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Eldorado 197
Annabel Lee 198
Monody on Doctor Olmsted 199
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
from An After-Dinner Poem (Terpsichore) 199
Aestivation 201
Ballad of the Oysterman 201
The Chambered Nautilus 202
The Deacon's Masterpiece 203
The Last Leaf 206
Old Ironsides 207
Peau de Chagrin of State Street 208
The Poet Grows Old 208
THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS
The Shell 209
MARGARET FULLER
Let me Gather from the Earth 210
Winged Sphinx 210
FRANCES S. OSGOOD
He Bade me be Happy 211
ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER
I Slept and Dreamed 211
JONES VERY
The Dead 212
Thy Better Self 212
Enoch 212
The Latter Rain 213
The Eagles 213
The New Man 214
CHRISTOPHER CRANCH
Enosis 214
December 215
The Autumn Rain 216
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Love Equals Swift and Slow 217
Light-Winged Smoke 217
Though All the Fates 217
Salmon Brook 218
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings 218