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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

New Testament to T. Roosevelt

The New Testament. Critical Introduction by Frederic William Farrar

The Sermon on the Mount

From the Gospel According to St. Mark

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

The Conversion of Paul

The Nature of Love

From the General Epistle of Jude

John Henry Newman. 1801–1890. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Holt Hutton

Callista and Agellius

The Separation of Friends

The Pillar of the Cloud

Sir Isaac Newton. 1642–1727. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Letter to Francis Astor in 1669

From ‘Mathematical Principles’

Nibelungenlied. Twelfth Century. Critical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung

From the Nibelungenlied

Barthold Georg Niebuhr. 1776–1831. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Plan for a Complete History of Rome

Early Education: Words and Things

The Importance of the Imagination

Friedrich Nietzsche. 1844–1900. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Pepperell Montague

Zarathustra’s Prologue

The Despisers of the Body

War and Warriors

Old and Young Women

Nizami Ganjavi. 1140/1–1202/3. Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson

From Nizami’s ‘Laila and Majnun’

Charles Nodier. 1780–1844. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Golden Dream

Frank Norris. 1870–1902. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carl Van Doren

From ‘The Octopus’

William Edward Norris. 1847–1925. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Freddy Croft: And the Lynshire Ball

Mrs. Winnington’s Eavesdropping

An Idyl in Kabylia

Charles Eliot Norton. 1827–1908. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Building of Orvieto Cathedral

The Dome of Brunelleschi

Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg). 1772–1801. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Hymns to the Night

Alfred Noyes. 1880–1958. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson

From ‘Flos Mercatorum’

Song: "Marchaunt Adventurers"

Song from ‘Drake’: ‘N’oserez vous’

Fitz-James O’Brien. 1828–1862. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Great Diamond is Obtained and Used

The Lost Steamship

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger. 1779–1850. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne

The Dedication of ‘Aladdin’—to Goethe

Song: ‘The moon shines bright aloft’

From ‘Axel and Valborg’

Song: ‘The fairy dwells in the rocky hall’

Noureddin Reads from an Old Folio

Oehlenschläger’s Only Hymn

The Old Testament and the Jewish Apocrypha. Critical Introduction by Crawford Howell Toy

Margaret Oliphant. 1828–1897. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston

A Comfort to her Dear Papa

The Deliverance

Teacher and Pupil

John Boyle O’Reilly. 1844–1890. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan

Ensign Epps, the Color-Bearer

The Cry of the Dreamer

The Rainbow’s Treasure

Yesterday and To-morrow

Ossian and Ossianic Poetry. Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys

Colloquy of Ossian and St. Patrick

To the Blackbird of Derrycarn

The Fian Banners

Credhe’s Lament

Deirdrê’s Lament for the Sons of Usnach

The Songs of Selma

From a ‘Colloquy of Oisin and St. Patrick’

The Death-Song of Ossian

Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée). 1839–1908. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Silk Stockings

How Tricotrin Found Viva

The Steeple-Chase

Ovid. 43 B.C.–18 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Willey Kelsey

On the Death of Corinna’s Parrot

From Sappho’s Letter to Phaon

A Soldier’s Bride

Baucis and Philemon

A Grewsome Lover

The Sun-God’s Palace

A Transformation

Effect of Orpheus’s Song in Hades

The Poet’s Fame

Thomas Nelson Page. 1853–1922. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Burial of the Guns

Édouard Pailleron. 1834–1899. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Society Where One Is Bored

A Scientist among Ladies

The Story of Grigneux

Thomas Paine. 1737–1809. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From ‘The Crisis’

The Magazine in America

John Gorham Palfrey. 1796–1881. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Salem Witchcraft

William Gifford Palgrave. 1826–1888. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Night Ride in the Desert

The Last Meeting

Frederik Paludan-Müller. 1809–1876. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne

Hymn to the Sun

Adam and his Mother

Emilia Pardo Bazán. 1852–1921. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Reign of Terror

The Schoolmistress at Home

Russian Nihilism: "Going to the People"

Giuseppe Parini. 1729–1799. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Toilet of an Exquisite

The Lady’s Lap-Dog

The Afternoon Call

Sir Gilbert Parker. 1862–1932. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Patrol of the Cypress Hills

Theodore Parker. 1810–1860. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John White Chadwick

Mistakes about Jesus: His Reception and Influence

Francis Parkman. 1823–1893. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Dominique de Gourgues

Father Brébeuf and his Associates in the Huron Mission

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

Parmenides. fl. early Fifth Century B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Introduction of the Poem on Nature

Thought and Existence

Thomas William Parsons. 1819–1892. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Epitaph on a Child

