This verdant field that smiles to… In Nature’s bright array, From common uses set apart, We consecrate to-day. ‘God’s Acre’ be it fitly called,

‘A VICTORY! –a victory!’ Is flashed across the wires; Speed, speed the news from State… Light up the signal fires! Let all the bells from all the tow…

One autumn day, when hedges yet we… And thick-branched trees diffused… Hard by where Avon rolls its silv… I stood in silent thought by Shak… O happy church, beneath whose marb…

Underneath protected branches, fro… Stands the house of Grand’ther Ba… Square of shape and solid-timbered… In the days of Whig and Tory, und… Many a time, I well remember, I h…

A violet grew by the river-side, And gladdened all hearts with its… While over the fields, on the scen… It breathed a rich perfume. But the clouds grew dark in the an…

From the door of the homestead the… With a glance half of hope, half o… For the clock in the corner now po… When the children she loves should… For have they not promised, whatev…

Thirty years have come and gone, Melting away like Southern Snows, Since, in the light of a summer’s… I went to the garden to seek my R… Mine! Do you hear it, silver moon…

It is the year’s high noon, The earth sweet incense yields, And o’er the fresh, green fields Bends the clear sky of June. I leave the crowded streets,

FLORENCE wears an added grace, All her earlier honors crowning; Dante’s birthplace, Art’s fair ho… Holds the dust of Barrett Brownin… Guardian of the noble dead

An old frog lived in a dismal swam… In a dismal kind of way; And all that he did, whatever befe… Was to croak the livelong day. Croak, croak, croak,

‘DEAR Charlie,’ breathed a soldi… ‘O comrade true and tried, Who in the heat of battle Pressed closely to my side; I feel that I am stricken,

KING COTTON looks from his wi… Towards the westering sun, And he marks, with an anguished ho… That his race is almost run. His form is thin and shrunken;

My Charlie has gone to the war, My Charlie so brave and tall; He left his plough in the furrow, And flew at his country’s call. May God in safety keep him,-

There’s a fountain of Fable whose… Time’s ravages all could repair, And replace the bowed form and the… The wrinkles and silvery hair, By the brown flowing locks and the…

To Egypt’s king, who ruled beside The reedy river’s flow, Came God’s command, ‘Release, O… And let my people go.’ The king’s proud heart grew hard a…