The New Testament. |
Critical Introduction by Frederic William Farrar |
The Sermon on the Mount |
From the Gospel According to St. Mark |
The Parable of the Good Samaritan |
The Parable of the Prodigal Son |
On the Sabbath |
Discipleship |
The Conversion of Paul |
The Nature of Love |
Immortality |
From the General Epistle of Jude |
The Vision |
John Henry Newman.
1801–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Holt Hutton |
The Transition |
The Locusts |
Callista and Agellius |
Mother and Son |
The Separation of Friends |
The Pillar of the Cloud |
After Death |
Angel |
Sir Isaac Newton.
1642–1727. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Letter to Francis Astor in 1669 |
From ‘Mathematical Principles’ |
Nibelungenlied.
Twelfth Century. |
Critical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
From the Nibelungenlied |
Barthold Georg Niebuhr.
1776–1831. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Plan for a Complete History of Rome |
Early Education: Words and Things |
The Importance of the Imagination |
Friedrich Nietzsche.
1844–1900. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Pepperell Montague |
Zarathustra’s Prologue |
The Despisers of the Body |
War and Warriors |
The New Idol |
Old and Young Women |
Will to Power |
The Higher Man |
Nizami Ganjavi.
1140/1–1202/3. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson |
From Nizami’s ‘Laila and Majnun’ |
Charles Nodier.
1780–1844. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Golden Dream |
Frank Norris.
1870–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carl Van Doren |
From ‘The Octopus’ |
William Edward Norris.
1847–1925. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Freddy Croft: And the Lynshire Ball |
Mrs. Winnington’s Eavesdropping |
An Idyl in Kabylia |
Charles Eliot Norton.
1827–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Building of Orvieto Cathedral |
The Dome of Brunelleschi |
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg).
1772–1801. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Hymns to the Night |
Alfred Noyes.
1880–1958. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
From ‘Flos Mercatorum’ |
Song: “Marchaunt Adventurers” |
Song from ‘Drake’: ‘N’oserez vous’ |
Creation |
Earth-Bound |
Fitz-James O’Brien.
1828–1862. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Great Diamond is Obtained and Used |
The Lost Steamship |
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger.
1779–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
The Dedication of ‘Aladdin’—to Goethe |
Song: ‘The moon shines bright aloft’ |
From ‘Axel and Valborg’ |
The Foes |
The Sacrifice |
Song: ‘The fairy dwells in the rocky hall’ |
Noureddin Reads from an Old Folio |
Oehlenschläger’s Only Hymn |
The Old Testament and the Jewish Apocrypha. |
Critical Introduction by Crawford Howell Toy |
Margaret Oliphant.
1828–1897. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
A Comfort to her Dear Papa |
The Deliverance |
Teacher and Pupil |
John Boyle O’Reilly.
1844–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
Ensign Epps, the Color-Bearer |
The Cry of the Dreamer |
A Dead Man |
My Troubles! |
The Rainbow’s Treasure |
Yesterday and To-morrow |
A White Rose |
The Infinite |
Ossian and Ossianic Poetry. |
Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys |
Colloquy of Ossian and St. Patrick |
To the Blackbird of Derrycarn |
The Fian Banners |
The Fairy Host |
Credhe’s Lament |
Deirdrê’s Lament for the Sons of Usnach |
Colna-Dona |
The Songs of Selma |
From a ‘Colloquy of Oisin and St. Patrick’ |
The Death-Song of Ossian |
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée).
1839–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Silk Stockings |
How Tricotrin Found Viva |
The Steeple-Chase |
Ovid.
43 B.C.–18 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Willey Kelsey |
On the Death of Corinna’s Parrot |
From Sappho’s Letter to Phaon |
A Soldier’s Bride |
The Creation |
Baucis and Philemon |
A Grewsome Lover |
The Sun-God’s Palace |
A Transformation |
Effect of Orpheus’s Song in Hades |
The Poet’s Fame |
Thomas Nelson Page.
1853–1922. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Burial of the Guns |
Édouard Pailleron.
1834–1899. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Society Where One Is Bored |
A Scientist among Ladies |
The Story of Grigneux |
Thomas Paine.
1737–1809. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From ‘The Crisis’ |
The Magazine in America |
John Gorham Palfrey.