Pilgrim’s Isle

Paradisi Gloria

James Parton. 1822–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From the ‘Life of Andrew Jackson’

From the ‘Life of Voltaire’

Blaise Pascal. 1623–1662. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur Graves Canfield

From the ‘Thoughts’

Giovanni Pascoli. 1855–1912. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Gertrude Elizabeth Taylor Slaughter

Walter Pater. 1839–1894. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl

The Classic and the Romantic in Literature

Coventry Patmore. 1823–1896. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan

"If I Were Dead"

Love Serviceable

James Kirke Paulding. 1778–1860. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Pliny the Younger

A Woman’s Privilege: And the Charms of Snuff-Color

Sybrandt Receives Back his Estate—with an Incumbrance

Pausanias. c. 110–180 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bernadotte Perrin

The Acropolis of Athens and its Temples

The Temple of Zeus at Olympia

Thomas Love Peacock. 1785–1866. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From ‘Maid Marian’

George Peele. 1556–1596. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From ‘David and Bethsabe’

From ‘A Farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake’

Silvio Pellico. 1789–1854. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham

From ‘Le Mie Prigioni’

Meeting of Francesca and Paolo

Samuel Pepys. 1633–1703. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur George Peskett

Extracts from the Diary

José Maria de Pereda. 1833–1906. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Bishop

Tuerto’s Family Life

The Candidate Visits his Voters

The Portrait of Don Gonzalo Gonzalez of Gonzalez-Town

Cleto’s Proposal to Sotileza

Charles Perrault. 1628–1703. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Little Red Riding-Hood

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

Toads and Diamonds

Persius. 34–62 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Author’s Ambition

A Child’s Trick

Sándor Petőfi. 1823–1849. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung

One Only Thought

Petrarch. 1304–1374. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham

To the Princes of Italy, Exhorting them to Set her Free

To Rienzi, Beseeching him to Restore to Rome her Ancient Liberty

To the Virgin Mary

To the Fountain of Vaucluse—Contemplations of Death

He Paints the Beauties of Laura, and his Unalterable Love

He Extols the Beauty and Virtue of Laura

The Death-Bed of Laura

On the Announcement of the Death of Laura

She Is ever Present to him

He Thanks her that from Time to Time she Returns to Console him with her Presence

Vaucluse has Become to him a Scene of Pain

His Only Desire Is Again to be with her

He Revisits Vaucluse

He Feels that the Day of their Reunion Is at Hand

He Seeks Solitude, but Love Follows him Everywhere

Conscious of his Folly, he Prays God to Turn him to a Better Life

Whoever Beholds her must Admit that his Praises cannot Reach Laura’s Perfection

Her Counsel Alone Affords him Relief

Sonnet Found in Laura’s Tomb

Petronius. c. 27–66. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston

The Adventure of the Cloak

Trimalchio’s Reminiscences

Laudator Temporis Acti

The Master of the Feast

Epitaph on a Favorite Hunting-Dog

Philemon. c. 368–c. 264 B.C. Menander. c. 342–c. 292 B.C.. and the Lost Attic Comedy. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton

Susarion: Women

Teleclides: The Age of Gold

Cratinus: Wine versus Water

Hermippus: Imports of Athens; The Best Wines

Eupolis: Honor to Home Talent

Phrynichus: Eulogy on Sophocles

Alexis: Vanity Fair

Amphis: Life and Death

Anaxandrides: Health, Beauty, Wealth

Antiphanes: The Comic Poet’s Grievances

Timocles: Office of Tragedy

Philemon: Selections

Menander: Selections

Menander: From ‘The Arbitrants’

Stephen Phillips. 1868–1915. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson

From ‘Paolo and Francesca’

Ulysses and Calypso

Wendell Phillips. 1811–1884. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Washburn Smalley

The Hero of Hayti

Antiquity of Inventions and Stories

Pierre of Provence and the Beautiful Maguelonne. Critical Introduction by Olga Flinch

Pindar. c. 522–433 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Basil L. Gildersleeve

First Olympian Ode

Second Olympian Ode

Third Olympian Ode

Seventh Olympian Ode

First Pythian Ode

Alexis Piron. 1689–1773. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From ‘La Métromanie’

August, Graf von Platen. 1796–1835. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Before the Convent of St. Just, 1556

The Grave in the Busento

"Fair as the Day"

Voluntary Exile

Plato. 429–347 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Shorey

Socrates and the Sophists

Socrates Prepares for Death

Socrates’s Remarks after Condemnation

Mythic Description of the Soul

Myth of the Judgment of the Dead

Figure of the Cave

The Ideal Ruler Portrayed

Plautus. c. 254–184 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Gonzalez Lodge

