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[Note on text: Italicized stanzas have been indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases have been capitalized. Lines longer than 77 characters have been broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces. Also, some obvious errors have been corrected.] [This text was first published in 1897, this etext was transcribed from a 1905 printing of the 1897 edition.] The Children of the Night A Book of Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson To the Memory of my Father and Mother Contents The Children of the NightThree QuatrainsThe WorldAn Old StoryBallade of a ShipBallade by the FireBallade of Broken FlutesBallade of Dead FriendsHer EyesTwo MenVillanelle of ChangeJohn EvereldownLuke HavergalThe House on the HillRichard CoryTwo OctavesCalvaryDear FriendsThe Story of the Ashes and the Flame For Some Poems by Matthew ArnoldAmaryllisKosmosZolaThe Pity of the LeavesAaron StarkThe GardenCliff KlingenhagenCharles Carville’s EyesThe Dead VillageBostonTwo SonnetsThe ClerksFleming HelphenstineFor a Book by Thomas HardyThomas HoodThe MiracleHorace to LeuconoeReuben BrightThe AltarThe TavernSonnetGeorge CrabbeCredoOn the Night of a Friend’s WeddingSonnetVerlaineSonnetSupremacyThe Night BeforeWalt WhitmanThe Chorus of Old Men in “Aegeus”The WildernessOctavesTwo QuatrainsRomanceThe TorrentL’Envoi The Children of the Night For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing;And they, the Children of the Night, Seem lost in Fortune’s winnowing....

THE COMMUNISTIC SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES FROM PERSONAL VISIT AND OBSERVATION BY CHARLES NORDHOFF TO MY FRIENDS, DOCTOR AND MRS. JOHN DAVIS, OF CINCINNATI. [Illustration: VIEWS IN ZOAR.] TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SUBJECTS OF THE INQUIRY THE CONDITION AND NECESSITIES OF LABOR MISTAKE OF THE TRADES-UNIONS REASONS FOR IT LABOR SOCIETIES, AS AT PRESENT MANAGED, MISCHIEVOUS THE AMANA SOCIETY ITS HISTORY AND ORIGIN AMANA IN 1874 SOCIAL HABITS AND CUSTOMS RELIGION AND LITERATURE THE HARMONISTS AT ECONOMY ECONOMY IN 1874 HISTORY OF THE HARMONY SOCIETY ITS RELIGIOUS CREED PRACTICAL LIFE SOME PARTICULARS OF “FATHER RAPP” THE SEPARATISTS OF ZOAR ORIGIN AND HISTORY THEIR RELIGIOUS FAITH PRACTICAL LIFE AND PRESENT CONDITION THE SHAKERS “MOTHER ANN” THE ORDER OF LIFE AMONG THE SHAKERS A VISIT TO MOUNT LEBANON DETAILS OF ALL THE SHAKER SOCIETIES SHAKER LITERATURE “SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS” THE ONEIDA AND WALLINGFORD PERFECTIONISTS ORIGIN AND HISTORY THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEF DAILY LIFE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUNDAY AT ONEIDA “CRITICISM” AND “PRAYER-CURES” THE AURORA AND BETHEL COMMUNES AURORA IN OREGON BETHEL IN MISSOURI THEIR HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS FAITH THE ICARIANS THE BISHOP HILL COLONY ITS ORIGIN AND HISTORY CAUSES OF ITS FAILURE THE CEDAR VALE COMMUNE THE SOCIAL FREEDOM COMMUNITY THREE COLONIES–NOT COMMUNISTIC ANAHEIM, IN CALIFORNIA VINELAND, IN NEW JERSEY SILKVILLE PRAIRIE HOME, IN KANSAS COMPARATIVE VIEW AND REVIEW STATISTICAL COMMUNAL POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE INFLUENCES OF COMMUNISTIC LIFE CONDITIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF COMMUNISTIC LIVING BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VIEWS IN ZOAR MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF COMMUNISTIC SOCIETIES GRACE BEFORE MEAT–AMANA SCHOOL-HOUSE–AMANA AMANA, A GENERAL VIEW CHURCH AT AMANA INTERIOR VIEW OF CHURCH PLAN OF THE INSPIRATIONIST VILLAGES ASSEMBLY HALL–ECONOMY CHURCH AT ECONOMY A STREET VIEW IN ECONOMY FATHER RAPP’S HOUSE–ECONOMY CHURCH AT ZOAR SCHOOL-HOUSE AT ZOAR A GROUP OF SHAKERS THE FIRST SHAKER CHURCH, AT MOUNT LEBANON SHAKER ARCHITECTURE–MOUNT LEBANON SHAKER ARCHITECTURE–ENFIELD, N....

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARTEMUS WARD PART 2, WAR. (CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE) With a biographical sketch by Melville D. Landon, “Eli Perkins” CONTENTS. PART II. War. 2.1. The Show is Confiscated. 2.2. Thrilling Scenes in Dixie. 2.3. Fourth of July Oration. 2.4. The War Fever in Baldinsville. 2.5. A War Meeting. 2.6. The Draft in Baldinsville. 2.7. Surrender of Cornwallis. 2.8. Things in New York. 2.9. Touching Letter from a Gory Member Of The Home Guard 2....

1609 THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare 1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And tender churl mak’st waste in niggarding: Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee....

