1857.

Preface

Index

Shadows of the Past

Reminiscences.

Chapter I.

The Old Homestead.

Chapter II.

The Old House.

Chapter III.

The Old School House.

Chapter IV.

The Grave Yard.

Midnight Scenes

Or, Pictures of Human Life.

Picture No. I.

Picture No. II.

Picture No. III.

Picture No. IV.

The History of a Household.

Lines, Written during Convalescence from Brain Fever

The Angel Cousin.

Lines, Written at the Close of 1842.

Lines, on the New Year, 1853.

The Unhappy Marriage.

Lines, Written on the Year 1852.

Consumption.

To Mrs. A---- B----, on the Death of Her Child.

An Evening in Our Village.

Contemplations in a Grave Yard.

A Scene on the Kennebec River.

To Miss H---- B----, These Lines Are Affectionately Dedicated By ----.

Lines, Written in an Album.

A Long Night in the Eighteenth Century.

On Hearing a Bird Sing, December, 1826.

Variety.

Henriette Clinton;

Or, Reverses of Fortune.

The Child.

Lines, Written on the Death of Ellen A---- B----.

The Order of Nature.

The Seasons.

Dedication in an Album.

Lines, Written to Mrs. S----, On the Death of Her Infant.

Lines, To Mrs. S----, On the Death of Her Son, Who Died March, 1854.

The First and Last Voyage of The Atlantic.

The Fatal Feast.

To the Maiden

To Mrs. B----, On the Death of a Son.

O Come Back, My Brother.

The Twins

On the Frailty of Earthly Things.

To a Friend

The Mother and Her Child.

A Mother's Prayer.

Lines, Written in an Album.

On The Death of a Mother.

The Music of Earth.

Lines, Written on the Death of Mrs. Caroline P. Baldwin, Who Died July 6, 1827.

Lines, Written in a Sick-Room, April 15, 1855.

Lines, Written in a Sick Room, July 20th, 1855.

To a Friend

The Mother's Watch.

Why Should I Smile?

The Youth's Return.

To A----.

Beauties of Nature.

On the Death of Willie White, Who Was Drowned Sept. 21, 1856.

The Human Heart

Lines, Written on the Death of a Friend.

To a Friend.

Happiness.

A Picture of Human Life.

Flowers.

The Old Castle.

The Myrtle.

Death.

The Home of Childhood.

The Happy Land.

Devotion.

To a Friend

Lines, Written upon the Death of Two Sisters.

To I----.

Lines, Written for a Friend upon the 20th Anniversary of Her Birthday.

Human Thought

Lines, Written on the Departure of a Brother.

Lines, on the Death of a Friend.

The Power of Custom.

Annie Howard.

We All Do Perish Like the Leaf.

Life Compared to the Seasons.

Writing Composition.

Lines, Written in Answer to the Question "Where Is Our Poet?"

My Husband's Grave.

Lines, Written upon the Young Who Have Recently Died in Our Village.

Conscience.

Lines, Written in an Album.

Letter, from the Pen of My Husband, Now Deceased.

Hope.

Visit to Mount Auburn.

Lines, From Mary to Her Father in California, with Her Daguerreotype.

A Reminiscence.

Letter of Resignation, from Mrs. Hanna to The Maternal Association

Improvement of Time

Lines, Written on the Death of Frank.

The Pleasures of Memory.

The Song of the Weary One.

Lines, Inscribed to a Brother.

Changes

To Mr. and Mrs. S----, On the Death of an Infant.

The Spirits of the Dead.

The Widow's Home

To Mrs. J. C. Bucklin, by Her Father.

To The Reader.