Blowing Bubbles, 1
Infant Faith, 4
Patty Proud, 6
I caught a Bird, 9
The Flower of Shells and Silver Wire, 11
The little Blind Boy, 12
The Sale of the Water Lily, 13
The Silver Birdsnest, 18
The Quaker Flower, 20
The Humming-Bird's Anger, 22
The Sabbath, 24
The departing Spirit, 26
Sonnet, 27
Father, hear, 28
The Pilgrim's Way Song, 29
The rising Monument, 31
A Name in the Sand, 34
A Child of a Year and a Day, 35
The Believer's Mountains, 38
The Night and the Morning, 41
I shall be satisfied, 44
The Penitential Tear, 46
The Teachings of God, 48
The Herald's Cry in the Desert, 50
Our Father's Well, 52
The Mother's Dream, 56
The War Spirit on Bunker's Height, 60
The inner Self, 64
Time, 67
My Head, 71
The Wheat Field, 74
The little Traveller, 76
The entangled Fly, 78
The Peach Blossoms, 80
The broken Pipe, 82
Vivy Vain, 85
The Mocking-Bird, 89
The Bird's Home, 92
The Bird uncaged, 93
Dame Biddy, 95
The envious Lobster, 100
Kit with the Rose, 102
The Storm in the Forest, 104
The uprooted Elm, 106
Through the Clouds, 108
My Rose Tree, 110
The Infant Baptist, 113
Hymn to Solitude, 115
The Bible in the Fields, 117
The hoary Head, 120
My Father, 121
A Sage hath departed, 124
The Burial of Schiller, 126
Funeral Hymn for President Harrison, 129
Dirge for Felicia Hemans, 131
She died, as dawned her Natal Day, 133
Written in an Album, after the Lines of a deceased Friend, 134
The Sovereign of Babylon, 135
The Deer Stricken by Torch-light, 137
The Death of Sapphira, 139
William at Sea, 142
My Portrait, 146
The Widow's only Son, 148
The Young Mother, 150
Evening at Andover Seminary Hill, 152
Hymn of the parting Class, 155
The speckled 157
The Moon of a Wintry Night, 161
Tom Tar, 165
The Seaman's Hymn, 170
The Mariner's Song of Departure, 172
The Sea Eagle's Fall, 174
The caged Lion, 177
The Traveller at the Red Sea, 179
The Hebrew Captives, 181
Fragments from "Esther," a Poem, 182
Gone in her Beauty, 185
The Nun, 187
Trees for the Pilgrim's Wreath, 193
The Mushroom's Soliloquy, 194
The Spirit and the Mountain, 195
The Fall of the Statue, 197
The Bird's Maternal Care, 201
Song, 205
The White Moth, 207
Edward and Charles, 209
Music of the Crickets, 213
Childhood's Dream, 216
The Fruit Tree Blossom, 218
The Plymouth Apple declined, 220
The half Apple, 222
The Horticulturist's Table-Hymn, 224
The Whip-poor-will, 227
The Autumnal Rose-bud, 230
To L. A. E. on her Wedding-day, 231
To Mrs. H. F. L. 233
Music, 235