MDCCCXXXIX. Volume 4. (Chapter XXIV-XXVIII) Contents: CHAPTER XXIV The Gen d’Arme CHAPTER XXV The Inn at Chantraine CHAPTER XXVI Mr O’Leary CHAPTER XXVII Paris CHAPTER XXVIII Paris CHAPTER XXIV. THE GEN D’ARME. I had fortunately sufficient influence upon my fair friends to persuade them to leave Calais early on the morning following; and two hours before Kilkee had opened his eyes upon this mortal life, we were far upon the road to Paris....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK III. Leaving the service of Madam de Vercellis nearly as I had entered it, I returned to my former hostess, and remained there five or six weeks; during which time health, youth, and laziness, frequently rendered my temperament importunate....

THE CONFLICT I Four years at Wellesley; two years about equally divided among Paris, Dresden and Florence. And now Jane Hastings was at home again. At home in the unchanged house–spacious, old-fashioned–looking down from its steeply sloping lawns and terraced gardens upon the sooty, smoky activities of Remsen City, looking out upon a charming panorama of hills and valleys in the heart of South Central Indiana. Six years of striving in the East and abroad to satisfy the restless energy she inherited from her father; and here she was, as restless as ever–yet with everything done that a woman could do in the way of an active career....

THE COUNTRY DOCTOR BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell “For a wounded heart–shadow and silence.” To my Mother INTRODUCTION In hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of /Eugenie Grandet/, does Balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than in /Le Medecin de Campagne/; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of the book in each case, is, let it be repeated, a valid argument against those who would have it that there was something essentially sinister both in his genius and his character....

The Cruise of the Dolphin by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1 An episode from The Story of a Bad Boy, the narrator being Tom Bailey, the hero of the tale.) Every Rivermouth boy looks upon the sea as being in some way mixed up with his destiny. While he is yet a baby lying in his cradle, he hears the dull, far-off boom of the breakers; when he is older, he wanders by the sandy shore, watching the waves that come plunging up the beach like white-maned sea-horses, as Thoreau calls them; his eye follows the lessening sail as it fades into the blue horizon, and he burns for the time when he shall stand on the quarter-deck of his own ship, and go sailing proudly across that mysterious waste of waters....

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY by EDITH WHARTON 1913 THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY I “Undine Spragg–how can you?” her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid “bell-boy” had just brought in. But her defence was as feeble as her protest, and she continued to smile on her visitor while Miss Spragg, with a turn of her quick young fingers, possessed herself of the missive and withdrew to the window to read it....

This etext was prepared by David Price from the 1912 J. M. Dent edition, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk The Description of Wales FIRST PREFACE to Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury I, who, at the expense of three years’ labour, arranged, a short time ago, in three parts, the Topography of Ireland, with a description of its natural curiosities, and who afterwards, by two years’ study, completed in two parts the Vaticinal History of its Conquest; and who, by publishing the Itinerary of the Holy Man (Baldwin) through Cambria, prevented his laborious mission from perishing in obscurity, do now propose, in the present little work, to give some account of this my native country, and to describe the genius of its inhabitants, so entirely distinct from that of other nations....

THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrated by Gustave Dore Volume 9. THE BURIAL OF JESUS. When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple he went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed....

THE DUCHESS OF BERRY AND THE COURT OF CHARLES X BY IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND CONTENTS I. THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES X II. THE ENTRY INTO PARIS III. THE TOMBS OF SAINT-DENIS IV. THE FUNERAL OF LOUIS XVIII V. THE KING VI. THE DAUPHIN AND DAUPHINESS VII. MADAME VIII. THE ORLEANS FAMILY IX. THE PRINCE OF CONDE X. THE COURT XI. THE DUKE OF DOUDEAUVILLE XII. THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE DUCHESS OF BERRY XIII....

THE ENTIRE SHORT WORKS OF GEORGE MEREDITH CONTENTS: Farina Case of General Opel The Tale of Chloe The House on the Beach The Gentleman of Fifty The Sentimentalists Miscellaneous Prose FARINA By George Meredith THE WHITE ROSE CLUB In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient mother- city, nor more honoured burgess swallowed impartially red juice and white under the shadow of his own fig-tree....

RELIGION: A DIALOGUE, ETC. TRANSLATED BY T. BAILEY SAUNDERS, M.A. CONTENTS. PREFATORY NOTE RELIGION: A DIALOGUE A FEW WORDS ON PANTHEISM ON BOOKS AND READING ON PHYSIOGNOMY PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM PREFATORY NOTE Schopenhauer is one of the few philosophers who can be generally understood without a commentary. All his theories claim to be drawn direct from the facts, to be suggested by observation, and to interpret the world as it is; and whatever view he takes, he is constant in his appeal to the experience of common life....

THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER TRANSLATED BY T. BAILEY SAUNDERS, M.A. ON HUMAN NATURE. CONTENTS. HUMAN NATURE GOVERNMENT FREE-WILL AND FATALISM CHARACTER MORAL INSTINCT ETHICAL REFLECTIONS TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. The following essays are drawn from the chapters entitled Zur Ethik and Zur Rechtslehre und Politik which are to be found both in Schopenhauer’s Parerga and in his posthumous writings. As in my previous volumes, so also in this, I have omitted a few passages which appeared to me to be either antiquated or no longer of any general interest....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazlitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 3. XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended XV....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 5. XXV. Of the education of children.XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 14. I. Of Profit and Honesty.II. Of Repentance.III. Of Three Commerces.IV. Of Diversion. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE BOOK THE THIRD CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to play the fool: “Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit....

THE EULOGIES OF HOWARD. A VISION. —-to tell of deeds Above heroic. MILTON. M.DCC.XCI. THE EULOGIES OF HOWARD It was my chance to be conversing with a Friend of the benevolent and indefatigable HOWARD, when our country was first afflicted with the public intelligence of his death. After our first expression of surprize and sorrow, we naturally fell into serious and affectionate reflections on the gentle character and sublime pursuits of the deceased....