This page needs to be proofread.

CONTENTS

Page

Retrospect 256

Lament of Orpheus 259

To the Shade of Samuel Adams 263

Marriage of Truth and Beauty 269

To a Snow-covered Apple- tree . . . • 271

Assabet Brook and River 273

(■ To an Alchemist 282

(, To Louis Cornaro 285

Ode to Conscience 287

Morn, Noon, and Night of a Summer's Day 299

The Rivulet 303

New Year's Wish 304

(■ Hermit of Melvern Water 305

( The Solitary Man 313

Railway Train. First Treatment . . . .' 320

Railway Train. Second Treatment . 321

The Mountain Journey 324

(■ To a Learned Man dreading Old Age 3 28

(, The Experienced Philosopher 330

To the Memory of Washington 334

The Soul's Invocation 335

Ode to Oblivion 339

Spring Morning of a Bereaved Man 342

Robert Burns 348

To a Worldling Tired of Country Life 351

Poet and Toll-gatherer 353

A Vision of the Western World 35S

Medicean Venus 364

Ode to Hope 365

Ode to Fancy 370

The Poet. First Treatment 375

The Poet. Second Treatment 376

The Poet. Third Treatment 379

The Poet. Fourth Treatment 381

��^

�� �