Sketches
BY N. P. WILLIS.
‘—— If I remember,
You loved such stories once, thinking they brought
Man to a fine and true humanity.’
Barry Cornwall.
BOSTON: S. G. GOODRICH, 141, WASHINGTON ST.
MDCCCXXVII.
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit :
District Clerk’s Office.
Be it remembered, that on the thirtieth day of November, A. D. 1827, in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America, N. P. Willis , of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : ‘Sketches. By N. P. Willis.
“—— If I remember,
You loved such stories once, thinking they brought
Nathaniel Parker Willis
SKETCHES:
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
SKETCHES.
THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM.
ABSALOM.
HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS.
JEPHTHAH’S DAUGHTER.
IDLENESS.
DREAMS.
OCTOBER.
BOYHOOD.
NIGHT SKETCHES.
TWILIGHT.
DAWN.
SCRAPS FROM A JOURNAL.
BETTER MOMENTS.
THE HINDOO MOTHER.
WAITING FOR THE HARVESTERS.
FUGITIVE PIECES.
THE SOLDIER’S WIDOW.
THE BURIAL OF ARNOLD,
TO LAURA W——,
SONNET.
SONNET.
SONNET.
EXTRACT FROM A POEM
NOTES.
Transcriber’s Notes
