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POEMS OF THE WAR.
Portrait Gallery, My.
Portrait of Dante by Giotto, On a.
Prayer, A.
Pregnant Comment, The.
Present Crisis, The.
Prison of Cervantes.
Prometheus.
Protest, The.

Recall, The.
Remarks of Increase D. O'Phace, Esquire, at an extrumpery caucus in
State Street, reported by Mr. H. Biglow.
Remembered Music.
Requiem, A.
Rhoecus.
Rosaline.
Rose, The: a Ballad.

St. Michael the Weigher.
Sayings.
Scherzo.
Science and Poetry.
Scottish Border.
Search, The.
Seaweed.
Secret, The.
Self-Study.
Serenade.
She came and went.
Shepherd of King Admetus, The.
Si descendero in Infernum, ades.
Singing Leaves, The.
Sirens, The.
Sixty-Eighth Birthday.
Song (O moonlight deep and tender).
Song (to M. L. ).
Song (Violet! sweet violet! ).
SONNETS.
Bankside.
'Beloved, in the noisy city here'.
Bon Voyage!
Brakes, The.
Dancing Bear, The.
Death of Queen Mercedes.
E. G. de R.
Eye's Treasury, The.
'For this true nobleness I seek in vain. '
Foreboding, A.
'Great truths are portions of the soul of man. '
'I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leap. '
'I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away. '
'I grieve not that ripe knowledge takes away. '
'I thought our love at full, but I did err. '
'I would not have this perfect love of ours. '
In Absence.
Maple, The.
'My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die. '
Nightwatches.
On an Autumn Sketch of H. G. Wild.
On being asked for an Autograph in Venice.
On reading Wordsworth's Sonnets in Defence of Capital Punishment.
'Our love is not a fading, earthly flower. '
Paolo to Francesca.
Pessimoptimism.
Phillips, Wendell.
Prison of Cervantes.
Scottish Border.
Street, The.
Sub Pondere crescit.
'There never yet was flower fair in vain. '
To A. C. L.
To a Friend.
To a Lady playing on the Cithern.
To Fanny Alexander.
To J. R. Giddings.
To M. O. S.
To M. W. , on her Birthday.
To Miss D. T.
To the Spirit of Keats.
To Whittier.
'What were I, Love, if I were stripped of thee. '
Winlock, Joseph.
With a copy of Aucassin and Nicolete.
With an Armchair.
Wyman, Jeffries.
Sower, The.
Speech of Honourable Preserved Doe in Secret Caucus.
Standish, Miles, An Interview with.
Stanzas on Freedom.
Street, The.
Studies for Two Heads.
Sub Pondere crescit.
Summer Storm.
Sun-Worship.
Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line.

Telepathy.
Tempora Mutantur.
THREE MEMORIAL POEMS.
Threnodia.
To----.
To A. C. L.
To a Friend.
To a Lady playing on the Cithern.
To a Pine-Tree.
To C. F. Bradford.
To Charles Eliot Norton.
To H. W. L.
To Holmes.
To J. R. Giddings.
To John Gorham Palfrey.
To Lamartine.
To M. O. S.
To M. W. , on her Birthday.
To Miss D. T.
To Mr. John Bartlett.
To Perdita, singing.
To the Dandelion.
To the Future.
To the Memory of Hood.
To the Past.
To the Spirit of Keats.
To W. L. Garrison.
To Whittier.
Token, The.
Torrey, Charles Turner, On the Death of.
Trial.
Turner's Old Temeraire.
Two Gunners, The.
Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel.

Under the October Maples.
Under the Old Elm.
UNDER THE WILLOWS, AND OTHER POEMS.
Under the Willows.
UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT, THE.

Valentine, A.
Verses, intended to go with a Posset Dish.
Villa Franca.
VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, THE.
Voyage to Vinland, The.

Washers of the Shroud, The.
What Mr. Robinson thinks.
What Rabbi Jehosha said.
Whittier, To.
Wild, H. G. , On an Autumn Sketch of.
Wind-Harp, The.
Winlock, Joseph.
Winter-Evening Hymn to my Fire, A.
With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete.
With a Pair of Gloves lost in a Wager.
With a Pressed Flower.
With a Seashell.
With an Armchair.
Without and Within.
Wordsworth's Sonnets in Defence of Capital Punishment, On reading.
Wyman, Jeffries.

Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters, A.
Yussouf.




FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: The wise Scandinavians probably called their bards by the
queer-looking title of Scald in a delicate way, as it were, just to hint
to the world the hot water they always get into. ]

[Footnote 2:
To demonstrate quickly and easily how per-
-versely absurd 'tis to sound this name _Cowper_,
As people in general call him named _super_,
I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse-trooper. ]

[Footnote 3:
(If you call Snooks an owl, he will show by his looks
That he's morally certain you're jealous of Snooks. )]

[Footnote 4:(Cuts rightly called wooden, as all
must admit.
)]

[Footnote 5:
That is in most cases we do, but not all,
Past a doubt, there are men who are innately small,
Such as Blank, who, without being 'minished a tittle,
Might stand for a type of the Absolute Little. ]

[Footnote 6:
(And at this just conclusion will surely arrive,
That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive. )]

