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“In After Days!

“Call Me Not Dead'

Epilogue from “Asolando

Crossing the Bar.

Austin Dobson .

.Richard Watson Gilder

. Robert Browning

..Alfred Tennyson .

.Rudyard Kipling

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3296

“THEY ARE ALL GONE”

Friends Departed

“Over the River"

..Nancy Il'oodbury Priest

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3288

.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 3290

. May Riley Smith

“The Mourners Came at Break of

Sarah Flower Adams

What of The Darkness?

Richard Le Gallicune.

William Shakespeare

Song from “The Devil's Law Case"..John Webster

On the Tombs in Westminster Francis Beaumont

Epitaph on the Countess Dowager of

.. William Browne..

An Epitaph Intended for Himself ..James Beatlie

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfor-

. Alexander Pope

Elegy Written in a Country Church-

“And Thou Art Dead"

..George Gordon Byron.

.Felicia Dorothea Hemans

.Alfred Tennyson .

.Cosmo Monkhouse

Richard Monckton lilres

Thomas William Parsons

“Softly Woo Away Her Breath' .. Bryan Waller Procter

“She Died in Beauty”

Charles Doyne Sillery

The White Jessamine

John Banister Tabb

Hartley Coleridge.

..Henry Newbolt.

..James Thomson

.. Henry Alford.

..Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Widow's Mite.

..Frederick Locker-Lampson . . 3326

Mother and Poet.

..Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3327

A Mother in Egypt.

. Marjorie L. C. Pickthall 3330

.Ethel Clifford

"John Anderson, My Jo"

.Charles G. Blanden

The Spring of the Year

Allan Cunningham

The Graves of a Household. .Felicia Dorothea Hemans 3333

The Family Meeting .

..Charles Sprague

The Two April Mornings.

.William Wordsworth

“Surprised by Joy"

.IV illiam Wordsworth

. Bartholomew Dowling.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Readèn ov a Head-Stwone

William Barnes.

The Two Mysteries .

.Mary Mapes Dodge

John Boyle O'Reilly

Table of Contents

Now and Afterwards .

.Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 3344

"Now the Laborer's Task is ('er" ..John Lodge Ellerton .. 3345

Love and Death.

.Margaret Deland

.Frederick George Scott 3346

The Flight
.. Lloyd Mifflin

.Dora Reed Goodale.

"The Land Which No One Knows”.. Ebenezer Elliott .

The Hills of Rest

· Albert Bigelow Paine. 3349

At the Top of the Road

.Charles Buxton Going

She and He.
..Edwin Arnold .

After Death in Arabia
.. Edwin Arnold

To the Earl of Warwick, on the

Death of Mr. Addison

Thomas Tickell.

Hans Christian Andersen.

Elegiac Stanzas

William Wordsworth

.James Thomson .

James Thomson .

. William Alexander

On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle

and George Eliot.

..Algernon Charles Swinburne 3365

The Opening of the Tomb of Charle-

· Aubrey De Vere

Elegy on William Cobbett,

.Ebenezer Elliott

Theodore Walls-Dunton.

Cowper's Grave.

.Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3368

On a Bust of Dante

Thomas William Parsons

Dickens in Camp.

On the Death of Joseph Rodman

Fitz-Greene Halleck

"Oh, Breathe Not His Name" . Thomas Moore

.Francis Fisher Browne 3376

.Percy Bysshe Shelley.

To the Sister of Elia

.Walter Savage Landor

In Memory of Walter Savage Lan-

.Algernon Charles Swinburne 3391

The Sword of Robert Lee

. Abram J. Ryan

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet .. Samuel Johnson

"O Captain! My Captain” Walt Whitman .

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard

Bloomed”
Walt Whitman

Lincoln, the Man of the People „Edwin Markham

.Edwin Arlington Robinson .. 3406

On the Life-Mask of Abraham

Richard Watson Gilder

Abraham Lincoln .

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Austin Dobson.

Mary Queen of Scots

..C. Tennyson-Turner

The Angelus ...

.Florence Earle Coates

Under The Portrait of Milton .John Dryden .

In Memory of “Barry Cornwall” Algernon Charles Swinburne 3413

.Edwin Arnold...

To The Memory Of My Beloved Mas-

ter William Shakespeare. Ben Jonson.

On the Portrait of Shakespeare. . Ben Jonson

To Shakespeare
Hartley Coleridge

Shakespeare ...

An Epitaph On The Admirable

Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare. ..John Milton

To William Sharp

..Clinton Scollard

An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw

Thomas Bailey Aldrich 3421

. Robert Browning :

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lizette Woodworth Reese

.John Greenleaf Whittier

Lacrimæ Musarum

William Watson ..

The King's Highway

Harriet Waters Preston 3429

Thomas Ilonry Iluxley 3430

For a Copy of Theocritus

Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

The Warden of the Cinque Ports Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3434

Memorial Verses .

Wordsworth's Grave..

William Watson.

JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN

"Jerusalem The Golden”

..Gerald Massey

The New Jerusalem

My Ain Countree

. Mary Lee Demarest

.I?enry Vaughan

Frederick Il'illiam Faber.... 3449

.Henry Vaughan .

The White Island

“This World is all a Fleeting Show”. Thomas Moore

The Land o' the Leal

.Carolina Nairne.

Carolina Nairne.

“Rest is Not Here

.Carolina Nairne.

