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                            Fifteenth Volume

                            LITTLE CLASSICS

                               EDITED BY

                            ROSSITER JOHNSON


                              Minor Poems


                          BOSTON AND NEW YORK
                     HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
                     The Riverside Press, Cambridge
                                  1900


               COPYRIGHT, 1875, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
                          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED




CONTENTS.


                                                                  PAGE
  AE FOND KISS                  _Robert Burns_                      52
  AGE OF WISDOM, THE            _William Makepeace Thackeray_      115
  ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD, THE   _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_       146
  ASTARTE                       _Robert Bulwer Lytton_              54
  BETROTHED ANEW                _Edmund Clarence Stedman_           86
  BLINDNESS, ON HIS             _John Milton_                      143
  BRAVE AT HOME, THE            _Thomas Buchanan Read_             142
  BREAK, BREAK, BREAK           _Alfred Tennyson_                   53
  BRIDAL DIRGE, A               _Bryan Waller Procter_             163
  BROOKSIDE, THE                _Richard Monckton Milnes_           36
  BUGLE-SONG                    _Alfred Tennyson_                   40
  CAVALIER'S SONG, THE          _William Motherwell_               132
  CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, THE       _Oliver Wendell Holmes_            214
  CHANGES                       _Robert Bulwer Lytton_              71
  CHILDREN'S HOUR, THE          _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_       152
  CHRISTMAS HYMN, A             _Alfred Dommett_                   217
  CLOUD, THE                    _John Wilson_                      213
  COME, REST IN THIS BOSOM      _Thomas Moore_                      46
  CORONACH                      _Sir Walter Scott_                 133
  COURTIN', THE                 _James Russell Lowell_              26
  DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE, THE    _Alfred Tennyson_                   65
  DEATH-BED, THE                _Thomas Hood_                      160
  DEATH OF THE FLOWERS, THE     _William Cullen Bryant_            100
  DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST        _James Shirley_                    182
  DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER           _George Henry Boker_               134
  DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN          _Fitz-Greene Halleck_              169
  DRIVING HOME THE COWS         _Kate Putnam Osgood_               140
  EAGLE, THE                    _Alfred Tennyson_                  105
  ENTICED                       _William C. Wilkinson_             224
  EPILOGUE                      _The Editor_                       231
  EVELYN HOPE                   _Robert Browning_                  161
  FAREWELL, A                   _Charles Kingsley_                 199
  FAREWELL, A                   _Alfred Tennyson_                  112
  GIRDLE, ON A                  _Edmund Waller_                     23
  GOING HOME                    _Benjamin F. Taylor_               185
  GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD, THE    _Felicia Hemans_                   174
  HAUNTED HOUSES                _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_        73
  HEALTH, A                     _Edward Coate Pinkney_              21
  HERMIT, THE                   _James Beattie_                    175
  HEROES                        _Edna Dean Proctor_                144
  HIGHLAND MARY                 _Robert Burns_                     166
  HOW'S MY BOY?                 _Sydney Dobell_                    150
  HYMN TO THE NIGHT             _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_       103
  ICHABOD                       _John Greenleaf Whittier_          123
  INDIAN GOLD COIN, TO AN       _John Leyden_                      183
  IN MEMORIAM                   _Thomas K. Hervey_                 173
  I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER        _Thomas Hood_                       72
  IVY GREEN, THE                _Charles Dickens_                   90
  KNIGHT'S TOMB, THE            _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_          133
  KUBLA KHAN                    _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_           16
  LAMENT, A                     _Percy Bysshe Shelley_             192
  LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT  _Lady Dufferin_                    158
  LAND OF LANDS, THE            _Alfred Tennyson_                  126
  LAND O' THE LE