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The Hidden Cabin
by David W. EdwardsThe Hidden Cabin: a pathetic story in condensed form written by David W. Edwards AUTHOR OF “BILLY BIRDSALL,” “UP THE GRADE,” ETC. Palomar Mountain is one of the grandest natural attractions of Southern California. It is more than a mile in height. From its lofty “look-outs” the beautiful bay of San Diego may be descried, and also the distant island..
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 01
by Henrik IbsenThe eleven volumes of this edition contain all, save one, of the dramas which Henrik Ibsen himself admitted to the canon of his works. The one exception is his earliest, and very immature, tragedy, Catilina, first published in 1850, and republished in 1875. This play is interesting in the light reflected from the poet’s later achievements, but has ..
A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems
by Dennison WoodcockA Life's Story, In Poetry, by Dennison WoodcockA LIFE'S STORYDIADAMATO LEONAJESSIE BY THE FOUNTAINDEHEWAMISTHE RUMSELLER'S SOLILOQUYWRIGHTSCAUTION TO BOYS, or THE SILLY FLYTHE RUINED HOME.IN FAVOR of WOMAN'S SUFFRAGECHRISTMAS..
Dreams and Images - An Anthology of Catholic Poets
by Bryce WaltonThis is not a collection of devotional poems. It is not an attempt to rival Orby Shipley’s admirable “Carmina Mariana” or any other similar anthology. What I have tried to do is to bring together the poems in English that I like best that were written by Catholics since the middle of the Nineteenth Century. There are in this book poems religious in..
A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad
by F. W. HarveyMost of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the Fifth Gloucester Gazette—the first paper ever published from the trenches. The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and as such gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal in August, 1915. The poems are written by a soldier and reflect a ..
The Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend
by Hervey AllenThe Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend is a collection of poems by Hervey Allen.In Anahuac there reigned a king Some fifty summers old, The bloody darling of his gods, Who sent him luck and gold And captives from a thousand fights, And victory in each war; No mer..
Wampum and Old Gold
by Hervey AllenWampum and Old Gold: a Poem collection by Hervey Allen.You who made meWith first ecstasyWhen I was sown,And lovely things at nightI will not writeAnd burdened moan,While veiny labyrinths with mystery ranTill time and blood were lifeAnd I began—By holier things than God,Or any other shibboleth of man,Dead woman wan,By the thin, silver scream th..
A Fable for Critics
by James Russell LowellThis trifle, begun to please only myself and my own private fancy, was laid on the shelf. But some friends, who had seen it, induced me, by dint of saying they liked it, to put it in print. That is, having come to that very conclusion, I asked their advice when ’t would make no confusion. For though (in the gentlest of ways) they had hinted it was ..