| The New Testament. |
Critical Introduction by Frederic William Farrar |
| The Sermon on the Mount |
| From the Gospel According to St. Mark |
| The Parable of the Good Samaritan |
| The Parable of the Prodigal Son |
| On the Sabbath |
| Discipleship |
| The Conversion of Paul |
| The Nature of Love |
| Immortality |
| From the General Epistle of Jude |
| The Vision |
| John Henry Newman.
1801–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Holt Hutton |
| The Transition |
| The Locusts |
| Callista and Agellius |
| Mother and Son |
| The Separation of Friends |
| The Pillar of the Cloud |
| After Death |
| Angel |
| Sir Isaac Newton.
1642–1727. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Letter to Francis Astor in 1669 |
| From ‘Mathematical Principles’ |
| Nibelungenlied.
Twelfth Century. |
Critical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
| From the Nibelungenlied |
| Barthold Georg Niebuhr.
1776–1831. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Plan for a Complete History of Rome |
| Early Education: Words and Things |
| The Importance of the Imagination |
| Friedrich Nietzsche.
1844–1900. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Pepperell Montague |
| Zarathustra’s Prologue |
| The Despisers of the Body |
| War and Warriors |
| The New Idol |
| Old and Young Women |
| Will to Power |
| The Higher Man |
| Nizami Ganjavi.
1140/1–1202/3. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson |
| From Nizami’s ‘Laila and Majnun’ |
| Charles Nodier.
1780–1844. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Golden Dream |
| Frank Norris.
1870–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carl Van Doren |
| From ‘The Octopus’ |
| William Edward Norris.
1847–1925. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Freddy Croft: And the Lynshire Ball |
| Mrs. Winnington’s Eavesdropping |
| An Idyl in Kabylia |
| Charles Eliot Norton.
1827–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Building of Orvieto Cathedral |
| The Dome of Brunelleschi |
| Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg).
1772–1801. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Hymns to the Night |
| Alfred Noyes.
1880–1958. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
| From ‘Flos Mercatorum’ |
| Song: “Marchaunt Adventurers” |
| Song from ‘Drake’: ‘N’oserez vous’ |
| Creation |
| Earth-Bound |
| Fitz-James O’Brien.
1828–1862. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Great Diamond is Obtained and Used |
| The Lost Steamship |
| Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger.
1779–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| The Dedication of ‘Aladdin’—to Goethe |
| Song: ‘The moon shines bright aloft’ |
| From ‘Axel and Valborg’ |
| The Foes |
| The Sacrifice |
| Song: ‘The fairy dwells in the rocky hall’ |
| Noureddin Reads from an Old Folio |
| Oehlenschläger’s Only Hymn |
| The Old Testament and the Jewish Apocrypha. |
Critical Introduction by Crawford Howell Toy |
| Margaret Oliphant.
1828–1897. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
| A Comfort to her Dear Papa |
| The Deliverance |
| Teacher and Pupil |
| John Boyle O’Reilly.
1844–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
| Ensign Epps, the Color-Bearer |
| The Cry of the Dreamer |
| A Dead Man |
| My Troubles! |
| The Rainbow’s Treasure |
| Yesterday and To-morrow |
| A White Rose |
| The Infinite |
| Ossian and Ossianic Poetry. |
Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys |
| Colloquy of Ossian and St. Patrick |
| To the Blackbird of Derrycarn |
| The Fian Banners |
| The Fairy Host |
| Credhe’s Lament |
| Deirdrê’s Lament for the Sons of Usnach |
| Colna-Dona |
| The Songs of Selma |
| From a ‘Colloquy of Oisin and St. Patrick’ |
| The Death-Song of Ossian |
| Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée).
1839–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Silk Stockings |
| How Tricotrin Found Viva |
| The Steeple-Chase |
| Ovid.
43 B.C.–18 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Willey Kelsey |
| On the Death of Corinna’s Parrot |
| From Sappho’s Letter to Phaon |
| A Soldier’s Bride |
| The Creation |
| Baucis and Philemon |
| A Grewsome Lover |
| The Sun-God’s Palace |
| A Transformation |
| Effect of Orpheus’s Song in Hades |
| The Poet’s Fame |
| Thomas Nelson Page.
1853–1922. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Burial of the Guns |
| Édouard Pailleron.
1834–1899. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Society Where One Is Bored |
| A Scientist among Ladies |
| The Story of Grigneux |
| Thomas Paine.
1737–1809. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘The Crisis’ |
| The Magazine in America |
| John Gorham Palfrey.
