DANVERS, 1866 BANKRUPT! our pockets inside o… Empty of words to speak his praise… Worcester and Webster up the spou… Dead broke of laudatory phrases!

A NIGHTMARE DREAM BY D… Do you know the Old Man of the S… Have you met with that dreadful ol… If you have n’t been caught, you w… For catch you he must and he can.

December 17, l807 - September 7,… THOU, too, hast left us. While w… And sorrowing hearts, we mourned o… The flying season bent its Parthi… And yet again our mingling tears w…

1849-1861 THE piping of our slender, peacef… Whispers uncared for while the tru… Song is thin air; our hearts’ exul… Beats time but to the tread of mar…

I love all sights of earth and ski… From flowers that glow to stars th… The comet and the penny show, All curious things, above, below, Hold each in turn my wandering eye…

JULY 6, 1865 Now, smiling friends and shipmates… Since half our battle 's won, A broadside for our Admiral! Load every crystal gun

I HOLD a letter in my hand,- A flattering letter, more’s the pi… By some contriving junto planned, And signed per order of Committee… It touches every tenderest spot,-

AUGUST 5, 1866 THOUGH watery deserts hold apar… The worlds of East and West, Still beats the selfsame human hea… In each proud Nation’s breast.

LORD of all being! throned afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star… Centre and soul of every sphere, Yet to each loving heart how near! Sun of our life, thy quickening ra…

THOUGH young no more, we still… Of beauty’s dear deluding wiles; The leagues of life to graybeards… Shorter than boyhood’s lingering m… Who knows a woman’s wild caprice?

ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHD… 1887 FRIEND, whom thy fourscore wint… Than when life’s roseate summer on… Burned in the flush of manhood’s m…

THE glory has passed from the gol… The purple-hued asters still linge… The birch is bright yellow, the su… The maples like torches aflame ove… But what if the joy of the summer…

NOT bed-time yet! The night-wind… The stars are out,—full well we kn… The nurse is on the stair, With hand of ice and cheek of snow… And frozen lips that whisper low,

WHEN legislators keep the law, When banks dispense with bolts and… When berries—whortle, rasp, and st… Grow bigger downwards through the… When he that selleth house or land

Sweet Mary, I have never breathed The love it were in vain to name; Though round my heart a serpent wr… I smiled, or strove to smile, the… Once more the pulse of Nature glo…