[Footnote 7:
Not forgetting their tea and their toast, though, the while. ]

[Footnote 8:
Turn back now to page--goodness only knows what,
And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot. ]

[Footnote 9: The reader curious in such matters may refer (if he can
find them) to _A sermon preached on the Anniversary of the Dark Day, An
Artillery Election Sermon, A Discourse on the Late Eclipse, Dorcas, A
Funeral Sermon on the Death of Madam Submit Tidd, Relict of the late
Experience Tidd, Esq. , &c. , &c. _]

[Footnote 10: Aut insanit, aut versos facit.
--H. W. ]

[Footnote 11: In relation to this expression, I cannot but think that Mr.
Biglow has been too hasty in attributing it to me. Though Time be a
comparatively innocent personage to swear by, and though Longinus in his
discourse [Greek: Peri 'Upsous] have commended timely oaths as not only
a useful but sublime figure of speech, yet I have always kept my lips
free from that abomination. _Odi profanum vulgus_, I hate your swearing
and hectoring fellows. --H. W. ]

[Footnote 12: i hait the Site of a feller with a muskit as I du pizn But
their _is_ fun to a cornwallis I aint agoin' to deny it. --H. B. ]

[Footnote 13: he means Not quite so fur I guess. --H. B. ]

[Footnote 14: the ignerant creeter means Sekketary; but he ollers stuck
to his books like cobbler's wax to an ile-stone. --H. B. ]

[Footnote 15: it must be aloud that thare's a streak of nater in lovin'
sho, but it sartinly is 1 of the curusest things in nater to see a
rispecktable dri goods dealer (deekon off a chutch maybe) a riggin'
himself out in the Weigh they du and struttin' round in the Reign
aspilin' his trowsis and makin' wet goods of himself. Ef any thin's
foolisher and moor dicklus than militerry gloary it is milishy
gloary. --H. B. ]

[Footnote 16: these fellers are verry proppilly called Rank Heroes, and
the more tha kill the ranker and more Herowick tha becum. --H. B. ]

[Footnote 17: it wuz 'tumblebug' as he Writ it, but the parson put the
Latten instid. i sed tother maid better meeter, but he said tha was
eddykated peepl to Boston and tha wouldn't stan' it no how. idnow as tha
_wood_ and idnow _as_ tha wood. --H. B. ]

[Footnote 18: he means human beins, that's wut he means. i spose he
kinder thought tha wuz human beans ware the Xisle Poles comes
from. --H. B. ]

[Footnote 19: The speaker is of a different mind from Tully, who, in his
recently discovered tractate _De Republica_, tells us, _Nec vero habere
virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare_, and from our
Milton, who says: 'I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,
unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her
adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to
be run for, _not without dust and heat. '--Areop_. He had taken the words
out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well exclaim
with Donatus (if Saint Jerome's tutor may stand sponsor for a curse),
_Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerint! _--H. W. ]

[Footnote 20: That was a pithy saying of Persius, and fits our
politicians without a wrinkle,--_Magister artis, ingeniique largitor
venter_. --H. W. ]

[Footnote 21: There is truth yet in this of Juvenal,--

'Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. '--H. W. ]

[Footnote 22: Jortin is willing to allow of other miracles besides those
recorded in Holy Writ, and why not of othere prophecies? It is granting
too much to Satan to suppose him, as divers of the learned have done,
the inspirer of the ancient oracles. Wiser, I esteem it, to give chance
the credit of the successful ones. What is said here of Louis Phillippe
was verified in some of its minute particulars within a few months'
time. Enough to have made the fortune of Delphi or Hammon, and no thanks
to Beelzebub neither! That of Seneca in Medea will suit here:--

'Rapida fortuna ac levis
Praecepsque regno eripuit, exsilio dedit. '

Let us allow, even to richly deserved misfortune, our commiseration, and
be not over-hasty meanwhile in our censure of the French people, left
for the first time to govern themselves, remembering that wise sentence
of AEschylus,--

[Greek: Apas de trachus hostis han neon kratae. ]

--H. W. ]

[Footnote 23: A rustic euphemism for the American variety of the
_Mephitis_. --H. W. ]

[Footnote 24: _Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English_. ]

[Footnote 25: Cited in Collier. (I give my authority where I do not quote
from the original book. )]

[Footnote 26: The word occurs in a letter of Mary Boleyn, in Golding, and
Warner. Milton also was fond of the word. ]

[Footnote 27: Though I find Worcester in the _Mirror for Magistrates_. ]

[Footnote 28: This was written twenty years ago, and now (1890) I cannot
open an English journal without coming upon an Americanism. ]

[Footnote 29: The Rev. A. L. Mayhew of Wadham College, Oxford, has
convinced me that I was astray in this. ]

[Footnote 30: _Dame_, in English, is a decayed gentlewoman of the same
family. ]

[Footnote 31: Which, whether in that form, or under its aliases
_witch_-grass and _cooch_-grass, points us back to its original Saxon
_quick_. ]

[Footnote 32: And, by the way, the Yankee never says 'o'nights,' but uses
the older adverbial form, analogous to the German _nachts_. ]

[Footnote 33: Greene in his _Quip for an Upstart Courtier_ says, 'to
_square_ it up and downe the streetes before his mistresse. ']









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