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| Start of eBook | 1 |
| PROEM | 1 |
| INTRODUCTION | 1 |
| NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY POEMS | 3 |
| THE FEMALE MARTYR. | 4 |
| 5 |
| THE DEMON OF THE STUDY. | 6 |
| THE FOUNTAIN. | 8 |
| PENTUCKET. | 9 |
| THE NORSEMEN. | 11 |
| FUNERAL TREE OF THE SOKOKIS. | 13 |
| ST. JOHN. | 14 |
| THE CYPRESS-TREE OF CEYLON. | 16 |
| THE EXILES. | 17 |
| THE KNIGHT OF ST. JOHN. | 20 |
| THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD. | 24 |
| THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK. | 26 |
| BARCLAY OF URY. | 37 |
| THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA. | 39 |
| THE LEGEND OF ST. MARK. | 40 |
| KATHLEEN. | 42 |
| THE WELL OF LOCH MAREE | 43 |
| THE CHAPEL OF THE HERMITS. | 44 |
| TAULER. | 50 |
| THE HERMIT OF THE THEBAID. | 51 |
| MAUD MULLER. | 53 |
| THE RANGER. | 57 |
| THE GARRISON OF CAPE ANN. | 59 |
| THE GIFT OF TRITEMIUS. | 61 |
| SKIPPER IRESON’S RIDE. | 62 |
| THE SYCAMORES. | 64 |
| THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW. | 66 |
| TELLING THE BEES. | 67 |
| THE SWAN SONG OF PARSON AVERY. | 67 |
| THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY. | 69 |
| MABEL MARTIN. | 70 |
| THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL. | 75 |
| THE RED RIPER VOYAGEUR. | 78 |
| THE PREACHER. | 78 |
| THE TRUCE OF PISCATAQUA. | 84 |
| MY PLAYMATE. | 87 |
| COBBLER KEEZAR’S VISION. | 88 |
| AMY WENTWORTH | 90 |
| 92 |
| AMONG THE HILLS | 95 |
| PRELUDE. | 95 |
| THE DOLE OF JARL THORKELL. | 102 |
| THE TWO RABBINS. | 104 |
| NOREMBEGA. | 105 |
| MIRIAM. | 107 |
| NAUHAUGHT, THE DEACON. | 113 |
| THE SISTERS. | 115 |
| MARGUERITE. | 116 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM. | 117 |
| 130 |
| THE THREE BELLS. | 132 |
| JOHN UNDERHILL. | 133 |
| CONDUCTOR BRADLEY. | 135 |
| THE WITCH OF WENHAM. | 136 |
| I. | 136 |
| II. | 137 |
| KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS | 139 |
| IN THE “OLD SOUTH.” | 139 |
| THE HENCHMAN. | 140 |
| THE DEAD FEAST OF THE KOL-FOLK. | 141 |
| VALUATION. | 145 |
| RABBI ISHMAEL. | 145 |
| THE ROCK-TOMB OF BRADORE. | 146 |
| THE BAY OF SEVEN ISLANDS. | 147 |
| THE WISHING BRIDGE. | 150 |
| HOW THE WOMEN WENT FROM DOVER. | 150 |
| SAINT GREGORY’S GUEST. | 153 |
| BIRCHBROOK MILL. | 153 |
| A. D. 1780. | 155 |
| REQUITAL. | 156 |
| THE HOMESTEAD. | 156 |
| HOW THE ROBIN CAME. | 157 |
| BANISHED FROM MASSACHUSETTS. | 158 |
| THE BROWN DWARF OF RUGEN. | 159 |
| CONTENTS | 161 |
| THE FROST SPIRIT | 163 |
| THE MERRIMAC. | 163 |
| HAMPTON BEACH | 165 |
| A DREAM OF SUMMER. | 166 |
| THE LAKESIDE | 166 |
| AUTUMN THOUGHTS | 167 |
| ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE’S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. | 167 |
| APRIL. | 168 |
| PICTURES | 169 |
| SUMMER BY THE LAKESIDE | 170 |
| THE FRUIT-GIFT. | 171 |
| FLOWERS IN WINTER | 172 |
| THE MAYFLOWERS | 172 |
| THE LAST WALK IN AUTUMN. | 173 |
| THE FIRST FLOWERS | 176 |
| THE OLD BURYING-GROUND. | 177 |
| THE PALM-TREE. | 178 |
| THE RIVER PATH. | 179 |
| MOUNTAIN PICTURES. | 179 |
| THE VANISHERS. | 181 |
| THE PAGEANT. | 182 |
| THE PRESSED GENTIAN. | 183 |
