Selections from the American poets

TO THE READER.

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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.

THE HASTY PUDDING.

SLEEP OF PAPANTZIN.

WAKING OF PAPANTZIN IN THE SEPULCHRE.

GOOD-NIGHT.

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.

ROSALIE.

MURDER OF A SPANISH LADY BY A PIRATE.

THE HUSBAND'S AND WIFE'S GRAVE.

DAYBREAK.

THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST.

SPRING.

APRIL.

THE BELFRY PIGEON.

JOURNEY OF THE CULPRIT FAY.

BRONX.

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.

THE PROPHECY.

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

HOME.

TO MY MOTHER.

SPRING IN NEW-ENGLAND.

SEPTEMBER.

THE CASTLE OF IMAGINATION.

ROSSEAU AND COWPER.

THE CURE OF MELANCHOLY.

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.

MEMORY.

CHRIST IN THE TEMPEST.

THE LAST DAYS OF AUTUMN

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 WESTERN EMIGRANT.

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

THE PEBBLE AND THE ACORN.

THE WATERFALL.

THE DREAM.

THE CHILD ON THE BEACH.

“TWELVE YEARS HAVE FLOWN.”

THE PAST.

THE PRAIRIES.

THE RIVULET.

“EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH.”

PASSAGE DOWN THE OHIO.

THE FEMALE MARTYR.

THE WORSHIP OF NATURE.

PENTUCKET.

LOOK ALOFT.

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

THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD.

OLD IRONSIDES.

THE TREADMILL SONG.

When the great Master spoke

MY NATIVE VILLAGE.

LAKE ONTARIO.

THE VANITY OF THE VULGAR GREAT.

THE ROSE-TREE AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF WASHINGTON.

INDIAN SUMMER.

SONNET.

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

AUTUMN MUSINGS.

A WISH.

THE SOLDIER'S VISIT TO HIS FAMILY.

TO THE RIVER OGEECHEE.

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.

A FOREST WALK.

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.

NAHANT.

THE BIRTH OF THUNDER.—A DAHCOTAH LEGEND.

THE BURIAL-PLACE AT LAUREL HILL.

THE EARLY DEAD.

DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN.

TO SPRING.

TRI-MOUNTAIN.

THE MOTHER PERISHING IN A SNOWSTORM.

AN AIR-CHATEAU.

AUGUST.

SCENE FROM “MIRIAM.”

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THE AUTUMN EVENING.

Behold the western evening light!
It melts in deepening gloom;
So calmly Christians sink away,
Descending to the tomb.

The wind breathes low; the withering leaf
Scarce whispers from the tree;
So gently flows the parting breath,
When good men cease to be.

How beautiful on all the hills
The crimson light is shed!
'Tis like the peace the Christian gives
To mourners round his bed.

How mildly on the wandering cloud
The sunset beam is cast!
'Tis like the memory left behind
When loved ones breathe their last.

And now, above the dews of night,
The yellow star appears;
So faith springs in the heart of those
Whose eyes are bathed in tears.

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But soon the morning's happier light
Its glory shall restore,
And eyelids that are seal'd in death
Shall wake to close no more.

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THE AUTUMN EVENING.