1796–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Salem Witchcraft |
William Gifford Palgrave.
1826–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Night Ride in the Desert |
The Last Meeting |
Frederik Paludan-Müller.
1809–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
Hymn to the Sun |
Adam and his Mother |
Emilia Pardo Bazán.
1852–1921. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Reign of Terror |
The Schoolmistress at Home |
Russian Nihilism: “Going to the People” |
Giuseppe Parini.
1729–1799. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Toilet of an Exquisite |
The Lady’s Lap-Dog |
The Afternoon Call |
Sir Gilbert Parker.
1862–1932. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Patrol of the Cypress Hills |
Valmond |
Theodore Parker.
1810–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John White Chadwick |
Mistakes about Jesus: His Reception and Influence |
Francis Parkman.
1823–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts |
Dominique de Gourgues |
Father Brébeuf and his Associates in the Huron Mission |
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
Parmenides.
fl. early Fifth Century B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Introduction of the Poem on Nature |
Thought and Existence |
Kosmos |
Thomas William Parsons.
1819–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Mary Booth |
A Dirge |
Epitaph on a Child |
To Francesca |
Pilgrim’s Isle |
Paradisi Gloria |
James Parton.
1822–1891. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From the ‘Life of Andrew Jackson’ |
From the ‘Life of Voltaire’ |
Blaise Pascal.
1623–1662. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur Graves Canfield |
From the ‘Thoughts’ |
Giovanni Pascoli.
1855–1912. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Gertrude Elizabeth Taylor Slaughter |
Walter Pater.
1839–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl |
White Nights |
The Classic and the Romantic in Literature |
Coventry Patmore.
1823–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
Wind and Wave |
The Toys |
“If I Were Dead” |
To the Body |
Love Serviceable |
Sahara |
Married Life |
The Queen |
Wisdom |
Pathos |
James Kirke Paulding.
1778–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Pliny the Younger |
A Woman’s Privilege: And the Charms of Snuff-Color |
Sybrandt Receives Back his Estate—with an Incumbrance |
Pausanias.
c. 110–180 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bernadotte Perrin |
The Acropolis of Athens and its Temples |
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia |
Thomas Love Peacock.
1785–1866. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From ‘Maid Marian’ |
George Peele.
1556–1596. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Old Age |
From ‘David and Bethsabe’ |
From ‘A Farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake’ |
Silvio Pellico.
1789–1854. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham |
From ‘Le Mie Prigioni’ |
Meeting of Francesca and Paolo |
Samuel Pepys.
1633–1703. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur George Peskett |
Extracts from the Diary |
José Maria de Pereda.
1833–1906. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Bishop |
Tuerto’s Family Life |
The Candidate Visits his Voters |
The Portrait of Don Gonzalo Gonzalez of Gonzalez-Town |
Cleto’s Proposal to Sotileza |
Charles Perrault.
1628–1703. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Little Red Riding-Hood |
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood |
Blue Beard |
Toads and Diamonds |
Persius.
34–62 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Author’s Ambition |
A Child’s Trick |
“We Twa” |
Sándor Petőfi.
1823–1849. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
Master Paul |
Song of Lament |
May-Night |
Dreaming |
Faithfulness |
A Vow |
Sorrow and Joy |
Wife and Sword |
Our Country |
One Only Thought |
Indifference |
Petrarch.
1304–1374. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham |
To the Princes of Italy, Exhorting them to Set her Free |
To Rienzi, Beseeching him to Restore to Rome her Ancient Liberty |
To the Virgin Mary |
To the Fountain of Vaucluse—Contemplations of Death |
He Paints the Beauties of Laura, and his Unalterable Love |
He Extols the Beauty and Virtue of Laura |
The Death-Bed of Laura |
On the Announcement of the Death of Laura |
She Is ever Present to him |
He Thanks her that from Time to Time she Returns to Console him with her Presence |
Vaucluse has Become to him a Scene of Pain |
His Only Desire Is Again to be with her |
He Revisits Vaucluse |
He Feels that the Day of their Reunion Is at Hand |
He Seeks Solitude, but Love Follows him Everywhere |
Conscious of his Folly, he Prays God to Turn him to a Better Life |
Whoever Beholds her must Admit that his Praises cannot Reach Laura’s Perfection |
Her Counsel Alone Affords him Relief |
Sonnet Found in Laura’s Tomb |
Petronius.
c. 27–66. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
The Adventure of the Cloak |
Trimalchio’s Reminiscences |
Laudator Temporis Acti |
The Master of the Feast |
On Dreams |
Epitaph on a Favorite Hunting-Dog |
Philemon.
c. 368–c. 264 B.C.
