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.

Contents.

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