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Jaspar

© Robert Southey

Jaspar was poor, and want and vice
Had made his heart like stone,
And Jaspar look'd with envious eyes
On riches not his own.

Niloiya said to Noah, "What aileth thee,
My master, unto whom is my desire,
The father of my sons?" He answered her,
"Mother of many children, I have heard
The Voice again." "Ah, me!" she saith, "ah, me!
What spake it?" and with that Niloiya sighed.

The Civil Wars (excerpts)

© Samuel Daniel

XXXVI

The swift approach and unexpected speed

The Three Guides

© Anne Brontë

Spirit of Earth! thy hand is chill:

I've felt its icy clasp;

The Parish Register - Part III: Burials

© George Crabbe

drown'd.
"Is this a landsman's love? Be certain then,
"We part for ever!"--and they cried, "Amen!"
His words were truth's:- Some forty summers

The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto II.

© Sir Walter Scott

I.

If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,

Tale XXI

© George Crabbe

rise;
Not there the wise alone their entrance find,
Imparting useful light to mortals blind;
But, blind themselves, these erring guides hold out
Alluring lights to lead us far about;
Screen'd by such means, here Scandal whets her

The Bride

© Edgar Albert Guest

Little lady at the altar,

Vowing by God's book and psalter

Lohengrin: Proem

© Emma Lazarus

THE alert and valiant faith that could respond,
Upon life's threshold, to the highest call,
Unquestioning of what might lie beyond,
Courage afield and courtesy in hall,

Address Delivered At The Opening Of The New Theatre At Richmond

© Henry Timrod

A Prize Poem

Who Follow The Flag

© Henry Van Dyke

PHI BETA KAPPA ODE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
June 30, 1910

Not A Money Debt

© Edgar Albert Guest

YOU can't pay back in dollars what your father does for you,
You can't repay in kindness all the tenderness he shows;
You little know the perils he has safely brought you through,
And the wealth of Rockefeller this account would never close.

The Columbiad: Book II

© Joel Barlow

High o'er his world as thus Columbus gazed,
And Hesper still the changing scene emblazed,
Round all the realms increasing lustre flew,
And raised new wonders to the Patriarch's view.

Tubal Cain

© Charles Mackay

OLD Tubal Cain was a man of might

In the days when earth was young:

The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXVIII

COLD COMFORT
There is no comfort underneath the sun.
Youth turns to age; riches are quickly spent;
Pride breeds us pain, our pleasures punishment.

Sunrise

© Emma Lazarus

Weep for the martyr! Strew his bier

With the last roses of the year;

Belshazzar. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Persons of the Drama :--
Belshazzar, King of Babylon.
Nitocris, the Queen-Mother.
Courtiers, Astrologers, Parasites.
Daniel, the Jewish Prophet.
Captive Jews, &c. &c.