The work of years was done in days,

Fights won, and trophies given:

For sorrow is the atmosphere

Which ripens hearts for heaven.

F. W. FABER. Hymns. (Richardson.)

I HOPED that with the brave and strong
My portioned task might lie;
To toil amid the busy throng
With purpose pure and high:
But God has fixed another part,
And He has fixed it well;
I said so with my breaking heart,
When first this anguish fell.
These weary hours will not be lost,
These days of misery,

These nights of darkness, tempest-tost-
Can I but turn to Thee;
With secret labour to sustain

In patience every blow,

To gather fortitude from pain,

And holiness from woe.

If Thou should'st bring me back to life,

More humble I should be,

More wise, more strengthened for the strife, More apt to lean on Thee;

Should death be standing at the gate,

Thus should I keep my vow,

But, Lord! whatever be my fate,

Oh, let me serve Thee now!

ANNE BRONTË.

Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)

[By kind permission of the Publishers.]

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OH sacred sorrow, by whom souls are tried,
Sent not to punish mortals, but to guide;
If thou art mine, (and who shall proudly dare
To tell his Maker, he has had his share ?)
Still let me feel for what thy pangs are sent,
And be my guide and not my punishment.
G. CRABBE.

We know that ofttimes gain is loss :
Believe, sad heart, that loss is gain.
From golden ore to clear the dross-
This is thy sacred function, Pain.

AUBREY DE VERE.

DAILY duties paid

Hardly at first, at length will bring repose
To the sad mind that studies to perform them.
T. N. TALFourd.

"NOTHING to live for!" do not even dream
That any merely mortal loss could sink
Th' immortal soul in such a stagnant stream;
The death of love but leads thee to the brink
Of sorrow's bitter waters; stoop and drink!
Thou shalt arise with vision clear and high,
Looking thro' Death; thy soul no more will shrink
From gazing with firm heart and dauntless eye
Into the dim and misty depths of vast Eternity.
Yea, grief may quench the sun, strip earth of beauty,
Enwrap the world in one black funeral shroud,
Yet thro' the darkness looms the form of Duty,—
Whose spirit-stirring clarion clear and loud,
Piercing thro' dullest sorrow's thickest cloud,
Recalls us to Life's battle, to achieve
What may be done by spirits sorrow-bowed;-
God knows when best to take, as when to give,
When thou hast "nought to live for " thou wilt
cease to live.

W. A. GIBBS.
Arlon Grange. (Provost and Co.)

BENEATH the Cross upsprings the Fount;
And Heaven bends wide above.
Delve as you may, O friend, or mount,
Nought else you find but Love.

AUBREY DE VERE.

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You will not say those were your saddest years,
In which you sorrowed. Void is worse than pain,
And many a rich bloom grows because of tears;
And we see Heaven's light more when our lights

wane.

AUGUSTA WEBSTER.

LIGHT IN SHADOW.
WHERE do God's rubies shine,

With beauty more divine,

Than in the darkness of earth's deepest mine?

A., one of the Authors of "Poems written for a

Child," 8, 25, 271.

Addison, Joseph, 61.

Aïdé, Hamilton, 107, 171, 248.

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 88, 215.

Akenside, Mark, 109.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 101, 179, 180, 234.
Alexander, Cecil Frances, 22, 78, 365.
Alexander, William, 328, 354.

Alford, Henry, 67, 74, 244, 333, 354, 357, 359 ii.
Alighieri, Dante, 290, 291 ii., 292.
Allingham, William, 28, 94, 158.
Anon., see Unknown.

Armstrong, Edmund John, 194, 265, 304, 367.

Armstrong, George Francis, 147, 149, 262 ii., 271,

287, 294, 298, 307, 364.

Arnold, Edwin, 151, 201, 282.

Baillie, Joanna, 251.

Baldwin, Astley H., 274.

Barbauld, Anna Letitia, 318.

Barham, Richard Harris ("Thomas Ingoldsby "),

99, 205, 336.

Barlow, George, 321.

Barnes, William, 39, 50 ii., 69, 132, 138, 165, 187,

342.

Barr, Matthias, 241, 248 ii., 361.

Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 150, 162, 219.
Baynes, R. H., 351, 353.

Beattie, James, 351.

Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (Phineas), 207.
Bennett, William Cox, 39, 208, 217, 224, 247, 260,

342.
Beowulf, 290 iii.

Béranger, P. J. De, 335.

296, 336, 349.

Arnold, Thomas, 290.

Ashby-Sterry, J., 95, 136 ii., 157, 240.

Ashe, Thomas, 84, 122, 206, 229, 247, 332.
Austin, Alfred, 15 ii., 99 ii., 100, 105 ii., 179, 308.
Author of "Ezekiel and other Poems," 57, 61, 321.
Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," 15, 19 ii.,

62, 92, 130, 145, 186, 207, 208, 214, 227,
265, 314, 331, 345, 348, 349, 352, 354, 364.
Author of "Mrs. Jerningham's Journal," 176, 212 ii.,
213, 224.

Author of "Olrig Grange," see Smith, Walter C.
Authors of "Poems written for a Child," One of

the, 8, 25, 271.

"Bab" Ballads, 9, 100, 127, 187.

Bishop, Samuel, 216.

Blackie, John Stuart, 90, 133, 149, 186, 214, 224,

260, 363.

Blackley, W. Lewery, 287.

Blair, Robert, 251, 328.
Blake, William, 92, 240, 365.
Blessington, Countess of, 256.
Blind, Mathilde, 306.

B. M., see Author of "Ezekiel and other Poems."
Boker, George H., 359.

Bonar, Horatius, 73, 241, 254, 260, 265, 322, 351,

352, 355, 358, 364, 367, 369.

Bond, Alessie, see Faussett, Mrs. Henry.
Borrow, George, 283, 293.

Bowles, William Lisle, 19, 77.

Brainard, J. G. C., 207.

138, 151, 356, 360.

Brontë, Anne, 373.

Brontë, Emily, 338.

Brough, Robert B., 4, 32.

Daniel, Book of, 282.

Dante Alighieri, 290, 291 ii., 293.

309.

Browne, William, III.

Brownell, H. H., 330.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 100, 104, 112, 149,
160, 189, 238.

Browning, Robert, 170, 189, 311, 370.
Bryant, William Cullen, 319, 320, 338.

Buchanan, Robert, 26, 133, 164, 304, 321, 323,
335, 365, 370.

Burleigh, William H., 367.

Burns, Robert, 66, 127, 192, 266, 267.
Burnside, Helen Marion, 21, 56, 59, 73.

Butler, Samuel, 109 ii., 115, 119 ii., 189, 190, 191.
Byron, Henry J., 191.

Byron, Lord, 117, 143, 335, 349.

Caedmon, 290.

Calverley, C. S., 117, 132, 134, 137 ii., 163 iii., 253.

Campbell, Thomas, 89, 175, 274.

Capern, Edward, 34, 43.

Carew, Thomas, III.

Carey, Alice, 337.

Carey, Henry, 258 ii.

Carey, Phoebe, 347.
Carroll, Lewis, 7, 101.
Cazenove, A., II.

Chadwick, George A., 323.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 91, 110.
Cheltnam, Charles Smith, 35.

Coleridge, Hartley, 159.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 88, 111 ii., 114, 137,

152, 175, 251, 253, 267, 343 ii.

Collins, Mortimer, 33, 93, 95, 151, 185, 193, 212,

216 ii., 301, 319, 320 ii., 337.

Corinthians, First Epistle to the, 73.

247, 266 ii., 296, 306, 313, 344.

Cowan, Samuel K., 8, 18, 206 ii., 217, 322, 346.
Cowper, William, 190 ii., 209, 258, 259, 267, 274,
367.

Crashaw, Richard, 21, 77, 79, 97, 193, 337, 352.
Crewdson, Mrs. T. D., 356, 357.

Croly, George, 224.

C. S. C., see Calverley, C. S.

Cunningham, Allan, 224, 358.

Gibbs, J. H., 92.

Gibbs, W. A., 40, 373, 374.

Gibney, Somerville, 26, 38, 68, 90, 93, 121, 154-
Gilbert, W. S., 9, 100, 127, 187.
Gladstone, William Ewart, 236, 366.

