(Encyclopedia) Eugene of Savoy, 1663–1736, prince of the house of Savoy, general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire. Born in Paris, he was the son of Eugène, comte de Soissons of the line of…
An Old Man's Thought of School[For the Inauguration of a Public School, Camden, New Jersey, 1874]An old man's thought of school,
An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth…
Part 6I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and
that of India,
I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.I see the place of the idea of the…
by Robert Burns Caledonia-A BalladBeware O' Bonie AnnTo Miss Cruickshank A very Young Lady Written on the Blank Leaf of a Book, presented to her by the Author. Beauteous…
by Robert Burns The Braes O' KilliecrankieA Waukrife MinnieAwa' Whigs, Awa' Chorus.—Awa' Whigs, awa'!
Awa' Whigs, awa'!
Ye're but a pack o' traitor louns,
Ye'll do nae…
by Robert Burns Tam O' ShanterElegy On The Late Miss Burnet ...On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress. Sweet flow'ret, pledge o'…
by Robert Burns The Braw WooerO Bonie Was Yon Rosy BrierThis Is No My Ain Lassie Tune-"This is no my house." Chorus—This is no my ain lassie,
Fair tho, the lassie be;
Weel…
Day 1447 Day 1449 Lewis, June 12, 1806 Thursday June 12th 1806. All our hunters except Gibson returned about noon; none of them had killed anything except Sheilds who brought with him two…
by Robert Frost WaitingA Dream PangIn a Vale Out of old longings he fashions a story. WHEN I was young, we dwelt in a vale
By a misty fen that rang all night,
And thus it was the…