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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 CONTENTS. xi 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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