | Author of "Women of the Classics" etc.
Mr Masefield and "John Presland"; Mr John Lane for the work of Mr
Wilt thou not come again, thou godly sword,
Into the Spirit's hands?
Against our ugly wickedness,
Against our wanton dealing of distress,
The forced defilement of humanity,
And shall there be no end to life's expens... | John Stoughton | Congregationalism in the Court Suburb | null |
1,158 | 42,051 | _Six years ago, I wrote this story down,_
_While yet the light of Eastern skies_
_Was in my eyes,_
_And still my heart, aglow with memories_
_Of sun-enraptured seas,_
_And that old sea-girt town._
_Where, down dark alleys of enchanted night,_
_We stole, until we came_
_To where the great dome glimmered white._
_And eve... | Charles Hindley | The True History of Tom and Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish! | null |
1,159 | 42,052 | The King's Death
Through skies blown clear by storm, o'er storm-spent seas,
Day kindled pale with promise of full noon
Of blue unclouded; no night-weary wind
Ruffled the slumberous, heaving deeps to white,
Though round the Farne Isles the waves never sink
In foamless sleep--about the pillared crags
For ever circling wi... | C. Silvester Horne | A Century of Christian Service Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893 | null |
1,160 | 42,058 | Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics
A Series of English Texts, edited for use in Elementary and
Secondary Schools, with Critical Introductions, Notes, etc.
Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley.
Andersen's Fairy Tales.
Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum.
Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Bacon's Essays.
Bible (Memorable Pas... | Roberto Bracco | I fantasmi: Dramma in quattro atti (Taken from Roberto Bracco Teatro, Vol. VII) | 1861 |
1,161 | 42,076 | Copyright 1904 by MARIAN LONGFELLOW
and of
Who Still Walks with Me,
These Songs are dedicated by
Washington "Post," the "Saturday Gazette" (Boston), and other
Among these "Contrasted Songs" I trust that the reader will find
something to which the heart may respond.
Faithfully yours,
On the Sea
The Mansion that Endured
... | E. (Eliza) Fenwick | Secresy or, Ruin on the Rock | 1766 |
1,162 | 42,134 | But who hath breathed the scent of violets,
And not that moment been a lover glad?
_Go, modest little violets, and lie upon her breast;
"Such a starved bank of moss,
Till, that May morn,
Blue ran the flash across:
Violets were born."
All rights reserved
For whom this little company of her sisters was first gathered.
co... | Jesse Lynch Williams | Princeton Stories | 1871 |
1,163 | 42,162 | "_Hello! Is that you, Jimmy?_"
"Well, this is David Cory, the JUMBLE BOOKman. Do you like Indian
"Tell me where I may find my fortune," answered Little Sir Cat.
The little white clouds are like sheep
That play all the night while the moon's shining bright.
"What is it?" asked Tottie.
"Hurry up and tell," whispered Tedd... | Frederic Manning | Poems | 1882 |
1,164 | 42,166 | An Interpretative Rendition into English
_Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless
amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average
reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in
Mitylene, twenty-five centuries ago?_--MAURICE THOMPSON.
_Then to me so lying awake a vision_
_C... | Aarni Kouta | Ristin tie Runoja | 1884 |
1,165 | 42,171 | because she is my friend_
_Oh, you were not so idle--
You wore a sprig of green;
You wore a feather in your cap,
The reddest ever seen._
Your eyes were of the blue;
You wandered up and down the world,
For you had much to do._
_For oh, you were not idle,
Whatever men might say--
You made the colour of the year
Magnifice... | Mary MacLane | My Friend Annabel Lee | 1881 |
1,166 | 42,181 | O! should I ever dare profane
With venal touch the hallow'd lyre,
Let me be banish'd from the Muses' train;
Ne'er let me feel their heart-ennobling fire!
Unworthy of a Poet's glorious name,
Let me be doom'd to everlasting shame!
comprehensive,--the most powerful,--the most delightful,--and,
Park-Fields, Allesley, near ... | James Jeffrey Roche | By-Ways of War The Story of the Filibusters | null |
1,167 | 42,265 | To the Memory of my school mate
William Morgan who was drowned in
_Press of Munn's Review_ _Carbondale, Penna._
A Child's Elegy
The Comet--15 cents
The Silent Life--15 cents
Both Booklets--25 cents
"Loves not man the less, but Nature more
From those our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be ... | François Habert | Les Divins Oracles de Zoroastre, ancien Philosophe Grec, Interpretez en Rime Françoise, par François Habert de Berry Avec un Commentaire moral sur ledit Zoroastre, en Poesie Françoise, et Latine. | null |
1,168 | 42,290 | In making this book I have tried to avoid poems which have been
included in many cases because the previous versions were full of
Master Teng-t'u
Old and New
Li Fu-jen
Song of Snow-white Heads
Lament of Hsi-chuen
Ch'in Chia
Ch'in Chia's Wife's Reply
The Campaign against Wu
The Ruins of Lo-yang
The Cock-fight
Bearer's S... | Lady Mary Hamilton | Munster Village | 1739 |
1,169 | 42,299 | What various views of our uncertain State
These playful, unassuming Rhymes relate!
