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PROCLAMATION?HYMN FOR THE FAIR AT CHICAGO?UNDER THE WASHINGTON ELM, CAMBRIDGE?FREEDOM, OUR QUEEN?ARMY HYMN?PARTING HYMN?THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY?THE SWEET LITTLE MAN?UNION AND LIBERTY
SONGS OF WELCOME AND FAREWELL
AMERICA TO RUSSIA?WELCOME TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS?AT THE BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS?AT THE BANQUET TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY?AT THE BANQUET TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY?BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY?A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ?AT A DINNER TO ADMIRAL FARRAGUT?AT A DINNER TO GENERAL GRANT?To H W LONGFELLOW?To CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED EHRENBERG?A TOAST TO WILKIE COLLINS
MEMORIAL VERSES
FOR THE SERVICES IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BOSTON, 1865 FOR THE COMMEMORATION SERVICES, CAMBRIDGE JULY 21, 1865 EDWARD EVERETT: JANUARY 30, 1865?SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, APRIL 23, 1864 IN MEMORY OF JOHN AND ROBERT WARE, MAY 25, 1864?HUMBOLDT'S BIRTHDAY: CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869 POEM AT THE DEDICATION OF THE HALLECK MONUMENT, JULY 8, 1869 HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF
HARVARD MEMORIAL HALL, CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 6, 1870 HYMN FOR THE DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL HALL AT CAMBRIDGE, 1874 HYMN AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF CHARLES SUMNER, APRIL 29, 1874
RHYMES OF AN HOUR
ADDRESS FOR THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, N. Y. 1873 A SEA DIALOGUE?CHANSON WITHOUT MUSIC?FOR THE CENTENNIAL DINNER, PROPRIETORS OF BOSTON PIER, 1873 A POEM SERVED TO ORDER?THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH?No TIME LIKE THE OLD TIME?A HYMN OF PEACE, TO THE MUSIC OF KELLER'S "AMERICAN HYMN"
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[Volume 3 of the 1893 three volume set]
CONTENTS
BUNKER-HILL BATTLE AND OTHER POEMS
GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER-HILL BATTLE?AT THE "ATLANTIC" DINNER, DECEMBER 15, 1874?"LUCY." FOR HER GOLDEN WEDDING, OCTOBER 18, 1875?HYMN FOR THE INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF GOVERNOR ANDREW, HINGHAM,
OCTOBER 7, 1875?A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO DR. SAMUEL G. HOWE?JOSEPH WARREN, M. D.?OLD CAMBRIDGE, JULY 3, 1875?WELCOME TO THE NATIONS, PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1876?A FAMILIAR LETTER?UNSATISFIED?HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET?AN APPEAL FOR "THE OLD SOUTH"?THE FIRST FAN?To R. B. H.?THE SHIP OF STATE?A FAMILY RECORD
THE IRON GATE AND OTHER POEMS.
THE IRON GATE?VESTIGIA QUINQUE RETRORSUM?MY AVIARY?ON THE THRESHOLD?TO GEORGE PEABODY?AT THE PAPYRUS CLUB?FOR WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY?TWO SONNETS: HARVARD?THE COMING ERA?IN RESPONSE?FOR THE MOORE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION?TO JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE?WELCOME TO THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUB?AMERICAN ACADEMY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION?THE SCHOOL-BOY?THE SILENT MELODY?OUR HOME--OUR COUNTRY?POEM AT THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
MEDICAL SOCIETY?RHYMES OF A LIFE-TIME
BEFORE THE CURFEW
AT MY FIRESIDE?AT THE SATURDAY CLUB?OUR DEAD SINGER. H. W. L.?TWO POEMS TO HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY.
I. AT THE SUMMIT?II. THE WORLD'S HOMAGE?A WELCOME TO DR. BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD?TO FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY?TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL?TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY?PRELUDE TO A VOLUME PRINTED IN RAISED LETTERS?FOR THE BLIND?BOSTON TO FLORENCE?AT THE UNITARIAN FESTIVAL, MARCH 8, 1882?POEM FOR THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF
HARVARD COLLEGE?POST-PRANDIAL: PHI BETA KAPPA, 1881?THE FLANEUR: DURING THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, 1882?AVE?KING'S CHAPEL READ AT THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY?HYMN FOR THE SAME OCCASION?HYMN.--THE WORD OF PROMISE?HYMN READ AT THE DEDICATION OF THE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES HOSPITAL AT HUDSON, WISCONSIN, JUNE 7, 1887?ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD?THE GOLDEN FLOWER?HAIL, COLUMBIA!?POEM FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE FOUNTAIN AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON, PRESENTED
BY GEORGE CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIA?TO THE POETS WHO ONLY READ AND LISTEN?FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CITY LIBRARY?FOR THE WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S?JAMES RUSSELL LO WELL: 1819-1891
POEMS FROM OVER THE TEACUPS.
TO THE ELEVEN LADIES WHO PRESENTED ME WITH A SILVER LOVING CUP THE PEAU DE CHAGRIN OF STATE STREET?CACOETHES SCRIBENDI?THE ROSE AND THE FERN?I LIKE YOU AND I LOVE YOU?LA MAISON D'OR BAR HARBOR?TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE?THE BROOMSTICK TRAIN; OR, THE RETURN OF THE WITCHES?TARTARUS?AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD?INVITA MINERVA
READINGS OVER THE TEACUPS
TO MY OLD READERS?THE BANKER'S SECRET?THE EXILE'S SECRET?THE LOVER'S SECRET?THE STATESMAN'S SECRET?THE MOTHER'S SECRET?THE SECRET OF THE STARS
VERSES FROM THE OLDEST PORTFOLIO
FIRST VERSES: TRANSLATION FROM THE THE MEETING OF THE DRYADS THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR?THE TOADSTOOL?THE SPECTRE PIG?TO A CAGED LION?THE STAR AND THE WATER-LILY?ILLUSTRATION OF A PICTURE: "A SPANISH GIRL REVERIE"?A ROMAN AQUEDUCT?FROM A BACHELOR'S PRIVATE JOURNAL?LA GRISETTE?OUR YANKEE GIRLS?L'INCONNUE?STANZAS?LINES BY A CLERK?THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS LOVE?THE POET'S LOT?TO A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER?TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A GENTLEMAN" IN THE ATHENAEUM GALLERY THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN?A NOONTIDE LYRIC?THE HOT SEASON?A PORTRAIT?AN EVENING THOUGHT. WRITTEN AT SEA?THE WASP AND THE HORNET?"QUI VIVE?"
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TO MY READERS
NAY, blame me not; I might have spared?Your patience many a trivial verse,?Yet these my earlier welcome shared,?So, let the better shield the worse.
And some might say, "Those ruder songs?Had freshness which the new have lost;?To spring the opening leaf belongs,?The chestnut-burs await the frost."
When those I wrote, my locks were brown,?When these I write--ah, well a-day!?The autumn thistle's silvery down?Is not the purple bloom of May
Go, little book, whose pages hold?Those garnered years in loving trust;?How long before your blue and gold?Shall fade and whiten in the dust?
O sexton of the alcoved tomb,?Where souls in leathern cerements lie,?Tell me each living poet's doom!?How long before his book shall die?
It matters little, soon or late,?A