xvi Contents
Seaweed 1686
The Song of Hiawatha 1687
III. Hiawatha’s Childhood 1687
IV. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis 1692
V. Hiawatha’s Fasting 1699
VII. Hiawatha’s Sailing 1704
VIII. Hiawatha’s Fishing 1707
XXI. The White Man’s Foot 1712
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 1714
My Lost Youth 1715
Divina Commedia 1718
Chaucer 1720
Milton 1721
Nature 1721
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 1721
The Cross of Snow 1722
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807—1892) 1722
Massachusetts to Virginia 1725
Ichabod 1727
First-Day Thoughts 1729
Skipper Ireson’s Ride 1729
Telling the Bees 1732
Laus Deo 1733
Snow-Bound 1735
Abraham Davenport 1753
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809—1894) 1755
Old Ironsides 1757
The Last Leaf 1758
My Aunt 1759
The Chambered Nautilus 1760
Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) 1761
Farewell Address at Springfield 1763
First Inaugural Address 1764
Reply to Horace Greeley 1770
Letter to General Joseph Hooker 1771
Letter to General U.S. Grant 1771
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery 1772
Second Inaugural Address 1773
Fanny Fern (1811—1872) 1774
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony 1775
Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books 1776
The “Coming” Woman 1777