| A Night on the Ice. | By Solitaire | 18 |
| Aunt Mable's Love Story. | By Susan Pindar | 107 |
| Angila Mervale. | By F. E. F. | 121 |
| A Written Leaf of Memory. | By Fanny Lee | 137 |
| An Indian-Summer Ramble. | By A. B. Street | 147 |
| A Leaf in the Life of Ledyard Lincoln. | By Mary Spencer Pease | 197 |
| A Pic-Nic in Olden Time. | By G. G. Foster | 229 |
| A Dream Within a Dream. | By C. A. Washburn | 233 |
| A Scene on the Susquehanna. | By Joseph R. Chandler | 275 |
| A Legend of Clare. | By J. Gerahty M'teague | 278 |
| A Day or Two in the Olden Time. | By A New Contributor | 287 |
| De Lamartine. | By Francis J. Grund | 25 |
| Edith Maurice. | By T. S. Arthur | 284 |
| Fiel a la Muerte, or True Loves Devotion. | By Henry W. Herbert | 4, 84, 153 |
| Going to Heaven. | By T. S. Arthur | 13 |
| Game-Birds of America. | By Prof. Frost | 291 |
| Gems from Late Readings | | 295 |
| Game-Birds of America. | By Prof. Frost | 357 |
| Gems from Late Readings | | 364 |
| My Aunt Polly. | By Mrs. E. C. Kinney | 34 |
| Mexican Jealousy. | By Ecolier | 172 |
| Mary Dunbar. | By the Author of "The Three Calls" | 268 |
| Mildred Ward. | By Caroline H. Butler | 301 |
| Mrs. Tiptop. | By Mrs. E. C. Kinney | 325 |
| Overboard in the Gulf. | By C. J. Peterson | 337 |
| Rising in the World. | By F. E. F. | 41 |
| Reflections on Some of the Events of the Year 1848. | By Joseph R. Chandler | 318 |
| Rochester's Return. | By Joseph A. Nunes | 341 |
| Sam Needy. | By Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro | 204 |
| Scouting Near Vera Cruz. | By Ecolier | 211 |
| The Fane-Builder. | By Emma C. Embury | 38 |
| The Sagamore of Saco. | By Elizabeth Oakes Smith\ | 47 |
| The Late Maria Brooks. | By R. W. Griswold | 61 |
| The Cruise of the Raker. | By Henry A. Clark | 69, 129, 188, 257 |
| The Maid of Bogota. | By W. Gilmore Simms | 75 |
| The Departure. | By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens | 93 |
| The Man Who Was Never Humbugged. | By A Limner | 112 |
| The Christmas Garland. | By Emma Wood | 163 |
| The Unmarried Belle. | By Enna Duval | 181 |
| The Humbling of a Fairy. | By G. G. Foster | 214 |
| The Will. | By Miss E. A. Dupuy | 220 |
| The Bride of Fate. | By W. Gilmore Simms | 241 |
| The Knights of the Ringlet. | By Giftie | 253 |
| The Sailor's Life-Tale. | By Sybil Sutherland | 311 |
| The Exhausted Topic. | By Caroline C—— | 330 |
| The Early Called. | By Mrs. Frances B. M. Brotherson | 347 |
| The Lady of Fernheath. | By Mary Spencer Pease | 349 |
| A New England Legend. | By Caroline F. Orne | 126 |
| A Farewell to a Happy Day. | By Frances S. Osgood | 203 |
| A Night Thought. | By T. Buchanan Read | 219 |
| A Voice for Poland. | By Wm. H. C. Hosmer | 228 |
| An Evening Song. | By Prof. Wm. Campbell | 235 |
| A Requiem in the North. | By J. B. Taylor | 256 |
| A Vision. | By E. Curtiss Hine | 267 |
| A Lay. | By Grace Greenwood | 310 |
| Angels on Earth. | By Blanche Bennairde | 324 |
| Brutus in His Tent. | By Wm. H. C. Hosmer | 115 |
| Death. | By Thomas Dunn English | 3 |
| Dream-Music. | By Frances S. Osgood | 39 |
| Description of a Visit to Niagara. | By Professor James Moffat | 106 |
| Dreams. | By E. O. H | 196 |
| Death. | By George S. Burleigh | 256 |
| Erin Waking. | By Wm. H. C. Hosmer | 360 |
| Gold. | By R. H. Stoddart | 3 |
| Gautama's Song of Rest. | By J. B. Taylor | 361 |
| Heads of the Poets. | By W. Gilmore Simms | 170 |
| Hope On—Hope Ever. | By E. Curtiss Hine | 171 |
| I Want to Go Home. | By Richard Coe, Jr. | 213 |
| Korner's Sister. | By Elizabeth J. Eames | 111 |
| Life. | By A. J. Requier | 294 |
| Love Thy Mother, Little One. | By Richard Coe, Jr. | 346 |
| Lines to a Sketch of J. Bayard Taylor, in His Alpine Costume. | By Geo. W. Dewey | 360 |
| My Bird. | By Mrs. Jane C. Campbell | 252 |
| My Love. | By J. Ives Pease | 294 |
| My Native Isle. | By Mary G. Horsford | 340 |
| My Father's Grave. | By S. D. Anderson | 361 |
