ROUTLEDGE'S READINGS.

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

EDMUND ROUTLEDGE.

SERIOUS AND SENTIMENTAL.

LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.
NEW YORK : 416, BROOME STREET.

362

270. g. 36

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Also, Uniform with this Volume,

ROUTLEDGE'S READINGS-SERIOUS.

With a Portrait of Mr. J. C. M. BELLEW.

ROUTLEDGE'S READINGS-DRAMATIC.

With Portrait of Mr. PHELPS as Sir Pertinax MacSyco. phant.

CONTENTS.

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Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

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Love

S. T. Coleridge.

79

Eliza

Erasmus Darwin

The Spanish Champion

Mrs. Hemans

85

The Ruined Cottage

Mrs. Maclean (L. E. L.). 89

Willy's Grave

Edwin Waugh .

92

Come Whoam to thy Childer an'

Edwin Waugh .

Maud Müller

7. G. Whittier .

The Sailor's Journal

Charles Dibdin.

103

Parrhasius .

Nathaniel Parker Willis 105

The Leper

Nathaniel Parker Willis . 108

Jephthah's Daughter

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Death of Absalom

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The Story of Le Fevre

Laurence Sterne

116

Somebody's Darling

Mrs. Lacoste

127

Ginevra

Samuel Rogers

129

The Diver

Schiller

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We are Seven

William Wordsworth · 139

Lucy Gray

William Wordsworth 142

The Cataract of Lodore

Robert Southey :

145

The Old Woman of Berkeley Robert Southey.

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The Dying Christian to his Soul . Alexander Pope .

156

Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day Alexander Pope.

157

Sheridan's Ride .

Thomas Buchanan Reed 161

The Minstrel Boy

Thonias Moore .

164

The Harp that once through Tara's

Halls

Thomas Moore .

164

Go where Glory Waits Thee

Thomas Moore .

165

Lochinvar .

Sir Walter Scott

167

Allen-a-Dale

Sir Walter Scott

169

John Littlejohn

Charles Mackay

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The Angel's Whisper

Samuel Lover i

172

Shamus O'Brien,

7. S. Le Fanu

173

DORA

BY ALFRED TENNYSON,

WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode
William and Dora. William was his son,
And she his niece. He often look'd at them,

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And often thought, “ I'll make them man and wife."
Now Dora felt her uncle's will in all,
And yearn'd towards William; but the youth, because
He had been always with her in the house,
Thought not of Dora.

Then there came a day
When Allan call'd his son, and said, “My son:
I married late, but I would wish to see
My grandchild on my knees before I die:
And I have set my heart upon a match.
Now therefore look to Dora ; she is well
To look to; thrifty too beyond her age.
She is my brother's daughter : he and I
Had once hard words, and parted, and he died
In foreign lands; but for his sake I bred
His daughter Dora : take her for your wife;
For I have wished this marriage, night and day,
For many years.” But William answer'd short;
“I cannot marry Dora ; by my life,

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