1796–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Salem Witchcraft |
| William Gifford Palgrave.
1826–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Night Ride in the Desert |
| The Last Meeting |
| Frederik Paludan-Müller.
1809–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| Hymn to the Sun |
| Adam and his Mother |
| Emilia Pardo Bazán.
1852–1921. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Reign of Terror |
| The Schoolmistress at Home |
| Russian Nihilism: “Going to the People” |
| Giuseppe Parini.
1729–1799. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Toilet of an Exquisite |
| The Lady’s Lap-Dog |
| The Afternoon Call |
| Sir Gilbert Parker.
1862–1932. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Patrol of the Cypress Hills |
| Valmond |
| Theodore Parker.
1810–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John White Chadwick |
| Mistakes about Jesus: His Reception and Influence |
| Francis Parkman.
1823–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts |
| Dominique de Gourgues |
| Father Brébeuf and his Associates in the Huron Mission |
| The Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
| Parmenides.
fl. early Fifth Century B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Introduction of the Poem on Nature |
| Thought and Existence |
| Kosmos |
| Thomas William Parsons.
1819–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Mary Booth |
| A Dirge |
| Epitaph on a Child |
| To Francesca |
| Pilgrim’s Isle |
| Paradisi Gloria |
| James Parton.
1822–1891. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From the ‘Life of Andrew Jackson’ |
| From the ‘Life of Voltaire’ |
| Blaise Pascal.
1623–1662. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur Graves Canfield |
| From the ‘Thoughts’ |
| Giovanni Pascoli.
1855–1912. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Gertrude Elizabeth Taylor Slaughter |
| Walter Pater.
1839–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl |
| White Nights |
| The Classic and the Romantic in Literature |
| Coventry Patmore.
1823–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
| Wind and Wave |
| The Toys |
| “If I Were Dead” |
| To the Body |
| Love Serviceable |
| Sahara |
| Married Life |
| The Queen |
| Wisdom |
| Pathos |
| James Kirke Paulding.
1778–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Pliny the Younger |
| A Woman’s Privilege: And the Charms of Snuff-Color |
| Sybrandt Receives Back his Estate—with an Incumbrance |
| Pausanias.
c. 110–180 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bernadotte Perrin |
| The Acropolis of Athens and its Temples |
| The Temple of Zeus at Olympia |
| Thomas Love Peacock.
1785–1866. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Maid Marian’ |
| George Peele.
1556–1596. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Old Age |
| From ‘David and Bethsabe’ |
| From ‘A Farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake’ |
| Silvio Pellico.
1789–1854. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham |
| From ‘Le Mie Prigioni’ |
| Meeting of Francesca and Paolo |
| Samuel Pepys.
1633–1703. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur George Peskett |
| Extracts from the Diary |
| José Maria de Pereda.
1833–1906. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Bishop |
| Tuerto’s Family Life |
| The Candidate Visits his Voters |
| The Portrait of Don Gonzalo Gonzalez of Gonzalez-Town |
| Cleto’s Proposal to Sotileza |
| Charles Perrault.
1628–1703. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Little Red Riding-Hood |
| The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood |
| Blue Beard |
| Toads and Diamonds |
| Persius.
34–62 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Author’s Ambition |
| A Child’s Trick |
| “We Twa” |
| Sándor Petőfi.
1823–1849. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
| Master Paul |
| Song of Lament |
| May-Night |
| Dreaming |
| Faithfulness |
| A Vow |
| Sorrow and Joy |
| Wife and Sword |
| Our Country |
| One Only Thought |
| Indifference |
| Petrarch.
1304–1374. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham |
| To the Princes of Italy, Exhorting them to Set her Free |
| To Rienzi, Beseeching him to Restore to Rome her Ancient Liberty |
| To the Virgin Mary |
| To the Fountain of Vaucluse—Contemplations of Death |
| He Paints the Beauties of Laura, and his Unalterable Love |
| He Extols the Beauty and Virtue of Laura |
| The Death-Bed of Laura |
| On the Announcement of the Death of Laura |
| She Is ever Present to him |
| He Thanks her that from Time to Time she Returns to Console him with her Presence |
| Vaucluse has Become to him a Scene of Pain |
| His Only Desire Is Again to be with her |
| He Revisits Vaucluse |
| He Feels that the Day of their Reunion Is at Hand |
| He Seeks Solitude, but Love Follows him Everywhere |
| Conscious of his Folly, he Prays God to Turn him to a Better Life |
| Whoever Beholds her must Admit that his Praises cannot Reach Laura’s Perfection |
| Her Counsel Alone Affords him Relief |
| Sonnet Found in Laura’s Tomb |
| Petronius.
c. 27–66. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
| The Adventure of the Cloak |
| Trimalchio’s Reminiscences |
| Laudator Temporis Acti |
| The Master of the Feast |
| On Dreams |
| Epitaph on a Favorite Hunting-Dog |
| Philemon.
c. 368–c. 264 B.C.
