[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

SKETCHES.

THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM.

Morn breaketh in the east. The purple clouds

Are putting on their gold and violet,

To look the meeter for the sun’s bright coming.

Sleep is upon the waters and the wind;

And nature, from the tremulous forest leaf

To her majestic master, sleeps. As yet