Character of ZAMOR , a bard-His passion for ACILOE , daughter of the Cazique who rules the valley-The Peruvian tribe prepare to defend themselves-A battle-The PERUVIANS are vanquished-ACILOE'S father is made a prisoner, and ZAMOR is supposed to have fallen in the engagement-ALPHONSO becomes enamoured of ACILOE -Offers to marry her-She rejects him-In revenge he puts her father to the torture-She appears to consent, in order to save him-Meets ZAMOR in a wood-LAS CASAS joins them-Leads the two lovers to ALPHONSO , and obtains their freedom-ZAMOR conducts ACILOE and her father to Chili-A reflection on the influence of Poetry over the human mind.

A Man's Praise Of His Wife

© Confucius

My path forth from the east gate lay,
Where cloud-like moved the girls at play.
Numerous are they, as clouds so bright,
But not on them my heart's thoughts light.
Dressed in a thin white silk, with coiffure gray
Is she, my wife, my joy in life's low way.

On A Cone Of The Big Trees

© Francis Bret Harte

(SEQUOIA GIGANTEA)

Brown foundling of the Western wood,

Monument Mountain

© William Cullen Bryant

Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops

Hymn Written For The Great Central Fair In Philadelphia, 1864

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

FATHER, send on Earth again
Peace and good-will to men;
Yet, while the weary track of life
Leads thy people through storm and strife,
Help us to walk therein.

Death Of An Old Carriage Horse

© George Moses Horton

The order of the day
Was push, the peal of every tongue,
The only word was all the way,
Push along, push along.

Tom Van Arden

© James Whitcomb Riley

When our souls are cramped with youth
Happiness seems far away
In the future, while, in truth,

Olney Hymn 35: Welcome Cross

© William Cowper

'Tis my happiness below

Not to live without the cross,

A Revery

© Katherine Philips

DEATH is a leveller; beauty and kings,

And conquerours, and all those glorious things,

John Keats

THE weltering London ways where children weep

And girls whom none call maidens laugh,strange road

Poem Read At The Dinner Given To The Author By The Medical Profession Of The City Of New York, April

Good was the dinner, better was the talk;
Some whispered, devious was the homeward walk;
The story came from some reporting spy,
They lie, those fellows, oh, how they do lie!
Not ours those foot-tracks in the new-fallen snow,
Poets and sages never zigzagged so!

On the Prospect of Peace

To the Lord Privy Seal

Contending kings, and fields of death, too long

"Love I have served, for such length of time"

Now God save me from love, and loving again,
Except love of Her whom we should love here,
Through whom every mans redeemed from sin.

The Cenci : A Tragedy In Five Acts

Scene I.
-An Apartment in the Cenci Palace.
Enter Count Cenci, and Cardinal Camillo.

A Dedication to Soldiers Three

And they were stronger hands than mine
That digged the Ruby from the earth-
More cunning brains that made it worth
The large desire of a king,
And stouter hearts that through the brine
Went down the perfect Pearl to bring.