| A MYSTERY. | 183 |
| A SEA DREAM. | 184 |
| HAZEL BLOSSOMS. | 185 |
| SUNSET ON THE BEARCAMP. | 186 |
| THE SEEKING OF THE WATERFALL. | 187 |
| THE TRAILING ARBUTUS | 189 |
| ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER. | 189 |
| STORM ON LAKE ASQUAM. | 190 |
| A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE. | 190 |
| SWEET FERN. | 192 |
| THE WOOD GIANT | 192 |
| RAPHAEL. | 194 |
| EGO. | 195 |
| THE PUMPKIN. | 197 |
| FORGIVENESS. | 198 |
| TO MY SISTER, | 198 |
| MY THANKS, | 199 |
| REMEMBRANCE | 200 |
| MY NAMESAKE. | 201 |
| A MEMORY | 203 |
| MY DREAM. | 203 |
| THE BAREFOOT BOY. | 204 |
| MY PSALM. | 206 |
| THE WAITING. | 206 |
| MY TRIUMPH. | 218 |
| IN SCHOOL-DAYS. | 219 |
| MY BIRTHDAY. | 220 |
| RED RIDING-HOOD. | 220 |
| RESPONSE. | 221 |
| AT EVENTIDE. | 221 |
| VOYAGE OF THE JETTIE. | 222 |
| MY TRUST. | 224 |
| A NAME | 224 |
| GREETING. | 225 |
| AN AUTOGRAPH. | 225 |
| ABRAM MORRISON. | 226 |
| A LEGACY | 227 |
| THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM | 228 |
| THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN | 229 |
| THE CALL OF THE CHRISTIAN | 230 |
| THE CRUCIFIXION. | 230 |
| PALESTINE | 231 |
| HYMNS. | 232 |
| THE FAMILIST’S HYMN. | 234 |
| EZEKIEL | 236 |
| WHAT THE VOICE SAID | 237 |
| THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE. | 238 |
| THE WIFE OF MANOAH TO HER HUSBAND. | 239 |
| MY SOUL AND I | 240 |
| WORSHIP. | 242 |
| THE HOLY LAND | 243 |
| THE REWARD | 244 |
| THE WISH OF TO-DAY. | 244 |
| ALL’S WELL | 245 |
| INVOCATION | 245 |
| QUESTIONS OF LIFE | 245 |
| FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS. | 248 |
| TRUST. | 248 |
| TRINITAS. | 248 |
| THE SISTERS | 249 |
| THE OVER-HEART. | 250 |
| THE SHADOW AND THE LIGHT. | 251 |
| THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL. | 253 |
| ANDREW RYKMAN’S PRAYER | 254 |
| THE ANSWER. | 256 |
| THE ETERNAL GOODNESS. | 257 |
| THE COMMON QUESTION. | 258 |
| OUR MASTER. | 259 |
| THE MEETING. | 261 |
| THE CLEAR VISION. | 264 |
| DIVINE COMPASSION. | 265 |
| THE PRAYER-SEEKER. | 265 |
| THE BREWING OF SOMA. | 266 |
| A WOMAN. | 267 |
| THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ. | 267 |
| IN QUEST | 269 |
| THE FRIEND’S BURIAL. | 270 |
| A CHRISTMAS CARMEN. | 271 |
| VESTA. | 271 |
| CHILD-SONGS. | 271 |
| THE HEALER. | 272 |
| THE TWO ANGELS. | 273 |
| OVERRULED. | 273 |
| HYMN OF THE DUNKERS | 273 |
| GIVING AND TAKING. | 274 |
| THE VISION OF ECHARD. | 275 |
| INSCRIPTIONS. | 277 |
| ON A FOUNTAIN. | 277 |
| THE MINISTER’S DAUGHTER. | 277 |
| BY THEIR WORKS. | 278 |
| THE WORD. | 278 |
| THE BOOK. | 278 |
| REQUIREMENT. | 279 |
| HELP. | 279 |
| ORIENTAL MAXIMS. | 279 |
| LAYING UP TREASURE | 280 |
| CONDUCT | 280 |
| AN EASTER FLOWER GIFT. | 280 |
| THE MYSTIC’S CHRISTMAS. | 280 |
| AT LAST. | 281 |
| WHAT THE TRAVELLER SAID AT SUNSET. | 281 |
| THE “STORY OF IDA.” | 282 |
| THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. | 282 |
| THE TWO LOVES | 283 |
| ADJUSTMENT. | 283 |
| HYMNS OF THE BRAHMO SOMAJ. | 283 |
| REVELATION. | 284 |
| CONTENTS: | 285 |
| SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM: | 286 |
| NOTES | 286 |
| TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON | 286 |
| TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE. | 287 |
| THE SLAVE-SHIPS. | 291 |
| EXPOSTULATION. | 293 |
| HYMN. | 295 |
| THE YANKEE GIRL. | 295 |
| THE HUNTERS OF MEN. | 296 |
| STANZAS FOR THE TIMES. | 297 |
| CLERICAL OPPRESSORS. | 298 |
| A SUMMONS | 299 |
| TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS SHIPLEY. | 300 |
| THE MORAL WARFARE. | 301 |
| RITNER. | 302 |
| THE PASTORAL LETTER | 303 |
| HYMN | 305 |
| 306 |
| PENNSYLVANIA HALL. | 307 |
| THE NEW YEAR. | 309 |
| THE WORLD’S CONVENTION | 312 |
| MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA. | 316 |
| THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE. | 318 |
| THE SENTENCE OF JOHN L. BROWN | 319 |
| THE SENTENCE OF JOHN L. BROWN. | 319 |
| TEXAS | 321 |
| TO FANEUIL HALL. | 323 |
| TO MASSACHUSETTS. | 323 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE. | 324 |
| THE PINE-TREE. | 324 |
| TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN. | 325 |
| THE BRANDED HAND. | 328 |
| A LETTER. | 329 |
| 331 |
| SONG OF SLAVES IN THE DESERT. | 333 |
| TO DELAWARE. | 334 |
| YORKTOWN. | 334 |
| RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE. | 336 |
| THE LOST STATESMAN. | 337 |
| THE SLAVES OF MARTINIQUE. | 338 |
| THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS. | 339 |
| PAEAN. | 341 |
| THE CRISIS. | 342 |
| LINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHER. | 343 |
| DERNE. | 344 |
| A SABBATH SCENE. | 346 |
| IN THE EVIL DAYS. | 347 |
| MOLOCH IN STATE STREET. | 348 |
| OFFICIAL PIETY. | 349 |
| ARISEN AT LAST. | 350 |
| THE HASCHISH. | 351 |
| FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE. | 351 |
| THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. | 352 |
| 352 |
| BURIAL OF BARBER. | 354 |
| LE MARAIS DU CYGNE. | 355 |
| THE PASS OF THE SIERRA. | 356 |
| A SONG FOR THE TIME. | 357 |
| WHAT OF THE DAY? | 357 |
| THE PANORAMA. | 358 |
| ON A PRAYER-BOOK, | 367 |
| THE SUMMONS. | 368 |
| TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD. | 369 |
| THY WILL BE DONE. | 370 |
| A WORD FOR THE HOUR. | 370 |
| THE WATCHERS. | 372 |
| MITHRIDATES AT CHIOS. | 374 |
| AT PORT ROYAL. | 375 |
| SONG OF THE NEGRO BOATMEN. | 375 |
| ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL. | 376 |
| THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862. | 377 |
| HYMN, | 378 |
| THE PROCLAMATION. | 378 |
| ANNIVERSARY POEM. | 378 |
| BARBARA FRIETCHIE. | 380 |
| WHAT THE BIRDS SAID. | 381 |
| THE MANTLE OF ST. JOHN DE MATHA. | 382 |
| LAUS DEO! | 383 |
| 384 |
| AFTER THE WAR. | 385 |
| TO THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. | 385 |
| THE HIVE AT GETTYSBURG. | 386 |
| HOWARD AT ATLANTA. | 386 |
| THE EMANCIPATION GROUP. | 387 |
| THE JUBILEE SINGERS. | 388 |
| GARRISON. | 388 |
| THE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME. | 389 |
| DEMOCRACY. | 389 |
| THE GALLOWS. | 390 |
| SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. | 392 |
| THE HUMAN SACRIFICE. | 393 |
| SONGS OF LABOR. | 396 |
| THE SHOEMAKERS. | 397 |
| THE FISHERMEN. | 398 |
| THE LUMBERMEN. | 399 |
| THE SHIP-BUILDERS | 400 |