Menander.
c. 342–c. 292 B.C..
and the Lost Attic Comedy. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton |
Susarion: Women |
Teleclides: The Age of Gold |
Cratinus: Wine versus Water |
Hermippus: Imports of Athens; The Best Wines |
Eupolis: Honor to Home Talent |
Phrynichus: Eulogy on Sophocles |
Alexis: Vanity Fair |
Amphis: Life and Death |
Anaxandrides: Health, Beauty, Wealth |
Antiphanes: The Comic Poet’s Grievances |
Timocles: Office of Tragedy |
Philemon: Selections |
Menander: Selections |
Menander: From ‘The Arbitrants’ |
Stephen Phillips.
1868–1915. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
From ‘Paolo and Francesca’ |
Ulysses and Calypso |
Wendell Phillips.
1811–1884. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Washburn Smalley |
The Hero of Hayti |
Antiquity of Inventions and Stories |
Pierre of Provence and the Beautiful Maguelonne. |
Critical Introduction by Olga Flinch |
Pindar.
c. 522–433 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Basil L. Gildersleeve |
First Olympian Ode |
Second Olympian Ode |
Third Olympian Ode |
Seventh Olympian Ode |
First Pythian Ode |
Alexis Piron.
1689–1773. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
From ‘La Métromanie’ |
The Others |
Experience |
Epitaph |
August, Graf von Platen.
1796–1835. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Remorse |
Before the Convent of St. Just, 1556 |
The Grave in the Busento |
Venice |
“Fair as the Day” |
To Schelling |
Voluntary Exile |
Plato.
429–347 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Shorey |
Socrates and the Sophists |
Socrates Prepares for Death |
Socrates’s Remarks after Condemnation |
Mythic Description of the Soul |
Myth of the Judgment of the Dead |
Figure of the Cave |
The Ideal Ruler Portrayed |
Plautus.
c. 254–184 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Gonzalez Lodge |
The Braggart Soldier |
Prologue of ‘Casina’ |
Prologue of ‘Trinummus’ |
Prologue of ‘Rudens’ |
Epilogue of the ‘Captives’ |
Epilogue of ‘Asinaria’ |
Busybodies |
Unpopularity of Tragedy |
Mixture of Greek and Roman Manners |
Rewards of Heroism |
Fishermen’s Luck |
Plautus’s Epitaph on Himself |
Pliny the Elder.
23–79 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Introduction to Lithology |
Anecdotes of Artists |
The Most Perfect Works of Nature |
Pliny the Younger.
61/2–c. 113 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Portrait of a Rival |
To Minutius Fundanus: How Time Passes at Rome |
To Socius Senecio: The Last Crop of Poets |
To Nepos: Of Arria |
To Marcellinus: Death of Fundanus’s Daughter |
To Calpurnia, I |
To Tacitus: The Eruption of Vesuvius |
To Calpurnia, II |
To Maximus: Pliny’s Success as an Author |
To Fuscus: A Day in the Country |
To the Emperor Trajan: Of the Christians; and Trajan’s Answer |
Plutarch.
c. 45–120 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Bull Clapp |
Pericles |
Coriolanus |
Plutarch on Himself |
Antony and Cleopatra |
Letter to his Wife on their Daughter’s Death |
The Wife of Pythes |
The Teaching of Virtue |
The Need of Good Schoolmasters |
Mothers and Nurses |
Edgar Allan Poe.
1809–1849. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederic William Henry Myers |
A Descent into the Maelström |
The Fall of the House of Usher |
For Annie |
Song from ‘The Assignation’ |
The Raven |
The Bells |
Annabel Lee |
Ulalume |
To Helen |
Poetry of the Early Twentieth Century. |
Critical Introduction by John Erskine |
Polybius.
c. 200–c. 118 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bernadotte Perrin |
Scope of Polybius’s History |
Polybius and the Scipios |
The Fall of Corinth |
Alexander Pope.
