ousehold riends FOR EVERY SEASON "The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!" Longfellow Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS. ALFRED TENNYSON: The Hesperides THOMAS HUGHES: The Ashen Fagot OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: Contentment ANNA THACKERAY: Little Scholars CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: Goblin Market THEODORE WINTHROP: Love and Skates . D. G. ROSSETTI: The Blessed Damozel JEAN PAUL: The Happy Life of a Parish Priest GEORGE MACDONALD: The Golden Key W. M. THACKERAY: Tunbridge Toys LEIGH HUNT: Love-Letters made of Flowers THOMAS FULLER: The Virtuous Lady. CHARLES DICKENS: Carlavero's Bottle MRS. H. B. STOWE: When I awake, I am still with thee 227 ADELAIDE A. PROCTER: Links with Heaven HENRY D. THOREAU: Winter Animals in the Woods SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Thoughts from the Arcadia THE HESPERIDES.* BY ALFRED TENNYSON. "Hesperus and his daughters three, HE North-wind fallen, in the new-starrèd night TH Past Thymiaterion, in calmèd bays, Blown seaward from the shore; but from a slope SONG. I. The golden apple, the golden apple, the hallowed fruit, The Laureate of England (whose latest portrait fronts our title-page) has seen fit to ignore many of his earlier productions, some of which he thought well enough of once. The one entitled "Hesperides" is too gen. |