POEMS

OF

EARLY AND AFTER
AND AFTER YEARS,

BY

N. P. WILLIS.

ILLUSTRATED BY E. LEUTZE.

"Blending,

Poorly, yet truly, strivings gain'd or lost,
As one in whom two natures keep contending."

Sixth Edition.

PHILADELPHIA:

HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

(SUCCESSOR TO E. L. CAREY,)

No. 7 HART'S BUILDINGS, SIXTH STREET, Above CHESTNUT.

1856.

ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1847, BY CAREY & PART, IN THE EKK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF

PENNSYNIA.

PREFACE.

IN the present edition of his poetical works, doubtless the most ornamental and correct shape in which they will ever be offered to the public, the author has embodied poems never before printed; has restored several which were overlooked in the editions of late years; has, for the first time, critically re-read and corrected the entire collection; and has thus assembled, he believes, in their final and best form, all of his writings in verse (his plays excepted) which he can venture to think worthy of preservation. In his corrections, (he should remark, perhaps,) he has confined himself to the removal of inaccuracies of sense and metaphor; many of the poems, though popular on account of the feeling which embalms them, having been written in a stage