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WERNER, CARL (1873). Born at Stittville, New York. He was educated at the public schools and at seventeen entered the newspaper business in Watertown, New York, going later to New York City. He has written a number of poems about children and articles about boys. He is the author of Bringing Up the Boy and The Land of Let's Pretend. He was one of the contributing editors to the Standard Dictionary. In 1900, he married Mary Wilson Norris, of Ogdensburg, New York. His home is in Brooklyn.

(1807-1892).

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF Born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, coming of Quaker stock. His youth was passed on a farm; later he became interested in journalism. He was active in local politics, being a strong champion of the anti-slavery cause. In 1836 he began to publish his poems, many volumes appearing in the following years.

Edmund Gosse, the English critic, said of Whittier: "He is filled with moral enthusiasm as a trumpet is filled with the breath of him who blows it. His Quaker quietism concentrates itself until it breaks into a real passion storm of humanity, and when Whittier is roused he sings with the thrilling sweetness of a woodthrush."

WITHER, GEORGE (1588-1667). Born at Bentworth, Hants, England. Entered Oxford, but left it after three years, and studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London. In the Civil War he served as a major-general on the Parliamentary side. His writings are many, consisting for the greater part of poems and political tracts.

WOLFE, CHARLES (1791-1823). Born in Dublin, Ireland. Educated at Dublin University. He became an Anglican clergyman. He suffered from ill-health during his last years, and died at the age of thirty-two. His most famous poem is The Burial of Sir John Moore, which gave title to his only volume of verse.

WOODWORTH, SAMUEL (1785-1842). Born at Scituate, Massachusetts. He received a scant education in the miserable common schools of the day and region, but some juvenile verses that he wrote attracted the attention of the village clergyman, who taught him the classics. In 1823 he and George P. Morris founded the New York Mirror. He wrote operatic pieces and a number of popular songs, of which "The Old Oaken Bucket" is by far the best.

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850). Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Educated at Cambridge. He travelled abroad and then returned to live with his sister. They resided in various parts of England, finally settling at Grasmere, among the Cumberland lakes. Wordsworth was the centre of a group of poets, including Coleridge and Southey, and called the "Lake Poets." Wordsworth succeeded Southey as Poet Laureate. With the exception of a few books descriptive of natural scenery, Wordsworth's works are poetical.

By some of the greatest minds of the age Wordsworth is revered as the greatest English poet since Shakespeare and Milton. John Burroughs, the naturalist, gives the following reason for this worship: "He stands for a particular phase of human thought and

experience and his service to certain minds is like an initiation into a new order of mysteries. He is not, and can never be, the world's poet, but the poet of those who love solitude and solitary communion with nature."

INDEX OF TITLES

Abou Ben Adhem.

Altruism..

America..

American Flag, The.

Angels of Buena Vista, The..
Angry Anarchist, An..
Annie Laurie..
Antony and Cleopatra
Are the Children at Home?.
Arrow and the Song, The..
Auld Lang Syne...

Barefoot Boy, The..
Baron's Last Banquet, The..
Battle-Hymn of the Republic.
Beautiful Gate, The... . .
Before the Beginning of Years.
Bells, The....

Bingen on the Rhine.

Bivouac of the Dead, The.
Blue and Gray...

Blue and the Gray, The.
Boys, The..

Boys That Run the Furrow, The.

Break, Break, Break..

Breathes There the Man.

Bridge of Sighs, The.

Bugle, The..

Burial of Sir John Moore.

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Buried Treasure..

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Calf-Path, The.....

Charge of the Light Brigade, The..

Children's Hour, The.
Christmas at Sea.

Come, Rest in This Bosom.

Congressman Jones..

Court Lady, A..

.S. W. Foss 122

.A. Tennyson 315

.H. W. Longfellow 201

.R. L. Stevenson 306

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Crossing the Bar.

Death of the Flowers, The....

Departed Friend, The.

Dirge for a Soldier..

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Diverting History of John Gilpin, The... W. Cowper
Doorstep, The................

E. C. Stedman 304

Do Ye Think of the Days That Are Gone?.. Anon. 379

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