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Sigourney, L. H. (1791-1865)

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GRAVE OF THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON.

INVOCATION TO GREECE.

THE CORAL INSECT.

WITH WILD FLOWERS TO A SICK FRIEND.

BURIAL OF THE YOUNG.

ON A QUESTION PROPOSED

THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE.

THE RIVAL KINGS OF MOHEGAN,

THE DEPARTED BENEFACTRESS.

MOURN YE THE RIGHTEOUS DEAD?

DEATH OF WOLSEY.

PARTING OF LOVERS.

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS.

THE BABE OF ST. BERNARD.

CHILLY M'INTOSH.

“YE SHALL SEEK ME IN THE MORNING, BUT SHALL NOT BE.”

THE ALPINE FLOWERS.

JOY PURCHASED BY SORROW.

ON HEARING A YOUNG LADY DEFEND THE CAUSE OF MATRIMONY.

OPINIONS OF THE UNEDUCATED DEAF AND DUMB.

THE FUNERAL OF A MOTHER.

HOPE AND MEMORY.

LATIMER AND RIDLEY.

ON THE TRANSLATION OF MILTON

REMONSTRANCE OF THE CREEK INDIANS

CARLOMAN AND MEROVEE.

ANCIENT TRADITION FROM THE ISLAND OF LESBOS.

RETURN OF THE EXILE.

THE GEORGIAN PLANET.

“AS THY DAY, SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE.”

“A MAN'S LIFE CONSISTETH NOT IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THE THINGS THAT HE POSSESSETH.”

MEMORY AND CONSCIENCE.

THE CHAIR OF THE INDIAN KING.

VISIT TO THE VENERABLE CHARLES THOMPSON

ON THE LOSS OF THE STEAM BOAT ÆTNA,

LAKE THRASYMENE.

THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT.

SONG OF THE ICELANDIC FISHER.

“THERE IS A TIME TO DIE.”

“PERADVENTURE HE SLEEPETH, AND MUST BE AWAKED.”

BURIAL OF MAZEEN.

THE SWEDISH LOVERS.

ON VISITING THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, AT CHARLOTTESVILLE.

CAROLINE MATILDA, TO CHRISTIAN THE SEVENTH OF DENMARK.

A THUNDER STORM, WHILE TRAVELLING.

ON PASSING AT JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA,

ON READING THE LIFE OF QUINCY, BY HIS SON.

“THIS YEAR, THOU SHALT DIE.”

SENTIMENT IN A SERMON.

THE DEAD INFANT.

ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG MATRON.

THE ENTREATY OF RUTH.

SELF EXAMINATION.

ON THE MARRIAGE OF A YOUNG FRIEND. DURING MY ABSENCE.

THE EIGHTH PSALM.

THE COMET OF 1825.

DAVID AND JONATHAN.

DEFEAT OF THE QUEEN OF NARRAGANSETT, IN 1679.

TO THE FIRST SLAVE SHIP.

ON THE DEATH OF AN ACCOMPLISHED PHYSICIAN.

TO A GLOW-WORM.

SCOTTISH RELICS.

THE “EYES OF THE NILE.”

ON BEING ENTERTAINED WITH PAINTING AND MUSIC.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

ODE ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.

ON THE DEATH OF JOHN ADAMS.

DEATH OF JEFFERSON.

THE LAST SURVIVER OF THE SIGNERS OF OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

THE STRANGER'S FLOWER.

TO AN ANCIENT ROCKING CHAIR.

A WALK IN THE CHURCH YARD OF MY NATIVE PLACE.

TO THE EVENING PRIMROSE.

WYLLYS' HILL AND THE CHARTER OAK.

TOMB OF CECILIA METELLA.

POMPEY'S STATUE,

FUNERAL OF THE OSAGE WARRIOR.

THE CEMETERY OF PERE LA CHAISE.

THE MISLETOE AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON.

THE SAINTED MOTHER.

“WHEREFORE I PRAISED THE DEAD, MORE THAN THE LIVING.”

BIRTH-DAY OF BOTH MY PARENTS.

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SELF EXAMINATION.

Seek not of man with light applause to pay
The priceless guerdon of a well-spent day,—
Wait not for him to judge the generous deed,
But spread the scroll, and bid thy Conscience read.
Rest on thy couch,—recline within thy cell,
And ask that silent one, if all be well?—
Then if she smile, receive the rapturous meed,—
Nor boast the motive,—nor proclaim the deed,
Wait till the day of doom, the hour of fate,
Even as the expecting Jews for their Messiah wait.