John G. Whittier: Yankee Gypsies 1

James Russell Lowell: Dara 16

Thomas Carlyle: Cromwell 19

T. Westwood: Little Bell 86

Rose Terry: The Mormon's Wife 89

John Gibson Lockhart: Beyond 109

John Milton: Autobiographical Passages 110

William Allingham: Wakening 117

Edmund Lodge: John Graham 118

W. Edmondstoune Aytoun: The Burial-March of
Dundee 128

Goethe: Mignon as an Angel 134

Mrs. Gaskell: The Cage at Cranford 136

Edmund Spenser: Verses on Sir Philip Sidney 150

George Ticknor: Prescott's Infirmity of Sight 152

Dante: Beatrice 168

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Robert Southey: A Love Story 170

Bayard Taylor: The Mystic Summer 236

Mrs. Jameson: Two of the Old Masters 239

Frederick Tennyson: The Poet's Heart 261

Giorgio Vasari: Character of Fra Angelico 265

William Blake: Songs 267

J. Hain Friswell: Upon Growing Old 277

R. W. Emerson: The Titmouse 284

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Little Pansie 288

H. W. Longfellow: Palingenesis 305

Sir Walter Scott: My Childhood 308