Excerpt: THE FIRST BOOK; Who e?re while the happy Garden sung, By one mans disobedience lost, now sing Recover?d Paradise to all mankind, By one mans firm obedience fully tri?d Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil?d In all his wiles, defeated and repuls?t, And Eden rais?d in the wast Wilderness. Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious Eremite Into the Desert, his Victorious Field Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ?d to tell of deeds Above Heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left through many an Age, Worthy t?have not remain?d so long unsung. Now had the great Proclaimer with a voice More awful then the sound of Trumpet, cri?d Repentance, and Heavens Kingdom nigh at hand To all Baptiz?d: to his great Baptism flock?d With aw the Regions round, and with them came From Nazareth the Son of Joseph deem?d To the flood Jordan, came as then obscure, Unmarkt, unknown; but him the Baptist soon Descri?d, divinely warn?d, and witness bore As to h...

Table of Contents: THE FIRST BOOK., 1 -- PARADISE REGAIN?D. The Second BOOK., 13 -- PARADISE REGAIN?D. The Third BOOK., 24 -- PARADISE REGAIN?D. The Fourth BOOK., 34 -- Notes, 49...

Excerpt: Hart-Leap Well. Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem, which monuments do now exist as have there described them. The Knight had ridden down from Wensley moor With the slow motion of a summer?s cloud; He turn?d aside towards a Vassal?s door, And, ?Bring another Horse!? he cried aloud....

Contents HART-LEAP WELL.......................................................................................................................... 5 THE BROTHERS,...........................................................................................................................11 ELLEN IRWIN, ............................................................................................................................... 22 SONG............................................................................................................................................... 24 The WATERFALL and the EGLANTINE. ...................................................................................... 24 The OAK and the BROOM, ........................................................................................................... 26 LUCY GRAY................................................................................................................................... 28 The IDLE SHEPHERD-BOYS, ....................................................................................................... 30 POOR SUSAN.............................

Excerpt: SONGS OF INNOCENCE; INTRODUCTION -- Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: ??Pipe a song about a Lamb!?? So I piped with merry cheer. ??Piper, pipe that song again;?? So I piped: he wept to hear. ??Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!?? So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ??Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.?? So he vanish?d from my sight; And I pluck?d a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain?d the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear....

Table of Contents: SONGS OF INNOCENCE, 1 -- INTRODUCTION, 1 -- THE SHEPHERD, 2 -- THE ECHOING GREEN, 3 -- THE LAMB, 4 -- THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, 5 -- THE BLOSSOM, 6 -- THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER, 7 -- THE LITTLE BOY LOST, 8 -- THE LITTLE BOY FOUND, 9 -- LAUGHING SONG, 10 -- A SONG, 11 -- DIVINE IMAGE, 12 -- HOLY THURSDAY, 13 -- NIGHT, 14 -- SPRING, 16 -- NURSE?S SONG, 17 -- INFANT JOY, 18 -- A DREAM, 19 -- ON ANOTHER?S SORROW, 20 -- SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, 21 -- INTRODUCTION, 21 -- EARTH?S ANSWER, 22 -- THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE, 23 -- HOLY THURSDAY, 24 -- THE LITTLE GIRL LOST, 25 -- THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, 27 -- THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, 29 -- NURSE?S SONG, 30 -- THE SICK ROSE, 31 -- THE FLY, 32 -- THE ANGEL, 33 -- THE TIGER, 34 -- MY PRETTY ROSE TREE, 35 -- AH SUNFLOWER, 36 -- THE LILY, 37 -- THE GARDEN OF LOVE, 38 -- THE LITTLE VAGABOND, 39 -- LONDON, 40 -- THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, 41 -- INFANT SORROW, 42 -- A POISON TREE, 43 -- A LITTLE BOY LOST, 44...

Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once at the expense of a self-styled connoisseur....

Excerpt: PROLOGUE; STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before ......

Table of Contents: PROLOGUE, vi -- DEDICATION, viii -- I., 1 -- II., 2 -- III., 3 -- IV., 4 -- V., 5 -- VI., 6 -- VII., 8 -- VIII., 9 -- IX., 10 -- X., 11 -- XI., 12 -- XII., 13 -- XIII., 14 -- XIV., 15 -- XV., 16 -- XVI., 17 -- XVII., 18 -- XVIII., 19 -- XIX., 20 -- XX., 21 -- XXI., 22 -- XXII., 23 -- XXIII., 24 -- XXIV., 25 -- XXV., 26 -- XXVI., 27...

Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music....

Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

Contents CHILLIANWALLAH..................................................................................................................... 14 THE DOE: A FRAGMENT........................................................................................................... 15 BEAUTY ROHTRAUT .................................................................................................................. 19 THE OLIVE BRANCH .................................................................................................................. 20 SONG .............................................................................................................................................. 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .............................................................................................................................................. 26 JOHN LACKLAND ....................................................

Introduction: This tale, of which I have not consciously changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons have helped me with details. There seems no reason why the tale should not be true....

Contents THE SONG OF RAHERO ............................................................................4 I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA .............................................................................................................................. 5 II. THE VENGING OF TAMATEA ......................................................................................................................... 13 III. RAHERO ............................................................................................................................................................. 22 THE FEAST OF FAMINE ..........................................................................29 I. THE PRIEST?S VIGIL.......................................................................................................................................... 29 II. THE LOVERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 III. THE FEAST ...........................................................................................................................

Excerpt: Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling.

Contents A Charm ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Introduction....................................................................................................................................... 6 COLD IRON..................................................................................................................................... 7 Cold Iron ......................................................................................................................................... 21 GLORIANA .................................................................................................................................... 22 The Two Cousins ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 The Looking-Glass.......................................................................................................................... 35 THE WRONG THING...........................................

Excerpt: New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918 ed.).

Contents PRAYER ........................................................................................................................................................................ 8 LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ ..................................................................................................................... 9 THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE............................................................................................ 9 MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS ......................................................................................... 10 I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR ................................................................................................................ 10 ST. MARTIN?S SUMMER ......................................................................................................................................... 12 DEDICATION ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 THE OLD CHIMAERAS, OLD RECEIPTS .................................

Excerpt: Genesis; Chapter 1 -- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day....

Table of Contents: I Old Testament 1 -- 1 Genesis, 3 -- 2 Exodus, 70 -- 3 Leviticus, 126 -- 4 Numbers, 167 -- 5 Deuteronomy, 225 -- 6 Joshua, 273 -- 7 Judges, 306 -- 8 Ruth, 338 -- 9 1 Samuel, 343 -- 10 2 Samuel, 385 -- 11 1 Kings, 420 -- 12 2 Kings, 461 -- 13 1 Chronicles, 500 -- 14 2 Chronicles, 539 -- 15 Ezra, 584 -- 16 Nehemiah, 598 -- 17 Esther, 617 -- 18 Job, 627 -- 19 Psalms, 662 -- 20 Proverbs, 746 -- 21 Ecclesiastes, 775 -- 22 Song of Solomon, 785 -- 23 Isaiah, 790 -- 24 Jeremiah, 854 -- 25 Lamentations, 926 -- 26 Ezekiel, 933 -- 27 Daniel, 999 -- 28 Hosea, 1019 -- 29 Joel, 1029...

Excerpt: THE GOOD-MORROW; I WONDER by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov?d? were we not wean?d till then? But suck?d on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den? T?was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir?d, and got, t?was but a dreame of thee. And now good morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare; For love, all love of other sights controules, And makes one little roome, an every where. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne, Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one. My face is thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe North, without declining West? What ever dyes, was not mixt equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die....

Table of Contents: THE GOOD-MORROW, 1 -- SONG, 2 -- WOMANS CONSTANCY, 3 -- THE UNDERTAKING, 4 -- THE SUNNE RISING, 5 -- THE INDIFFERENT, 6 -- LOVES USURY, 7 -- THE CANONIZATION, 8 -- THE TRIPLE FOOLE, 10 -- LOVERS INFINITENESSE, 11 -- SONG, 12 -- THE LEGACIE, 13 -- A FEAVER, 14 -- AIRE AND ANGELLS, 15 -- BREAKE OF DAY, 16 -- THE ANNIVERSARIE, 17 -- A VALEDICTION: OF MY NAME, IN THE WINDOW, 18 -- TWICKNAM GARDEN, 20 -- A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE, 21 -- COMMUNITIE, 23 -- LOVES GROWTH, 24 -- LOVES EXCHANGE, 25 -- CONFINED LOVE, 27 -- THE DREAME, 28 -- A VALEDICTION: OF WEEPING, 29 -- LOVES ALCHYMIE, 30 -- THE FLEA, 31 -- THE CURSE, 32 -- THE MESSAGE, 33 -- A NOCTURNALL UPON S. LUCIES DAY, 34 -- WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE, 36 -- THE BAITE, 37 -- THE APPARITION, 38 -- THE BROKEN HEART, 39 -- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, 40 -- THE EXTASIE, 41 -- LOVES DEITIE, 43 -- LOVES DIET, 44 -- THE WILL, 45 -- THE FUNERALL, 47 -- THE BLOSSOME, 48 -- THE PRIMROSE, 49 -- THE RELIQUE, 50...

