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Verses from The island book

Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895)

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ON A SOLITARY GRAVE FOUND ON THE ISLAND.

[You say they're happy now]

SUNG AT THE HUNT, OCT. 1839.

ESCAPE OF THE BUCK.

SUNG AT THE HUNT OF 1868.

[Farewell to Naushon, but we ne'er can forget]

THE EVENING STAR.

TO A VIOLET FOUND NEAR ROBERT'S GRAVE.

ON THE CHRISTENING OF A CHILD TO WHOM THE NAME OF ROBERT SWAIN WAS GIVEN.

NAUSHON. A POEM.

[Another year! another year!]

THE DYING FAWN.

JENNY LIND'S GREETING TO NAUSHON.

[Where does the spirit of gladness dwell?]

[You ask what's found at a watering-place]

THE GUARDIAN SPIRITS OF THE ISLAND TO THE LOVERS OF ITS WOODS AND WATERS.

PRAYER OF THE DEER.

THE STORM PETREL.

THE OLD BEECH TREES TO THEIR VOTARIES.

THE GOLDEN WEDDING.

THE HUNT OF 1857.

FAREWELL TO NAUSHON.

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Verses from The island book

William Wetmore Story

1819-1895

Printed at the Riverside Press

Cambridge

1865