The Braggart Soldier

Prologue of ‘Casina’

Prologue of ‘Trinummus’

Prologue of ‘Rudens’

Epilogue of the ‘Captives’

Epilogue of ‘Asinaria’

Unpopularity of Tragedy

Mixture of Greek and Roman Manners

Rewards of Heroism

Fishermen’s Luck

Plautus’s Epitaph on Himself

Pliny the Elder. 23–79 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Introduction to Lithology

Anecdotes of Artists

The Most Perfect Works of Nature

Pliny the Younger. 61/2–c. 113 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Portrait of a Rival

To Minutius Fundanus: How Time Passes at Rome

To Socius Senecio: The Last Crop of Poets

To Nepos: Of Arria

To Marcellinus: Death of Fundanus’s Daughter

To Calpurnia, I

To Tacitus: The Eruption of Vesuvius

To Calpurnia, II

To Maximus: Pliny’s Success as an Author

To Fuscus: A Day in the Country

To the Emperor Trajan: Of the Christians; and Trajan’s Answer

Plutarch. c. 45–120 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Bull Clapp

Plutarch on Himself

Antony and Cleopatra

Letter to his Wife on their Daughter’s Death

The Wife of Pythes

The Teaching of Virtue

The Need of Good Schoolmasters

Mothers and Nurses

Edgar Allan Poe. 1809–1849. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederic William Henry Myers

A Descent into the Maelström

The Fall of the House of Usher

Song from ‘The Assignation’

Poetry of the Early Twentieth Century. Critical Introduction by John Erskine

Polybius. c. 200–c. 118 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bernadotte Perrin

Scope of Polybius’s History

Polybius and the Scipios

The Fall of Corinth

Alexander Pope. 1688–1744. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

From the ‘Essay on Criticism’

The Game of Cards

From the ‘Essay on Man’

From the ‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’

The Goddess of Dullness is Addressed on Education

The Triumph of Dullness

The Universal Prayer

Ode: The Dying Christian to his Soul

Epitaph on Sir William Trumbal

Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue

Winthrop Mackworth Praed. 1802–1839. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine

The Belle of the Ball

William Hickling Prescott. 1796–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Newton Thorpe

"The Melancholy Night"

The Spanish Arabs

The Capture of the Inca

The Personal Habits of Philip II.

The Spanish Moors Persecuted into Rebellion

Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles. 1697–1763. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Exile and Death

William Cowper Prime. 1825–1905. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Old Man at the Water-Wheel

The Defeat of the Christian Host at Galilee, A.D. 1187

A New England Auction: The Lonely Church in the Valley

Matthew Prior. 1664–1721. Critical and Biographical Introduction

To a Child of Quality

Song: ‘In vain you tell your parting lover’

An Ode: ‘The merchant, to secure his treasure’

A Better Answer

The Lady’s Looking-Glass

The Female Phaeton

Bryan Waller and Adelaide Anne Procter. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall). 1787–1874. The Sea

A Petition to Time

Inscription for a Fountain

"Sit Down, Sad Soul"

The Poet’s Song to his Wife

"Peace! What do Tears Avail?"

The Stormy Petrel

Adelaide Anne Procter. 1825–1864. A Doubting Heart

A Woman’s Question

Propertius. c. 50–c. 16 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Meason Whicher

Beauty Unadorned

To Caius Cilnius Mæcenas

The Immortality of Genius

Provençal Literature (The Troubadours). 1090–1290. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston

Guillaume de Poitiers: Behold the Meads

Guiraud Le Roux: Come Lady

Bernard de Ventadour: Marvel is it if I Sing

Richard Cœur de Lion: Ah! Certes will no Prisoner Tell His Tale

Guillaume de Cabestaing: I See the Days are Long

Comtesse de Die: Of that I would not

Arnaut de Maroill: Softly Sighs the April Air

Raimon de Miraval: Fair Summer-Time

Alba—Unknown Author: Under the Hawthorns

Alba—Guiraut de Borneil: All-Glorious King!

