Extract from a Poem delivered at the Departure of the Senior

Class of Yale College, in 1827 .

244

Poem delivered at Brown University, Sept. 6, 1831

Psyche before the Tribunal of Venus

On Seeing a Beautiful Boy at Play

Hero.

Idleness.

The Burial of the Champion of his Class, at Yale College. 297

On a Picture of a Girl leading her Blind Mother through

An Apology for Avoiding, after long Separation, a Woman

To Julia Grisi, after hearing Her in "Anna Bolena"

The Elms of New Haven

The Lady Jane; or, an Old Maid's Love

LIST OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS,

DESIGNED BY LEUTZE.

LORD IVON.

(To face Title.)

ENGRAVED BY W. HUMPHRYS.

"I resign'd the bird

To her white hands; and, with a rapid thought,

And lips already eloquent of love,

Turn'd the strange chance to a similitude

Of my own story."

Lord Ivon and his Daughter, p. 185.

THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD.

(Title-page.)

ENGRAVED BY J. J. PEASE.

"God! who gavest

Into my guiding hand this wanderer."

The Mother to her Child, p. 102.

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

ENGRAVED BY CHENEY FROM A PAINTING BY LAWRENCE.

THE LEPER.

ENGRAVED BY W. HUMPHRYS.

"Nearer the stranger came, and bending o'er
The leper's prostrate form, pronounced his name-
'Helon!" "

ABSALOM.

The Leper, p. 23.

ENGRAVED BY W. HUMPHRYS.

"Cold is thy brow, my son! and I am chill,

As to my bosom I have tried to press thee !"

HAGAR.

ENGRAVED BY W. HUMPHRYS.

Absalom, p. 50.

"The well her God had given

To gush in that deep wilderness."

Hagar in the Wilderness, p. 69.

"And sang old songs, and gather'd flowers,

And passionately bless'd once more life's thrilling hours."

Melanie, p. 166.