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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Not I
  4. Here, Perfect to a Wish
  5. As Seamen on the Seas
  6. The Pamphlet Here Presented
  7. See How the Children in the Print
  8. Reader, Your Soul Upraise to See
  9. A Peak in Darien
  10. See in the Print, How Moved by Whim
  11. Mark, Printed on the Opposing Page
  12. With Storms A-Weather, Rocks A-Lee
  13. The Careful Angler Chose His Nook
  14. The Abbot for a Walk Went Out
  15. The Frozen Peaks He Once Explored
  16. Industrious Pirate! See Him Sweep
  17. A Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers
  18. Proem
  19. The Precarious Mill
  20. The Disputatious Pines
  21. The Tramps
  22. The Foolhardy Geographer
  23. The Angler & The Clown
  24. Robin and Ben
  25. The Builder’s Doom
  26. To Alison Cunningham
  27. Bed in Summer
  28. A Thought
  29. At the Sea-Side
  30. Young Night Thought
  31. Whole Duty of Children
  32. Rain
  33. Pirate Story
  34. Foreign Lands
  35. Windy Nights
  36. Travel
  37. Singing
  38. Looking Forward
  39. A Good Play
  40. Where Go the Boats?
  41. Auntie’s Skirts
  42. The Land of Counterpane
  43. The Land of Nod
  44. My Shadow
  45. System
  46. A Good Boy
  47. Escape at Bedtime
  48. Marching Song
  49. The Cow
  50. Happy Thought
  51. The Wind
  52. Keepsake Mill
  53. Good and Bad Children
  54. Foreign Children
  55. The Sun’s Travels
  56. The Lamplighter
  57. My Bed Is a Boat
  58. The Moon
  59. The Swing
  60. Time to Rise
  61. Looking-Glass River
  62. Fairy Bread
  63. From a Railway Carriage
  64. Winter-Time
  65. The Hayloft
  66. Farewell to the Farm
  67. North-West Passage
    1. I: Good Night
    2. II: Shadow March
    3. III: In Port
  68. The Unseen Playmate
  69. My Ship and I
  70. My Kingdom
  71. Picture-Books in Winter
  72. My Treasures
  73. Block City
  74. The Land of Story-Books
  75. Armies in the Fire
  76. The Little Land
  77. Night and Day
  78. Nest Eggs
  79. The Flowers
  80. Summer Sun
  81. The Dumb Soldier
  82. Autumn Fires
  83. The Gardener
  84. Historical Associations
  85. To Willie and Henrietta
  86. To My Mother
  87. To Auntie
  88. To Minnie
  89. To My Name-Child
  90. To Any Reader
  91. Envoy
  92. A Song of the Road
  93. The Canoe Speaks
  94. It Is the Season Now to Go
  95. The House Beautiful
  96. A Visit from the Sea
  97. To a Gardener
  98. To Minnie
  99. To K. de M.
  100. To N. V. de G. S.
  101. To Will. H. Low
  102. To Mrs. Will. H. Low
  103. To H. F. Brown
  104. To Andrew Lang
  105. Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti
  106. To W. E. Henley
  107. Henry James
  108. The Mirror Speaks
  109. Katharine
  110. To F. J. S.
  111. Requiem
  112. The Celestial Surgeon
  113. Our Lady of the Snows
  114. Not Yet, My Soul, These Friendly Fields Desert
  115. It Is Not Yours, O Mother, to Complain
  116. The Sick Child
  117. In Memoriam F. A. S.
  118. To My Father
  119. In the States
  120. A Portrait
  121. Sing Clearlier, Muse, or Evermore Be Still
  122. A Camp
  123. The Country of the Camisards
  124. Skerryvore
  125. Skerryvore
  126. “My House,” I Say. But Hark to the Sunny Doves
  127. My Body Which My Dungeon Is
  128. Say Not of Me That Weakly I Declined
  129. The Song of Rahéro
    1. I: The Slaying of Támatéa
    2. II: The Venging of Támatéa
    3. III: Rahéro
  130. The Feast of Famine
    1. I: The Priest’s Vigil
    2. II: The Lovers
    3. III: The Feast
    4. IV: The Raid
  131. Ticonderoga
    1. I: The Saying of the Name
    2. II: The Seeking of the Name
    3. III: The Place of the Name
  132. Heather Ale
  133. Christmas at Sea
  134. The Vagabond
  135. Youth and Love—I
  136. Youth and Love—II
  137. In Dreams, Unhappy, I Behold You Stand
  138. She Rested by the Broken Brook
  139. The Infinite Shining Heavens
  140. Plain as the Glistering Planets Shine
  141. To You, Let Snow and Roses
