Furlong, a furrow Track, to trace, to follow by marks or footsteps. Then downward from the steep hill's edge 45 And through the broken hawthorn hedge, THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.-Pope. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), the greatest poet of his time. His literary career began at the age of sixteen, when he published the Pastorals. His poems are characterised by a gracefulness of versification that is unequalled. Chief poems: Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Moral Epistles, The Dunciad, and translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The Hon. WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER (1770-1834). His poems, though written in a simple and unaffected style, are marked by deep and genuine pathos. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803- ) is a distinguished essayist and journalist, and was born at Boston, U.S. In style and manner he greatly resembles Carlyle. This poem is taken from his essays on Society and Solitude. Bard, a poet and singer of the ancient Celts. MEN have done brave deeds, And bards* have sung them well : I of good George Nidiver Now the tale will tell. |