Excerpt: In the days when New York?s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stuyvesant Square....

Excerpt: This publication of William Blake?s Songs of Innocence.

Table of Contents 5 ?Introduction 6 ?The Shepherd 7 ?Infant Joy 7 ?On Another?s Sorrow 8 ?The School Boy 10 ?Holy Thursday 11 ?Nurse?s Song 11 ?Laughing Song 12 ?The Little Black Boy 13 ?The Voice of the Ancient Bard 13 ?Ecchoing Green 15 ?The Chimney Sweeper 16 ?The Divine Image...

Excerpt: Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way, does so at his or her own risk....

Contents 4 CHAPTER 1. LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES! 10 CHAPTER 2. L?AMIE INCONNUE. 15 CHAPTER 3. BIRTHDAY-PRESENTS. 21 CHAPTER 4. A CUNNING CONSPIRACY. 26 CHAPTER 5. A BEGGAR?S PALACE. 33 CHAPTER 6. THE MAGIC LOCKET. 39 CHAPTER 7. THE BARON?S EMBASSY. 44 CHAPTER 8. A RIDE ON A LION. 49 CHAPTER 9. A JESTER AND A BEAR. 56 CHAPTER 10. THE OTHER PROFESSOR. 62 CHAPTER 11. PETER AND PAUL. 69 CHAPTER 12. A MUSICAL GARDENER. 75 CHAPTER 13. A VISIT TO DOGLAND. 82 CHAPTER 14. FAIRY-SYLVlE. 91 CHAPTER 15. BRUNO?S REVENGE....

Introduction: Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: ?Pipe a song about a Lamb!? So I piped with merry cheer. ?Piper, pipe that song again;? So I piped: he wept to hear....

Excerpt: It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,--now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory,--whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l?Etoile, that one morning, refreshed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling flow of talk, lavish of ideas, you tossed to my pen a figure worthy of Hoffmann,--that casket of unrecognized gems, that pilgrim seated at the gate of Paradise with ears to hear the songs of the angels but no longer a tongue to repeat them, playing on the ivory keys with fingers crippled by the stress of divine inspiration, believing that he is expressing celestial music to his bewildered listeners....

Excerpt: Swan Song by Anton Checkov, translated by Marian Fell.

Contents INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................4 Chronological List of the Principal Works of Anton Tchekoff..................10 The Swan Song .............................................................................................. 11...

Excerpt: Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Contents I. ? THE PERSONS OF THE TALE. ............................................................................................................................ 4 II. ? THE SINKING SHIP. ............................................................................................................................................ 7 III ? THE TWO MATCHES. ........................................................................................................................................ 9 IV. ? THE SICK MAN AND THE FIREMAN. ........................................................................................................... 10 V. ? THE DEVIL AND THE INNKEEPER. ............................................................................................................... 11 VI. ? THE PENITENT................................................................................................................................................ 11 VII. ? THE YELLOW PAINT. .................................................................................................................................... 12 VIII. ? THE HOUSE OF ELD. .........

Excerpt: In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirlywhirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth--so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ?Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale?s right ear, so as to be out of harm?s way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ?I?m hungry.? And the small ?Stute Fish said in a small ?stute voice, ?Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man??...

Contents HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT..................................................................................... 4 HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP .......................................................................................... 7 HOW THE RHINOCEROS .......................................................................................................... 11 GOT HIS SKIN ............................................................................................................................... 11 HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS .................................................................................. 14 THE ELEPHANT?S CHILD ......................................................................................................... 21 THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN ............................................................................................... 29 KANGAROO .................................................................................................................................. 29 HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE ......................................................................................... 53 ...