| [SKETCHES.] |
| [The Sacrifice of Abraham] | 9 |
| [Absalom] | 14 |
| [Hagar in the Wilderness] | 20 |
| [Jephthah’s Daughter] | 26 |
| [Idleness] | 32 |
| [Dreams] | 34 |
| [October] | 38 |
| [Boyhood] | 41 |
| [Night Sketches] | 44 |
| [Twilight] | 49 |
| [Dawn] | 51 |
| [Scraps from a Journal] | 53 |
| [Better Moments] | 61 |
| [The Hindoo Mother] | 65 |
| [Waiting for the Harvesters] | 75 |
| [FUGITIVE PIECES.] |
| [The Soldier’s Widow] | 79 |
| [The Burial of Arnold] | 81 |
| [To Laura W——] | 84 |
| [Sonnets] | 87, 88, 89 |
| [Extract from a Poem Delivered at the Departureof the Senior Class of Yale College in 1826] | 90 |
| [Notes] | 95 |