Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century

It was nearly the middle hour, when the darkness is thickest, that a low voice said, at the entrance of the wigwam, “Will Owaissa come? Be quick, and move like a young fawn, wit...

When great sorrow comes to us in youth, we feel it must affect and change the whole world; but when we have lived longer in this changeable world, we take it for granted that th...

“Little by little, sure and slow, We fashion our future, of bliss or woe, As the present passes away. Our feet are climbing the stairway bright, Or gliding downward into the nig...

Scarcely ten minutes had passed before the group of women and children stood by a little opening which Howe had made in the palisade, through which they were to escape into the...

News came from Ranteo, just as Iosco was starting on his return to Croatoan, that the whole tribe had risen up against him for helping his father’s murderers to escape, and they...

“Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west, And I said in an underbreath, All our life is mixed with death And who knoweth which is best?”

Fair and lovely was that sunny Virginia country. No wonder the ships went back to England with fairy tales. No wonder that, in spite of mishaps and disasters, there were always...

“Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosom There are longings, yearnings, strivings, For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping bl...

“I cannot feel That all is well when darkening clouds conceal The shining sun; But then I know God lives and loves; and say, since it is so, Thy will be done.”

Oh, that dreadful day! The howls and cries of the men, women, and children, as they came in reply to Iosco’s call, and saw their chief, their father, lying dead! They also saw V...

Manteo was a wise and brave chief, as well as a good and thoughtful one, and was much loved by his people. The dozen Englishmen who yet remained as the remnant of the Roanoke se...

Manteo, true to the faith he professed, forgave and forgot, or rather he never spoke of his warning, or Ranteo’s strange visit to Roanoke; when he understood that the white trib...

“Life has two ecstatic moments, one when the spirit catches sight of truth, the other when it recognizes a kindred spirit. Perhaps it is only in the land of truth that spirits c...

“O the long and dreary winter! O the cold and cruel winter! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river, Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o’er all th...

There stood Master Bradford in gown and bands, his kindly face upturned as he led the prayers and psalms. He had finished reading the lesson from St. John’s Gospel, when a littl...

It was the very last of September; the day had been a perfect one, just the faintest touch of autumn in the air and on the trees. The sun had gone down in a sea of glory, and th...