Amelia E. Barr

Titles in Fiction category:

• Daughter of Fife, A

    "Thou old gray sea,
     Thou broad briny water,
     With thy ripple and thy plash,
     And thy waves as they lash
     The old gray rocks on the shore.
     With thy tempests as they roar,
     And thy crested billows hoar,
     And thy tide evermore
                      Fresh and free."
  
  

• Hallam Succession, The

    "The changing guests, each in a different mood,
       Sit at the road-side table and arise:
       And every life among them in likewise
    Is a soul's board set daily with new food.
  
    "May not this ancient room thou sitt'st in dwell
       In separate living souls for joy or pain?
    

• Knight of the Nets, A

  It would be easy to walk many a time through "Fife and all the lands about it" and never once find the little fishing village of Pittendurie. Indeed, it would be a singular thing if it was found, unless some special business or direction led to it. For clearly it was never intended that h ...

• Maid of Maiden Lane, The    

  Never, in all its history, was the proud and opulent city of New York more glad and gay than in the bright spring days of Seventeen-Hundred- and-Ninety-One. It had put out of sight every trace of British rule and occupancy, all its homes had been restored and re-furnished, and its sacred ...

• Remember the Alamo    

      "What, are you stepping westward?"  "Yea."
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       Yet who would stop or fear to advance,
       Though home or shelter there was none,
       With such a sky to lead him on!"
                              --WORDSWORTH.
  
      "Ah! cool night wind, tremul

• Scottish Sketches

  Alexander Crawford sat reading a book which he studied frequently with a profound interest. Not the Bible: that volume had indeed its place of honor in the room, but the book Crawford read was a smaller one; it was stoutly bound and secured by a brass lock, and it was all in manuscript. I ...