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A Sacred Melody.—Anonymous.

Active Christian Benevolence the Source of sublime and lasting Happiness.—Carlos Wilcox.

Inscription for the Entrance into a Wood.—Bryant.

The Death of Sin and the Life of Holiness.—Dana.

A Demon's false Description of his Race of fallen Intelligences. A Scene from Hadad.—Hillhouse.

Hadad's Description of the City of David.—Hillhouse.

The Song at Twilight.—Lucretia Maria Davidson.

Hagar in the Wilderness.—N. P. Willis.

Return of the Buccaneer.—Richard H. Dana.

Appearance of the Spectre Horse and the Burning Ship to the Buccaneer.

The Death of the Flowers.—Bryant.

The Skies.—Bryant.

From “The Minstrel Girl.”—James G. Whittier.

“Weep for Yourselves, and for your Children” Mrs. Sigourney.

The sudden Coming on of Spring after long Rains.—Carlos Wilcox.

Slavery.—Carlos Wilcox.

Hymn for the African Colonization Society.—Pierpont.

Dedication Hymn.—Pierpont.

Evening Music of the Angels.—Hillhouse.

Vernal Melody in the Forest.—Carlos Wilcox.

Close of the Vision of Judgment.—Hillhouse.

“As thy Day, so shall thy Strength be.”—Mrs. Sigourney.

The Pilgrims.—Mrs. Sigourney.

The Coral Grove.—Percival.

Hebrew Melody.—Mrs. J. G. Brooks.

To a Child.—Anonymous.

The Western World.—Bryant.

To a Waterfowl.—Bryant.

The Constancy of Nature contrasted with the Changes in Human Life.—Dana.

And fare thee well, my own green, quiet Vale.—Dana.

Sonnet. The Free Mind.—William Lloyd Garrison.

Marco Bozzaris.—F. G. Halleck.

Weehawken.—F. G. Halleck.

On laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument.—Pierpont.

Rousseau and Cowper.—Carlos Wilcox.

To the Dead.—Brainard.

The Deep.—Brainard.

Scene after a Summer Shower.—Professor Norton.

The Child's Wish in June.—Mrs. Gilman.

From “The Minstrel Girl.”—James G. Whittier.

Description of a sultry Summer's Noon. —Carlos Wilcox.

The Dying Child.

Looking unto Jesus.

Scene from Hadad.—Hillhouse.

Roman Catholic Chaunt. From “Percy's Masque.”—Hillhouse.

September.—Carlos Wilcox.

On the Loss of Professor Fisher.—Brainard.

Idle Words.—Anonymous.

He knoweth our Frame, He remembereth we are Dust.—Dana.

Immortality.—Dana.

The mysterious Music of Ocean.—Walsh's National Gazette.

Summer Wind.—Bryant.

Summer Evening Lightning.—Carlos Wilcox.

Spring.—N. P. Willis.

To Seneca Lake.—Percival.

Mount Washington; the loftiest Peak of the White Mountains, N. H.—G. Mellen.

To the dying Year.—J. G. Whittier.

The Captain. A Fragment. —Brainard.

“They that seek me early shall find me.”—Columbian Star.

A Son's Farewell to his Mother, and Departure from Home.—Connecticut Observer.

Hushed is the Voice of Judah's Mirth. A Sacred Melody.—From the Port-Folio.

Extract from a Poem delivered at the Departure of the Senior Class of Yale College, in 1826.—N. P. Willis.

Retirement.—Anonymous.

To the River Arve.—Talisman.

The Burial.—Anonymous.

On the Loss of a pious Friend.—Brainard.

Icarus. —From the Port-Folio.

Sunset in September. —Carlos Wilcox.

From “The Buccaneer.”—Dana.

Sonnet.—Bryant.

Power of the Soul in investing external Circumstances with the Hue of its own Feelings.—Dana.

Spring in Town.—Bryant.

The Sabbath.—Carlos Wilcox.

Industry and Prayer.—Carlos Wilcox.

Consolations of Religion to the Poor.—Percival.

Extract from the Airs of Palestine.—Pierpont.

On the Death of Mr. Woodward, at Edinburgh.—Brainard.

