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Start of eBook	1
EARLIER POEMS.	1
INDEX OF FIRST LINES	6
INDEX OF TITLES	6
THRENODIA	6
IRENE	9
WITH A PRESSED FLOWER	11
THE BEGGAR	11
MY LOVE	12
SUMMER STORM	12
LOVE	14
TO PERDITA, SINGING	15
THE MOON	16
REMEMBERED MUSIC	16
SONG	17
ALLEGRA	17
THE FOUNTAIN	18
ODE	18
I	18
II	19
III	20
THE FATHERLAND	21
THE FORLORN	21
MIDNIGHT	22
A PRAYER	22
THE HERITAGE	23
THE ROSE: A BALLAD	24
I	24
II	24
III	24
SONG	25
A REQUIEM	26
A PARABLE	27
SONG	27
SONNETS	28
I	28
II	28
III	28
IV	28
V	29
VI	29
VII	29
VIII	29
IX	30
X	30
XI	30
XII	30
XIII	30
XIV	31
XV	31
XVI	31
XVII	31
XVIII	32
XIX	32
XX	32
XXI	32
XXII	33
XXIII	33
XXIV	33
XXV	34
XXVI	34
XXVII	34
L’ENVOI	34
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS	36
PART FIRST	37
I	37
II	37
III	37
IV	37
V	37
VI	37
VII	37
VIII	38
IX	38
X	38
XI	38
XII	38
XIII	38
XIV	38
XV	39
XVI	39
XVII	39
XVIII	39
XIX	39
XX	39
XXI	39
XXII	40
XXIII	40
XXIV	40
XXV	40
XXVI	40
XXVII	40
XXVIII	40
XXIX	41
XXX	41
XXXI	41
XXXII	41
XXXIII	41
XXXIV	41
XXXV	42
PART SECOND	42
I	42
II	42
III	42
IV	42
V	42
VI	42
VII	43
VIII	43
IX	43
X	43
XI	43
XII	43
XIII	43
XIV	44
XV	44
XVI	44
XVII	44
XVIII	44
XIX	44
XX	44
XXI	45
XXII	45
XXIII	45
XXIV	45
XXV	45
XXVI	45
XXVII	45
XXVIII	46
XXIX	46
XXX	46
XXXI	46
XXXII	46
XXXIII	46
XXXIV	46
XXXV	47
XXXVI	47
XXXVII	47
XXXVIII	47
XXXIX	47
XL	47
XLI	47
XLII	48
XLIII	48
XLIV	48
XLV	48
XLVI	48
PROMETHEUS	48
THE TOKEN	55
AN INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR	55
THE FALCON	59
TRIAL	59
I	59
II	59
A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN	60
A CHIPPEWA LEGEND	65
STANZAS ON FREEDOM	67
COLUMBUS	67
AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE AT HAMBURG	72
THE SOWER	73
HUNGER AND COLD	73
THE LANDLORD	74
TO A PINE-TREE	75
SI DESCENDERO IN INFERNUM, ADES	75
TO THE PAST	76
TO THE FUTURE	77
HEBE	78
THE PRESENT CRISIS	80
AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE	82
A FRAGMENT	87
A CONTRAST	88
EXTREME UNCTION	88
THE OAK	90
AMBROSE	90
ABOVE AND BELOW	91
I	91
II	92
THE CAPTIVE	92
THE BIRCH-TREE	93
AN INTERVIEW WITH MILES STANDISH	94
ON THE CAPTURE OF FUGITIVE SLAVES NEAR WASHINGTON	96
TO THE DANDELION	97
STUDIES FOR TWO HEADS	100
I	100
II	100
ON A PORTRAIT OF DANTE BY GIOTTO	101
ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND’S CHILD	102
EURYDICE	103
SHE CAME AND WENT	105
THE CHANGELING	105
THE PIONEER	106
ODE TO FRANCE	107
I	107
II	107
III	108
IV	108
V	108
VI	108
VII	109
VIII	109
IX	109
A PARABLE	111
ODE	112
LINES	112
TO——	113
FREEDOM	114
BIBLIOLATRES	115
BEAVER BROOK	116
MEMORIAL VERSES	116
TO LAMARTINE	117
TO JOHN GORHAM PALFREY	118
TO W.L. GARRISON	119
ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES TURNER TORREY	120
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR. CHANNING	120
TO THE MEMORY OF HOOD	121
THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL	122
PRELUDE TO PART FIRST	122
PART FIRST	124
I	124
II	124
III	124
IV	125
V	125
VI	125
PRELUDE TO PART SECOND	125
PART SECOND	126
I	126
II	127
III	127
IV	127
V	127
VI	127
VII	127
VIII	128
IX	128
X	128
LETTER FROM BOSTON	128
A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES	131
A SERIES OF JOKES	131
SET FORTH IN	131
It being the commonest mode of procedure, I premise a few candid remarks	131
A PRELIMINARY NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION.	133
A FABLE FOR CRITICS	135
THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT	169
PART I	169
PART II	173
PART III	176
FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED POEM	181
AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE	185
FIRST SERIES	189
PROEMIUM	196
OPERIS SPECIMEN	198
MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX	198
BY	198
NOTE TO TITLE-PAGE	199
INTRODUCTION	201
THE TWO GUNNERS	204
LEAVING THE MATTER OPEN	205
THE BIGLOW PAPERS	212
A LETTER	212
No. II	215
No. III	222
No. IV	229
AT AN EXTRUMPERY CAUCUS IN STATE STREET, REPORTED BY MR. H. BIGLOW	229
No. V	236
SOT TO A NUSRY RHYME	236
TO MR. BUCKENAM	237
No. VI	240
No. VII	244
No. VIII	250
No. IX	259
MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX	267
SECOND SERIES	267
THE COURTIN’	268
THE BIGLOW PAPERS	269
No. II	279
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY	279
THE BRIDGE	287
THE MONIMENT	288
THE BRIDGE	288
THE MONIMENT	288
THE BRIDGE	288
THE MONIMENT	288
THE BRIDGE	288
THE BRIDGE	288
THE BRIDGE	288
THE MONIMENT	289
THE BRIDGE	289
THE BRIDGE	289
THE BRIDGE	289
THE MONIMENT	290
THE BRIDGE	290
THE MONIMENT	290
THE BRIDGE	291
THE MONIMENT	291
THE BRIDGE	291
THE MONIMENT	292
THE BRIDGE	292
JONATHAN TO JOHN	293
No. III	294
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY	294
No. IV	305
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY	305
FESTINA LENTE	306
MORAL	307
No. V	312
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY	312
No. VI	320
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY	320
No. VII	326
PRELIMINARY NOTE	326
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY	328
No. VIII	331
PRELIMINARY MOTE	331
KETTELOPOTOMACHIA	333
LIBER I	333
No. IX	335
No. X	341
No. XI	343
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY	343
MY DEAR SIR,—	343
THE ARGYMUNT	344
UNDER THE WILLOWS AND OTHER POEMS	353
AGRO DOLCE	353
UNDER THE WILLOWS	353
DARA	360
THE FIRST SNOW-FALL	361
THE SINGING LEAVES	361
I	361
II	362
III	362
SEAWEED	363
THE FINDING OF THE LYRE	363
NEW-YEAR’S EVE, 1850	364
FOR AN AUTOGRAPH	364
AL FRESCO	364
MASACCIO	365
WITHOUT AND WITHIN	366
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS	367
WRITTEN IN AID OF A CHIME OF BELLS FOR CHRIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE	367
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS	367
ALADDIN	369
AN INVITATION	370
THE NOMADES	371
SELF-STUDY	372
PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE	373
I	373
II	373
III	375
IV	376
V	377
VI	378
THE WIND-HARP	379
AUF WIEDERSEHEN	380
PALINODE	380
AFTER THE BURIAL	380
THE DEAD HOUSE	381
A MOOD	382
THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND	382
I	382
II	383
III	385
MAHMOOD THE IMAGE-BREAKER	386
INVITA MINERVA	387
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH	388
I	388
II	388
III	388
IV	388
V	389
VI	389
VII	390
YUSSOUF	390
THE DARKENED MIND	391
WHAT RABBI JEHOSHA SAID	391
ALL-SAINTS	391
A WINTER-EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE	392
I	392
II	392
III	392
IV	392
V	393
VI	393
VII	393
VIII	394
IX	394
FANCY’S CASUISTRY	395
TO MR. JOHN BARTLETT	395
ODE TO HAPPINESS	396
VILLA FRANCA	398
THE MINER	399
GOLD EGG: A DREAM-FANTASY	399
A FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A FRIEND	402
AN EMBER PICTURE	404
TO H.W.L.	405
THE NIGHTINGALE IN THE STUDY	406
IN THE TWILIGHT	407
THE FOOT-PATH	407
POEMS OF THE WAR	408
OCTOBER, 1861	408
TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BLONDEL	410
MEMORIAE POSITUM	412
I	412
II	412
III	413
WRITTEN FOR MR. BRYANT’S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY	413
ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION	414
I	414
II	415
III	415
IV	416
V	416