Journey to London _To face the Title_
Conflict with Lawyer Gripe-all "
Committed with a riotous Dancing Party
Engaged with Jovial Friends,
or who sings best "
The Party breaking up an... | P. L. Jacob | Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'à nos jours, tome 3/6 | 1806 |
1,170 | 42,301 | SCENE I.--_An Antique Room: Midnight._
_Reading from a paper on which he has been writing_.
As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes,
Sees in sweet dreams a beaming Youth of Glory,
And wakes to weep, and ever after, sighs
For that bright vision till her hair is hoary;
Ev'n so, alas! is my life's-passion story.
For Poe... | Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid | Pictures in Umbria | 1824 |
1,171 | 42,306 | Dear boy, ten summers--ten swift summers now
Have come and gone since last I said good-bye,
Ten idle, wasted summers gone, and how
I hardly know, so swift the seasons fly:
So swift the seasons come, so swift they go,
That scare it seems one brief, one little day,
Since boyish voices bid us come and play:
And little gir... | Walter Robert-tornow | Geflügelte Worte Der Citatenschatz des deutschen Volkes | null |
1,172 | 42,330 | _All rights reserved_
A long grim corridor--a sullen bar
Of light athwart the darkness--where no fleet
Pale sunshine spreads for dark his winding sheet
A light, not born of noon nor placid star
Glows lurid thro' the gloom--while from afar,
Beats marching of innumerable feet.
Is this the place where tragic armies meet?
... | Gustaf Erik Eurén | Kaffe ja Tupakki | 1818 |
1,173 | 42,392 | "Many people read a song
Who will not read a sermon."
_To the casuals now enjoying hospital hospitality at Kenilworth
_Pick it up, Buddy, it's a dud._
My wish most dear for your New Year
I'm quite sincere in giving;
When next we meet, on Easy Street
I hope that you'll be living.
P. S.--_And I hope I meet you soon._
Am ... | Various | Punch or the London Charivari, Vol.107, September 1, 1894 | null |
1,174 | 42,407 | "_For long with horror she has viewed
The naked Truth for being nude_"
"_Far long with horror she has viewed The naked Truth
for being nude_" FRONTISPIECE
"_Her wardrobe, though extremely small, sufficed a somewhat
simple need_" _14_
"_Wer... | J.-C.-L. Simonde de (Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde) Sismondi | Storia delle repubbliche italiane dei secoli di mezzo, v. 7 | 1773 |
1,175 | 42,422 | "The mountains lay in calm repose
Slumbering 'neath their robes of white."
Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!--JOB xix, 23.
Books have, from time immemorial, been the conservators of human
wisdom, the repositories of information, the mentors of youth and
accomplished speedy reform... | Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely | The Boy Chums in the Florida Jungle or, Charlie West and Walter Hazard with the Seminole Indians | null |
1,176 | 42,439 | Life's Treasures
Mi-Lady's Shoe
Winter's Sorrows
Napoleon's Tomb
My Boyhood's Home
The Gondolier's Song
Words to Mendelssohn's "Consolation"
An Actor's Epitaph
Life's Voyage in Vain
Death's Courtship
From the year 1820 many caravans made their way over the trail to
forty-six days out from St. Louis.
caravans moving fro... | Friedrich Gerstäcker | Ein Parcerie-Vertrag | 1816 |
1,177 | 42,543 | Tear the red rose to pieces if you will,
The soul that is the rose you may not kill;
Destroy the page, you may, but not the words
That share eternal life with flowers and birds.
And the least words of Sappho--let them fall,
Cast where you will, some bird will rise and call,
Some flower unfold in some forsaken spot.
Hil... | Various | The American Joe Miller A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor | null |
1,178 | 42,553 | All rights reserved
INTRODUCTORY NOTE xi
APPLE BLOSSOMS, _Carbon photograph (page 294)_ _Frontispiece_
WILD APPLE TREE, _Colored plate_
excursion to Canada with his friend Ellery Channing, and sent his
swallowed and digested." Thoreau appears to have taken... | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy | Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | null |
1,179 | 42,667 | Stray Sonnets written by F. S.
Love them by H. D.
