CONTENTS

BIOGRAPHY AND COMMENT

WHAT IS LIFE?

ADDRESS TO PLENTY IN WINTER

NOON

THE UNIVERSAL EPITAPH

THE HARVEST MORNING

ON AN INFANT’S GRAVE

TO AN APRIL DAISY

SUMMER EVENING

PATTY

PATTY OF THE VALE

MY LOVE, THOU ART A NOSEGAY SWEET

THE MEETING

EFFUSION

BALLAD

SONG

THE GIPSY’S CAMP

TO THE CLOUDS

THE WOODMAN DEDICATED TO THE REV. J. KNOWLES HOLLAND.

RURAL EVENING

RUSTIC FISHING

JUNE

DECEMBER

THE APPROACH OF SPRING

TO THE RURAL MUSE.

SUMMER IMAGES

AUTUMN

THE VANITIES OF LIFE

THOUGHTS IN A CHURCH-YARD

THE NIGHTINGALE’S NEST

TO P****

A WORLD FOR LOVE

SONG

LOVE

DECAY

PASTORAL FANCIES

THE AUTUMN ROBIN

A SPRING MORNING

THE CRAB-TREE

WINTER

OLD POESY

’TIS SPRING, MY LOVE, ’TIS SPRING

GRAVES OF INFANTS

HOME YEARNINGS

LOVE LIVES BEYOND THE TOMB

MY EARLY HOME

THE TELL-TALE FLOWERS

TO JOHN MILTON

I AM! YET WHAT I AM