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| The Ages | [11] |
| Thanatopsis | [21] |
| The Yellow Violet | [23] |
| Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood | [24] |
| Song | [26] |
| To a Waterfowl | [26] |
| Green River | [27] |
| A Winter Piece | [29] |
| The West Wind | [33] |
| The Burial-place—A Fragment | [34] |
| "Blessed are they that Mourn" | [35] |
| "No Man knoweth his Sepulchre" | [36] |
| A Walk at Sunset | [37] |
| Hymn to Death | [39] |
| The Massacre at Scio | [43] |
| The Indian Girl's Lament | [44] |
| Ode for an Agricultural Celebration | [46] |
| Rizpah | [47] |
| The Old Man's Funeral | [49] |
| The Rivulet | [50] |
| March | [53] |
| Consumption | [54] |
| An Indian Story | [54] |
| Summer Wind | [57] |
| An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers | [58] |
| Song | [61] |
| Hymn of the Waldenses | [62] |
| Monument Mountain | [63] |
| After a Tempest | [66] |
| Autumn Woods | [68] |
| Mutation | [70] |
| November | [70] |
| Song of the Greek Amazon | [71] |
| To a Cloud | [72] |
| The Murdered Traveller | [73] |
| Hymn to the North Star | [74] |
| The Lapse of Time | [75] |
| Song of the Stars | [77] |
| A Forest Hymn | [79] |
| "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids" | [82] |
| "I broke the Spell that held me long" | [83] |
| June | [83] |
| A Song of Pitcairn's Island | [86] |
| The Firmament | [86] |
| "I cannot forget with what Fervid Devotion" | [88] |
| To a Mosquito | [89] |
| Lines on Revisiting the Country | [91] |
| The Death of the Flowers | [92] |
| Romero | [93] |
| A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal | [95] |
| The New Moon | [98] |
| October | [99] |
| The Damsel of Peru | [100] |
| The African Chief | [101] |
| Spring in Town | [103] |
| The Gladness of Nature | [105] |
| The Disinterred Warrior | [106] |
| Midsummer | [107] |
| The Greek Partisan | [108] |
| The Two Graves | [109] |
| The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus | [111] |
| A Summer Ramble | [113] |
| A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson | [115] |
| The Hurricane | [116] |
| William Tell | [118] |
| The Hunter's Serenade | [118] |
| The Greek Boy | [120] |
| The Past | [121] |
| "Upon the Mountain's Distant Head" | [123] |
| The Evening Wind | [124] |
| "When the Firmament Quivers with Daylight's Young Beam" | [125] |
| "Innocent Child and Snow-white Flower" | [126] |
| To the River Arve | [126] |
| To Cole, the Painter, departing for Europe | [127] |
| To the Fringed Gentian | [128] |
| The Twenty-second of December | [129] |
| Hymn of the City | [129] |
| The Prairies | [130] |
| Song of Marion's Men | [134] |
| The Arctic Lover | [135] |
| The Journey of Life | [137] |
| Translations: | |
| Version of a Fragment of Simonides | [138] |
| From the Spanish of Villegas | [139] |
| Mary Magdalen. (From the Spanish of Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola) | [139] |
| The Life of the Blessed. (From the Spanish of Luis Ponce de Leon) | [140] |
| Fatima and Raduan. (From the Spanish) | [142] |
| Love and Folly. (From La Fontaine) | [143] |
| The Siesta. (From the Spanish) | [144] |
| The Alcayde of Molina. (From the Spanish) | [145] |
| The Death of Aliatar. (From the Spanish) | [146] |
| Love in the Age of Chivalry. (From Peyre Vidal, the Troubadour) | [148] |
| The Love of God. (From the Provençal of Bernard Rascas) | [149] |
| From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro y Añaya | [150] |
