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SPIDER-WEBS IN VERSE.

A CHORAL OF SUNSET.

THE POET’S PRAYER.

UPS AND DOWNS.

THE OLD BENONI TREE.

A SLUMBER RHAPSODY.

BAREFOOT AFTER THE COWS.

GIFT AND GIVER.

A SORTO’ PLAYED-OUT OL’ BOUQUET.

DOWN TO THE CANDY-MAN’S SHOP.

LIFE TO LOVE. A Triolet.

COME TO THE SHADOWS. A Pantoum.

SOUL OF MY SOUL.

MINCE PIE.

TEARS AND LAUGHTER.

MIST-WING.

THE COMMON LOT. Choriambic.

ECHO SONG.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

SONNETS OF LIFE.

II.

A MODERN TRAGEDY AVERTED. He (in despondency) .

THE HUMAN HEART. Birth.

THE NIGHTMARE.

“FALSE WOMANKIND!” ON READING A SLUR THAT WAS MADE ON HER BY THE LACK-LOVE GAY, OF QUEEN ANNE’S DAY.

LONELY! TO —— (LONG AGO DEAD.)

I’SE SEEN A LIGHT IN DE SKY. (A PLANTATION MELODY.)

FAMILY OF THE EPHEMERA.

SHUT IN. I.

SONG OF THE STARS.

I WONDER.

IF SO, PEACE TILL NEXT NEW-YEAR. (A DIRGE.)

MY DEFEAT.

THERE’S A LAUGH.

TO SLEEP.

WHEEL AND SHUTTLE.

THE PRESS OF PENURY.

HALLOWEEN. AN INVITATION SENT TO A LADY, OCT. 31.

LIFE.

BORROWING BRAINS.

SLEEP.

TO A WILD-ROSE BOUQUET.

SONG ON THE SEA.

WOODLAND LAY.

IN THE ANGELS’ KEEP.

THOUGHT.

WHITE-ENTHRONED ABOVE ME. (ON A SMALL WHITE-ROSE BOUQUET PRESENTED BY A LADY AND PLACED IN PALGRAVE’S “GOLDEN TREASURY,” OPPOSITE “THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.”)

THE LONE WAYSIDE WILD ROSE.

TWENTY.

BEAUTIFUL MAY.

DEEP UNTO DEEP. A DOUBLE THRENODY.

A HUMPTY-DUMPTY IDIOTIC CHAP.

GOOD-NIGHT. A SONG OF THE CLOSE OF LIFE.

TO FANCY.

GOOD-NIGHT, MY LOVE.

THROUGH REVERENT EYES.

WHAT IS POETRY?

USELESS?

A MORTAL.

TO MORPHEUS.

A DREAMY APRIL EVENING IN THE WOODS.

TO THEE ABOVE.

CHORUS.

THE LURLEI.

TOUGH MUTTON, PERHAPS.

TO MISS ——.

SHUT YOUR EYES AND GO TO SLEEP. A KYRIELLE.

BROWNING. (BY W. A. BACK, FARMER.)

MADRIGAL.

WORDS AND THOUGHTS.

REX FUGIT.

THE SICKLE OF FLOWERS.

THIS TOUCH OF AN ANGEL’S HAND.

LIFE’S PHILOSOPHY. AN ALLEGORY.

JUST AS USUAL.

A DEPLORATION.

I LOVE YOU, KATE.

THE DEAD MAN’S LIFE. (That is, practically dead.)

PITY THE POOR.

LIFE’S LOST SKIFF. WRITTEN ON LAKE MICHIGAN.

A CLOSE ATTACHMENT. STRANGE STORY OF AMOS QUITO.

THE DEMONIAC.

THE WEATHER FIEND.

WHO KNOWS!

THE DEATH-HOWL.

ON PLUCKING A CROCUS.

GRAVITY—LIFE! (After Browning—several miles after.)

DEATH—LIFE.

HOT?—WELL, RATHER!

A YEAR AGO.

THE SWEETEST OF ALL.

THE LOVER’S COMPLAINT.

BUZZ.

WASHINGTON. 22 Feb.

FREEDOM’S BATTLE SONG. CANTUS FILIIS VETERANORUM.

’MONG THE MOUNTAINS OF THE SOUL.

HAL A-HUNTIN’.

WRITE FROM THE HEART.

WHITHER?

OUR ALMA MATER.

FATHER TIME.

THUS LIFE’S TALE.

PART OF THE NEW ENGLAND LAMENT. ON THE KILLING OF SITTING BULL, 1891.

ON KINGSLEY’S “FAREWELL.”

THE TRANSFORMATION. A PSYCHOLOGICAL MYSTERY.

BOY BARDS. TO E. L. H.

THE GREATEST THING ON EARTH.