  142. Let Beauty Awake in the Morn from Beautiful Dreams
  143. I Know Not How It Is with You
  144. I Will Make You Brooches and Toys for Your Delight
  145. We Have Loved of Yore
  146. Mater Triumphans
  147. Bright Is the Ring of Words
  148. In the Highlands, in the Country Places
  149. Home No More Home to Me, Whither Must I Wander? (To the Tune of Wandering Willie)
  150. Winter
  151. The Stormy Evening Closes Now in Vain
  152. To Dr. Hake
  153. To ⸻
  154. The Morning Drum-Call on My Eager Ear
  155. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
  156. He Hears with Gladdened Heart the Thunder
  157. Farewell, Fair Day and Fading Light!
  158. If This Were Faith
  159. My Wife
  160. To the Muse
  161. To an Island Princess
  162. To Kalakaua
  163. To Princess Kaiulani
  164. To Mother Maryanne
  165. In Memoriam E. H.
  166. To My Wife
  167. To My Old Familiars
  168. The Tropics Vanish, and Meseems That I
  169. To S. C.
  170. The House of Tembinoka
  171. The Woodman
  172. Tropic Rain
  173. An End of Travel
  174. We Uncommiserate Pass Into the Night
  175. Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone
  176. To S. R. Crockett
  177. Evensong
  178. The Light-Keeper
  179. A Familiar Epistle
  180. Rondels
    1. I: Far Have You Come, My Lady, from the Town
    2. II: Nous N’Irons Plus Au Bois
    3. III: Since I Am Sworn to Live My Life
    4. IV: Of His Pitiable Transformation
  181. The Susquehannah and the Delaware
  182. Epistle to Albert Dew-Smith
  183. Alcaics to Horatio F. Brown
  184. A Lytle Jape of Tusherie
  185. To Virgil and Dora Williams
  186. Burlesque Sonnet
  187. The Fine Pacific Islands
  188. The Lesson of the Master
  189. The Consecration of Braille
  190. Song
  191. Prayer
  192. Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read
  193. Though Deep Indifference Should Drowse
  194. My Heart, When First the Blackbird Sings
  195. I Dreamed of Forest Alleys Fair
  196. St. Martin’s Summer
  197. Dedication
  198. The Old Chimaeras, Old Receipts
  199. Prelude
  200. The Vanquished Knight
  201. To the Commissioners of Northern Lights
  202. The Relic Taken, What Avails the Shrine?
  203. About the Sheltered Garden Ground
  204. After Reading “Antony and Cleopatra”
  205. I Know Not How, but as I Count
  206. Spring Song
  207. The Summer Sun Shone Round Me
  208. You Looked So Tempting in the Pew
  209. Love’s Vicissitudes
  210. Duddingstone
  211. Stout Marches Lead to Certain Ends
  212. Away with Funeral Music
  213. To Sydney
  214. Had I the Power That Have the Will
  215. O Dull Cold Northern Sky
  216. Apologetic Postscript of a Year Later
  217. To Marcus
  218. To Ottilie
  219. This Gloomy Northern Day
  220. The Wind Is Without There and Howls in the Trees
  221. A Valentine’s Song
  222. Hail! Childish Slaves of Social Rules
  223. Swallows Travel to and Fro
  224. To Mesdames Zassetsky and Garschine
  225. To Madame Garschine
  226. Music at the Villa Marina
  227. Fear Not, Dear Friend, but Freely Live Your Days
  228. Let Love Go, if Go She Will
  229. I Do Not Fear to Own Me Kin
  230. I Am Like One That for Long Days Had Sat
  231. Voluntary
  232. On Now, Although the Year Be Done
  233. In the Green and Gallant Spring
  234. Death, to the Dead for Evermore
  235. I Who All the Winter Through
  236. Love, What Is Love?
  237. Soon Our Friends Perish
  238. As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long
  239. Strange Are the Ways of Men
  240. The Wind Blew Shrill and Smart
  241. Man Sails the Deep Awhile
  242. The Cock’s Clear Voice Into the Clearer Air
  243. Now When the Number of My Years
  244. What Man May Learn, What Man May Do
  245. Small Is the Trust When Love Is Green
  246. Know You the River Near to Grez
  247. It’s Forth Across the Roaring Foam
  248. An English Breeze
  249. As in Their Flight the Birds of Song
  250. The Piper
  251. To Mrs. Macmarland
  252. To Miss Cornish
  253. Tales of Arabia
