This Collection
is affectionately and reverently
Dedicated
TO MY MOTHER,
IN GRATITUDE FOR WHATSOEVER PORTION I INHERIT OF
HER OWN SWEET
GIFT OF SONG.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| EARLY POEMS. (Published 1860.) | |
| Bohemia: A Pilgrimage | [3] |
| The Diamond Wedding | [10] |
| Penelope | [17] |
| The Singer | [21] |
| Heliotrope | [21] |
| Rosemary | [23] |
| Summer Rain | [25] |
| Too Late | [28] |
| Voice of the Western Wind | [29] |
| Flood-Tide | [30] |
| Apollo | [40] |
| The Ordeal by Fire | [40] |
| The Protest of Faith | [44] |
| The Freshet | [48] |
| The Sleigh-Ride | [56] |
| The Ballad of Lager Bier | [58] |
| How Old Brown took Harper’s Ferry | [64] |
| SONNETS. | |
| Hope deferred | [71] |
| A Mother’s Picture | [72] |
| POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. | |
| Elfin Song | [75] |
| Amavi | [79] |
| Ode To Pastoral Romance | [80] |
| ALICE OF MONMOUTH and other Poems. (Published 1864.) | |
| Alice of Monmouth | [91] |
| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. | |
| Alectryôn | [145] |
| The Test | [152] |
| The Old Love and the New | [154] |
| Estelle | [158] |
| Edged Tools | [160] |
| The Swallow | [162] |
| Refuge in Nature | [163] |
| Montagu | [165] |
| Wild Winds whistle | [168] |
| Peter Stuyvesant’s New Year’s Call | [170] |
| TRANSLATION. | |
| Jean Prouvaire’s Song at the Barricade | [179] |
| THE BLAMELESS PRINCE and other Poems. (Published 1869.) | |
| The Blameless Prince | [187] |
| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. | |
| I. Songs and Studies. | |
| Surf | [237] |
| Toujours Amour | [238] |
| Laura, my Darling | [239] |
| The Tryst | [240] |
| Violet Eyes | [241] |
| The Doorstep | [242] |
| Fuit Ilium | [244] |
| Country Sleighing | [247] |
| Pan in Wall Street | [250] |
| Anonyma | [253] |
| Spoken at Sea | [255] |
| The Duke’s Exequy | [257] |
| The Hillside Door | [259] |
| At Twilight | [261] |
| II. Poems of Nature. | |
| Woods and Waters | [263] |
| To Bayard Taylor | [265] |
| The Mountain | [266] |
| Holyoke Valley | [270] |
| The Feast of Harvest | [272] |
| Autumn Song | [275] |
| What the Winds bring | [275] |
| Betrothed Anew | [276] |
| III. Shadow-land. | |
| “The Undiscovered Country” | [278] |
| “Darkness and the Shadow” | [279] |
| The Assault by Night | [279] |
| George Arnold | [281] |
| The Sad Bridal | [283] |
| OCCASIONAL POEMS. | |
| Sumter | [287] |
| Wanted—A Man | [289] |
| Treason’s Last Device | [291] |
| Abraham Lincoln | [293] |
| Israel Freyer’s Bid for Gold | [293] |
| Cuba | [297] |
| Crete | [299] |
| The Old Admiral | [300] |
| Gettysburg | [303] |
| Dartmouth Ode | [310] |
| Horace Greeley | [321] |
| LATER POEMS. | |
| The Songster | [327] |
| Crabbed Age and Youth | [331] |
| Stanzas for Music | [333] |
| The Flight of the Birds | [334] |
| Hypatia | [335] |
| The Heart of New England | [338] |
