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# The Poems of Oscar Wilde

THE POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE
THE POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE
Authorized Edition
TORONTO THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY Limited
| First Published— |
| Ravenna | 1878 |
| Poems | 1881 |
| The Sphinx | 1894 |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol | 1898 |
| First Issued by Methuen and Co. | 1908 |
PAN and DESESPOIR Copyright, 1909, By L. E. Bassett
Reform Club, Pall Mall, S. W., 11th February, 1909.
Dear Sirs:
I am gratified to learn from Messrs. Methuen & Co. that they have arranged with you to bring out the authorised edition of Oscar Wilde's Works. It has been a matter of great distress to me that owing to traditional English carelessness the copyrights of some of Wilde's works should be vitiated in the United States of America, and that Wilde's children are unable to benefit by the sale of the unauthorised editions.
In this version which you are issuing the case is happily different and I cannot do more than express a hope that the American admirers of Oscar Wilde will show their admiration in a practical way by obtaining his works from yourselves in preference to any other publisher.
Since the English complete edition was issued I have discovered two other little poems in the possession of a friend: both of which are unpublished. I have much pleasure in sending them to you, as you may be able to incorporate them in your forthcoming volume of the poems, of which they will thus form a unique feature.
I trust that the American laws relating to copyright will enable you to protect the fledgings from being plucked by the publishers of unauthorized editions.
Believe me, Dear Sirs, Yours very truly, Robert Ross.
Messrs. John Luce & Co., 143 Federal Street, Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
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# The New Student's Reference Work/Greenwich

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​Green′wich (grĕn′ĭj), a city of Kent, England, and a suburb of London, is situated on the south side of the Thames, about five miles from London Bridge. It is chiefly notable for its public buildings, first among them being Greenwich Hospital, for the maintenance of British sailors. It consists of four parts, built successively by King Charles, King William, Queen Mary and Queen Anne. Its first pensioners were received in 1705, and in 1814 they numbered 2,710. Among other institutions Greenwich has a naval museum, the Royal Hospital School, established in 1712, and the Royal observatory built by Charles II in 1675. Greenwich is the place from which geographers reckon longitude. It has a population of 185,149. See The Palace and the Hospital by A. G. L'Estrange.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Gregory

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​Greg′ory, the name of 16 popes.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Gregory I

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​Greg′ory I, Gregory the Great, was born at Rome about 540 A. D. He was at an early age made prætor of Rome by Emperor Justin II of Constantinople, but resigned this office and withdrew to one of the seven monasteries he had founded. “He lavished on the poor all his costly robes, his silk, his gold, his jewels, his furniture, and, not even assuming to himself the abbacy of his convent, but beginning with the lowest monastic duties, he devoted himself altogether to God.” It was while here that he one day saw some fair-haired Anglo-Saxon youths in the slave-market. When he was told they were Angles, he said: “Not Angles, but angels,” and was seized with a longing to Christianize their country. He set out, but was asked to return by Pope Benedict on account of the clamor over his departure. Pelagius II, Benedict's successor, sent Gregory to Constantinople as papal nuncio. He remained there for three years, writing his Moralia, and on his return to Rome was unanimously elected to succeed Pelagius, who had died of the plague. He was consecrated pope on Sept. 3, 590, and began an immediate reform in the organization and ritual of the Roman church, which is indebted to him for her complete ritual and chants. He also brought Britain and Spain within the pale of Christianity. He died on March 12, 604. See the Rev. J. Barmby's Fathers for English Readers.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Guadalajara

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​Guadalajara (gwä′thȧ-lȧ-hä′rȧ), capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, is the third city of the republic and lies in the valley of the Rio Grande de Santiago, 280 miles by rail from the city of Mexico. The city is beautifully laid out, has some fine public buildings, and is the chief seat of the cotton and woolen manufactures of the country as well as of pottery and metal wares. Population 118,799.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Guadalquivir

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​Guadalquivir (ga̤′dȧl-kwĭv′ẽr), meaning the great river, the largest river of Spain and the only one that all the year round has a full stream. It rises in the Sierra de Cazorla, flows 374 miles in a southwesterly direction, and empties into the Gulf of Cadiz. It is a slow, sluggish stream, only breaking into rapids near the Sierra Morena. It is navigable as far as Seville, 80 miles from its mouth.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Guadeloupe

