AT THE CHURCH GATE. BY W. M. THACKERAY. William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta in 1811. He was brought up in England, where he went to Charterhouse school and later to Trinity college, Cambridge. He left college after one year's study and went to Paris, where he studied with the hope of becoming an artist. His first contributions in the way of writing were to Frazer's Magazine, and among them were his famous "Yellowplush Papers." He wrote other satires and humorous ballads for Punch. Thackeray was the first editor of the Cornhill Magazine, which is still in publication. He died in London in 1863. TO THE CUCKOO. BY JOHN LOGAN. John Logan was born in Scotland in 1748. He wrote lyric poems and published his poems in collaboration with Michael Bruce in 1770. This double volume of poems led probably to the confusion of the authorship of the "Ode to the Cockoo." The question is still debated, but the poem is generally attributed to Logan. He died in 1788 at London. HER MORAL. BY THOMAS HOOD. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, To the very verge of the churchyard Price of many a crime untold. SERENADE. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Stars of the summer night! Hide, hide your golden light! Sleeps!. Moon of the summer night! Far down yon western steeps, Sink, sink in silver light! My lady sleeps! Sleeps! Wind of the summer night! Where yonder woodbine creeps, Fold, fold thy pinions light! She sleeps! My lady sleeps! Sleeps! Dreams of the summer night! Tell her, her lover keeps Watch, while in slumbers light She sleeps! My lady sleeps! Sleeps! |