At Hoine in Heaven

..James Montgomery

Christina Geo na Rossetti.. 3459

“Heaven Overarches Earth and

Christina Georgina Rosselli.. 3460

The Sunset City

Henry Sylrester Cornwell ... 3460

Josiah Gilbert Holland .

The Other World .

..Harriet Beacher Stowe

Song of an Angel

. Frederick Tennyson

Edward Rowland Sill

Emily Dickinson

“It Cannot Be"

. David Banks Sickels

A Thanksgiving to God for His

The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley

“The Bird, Let Loose in Eastern

“He Liveth Long who Liveth Well”. Horatius Borar

The Master's Touch

.Horatius Bonar

..Iloratius Bonar

.George Herbert

..George Herbert

..George Herbert .

..George Herbert

.George Herbert

..George Herbert

Richard Crashaw

.. Reginald Hcber.

..Christina Georgina Rossetti.. 3481

Table of Contents

Helen Hunt Jackson

The Starry Host

..John Lancaster Spalding 3483

The Celestial Surgeon

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Way, the Truth, and the Life... Theodore Parker ..., 3484

The Inner Light ..

Frederic William Henry

.Lydia Avery Coonley Ward . 3485

Bringing Our Sheaves.

Elizabeth Akers

Edna Dean Proctor

.Edna Dean Proctor

"The Harvest Waits"

One Gift I Ask.

Virginia Bioren Harrison.

.G. Linnaeus Banks

"Thou Knowest”

Julia C. R. Dorr ..

The Burial of Moses

. Cecil Frances Alexander

The Crooked Footpath .

..Oliver Wendell Holmes

St. John Baptist

.Arthur O'Shaughnessy. 3494

For the Baptist :

William Drummond .

"The Spring is Late”.

. Louise Chandler Moulion

A Divine Rapture

Francis Quarles

"If I Could Shut the Gate Against

my Thoughts”.
..John Daniel .

His Litany to the Holy Spirit . Robert Herrick

To Keep a True Lent

The Fallen Star

George Darley

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“We Need not Bid, for Cloistered
Cell"

.John Keble

3501

"A Child My Choice"

.. Robert Southwell.

An Upper Chamber.

Frances Bannerman.

The Second Crucifixion

.Richard Le Gallienne..

The Winged Worshippers

Charles Sprague

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene.

Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane 3506

Iloratius Bonar

.Theodosia Garrison

A Hymn to God the Father John Donne

Sheep and Lambs

Katharine Tynan

“All's Well".

W'illiam Allen Butler

Caroline Spencer

. Adelaide Anne Procter

. Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton 3512

"There is no Death"

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton 3513

The Fool's Prayer

. Edward Rowland Sill

The Eclipse.
Henry Vaughan .

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. 3516

St. Agnes' Eve .

. Alfred Tennyson .

His Banner Over Me

Jesus the Carpenter

Catharine C. Liddell

The Veteran of Heaven

Francis Thompson

Lucifer in Starlight

George Meredith

Hora Christi....

Christus Consolator

.Rossiter Worthington Ray-

That Holy Thing

.George Macdonald

What Christ Said

George Macdonald

San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother ... Alice Meynell

A Ballad of Trees and the Master ...Sidney Lanier .

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SONGS OF PRAISE

Stabat Mater Dolorosa

Veni, Sancte Spiritus

.Catharine Winkworth

Veni, Creator Spiritus

.Christopher Smart

Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam

William Habington

“The Spacious Firmament on High" .Joseph Addison

Universal Prayer

"O God, Our Help in Ages Past' ...Isaac Watts

"Jesus, Lover of My Soul”. Charles Wesley

"A Charge to Keep I Have” Charles Wesley

Edward Perronet

"Holy, Holy, Holy”.

Reginald Heber.

“The Son of God Goes Forth to

.Reginald Heber.

“From Greenland's Icy Moun-

Reginald Heber.

Light Shining Out of Darkness. I'illiam Couper

Augustus Montague Toplady 3547

Love to the Church

Good Tidings of Great Joy to All

.James Montgomery

Christ Our Example in Suffering James Montgomery

“Just as I Am”

Charlotte Elliott

"Blest Be the Tie that Binds", .John Fawcett

“In the Cross of Christ I Glory ..John Bowring.

“Abide with Me”.

llenry Francis Lyte

The Hour of Peaceful Rest

William Bingham Tappan 3553

The Pillar of the Cloud

John Henry Newman

"Nearer to Thee"..

Sarah Flower Adams

“A Mighty Fortress is Our God ” . Frederick Henry Iledge 3556

Prayer to the Trinity

James Edmeston .

Thomas Hastings

“Just for To-day'

.Samuel W’ilberforce

"There is a Happy Land"

The Voice from Galilee.

.Horatius Bonar

He Standeth at the Door.

Arthur Cleveland Core.

“There is a Green Hill”

.Cecil Frances Alexander

“Onward, Christian Soldiers' ..Sabine Baring-Gould

.Rudyard Kipling

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CONTAINING A FEW OF THE MORE FAMOUS POEMS IN

OTHER LANGUAGES, OF WHICH TRANSLATIONS OR

PARAPHRASES OCCUR IN THE FOREGOING PAGES

Stabat Mater Dolorosa

Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Veni, Creator Spiritus

Urbs Syon Aurea.

Urbs Beata Hierusalem

Vivamus, Mea Lesbia.

Tommaso di Celano

Jacopone da Todi.

. Robert II. of France .

.St. Gregory the Great (?) 3573

Bernard of Cluny

ius Valerius Catulus

..Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... 3577

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