THE FIRESIDE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF POETRY. COMPRISING THE BEST POEMS OF THE MOST FAMOUS WRITERS, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN. COMPILED AND EDITED BY HENRY T. COATES. PORTER & COATES, PHILADELPHIA. COPYRIGHT. 1878, BY PORTER & COATES. COPYRIGHT, 1879, BY HENRY T. COATES COPYRIGHT, 1881, BY HENRY T. COATES. TO MY ALMA MATER, HAVERFORD COLLEGE, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE WARM FRIENDSHIPS FORMED THERE, THE MANY JOYOUS DAYS SPENT THERE, AND, ABOVE ALL, THE LITERARY ASPIRATIONS WHICH SHE KINDLED AND FOSTERED, WHICH HAVE SHED A GLADDENED LIGHT OVER THE YEARS SINCE I LEFT HER HALLOWED PRECINCTS, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. |