Gosse, Edmund W., 25, 116, 165, 238, 261, 284.
Grahame, James, 37.

Graves, Alfred Perceval, 119, 140, 141, 173, 200,

235.

Gray, David, 346, 371.

Greenwell, Dora, 206.

Griffin, Gerald, 158, 258, 259.

Hake, Thomas Gordon, 93, 95, 107, 160, 245,
285, 328.

Hall, Samuel Carter, 217, 228, 229, 251 ii., 274,
275, 309 ii.

Halleck, J. Fitz-Greene, 207.

Hamilton, Edwin, 6, 44, 97, 104, 124, 161, 174.
Hamilton, Eugene Lee, see Lee-Hamilton, Eugene.
Harrington, John, 110.
Havergal, Cecilia, 267.

Havergal, Frances Ridley, 38, 69, 273, 356, 366.
Havergal, W. H., 73, 211.

Heber, Reginald, 74, 347 ii.

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 10, 344, 351, 352.
Herbert, George, 78, 259.

Herrick, Robert, 68, 88, 98, 114 ii., 117, 133, 134,
137, 140 ii., 153, 175, 343 ii., 345 ii., 349.

Holland, J. G., 240.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 131, 141, 325.
Homer's Iliad :- Pope's, 283; Lord Derby's, 283.
Hood, Thomas, 67, 89, 115, 116 ii., 117 ii., 118,

136, 144, 190, 199, 233, 238, 242, 266, 273.
Hood, Thomas, the Younger (Tom), 105, 135, 142.
Hooper, Eden, 4, 8, 19, 20, 39, 114, 135, 260,
261, 274.

Horne, George, 331.

Horne, Richard Hengist, 87.

Houghton, Lord, 91, 150, 255, 264 ii., 314, 356,

Keats, John, 118, 138, 143, 190, 294.

Keble, John, 21, 36, 64, 77, 210 ii., 353, 360, 362,
363, 367, 371.

Ken, Thomas, 357-
Kenny, James, 108.

Kent, Charles, 102, 129, 152, 245.
Kingsley, Charles, 10, 78, 103.
Knox, Hon. Mrs. O. N., 163, 295.

Lamb, Charles, 243, 272.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth ("L. E. L."), 112, 118,
137, 181, 358.

Landor, Walter Savage, 118, 128, 150, 255, 274,
294, 339 ii.

Lang, Andrew, 106, 167, 171.
Langbridge, Frederick, 3, 14, 18, 22, 24, 30, 35,

39, 47, 55, 56, 63, 64 iii., 65, 66, 70, 73, 74,
75 ii., 78 iii., 79 ii., 80 iii., 123, 124, 143, 145,
149, 169, 173, 175, 178 ii., 190, 260, 262,
263, 264, 265, 299, 312, 315, 342.
Langford, John Alfred, 120, 225, 241 ii., 338.
Larcom, Lucy, 311.

Lea, Kennett, 168.

Lee-Hamilton, Eugene, 297 ii.

Leigh, Henry S., 91, 108, 110, 111, 128, 133, 160,
195, 213 ii., 162 ii., 221, 225.

L. E. L., see Landon, Letitia Elizabeth.
Locker, Frederick, 110, 139, 143 ii., 151, 158,
162, 195, 200, 207, 224, 234, 245, 267, 335,
351, 364.

Lockhart, John Gibson, 202.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 61, 127, 195, 197,
245, 288, 307, 318, 328, 330, 342, 350, 352,
354, 359, 374.

"Love Sonnets of Proteus," 95, 148, 167.

Lovelace, Richard, 99, 147.

Lover, Samuel, 3, 132, 134, 175, 180, 191.
Lowell, James Russell, 29 ii., 177, 251, 275, 299,
335, 345, 361.

Luther, Martin, 76, 81 ii.

Lynch, Anne, 366.

"Lyra Germanica," 76, 79.

Lytton, Edward, Lord, 148.

Lytton, Robert, Lord, see Meredith, Owen.

Macaulay, Lord, 42, 102, 296.

McCarthy, Denis Florence, 20, 142.

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