From “The Minstrel Girl.”—James G. Whittier.

The Torn Hat.—N. P. Willis.

The Memory of the Just is blessed.—Mrs. Sigourney.

The Wife.—New York Daily Advertiser.

Song of the Stars.—Bryant.

Summer Evening at a short Distance from the City.—Alonzo Lewis.

Introduction to the Poem of “Yamoyden.”—Robert C. Sands.

Dawn.—N. P. Willis.

The Restoration of Israel.—James Wallis Eastburn.

The buried Love.—Rufus Dawes.

The Missionary.—W. B. Tappan.

Missions.—Mrs. Sigourney.

The Fear of Madness. —Lucretia Maria Davidson.

The Matin Hour of Prayer.—Anonymous.

Song. —From Yamoyden.

Solitude.—Mrs. Sigourney.

Bishop Ravenscroft.—George Washington Doane.

The Life of God in the Soul of Man.—Dana.

To Pneuma.—James Wallis Eastburn.

To a Star.—Lucretia Maria Davidson.

Thanatopsis. —Bryant.

Sacred Melody.—New York American.

The Graves of the Patriots.—Percival.

Funeral Hymn.—Christian Examiner.

To Laura, two Years of Age.—N. P. Willis.

The dead Leaves strew the Forest-walk.—Brainard.

Seasons of Prayer.—Henry Ware, Jr.

Effect of the Ocean and its Scenery on the Mind of the Buccaneer when agitated with Remorse for his Crime.—Richard H. Dana.

The third and last Appearance of the Spectre Horse and the Burning Ship.—Richard H. Dana.

God's first Temples. A Hymn.—Bryant.

Scene from Hadad.—Hillhouse.

Extract from “The Airs of Palestine.”—Pierpont.

The Falls of Niagara.—Brainard.

At Musing Hour.—Thomas Wells

Evergreens.—Pinkney.

The Flower Spirit.—Anonymous.

“Man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he?”—Christian Examiner.

Woods in Winter.—Longfellow.

A Last Wish.—Anonymous.

The Winged Worshippers.—Charles Sprague.

Death of an Infant.—Mrs. Sigourney.

Burns.—F. G. Halleck.

Mary Magdalen.—Bryant.

Be humble.—Jones.

Sabbath Evening Twilight.—Anonymous

The Burial of Arnold. —N. P. Willis.

Lines to a Child on his Voyage to France, to meet his Father.—Henry Ware, Jr.

New England.—J. G. Percival.

The Damsel of Peru.—Bryant.

Power of Maternal Piety.—Mrs. Sigourney.

Niagara.—U. States Review and Literary Gazette.

Absalom.—N. P. Willis.

Hymn of Nature.—W. O. B. Peabody.

The Garden of Gethsemane.—J. Pierpont.

Trust in God.—Percival.

Heaven.—Christian Examiner.

Geehale. An Indian Lament.—Anonymous.

Scene from “Percy's Masque.”—Hillhouse.

To S****, weeping.—Anonymous.

Autumn.—H. W. Longfellow.

The Bucket.—Samuel Woodworth.

The Snow Flake.—Hannah F. Gould.

“I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.”—Anonymous.

The Iceberg.—J. O. Rockwell.

Hymn.—J. Pierpont.

The Bride.—Anonymous.

On seeing an Eagle pass near me in Autumn Twilight.—G. Mellen.

To the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, on reading his eloquent Speech in defence of Indian Rights.—W. L. Garrison.

Genius Slumbering.—Percival.

Genius Waking.—Percival.

The Spirit of Poetry.—Longfellow.

Incomprehensibility of God. —Miss Elizabeth Townsend.

Lament of a Swiss Minstrel over the Ruins of Goldau.—J. Neal.

Lines written on visiting the beautiful Burying-ground at New Haven.—Christian Disciple.

The Pilgrim Fathers.—Pierpont.

Song of the Pilgrims.—T. C. Upham.

Dedication Hymn.—N. P. Willis.

Extract from a Poem written on reading an Account of the Opinions of a Deaf and Dumb Child, before she had received Instruction. She was afraid of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.—Hillhouse.

The Land of the Blest.—W. O. B. Peabody.

To the Moon.—Massachusetts Spy.

Song.—From Yamoyden.

The Light of Home.—Mrs. Hale.

The American Flag.—F. G. Halleck.

To the Ursa Major.—Henry Ware, Jr.

“Look not upon the Wine when it is red.”—N. P. Willis

To****, on the Death of a Friend.—Andrews Norton.

Dirge of Alaric the Visigoth.—Edward Everett.

Apostrophe to the Sun.—J. G. Percival.

“I thought it slept.”—Henry Pickering.

The Snow-Storm.—Anonymous.

“I went and washed, and I received sight.”—New York Evening Post.

The Huma. —Louisa P. Smith.

The Paint King.—Washington Allston.

The murdered Traveller.—Bryant.

On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.—F. G. Halleck

To H---.—Christian Examiner.

The dying Raven.—Richard H. Dana.

After a Tempest.—Bryant.

A Winter Scene.—Idle Man.

Description of the Quiet Island, From the Poem of “The Buccaneer.”—Richard H. Dana.

The religious Cottage.—D. Huntington.

The two Homes.—Anonymous.

To a Sister.—Edward Everett.

To the Moon.—Walsh's National Gazette

My native Land—My native Place.—Anonymous.

“Awake, Psaltery and Harp; I myself will awake early.”Psalms.—Anonymous.

Isaiah xxxv.—Brainard.

On listening to a Cricket.—Andrews Norton.

March.—Bryant

April.—Longfellow.

May.—J. G. Percival.

Mounds on the Western Rivers.—M. Flint.

Burial of the Minnisink.—Longfellow.

To the Eagle.—Percival.

Salmon River. —Brainard.

To the Evening Wind.—Bryant.

The Grave of the Indian Chief.—Percival.

Escape from Winter.—Percival.

Bury Me with my Fathers.—Andrews Norton.

Redemption.—W. B. Tappan.

On the Close of the Year.—Christian Examiner.

Saturday Afternoon.—N. P. Willis.

Fall of Tecumseh.—New York Statesman.

The Missionaries' Farewell.—Anonymous.

Mozart's Requiem.—Rufus Dawes.

“I will be glad in the Lord.” Psalm civ. 34.—Anonymous.

To the Memory of a Brother.—Anonymous.

A Home everywhere.—S. Graham.

The Time to weep.—Anonymous.

The Autumn Evening.—Peabody.

Lines on revisiting the Country.—Bryant.

The Spirit's Song of Consolation. —F. W. P. Greenwood.

Colonization of Africa.—Brainard.

Fable of the Wood Rose and the Laurel.—Monthly Anthology.

A Castle in the Air. —Professor Frisbie.

The Consumptive.—Rockingham Gazette.

Lines to the Western Mummy.—W. E. Gallaudet.

Song.—Anonymous.

The Life of the Blessed.—Bryant.

The Sunday School.—Mrs. Sigourney.

“They went out into the Mount of Olives.”—J. Pierpont.

The Lily.—J. G. Percival.

The Last Evening before Eternity.—Hillhouse.

Wyoming.—F. G. Halleck.

Sonnet to ---.—Bryant.

Daybreak.—Richard H. Dana.

Sonnet.—Bryant.

Hymn for the Massachusetts Charitable Association.—Pierpont.

The little Beach Bird.—Richard H. Dana

Address of the Sylph of Autumn to the Bard.—Washington Allston.

Omnipresence.—Anonymous.

Hymn of the Moravian Nuns at the Consecration of Pulaski's Banner.—H. W. Longfellow.

The Raising of Jairus's Daughter.—N. A. Review.

Departure of the Pioneer.—Brainard.

The Alpine Flowers.—Mrs. Sigourney.

A Child's first Impression of a Star.—N. P. Willis.

The Leper.—N. P. Willis.

Versification of the Beginning of the Last Book of the Martyrs.—Alexander H. Everett.

Autumn.—Anonymous.

The Treasure that waxeth not old—D. Huntingdon.

Fragment of an Epistle written while recovering from severe Illness.—Richard H. Dana.

