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February 1892 Issue
February 1892 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Pageant at Rome in the Year 17 B. C.
    Rodolfo Lanciani
  • With the Night
    Archibald Lampman
  • Don Orsino
    F. Marion Crawford
  • The Nearness of Animals to Men
    E. P. Evans
  • A Venetian Printer-Publisher in the Sixteenth Century
    Horatio F. Brown
  • Her Presence
    Louise Chandler Moulton
Poem

Home-Thrust

By Charlotte Fisk Bates
February 1892 Issue
Saved Stories
DOST thou see the crape on thy neighbor’s door?
For thee and thy joy is that in store:
Death joggles thee hard to think of him,
And spills life’s wine as it tops the brim.
Charlotte Fiske Bates.