Apples of Gold; a Book of Selected Verse

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...His path upward, and prevailed, Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled Are close upon the shining table-lands, To which our God himself is moon and sun. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Alfred Tennyson. SONNET TO DUTY. IffT Euripides (Fragm.). Light of dim mornings; shield from heat and cold; Balm for all ailments; substitute for praise; Comrade of those who plod in lonely ways (Ways that grow lonelier as the years wax old); Tonic for fears; check to the over-bold; Nurse, whose calm hand its strong restriction lays, Kind but resistless, on our wayward days; Mart, where high wisdom at vast price is sold; Gardener, whose touch bids the rose-petals fall, The thorns endure; surgeon, who human hearts Searchest with probes, though the death-wound be given; Spell that knits friends, but yearning lovers parts; Tyrant relentless o'er our blisses all;--Oh, can it be thine other name is Heaven t Thomas Wentworth Higginson. How soon all worldly wrong would be repaired! I think how I should view the earth and skies And sea, when once again my brow was bared After thy healing, with such different eyes. O world, as God has made it! All is beauty; And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. What further may be sought for or declared t The Guardian Angel. A. Picture at Fano. Robert Browning. XI. anD freedom. 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die. Sacrifice. Ralph Waldo Emerson O Truth! O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed! What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst! To W. L. Garrison. James Russell Lowell. TRUTH AND FREEDOM. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose...