"There is yet one place of shelter, Where the foeman cannot come, Where the summons never sounded Of the trumpet or th…"

"Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoiled ta Flood, By drinking up the water. Which he wou…"

"Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mar…"

"O to be like my Lord! Yet must I be Mine own self too, And to the nature He bestowed on me Be frankly true.The olive …"

"There is much tenderness and beauty in many of the poems, but the writers wrote in a language which they did not comm…"

"I would beg any possible, but improbable, reader who desires to peruse the Anthology as a whole, to read first the ep…"

"Death at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine: Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying …"

"There is a sort of republican plainness and simplicity in their address, quite in harmony with the institutions of th…"

"The devout and politically free inhabitant of New England is a kind of Laocoön who makes not the least effort to esca…"

"The process in England...is to ring for the chambermaid; but in America there are no bells, and no chambermaids. You …"