Category: Poetry
A Pic-Nic at White Lake. By Alfred B. Street, 13 Arthur Harrington. By F. E. F. 19 A New Way to Collect an Old Debt. By T. S. Arthur, 80 An Indian Legend. By M. 177 An Assiniboin Lodge, (Illustrated.) 328 Cora Neill. Or Love’s Obstacles. By Enna Duval, 72 Evelyn Grahame. A Tal...
Ah! poor youth! in pitiful truth, Thy pride must feel a fall, poor youth! What thou shalt be well have I seen— Thou shalt be only what others have been. . . . . . . . . . . . ....
8. PART IX.The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down: and, as they say, Lamentings heard i’ the air; strange screams of death; And prophecying, with accents ter...
5. CHAPTER IV.Nearly the first visit Captain De Vere made, after his arrival at Havana, was to the family of Don Velasquez. The old Don found in the Englishman’s hauteur, fastidious notions o...
6. CHAPTER I.“Mother, which shall I be—which would you rather have me be—an author or statesman?” said Arthur Harrington, a handsome boy of some twelve years of age, looking up from his Lati...
3. CHAPTER II.In a secluded cove, formed by a bend in a small river, that empties its waters into the sea a few miles from Havana, whose mouth, bare thirty yards in width, would scarce be dis...
16. PART III.The babe, the youth, was bent and gray, A feeble man and old; Death stood beside him as he lay; No mourner there his breath would stay, Or guide him on his untrod way, When lip...
2. CHAPTER I.Come sit thee down, my bonnie, bonnie lass, Come sit thee down by me, love, And I will tell thee many a tale Of the dangers of the sea, love. Song.
4. CHAPTER III.The deck of the Scorpion, the brig that had suffered so much in the late encounter, presented a scene of awful confusion; the masts and spars dragging over her sides; the cut sh...
10. CHAPTER II.A lively Italian air, exquisitely sung by a fair young girl, falls with delightful cadence upon the ear, while touched by the fingers of one scarcely less fair, the piano adds i...
9. CHAPTER I.Exclaimed Auburn, at the same time casting an admiring glance upon his easel, where a young and lovely face peeped forth from the canvas with such a roguish, bewitching look, as...
1. VOLUME XXXI.A Pic-Nic at White Lake. By Alfred B. Street, 13 Arthur Harrington. By F. E. F. 19 A New Way to Collect an Old Debt. By T. S. Arthur, 80 An Indian Legend. By M. 177 An Assiniboi...
12. CHAPTER IV.Summer has come with its fruits and flowers; and away from the dust and turmoil of the city, our story takes us to a beautiful village overlooking the bright waters of the Cayug...
13. CHAPTER V.Did Auburn sleep that night? “To sleep—perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub”—for dream he did, when at length worn out with fatigue and a mind ill at ease, he sought his pillo...
11. CHAPTER III.It was evening of the same eventful day in the history of our hero, that a merry little circle of young girls were assembled at Kate Kennedy’s; and to the amused group Miss Beld...
15. PART II.Years passed; the boy a man had grown, And shadowy things of fear With many an ill his path had strown; Foes trooping came, and friends had flown, But one white wing, to him unk...
14. PART I.Morning arose, and from their dreams, Awoke the slumbering flowers; Red glowed the hill-tops in her beams, Her crest lay glittering on the streams, And on one cot her gayest gle...