| Sonnet. (From the Portuguese of Semedo) | [161] |
| Song. (From the Spanish of Iglesias) | [151] |
| The Count of Greiers. (From the German of Uhland) | [152] |
| The Serenade. (From the Spanish) | [153] |
| A Northern Legend. (From the German of Uhland) | [155] |
| The Paradise of Tears. (From the German of N. Müller) | [156] |
| The Lady of Castle Windeck. (From the German of Chamisso) | [157] |
| Later Poems: | |
| To the Apennines | [159] |
| Earth | [160] |
| The Knight's Epitaph | [163] |
| The Hunter of the Prairies | [165] |
| Seventy-six | [166] |
| The Living Lost | [168] |
| Catterskill Falls | [169] |
| The Strange Lady | [172] |
| "Earth's Children Cleave to Earth" | [176] |
| The Hunter's Vision | [176] |
| The Green Mountain Boys | [178] |
| A Presentiment | [179] |
| The Child's Funeral | [180] |
| The Battle-field | [181] |
| The Future Life | [183] |
| The Death of Schiller | [184] |
| The Fountain | [185] |
| The Winds | [188] |
| The Old Man's Counsel | [191] |
| In Memory of William Leggett | [193] |
| An Evening Revery | [194] |
| The Painted Cup | [196] |
| A Dream | [197] |
| The Antiquity of Freedom | [198] |
| The Maiden's Sorrow | [200] |
| The Return of Youth | [201] |
| A Hymn of the Sea | [203] |
| Noon. (From an unfinished Poem) | [205] |
| The Crowded Street | [206] |
| The White-footed Deer | [208] |
| The Waning Moon | [210] |
| The Stream of Life | [212] |
| The Unknown Way | [212] |
| "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race" | [214] |
| The Land of Dreams | [215] |
| The Burial of Love | [217] |
| "The May Sun sheds an Amber Light" | [218] |
| The Voice of Autumn | [219] |
| The Conqueror's Grave | [220] |
| The Planting of the Apple-Tree | [222] |
| The Snow-Shower | [225] |
| A Rain-Dream | [226] |
| Robert of Lincoln | [229] |
| The Twenty-seventh of March | [231] |
| An Invitation to the Country | [232] |
| Song for New-Year's Eve | [234] |
| The Wind and Stream | [235] |
| The Lost Bird. (From the Spanish of Carolina Coronado de Perry) | [236] |
| The Night-Journey of a River | [237] |
| The Life that Is | [240] |
| Song.—"These Prairies Glow with Flowers" | [241] |
| A Sick-Bed | [242] |
| The Song of the Sower | [244] |
| The New and the Old | [249] |
| The Cloud on the Way | [250] |
| The Tides | [252] |
| Italy | [253] |
| A Day-Dream | [255] |
| The Ruins of Italica. (From the Spanish of Rioja) | [257] |
| Waiting by the Gate | [260] |
| Not Yet | [262] |
| Our Country's Call | [263] |
| The Constellations | [265] |
| The Third of November, 1861 | [266] |
| The Mother's Hymn | [267] |
| Sella | [268] |
| The Fifth Book of Homer's Odyssey.—Translated | [282] |
| The Little People of the Snow | [297] |
| The Poet | [306] |
| The Path | [308] |
| The Return of the Birds | [310] |
| "He hath put all Things under His Feet" | [312] |
| My Autumn Walk | [313] |
| Dante | [315] |
| The Death of Lincoln | [316] |
| The Death of Slavery | [317] |
| Hymn.—"Receive thy Sight" | [319] |
| A Brighter Day | [320] |
| Among the Trees | [321] |
| May Evening | [325] |
| October, 1866 | [327] |
| The Order of Nature. (From Boethius de Consolatione) | [329] |
| Tree-Burial | [330] |
| A Legend of the Delawares | [332] |
| A Lifetime | [336] |
| The Two Travellers | [341] |
| Christmas in 1875. (Supposed to be written by a Spaniard) | [343] |
| The Flood of Years | [344] |
| Our Fellow-Worshippers | [348] |
| Notes: | | [350] |