Menander.
c. 342–c. 292 B.C..
and the Lost Attic Comedy. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton |
| Susarion: Women |
| Teleclides: The Age of Gold |
| Cratinus: Wine versus Water |
| Hermippus: Imports of Athens; The Best Wines |
| Eupolis: Honor to Home Talent |
| Phrynichus: Eulogy on Sophocles |
| Alexis: Vanity Fair |
| Amphis: Life and Death |
| Anaxandrides: Health, Beauty, Wealth |
| Antiphanes: The Comic Poet’s Grievances |
| Timocles: Office of Tragedy |
| Philemon: Selections |
| Menander: Selections |
| Menander: From ‘The Arbitrants’ |
| Stephen Phillips.
1868–1915. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
| From ‘Paolo and Francesca’ |
| Ulysses and Calypso |
| Wendell Phillips.
1811–1884. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Washburn Smalley |
| The Hero of Hayti |
| Antiquity of Inventions and Stories |
| Pierre of Provence and the Beautiful Maguelonne. |
Critical Introduction by Olga Flinch |
| Pindar.
c. 522–433 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Basil L. Gildersleeve |
| First Olympian Ode |
| Second Olympian Ode |
| Third Olympian Ode |
| Seventh Olympian Ode |
| First Pythian Ode |
| Alexis Piron.
1689–1773. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘La Métromanie’ |
| The Others |
| Experience |
| Epitaph |
| August, Graf von Platen.
1796–1835. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Remorse |
| Before the Convent of St. Just, 1556 |
| The Grave in the Busento |
| Venice |
| “Fair as the Day” |
| To Schelling |
| Voluntary Exile |
| Plato.
429–347 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Shorey |
| Socrates and the Sophists |
| Socrates Prepares for Death |
| Socrates’s Remarks after Condemnation |
| Mythic Description of the Soul |
| Myth of the Judgment of the Dead |
| Figure of the Cave |
| The Ideal Ruler Portrayed |
| Plautus.
c. 254–184 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Gonzalez Lodge |
| The Braggart Soldier |
| Prologue of ‘Casina’ |
| Prologue of ‘Trinummus’ |
| Prologue of ‘Rudens’ |
| Epilogue of the ‘Captives’ |
| Epilogue of ‘Asinaria’ |
| Busybodies |
| Unpopularity of Tragedy |
| Mixture of Greek and Roman Manners |
| Rewards of Heroism |
| Fishermen’s Luck |
| Plautus’s Epitaph on Himself |
| Pliny the Elder.
23–79 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Introduction to Lithology |
| Anecdotes of Artists |
| The Most Perfect Works of Nature |
| Pliny the Younger.
61/2–c. 113 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Portrait of a Rival |
| To Minutius Fundanus: How Time Passes at Rome |
| To Socius Senecio: The Last Crop of Poets |
| To Nepos: Of Arria |
| To Marcellinus: Death of Fundanus’s Daughter |
| To Calpurnia, I |
| To Tacitus: The Eruption of Vesuvius |
| To Calpurnia, II |
| To Maximus: Pliny’s Success as an Author |
| To Fuscus: A Day in the Country |
| To the Emperor Trajan: Of the Christians; and Trajan’s Answer |
| Plutarch.
c. 45–120 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Bull Clapp |
| Pericles |
| Coriolanus |
| Plutarch on Himself |
| Antony and Cleopatra |
| Letter to his Wife on their Daughter’s Death |
| The Wife of Pythes |
| The Teaching of Virtue |
| The Need of Good Schoolmasters |
| Mothers and Nurses |
| Edgar Allan Poe.
1809–1849. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederic William Henry Myers |
| A Descent into the Maelström |
| The Fall of the House of Usher |
| For Annie |
| Song from ‘The Assignation’ |
| The Raven |
| The Bells |
| Annabel Lee |
| Ulalume |
| To Helen |
| Poetry of the Early Twentieth Century. |
Critical Introduction by John Erskine |
| Polybius.
c. 200–c. 118 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bernadotte Perrin |
| Scope of Polybius’s History |
| Polybius and the Scipios |
| The Fall of Corinth |
| Alexander Pope.
