The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice Selections, Nos. 1 - Embracing Rare Poetical Gems, Fine Specimens of Oratory, Popular Patriotic Effusions, Thrilling Sentiment, Impassioned Eloquence, Tender Pathos, and Sparkling Humor ...

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Contents

Death of John Quincy Adams
42
of the Gettysburg Monument
46
Our Defenders
54
Edward Everett iii
57
Catos Soliloquy
60
Ode to My Little
67
Irishwomans Letter
74
Smack in School
83
If We Knew
88
Clemens iv
99
On the Shores of Tennessee
102
All we ask is to be Let Alone
109
Capital Punishment
110
In the Other World
112
Opposite Examples
118
Closing Year
123
Select Passages in Verse
125
Irish Brigade at Fontenoy
129
Seminoles Reply
139
Henry VIII
142
Song of Shermans Army
154
Death of Little
156
Song of the Decanter
163
Paupers DeathBed
169
Short Poetical Extracts
170
Putting up o the Stove
178
100
7
Socrates Snooks
11
Painter of Seville
40
Death of Little Paul
46
Dying Soldier
60
Song of the Shirt
80
Pledge with Wine
83
Field of Waterloo
89
Answer to The Hour of Death C B Wilson ii 93
93
Parrhasius and the Captive
103
Death of Hamilton
120
After the Battle
124
Farmer and the Counsellor
135
Death Penalty
142
Found Dead
150
Psalm of Life
153
Angels of Buena Vista The
32
Sam Wellers Valentine
44
Loved and Lost The
47
Lochinvars Ride Sir Walter Scott iii
59
Shibboleth
62
Grave of Charles Dickens
70
Little Nells Funeral
72
Razor Seller The
90
Ginevra
92
Grizzly Grumblers Advice
96
Antonys Address to the Romans Shakspeare iii
103
Hamlets Soliloquy
107
Hour of Death
113
Hezekiah Stubbins Oration
116
Sailors Funeral
137
Heaven
141
Shylock to Antonio
148
His Eye was Stern and Wild
153
Abou Ben Adhem
164
Heathen Chinee or Plain Language from
167
My Beautiful Child
176
StarSpangled Banner
Hallowed Ground
3
How the Gates Came Ajar
21
Arnold Winkelreid
31
Unjust National Acquisitions
40
Angel Ferry
43
Mormon Widowers Lament The
44
Bingen on the Rhine
53
Ring Out Wild Bells
64
St Pierre to Ferrardo J Sherilan Knowles iv
70
Vision of Future Bliss
90
Swells Soliloquy
121
Heathen Chinees Reply
126
My Welcome Beyond
128
Seventh Plague of Egypt
130
Tubal Cain
140
Bells
141
To a Skeleton
154
F Bret Harte iii
161
Battle of Lookout Mountain

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TitleThe Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice Selections, Nos. 1 - Embracing Rare Poetical Gems, Fine Specimens of Oratory, Popular Patriotic Effusions, Thrilling Sentiment, Impassioned Eloquence, Tender Pathos, and Sparkling Humor ...
Volume 1 of The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice Selections, Nos. 1 - Embracing Rare Poetical Gems, Fine Specimens of Oratory, Popular Patriotic Effusions, Thrilling Sentiment, Impassioned Eloquence, Tender Pathos, and Sparkling Humor
PublisherP. Garrett & Company, 1870
Original fromHarvard University
Digitized23 Apr 2008
  
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