FIRST LINES OF POETRY. A baby's foot, and a skein of wool Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) About fifty years since, in the days of our daddies Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting... A district school, not far away PAGE. 463 179 385 140 45 After a three day's march he came to an Indian encampment... 477 Although I enter not A man had once a vicious wife. A man in many a country town we know. And there they sat, a popping corn,....... And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!). An old wife sat by her bright fireside................ An' sure I was tould to come to your Honor.. A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent,.. 507 164 358 255 349 413 58 165 185 Beneath the low-hung night cloud...... At midnight, in his guarded tent,....... 61 A traveler through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea;.............. 163 Beside a massive gateway, built up in days gone by,................ 238 275 ..221 Better to smell the violet cool, than sip the glowing wine;.. Cleon hath a million acres,-ne'er a one have I:. Come see the Dolphin's anchor forged; 't is at a white heat now: 300 Crimson sunset burning...... "Corporal Green!" the orderly cried;.. Dark is the night. How dark! no light! no fire!.. Dimpled sheeks, mit eyes of blue............ Don't run in debt-never mind, never mind. Eighty and nine with their captain,.. Ellen was fair, and knew it, too,... England's sun was slowly setting... Fare thee well! and if forever... .... Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears:. 393 Good wife, what are you singing for? You know we've lost the hay,. 435 Half a league, half a league,.... 355 Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys?.. 263 Have you heard how a girl saved the lightning express,— 491 Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,. 449 "He is very peculiar,”....... Hear the sledges with the bells—..... He comes not-I have watched the moon go down,.. Here's the spot. Look around you. Above, on the height,.... 237 322 334 479 Ho, there! fisherman, hold your hand!... How does the water come down at Lodore?.. How sweet the chime of Sabbath bells!. .... I came from haunts of coot and hern:...... I cannot tell you Genevieve, how oft it comes to me, 426 235 330 277 89 I can't tell much about the thing, 'twas done so powerful quick;. 506 I don't go much on religion,.... I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers,. I haf von funny leedle poy,. I hate my geography lesson!.. I heahs a heap o' people talkin', eberywhar I goes,. I heard the trailing garments of the Night.... Is it anybody's business... Is it you, Jack? Old boy, is it really you?.... I sprang to the stirrup, and Jorris and he; Is there room among the angels....... It must be so. Plato, thou reasonest well!.... It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river side, It was many and many a year ago,... I've just come in from the meadow, wife, where the grass is tall I know that thou art gone to the land of thy rest;. la a little German village,.... In slumbers of midnight the sailor boy lay;...... In the tempest of life, when the wave and the gale... Into a ward of the whitewashed halls,..... I saw him once before,.... I saw a lady yesterday,...... 333 297 458 265 172 416 182 139 357 158 386 430 398 292 166 99 347 314 Mary, let's kill the fatted calf, and celebrate this day.. 252 Meanwhile the adversary of God and man,... 390 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;....... 264 My sister 'll be down in a minute, and says you're to wait, if you please; 290 My son! What! Drafted? My Harry! Why, man, 'tis a boy at his books. My soul to-day.. Never go to France.. Nigh to a grave that was newly made,.. 48 130 112 319 Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are?... Now Ise got a notion in my head dat when you come to die,. Of all the notable things on earth,..... Oh! that the desert were my dwelling place,. Old Ironsides at anchor lay,.. O Mona's waters are blue and bright.. .... “Only a pauper," the neighbors said,. On the heights of Killiecrankie...... On the limb of an oak, sat a jolly old crow,. 91 • 58 $28 ... 55 €44 380 239 484 485 438 489 471 On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred and ninety-two,.. 465 On to Freedom! On to Freedom!... Our bugles sang truce,—for the night-cloud had lowered,............ 304 201 86 27 :14 22 O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?.. 43 73 271 Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!..... +21 Poor little Besise! she tossed back her curls,.. +31 Prop your eyes wide open, Joey,............. 374 RESPECTED WIFE: From these few lines my where abouts thee learn-.. 107 Seated one day at the organ,.. 352 Send it up to the garret? Well, no; what's the harm.......... 481 She isn't half so handsome as when twenty years agone,.. Softly, oh softly, the years have swept by thee,.. 502 Somewhat back from the village street. 134 Some words on language may be well applied, 125 South Mountain towered on our right, far off the river iay,.. 39 Stand! the ground's your own, my braves!.. 320 117 The breaking waves dashed high..... Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,.. Summer of 'sixty-three, sir, and Conrad was gone away- 216 287 157 433 412 The cold winds swept the mountain's height 321 The conference meeting through at last, 191 The cottage was a thatched one, the outside old and mean,. 69 The district school-master was sitting beh nd his great book-iaden desk............ 241 The drums are all muffled, the bugles are still; 490 The editor sat in his easy chair,.. . . . . . 190 There are lessons to learn through the school-'ime of life,. The royal feast was done; the king.. 400 354 379 335 272 476 399 133 429 To be or not to be-that is the question!... 388 To him who, in the love of nature, holds...... 50 Too early, of course! How provoking!. 281 'Twas far beyond yon mountains, dear, we plighted vows of love, 422 'Twas in a Southern hospital, a month ago or more,...... 417 'Twas the time of the working men's great strike,.. Well, Betsey, this beats everything our eyes have ever seer.,.... 101 Well, Jane, I staid in town last night,. 74 |