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Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis .

with a memoir of the author
Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867)

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Scriptural Poems.
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FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
  
HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS.
  
THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM.
  
THE SHUNAMMITE.
  
JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER.
  
DAVID'S GRIEF FOR HIS CHILD.
  
ABSALOM.
  
RIZPAH WITH HER SONS,
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(FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.)
  
BAPTISM OF CHRIST.
  
CHRIST'S ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM.
  
THE HEALING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS.
  
THE WIDOW OF NAIN.
  
THE LEPER.
  
LAZARUS AND MARY.
  
SCENES IN GETHSEMANE.
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Religious Poems.
  
TO MY MOTHER FROM THE APPENINES.
  
THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD.
  
THIRTY-FIVE.
  
THE SABBATH.
  
ON THE DEATH OF A MISSIONARY.
  
ON WITNESSING A BAPTISM.
  
CONTEMPLATION.
  
THE BELFRY PIGEON.
  
DEDICATION HYMN.
  
THOUGHTS WHILE MAKING THE GRAVE OF A NEW-BORN CHILD.
  
A THOUGHT OVER A CRADLE.
  
ON THE PICTURE OF A “CHILD TIRED OF PLAY.”
  
TO A CITY PIGEON.
  
A CHILD'S FIRST IMPRESSION OF A STAR.
  
LINES ON LEAVING EUROPE.
  
ON THE DEPARTURE OF REV. MR. WHITE FROM HIS PARISH,
  
A TRUE INCIDENT.
  
BIRTH-DAY VERSES.
  
SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
  
REVERIE AT GLENMARY.
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College Poems.
  
EXTRACT
  
THE ELMS OF NEW HAVEN.
  
THE BURIAL OF THE CHAMPION OF HIS CLASS, AT YALE COLLEGE.
  
The Lady Jane:
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City Poems.
  
[Come out, love—the night is enchanting]
  
THE WHITE CHIP HAT.
  
LADY IN THE WHITE DRESS, I HELPED INTO THE OMNIBUS.
  
TO THE LADY IN THE CHEMISETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS.
  
YOU KNOW IF IT WAS YOU.
  
LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
  
THE DECLARATION.
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Miscellaneous Poems.
  
PARRHASIUS.
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THE SCHOLAR OF THEBET BEN KHORAT.
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I.
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II.
  
THE DYING ALCHYMIST.
  
TO ERMENGARDE.
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MELANIE.
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I.
 2. 
II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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VI.
  
THE DEATH OF HARRISON
  
ANDRE'S REQUEST TO WASHINGTON.
  
LORD IVON AND HIS DAUGHTER.
  
THE CONFESSIONAL.
  
FLORENCE GRAY
  
THE PITY OF THE PARK FOUNTAIN.
  
“CHAMBER SCENE.
  
THE WIFE'S APPEAL.
  
TO A STOLEN RING.
  
TO HER WHO HAS HOPES OF ME.
  
“SHE WAS NOT THERE.”
  
FAIL ME NOT THOU!
  
TO M---, FROM ABROAD.
  
TO A FACE BELOVED.
  
BETTER MOMENTS.
  
SUNRISE THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF A BALL.
  
UNSEEN SPIRITS.
  
THE ANNOYER.
  
THE TORN HAT.
  
DAWN.
  
TO LAURA W---, TWO YEARS OF AGE.
  
SONNET.
  
THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW.
  
ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL.
  
STARLIGHT.
  
ACROSTIC-SONNET.
  
MAY.
  
ROARING BROOK.
  
THE SOLITARY.
  
AN APOLOGY
  
TO HELEN IN A HUFF.
  
ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD PAYSON, D. D.
  
IDLENESS.
  
JANUARY 1, 1828.
  
ON A PICTURE OF A GIRL LEADING HER BLIND MOTHER THROUGH THE WOOD.
  
JANUARY 1, 1829.
  
PSYCHE,
  
ON SEEING A BEAUTIFUL BOY AT PLAY.
  
HERO.
  
SPIRIT-WHISPERS.
  
POEM
  
UPON THE PORTRAIT OF THE HON. MRS. STANHOPE.

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ANDRE'S REQUEST TO WASHINGTON.

It is not the fear of death
That damps my brow,
It is not for another breath
I ask thee now;
I can die with a lip unstirr'd
And a quiet heart—
Let but this prayer be heard
Ere I depart.
I can give up my mother's look—
My sister's kiss;
I can think of love—yet brook
A death like this!
I can give up the young fame
I burn'd to win—
All—but the spotless name
I glory in.
Thine is the power to give,
Thine to deny,
Joy for the hour I live—
Calmness to die.
By all the brave should cherish,
By my dying breath,
I ask that I may perish
By a soldier's death!
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