The National Fifth Reader

I. Succession of Human Beings. II. Death of the Young
and Fair. III. A Lady Drowned-Procter.
Life of Man-Beaumont. V. Coronach-Scott.
mortality-R. II. Dana.

23. Fuller's Bird..

25. Bingen on the Rhine.

29. A Modest Wit...

32. The Poetic Faculty.

34. Destiny of America

37. The King and the Nightingales.

40. Nature's Teachings..

42. Now.

44. The Power of Art.

48. The Deserted Village.

49. The Deserted Village-continued

50 The Deserted Village-concluded.

52 The Settler..

53 The American Flag

55. Napoleon and the Sphinx.

56. A Conqueror's Account of Himself.

59. Language.

62. Extract from the Essay on Criticism.

65. The Rock of the Pilgrims...

67. The Graves of the Patriots.

69. The Antiquity of Freedom.

71. SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE.

.George Berkeley. 152

.Charles Mackay. 157

.. Robert Pollok. 166

Charles Mackay. 171

.Charles Sprague. 176

.Oliver Goldsmith. 183

I. The Beauties of Nature-Beattie. II. Beauty-Gay. III.
The Poet-Shakspeare. IV. Flowers-Hunt. V. Summer
Wind--Bryant. VI. The Last Rose of Summer-Moore.

73. An Old Haunt..

76. Passing Away.

78. The World for Sale.

246

.Household Words, 251

..John Pierpont. 259

Ralph Hoyt. 264

CONTENTS.

81. A Great Man Departed...

85. To the Evening Wind

88. Lord Byron...

9. Midnight-the Coliseum.

1. The Dying Gladiator

92. The Inquiry.

94. Pass on, Relentless World

97. The Baron's Last Banquet.

100. The Phantom Ship...

103. Darkness....

106. Ode to Adversity.

107. Parrhasius and the Captive.

111. Cardinal Wolsey, on being cast off by Henry VIII...Shakspeare. 349

112. National Song...

113. The Marseilles Hymn

115. Procrastination..

117. The Closing Year.

120. The Holy Dead....

122. To a Skylark..

124. Bernardo del Carpio

R. T. Paine. 351

.Rouget de Lisle. 354

125. SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE..

I. Patriotism-Scott. II. Ambition-Byron. III. Independ-

ence-Thomson. IV. The Captive's Dreams-Mrs. Hem-

ans. V. William Tell-Bryant. VI. Tell on Switzer-

land-Knowles. VII. How sleep the Brave--Collins.

VIII. The Greeks at Thermopyla-Byron.

126. Greece....

127. Song of the Greeks, 1822.

128. Marco Bozzaris...

132. SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE.

387

.Lord Byron. 391

Thomas Campbell. 394

Fitz-Greene Halleck. 395

407

I. Exhortation to Courage. II. Fame-Pope. III. Value

of Reputation-Shakspeare. IV. Pleasure-Burns.

Pleasure-Young. VI. Time never returns. VII. In-

gratitude-Shakspeare. VIII. Severity and Gentleness

-Gold Pen. IX. Mercy-Shakspeare. X. Man-Young.

Thomas Campbell. 415

A. B. Street. 424

W. C. Bryant. 430

134. Battle of Warsaw.

138. A Forest Nook.

140. God's First Temples.

141. Trust in God..

143. The Musquito..

144. A Tailor's Evening Soliloquy.

146. SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE...

William Wordsworth. 433

W. C. Bryant. 441

O. W. Holmes. 444

449

I. Early Dawn-Shelley. II. Daybreak-Atlantic Monthly.

III. Daybreak-Shelley. IV. Sunrise in S. America-

Bowles. V. Dawn-Willis. VI. Morning-Milton. VII.

Morning on the Rhine-Bowles. VIII. Morning Sounds

-Beattie. IX. Early Rising-Ilurdis.

147. SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE.

I. Invocation to Night-J. F. Ilollings. II. Evening-Crely.

III. Night-H. Coleridge. IV. Night at Corinth-Byron.

V. A Summer's Night-P. J. Bailey. VI. Night and

Death-J. B. White. VII. Night-Shelley. VIII. The

Moon-Charlotte Smith. IX. The Stars-Darwin.

454

I. Voice of the Wind-Ilenry Taylor. II. Ministrations of
Nature-Coleridge. III. Moonlight-Shakspeare. IV.
The Bells of Ostend-Bowles. V. Music-Shakspeare.
VI. Music-Shelley. VII. Pastoral Music-Byron.