Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Public School Lib. 4-14-1

Ypsilanti

To a Friend, with a Copy of the foregoing Lucubration

A lucid Interval

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Worms and Flowers.

The Recluse.

The Retreat. Written on finding a copy of verses in a

small edifice so named, at Raithby, in Lincolnshire,

the seat of R. C. Brackenbury, to whom the Author

made a visit in the autumn of 1815, after a severe

illness

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Speed the Prow

The Sky-lark. (Addressed to a Friend.) On hearing one

singing at daybreak, during a sharp frost, on the

17th of February, 1832, while the Author was on

travel, between Bath and Stroud

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A Recollection of Mary F., a young Lady unexpectedly re-

moved from a large Family Circle

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The Cholera Mount. Lines on the burying-place for pa-

tients who died of cholera morbus; a pleasant emi-

nence in Sheffield Park

The Tombs of the Fathers

A Cry from South Africa: On building a Chapel at Cape

Town for the Negro Slaves of the colony, in 1828

To my Friend, George Bennet, Esq., of Sheffield, on his

intended Visit to Tahiti, and other Islands of the

South Sea, where Christianity had been recently

established

Stanzas in Memory of the Rev. James Harvey, of Weston

Favell, Northamptonshire, who died on Christmas

One Warning more. Written for distribution on a race-

course, 1824

The Veil

A Riddle. Addressed to E. R., 1820

On a Watch-pocket worked by A. L.

To Cynthia: a young Lady, unknown to the Author, who,

by letter, requested "a stanza," or "a few lines in his

handwriting"

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For J. S., a Preamble to her Album

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To Margaret: a little Girl, who begged to have some Verses

from the Author, at Scarborough, in 1814

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Short-hand. Stanzas addressed to E. P.

The blank Leaf

The Gnat. Written with Pencil round an Insect of that

kind, which had been accidentally crushed, and re-

mained fixed on a blank page of a Lady's Album 208

An Infant's Album. A. H. R. to her Friends and Contrib-

utors, written to accompany her Portrait, at the

beginning of the Book

A wedding Wish. To Mr. and Mrs. H.

Motto to "a Poet's Portfolio." (Fragment of a page of ob-

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The Widow. Written at the request of a Lady, who fur-

nished several of the lines and the plan of the whole

In Memory of E. B., formerly E. R.

In Memory of E. G..

SONGS ON THE ABOLITION OF NEGRO SLAVERY, IN

THE BRITISH COLONIES, AUGUST 1, 1834.

No. II. The Negro is free. [To Moore's Melody of "Sound

the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea"]

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No. III. Slavery that was

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No. IV.

Slavery that is not

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No. V. The Negro's Vigil: On the eve of the first of Au-

gust, 1834.

SACRED AND SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS.

The Sand and the Rock. Part I. Destruction.

Garden Thoughts. On occasion of a Christian assembly in

the grounds of a gentleman at York, for the purpose

of promoting Missions among the Heathen

To Mr. and Mrs. T. of York, with the foregoing Stanzas

The Field of the World

Farewell to a Missionary.

An Afterthought.

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"The Prisoner of the Lord." A Sabbath Hymn for a sick

chamber.

The Lot of the Righteous

A Benediction for a Baby

"Occupy till I come." On the death of the late Joseph

Butterworth, Esq., an exemplary Christian, patriot,

and philanthropist

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A Message from the Moon: a Thought at Exeter, during

the great Eclipse of the Sun, May 15, 1886

Emblems

Coronation Ode for Queen Victoria

Westminster Abbey, on the twenty-eighth of June, 1838.

To the Queen

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A bridal Benison. Addressed to my Friends Mr. and Mrs. B. 323