Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 739
The Arsenal at Springfield 741
The Song of Hiawatha 743
III [3]. Hiawatha’s Childhood
IV [4]. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis 748
V [5]. Hiawatha’s Fasting 754
VII [7]. Hiawatha’s Sailing 760
VIII [8]. Hiawatha’s Fishing 763
XXI [21]. The White Man’s Foot 767
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 770
My Lost Youth 771
Nature 774
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 774
The Cross of Snow 775
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) 775
Ichabod 777
First-Day Thoughts 779
Skipper Ireson’s Ride 779
Telling the Bees 782
Laus Deo 783
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) 785
Old Ironsides 787
The Last Leaf 788
My Aunt 789
The Chambered Nautilus 790
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 791
Reply to Horace Greeley 793
Letter to General Joseph Hooker 794
Letter to General U.S. Grant 795
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery 796
Second Inaugural Address 796
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 798
Oldtown Folks 799
Miss Asphyxia 799
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) 807
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 808
VI [6]: The Jealous Mistress 808
XVII: The Flight 812