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CONTENTS
The Burial of Grant. (New York, August 8, 1885) 115
The Dead Comrade. (At the burial of Grant, a bugler stood forth and sounded "taps") 116
On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln 117
The President. (Written during the first administration of President Cleveland) 118
PART IV
Essipoff 118
Adele aus der Ohe 119
Modjeska 120
The Drama. (Supposed to be from the Polish) 120
For an Album. (To be read one hundred years after) 122
Porto Fino 123
Impromptus:—
I To F. F. C. on the pansy, her class flower 124
II Art 125
III To a Southern Girl 125
IV For a Fan 125
V To T. B. A. (In acknowledgment of a book of prose) 125
VI A Theme 126
VII The Christmas Tree in the Nursery. (For F. and R.) 126
PART V
Music and Words 128
The Poet's Fame 129
The Poet's Protest 131
To a Young Poet 132
"When the true poet comes" 132
Youth and Age 133
The Sonnet 134
A Sonnet of Dante. "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare" 134
The New Troubadours. (Avignon, 1879) 135
Keats 135
An Inscription in Rome. (Piazza di Spagna) 136
Desecration 136
"Jocoseria" 137