Contents xi
BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR
The Portent 695
Malvern Hill 695
TIMOLEON
The Maldive Shark 696
Billy Budd, Sailor 697
THE HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) 748
The Skeleton in Armor 750
The Arsenal at Springfield 754
The Song of Hiawatha 755
III. Hiawatha's Childhood 755
IV. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis 760
V. Hiawatha's Fasting 765
VII. Hiawatha's Sailing 770
VIII. Hiawatha's Fishing 773
XXI. The White Man's Foot 777
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 779
My Lost Youth 781
Divina Commedia 783
Chaucer 785
Nature 786
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 786
The Cross of Snow 788
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) 788
Ichabod 790
First-Day Thoughts 791
Skipper lreson's Ride 792
Telling the Bees 794
Laus Deo 796
OLIVERWENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894) 798
Old Ironsides 800
The Last Leaf 800
My Aunt 801
The Chambered Nautilus 803
The Deacon's Masterpiece 804
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ( l 809-1 865) 807
Reply to Horace Greeley 809
Letter to General Joseph Hooker 809
Letter to General U. S. Grant 810
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery 811
Second Inaugural Address 811