Poems / by Madison Cawein ; with a foreward by William Dean Howells [electronic text]

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The Book of Love

With an Introduction by MADISON CAWEIN. Drawings by WLADYSLAW T. BENDA.
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"Some one has said that there are three loves which make and keep the world: the love which makes man and woman one; the love that binds families into nations; the love that draws the world to God; that each is justified in its own immortality; and that all of life worth living must proceed from one of these. In this latest addition to The Friendly Library have been gathered together many of the most beautiful and interesting bits of literature touching the first of these. The Selections are grouped under the headings as, First Love, Famous Lovers, Love's Comedies, Love's Adventures, Love's Tragedies, Love Letters, Love Songs, Love's Enemies, Love's Philosophy, Love in Many Modes, the Light that Failed, and Love Triumphant. Each section is peceded by a full-page drawing and table of contents with decorated border. The attractive appearance of the book is that of the earlier volumes of The Friendly Library."

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"All engaged persons, and indeed all persons contemplating matrimony as an immediate or an ultimate bourn, should possess this vade mecum."

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A Book of Old English Ballads

Edited with an extended Introduction by HAMILTON W. MABIE. Decorative drawings by George Wharton Edwards.
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Unless one were brought up on old ballad verse he may never know the full thrill of starting out with the ill-fated Earl of Northumberland

"His pleasure in the Scottish woodsThree summers days to take,"

of hunting with Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, or of listening awed to the wave lapping fifty fathoms above where

"lies good Sir Patrick Spens, wi' the Scots lords at his feet"

; but even so this is a book one thoroughly enjoys owning. Scarcely a ballad in it but is a favorite in the first rank of its type, keenly dramatic in its quaint simplicity.

A Book of Old English Love Songs

Edited with an extended Introduction by HAMILTON W. MABIE. Decorative drawings by George Wharton Edwards.
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"The best songs of Elizabethan and Stuart times, which is to say songs which express the lyric power of the English language at its highest point."

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"Old friends are best in literature as in life, and the perennial charm of the immortal songs that have cheered mortal men for generations is as fresh and gracious still as when they first issued forth from the poet's heart."

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The Golden Treasury

Selected from the best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE, late Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.
A New Edition revised and enlarged
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The first portion of this volume is the exceptional collection which has been the standard basis for study of the lyrical literature of England from the earliest times to Wordsworth's day. It is divided into four books, and to each it may be said that one of these four poets gives it a distinctive character: Shakespeare, Milton, Gray, and Wordsworth. The Second Series is an attempt to make a similar representation of the harvest of lyrics more abundant than even those of the famed Elizabethan period. It is an unrivalled choice of the lyrical expressions of this subjective age.

Lyric Love

An Anthology

Edited by WILLIAM WATSON.

The author's comprehensive aim has been to bring together the best English poetry having love as its personal inspiration or its objective theme. An especial interest is lent the volume by its primary principle of selection, namely, that the poem shall have a convincing "personal reality."

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The Flower of Old Japan, and
The Forest of Wild Thyme

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"Mr. Noyes is first of all a singer, then something of a seer with great love and high hopes, and aims to balance this rare combination. . . . Readers of gentle fibre will find this book not only full of rich imagery and refreshing interest, but also a wonderful passport to the dear child land Stevenson made so real and telling, and which most of us, having left it far behind, would so gladly regain."

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The Golden Hynde and Other Poems

"It has seemed to us from the first that Noyes has been one of the most hope-inspiring figures in our latter-day poetry. He, almost alone of the younger men, seems to have the true singing voice, the gift of uttering in authentic lyric cry some fresh, unspoiled emotion."

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Poems

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Poems and Plays

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The first volume contains his lyrics up to the present time; the second includes all of his five dramas in verse: The Countess Cathleen, The Land of Heart's Desire, The King's Threshold, On Baile's Strand, and The Shadowy Waters.

"Mr. Yeats is probably the most important as well as the most widely known of the men concerned directly in the so-called Celtic renaissance. More than this, he stands among the few men to be reckoned with in modern poetry."

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By Mrs. ELLA HIGGINSON

When the Birds Go North Again

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"The poetry of the volume is good, and its rare setting, amid the scenes and under the light of a sunset land, will constitue an attractive charm to many readers."

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The Voice of April-land and
Other Poems

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"has voiced the elusive bewitchment of the West."

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By CONINGSBY WILLIAM DAWSON
The Worker and Other Poems

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"Characterized by unusal tendereness and spiritual uplift,"

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"a quiet, unstriving beauty that will repay reading."

