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Europe 293
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life 294
The Dalliance of the Eagles 296
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 297
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 297
The Wound-Dresser 298
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 300
O Captain! My Captain! 307
A Noiseless Patient Spider 308
A Prairie Sunset 308
The Dismantled Ship 308
Good-Bye My Fancy 308
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
from A Fable for Critics
Phoebus 309
Emerson 310
Channing and Thoreau 310
Alcott 311
Hawthorne 311
Cooper 312
Poe 313
Longfellow 313
Philothea (Lydia Child) 314
Holmes 317
Lowell 317
from The Biglow Papers
from Introduction 318
The 'Cruetin Sarjunt 318
from Under the Willows 319
Aladdin 321
from Our Own--Progression F 321
HERMAN MELVILLE
The Portent 322
Misgivings 322
Shiloh: A Requiem 323
The House-Top, a Night Piece 323
The Martyr 324
The Apparition--A Retrospect 325
The Maldive Shark 325
To Ned 326
The Berg 326
Monody 327
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem 328
The Ravaged Villa 328
My Jacket Old 328