1688–1744. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury |
From the ‘Essay on Criticism’ |
The Game of Cards |
From the ‘Essay on Man’ |
From the ‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’ |
The Goddess of Dullness is Addressed on Education |
The Triumph of Dullness |
The Universal Prayer |
Ode: The Dying Christian to his Soul |
Epitaph on Sir William Trumbal |
Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue |
Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
1802–1839. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine |
The Vicar |
The Belle of the Ball |
William Hickling Prescott.
1796–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Newton Thorpe |
“The Melancholy Night” |
The Spanish Arabs |
The Capture of the Inca |
The Personal Habits of Philip II. |
The Spanish Moors Persecuted into Rebellion |
Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles.
1697–1763. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Exile and Death |
William Cowper Prime.
1825–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Old Man at the Water-Wheel |
The Defeat of the Christian Host at Galilee, A.D. 1187 |
A New England Auction: The Lonely Church in the Valley |
Matthew Prior.
1664–1721. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
To a Child of Quality |
Song: ‘In vain you tell your parting lover’ |
To a Lady |
An Ode: ‘The merchant, to secure his treasure’ |
Cupid Mistaken |
A Better Answer |
A Simile |
The Secretary |
A Test of Love |
The Lady’s Looking-Glass |
The Female Phaeton |
Bryan Waller and Adelaide Anne Procter. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall).
1787–1874. |
The Sea |
A Petition to Time |
Life |
Inscription for a Fountain |
“Sit Down, Sad Soul” |
The Poet’s Song to his Wife |
“Peace! What do Tears Avail?” |
The Stormy Petrel |
Adelaide Anne Procter.
1825–1864. |
A Doubting Heart |
A Woman’s Question |
A Lost Chord |
Propertius.
c. 50–c. 16 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Meason Whicher |
Beauty Unadorned |
To Tullus |
To Cynthia |
To Caius Cilnius Mæcenas |
To the Muse |
The Immortality of Genius |
Cornelia |
Provençal Literature (The Troubadours).
1090–1290. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
Guillaume de Poitiers: Behold the Meads |
Guiraud Le Roux: Come Lady |
Bernard de Ventadour: Marvel is it if I Sing |
Richard Cœur de Lion: Ah! Certes will no Prisoner Tell His Tale |
Guillaume de Cabestaing: I See the Days are Long |
Comtesse de Die: Of that I would not |
Arnaut de Maroill: Softly Sighs the April Air |
Raimon de Miraval: Fair Summer-Time |
Alba—Unknown Author: Under the Hawthorns |
Alba—Guiraut de Borneil: All-Glorious King! |
Alba—Bertrand d’Aamanon: A Knight was Sitting by Her Side |
Luigi Pulci.
1432–1484. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Conversion of the Giant Morgante |
Alexander Pushkin.
1799–1837. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Isabel Florence Hapgood |
From ‘Boris Godunov’ |
From ‘Evgeny Onyegin’ |
Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire.
1838–1923. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Forest |
A Madwoman |
Brotherly Love |
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
1863–1944. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
When the Sap Rose: A Fantasia |
The Paupers |
Edgar Quinet.
1803–1875. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Bérenger |
Naples and Vesuvius |
A Night in the Orient |
The Wandering Jew |
The Struggle against Environment |
Quintilian.
c. 35–c. 95 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
On the Object and Scope of the ‘Institutes’ |
On the Early Practice of Composition |
On Nature and Art in Oratory |
On Embellishments of Style |
On the Handling of Witnesses in Court |
On Ancient Authors |
François Rabelais.
c. 1490–1553. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Bérenger |
The Childhood of Gargantua |
The Education of Gargantua |
The Abbey of Thelema |
Jean Racine.
1639–1699. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederick Morris Warren |
The Rivals |
The Appeal of Andromache |
The Confession of Phædra |
Sir Walter Raleigh.
1554?–1618. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ashley Horace Thorndike |
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd |
The Last Fight of the Revenge |
Alfred Rambaud.
