PUBLIC LIBRARY

26592B ASTOR, LENOX AND PILDEN FOUNDATIONS

ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OP CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1845, BY CAREY & HART,
IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF
PENNSYLVANIA.

STEREOTYPEN BY L. JOHNSON AND CO.

PRINTXD BY T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS.

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VOICES OF THE Night.

Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hymn to the Night . ...........
A Psalm of Life . . . . . ..
The Reaper and the Flowers . .
The Light of Stars ............
Footsteps of Angels. ...........
Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Beleaguered City . . . . . . . . . . . .
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year . . . . . . .

BALLADS.

The Skeleton in Armor . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Wreck of the Hesperus . . . . . . . . . 50

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Village Blacksmith . . . . . . . . .
Endymion . ............
It is not always May ...
The Rainy Day ...
God's Acre . . . .
To the River Charles ..
The Goblet of Life ...
Blind Bartimeus . . .
Maidenhood . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Excelsior . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Belfry of Bruges . . . . . .
A Gleam of Sunshine ...........
The Arsenal at Springfield . . . . . . . .

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Nuremberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Norman Baron . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

The Day is Done ............ 96

Sea-weed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

EARLIER POEMS.

An April Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Autumn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Woods in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem. ...

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Sunrise on the Hills . . . . . . . . . . . 111

The Spirit of Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Burial of the Minnisink .......... 116

TRANSLATIONS.

1. Swedish.

Children of the Lord's Supper . . . . . . . . 245

2. Danish.

King Christian . . . . . . . . . .

The Elected Knight . . . . . . . .

3. Anglo Saxon.

The Grave . . . . . . . . . . .

4. German.

The Happiest Land. ........ . . . . 275

The Wave . . . . . . . . . . .

The Dead . ...........

The Bird and the Ship. .......... 279

Whither? . . . . . .

Beware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Song of the Bell. . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

The Castle by the Sea ........... 287

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TRANSLATIONS.

The Black Knight . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Song of the Silent Land .......... 292

The Luck of Edenhall . . . . . . . . . . . 293

The Two Locks of Hair . . . . . . . .

The Statue over the Cathedral Door . . . .

The Legend of the Cross-bill . . . . . . . . . 299

The Hemlock Tree . .........

Annie of Tharaw . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

5. Spanish.

Coplas de Manrique. . . . . . . . . . . 305

The Good Shepherd ........... 327

To-Morrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

The Native Land . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

The Image of God . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

The Brook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

6. French.

Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

The Child Asleep . . . . . . . . . . . 334

7. Italian.

The Celestial Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

The Terrestrial Paradise .......... 338

Beatrice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

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ADDITIONAL POEMs.

Rain in Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Afternoon in February . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Walter von der Vogelweide . . . . . . . . . 352

The Occultation of Orion . ..

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The Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

To the Driving Cloud ...

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Carillon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

To a Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

To an old Danish Song-book . ........ 377

Drinking Song . . . . . . .

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The old Clock on the Stairs ......... 383

The Arrow and the Song .......... 387

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ADDITIONAL POEMs.

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The Evening Star . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Autumn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389.
Dante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
The Sea hath its Pearls . . . . . . . . . . 391
Poetic Aphorisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
The Best Medicines . . .

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Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Poverty and Blindness . . . . . . . . . . 393
Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
The Restless Heart . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Christian Love . .

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Art and Tact . . .

394
Retribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Rhymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Curfew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

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