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​Guadeloupe (ga̤′dȧ-lo͞op′), an island, one of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies and the most important of those belonging to France. It is about 77 miles northwest of Martinique. It covers 494 square miles, and is divided into Grand-Terre on the east and Basse-Terre on the west by a strait called Salt River. Grand-Terre is a coral island. Earthquakes are frequent, and in the towns the houses are now built of wood or iron. Sugar and coffee are exported. The colony has a French governor. The island was discovered by Columbus in 1493, and colonized by the French in 1635. The area of the two islands is 583 square miles, with an estimated population of 182,000, including about 15,000 coolies. The chief town is Point-à-Pitre ​(population 18,000), with a fine harbor. The seat of government is Basse-Terre (population 8,000). The chief products consist of sugar, coffee, cacao, bananas, manioc, sweet potatoes, Indian corn and tobacco.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Guam

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​Guam (gwäm), the largest of the Ladrone or Marianne Islands in the north Pacific, ceded by Spain to the United States by the treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. The island is about 32 miles in length by 6 in width, and lies 1,500 miles from Manila and 4,000 from Honolulu. It is useful as a coaling station, possesses a good roadstead and about 12,000 of a population. It is a direct link in the chain of possessions between the United States (port of San Francisco) and the Philippine Islands. The climate is humid but salubrious, and the heat is tempered by the trade-winds. The capital is Agaña (pop. 6,000).
# The New Student's Reference Work/Greenway, Thomas

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​Green′way, Thomas, was born in Cornwall, England, in 1838. Settled when young in Huron County, Ontario; and was elected to the House of Commons, Ottawa, in 1875. Going to Manitoba in 1878, he was elected to the legislature in 1879, became Premier in 1888, and again was elected to the House of Commons in 1904.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Growth

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​Growth (in plants), permanent alteration of form, usually accompanied by increase in size, the latter being the only popular criterion of growth. In plants growth exhibits three features at different times. In the earlier phase the formation of new cells by division is characteristic. This is followed by the rapid enlargement of the cells. In doing this, the cells do not form a corresponding amount of new protoplasm, but take up large quantities of water, which is secreted into the center of the cell. The volume may thus be increased a thousandfold or more. In this feature the growth of plants differs most from that of animals. After enlargement has ceased, thickening (usually irregular) of the walls and sometimes the death and disappearance of the protoplasm ensue. The phase of enlargement is the only easily measurable phase of growth. It is studied by records or observations with the auxanometer (which see). Growth is dependent on a suitable supply of oxygen, food and water. It is greatly influenced in rate and amount by external agents, as heat, gravitation, light, etc. Because the heat and light vary periodically, corresponding to day and night, the rate of growth shows a daily variation, being usually most rapid during the night. Besides variations due to external causes, growth shows variations which are unexplained, but are supposed to be due to internal causes. Even when all the conditions affecting growth are uniform, its rate is at first slow, becoming more and more rapid till it reaches a maximum, after which it declines even more rapidly, until it ceases entirely. The duration of growth of any part is called the grand period to distinguish it from the daily period just mentioned. During both daily and grand periods, there also are minor variations in rate. The cause of the cessation of growth, even under favorable conditions, is not known.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Greenwich Observatory

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​Greenwich Observatory, situated in a 190-acre park in Greenwich, England, was built in 1675 for the advancement of navigation and nautical astronomy. From this observatory the exact time is telegraphed every day at one o'clock to over six hundred towns in England. It is one of the foremost observatories of the world as well as one of the oldest.
# The North American Review/Volume 1/Uncommon instance of short sight

TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,
There is now living in Gardiner, on Kennebeck River, a gentleman about 81 years old, whose vision exhibits the following curious phenomena.—Until he had passed his 79th year, his eyes had gradually undergone the change common to persons of an advanced age,—requiring the objects of vision to be carried more and more distant as life progressed. About two years since, his sight grew obscure, in respect to objects at a distance, and required them to be brought nearer his eyes, until at the present time, he can read but with difficulty, and only with the letters within 3 or 4 inches of them. At the distance of 15 or 20 feet, he is unable to distinguish his most intimate acquaintances. Yet at the distance of 50 or 60 rods, he sees with tolerable accuracy, so as to tell a man from a woman, or a horse from an ox, as correctly as most persons.
I have not been able to discover, that there was any intervention of more distinct vision, between that which was too remote and that which approached too near the eye. A severe attack of fever, which happened a year ago, appeared to hasten the change very considerably.
His other faculties, except a slight deafness of long standing, are more than usually perfect, for his time of life. His muscular strength and activity are such as to enable him to walk 4 or 5 miles from home, and return the same day.
# The North American Review/Volume 1/Titular Rewards

TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,
It has been the policy of all nations to encourage their citizens, to the performance of great actions, by some species of honourable distinction. The nature of these has varied with the genius of their governments. In modern Europe, whose institutions are principally monarchical, titles of different degrees, chiefly hereditary, are the most common mode of rewarding brilliant or useful services, and one the main supports of this form of government. The nations of antiquity whose institutions were less complicated, the Romans for instance, rewarded illustrious citizens with titles which were only an additional name, and were not hereditary. Names thus given accord strictly with the spirit of republicks. The lovers of economy will not object to making use of this portion of the “cheap defence” of nations: and more generous and enlarged minds would gladly decree to a statesman, or hero, a surname, which would only be a glorious distinction to him, and not being hereditary as in monarchies, would not make his descendants burthensome to the publick. Such a name should be given only by a unanimous or nearly unanimous vote of both houses of Congress. Thus, for example, Perry Erie, Mc Donough Champlain, Jackson Louisiana.
Cambridge.
# The North American Review/Volume 1/Tythingmen

TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,
It would much oblige one of your subscribers, if some of your correspondents would state in your journal, the principal features, and the present practice of the laws respecting Tythingmen, in the different states of the Union, where such laws exist. At present, from the best information I have been able to obtain, they seem to be only partially carried into effect in particular districts. I have heard of some curious cases of oppression by these “Familiars.” It seems most extraordinary, that this most odious branch of police should exist in a few towns only. Is the right to stop travellers on the high-way of the state vested in each particular town? or is this a general law, under which separate towns may act as they choose. Many reasons may be given why the publick attention should be called to these laws; either to remedy partial oppression, or in equity and policy, to propose a system of common restraint. If the majority are of opinion, that force can serve the purposes of religion, that men will be more constant and devout in their attendance on publick worship from being compelled, let these regulations be universally enforced, and doubtless some useful additions might be made from a celebrated code now obsolete. The King of Spain has restored the Inquisition, and it is not for us to say he has not done wisely. There is a restless spirit in man never to be contented. The Sunday, in no part of the world, is at this moment so rationally, devoutly, and decorously observed, as it is in a greater part of the eastern, and in many districts of the middle states. Those who are still desirous of greater perfection, without regarding the propensities of human nature, would do well to recollect a celebrated Italian epitaph on a man who took physic in health: Stavo bene, ma per star meglior, sto qui. I was well, but to be better, I am here. C. G.
# The North American Review/Volume 145

* Number 368 (July, 1887)
* Number 369 (August, 1887)
* Number 370 (September, 1887)
* Number 371 (October, 1887)
* Number 372 (November, 1887)
* Number 373 (December, 1887)
(Index of scaned pages)
NORTH AMERICAN
REVIEW.
EDITED BY ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE.
VOL. CXLV.
Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.
NEW YORK: No 3 EAST FOURTEENTH STREET. 1887.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The North American Review/Volume 1/Western Antiquities

TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,
I wish to propose an undertaking to the publick, which I hope some of our learned societies or liberal individuals may be disposed to prosecute. This is to explore those ancient entrenchments that are found in the western states, more effectually than has yet been done. All the speculations upon them, that I have seen, are founded on an examination of their superficial state. I have never heard of any attempt to search below the surface. It is very probable, if a trench five or six feet in depth were dug across them in different directions, or if some of the mounds near them were opened, that some remnants of tools, of warlike or domestick instruments, fragments of earthen vessels, &c. &c. might be discovered, that would at once decide the problem, by whom they were constructed. It is impossible that the people who are able to construct such extensive works, should not have possessed a variety of tools, and utensils of various descriptions; and it is extremely probable that fragments at least of these might be found if a civilized people had any thing to do with them, coins might perhaps be discovered. The expense of a very thorough investigation would be trifling. Five or six labourers skilfully directed for a week, would at least be sufficient to shew whether any light could be thrown on the origin of these antiquities, by making excavations. Perhaps the Antiquarian Society recently established here, may think this proposal worth their attention; or that the Historical Society would add to the valuable services they have rendered to the publick, by directing an effort of this nature to be made.
Boston, A. B.
# The Poor Relation