1688–1744. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury |
| From the ‘Essay on Criticism’ |
| The Game of Cards |
| From the ‘Essay on Man’ |
| From the ‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’ |
| The Goddess of Dullness is Addressed on Education |
| The Triumph of Dullness |
| The Universal Prayer |
| Ode: The Dying Christian to his Soul |
| Epitaph on Sir William Trumbal |
| Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
1802–1839. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine |
| The Vicar |
| The Belle of the Ball |
| William Hickling Prescott.
1796–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Newton Thorpe |
| “The Melancholy Night” |
| The Spanish Arabs |
| The Capture of the Inca |
| The Personal Habits of Philip II. |
| The Spanish Moors Persecuted into Rebellion |
| Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles.
1697–1763. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Exile and Death |
| William Cowper Prime.
1825–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Old Man at the Water-Wheel |
| The Defeat of the Christian Host at Galilee, A.D. 1187 |
| A New England Auction: The Lonely Church in the Valley |
| Matthew Prior.
1664–1721. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| To a Child of Quality |
| Song: ‘In vain you tell your parting lover’ |
| To a Lady |
| An Ode: ‘The merchant, to secure his treasure’ |
| Cupid Mistaken |
| A Better Answer |
| A Simile |
| The Secretary |
| A Test of Love |
| The Lady’s Looking-Glass |
| The Female Phaeton |
| Bryan Waller and Adelaide Anne Procter. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall).
1787–1874. |
The Sea |
| A Petition to Time |
| Life |
| Inscription for a Fountain |
| “Sit Down, Sad Soul” |
| The Poet’s Song to his Wife |
| “Peace! What do Tears Avail?” |
| The Stormy Petrel |
| Adelaide Anne Procter.
1825–1864. |
A Doubting Heart |
| A Woman’s Question |
| A Lost Chord |
| Propertius.
c. 50–c. 16 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Meason Whicher |
| Beauty Unadorned |
| To Tullus |
| To Cynthia |
| To Caius Cilnius Mæcenas |
| To the Muse |
| The Immortality of Genius |
| Cornelia |
| Provençal Literature (The Troubadours).
1090–1290. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
| Guillaume de Poitiers: Behold the Meads |
| Guiraud Le Roux: Come Lady |
| Bernard de Ventadour: Marvel is it if I Sing |
| Richard Cœur de Lion: Ah! Certes will no Prisoner Tell His Tale |
| Guillaume de Cabestaing: I See the Days are Long |
| Comtesse de Die: Of that I would not |
| Arnaut de Maroill: Softly Sighs the April Air |
| Raimon de Miraval: Fair Summer-Time |
| Alba—Unknown Author: Under the Hawthorns |
| Alba—Guiraut de Borneil: All-Glorious King! |
| Alba—Bertrand d’Aamanon: A Knight was Sitting by Her Side |
| Luigi Pulci.
1432–1484. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Conversion of the Giant Morgante |
| Alexander Pushkin.
1799–1837. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Isabel Florence Hapgood |
| From ‘Boris Godunov’ |
| From ‘Evgeny Onyegin’ |
| Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire.
1838–1923. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Forest |
| A Madwoman |
| Brotherly Love |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
1863–1944. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| When the Sap Rose: A Fantasia |
| The Paupers |
| Edgar Quinet.
1803–1875. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Bérenger |
| Naples and Vesuvius |
| A Night in the Orient |
| The Wandering Jew |
| The Struggle against Environment |
| Quintilian.
c. 35–c. 95 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
| On the Object and Scope of the ‘Institutes’ |
| On the Early Practice of Composition |
| On Nature and Art in Oratory |
| On Embellishments of Style |
| On the Handling of Witnesses in Court |
| On Ancient Authors |
| François Rabelais.
c. 1490–1553. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Bérenger |
| The Childhood of Gargantua |
| The Education of Gargantua |
| The Abbey of Thelema |
| Jean Racine.
1639–1699. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederick Morris Warren |
| The Rivals |
| The Appeal of Andromache |
| The Confession of Phædra |
| Sir Walter Raleigh.
1554?–1618. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ashley Horace Thorndike |
| The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd |
| The Last Fight of the Revenge |
| Alfred Rambaud.
