PoetryThe Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart… By Charles Wolfe
Prose/ReligionThis Brother is the Pulse of the New Age Only through a more exact knowledge of religion will one be able to judge the… By Novalis
ProseBelief and Unbelief There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas… By W. B. Yeats
PoetryThe Modern Poet A Song of Derivations I come from nothing; but from where Come the undying thoughts… By Alice Meynell
PoetryThe Thunder-Shower The lightning flashed, and lifted The lids of heaven apart, The fiery thunder rolled you… By John Hall Wheelock
ProseMercy The quality of mercy is not strain’d,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven… By William Shakespeare
ProseThe Gigantic Tail Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.… By Herman Melville
PoetryThe Castaway Obscurest night involv’d the sky, Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d, When such a destin’d wretch as… By William Cowper
ProseWing-Footed Wanderer He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for… By W. B. Yeats