Contents xiii
Blight 109
Dirge 110
Threnody 112
Concord Hymn 118
Brahma 119
Boston Hymn 119
Days 122
Terminus 122
Experience 123
from Quatrains
Poet [I] 124
Poet [II] 124
Shakspeare 124
Memory 124
Climacteric 124
Unity 125
Circles 125
from Life 125
from The Exile 125
SARAH HELEN WHITMAN
from The Past 126
To------ 126
ELIZABETH OAKES-SMITH
Annihilation 127
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
Telling the Bees 127
from Snow-Bound-A Winter Idyl 129
Ichabod 134
The Fruit Gift 135
Abraham Davenport 135
The Slave-ships 137
The Christian Slave 141
from Yorktown 142
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hymn to the Night 143
A Psalm of Life 144
The Wreck of the Hesperus 145
Excelsior 148
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp 149
The Warning 150
The Arrow and the Song 150
Mezzo Cammin 151