1842–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Halting Steps toward Democracy |
| French Governmental Experiments |
| Russian Expansion West and South |
| Benefits to Germany from French Invasions |
| Civil Life in France during the Middle Ages |
| French Medical Science during the Middle Ages |
| The Middle Ages |
| Allan Ramsay.
1686–1758. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Gentle Shepherd |
| Bessy Bell and Mary Gray |
| Lochaber No More |
| An Thou Were My Ain Thing |
| A Sang: ‘Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bride’ |
| The Highland Lassie |
| Leopold von Ranke.
1795–1886. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Fall of Strafford |
| The Rise of the Jesuits in Germany |
| The Last Years of Queen Johanna |
| The Swiss Army in Italy in 1513: and the Battle of Novara |
| Maximilian at the Diet of Worms |
| Thomas Buchanan Read.
1822–1872. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Drifting |
| Sheridan’s Ride |
| The Closing Scene |
| Inez |
| Charles Reade.
1814–1884. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Viscount and Lower Classes |
| In the Green-Room |
| Extract from a Sixteenth-Century Letter |
| Monk and Father |
| Henri de Régnier.
1864–1936. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pierre Dareutiere de Bâcourt |
| The Faun with the Mirror |
| The Vase |
| Odelette I |
| Ernest Renan.
1823–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ferdinand Brunetière |
| Brother and Sister |
| To the Pure Soul of My Sister Henriette |
| Motives and Conduct |
| The Share of the Semitic People in the History of Civilization |
| The Persistence of the Celtic Race |
| Fritz Reuter.
1810–1874. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Old Parson’s Death |
| The Miller and the Justice |
| James Ford Rhodes.
1848–1927. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Daniel Webster |
| Webster’s Death |
| Improvement in American Health |
| American Manners in 1850 |
| Samuel Richardson.
1689–1761. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Pamela Immured by her Lover |
| Miss Byron’s Rescue from Abduction, by Sir Charles Grandison |
| Jean Richepin.
1849–1926. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mathurin Marius Dondo |
| James Whitcomb Riley.
1849–1916. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Will David Howe |
| When She Comes Home |
| A Song: ‘There is ever a song somewhere, my dear’ |
| Knee-Deep in June |
| Out to Old Aunt Mary’s |
| No Boy Knows |
| Old John Henry |
| Little Orphant Annie |
| When the Frost is on the Punkin |
| A Life Lesson |
| Away |
| Nothin’ to Say |
| The Name of Old Glory |
| Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
1837–1919. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| My Witch’s-Caldron |
| Bricks and Ivy |
| Dutch Tiles |
| My Father’s Mother |
| Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
1860–1943. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Strayed |
| The Unsleeping |
| An Epitaph for a Husbandman |
| The Little Field of Peace |
| Marsyas |
| The Flight of the Geese |
| Beside the Winter Sea |
| The Deserted City |
| Frederick William Robertson.
1816–1853. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Early Development of Christ |
| The Universal Nature of Christ |
| Agnes Mary Frances Robinson.
1857–1944. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Tuscan Cypress |
| Red May |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson.
1869–1935. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson |
| Cassandra |
| Veteran Sirens |
| The Poor Relation |
| Édouard Rod.
1857–1910. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King |
| Marriage |
| Paternity |
| Samuel Rogers.
1763–1855. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Ginevra |
| From the ‘Pleasures of Memory’ |
| From ‘Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers’ |
| Romain Rolland.
1866–1944. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall |
| An Infant Prodigy |
| Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
Critical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston |
| Annius Florus: Roses |
| The Emperor Hadrian: To his Soul |
| Author Unknown: From the ‘Pervigilium Veneris’ |
| Calpurnius Siculus: The Rustic in the Amphitheatre |
| Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Idyl of the Roses |
| Decimus Magnus Ausonius: A Mother’s Epitaph |
| Claudius Claudianus: The Bereavement of Ceres |
| Claudius Claudianus: Invocation to Victory |
| Claudius Rutilius Numatianus: Prologue to the ‘Itinerarium’ |
| Anicius Severinus Boethius: The Government of the World |
| Anicius Severinus Boethius: The Hymn of Philosophy |
| Pierre de Ronsard.
1524–1585. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Katharine Hillard |
| Sonnet: To Angelette |
| His Lady’s Tomb |
| Roses |
| To Cassandra |
| Song: To Marie |
| A Madrigal: To Astræa |
| Good Counsel |
| Ronsard to his Mistress |
| Theodore Roosevelt.
1858–1919. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews |
| The Indians of the Northwest |
| Backwoodsmen and Other Early Types |
| Citizenship in a Republic |
