"It's excessively awkward to mention it now-
As I think I've already remarked."
And the man they called "Hi!" replied, with a sigh,
"I informed you the day we embarked.

A TALE OF EARLY COLORADO.
My simple story is of those times ere the magic power of steam
First whirled the traveller oer the plains with the swiftness of a dream,
Reducing to a few days time the journey of many a week,
That fell of old to the miners lot ere he sighted tall Pikes Peak.

A Letter Written For My Son To A Young Gentleman

© Mary Barber

O would Mandana cross the Seas,
And hear a People speak her Praise,
With Britain vie to hail the Dame,
Who, Granville, could exalt thy Name,
Transmitting down thy Fame with Care,
And double Lustre, in her Heir!

Youthful Maidens

© George Borrow

Love, with rosy fetter,

Held us firmly bound;

Awake

© Ada Cambridge

Calm as that moonbeam on the wall,

Sleep broods on baby's eyes;

Ode to W. Kitchener, M.D.

© Thomas Hood

Author of The Cook's Oracle, Observations on Vocal Music, The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, Practical Observations on Telescopes, Opera-Glasses, and Spectacles, The Housekeeper's Ledger and The Pleasure of Making a Will.
"I rule the roast, as Milton says!"Caleb Quotem.

Oh! multifarious man!

Lines By A Clerk

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

OH! I did love her dearly,

And gave her toys and rings,

Good Tidings; Or News From The Farm

Where's the Blind Child, so admirably fair,

With guileless dimples, and with flaxen hair

Epitaph: On the Reverend Mr. Penrose

© Hannah More

If social manners, if the gentlest mind,
If zeal for God, and love for human kind,
If all the charities which life endear,
May claim affection, or demand a tear,
Then, o'er Penrose's venerable urn
Domestic love may weep, and friendship mourn.