How he won her

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country’s wishes blest! When spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a swee...

While Erminie and Britomarte talked together, there came a rush of feet upon the stairs, followed by the flinging open of the chamber door, and the sudden appearance of Elfie. S...

Sound, sound the clarion—fill, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious strife Is worth an age without a name! ’Twas bustle in the street b...

’Tis often in the parting hour, Victorious love asserts his power O’er coldness and disdain; For flinty is her heart can view To battle march her lover true. Can hear perchance...

Britomarte boarded with a widow of the name of Burton, who had three grown daughters. They lived in a small white cottage, in a large, shady garden, in the northeastern suburbs...

Danger, long travel, want and woe, Soon change the form that best we know; For deadly fear can time outgo, And blanch at once the hair; Hard time can roughen form and face, And...

The look, the air that frets thy sight May be a token that below The soul has closed in deadly fight With some infernal fiery foe, Whose glances would scorch thy smiling grace,...

Your wisdom may declare, That womanhood is proved the best, By golden brooch and glossy vest, That mincing ladies wear. Yet it is proved and was of old, Anear as well—I dare to...

Outlaw and free thief, Landless and lawless, Through the world fare I, Thoughtless of life. Outlaw and free thief, My kinsmen have left me, And no kinsmen need I Till my kinsmen...

“To arms! gentlemen all! Let us die in defence of the ladies!” shouted valiant little Mr. Mim, drawing his slender sword from his cane and throwing himself before the group of y...

“She is won! we are gone over bank, bush and scaur; They’ll have fleet steeds that follow,” quoth young Lochinvar, So daring in love and so dauntless in war. Have ye e’er heard...

“Thanks, yes! My fair travelling companion has been on horseback, riding hard and exerting herself in other violent exercises for about six hours; and must be greatly in need of...

Elfie slept long and deeply. In the wild guerrilla camp something like military discipline was kept up, and at four o’clock the reveillé was beat; but even the sound of the roll...

“Alberta, Alberta, why do you not interfere? You promised that no wrong should be done me that you could prevent!” she screamed, turning her head—the only part of her person she...

His eyebrow dark and eye of fire Showed spirit proud and prompt to ire; Yet lines of thought upon his cheek, Did deep design and counsel speak; His forehead by his casque worn b...

And they turned to the right, and rode along the edge of the forest for some four or five miles, when they saw approaching them from the opposite direction a body of horsemen.

Into a forest far they thence him led, Where was their dwelling in a pleasant shade, With mountains round about environed. And mighty woods which did the valley shade, And like...

The fellow was a sordid soul Such as does murder for a meed; Who, but of fear, knows no control, Because his conscience, seared and foul, Feels not the import of his deed; One w...

’Tis now past midnight, and by eight to-morrow Thou must be made immortal. If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it to my breast.—SHAKSPEARE.

He speaketh low, he speaketh calm, “Ride fast, my master, ride, Or e’er within the broadening dark The narrow shadows hide, Ere night I shall be near to thee— Now ride, my maste...

Now, my co-mates and brothers in this cause, Hath not our custom made this life more sweet Than that of city pomp? Are not these rocks More free from peril than the envious town...

Come away! come away! Hark to the summons! Come in your war array. Gentiles and commons! Leave untended the herd, The flock without shelter; Leave the corpse uninterred, The bri...

He woke to die ‘mid flame and smoke, And shout, and groan, and sabre stroke, And death shots falling thick and fast As lightning from a mountain cloud.—FITZ GREEN HALLECK.

“No more, there is no more,” he said, “To lift the sword for now! For thee my fields were won, And thou hast perished.”— They might have chained him as before That stony form he...

Oh, womanly she prayed in tent, When none beside did wake! Oh, womanly she paled in fight For one beloved’s sake! And her little hand defiled with blood, Her tender tears of wom...

Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful hour alone; Perchance her reason stoops or reels Perchance a courage not her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone.—SCOTT.

Shut out from them the bitter word, And serpent hiss of scorning, Nor let the storms of yesterday Disturb their quiet morning; Breathe over them forgetfulness Of all save deeds...

It was nearly ten o’clock when the train steamed into the station. Elfie got out on the platform. As she had no luggage to look after nor even a parasol nor a hand-bag to encumb...

“Well, here it is, and a meagre account enough,” said Elfie, opening the morning paper as she sat with Erminie at breakfast in the library—“not ten lines of description, if it w...

“Poor fellow! I do believe but for his strict temperance habits, that blow would have killed him. As it is, he is getting well fast, just as you told me. His head is weak yet, t...

Can this be death? Then what is life, or death? “Speak!” But he spoke not. “Wake!” But still he slept: But yesterday and who had mightier breath? A thousand warriors by his word...

Do not cheat her heart and tell her, “Grief will pass away, Hope for fairer times in future, And forget to-day”— Tell her, if you will, that sorrow Need not come in vain; Tell h...

During Elfie’s absence from the ward all the sick and wounded had been made as comfortable as circumstances would permit for the night. The greater number of them had been quiet...

“Spare man nor steed, use utmost speed, Before the sun goes down, You, sir, must ride,” the colonel cried, “As far as Pendletown.” “Colonel,” the brave young man saith, “To hear...

Thy cheek too quickly flushes, o’er thine eye The shadows come and go too fast; Thy tears gush forth too soon, and in thy voice Are sounds of tenderness too passionate For peace...

He came, with that disheartening fear, Which all who love beneath the sky Feel when they gaze on what is dear— The dreadful thought that it must die! That desolating thought whi...

“You should lie down and try to get some rest, my poor child. You look quite worn out,” whispered Dr. Sales, looking compassionately on Elfie’s thin, white face, and tremulous f...

“I have not been asleep for one minute—not for one minute during my whole six hours’ watch, though I have been near dropping off several times; but I managed to keep wide awake,...

“Come into the library, if you please, Dr. Burney. I wish to send for old Bob, and confront him with you, and clear up this mystery of the midnight visitor,” said Justin, leadin...

’Twas the battle-field, and the starless night Hung dark o’er the dead and the dying, And the wind passed by, with a dirge and a moan, Where the young and the brave were lying.—...

The tramp of hoof, the flash of steel, The Rebels round her coming! The sound and sight hath made her calm. Sham soldier, genuine woman! She stands amid them all unmoved! The he...

The conflict raged! The din of arms—the yell Of savage hate—the shriek of agony— The groan of death, commingled in one sound Of undistinguished horrors; while the sun, Retiring...

Who knew, she thought, what the amazement, The eruption of clatter and blaze meant, And if, in this morning of wonder, No outlet mid lightning and thunder, Lay broad, and her sh...

Kind hearts there are, yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none. And man’s forgiveness may be true and sweet, But yet he stoops to give it. More comple...

And thou shalt know, these arms once curled About thee, what we knew before, How LOVE is the greatest good in the world. Henceforth be loved, as heart can love, Or brain devise,...