Table of Contents
The Death of Hector, Translation of the Iliad, p. 8
William Cullen Bryant
The Twenty-Third Psalm, p.13
The Bible
The Burial of Moses, p.15
Cecil Frances Alexander
Address of Brutus to the Romans, p.19
William Shakespeare
The Destruction of Sennacherib, p.21
Lord Byron
The Lady of Shalott, p.23
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sir Galahad, p.34
Alfred Tennyson
The Ship of State, p.38
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Concord Hymn, p.40
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Supposed Speech of John Adams on The Declaration of Independence, p.42
Daniel Webster
Liberty and Union, p.48
Daniel Webster Union and Liberty, p.51
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Address at Gettysburg, p.53
Abraham Lincoln
Recessional, p.57
Rudyard Kipling
A Psalm of Life, p.59
Henry W. Longfellow
To A WaterFowl, p.62
William Cullen Bryant
The Cloud, p.64
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Bells, p.67
Edgar Allan Poe
The Deacon�s Masterpiece, p.75
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Blind Men and the Elephant, A Hindu Fable, p.84
John G. Saxe