VI	417
VII	418
VIII	418
IX	419
X	420
XI	420
XII	421
L’ENVOI	421
THE CATHEDRAL	423
THREE MEMORIAL POEMS	436
ODE	437
I	437
II	437
III	437
IV	438
V	438
VI	438
VII	439
VIII	439
IX	440
X	440
UNDER THE OLD ELM	441
I	441
II	441
III	442
IV	443
V	444
VI	445
VII	446
VIII	447
AN ODE	447
I	447
II	448
III	450
IV	451
HEARTSEASE AND RUE	452
AGASSIZ	452
I	452
II	454
III	455
IV	457
V	459
VI	460
TO HOLMES	461
IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM	462
ON RECEIVING A COPY OF MR. AUSTIN DOBSON’S ‘OLD WORLD IDYLLS’	462
I	462
II	462
TO C.F. BRADFORD	462
BANKSIDE	463
DEDHAM, MAY 21, 1877	463
I	463
II	464
III	464
IV	464
JOSEPH WINLOCK	464
SONNET	465
JEFFRIES WYMAN	465
TO A FRIEND	465
WITH AN ARMCHAIR	465
E.G. DE R.	466
BON VOYAGE	466
TO WHITTIER	466
ON AN AUTUMN SKETCH OF H.G. WILD	466
TO MISS D.T.	467
WITH A COPY OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE	467
ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARAY	467
AN EPISTLE TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS	468
POSTSCRIPT, 1887	471
II. SENTIMENT	472
I	472
II	473
III	473
IV	474
V	474
VI	475
VII	475
THE BLACK PREACHER	476
ARCADIA REDIVIVA	477
THE NEST	479
PALINODE—DECEMBER	479
A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS	479
BIRTHDAY VERSES	480
ESTRANGEMENT	480
PHOEBE	480
DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE	481
THE RECALL	482
ABSENCE	482
MONNA LISA	482
THE OPTIMIST	482
ON BURNING SOME OLD LETTERS	483
THE PROTEST	483
THE PETITION	484
FACT OR FANCY?	484
AGRO-DOLCE	484
THE BROKEN TRYST	485
CASA SIN ALMA	485
A CHRISTMAS CAROL	485
MY PORTRAIT GALLERY	485
PAOLO TO FRANCESCA	485
SONNET	486
SONNET	486
THE DANCING BEAR	486
THE MAPLE	487
NIGHTWATCHES	487
DEATH OF QUEEN MERCEDES	487
PRISON OF CERVANTES	487
TO A LADY PLAYING ON THE CITHERN	488
THE EYE’S TREASURY	488
PESSIMOPTIMISM	488
THE BRAKES	488
A FOREBODING	489
III. FANCY	489
LOVE’S CLOCK	489
CHLOE	489
DAPHNIS	489
BOTH	489
ELEANOR MAKES MACAROONS	489
TELEPATHY	490
SCHERZO	490
AUSPEX	491
THE PREGNANT COMMENT	491
THE LESSON	492
SCIENCE AND POETRY	492
A NEW YEAR’S GREETING	492
THE DISCOVERY	493
WITH A SEASHELL	493
THE SECRET	493
IV. HUMOR AND SATIRE	493
THE ORIGIN OF DIDACTIC POETRY	504
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN	505
CREDIDIMUS JOVEM REGNARE	506
TEMPORA MUTANTUR	509
IN THE HALF-WAY HOUSE	510
I	511
II	511
III	511
IV	511
V	511
VI	511
VII	512
AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL	512
I	512
II	512
III	512
IV	512
V	512
VI	512
VII	513
VIII	513
IX	513
X	513
XI	513
XII	513
XIII	513
XIV	513
XV	514
XVI	514
XVII	514
XVIII	514
XIX	514
XX	514
XXI	514
XXII	514
XXIII	515
XXIV	515
IN AN ALBUM	515
AT THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER, 1866	515
A PARABLE	517
V. EPIGRAMS	517
INSCRIPTIONS	517
	517
PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT IN BOSTON	517
A MISCONCEPTION	518
THE BOSS	518
SUN-WORSHIP	518
CHANGED PERSPECTIVE	518
WITH A PAIR OF GLOVES LOST IN A WAGER	518
SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY	518
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT	518
LAST POEMS	518
TURNER’S OLD TEMERAIRE	522
ST. MICHAEL THE WEIGHER	522
A VALENTINE	523
AN APRIL BIRTHDAY—AT SEA	523
LOVE AND THOUGHT	524
THE NOBLER LOVER	524
ON HEARING A SONATA OF BEETHOVEN’S PLAYED IN THE NEXT ROOM	524
VERSES	525
ON A BUST OF GENERAL GRANT	525
APPENDIX	526
II. GLOSSARY TO THE BIGLOW PAPERS	563
III. INDEX TO BIGLOW PAPERS	566
INDEX OF FIRST LINES	583
INDEX OF TITLES	587
FOOTNOTES:	592

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