OF VERSE AMERICAN AND ENGLISH 1580-1912 With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems in Other Languages THE NEW YORK R 1952 L COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 0 ON OLITINIMUA TABLE OF CONTENTS The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám Edward Fitzgerald The Conclusion of the Whole Matter Frederic Ridgely Torrence .Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2782 .Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2783 .Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2784 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2791 The Lesson of the Water-mill .Sarah Doudney . Lydia Avery Coon'ey Ward . 2799 “They Went Forth to Battle but . Richard Monckton Milnes . 2808 Mæsia's Song from “Farewell to The Means to Attain Happy Life .Henry Howard The Character of a Happy Life .Henry Wotton. “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is” Edward Dyer |