Though all the light were lifted from the land,
And a great darkness lay upon the sea;
Though, groping each for some not-careless hand,
I felt sad men pass over wearily;
Though it were certain dawn would not come in
With the next hour; that after many days
Would no moon... | Manuel Saurí | La Caza de La Perdiz Con Escopeta, Al Vuelo y con Perro de Muestra | null |
1,180 | 42,668 | The King's Hostel
Swing open wide, O Gate,
That I may enter in
And see what lies in wait
For me who have been born!
Her word I only scorn
Who spake of death and sin.
I know what is behind
Your heavy brazen bars;
I heard it of the wind
Where I dwelt yesterday:
The wind that blows alway
Among the ancient stars.
Life is t... | Margaret Macarthur | History of Scotland | null |
1,181 | 43,271 | ----Si quid novisti rectius istis,
Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.--HORAT.
schoolfellow of the poet.
Written by Mr. POPE.
The second edition, 8vo.
Written in the year 1709. With the Commentary and Notes of
In the year 1709 was written the Essay on Criticism, a work which
unprofitably tedious; but I cannot fo... | Various | Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1899 Volume LVI, No. 1 | null |
1,182 | 43,406 | I give you this, the bitter and the sweet.
It holds my heart, can you not hear it beat?
So poor a gift to put within your hand--
Apples and Herbs!--but you will understand.
_Acknowledgment is made to Messrs. Harper & Bros., the
Century Company, The Metropolitan Magazine, and Collier's
Weekly, for courteous permission t... | Gilbert Abbott À Beckett | The Comic History Of England | 1811 |
1,183 | 44,201 | 'He jests at Scars, who never felt a Wound'
_I shall, I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when, in
_I have the honour to be,
With the greatest respect,
Your most obedient Servant,_
Starting to join his Regiment _To face the Title_
Getting into his Billet "
Smells powder for th... | Jean Héroard | Journal de Jean Héroard - Tome 2 Sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Louis XIII (1610-1628) | 1551 |
1,184 | 45,066 | "Mrs. Leary got her living by selling milk; she had five cows,
and kept them in her barn on De Koven street, on the west side
of the river. A neighbor woman called on her for a pint of milk
at nine o'clock Sunday night, October 8th, and Mrs. Leary, having
spirited animal, became indignant at the attempt, kicked over
th... | Andrew Forrester | Secret Service or Recollections of a City Detective | null |
1,185 | 45,082 | Come pretty Cat!
Come here to me!
I want to pat
You on my knee.
Go, naughty Tray!
By barking thus
You'll drive away
My pretty Puss.
O Dear! what a beautiful Doll
My sister has bought at the fair!
She says I must call it "Miss Poll,"
And make it a bonnet to wear.
O, pretty new Doll! it looks fine;
Its cheeks are all cov... | B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts | The Gospel: An Exposition of its First Principles Revised and Enlarged Edition | 1857 |
1,186 | 45,199 | Dans la treve desolee de cette matinee, ces hommes
qui avaient ete tenailles par la fatigue, fouettes
par la pluie, bouleverses par toute une nuit de
tonnerre, ces rescapes des volcans et de l'inondation
entrevoyaient a quel point la guerre, aussi hideuse
au moral qu'au physique, non seulement viole le bon
sens, avilit... | Bracebridge Hemyng | The Slave of the Mine or, Jack Harkaway in 'Frisco | 1841 |
1,187 | 45,292 | Author of "Tails with a twist" and "The Duke of Berwick"
|THE placid Pug that paces in the Park,
`Harnessed in silk and led by leathern lead,
Lives his dull life, and recks not of the Shark
`In distant waters. Lapped in sloth and greed,
He fails in strenuous life to make a mark,
The placid Pug that paces in the park.=
... | Arthur Griffiths | The Chronicles of Newgate, v. 2/2 | 1838 |
1,188 | 45,470 | O the splendour of our joy, woven of gold in the
silken air!
Here is our pleasant house and its airy gables,
and the garden and the orchard.
Here is the bench beneath the apple-trees, whence
the white spring is shed in slow, caressing
petals.
Here flights of luminous wood-pigeons, like
harbingers, soar in the clear sky... | Harold Peake | The Bronze Age and the Celtic World | null |
1,189 | 47,383 | Essay on Satire; addressed to Charles, Earl of Dorset
The Fifth Satire of Persius, inscribed to the Rev.
Preface to the Pastorals, with a short defence of
The wishes and desires of all good men, which have attended your
lordship from your first appearance in the world, are at length
I will not attempt, in this place, t... | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume IV. | 1771 |
1,190 | 48,323 | Recent change in the estimate of Roman Poetry
Want of originality
As compared with Greek Poetry
" " with Roman Oratory and History
The most complete literary monument of Rome
Partly imitative, partly original
Imitative in forms
" in metres
Imitative element in diction
" " in matter
Original charac... | W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler | Tales of the birds | 1847 |
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