1842–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Halting Steps toward Democracy |
French Governmental Experiments |
Russian Expansion West and South |
Benefits to Germany from French Invasions |
Civil Life in France during the Middle Ages |
French Medical Science during the Middle Ages |
The Middle Ages |
Allan Ramsay.
1686–1758. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Gentle Shepherd |
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray |
Lochaber No More |
An Thou Were My Ain Thing |
A Sang: ‘Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bride’ |
The Highland Lassie |
Leopold von Ranke.
1795–1886. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Fall of Strafford |
The Rise of the Jesuits in Germany |
The Last Years of Queen Johanna |
The Swiss Army in Italy in 1513: and the Battle of Novara |
Maximilian at the Diet of Worms |
Thomas Buchanan Read.
1822–1872. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Drifting |
Sheridan’s Ride |
The Closing Scene |
Inez |
Charles Reade.
1814–1884. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Viscount and Lower Classes |
In the Green-Room |
Extract from a Sixteenth-Century Letter |
Monk and Father |
Henri de Régnier.
1864–1936. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pierre Dareutiere de Bâcourt |
The Faun with the Mirror |
The Vase |
Odelette I |
Ernest Renan.
1823–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ferdinand Brunetière |
Brother and Sister |
To the Pure Soul of My Sister Henriette |
Motives and Conduct |
The Share of the Semitic People in the History of Civilization |
The Persistence of the Celtic Race |
Fritz Reuter.
1810–1874. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Old Parson’s Death |
The Miller and the Justice |
James Ford Rhodes.
1848–1927. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Daniel Webster |
Webster’s Death |
Improvement in American Health |
American Manners in 1850 |
Samuel Richardson.
1689–1761. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Pamela Immured by her Lover |
Miss Byron’s Rescue from Abduction, by Sir Charles Grandison |
Jean Richepin.
1849–1926. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mathurin Marius Dondo |
James Whitcomb Riley.
1849–1916. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Will David Howe |
When She Comes Home |
A Song: ‘There is ever a song somewhere, my dear’ |
Knee-Deep in June |
Out to Old Aunt Mary’s |
No Boy Knows |
Old John Henry |
Little Orphant Annie |
When the Frost is on the Punkin |
A Life Lesson |
Away |
Nothin’ to Say |
The Name of Old Glory |
Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
1837–1919. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
My Witch’s-Caldron |
Bricks and Ivy |
Dutch Tiles |
My Father’s Mother |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
1860–1943. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Strayed |
The Unsleeping |
An Epitaph for a Husbandman |
The Little Field of Peace |
Marsyas |
The Flight of the Geese |
Beside the Winter Sea |
The Deserted City |
Frederick William Robertson.
1816–1853. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
The Early Development of Christ |
The Universal Nature of Christ |
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson.
1857–1944. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Tuscan Cypress |
Red May |
Edwin Arlington Robinson.
1869–1935. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
Cassandra |
Veteran Sirens |
The Poor Relation |
Édouard Rod.
1857–1910. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King |
Marriage |
Paternity |
Samuel Rogers.
1763–1855. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
Ginevra |
From the ‘Pleasures of Memory’ |
From ‘Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers’ |
Romain Rolland.
1866–1944. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall |
An Infant Prodigy |
Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
Critical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
Annius Florus: Roses |
The Emperor Hadrian: To his Soul |
Author Unknown: From the ‘Pervigilium Veneris’ |
Calpurnius Siculus: The Rustic in the Amphitheatre |
Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Idyl of the Roses |
Decimus Magnus Ausonius: A Mother’s Epitaph |
Claudius Claudianus: The Bereavement of Ceres |
Claudius Claudianus: Invocation to Victory |
Claudius Rutilius Numatianus: Prologue to the ‘Itinerarium’ |
Anicius Severinus Boethius: The Government of the World |
Anicius Severinus Boethius: The Hymn of Philosophy |
Pierre de Ronsard.
1524–1585. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Katharine Hillard |
Sonnet: To Angelette |
His Lady’s Tomb |
Roses |
To Cassandra |
Song: To Marie |
A Madrigal: To Astræa |
Good Counsel |
Ronsard to his Mistress |
Theodore Roosevelt.
1858–1919. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews |
The Indians of the Northwest |
Backwoodsmen and Other Early Types |
Citizenship in a Republic |