X LIST OF AUTHORS. LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. A Psalm of Life, 19; Footsteps of Angels, 62; The Village Blacksmith, 81; Excelsior, 139; The Goblet of Life, 180; Endymion, 188; To the River Charles, 195; The Reaper and the Flowers, 233; Midnight Mass for the Dying Year, 262. LUNT, GEO. "Pass on, Relentless World," 148; The Lyre and Sword, 214. MCLELLAN, I. The Notes of the Birds, 131. MELLEN, GRENVILLE. The Bugle, 171. MORRIS, CARTER. Mysterious Music of Ocean, 220. NOBLE, LEWIS L. To a Flying Swan in the Vale of the Huron, 47. NORTON, ANDREWS. Scene after a Summer Shower, 92; A Winter Morn ing, 169. PABODIE, WILLIAM J. "Go forth into the Fields," 111. PEABODY, EPHRAIM. The Backwoodsman, 216. PEABODY, WILLIAM B. O. Hymn of Nature, 135. PERCIVAL, JAMES G. To Seneca Lake, 26; The Coral Grove, 72; The Deserted Wife, 99; The Last days of Autumn, 108; Consumption, 208; To the Eagle, 222. PIERPONT, JOHN. The Pilgrim Fathers, 25; "Passing Away," 57; My Child, 127; The Exile at Rest, 141. PIKE, ALBERT. To Spring, 90; To the Mocking Bird, 125. PINKNEY, EDWARD C. Italy, 248. ROCKWELL, J. O. The Sum of Life, 189. SANDS, ROBERT C. Good-Night, 119; Weehawken, 178. SARGENT, EPES. The Days that are Past, 226. SIGOURNEY, LYDIA H. The Western Emigrant, 31; Indian Names, 59; Winter, 174; Death of an Infant, 232. SIMMS, W. G. The Edge of the Swamp, 41; The Shaded Water, 203. SMITH, SEBA Mrs. The Drowned Mariner, 245. SPRAGUE, CHARLES. Art, 33; The Family Meeting, 51; The Winged Worshippers, 101; The Traveler's Fate, 122; The Brothers, 162. STREET, ALFRED B. The Lost Hunter, 73; The Gray Forest Eagle, 114. TOWNSEND, ELIZABETH. Incomprehensibility of God, 109. TUCKERMAN, HENRY T. "Are we not Exiles here?" 164; To an Elm, 260. VERY, JONES. To a Painted Columbine, 66. WARE, HENRY, JR. To the Ursa Major, 35; Seasons of Prayer, 172. WARD, THOMAS. To an Infant in Heaven, 185. WELBY, AMELIA B. The Presence of God, 191; To a Sea-Shell, 243. WHITTIER, JOHN G. New England, 94; Pentucket, 153; The Merrimack, 166; The Prisoner for Debt, 211; Democracy, 234. WILCOX, CARLOS. Spring in New England, 21; Sunset in September, 83. WILLIS, N. P. Spring, 43; April, 60; To a City Pigeon, 133; Lines on Leaving Europe, 182; The Healing of the Daughter of Jairus, 256. WOODWORTH, SAMUEL. The Bucket, 240. READINGS IN UNIV. OF AMERICAN POETRY. THANATOPSIS. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. To him who, in the love of nature, holds Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, 14 THANATOPSIS. Where thy pale form is laid with many tears, Thy image. Earth, that nourish'd thee, shall claim To mix for ever with the elements,- And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round all Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, |