Golden Grain Garnered from the World's Great Harvest-field of Knowledge Comprising Selections from the Ablest Modern Writers of Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore

'Twas four years ago. But one day last May, As I wandered by chance through East Broadway, A cheery voice accosted me. Lo! 'Twas the self-same lad of years ago, Though larger gr...

Willful's curiosity was thoroughly aroused; so he climbed the tree, and, crawling out upon one of the branches, took out his magic glass and looked around to see what the ants m...

So when the girl came into his room that night she found the prince wide awake, and then she told him how she had come there. "You have just come in time," said the prince, "for...

Amid the cold and the darkness, a little girl, with bare head and naked feet, was roaming through the streets. It is true she had on a pair of slippers, when she left home, but...

At length the large egg cracked. "Peep! peep!" squeaked the youngster, as he crept out. How big and ugly he was, to be sure! The duck looked at him, saying: "Really this is a mo...

Don't crowd; the world is large enough For you as well as me; The doors of all are open wide-- The realm of thought is free. In all earth's places you are right To chase the bes...

The evening shadows now unfold Their curtain o'er the lonely wold; The night wind sighs with dreary moan, And whispers over stock and stone. Tramp, Tramp! the trolls come troopi...

At the time of which Homer wrote, Priam was king of Troy, and Paris, his son, was, like many young men, always getting his father into trouble; the one of which we now write res...

Well, I had something to eat and went then to look to the horses, but the shed was empty and the horses were gone. I got rather out of temper at this, and I am afraid I swore a...

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. ALFRED TENNYSON. JOHN G. WHITTIER. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. PETER C...

Not long afterwards, the goat came home out of the wood. Ah! a sight met her view! The house-door stood wide open, tables, stools, and chairs were overturned, the washing-tub in...