Alba—Bertrand d’Aamanon: A Knight was Sitting by Her Side

Luigi Pulci. 1432–1484. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Conversion of the Giant Morgante

Alexander Pushkin. 1799–1837. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Isabel Florence Hapgood

From ‘Boris Godunov’

From ‘Evgeny Onyegin’

Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire. 1838–1923. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. 1863–1944. Critical and Biographical Introduction

When the Sap Rose: A Fantasia

Edgar Quinet. 1803–1875. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Bérenger

Naples and Vesuvius

A Night in the Orient

The Wandering Jew

The Struggle against Environment

Quintilian. c. 35–c. 95 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston

On the Object and Scope of the ‘Institutes’

On the Early Practice of Composition

On Nature and Art in Oratory

On Embellishments of Style

On the Handling of Witnesses in Court

On Ancient Authors

François Rabelais. c. 1490–1553. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Bérenger

The Childhood of Gargantua

The Education of Gargantua

The Abbey of Thelema

Jean Racine. 1639–1699. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederick Morris Warren

The Appeal of Andromache

The Confession of Phædra

Sir Walter Raleigh. 1554?–1618. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ashley Horace Thorndike

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd

The Last Fight of the Revenge

Alfred Rambaud. 1842–1905. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Halting Steps toward Democracy

French Governmental Experiments

Russian Expansion West and South

Benefits to Germany from French Invasions

Civil Life in France during the Middle Ages

French Medical Science during the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages

Allan Ramsay. 1686–1758. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Gentle Shepherd

Bessy Bell and Mary Gray

Lochaber No More

An Thou Were My Ain Thing

A Sang: ‘Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bride’

The Highland Lassie

Leopold von Ranke. 1795–1886. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Fall of Strafford

The Rise of the Jesuits in Germany

The Last Years of Queen Johanna

The Swiss Army in Italy in 1513: and the Battle of Novara

Maximilian at the Diet of Worms

Thomas Buchanan Read. 1822–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Sheridan’s Ride

The Closing Scene

Charles Reade. 1814–1884. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Viscount and Lower Classes

In the Green-Room

Extract from a Sixteenth-Century Letter

Monk and Father

Henri de Régnier. 1864–1936. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pierre Dareutiere de Bâcourt

The Faun with the Mirror

Ernest Renan. 1823–1892. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ferdinand Brunetière

Brother and Sister

To the Pure Soul of My Sister Henriette

Motives and Conduct

The Share of the Semitic People in the History of Civilization

The Persistence of the Celtic Race

Fritz Reuter. 1810–1874. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Old Parson’s Death

The Miller and the Justice

James Ford Rhodes. 1848–1927. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Webster’s Death

Improvement in American Health

American Manners in 1850

Samuel Richardson. 1689–1761. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Pamela Immured by her Lover

Miss Byron’s Rescue from Abduction, by Sir Charles Grandison

Jean Richepin. 1849–1926. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mathurin Marius Dondo

James Whitcomb Riley. 1849–1916. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Will David Howe

When She Comes Home

A Song: ‘There is ever a song somewhere, my dear’

Knee-Deep in June

Out to Old Aunt Mary’s

Little Orphant Annie

When the Frost is on the Punkin

Nothin’ to Say

The Name of Old Glory

Anne Thackeray Ritchie. 1837–1919. Critical and Biographical Introduction

My Witch’s-Caldron

My Father’s Mother

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts. 1860–1943. Critical and Biographical Introduction

An Epitaph for a Husbandman

The Little Field of Peace

The Flight of the Geese

Beside the Winter Sea

The Deserted City

Frederick William Robertson. 1816–1853. Critical and Biographical Introduction

The Early Development of Christ

The Universal Nature of Christ

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson. 1857–1944. Critical and Biographical Introduction

Edwin Arlington Robinson. 1869–1935. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Brooks Drayton Henderson

The Poor Relation

Édouard Rod. 1857–1910. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King

Samuel Rogers. 1763–1855. Critical and Biographical Introduction

From the ‘Pleasures of Memory’

From ‘Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers’

Romain Rolland. 1866–1944. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall

An Infant Prodigy

Roman Poets of the Later Empire Critical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston

Annius Florus: Roses

The Emperor Hadrian: To his Soul

Author Unknown: From the ‘Pervigilium Veneris’

Calpurnius Siculus: The Rustic in the Amphitheatre

Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Idyl of the Roses

Decimus Magnus Ausonius: A Mother’s Epitaph

Claudius Claudianus: The Bereavement of Ceres

Claudius Claudianus: Invocation to Victory

Claudius Rutilius Numatianus: Prologue to the ‘Itinerarium’

Anicius Severinus Boethius: The Government of the World

Anicius Severinus Boethius: The Hymn of Philosophy

Pierre de Ronsard. 1524–1585. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Katharine Hillard

Sonnet: To Angelette

His Lady’s Tomb

A Madrigal: To Astræa

Ronsard to his Mistress

Theodore Roosevelt. 1858–1919. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews

The Indians of the Northwest

Backwoodsmen and Other Early Types

Citizenship in a Republic

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