Introductory material
Reading edition
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Photogravure from a life-photograph by Notman, Boston.
QUEEN ELIZABETH KNIGHTING FRANCIS DRAKE "When our Drake has the luck to make their pride duck. And stoop to the lads of the Island!"
From engraving after the drawing by Sir John Gilbert, R.A.
WILLIAM WATSON After a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London.
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH After a life-photograph by Notman, Boston.
THOMAS CAMPBELL From an engraving after the portrait by James Lonsdale.
WILLIAM COWPER From an engraving.
THE AUTHOR'S FIRST SINGING OF THE MARSEILLAISE "To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe."
From a photogravure after the painting by J.A.A. Pils.
A CAVALRY CHARGE "My darling! ah, the glass is out! The bullets ring, the riders shout— No time for wine or sighing! There! bring my love the shattered glass— Charge! On the foe! No joys surpass Such dying!"
From photogravure by Goupil, after a painting by Édouard Détaille.
NATHAN HALE "'Neath the blue morn, the sunny morn, He dies upon the tree, And he mourns that he can lose But one life for liberty."
From photograph of the Statue by Frederick Macmonnies, in New York City Hall Park.
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN After a photograph from life.
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ After a photograph from life.