Lines occasioned by hearing a little Boy mock the Old South Clock, as it rung the Hour of Twelve.—Mrs. Child.

Hymn to the North Star.—Bryant.

Connecticut.—F. G. Halleck.

The Rising Moon.—W. O. B. Peabody.

America to Great Britain. —Washington Allston.

The Night-flowering Cereus. —Unitarian Miscellany.

God is Good.—Anonymous.

Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles.—Anonymous.

The Dying Child.—Carlos Wilcox.

To a Musquito.—New York Review.

Earth, with her thousand Voices, praises God.—Longfellow.

The Blind Man's Lament.—James Wallis Eastburn.

The Dying Girl.—Mrs. Hale's Magazine.

Autumn. —Peabody.

Spring.—Peabody.

Summer.—Peabody.

Rosalie.—Mrs. Hale's Magazine.

To a young Invalid, condemned, by accidental Lameness, to perpetual Confinement.—Henry Pickering.

The Sage of Caucasus.—Hillhouse.

The Resolution of Ruth.—Christian Examiner.

Live for Eternity.—Carlos Wilcox.

Dedication Hymn.—Pierpont.

The Indian Summer.—Brainard.

To William. Written by a bereaved Father.—Peabody.

Part of the 19th Psalm.—James Wallis Eastburn.

What is that, Mother?—George W. Doane.

Scene at the Death-Bed of Rev. Dr. Payson.—Mrs. Sigourney.

The Indian's Tale.—J. G. Whittier.

Setting Sail.—Percival.

A Thanksgiving Hymn.—Henry Ware, Jr.

The Temple of Theseus. —James Wallis Eastburn.

On the Death of a beautiful young Girl.—Connecticut Mirror.

Lines to a Lady of great musical Talent.—Mrs. Child.

Hymn for the two hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Charlestown.—Pierpont.

The Family Bible.—Anonymous.

The Notes of the Birds.—I. McLellan, Jun.

Sentimental Music.—F. G. Halleck.

The Silk-Worm.—Mrs. Hale.

The Reverie. Written from College on the Birth-Day of the Author's Mother.—Frisbie.

The Soul's Defiance. —Anonymous.

Hymn for the second Centennial Anniversary of the City of Boston.—J. Pierpont.

Napoleon at Rest.—J. Pierpont.

The Death of Napoleon.—I. McLellan, Jun.

Jerusalem.—Brainard.

The Angler's Song.—I. McLellan, Jun.

Who is my Neighbor?—Anonymous.

Hymn. Matthew, xxvi. 6–13.—Christian Mirror.

Broken-hearted, weep no more.—Episcopal Watchman.

The Sweet Brier.—Brainard.

Mother, what is Death?—Mrs. Gilman.

Last Prayers.—Mary Ann Browne.

A Noon Scene.—Bryant.

New England's Dead.—I. McLellan, Jun.

Installation Hymn.—Pierpont.

The Wanderer of Africa.—Alonzo Lewis.

A Legend.—J. G. Whittier.

They heard a Voice from Heaven, saying, Come up hither.” Rev. xi. 12.—Mrs. Sigourney.

Occasional Hymn.—J. Pierpont.

The Sleeper.—Commercial Advertiser.

God's Omnipresent Agency.—Carlos Wilcox.

The Farewell.—Anonymous.

Sunrise on the Hills.—Anonymous.

Lines on passing the Grave of my Sister.—Micah P. Flint.

The Revellers.—Ohio Backwoodsman.

“I would not live always.”—B. B. Thatcher.

The Disimbodied Spirit.—Peabody.

Lines on hearing of the Death of Garafilia Mohalbi.—Mrs. Sigourney.

Crossing the Ford.—O. W. H.

Hymn of the Cherokee Indian.—I. McLellan, Jun.

Lake Superior.—S. G. Goodrich.

Oriental Mysticism.—Leonard Woods.

To a Sister about to embark on a Missionary Enterprise.—B. B. Thatcher.

The Pilgrim Fathers.—Sprague.

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The American common-place book of poetry

with occasional notes

Carter, Hendee and Babcock Charles Carter

Boston Baltimore

1831