First published in the periodical The Outlook.
* "The Poor Relation", in The Man Against the Sky; a Book of Poems (1916)
* "The Poor Relation", in Collected Poems (1921)
# The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man

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"HOPE LESLIE," "THE LINWOODS," &c.
[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by
Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.]
CHAPTER I :
| School-Days | 9 |
| CHAPTER II ||
| "Uncle Phil" | 18 |
| CHAPTER III ||
| A Friend in Need | 24 |
| CHAPTER IV ||
| A Poor Man's Journey | 33 |
| CHAPTER V ||
| Charlotte's Return | 37 |
| CHAPTER VI ||
| Showers and Sunshine | 53 |
| CHAPTER VII ||
| Love-Letters | 62 |
| CHAPTER VIII ||
| A Peep into the Poor Rich Man's House | 75 |
| CHAPTER IX ||
| A Peep into the Rich Poor Man's House | 81 |
| CHAPTER X ||
| The Rich Poor Man's Charities | 88 ​ |
| CHAPTER XI ||
| An Orphan Girl | Page 95 |
| CHAPTER XII ||
| "Society" at the Poor Man's Home | 104 |
| CHAPTER XIII ||
| "Society" at the Rich Man's Home | 118 |
| CHAPTER XIV ||
| An Old Acquaintance not "Forgot" | 125 |
| CHAPTER XV ||
| The Rich Man's Charities | 137 |
| CHAPTER XVI ||
| Another Rich Merchant's House | 144 |
| CHAPTER XVII ||
| A Cure for the Heartache | 148 |
| CHAPTER XVIII ||
| Light in a Dark Place | 159 |
| CHAPTER XIX ||
| A Death-Bed | 165 |
| CHAPTER XX ||
| The Conclusion | 172 |
| NOTE ||
| Note | 180 |
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# The Oak and the Broom

* "The Oak and the Broom" in Lyrical Ballads Volume II (1800)
* "The Oak and the Broom" in Poems Volume I (1815)
# The Oak and the Reeds

Perry index 70
* "Of the Tree and the Reed", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
* "An Oak and a Willow", translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
* "The Oak and the Reeds", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
* "The Tree and the Reed", translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop (1894)
* "The Oak and the Reeds", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
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# The Practice of the Presence of God/Twelfth Letter

TWELFTH LETTER
If we were well accustomed to the exercise of the presence of God, all bodily diseases would be much alleviated thereby. God often permits that we should suffer a little to purify our souls and oblige us to continue with Him.
Take courage; offer Him your pains incessantly; pray to Him for strength to endure them. Above all, get a habit of entertaining yourself often with God, and forget Him the least you can. Adore Him in your infirmities, offer yourself to Him from time to time, and in the height of your sufferings beseech Him humbly and affectionately (as a child his father) to make you conformable to His holy will. I shall endeavor to assist you with my poor prayers.
God has many ways of drawing us to Himself. He ​sometimes hides Himself from us; but faith alone, which will not fail us in time of need, ought to be our support, and the foundation of our confidence, which must be all in God.
I know not how God will dispose of me. I am always happy. All the world suffer; and I, who deserve the severest discipline, feel joys so continual and so great that I can scarce contain them.
I would willingly ask of God a part of your sufferings, but that I know my weakness, which is so great that if He left me one moment to myself I should be the most wretched man alive. And yet I know not how He can leave me alone, because faith gives me as strong a conviction as sense can do that He never forsakes us until we have first forsaken Him. Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence. Do you pray for me as I for you.
I am,
Yours, etc.
# The Prairie

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is an epic novel of James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier.
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From the 1907 reprint, with an introduction by Ernest Rhys
* Introduction
* Author's Introduction
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
* Chapter XVIII
* Chapter XIX
* Chapter XX
* Chapter XXI
* Chapter XXII
* Chapter XXIII
* Chapter XXIV
* Chapter XXV
* Chapter XXVI
* Chapter XXVII
* Chapter XXVIII
* Chapter XXIX
* Chapter XXX
* Chapter XXXI
* Chapter XXXII
* Chapter XXXIII
* Chapter XXXIV
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