Under the October maples
    love’s clock
    Eleanor makes macaroons
    telepathy
    scherzo
    ‘Franciscus de Verulamio sic cogitavit’
    Auspex
    the pregnant comment
    the lesson
    science and poetry
    A new year’s greeting
    the discovery
    with A seashell
    the secret

  IV.  Humor and satire.

    Fitz Adam’s story
    the origin of didactic poetry
    the flying Dutchman
    Credidimus Jovem regnare
    tempora mutantur
    in the half-way house
    at the burns Centennial
    in an album
    at the commencement dinner, 1866
    A parable

  V. Epigrams.

    Sayings
    inscriptions
    A misconception
    the boss
    sun-worship
    changed perspective
    with A pair of gloves lost in A wager
    sixty-eighth birthday
    international copyright

Last poems.

  How I consulted the oracle of the Goldfishes
  Turner’s old Temeraire
  st. Michael the weigher
  A Valentine
  an April birthday—­at sea
  love and thought
  the nobler lover
  on hearing A sonata of Beethoven’s played in the next room
  verses, intended to go with A posset dish
  on A bust of general grant

Appendix.

    I. Introduction to the second series of Biglow papers
   ii.  Glossary to the Biglow papers
  iii.  Index to Biglow papers

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

INDEX OF TITLES

EARLIER POEMS

THRENODIA

Gone, gone from us! and shall we see
Those sibyl-leaves of destiny,
Those calm eyes, nevermore? 
Those deep, dark eyes so warm and bright,
Wherein the fortunes of the man
Lay slumbering in prophetic light,
In characters a child might scan? 
So bright, and gone forth utterly! 
Oh stern word—­Nevermore!