Gifts Of Genius:, by American Authors..

About this eBook

Title

Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors

Credits

Produced by Curtis Weyant, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by the Wright American Fiction Project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Gift books

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17872

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17872

Release Date

February 27, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GIFTS OF GENIUS: — A Miscellany — OF
2. 2.PROSE AND POETRY, — BY
3. 3.AMERICAN AUTHORS. — NEW YORK: PRINTED FOR C.A. DAVENPORT.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.TO THE PUBLIC.
6. 6.INTRODUCTORY.
7. 7.GIFTS OF GENIUS.
8. 8.OUT AT ELBOWS. — THE STORY OF ST. GEORGE CLEAVE. — BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE, OF VIRGINIA. — I. — II — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII.
9. 9.MY SECRET. — (FROM THE FRENCH.) — BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
10. 10.A LEAF — FROM MY PARIS NOTE-BOOK. — BY H.T. TUCKERMAN.
11. 11.THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS. — BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
12. 12.ON POPULAR KNOWLEDGE. — BY GEORGE S. HILLARD. — ON RECEIVING A
13. 13.PRIVATELY PRINTED VOLUME OF POEMS — FROM A FRIEND. — BY THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.
14. 14.THE PRINCE AT LAND'S END. — BY CAROLINE CHESEBRO.
15. 15.SEA-WEED. — BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
16. 16.TREFOIL. — BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK. — SIN. — THE PEARL.
17. 17.MISERERE DOMINE. — BY WILLIAM H. BURLEIGH. — THE
18. 18.KINGDOMS OF NATURE PRAISING GOD: — A SHORT ESSAY ON THE 148TH PSALM. — BY REV. C.A. BARTOL.
19. 19.TRANSLATIONS. — BY THE REV. CHARLES T. BROOKS — I. — TO GOD'S CARE I COMMIT MYSELF! — (FROM THE GERMAN OF ARNDT.) — II. — THE UNKNOWN. — (FROM THE GERMAN OF AUERSPERG.)
20. 20.RECOLLECTIONS OF NEANDER, — THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. — BY THE REV. ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK, D.D.
21. 21.POEMS. — BY JULIA WARD HOWE. — I. — THE BEE'S SONG — II. — LIMITATIONS OF BENEVOLENCE.
22. 22.EARTH'S WITNESS. — BY ALICE B. HAVEN.
23. 23.THE NEW ENGLAND THANKSGIVING. — BY THE REV. HENRY W. BELLOWS, D.D.
24. 24.SONG OF THE ARCHANGELS — BY GEORGE P. MARSH. — RAPHAEL. — Gabriel . — Michael. — Trio.
25. 25.A NIGHT AND DAY AT VALPARAISO. — BY ROBERT TOMES.
26. 26.TRANSLATIONS. — BY THE REV. THEODORE PARKER. — I. — TWO LOVERS. — II. — THE FISHER-MAIDEN. — III. — MY CHILD WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN.
27. 27.PAID FOR BY THE PAGE. — BY EDWARD S. GOULD.
28. 28.WORDS FOR MUSIC. — BY GEORGE P. MORRIS. — I. — II. — III.
29. 29."THE CHRISTIAN GREATNESS." — BY THE REV. ORVILLE DEWEY, D.D. — THE OFFERING OF CONTRITION. — VIRTUE IN OBSCURITY.
30. 30.THE BABY AND THE BOY MUSICIAN. — BY LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY.
31. 31.THE ERL-KING. — BY MRS. E.F. ELLET.
32. 32.THOUGHTS UPON FENELON. — BY THE REV. SAMUEL OSGOOD, D.D.
33. 33.POEMS. — BY MRS. GEORGE P. MARSH. — I. — EXCELSIOR. — II. — FABLE.
34. 34.A STORY OF VENICE. — BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI.
35. 35.THE TORTURE CHAMBER. — BY WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER.
36. 36.THE HOME OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË. — A PASSAGE FROM A DIARY. — BY W. FRANCIS WILLIAMS.
37. 37.THORWALDSEN'S CHRIST. — BY THE REV. E.A. WASHBURN.
38. 38.JUNE TWENTY-NINTH, EIGHTEEN FIFTY-NINE. — BY CAROLINE M. KIRKLAND.
39. 39.NO SONGS IN WINTER. — BY T. B. ALDRICH.
40. 40.THE BENI-ISRAEL. — BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
41. 41.BOCAGE'S PENITENTIAL SONNET. — BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.