  254. Behold, as Goblins Dark of Mien
  255. Still I Love to Rhyme
  256. Long Time I Lay in Little Ease
  257. Flower God, God of the Spring
  258. Come, My Beloved, Hear from Me
  259. Since Years Ago for Evermore
  260. Envoy for “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
  261. For Richmond’s Garden Wall
  262. Hail, Guest, and Enter Freely!
  263. Lo, Now, My Guest
  264. So Live, So Love, So Use That Fragile Hour
  265. Ad Se Ipsum
  266. Before This Little Gift Was Come
  267. Go, Little Book—The Ancient Phrase
  268. My Love Was Warm
  269. Dedicatory Poem for “Underwoods”
  270. Farewell
  271. The Far-Farers
  272. Come, My Little Children, Here Are Songs for You
  273. Home from the Daisied Meadows
  274. Early in the Morning I Hear on Your Piano
  275. Fair Isle at Sea
  276. Loud and Low in the Chimney
  277. I Love to Be Warm by the Red Fireside
  278. At Last She Comes
  279. Mine Eyes Were Swift to Know Thee
  280. Fixed Is the Doom
  281. Men Are Heaven’s Piers
  282. The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod
  283. Spring Carol
  284. To What Shall I Compare Her?
  285. When the Sun Comes After Rain
  286. Late, O Miller
  287. To Friends at Home
  288. I, Whom Apollo Sometime Visited
  289. Tempest Tossed and Sore Afflicted
  290. Variant Form of the Preceding Poem
  291. I Now, O Friend, Whom Noiselessly the Snows
  292. Since Thou Hast Given Me This Good Hope, O God
  293. God Gave to Me a Child in Part
  294. Over the Land Is April
  295. Light as the Linnet on My Way I Start
  296. Come, Here Is Adieu to the City
  297. It Blows a Snowing Gale
  298. Ne Sit Ancillæ Tibi Amor Pudor
  299. To All That Love the Far and Blue
  300. Thou Strainest Through the Mountain Fern
  301. To Rosabelle
  302. Now Bare to the Beholder’s Eye
  303. Sonnets
  304. Air of Diabelli’s
  305. Epitaphium Erotii
  306. De M. Antonio
  307. Ad Magistrum Ludi
  308. Ad Nepotem
  309. In Charidemum
  310. De Ligurra
  311. In Lupum
  312. Ad Quintilianum
  313. De Hortis Julii Martialis
  314. Ad Martialem
  315. In Maximum
  316. Ad Olum
  317. De Cœnatione Micæ
  318. De Erotio Puella
  319. Ad Piscatorem
  320. The Mill-House
  321. The Well-Head
  322. A Summer Night
  323. Take Not My Hand as Mine Alone
  324. All Influences Were in Vain
  325. Death
  326. The Moon Is Sinking—The Tempestuous Weather
  327. The Whole Day Thro’, in Contempt and Pity
  328. The Old World Moans and Topes
  329. I Am Like One That Has Sat Alone
  330. I Sit Up Here at Midnight
  331. Link Your Arm in Mine, My Lad
  332. I Have a Friend; I Have a Story
  333. Hopes
  334. To a Youth
  335. Here He Comes, Big with Statistics
  336. In Autumn When the Woods Are Red
  337. The Look of Death Is Both Severe and Mild
  338. Her Name Is as a Word of Old Romance
  339. Light as My Heart Was Long Ago
  340. Gather Ye Roses While Ye May
  341. Since I Am Sworn to Live My Life
  342. Poem for a Class Re-Union
  343. I Saw Red Evening Through the Rain
  344. Last Night We Had a Thunderstorm in Style
  345. O Lady Fair and Sweet
  346. If I Had Wings, My Lady, Like a Dove
  347. All Night Through, Raves or Broods
  348. The Rain Is Over and Done
  349. There Where the Land of Love
  350. Love Is the Very Heart of Spring
  351. At Morning on the Garden Seat
  352. If I Could Arise and Travel Away
  353. Good Old Ale, Mild or Pale
  354. Nay, but I Fancy Somehow, Year by Year
  355. My Wife and I, in One Romantic Cot
  356. Yes, I Remember, and Still Remember Wailing
  357. Of Schooners, Islands and Maroons
  358. Here Lies Erotion
  359. To Priapus
  360. Far Over Seas an Island Is
  361. On the Gorgeous Hills of Morning
  362. Rivers and Winds Among the Twisted Hills
  363. I Am a Hunchback, Yellow Faced
  364. I Look Across the Ocean
  365. Endnotes
  366. List of Illustrations
  367. Colophon
  368. Uncopyright

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  1. Poetry
  2. Endnotes
  3. List of Illustrations