On this bald hill the new year hones its edge.
Faceless and pale as china
The round sky goes on minding its business.
Your absence is inconspicuous;
Nobody can tell what I lack.

With love of my own race I cling unto my country,
Whatever dubious reason may protesting cry;
The shame alone of all her blood bought glory,
Her haughty self-assurance, conscious pride,
And the ancestral faith's traditions dark,
With woe have penetrated all my heart.

General Grant -- The Hero Of The War

© George Moses Horton

Brave Grant, thou hero of the war,

Thou art the emblem of the morning star,

Milestones

© Alice Guerin Crist

Gay balloons and coloured streamers,

Gliding figures, footsteps light,

New Love and Old

© Sara Teasdale

In my heart the old love
Struggled with the new;
It was ghostly waking
All night thru.

The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto VII.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Preludes.

I Love's Immortality

A Motive In Gold And Gray

© Madison Julius Cawein

I.

To-night he sees their star burn, dewy-bright,

When all Thy Mercies, O My God

© Joseph Addison

When all Thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, Im lost
In wonder, love and praise.

The New Year

Lift up thy torch, O Year, and let us see
What Destiny
Hath made thee heir to at nativity!

From The Building of the Ship

The Republic

THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State!

The Progres Of The Soule

© John Donne

Wherein,

BY OCCASION OF

Hellvellyn

I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Hellvellyn,

Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide;

The Progress Of Refinement. Part II.

CONTENTS OF PART II. Introduction.Sketch of the Northern barbarians.Feudal system.Origin of Chivalry.Superstition.Crusades. Hence the enfranchisement of Vassals, and Commerce encouraged. The Northern and Western Europeans, struck with the splendor of Constantinople, and the superior elegance of the Saracens.Origin of Romance. The remains of Science confined to the monasteries, and in an unknown language.Hence the distinction of learning.Discovery of the Roman Jurisprudence, and it's effects.Classic writers begin to be admiredArts revive in Italy.Greek learning introduced there, on the taking of Constantinople by the Turks.That event lamented.Learning encouraged by Leo X.Invention of Printing.The Reformation.It's effects, even on those countries that retained their old Religion. It's establishment in Britain.Age of Elizabeth. Arts and Literature flourish.Spenser.Shakespear. Milton.Dryden.The Progress of the Arts checked by the Civil War.Patronized in France. Age of Lewis XIV.Taste hurt in England during the profligate reign of Charles II.Short and turbulent reign of his Successor.King William no encourager of the Arts.Age of Queen Anne.Manners.Science and Literature flourish.Neglected by the first Princes of the House of Brunswick.Patronage of Arts by his present Majesty.Poetry not encouraged.Address to the King.General view of the present state of Refinement. Among the European Nations.France. Britain.Italy.Spain.Holland and Germany. Increasing Influence of French manners. Russia.Greece.Asia.China.Africa. America.Newly discovered islands.European Colonies.