| THE DROVERS. | 401 |
| THE HUSKERS. | 402 |
| THE REFORMER. | 404 |
| THE PEACE CONVENTION AT BRUSSELS. | 405 |
| THE PRISONER FOR DEBT. | 407 |
| THE CHRISTIAN TOURISTS. | 408 |
| THE MEN OF OLD. | 409 |
| TO PIUS IX. | 410 |
| CALEF IN BOSTON. | 411 |
| OUR STATE. | 412 |
| THE PRISONERS OF NAPLES. | 412 |
| THE PEACE OF EUROPE. | 414 |
| ASTRAEA. | 414 |
| THE DISENTHRALLED. | 415 |
| THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY. | 415 |
| THE DREAM OF PIO NONO. | 415 |
| THE NEW EXODUS. | 418 |
| THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND. | 418 |
| THE EVE OF ELECTION. | 419 |
| FROM PERUGIA. | 420 |
| ITALY. | 422 |
| FREEDOM IN BRAZIL. | 422 |
| AFTER ELECTION. | 423 |
| DISARMAMENT. | 423 |
| THE PROBLEM. | 424 |
| OUR COUNTRY. | 424 |
| ON THE BIG HORN. | 426 |
| CONTENTS | 428 |
| A LAMENT | 429 |
| TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS, | 430 |
| LINES | 431 |
| LEGGETT’S MONUMENT. | 434 |
| TO A FRIEND, | 434 |
| LUCY HOOPER. | 435 |
| FOLLEN. | 436 |
| TO J. P. | 438 |
| CHALKLEY HALL. | 439 |
| GONE | 440 |
| TO RONGE. | 441 |
| CHANNING. | 441 |
| TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER. | 443 |
| DANIEL WHEELER | 444 |
| TO FREDRIKA BREMER. | 446 |
| TO AVIS KEENE | 446 |
| THE HILL-TOP | 447 |
| ELLIOTT. | 448 |
| ICHABOD | 449 |
| THE LOST OCCASION. | 450 |
| WORDSWORTH | 451 |
| IN PEACE. | 452 |
| BENEDICITE. | 453 |
| KOSSUTH | 453 |
| TO MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER. | 454 |
| THE CROSS. | 456 |
| THE HERO. | 456 |
| RANTOUL. | 458 |
| WILLIAM FORSTER. | 459 |
| TO CHARLES SUMNER. | 460 |
| BURNS | 461 |
| TO GEORGE B. CHEEVER | 462 |
| TO JAMES T. FIELDS | 463 |
| THE MEMORY OF BURNS. | 464 |
| IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOSEPH STURGE. | 464 |
| BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE | 466 |
| NAPLES | 466 |
| A MEMORIAL | 467 |
| BRYANT ON HIS BIRTHDAY | 468 |
| THOMAS STARR KING | 468 |
| LINES ON A FLY-LEAF. | 469 |
| GEORGE L. STEARNS | 470 |
| GARIBALDI | 470 |
| TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD, | 471 |
| THE SINGER. | 472 |
| HOW MARY GREW. | 473 |
| SUMNER | 474 |
| THEIRS | 477 |
| FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. | 477 |
| WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT. | 478 |
| BAYARD TAYLOR. | 478 |
| OUR AUTOCRAT. | 479 |
| WITHIN THE GATE. | 480 |
| IN MEMORY. | 481 |
| WILSON | 481 |
| THE POET AND THE CHILDREN. | 482 |
| A WELCOME TO LOWELL | 482 |
| AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL. | 483 |
| MULFORD. | 483 |
| TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER | 483 |
| SAMUEL J. TILDEN. | 484 |
| EVA | 484 |
| A LAY OF OLD TIME. | 484 |
| A SONG OF HARVEST | 485 |
| KENOZA LAKE. | 486 |
| FOR AN AUTUMN FESTIVAL | 486 |
| THE QUAKER ALUMNI. | 487 |
| OUR RIVER. | 490 |
| REVISITED. | 492 |
| JUNE ON THE MERRIMAC. | 493 |
| HYMN | 494 |
| HYMN | 495 |
| A SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION. | 496 |
| CHICAGO | 498 |
| KINSMAN. | 498 |
| THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF LONGWOOD. | 498 |
| HYMN | 500 |
| LEXINGTON | 500 |
| THE LIBRARY. | 500 |
