The Sleep,

The Sexton,

The Grave,

If I had Thought,

Coronach,

Thoughts while making the Grave of a New-born

Nathaniel P. Willis.

300

302

James R. Lowell.

James R. Lowell.

303

James R. Lowell.

304

James R. Lowell. 305

Emily Bronte. 307

Dinah Maria Mulock. 308

Ludwig Uhland.

309

Fragment,.

An Evening Guest,

The Passage,

CONTENTS.

xiii

PAGE

Elizabeth B. Browning. 294

Anonymous. 296

7. G. Von Salis. 297

Charles Wolfe. 298

Sir Walter Scott. 299

Child,

Auf Wiedersehen! (Summer),

Palinode. (Autumn), .

After the Burial,

The Dead House,

Footsteps of Angels,

Heroes,

The Difference,

My Psalm,

The Three Voices,

The Cloud on the Way,

Messiah, .

A Christmas Hymn,

Christmas,

Epiphany,

The Star of Bethlehem,

The Crucifixion,

The Crucifixion,

Whence and Whither,

The Ascension,

Gethsemane,

Douglas, Douglas, tender and true,

Dinah Maria Mulock. 310

Henry W. Longfellow. 311

Edna Dean Proctor. 312

Evangeline M. Johnson. 314

John G. Whittier. 315

Anonymous. 317

William C. Bryant. 318

Alexander Pope. 320

Alfred Dommett. 323

Alfred Tennyson. 325

Bishop Heber. 326

Henry Kirke White. 327

Henry Hart Milman. 328

James Montgomery. 329

Francis T. Palgrave. 330

Charles Wesley. 334

William O. Stoddard. 335

Pilgrimage,

Litany,

The Stranger,

The Seraph throwing off his Disguise,

Thomas Parnell. 340

Christus Consolator,

Francis T. Palgrave. 340

"How amiable are Thy Tabernacles," Henry F. Lyte. 341

Arthur C. Coxe. 342

The Heart's Song,

Christ's Call to the Soul,

Consolation,

"Christ turned and looked upon Peter,"

PAGE

Sir Walter Raleigh. 336

Sir Robert Grant. 336

James Montgomery. 338

Imperfection of Human Sympathy,

We are Growing Old,

Watching for Dawn,

The Return of Youth,

Labor and Rest,

God,

The Soul,

The spacious Firmament on high,

Son-dayes,

The Spiritual Temple,

Soul and Body,

The Lord the Good Shepherd,

O Saviour! whose Mercy,

"Tempted like as we are,"

"Can find out God?"

Elizabeth B. Browning. 345

Samuel M. Waring. 345

James Montgomery. 346

Adelaide A. Procter. 347

Adelaide A. Procter. 348

George Herbert. 349

John Keble. 350

Frances Browne. 351

Anonymous. 353

William C. Bryant. 354

Dinah Maria Mulock. 355

Francis Quarles. 356

Sir John Davis. 357

Joseph Addison. 359

Henry Vaughan. 360

7. T. 361

William Shakespeare. 364

James Montgomery. 364

Sir Robert Grant. 365

Sir Robert Grant. 366

Eliza Scudder. 367

Savonarola. 343

Crabbe. 344

Bringing our Sheaves with us,

"It is more Blessed,"

The Twins,

Wearniness,

Per Pacem ad Lucem,

"Follow Thou Me,"

Presumption and Despair,

Extreme Unction,

Lines written in a Bible,

Song of the Silent Land,

The Future Life,

Lines written in a Churchyard,

Shall I fear, O Earth, thy Bosom ?

"My Times are in Thy Hand,"

A Strip of Blue,

The Closing Scene,

Desiderium,

Our Baby,

The River Path,

The Golden Street,

Rest,

Johann W. Von Goethe.

Elizabeth Akers.

Anonymous.

374

Robert Browning. 375

Henry W. Longfellow. 376

Adelaide A. Procter. 377

Lucy Larcom. 378

Richard Chevenix Trench. 379

James Russell Lowell. 380

Lord Byron. 383

J. G. Von Salis. 383

William C. Bryant. 384

Herbert Knowles. 385

Thomas Davis. 387

Anonymous. 388

Lucy Larcom. 389

Thomas Buchanan Read. 391

Barry Gray. 394

Samuel T. Coleridge. 396

William C. Wilkinson. 397

The Rose, Edmund Waller and Henry Kirke White.

Ships at Sea,

The Teacher Taught,

Enticed,

399

Under the Violets, .

Oliver W. Holmes.

400

William C. Wilkinson. 402

Phabe Cary. 403

John G. Whittier. 404

William O. Stoddard. 406

407

XV

PAGE

W. H. Hurlburt.

368

John G. Whittier. 369

Philip Doddridge. 369

Hartley Coleridge. 370

Oliver W. Holmes. 370

372

373

The Cloud,

My Ain Countree,

Nearer Home,

The Genius of Death,

A Dirge,

To the Southern Cross,

As Down in the Sunless Retreats,

In View of Death, .

The Soul's Passing,

The Dying Christain to his Soul,

My Friend, .

A Year in Heaven,

A Year in Heaven,

A Little While,"

Farewell Life, Welcome Life,

Life's "Good-morning,"

Palms of Glory,

Heaven,

Thou art gone to the Grave,

I know Thou hast Gone,

"

415

Anonymous. 415

Charles H. Hitchings. 416

419

420

420

Anna Letitia Barbauld.

James Montgomery. 421

Nancy A. W. Priest. 422

Bishop Heber.

423

Thomas K. Hervey. 423

Phoebe Cary.

425

Anonymous. 426

Lucy Larcom. 428

Jane Crewdson.

430

Jane Crewdson. 431

Bishop Heber. 432

Thomas de Celano. 432

A. C. Kendrick. 434

Abraham Coles. 436

Gabriel Romanowitch Derzhavin. 438

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John Wilson. 408
Anonymous. 409
Phabe Cary. 410
George Croly. 411

George Croly. 412

Emily C. Judson. 414

Thomas Moore.

Alexander Pope.

Thomas Hood.

OUR POETICAL FAVORITES.

The Voiceless.

WE

E count the broken lyres that rest
Where the sweet wailing singers slumber,
But o'er their silent sister's breast

The wild-flowers who will stoop to number?

A few can touch the magic string,

And noisy fame is proud to win them; Alas for those who never sing,

But die with all their music in them!

Nay, grieve not for the dead alone

Whose song has told their hearts' sad story;
Weep for the voiceless, who have known
The cross without the crown of glory!
Not where Leucadian breezes sweep

O'er Sappho's memory-haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep O'er nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow.

O hearts that break and give no sign
Save-whitening lip and fading tresses,
Till Death pours out his cordial wine,
Slow-dropped from Misery's crushing presses!
If singing breath or echoing cord

To every hidden pang were given,
What endless melodies were poured,

As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
OLIVER W. HOLMES.