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X  CONTENTS. 

The Little Hand 93
Silent Devotion 94
To the Dying Infant 95
Lines 96
Advertisement of a Lost Day 97
Memory 98
Dew-Drops 99

ANNA MARIA WELLS
Biographical Sketch 100
My Closet 100
Morning 102
To Mary, Sleeping 103
"We'll Never Part Again" 104
The Sea-Bird 106
The White Hare 108
The Future 109
To the Whippoorwill 111
Hope 112

CAROLINE GILMAN
Biographical Sketch 115
My Piazza 115
A Sketch 117
"He for God only, She for God in Him" 118
My Garden 119
Old Age 121
The Child's Wish in June 121
The Mocking-Bird in the City 122

SARAH JOSEPHA HALE
Biographical Sketch 123
Iron 124
The Chase of Pleasure 127
The Four-Leaved Clover 128
The Watcher 130
I Sing to Him 131
Description of Alice Ray 132
The Mississippi 134
The First Swallow 138
Bonds 140
The Two Maidens 141
Is China Our Neighbour? 142
The Power of Music 143
It Snows 145

MARIA JAMES
Biographical Sketch 147
The Twilight Hour 148
Christmas 148
Good-Friday 150
The Picture 150
What is Poetry? 151

JESSIE G. M'CARTEE
Biographical Sketch 151
How Beautiful is Sleep 152
The Stream in the Desert 154
The Death of Moses 155
The Heavenly Song 156

MRS. GRAY
Biographical Sketch 157
Sabbath Reminiscences 158
Two Hundred Years Ago 161
Morn 164

ELIZA FOLLEN
Biographical Sketch 166
Winter Scenes in the Country 166
On the Death of a Beautiful Girl 169
"To Whom Shall We Go?" 169
To My Æolian Harp 170
The Little Spring 170

LOUISA JANE HALL
Biographical Sketch 171
Prayer 172
Miriam explains to Paulus why They must Part 173
Miriam Appeals to the Heart of Piso 178

MRS. SWIFT
Biographical Sketch 181
Stanzas 181
The Night-Blooming Cereus 182
Memory 183
A Christmas Carol 184

MRS. E. C. KINNEY
Biographical Sketch 185
The Quakeress Bride 186
Fading Autumn 187
A Winter Night 187
Cultivation 188
Encouragement 188
The Spring of Song 189
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester 191

MARGUERITE ST. LEON LOUD
Biographical Sketch 193
The Deserted Homestead 193
"Jesus Wept" 195
Prayer for an Absent Husband 196
The Aged 197

LUELLA J. CASE
Biographical Sketch 198
Energy in Adversity 198

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Charity 199
The Unbidden Guest 199

ELIZABETH BOGART
Biographical Sketch 201
He Came Too Late 202
To the Memory of a Friend who Died on Sabbath Morning 203
The Country Church 205

A. D. WOODBRIDGE
Biographical Sketch 207
Life's Light and Shade 207
To Lillie 209

ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER
Biographical Sketch 210
The Brandywine 210
The Soldier's Prayer 213
The Devoted 215
The Chinese Son 216

EMMA C. EMBURY
Biographical Sketch 218
"The Night Cometh" 219
Christ in the Tempest 221
Jane of France 223
Absence 225
Farewell 226
Maiden Purity 227
How Have I Thought of Thee? 228
Confidence in Heaven 229
Remembrance 229
Love Me Still 230
Poor, but Happy 231
Error 232
Inquietude 232
Oh! Tell Me Not of Lofty Fate 233
Dark Thoughts 234
Heedlessness 235

SARAH HELENA WHITMAN
Biographical Sketch 236
Thoughts of the Past 237
A Song of Spring 239
David 240
She Blooms No More 242
On Carlo Dolce's Magdalen 244
Hymn 246

CYNTHIA TAGGART
Biographical Sketch 248
Invocation to Health 250
Autumn 251
Ode to the Poppy 252

ELIZABETH J. EAMES
Biographical Sketch 255
"There shall be Light" 255
Diem Perdidi 257
Charity 257
Lines 258
On the Picture of a Departed Poetess 259

ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH
Biographical Sketch 260
The Acorn 261
Charity, in Despair of Justice 269
The Great Aim 270
Angels 270
Unprofitable Servants 271
Stanzas 272
Strength from the Hills 273
Night 274
The Recall, or Soul Melody 276
The April Rain 277
Love Dead 279

MARY E. BROOKS
Biographical Sketch 281
Oh, Weep Not for the Dead 281
The Lament of Judah 282
The Song of Captive Israel 282
Dream of Life 283
Song 284

LUCRETIA AND MARGARET DAVIDSON
Biographical Sketch 285

LUCRETIA
To My Sister 289
Feats of Death 290
Morning 291
On the Motto of a Seal 292

MARGARET
To My Sister Lucretia 292
To Die, and be Forgotten 294
On My Mother's Fiftieth Birthday 295
Twilight 296

SARAH LOUISA P. SMITH
Biographical Sketch 297
The Huma 298
I Would Never Kneel 299
Stanzas 300
The Fall of Warsaw 301

LYDIA JANE PEIRSON
Biographical Sketch 303
Remembrance of Childhood 305

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