ousehold

riends

FOR EVERY SEASON

James T. Fields

"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

BOSTON:

JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co.

1871.
EK

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,
CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

ALFRED TENNYSON: The Hesperides

THOMAS HUGHES: The Ashen Fagot

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: Contentment

ANNA THACKERAY: Little Scholars

A. WEST: Andante .

1

6

47

50

68

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

JOHN G. WHITTIER: Raphael

W. M. THACKERAY: Tunbridge Toys

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: To the Moon

LORD JEFFREY: Character of Watt

27 x 281

MRS. H. B. STOWE: When I awake, I am still with thee 227

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