Minor Poems

by Unknown

COPYRIGHT, 1875, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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CONTENTS.

		Page
[Ae Fond Kiss]	Robert Burns	52
[Age of Wisdom, The]	William Makepeace Thackeray	115
[Arsenal at Springfield, The]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	146
[Astarte]	Robert Bulwer Lytton	54
[Betrothed Anew]	Edmund Clarence Stedman	86
[Blindness, On his]	John Milton	143
[Brave at Home, The]	Thomas Buchanan Read	142
[Break, break, break]	Alfred Tennyson	53
[Bridal Dirge, A]	Bryan Waller Procter	163
[Brookside, The]	Richard Monckton Milnes	36
[Bugle-song]	Alfred Tennyson	40
[Cavalier's Song, The]	William Motherwell	132
[Chambered Nautilus, The]	Oliver Wendell Holmes	214
[Changes]	Robert Bulwer Lytton	71
[Children's Hour, The]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	152
[Christmas Hymn, A]	Alfred Dommett	217
[Cloud, The]	John Wilson	213
[Come, rest in this bosom]	Thomas Moore	46
[Coronach]	Sir Walter Scott	133
[Courtin', The]	James Russell Lowell	26
[Days that are no more, The]	Alfred Tennyson	65
[Death-Bed, The]	Thomas Hood	160
[Death of the Flowers, The]	William Cullen Bryant	100
[Death's Final Conquest]	James Shirley	182
[Dirge for a Soldier]	George Henry Boker	134
[Drake, Joseph Rodman]	Fitz-Greene Halleck	169
[Driving Home the Cows]	Kate Putnam Osgood	140
[Eagle, The]	Alfred Tennyson	105
[Enticed]	William C. Wilkinson	224
[Epilogue]	The Editor	231
[Evelyn Hope]	Robert Browning	161
[Farewell, A]	Charles Kingsley	199
[Farewell, A]	Alfred Tennyson	112
[Girdle, On a]	Edmund Waller	23
[Going Home]	Benjamin F. Taylor	185
[Graves of a Household, The]	Felicia Hemans	174
[Haunted Houses]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	73
[Health, A]	Edward Coate Pinkney	21
[Hermit, The]	James Beattie	175
[Heroes]	Edna Dean Proctor	144
[Highland Mary]	Robert Burns	166
[How's my Boy?]	Sydney Dobell	150
[Hymn to the Night]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	103
[Ichabod]	John Greenleaf Whittier	123
[Indian Gold Coin, To an]	John Leyden	183
[In Memoriam]	Thomas K. Hervey	173
[I Remember, I Remember]	Thomas Hood	72
[Ivy Green, The]	Charles Dickens	90
[Knight's Tomb, The]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	133
[Kubla Khan]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	16
[Lament, A]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	192
[Lament of the Irish Emigrant]	Lady Dufferin	158
[Land of Lands, The]	Alfred Tennyson	126
[Land o' the Leal, The]	Lady Nairne	156
[Last Leaf, The]	Oliver Wendell Holmes	117
[Last Rose of Summer, The]	Thomas Moore	111
[Lie, The]	Sir Walter Raleigh	204
[Life]	Anna Lætitia Barbauld	193
[Life]	Henry King	192
[Lines on a Skeleton]	Anonymous	201
[Lines to an Indian Air]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	42
[Little Black Boy, The]	William Blake	181
[Little Years, The]	Robert T. S. Lowell	114
[Long-Ago, The]	Richard Monckton Milnes	88
[Lost Leader, The]	Robert Browning	119
[Love Not]	Caroline Norton	51
[Lucasta, To]	Richard Lovelace	125
[Maid of Athens, ere we part]	Lord Byron	45
[Mango Tree, The]	Charles Kingsley	59
[Man's Mortality]	Simon Wastel	189
[Mariana]	Alfred Tennyson	37
[Mary in Heaven, To]	Robert Bums	61
[Minstrel's Song]	Thomas Chatterton	171
[Monterey]	Charles Fenno Hoffman	128
[Moore, Thomas, To]	Lord Byron	110
[Musical Instrument, A]	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	11
[My Child]	John Pierpont	154
[My Heid is like to rend]	William Motherwell	56
[My Psalm]	John Greenleaf Whittier	221
[My Slain]	Richard Realf	219
[Nice Correspondent, A]	Frederick Locker	24
