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Selections from the American poets

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COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND.

THE DYING INDIAN.

THE INDIAN BURYING-GROUND.

STANZAS OCCASIONED BY LORD BELLAMONT'S, LADY HAY'S, AND OTHER SKELETONS BEING DUG UP IN FORT GEORGE (N. Y.), 1790.

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THE HASTY PUDDING.

1.

2.

3.

SLEEP OF PAPANTZIN.

WAKING OF PAPANTZIN IN THE SEPULCHRE.

THE DEAD OF 1832.

DESCENT OF THE JUDGE AND HIS ANGELS.

ADAM, CÆSAR, AND ABRAHAM AT THE RESURRECTION.

LAST SETTING OF THE SUN.

SCENE FROM HADAD.

THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER.

THE SOCIAL VISIT.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PEQUODS.

CHARACTER OF M'FINGAL.

INEFFICACY OF PUNISHMENTS.

ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE.

THE SYLPH OF SPRING.

THE PAINT-KING.

MURDER OF A SPANISH LADY BY A PIRATE.

THE HUSBAND'S AND WIFE'S GRAVE.

THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST.

THE BELFRY PIGEON.

JOURNEY OF THE CULPRIT FAY.

A SACRED MELODY.

THE FALL OF NIAGARA.

MR. MERRY'S LAMENT FOR “LONG TOM.”

THE INDIAN SUMMER.

[The dead leaves strow the forest walk]

SCENE FROM ATALANTIS.

THE EDGE OF THE SWAMP.

TO AN INFANT SLEEPING IN A GARDEN.

SUNRISE FROM MOUNT WASHINGTON.

TO A LADY WHOSE SINGING RESEMBLED THAT OF AN ABSENT SISTER.

SPRING IN NEW-ENGLAND.

THE CASTLE OF IMAGINATION.

ROSSEAU AND COWPER.

THE CURE OF MELANCHOLY.

THE LIGHT OF STARS.

FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS.

THE SPIRIT OF POETRY.

THE FORCE OF CURIOSITY.

THE TRAVELLER'S FATE.

I SEE THEE STILL.

THE FAMILY MEETING.

THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS.

THE INDIAN'S BRIDE.

CHRIST IN THE TEMPEST.

LINES SUGGESTED BY THE MORAVIAN BURIAL-GROUND AT BETHLEHEM.

THE LAST DAYS OF AUTUMN

THE PATRIARCHAL AGE.

THE DESERTED WIFE.

THE CORAL GROVE.

EVENING ON NARRAGANSET BAY.

SONG OF AN INDIAN MOTHER.

PHILIP'S DREAM.

THE POWER OF MUSIC.

FOR A CELEBRATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MECHANICS' CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION.

THE EXILE AT REST.

HER CHOSEN SPOT.

FOR THE CHARLESTOWN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.

FROM THE RUINS OF ATHENS.

THE MOUNTAIN GIRL.

THE LOST PLEIAD.

THE WATERS OF MARAH.

THE WESTERN EMIGRANT.

THE WIDOW'S CHARGE AT HER DAUGHTER'S BRIDAL.

THE PEBBLE AND THE ACORN.

THE CHILD ON THE BEACH.

“TWELVE YEARS HAVE FLOWN.”

“EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH.”

PASSAGE DOWN THE OHIO.

THE FEMALE MARTYR.

THE WORSHIP OF NATURE.

TO --- ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE BIRD.

THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD.

THE TREADMILL SONG.

When the great Master spoke

MY NATIVE VILLAGE.

THE VANITY OF THE VULGAR GREAT.

TO THE WHIPPORWILL.

MOUNT WASHINGTON.

JOY AND SORROW.

THE WHITE HARE.

TO A YOUNG MOTHER.

THE ROSE-TREE AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF WASHINGTON.

THE TWENTY THOUSAND CHILDREN OF THE SABBATH SCHOOLS IN NEW-YORK, CELEBRATING TOGETHER THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1839.

AUTUMN MUSINGS.

THE SOLDIER'S VISIT TO HIS FAMILY.

TO THE RIVER OGEECHEE.

TO THE CANARY-BIRD.

THE WIND-FLOWER.

THE LIVING GOD.

THE MORNING WALK, OR THE STOLEN BLUSH.

SCENE AFTER A SUMMER SHOWER.

HYMN OF NATURE.

THE AUTUMN EVENING.

INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD.

TO THE URSA MAJOR.

THE VISION OF LIBERTY.

LINES TO THE WESTERN MUMMY.

THE NOTES OF THE BIRDS.

LINES ON PASSING THE GRAVE OF MY SISTER.

WASHINGTON. FROM ARNOLD AND ANDRE, A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.

AN AMERICAN FOREST SPRING.

SONG OF THE PRAIRIE.

ADDRESS TO BLACK HAWK.

JOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN AND MOON TO STAND STILL.

A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS.

THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS.

THE MILLENNIAL DAY.

GOD WORSHIPPED IN HIS WORKS.

THE BIRTH OF THUNDER.—A DAHCOTAH LEGEND.

THE BURIAL-PLACE AT LAUREL HILL.

THE EARLY DEAD.

DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN.

THE MOTHER PERISHING IN A SNOWSTORM.

AN AIR-CHATEAU.

SCENE FROM “MIRIAM.”

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Selections from the American poets

Harper & Brothers

New York

1840