Sweet Home; or, Friendship's Golden Altar
Sweet Home;
or,
Friendship's
Golden Altar.
Edited by
Frances E. Percival.
"From every land and every lot,
From palace hall and lowly cot,
To Home, which ne'er can be forgot,
The mind gees straying back."
Boston:
L. P. Crown & Co., 61 Cornhill.
Philadelphia:
J. W. Bradley, 48 North Fourth Street.
1856.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
L. P. Crown & Co,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Stereotyped at the
Boston Stereotype Foundry.
Prose. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Page. | ||
| Preface, (not listed in original) | Frances E. Percival | 3 |
| The Two Homes, | T. S. Arthur, | 13 |
| Good Nature, | H. W. Beecher, | 36 |
| Good Manners, | Charles Bray, | 42 |
| Milly Gray, | Anonymous, | 44 |
| How to be happy, | Anon., | 56 |
| Not worth the Trouble, | Anon., | 58 |
| Saturday Night, | Clara, | 63 |
| Say, No, | Anon., | 70 |
| The Two Palaces, | Puritan, | 76 |
| Fanny and Flora, | Anon., | 86 |
| The Story of the Firefly, | Anon., | 89 |
| Mother, Mother, | Henry Clay, | 104 |
| Tears, | Dr. Johnson, | 108 |
| Influence of Woman, | Daniel Webster, | 111 |
| Death of a Household Treasure, | D. C. Eddy, | 119 |
| The Whole Family, | Mrs. Sedgwick, | 132 |
| True Wife, | Anon., | 137 |
| The Wayside, | Mrs. E. H. Gould, | 141 |
| How she found the Time, | Mrs. Caroline A. Soule, | 146 |
| Witty Women, | Anon., | 164 |
| Correcting in Anger, | Watchman, | 169 |
| The World of Mind, | Anon., | 173 |
| True Words better than Tears, | Kate Sutherland, | 178 |
| The Marriage Relation, | Morning Star, | 190 |
| Little Bennie, | Anon., | 197 |
| Influence of an Unkind Word, | Anon., | 200 |
| Contentment, | Anon., | 208 |
| Gentleness, | Anon., | 212 |
| Incense from the Family Altar, | Anon., | 218 |
| The Crushed Bud, | Mrs. E. M. Guthrie, | 266 |
| Our Old Grandmother, | Anon., | 241 |
| Charlie Moss, | M. H., | 258 |
Poetry. | ||
| The Home Altar, | Mrs. Hemans, | 11 |
| Woman's Superiority, | Anon., | 12 |
| Views of Life, | J. D. Collins, | 30 |
| My Lost Youth, | Longfellow, | 31 |
| A Friend, | Anon., | 35 |
| To an Absent Husband, | Mrs. Newell, | 40 |
| First Love, | Anon., | 41 |
| Friends at Home, | Charles Swain, | 53 |
| My Mother, | N. P. Willis, | 54 |
| The Faults of Man, | Anon., | 55 |
| My Wife, | S. D. Phelps, | 59 |
| Doubt, | Anon., | 62 |
| My Soul is sad, | Anon., | 67 |
| The Old Playground, | Anon., | 68 |
| The Village Clock, | Aldrich, | 74 |
| The Old Kirkward, | Anon., | 82 |
| The Tress of Hair, | Portland, | 83 |
| I Can't, | W. O. Bourne, | 84 |
| Come Home, | Anon., | 99 |
| Sorrow at the Cottage, | L. N. Willy, | 100 |
| Ennui, | Anon., | 101 |
| Comfort in the Cottage, | Swartz, | 102 |
| Some murmur when their Sky is clear, | R. C. Trench, | 107 |
| My Angel Love, | Fanny Forrester, | 109 |
| There came an Angel, | Mrs. H. E. C. Arey, | 114 |
| Mother, | Anon., | 116 |
| Be not disheartened, | Anon., | 118 |
| When I am old, | C. A. Briggs, | 129 |
| Pop, goes the Question, | Anon., | 130 |
| A Song, | Anon., | 134 |
| The Forgotten, | E. J. Porter, | 135 |
| The Dark Side, | Anon., | 136 |
| Brother, come Home, | Miss Waterman, | 139 |
| You remember, | Thomas Haynes Bayly, | 143 |
| Nowadays, | Anon., | 144 |
| She woke that morn in Heaven, | Mrs. H. Augusta King, | 160 |
| Maiden Beauty, | Charles Swain, | 161 |
| Give me my old Seat, Mother, | Fanny Forrester, | 162 |
| A World of Love, | Anon., | 163 |
| To an absent Wife, | Anon., | 165 |
| Nobody's Child, | J. W. Barker, | 166 |
| The Lyre, | Mary Ann Whitaker, | 168 |
| Song of the Pilgrims, | Anon., | 171 |
| Whom does the Lord love best, | Anon., | 176 |
| Self-conceit, | Anon., | 177 |
| Our Old Homestead, | Anon., | 188 |
| Harvest Home, | Anon., | 195 |
| Carry me Home to die, | Willis, | 199 |
| Creations' Work is done, | C. I. T., | 206 |
| Good Temper, | Moore, | 207 |
| Homeward Voyage, | Kittie Clare, | 210 |
| Never rail at the World, | Anon., | 215 |
| O, hasten on, ye winged Hours, | Clara Moreton, | 216 |
| Mary's Dirge, | Daystar, | 217 |
| Friendship and Love, | Anon., | 222 |
| Might of Truth, | Whittier, | 223 |
| Summer's last Sunset, | Anon., | 224 |
| Cheer up, | J. S. Adams, | 225 |
| The Dewdrop's Grave, | R. C. Trench, | 236 |
| Life is real, | E. M. Stowell, | 237 |
| Thou art the same, | John B. Rogerson, | 239 |
| A blest Relief in Tears, | Julia M. Emerson, | 240 |
| Let me in, | Anon., | 251 |
| Guardian Angels, | E. Oakes Smith, | 253 |
| I'm old to-day, | Anon., | 254 |
| The Unthankful, | Harmony, | 256 |
| The Voice of her I love, | Anon., | 257 |
| The Old Church Bell, | Anon., | 257 |
| We come not back, | Anon., | 268 |
| Daily Duties, | Anon., | 269 |
| Flowers, | Anon., | 270 |
| Beyond the River, | Anon., | 271 |
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