Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes

He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise
Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

-KEATS: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.

(b) "Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine
With all-triumphant splendor on my brow;
But, out, alack! he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun
staineth." SHAKSPERE: Sonnet 33.

The composition of a good sonnet is not an easy matter, and the attempt should perhaps be, as a rule, reserved for years of greater maturity than those of high school study. The ambitious pupil or the ambitious class should, however, be encouraged to make the attempt. That success is not beyond the reach of one or several is shown by a pleasing little volume of Lyrical Essays, composed by a group of students in the Hyde Park High School

of Chicago, from which the following sonnet is taken :

"The cows come loitering through the lane,

And from the branches round about is heard,
Bidding the last good night, the chirp of bird,
As sunset glories round the farm-house wane.
Then, when the last rays sink into the west,
Homeward with joy the laborer bends his way,
Where peace awaits him till another day
Shall break. All nature softly sinks to rest.
And as the evening thus doth gather round

Within the cherished folds of her embrace
The struggling world, all torn by storm and strife,
So doth my soul at close of day feel bound
By tender power unseen, and gains a grace
To bear the toils that lead to higher life."

60. French Forms of Verse. If time allows, the class desires the pleasure, and more weighty matters of English instruction are not too pressing, a few entertaining days may be spent in the study of several of the old French forms of verse which have recently been naturalized, as it were, in English — the ballade, the rondeau, the triolet, etc. They are somewhat mechanical forms, intricate in their structure, having for the composer the attraction of a puzzle to be solved, but, at their best, full of the charm of cleverness, delicacy of feeling, and the ingenuity of art. Models will be found in the poems

of Mr. Austin Dobson and Mr. Edmund Gosse, and detailed rules of construction in The Rhymester (Appleton & Co.).

Harris, Uncle Remus, 74.

Kipling, Jungle Book, 57; The Tomb
of his Ancestors, 63, 64.

Longfellow, H. W., Letter to his
Father, 38.

Longfellow, S., Life of H. W. Long-
fellow, 48.

Library of the World's Best Litera-
ture, 88, 102.

Matthews, Outlines in Local Color,
56.

Norton, Notes of Travel and Study
in Italy, 50.

Outlook, The, 104, 105.

Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher,

77.

Robertson, F. W., Lectures, 80.

Scott, Ivanhoe, 76; 134.
Shakspere, Macbeth, 21, 23; 137.

Harte, Bret, Snow-bound at Eagle's, Spenser, Faerie Queene, 133.

73.
Hawthorne, Letter to Longfellow, 37.
Herrick, The Gospel of Freedom, 63.
Higginson, Young Folks' History of
the United States, 79.

Steevens, In India, 60.

Stevenson, Across the Plains, 59:
Treasure Island, 65.

Tennyson, The Princess, 131; In
Memoriam, 134.

Homer, The Iliad, translated by Times, The London, Correspondent

Lang, Leaf, and Myers, 19.

Irving, The Conquest of Granada,
47; Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 55,
56.

Keats, 137.

Kingsley, The Water-Babies, 64.

of, 46.

Twain, Mark, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, 56.

Whitman, 124.
Whittier, 133.
Wordsworth, 135.

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