TO THE

PAXNTERS OF OUR COUNTRX,

THIS VOLUME,

ILLUSTRATED BY THE GENIUS OF ONE OF

THEIR NUMBER,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

Page

Fall of Babylon . . . . LORENZO L. DAPONTE 13

A Serenade . . . . EDWARD C. Pinkney 20

To the Painted Columbine . . . Jones VERY 21

Death of the Duke of Reichstadt · EMMA C. EMBURY 23

Night . . . . . . . Jones VERY 26

To an Old Man . . . . Philip FRENEAU 27

De Profundis . . . . William CROSWELL 31

Summer Midnight . . . JAMES W. EASTBURN 32

The Village Blacksmith . Henry W. LONGFELLOW 35

The Robin . . . . . . JONES VERY 38

The Sylph of Autumn . . WASHINGTON ALLSTON 39

The Old North Burial Ground . . William B. TAPPAN 43

To a Sister . . . . EDWARD EVERETT 47

Mental Beauty . . . . JAMES G. PERCIVAL 50

The Moss Supplicateth for the Poct . Richard H. Dana 53

To the Ursa Major . . . Henry WARE, JR. 58

The Brothers . . . . CHARLES SPRAGUE 65

Sonnet . . . . . . James R. LOWELL 67

Spring . . . . . . GEORGE HILL 68

To Miss M ****

. FRANCES S. Osgood

Love Unchangeable . . . . Rufus Dawes 72

Marius seated on the Ruins of Carthage Mrs. M. L. Child 79

Sonnet-October . . . . William C. Bryant 97

Sonnet . . . ... William H. BURLEIGH 156

CONTENTS.

God in Nature . . . . . H. W. ROCKWELL 81

Evening after a Battle . . . TIMOTHY DWIGHT 83

Indian Girl's Burial . . Lydia H. SIGOURNEY 85

Ode . . . . . . John PIERPONT 88

Osceola . . . . . . Lucy HOOPER 90

The Child Playing with a Watch : FRANCES S. OSGOOD

The Beleaguered City . Henry W. LONGFELLOW 95

Felicia Hemans . . Lydia H. SIGOURNEY 98

Invitation . . . . . . Willis G. CLARE 102

Monadnock . . . . William O. B. PEABODY 104

A Death-Bed . . . . . JAMES ALDRICH 107

A Spring-Day Walk . . . . " "

Chansonette . . . . CHARLES F. Hoffman 109

On an Old Wedding Ring

GEORGE W. Doane 110

The Moon upon the Spire . . Hannah F. Gould 113

To Neptune . . . . . ALBERT Pike 116 V

Saco Falls . . . . . JAMES T. FIELDS 119

Power of Music . . . . . JOHN PIERPONT 121

* Euthanasia . . . . . Willis G. CLARK 127

To the Ship of the Line Pennsylvania William B. Tappan 129

Evening . . . . . . Eliza FOLLEN 131

Ode to the Moon . . . . ROBERT M. BIRD 133

Lines . . . . . . . Lucy HOOPER 135

Only one Night at Sea . . Robert M. Charlton 137

To an Elm . . . . HENRY T. TUCKERMAN 140

The Banner of Murat. . PROSPER M. WETMORE 143

June

WILLIAM H. BURLEIGH 145

To May . . . . Jonathan LAWRENCE, JR. 148

The Snow-Flake . .'. Hannau F. Gould 150

Serenade . i . . C. D. McLeod 153

CONTENTS.

Brother, come Home . CATHARINE H. WATERMAN 154

Spring in New England . . . Carlos Wilcox 156

The Falls of Niagara . . . J. G. C. BRAINARD 162

Scene from Hadad . . JAMES A. Hillhouse 163

The Last Reader . . . OLIVER W. HOLMES 172

Lines on Passing the Grave of my Sister Micah P. Flint 175

To a City Pigeon . . . NATHANIEL P. Willis 178

Written at My Mother's Grave George D. PRENTICE 180

Extract from Prometheus . . JAMES G. PERCIVAL 183

Song . . . . . . GEORGE P. Morris 187

To the Memory of a Friend

AMELIA B. WELBY 188

Christmas . . . . . WILLIAM CROSWELL 192

The Departed . . . . . PARK BENJAMIN 193

The Chimes of England . . . ARTHUR C. Cox 196

Lines . . . . . Isaac MCLELLAN, JR. 199

Palestine . . . . . J. G. WHITTIER 201

The April Shower . . . Mrs. Seba SMITH 205

The Voice of the Gale. Thomas J. Charlton 207

To a Water-Fall . . . ELIZABETH F. ELLET 209

The Mothers of the West . William D. GALLAGHER 211

. . . . . . William C. BRYANT 214

WILLIAM U. BRYANT 214

Go forth into the Fields . . . W. J. PABODIE 216

Cape Colonna . . . . . GEORGE HILL 218

To a Moonbeam . . . MARGARET M. DAVIDSON 220

Lines to the Dead . . . . Mary E. LEE 224

To * * * . . . . FITZ-GREENE HALLECK 227

The Lost Hunter . • ALFRED B. STREET 231

The Lost at Sea . . . . J. Otis ROCKWELL 237

What is Solitude . . . . Charles F. HOFFMAN 239

CHARLES F.

ook on this Picture . . . CHARLES SPRAGUE

Song