[Night and Death]	Joseph Blanco White	104
[Not Far to Go]	William Barnes	43
[Ode]	William Collins	139
[Ode]	Theodore P. Cook	137
[Ode]	Sir William Jones	148
[Ode]	Henry Timrod	136
[Ode on a Grecian Urn]	John Keats	199
[Oft in the Stilly Night]	Thomas Moore	64
[Old Familiar Faces, The]	Charles Lamb	66
[Old Man's Idyl, An]	Richard Realf	84
[On a Picture of Peel Castle]	William Wordsworth	209
[Over the River]	Nancy Priest Wakefield	78
[O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?]	William Knox	177
[Pauper's Death-Bed, The]	Caroline Bowles Southey	208
[Petition to Time, A]	Bryan Waller Procter	122
[Philip, my King]	Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	149
[Progress]	Robert Bulwer Lytton	179
[Qua Cursum Ventus]	Arthur Hugh Clough	69
[River Path, The]	John Greenleaf Whittier	82
[St. Agnes]	Alfred Tennyson	215
[Sands of Dee, The]	Charles Kingsley	102
[Serenade]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	41
[She died in beauty]	Charles Doyne Sillery	164
[She is far from the land]	Thomas Moore	170
[She walks in beauty]	Lord Byron	34
[She was a phantom of delight]	William Wordsworth	18
[She was not fair, nor full of grace]	Bryan Waller Procter	165
[Skylark, The]	James Hogg	104
[Skylark, To the]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	106
[Slanten Light o' Fall, The]	William Barnes	20
[Snow-Storm, A]	Charles Gamage Eastman	97
[Soldier's Dream, The]	Thomas Campbell	127
[Song,—"The heath this night"]	Sir Walter Scott	124
[Song for September, A]	Thomas William Parsons	63
[Song of the Camp, A]	Bayard Taylor	130
[Sonnets]	William Shakespeare	48
[Spinning-Wheel Song, The]	John Francis Waller	32
[Stanzas,—"My life is like the summer rose"]	Richard Henry Wilde	113
[Summer Longings]	Denis Florence Mac-Carthy	91
[Thanatopsis]	William Cullen Bryant	75
[They are all gone]	Henry Vaughan	80
[Three Fishers, The]	Charles Kingsley	143
[Tiger, The]	William Blake	96
[Time's Changes]	David Macbeth Moir	67
[Tithonus]	Alfred Tennyson	193
[Tom Bowling]	Charles Dibdin	168
[Too Late!]	Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	167
[Too Late]	Fitz-Hugh Ludlow	120
[Toujours Amour]	Edmund Clarence Stedman	228
[Treasures of the Deep, The]	Felicia Hemans	212
[Two Women]	Nathaniel Parker Willis	207
[Undiscovered Country, The]	Edmund Clarence Stedman	220
[Virtue]	George Herbert	203
[Voiceless, The]	Oliver Wendell Holmes	229
[Voyage, The]	Alfred Tennyson	13
[Weariness]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	227
[Welcome, The]	Thomas Davis	35
[When the Kye come Hame]	James Hogg	30
[Woman of Three Cows, The]	James Clarence Mangan	196
[Woman's Question, A]	Adelaide Anne Procter	46
[Yarrow Unvisited]	William Wordsworth	93

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A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,
And breaking the golden lilies afloat
With the dragon-fly on the river.

He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,
From the deep cool bed of the river:
The limpid water turbidly ran,
And the broken lilies a-dying lay,
And the dragon-fly had fled away,
Ere he brought it out of the river.

High on the shore sat the great god Pan,
While turbidly flowed the river;
And hacked and hewed as a great god can,
With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed,
Till there was not a sign of a leaf indeed
To prove it fresh from the river.

He cut it short, did the great god Pan,
(How tall it stood in the river!)
Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man,
Steadily from the outside ring,
And notched the poor dry empty thing
In holes, as he sat by the river.