| CENTENNIAL HYMN. | 501 |
| AT SCHOOL-CLOSE. | 502 |
| HYMN OF THE CHILDREN. | 503 |
| THE LANDMARKS. | 503 |
| GARDEN | 504 |
| A GREETING | 505 |
| GODSPEED | 506 |
| WINTER ROSES. | 506 |
| THE REUNION | 506 |
| NORUMBEGA HALL. | 507 |
| THE BARTHOLDI STATUE | 508 |
| ONE OF THE SIGNERS. | 508 |
| THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH | 512 |
| THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE | 515 |
| THE BROTHER OF MERCY. | 519 |
| THE CHANGELING. | 520 |
| THE MAIDS OF ATTITASH. | 521 |
| KALLUNDBORG CHURCH | 523 |
| THE CABLE HYMN. | 525 |
| THE DEAD SHIP OF HARPSWELL. | 526 |
| THE PALATINE. | 527 |
| ABRAHAM DAVENPORT | 529 |
| THE WORSHIP OF NATURE. | 530 |
| THE CHRISTMAS OF 1888. | 531 |
| THE VOW OF WASHINGTON. | 532 |
| THE CAPTAIN’S WELL. | 533 |
| AN OUTDOOR RECEPTION. | 535 |
| R. S. S., AT DEER ISLAND ON THE MERRIMAC. | 536 |
| BURNING DRIFT-WOOD | 536 |
| O. W. HOLMES ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTH-DAY. | 538 |
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. | 538 |
| HAVERHILL. | 538 |
| TO G. G. | 540 |
| INSCRIPTION | 540 |
| LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY. | 540 |
| MILTON | 540 |
| THE BIRTHDAY WREATH | 541 |
| THE WIND OF MARCH. | 541 |
| BETWEEN THE GATES. | 541 |
| THE LAST EVE OF SUMMER. | 542 |
| MARGARET SMITH’S JOURNAL IN THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 1678-9 | 544 |
| MARGARET SMITH’S JOURNAL | 544 |
| KATHLEEN. | 617 |
| June 4 | 636 |
| CHAPTER I. | 641 |
| CHAPTER III. | 648 |
| CHAPTER IV. | 655 |
| CHAPTER V. | 659 |
| CHAPTER VI. | 662 |
| CONTENTS | 761 |
| NATHANIEL PEABODY ROGERS. | 869 |
| ROBERT DINSMORE. | 885 |
| PLACIDO, THE SLAVE POET. | 893 |
| THE FUNERAL OF TORREY. | 897 |
| EDWARD EVERETT. | 899 |
| LEWIS TAPPAN. | 901 |
| BAYARD TAYLOR | 902 |
| WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING | 902 |
| DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD. | 903 |
| LYDIA MARIA CHILD. | 903 |
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | 915 |
| LONGFELLOW | 916 |
| OLD NEWBURY. | 916 |
| SCHOOLDAY REMEMBRANCES. | 918 |
| EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE. | 919 |
| DANIEL O’CONNELL. | 920 |
| ENGLAND UNDER JAMES II. | 934 |
| THE BORDER WAR OF 1708. | 944 |
| THE GREAT IPSWICH FRIGHT. | 950 |
| POPE NIGHT. | 954 |
| THE BOY CAPTIVES. | 957 |
| THE BLACK MEN IN THE REVOLUTION AND WAR OF 1812. | 962 |
| THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS. | 967 |
| THE PILGRIMS OF PLYMOUTH. | 974 |
| GOVERNOR ENDICOTT. | 976 |
| JOHN WINTHROP. | 976 |
| CONTENTS: | 977 |
| THE ABOLITIONISTS 79 | 1012 |
| LETTER TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL. | 1016 |
| THE BIBLE AND SLAVERY. | 1021 |
| WHAT IS SLAVERY | 1022 |
| READING FOR THE BLIND. | 1087 |
| THE INDIAN QUESTION. | 1087 |
| THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. | 1088 |
| OUR DUMB RELATIONS. | 1089 |
| INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. | 1090 |
| SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN. | 1091 |
| THE INNER LIFE | 1092 |
| DORA GREEN WELL. | 1109 |
| I. | 1121 |
| II. | 1124 |
| JOHN WOOLMAN’S JOURNAL. | 1126 |
