An edition of The Book of Easter
(1910)
The Book of Easter
by William Croswell Doane
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction William Cromell Doane v
I BEFORE THE DAWN
How the Ancients thought of Death
There is Hope of a Tree From the Book of Job 5
I said, I shall not see the Lord From the Book of Hezekiah 5
Wonders are Many. From Sophocles' "Antigone" 6
The Eleusinian Mysteries and Later Outgrowths. Anonymous 6
The Dead Pan. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9
Dies Ira. Trans, by William A. Irons 13
The Crucifixion. From the Fourth Gospel 15
Stabat Mater Dolorosa. Jacopone da Todi 17
Christ Crucified. Alfred Noyes 19
To keep a True Lent. Robert Herrick 20
Old Good Friday Customs Folk Lore 21
Hot Cross Buns
Chelsea Bun-houses William Hone 22
The Clear Spring Dawn is Breaking. Eliza Cook 23
Hanging Judas in Mexico. C Bryson- Taylor 25
The Processions of Passion Week in Seville. Katharine Lee Bates 26
In the Sistine Chapel. Hans Andersen 41
II EASTER DAYS
The Resurrection. From the Fourth Gospel 49
The Primitive Easter Play. Katharine Lee Bates 51
The Passion Play at Oberammergau. Canon Farrar 54
Quaint Easter Customs
The Easter Sepulchre Compiled 64
Easter Eve. Barnabe Googe 66
Easter Eggs. Emilianne 67
The Fate of the Eggs, France. The Mirror 68
The Easter Hare. Anonymous 69
Customs of Easter Week. Brand's Antiquities 71
The Bells of the Kremlin. A.J. O'Hare 73
Easter in Jerusalem, 1835. A, W. Kinglake 75
In Rome under the Old Papal Regime. Lady Butler 84
Easter in Greece. Theodore T, Bent 87
When the Dead return in Japan. Mary Crawford Fraser 91
Egg-rolling in Washington. Anonymous 93
On the Island of Ischia. Sybil Fitzgerald 95
The Russian Easter. The Saturday Review 97
III EASTER HYMNS
An Easter Carol. William Croswell Doane 105
Lord of the Living. William Croswell Doane 106
Risen. Frederick Z. Hosmer 107
Jesus Christ is risen To-day. Lyra Davidica 108
The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done. Francis Pott 109
Through the Long Hidden Years. W. Chatterton Dix 1 10
Eastertide. Archer T Gurney 110
Christ is Risen! lift the Song Trans, of an Old Latin Hymn 112
The World Itself keeps Easter Day. John Ma^on Neale 113
Ye Happy Bells of Easter Day. Adapted by R, R. Chope 115
Christ the Lord is risen To-day. Charies Wesley 116
Morn's Roseate Hues. William Cooke 117
Easter Week. Charles Kingsley 117
The Tempest Over and Gone. Christina G. Rossetti 119
Easter Carol. George N. Lavejoy 120
IV EASTER STORIES
The Mirth of Demeter and Persephone. Walter Pater 125
The Odour of the Ointment. Zona Gale 136
Easter Eggs. Christoph Schmidt 157
Easter Eve. Vladimir Korolenko 175
The Ballad of Judas Iscariot. Robert Buchanan 1S4
The Easter Vision. Hamilton Wright MaHe 188
GOLDEN TRUMPETS
Easter Music. Margaret Deland 197
Surprise Malte. D, Babcock 197
A Violet. Mrs. A. D, T. Whitney 198
An Easter lily. Charles G, D, Roberts 199
Blessing the Fields
The Roman Ambarvalia. Walter Pater 199
Rogation Days in France. C.Z.S. 203
Blessing the Fields in Italy. Lina Duff Gordon 205
The Eternal. Spring John Milton 208
An Easter Love Song. Ella Higginson 208
The Spring Chorus. A, G. Swinburne 209
April. Robert Brotvning 210
Little Boy Blue. Alfred Noyes 211
An Old-fashioned Spring. E. P. Powell 212
Spring. Alfred Tennyson 215
In Springtide Lewis Morris 216
The Easter Robin. Alexander F. Chamberlain 216
A Group of Spring Songs
A Song of Waking. Katharine Lee Bates 217
What Will the Violets Be? William C. Gannett 219
Green Things Growing. Dinah Mulock Craik 219
Is Life Worth Livinng? Alfred Austin 220
The Spring Call. Thomas Hardy 221
Robin's Come. William W. Caldwell 222
An Apple Orchard in the Spring. William Martin 223
Song from "Pippa Passes". Robert Browning 224
AWAKE, THOU THAT SLEEPEST!
"Their Eyes were Opened". From the Gospel of Luke 229
The Life Abundant. Hibbert Lectures 231
Consolation. Elizabeth B. Browning 232
Immortality. Matthew Arnold 233
Angels to Be. Leigh Hunt 233
New Life. Susan Coolidge 234
Sweet Day, so Cool and Bright. George Herbert 235
The Central Truth of Paul's Gospel. Bernard Lucas 236
"The Great Companion is Dead". John Hunter 239
The Hope of Death. Henry Vaughan 240
Easter Day. Robert Browning 241
Easter Morning. Edmund Spenser 242
The Awakening. Ella Higginson 242
An Easter Message. Lyman Abbott 244
Easter. Richard Watson Gilder 245
LIST OF PLATES
The Resurrection Rembrandt. Frontispiece
Descent from the Cross. Rubens 16
Holy Women at the Tomb. Pickhorst. 40
An Easter Procession, France. From a Photograph 56
Awake, Thou that Sleepest I. Fra Angelico 80
Easter Carols. Anderson. 96
Easter Morning. Von Uhde. 112
The Coming of Spring. From a Photograph
Paradise. Fra Angelico 160
Blessing the Fields. Breton 188
Viewing the Plum Blossoms, Japan. Du Cane 216
The Saviour in Glory. Veronese 240
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