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by Lydia Maria Child

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Editor
Lydia Maria Child
Title
Looking toward sunset
Original Publication
United States: Houghton, Mifflin and ompany, 1881
Credits
Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
Subject
Old age
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 69503
Release Date
December 9, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Looking toward Sunset. FROM SOURCES OLD, NEW, ORIGINAL, AND SELECTED.
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.PREFACE.
  6. 6.CONTENTS.
  7. 7.THE FRIENDS. By L. M. CHILD.
  8. 8.THE GOOD OLD GRANDMOTHER, WHO DIED AGED EIGHTY.
  9. 9.THE CONSOLATIONS OF AGE. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF ZSCHOKKE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
  10. 10.THE OLD MAN DREAMS. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
  11. 11.A RUSSIAN LADY OF THE OLD SCHOOL. A
  12. 12.THE OLD MAN’S SONG. TO HIS WIFE.
  13. 13.THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF MARCH. THE BIRTHDAY OF ——.
  14. 14.A CHRISTMAS STORY FOR GRANDFATHER. By CHARLES DICKENS.
  15. 15.JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO. By ROBERT BURNS.
  16. 16.OLD FOLKS AT HOME.
  17. 17.EVERLASTING YOUTH. By Rev. EDMUND H. SEARS. D
  18. 18.LIFE.
  19. 19.THE MYSTERIOUS PILGRIMAGE. By L. MARIA CHILD.
  20. 20.THE HAPPIEST TIME. By ELIZA COOK.
  21. 21.ODE OF ANACREON. TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.
  22. 22.CICERO’S ESSAY ON OLD AGE.
  23. 23.THE FOUNTAIN. By WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
  24. 24.A POET’S BLESSING. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND.
  25. 25.BERNARD PALISSY E
  26. 26.OLD AGE COMING.
  27. 27.UNMARRIED WOMEN. By L. MARIA CHILD.
  28. 28.THE OLD MAID’S PRAYER TO DIANA.
  29. 29.GRANDFATHER’S REVERIE. By THEODORE PARKER.
  30. 30.THE HOUSE IN THE MEADOW. By LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.
  31. 31.A STORY OF ST. MARK’S EVE. By THOMAS HOOD.
  32. 32.WHAT THE OLD WOMAN SAID.
  33. 33.THE SPRING JOURNEY.
  34. 34.MORAL HINTS. By L. MARIA CHILD.
  35. 35.THE BOYS. WRITTEN FOR A MEETING OF COLLEGE CLASSMATES. By OLIVER W. HOLMES.
  36. 36.ODE OF ANACREON. TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.
  37. 37.MYSTERIOUSNESS OF LIFE. FROM MOUNTFORD’S EUTHANASY.
  38. 38.EXTRACTS FROM THE GRANDMOTHER’S APOLOGY. By ALFRED TENNYSON.
  39. 39.THE ANCIENT MAN.
  40. 40.MILTON’S HYMN OF PATIENCE. By ELIZABETH LLOYD HOWELL.
  41. 41.LETTER FROM AN OLD WOMAN, ON HER BIRTHDAY. By L. MARIA CHILD.
  42. 42.BRIGHT DAYS IN WINTER. By J. G. WHITTIER.
  43. 43.THE CANARY BIRD.
  44. 44.OLD BACHELORS. By L. MARIA CHILD.
  45. 45.TAKING IT EASY. By GEORGE H. CLARK.
  46. 46.OLD AUNTY.
  47. 47.RICHARD AND KATE. A SUFFOLK BALLAD.
  48. 48.LUDOVICO CORNARO. DERIVED FROM THE WRITINGS OF CORNARO.
  49. 49.ROBIN AND JEANNIE. By DORA GREENWELL.
  50. 50.A GOOD OLD AGE. FROM MOUNTFORD’S EUTHANASY.
  51. 51.MY PSALM. By JOHN G. WHITTIER.
  52. 52.JOHN HENRY VON DANNECKER. DERIVED FROM MRS. JAMESON’S SKETCHES, LONGFELLOW’S HYPERION, AND FROM VARIOUS EUROPEAN LETTERS.
  53. 53.THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES. By WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
  54. 54.DR. DODDRIDGE’S DREAM.
  55. 55.THE OLD PSALM-TUNE. By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
  56. 56.THE LOST BOOKS OF LIVY.
  57. 57.TO ONE WHO WISHED ME SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. By ALICE CARY. — THE SILVERY HEAD.
  58. 58.GROWING OLD. I ADDRESSED TO UNMARRIED WOMEN.
  59. 59.EQUINOCTIAL. By MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY.
  60. 60.EPITAPH ON THE UNMATED.
  61. 61.A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT. J
  62. 62.AT ANCHOR. K
  63. 63.NOVEMBER. By REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
  64. 64.MEDITATIONS ON A BIRTHDAY EVE. By REV. JOHN PIERPONT.
  65. 65.THE GRANDMOTHER OF SLAVES. BY HER GRANDDAUGHTER.
  66. 66.AULD LANG SYNE. By ROBERT BURNS.
  67. 67.OLD FOLKS AT HOME.
  68. 68.OLD UNCLE TOMMY FROM THE CHRISTIAN REGISTER.
  69. 69.SITTING IN THE SUN.
  70. 70.AUNT KINDLY. By THEODORE PARKER
  71. 71.CROSSING OVER. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND.
  72. 72.A LOVE AFFAIR AT CRANFORD. By MRS. GASKELL.
  73. 73.TO MY WIFE. ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF OUR WEDDING.
  74. 74.THE EVERGREEN OF OUR FEELINGS. EXTRACTS FROM THE GERMAN OF J. P. RICHTER.
  75. 75.OUR SECRET DRAWER.
  76. 76.THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
  77. 77.THE WORN WEDDING RING. By W. C. BENNETT.
  78. 78.HINTS ABOUT HEALTH. By L. MARIA CHILD.
  79. 79.THE INVALID’S PRAYER
  80. 80.THE OLD PASTOR AND HIS SON. FROM THE GERMAN OF JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
  81. 81.REST AT EVENING. By ADELAIDE A. PROCTER.
  82. 82.Transcriber’s Notes

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