| Ornithologoi. | By J. M. Legare | 1 |
| Ode to the Moon. | By Mrs. E. C. Kinney | 251 |
| One of the "Southern Tier of Counties. | By Alfred B. Street | 329 |
| Passed Away. | By W. Wallace Shaw | 234 |
| Pedro and Inez. | By Elizabeth J. Eames | 277 |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert. | By Henry W. Longfellow | 33 |
| Study. | By Henry S. Hagert | 37 |
| Summer. | By E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. | 105 |
| Sonnet. | By Caroline F. Orne | 106 |
| Song of Sleep. | By G. G. Foster | 128 |
| Sunshine and Rain. | By George S. Burleigh | 162 |
| Supplication. | By Fayette Robinson | 267 |
| Stanzas. | By S. S. Hornor | 286 |
| Sonnet. | By Elizabeth Oakes Smith | 340 |
| The Land of the West. | By T. Buchanan Read | 12 |
| To Lydia. | By G. G. Foster | 17 |
| The Thanksgiving of the Sorrowful. | By Mrs. Joseph C. Neal | 24 |
| The Night. | By M. E. T. | 33 |
| The Bob-o-link. | By George S. Burleigh | 33 |
| Twilight. | By H. D. G. | 46 |
| The Sachem's Hill. | By Alfred B. Street | 52 |
| The Hall of Independence. | By G. W. Dewey | 53 |
| To an Isle of the Sea. | By Mrs. J. W. Mercur | 56 |
| To Arabella. | By Mrs. E. C. Kinney | 56 |
| The Soul's Dream. | By George H. Boker | 74 |
| To the Eagle. | By Mrs. E. C. Kinney | 83 |
| The Block-House. | By Alfred B. Street | 92 |
| To Erato. | By Thomas Buchanan Read | 110 |
| The Laborer's Companions. | By George S. Burleigh | 110 |
| The Enchanted Knight. | By J. B. Taylor | 111 |
| The Sisters. | By G. G. Foster | 114 |
| To Violet. | By Jerome A. Maby | 115 |
| The Prayer of the Dying Girl. | By Samuel D. Patterson | 136 |
| The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight. | By Grace Greenwood | 146 |
| The Light of our Home. | By Thomas Buchanan Read | 146 |
| The Lost Pet. | By Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney | 152 |
| The Poet's Heart. | By Charles E. Trail | 161 |
| The Return to Scenes of Childhood. | By Gretta | 162 |
| To Guadalupe. | By Mayne Reid | 174 |
| The Faded Rose. | By G. G. Foster | 174 |
| The Child's Appeal. | By Mary G. Horsford | 175 |
| The Old Farm-House. | By Mary L. Lawson | 175 |
| Temper Life's Extremes. | By G. S. Burleigh | 187 |
| The Deformed Artist. | By Mrs. E. N. Horsford | 202 |
| The Angel of the Soul. | By J. Bayard Taylor | 210 |
| The Bard. | By S. Anna Lewis | 219 |
| To Her Who Can Understand It. | By Mayne Reid | 228 |
| To the Violet. | By H. T. Tuckerman | 232 |
| They May Tell of a Clime. | By C. E. Trail | 232 |
| The Battle of Life. | By Anne C. Lynch | 266 |
| The Prophet's Rebuke. | By Mrs. Juliet H. L. Campbell | 274 |
| The Mourners. | By Rev. T. L. Harris | 317 |
| The Gardener. | By George S. Burleigh | 328 |
| The Record of December. | By H. Morford | 335 |
| The Christian Hero's Epitaph. | By B. | 348 |
| The City of Mexico. | By M. E. Thropp | 356 |
| To a Rose-Bud. | By Y. S. | 359 |
| Visit to Greenwood Cemetery. | By Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney | 53 |
| Zenobia. | By Myron L. Mason | 185 |
| Endymion. | By Henry B. Hirst | 57 |
| Memoir of William Ellery Channing | | 58 |
| Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire | | 58 |
| Romance of the History of Louisiana. | By Charles Gayarre | 59 |
| The Life of Oliver Cromwell. | By J. T. Headley | 118 |
| A Supplement to the Plays of Shakspeare. | By Wm. Gilmore Simms | 119 |
| Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | By Alphonse de Lamartine | 119 |
| Hawkstone: A Tale of and for England in 184- | | 178 |
| The Planetary and Stellar Worlds | | 178 |
| Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings | | 179 |
| Calaynos. A Tragedy. | By George H. Boker | 238 |
| Literary Sketches and Letters | | 238 |
| Vanity Fair. | By W. M. Thackerway | 297 |
| Life, Letters and Literary Remains of Keats | | 297 |
| Principles of Political Economy. | By John Stuart Mill | 367 |