he author and of the reader, that
one has to feel its power rather than to work it out logically. Poetry
passes beyond prose in that it quickens life by moving us to feel its
nobler emotions. It will teach its own lesson to the appreciative
reader, and the student who gets fully into sympathy with a great poem
will have his whole life made brighter. Class work, done
sympathetically and sincerely, will aid in finding the truest
interpretations. Yet studies teach not their own use. The higher
blessings come to us unbidden if we as little children hope for them.
We shall find the highest uses of poetry in remembering always that it
may at its best come to us as an

"Angel of light
Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night."

[Signature: Francis Hovey Stoddard]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY:
"THE STUDY OF POETRY."
By _Francis Hovey Stoddard_

POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT:
PATRIOTISM
FREEDOM
WAR
PEACE

INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
_Photogravure from a life-photograph by Notman, Boston_.

QUEEN ELIZABETH KNIGHTING FRANCIS DRAKE
"When our Drake has the luck to make their pride duck.
And stoop to the lads of the Island!"

_From engraving after the drawing by Sir John Gilbert, R.A_.

WILLIAM WATSON
_After a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London_.

SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH
_After a life-photograph by Notman, Boston_.

THOMAS CAMPBELL
_From an engraving after the portrait by James Lonsdale._

WILLIAM COWPER
_From an engraving_.

THE AUTHOR'S FIRST SINGING OF THE MARSEILLAISE
"To arms! to arms! ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe."

_From a photogravure after the painting by J.A.A. Pils_.

A CAVALRY CHARGE
"My darling! ah, the glass is out!
The bullets ring, the riders shout--
No time for wine or sighing!
There! bring my love the shattered glass--
Charge! On the foe! No joys surpass
Such dying!"

_From photogravure by Goupil, after a painting
by Edouard Detaille_.

NATHAN HALE
"'Neath the blue morn, the sunny morn,
He dies upon the tree,
And he mourns that he can lose
But one life for liberty."

_From photograph of the Statue by Frederick
Macmonnies, in New York City Hall Park_.

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
_After a p