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The Pilgrim and Other Poems

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There are many who will treasure these verses almost as a personal message from one whose interpretations of life were singularly poetic, clear-sighted, and beautiful in simplicity.

By ALFRED AUSTIN
Sacred and Profane Love
and Other Poems

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"Sacred and Profane Love," the name ascribed by tradition to the well-known picture by Titian in the Villa Borghese, Rome, suggested the title. The Picture has long been regarded as symbolical, likewise is the Poem. But the symbolism of the latter is distinct from any hitherto ascribed to the Picture; contrasting as it does Worldly Ambition with Spiritual Aspiration, the Political career in its lowest aspect with the Literary career in its highest.

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The First Wardens

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"Grace of expression and clearness of thought, blent with careful, clean, poetical workmanship, are the characteristics of this little volume of poetry."

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"In rhythm, in diction, in imagination and beauty of thought Mr. Neidig has seemed to us to have been decidedly successful."

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By WENDELL P. STAFFORD
Dorian Days

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A volume of poems by Justic Wendell P. Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The title, Dorian Days, comes from the fact that the beauty of ancient Greece is in great measure the inspiration of the volume. This return to classic art and classic myths on the part of one who has played so prominent a part in the life of his own day as Justice Stafford is particularly noteworthy.

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A History of English Poetry

By W. J. COURTHOPE, C.B., D.Litt., LL.D., Late Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.
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• VOLUME I. The Middle Ages—Influence of the Roman Empire—The Encyclopædic Education of the Church—The Federal System.
• VOLUME II. The Renaissance and the Reformation—Influence of the Court and the Universities.
• VOLUME III. English Poetry in the Seventeenth Century—Decadent Influence of the Feudal Monarchy—Growth of the National Genius.
• VOLUME IV. Development and Decline of the Poetic Drama—Influence of the Court and the People.
• VOLUME V. The Constitutional Compromise of the Eighteenth Century—Effects of the Classical Renaissance—Its Zenith and Decline—The Early Romantic Renaissance.

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English Poetry

Its Principles and Progress, with Representative Masterpieces and Notes

A manual for the general reader who takes an interest in the materials and history of the higher English poetry, and seeks a simple statement of its principles in relation to life, conduct, and art. The introduction on "The Principles of Poetry" aims to answer the questions that inevitably arise when poetry is the subject of discussion, and to give the questioner a grasp upon the essentials necessary to appreciation and to the formation of an independent judgment.

"The Introduction on 'The Principles of Poetry' should be an inspiration to both teacher and pupil, and a very definite help in appreciation and study, especially in the portion that deals with the 'Rhythm of Verse.' The remarks on the different centuries, in their literary significance and development, are helpful, and the notes to each poem, lucid and sufficient."

—HARRY S. ROSS, Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass.

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A History of English Prosody

From the Twelfth Century to the Present Day Volume I—From the Origins to Spenser.

"What strikes one is the sensibleness of the book as a whole. Not merely for enthusiasts on metrics, but for students of literature in general, it is a good augury toward the probable clearing up of this entire blurred and cloudy subject to find Omond's mild fairness and Thomson's telling simplicity. . . . The most extraordinary thing about this volume is that, unintentionally as it would appear, the author has produced the one English book now existing which is likely to be of real use to those who wish to perfect themselves in the formal side of verse composition."

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The Book of Christmas

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"'The Book of Christmas' is one of the happiest anthologies we have met in a long time. Such a book, as Mr. Mabie sees it in his inspiring introduction, should be a 'text-book of piety, friendship, merriment,' and that is what he has made his dainty little volume, giving us more than three hundred pages of prose and verse drawn from the widest sources, from old writers who are classics, and from others, who, if not of the same eminence, have at all events put the spirit of Christmas into their work with feeling and art. . . . In its pretty cover of green and gold, the book is one to win its way anywhere."

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The Book of Easter

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The Book of Friendship

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Full Fathom Five

A Sea-Anthology in Prose and Verse

BY HELEN AND LEWIS MELVILLE

Bits about the Sea, touching many phases of its call to men, the soft silver of the moon-path on its shine, the note of its deep rolling diapason, and all the grandeur of its numberless currents.

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London's Lure

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A selection of what poets and prose writers have said about the great metropolis—that capital of all Europe which has for most Americans the closest attraction and the most lasting charm.

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The Wayfarer in New York

Introduction by E. C. MARTIN

This book describes New York in much the same way that London was discussed in "London's Lure," through pictures of different phases of the modern city, from the yeasty, seething East side, west to where old Greenwich grimly holds its own; from the "granite cliffs" of lower Broadway to where by night "the serpent of stars" winds around Morningside.

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