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Q: A FAMILY PORTRAIT

THE ORGAN-BLOWER
AT THE PANTOMIME
AFTER
THE FIRE
A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY

NEARING THE SNOW-LINE
IN WAR TIME
TO CANAAN: A PURITAN WAR-SONG
"THUS SAITH THE
LORD, I OFFER THEE THREE THINGS"
NEVER OR NOW

ONE COUNTRY
GOD SAVE THE FLAG!
HYMN AFTER
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
HYMN FOR THE
FAIR AT CHICAGO
UNDER THE WASHINGTON ELM,
CAMBRIDGE
FREEDOM, OUR QUEEN
ARMY HYMN

PARTING HYMN
THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY
THE
SWEET LITTLE MAN
UNION AND LIBERTY
SONGS OF WELCOME AND FAREWELL
AMERICA TO RUSSIA
WELCOME TO THE GRAND DUKE
ALEXIS
AT THE BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS

AT THE BANQUET TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY
AT THE
BANQUET TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY
BRYANT'S
SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ
AT
A DINNER TO ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
AT A DINNER TO
GENERAL GRANT
To H W LONGFELLOW
To CHRISTIAN
GOTTFRIED EHRENBERG
A TOAST TO WILKIE COLLINS
MEMORIAL VERSES
FOR THE SERVICES IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

BOSTON, 1865 FOR THE COMMEMORATION SERVICES,
CAMBRIDGE JULY 21, 1865 EDWARD EVERETT: JANUARY
30, 1865
SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION,
APRIL 23, 1864 IN MEMORY OF JOHN AND ROBERT WARE,
MAY 25, 1864
HUMBOLDT'S BIRTHDAY: CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869 POEM AT THE
DEDICATION OF THE HALLECK MONUMENT, JULY 8, 1869
HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION AT THE LAYING OF THE
CORNER-STONE OF
HARVARD MEMORIAL HALL, CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 6,
1870 HYMN FOR THE DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL HALL
AT CAMBRIDGE, 1874 HYMN AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES
OF CHARLES SUMNER, APRIL 29, 1874
RHYMES OF AN HOUR
ADDRESS FOR THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH AVENUE
THEATRE, N. Y. 1873 A SEA DIALOGUE
CHANSON
WITHOUT MUSIC
FOR THE CENTENNIAL DINNER,
PROPRIETORS OF BOSTON PIER, 1873 A POEM SERVED TO
ORDER
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
No TIME LIKE THE
OLD TIME
A HYMN OF PEACE, TO THE MUSIC OF
KELLER'S "AMERICAN HYMN"
NOTES
[Volume 3 of the 1893 three volume set]
CONTENTS
BUNKER-HILL BATTLE AND OTHER POEMS
GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER-HILL BATTLE
AT
THE "ATLANTIC" DINNER, DECEMBER 15, 1874
"LUCY."
FOR HER GOLDEN WEDDING, OCTOBER 18, 1875
HYMN
FOR THE INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF

GOVERNOR ANDREW, HINGHAM,
OCTOBER 7, 1875
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO DR.
SAMUEL G. HOWE
JOSEPH WARREN, M. D.
OLD
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 3, 1875
WELCOME TO THE NATIONS,
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1876
A FAMILIAR LETTER

UNSATISFIED
HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET
AN
APPEAL FOR "THE OLD SOUTH"
THE FIRST FAN
To R.
B. H.
THE SHIP OF STATE
A FAMILY RECORD
THE IRON GATE AND OTHER POEMS.
THE IRON GATE
VESTIGIA QUINQUE RETRORSUM
MY
AVIARY
ON THE THRESHOLD
TO GEORGE PEABODY

AT THE PAPYRUS CLUB
FOR WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH
BIRTHDAY
TWO SONNETS: HARVARD
THE COMING
ERA
IN RESPONSE
FOR THE MOORE CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION
TO JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE

WELCOME TO THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUB

AMERICAN ACADEMY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
THE
SCHOOL-BOY
THE SILENT MELODY
OUR HOME--OUR
COUNTRY
POEM AT THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
DINNER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
MEDICAL SOCIETY
RHYMES OF A LIFE-TIME
BEFORE THE CURFEW
AT MY FIRESIDE
AT THE SATURDAY CLUB
OUR DEAD
SINGER. H. W. L.
TWO POEMS TO HARRIET BEECHER
STOWE ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY.
I. AT THE SUMMIT
II. THE WORLD'S HOMAGE
A
WELCOME TO DR. BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD

TO
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE ON HIS EIGHTIETH

BIRTHDAY
TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
TO JOHN
GREENLEAF WHITTIER ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY

PRELUDE TO A VOLUME PRINTED IN RAISED LETTERS

FOR THE BLIND
BOSTON TO FLORENCE
AT THE
UNITARIAN FESTIVAL, MARCH 8, 1882
POEM FOR THE
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
FOUNDING OF
HARVARD COLLEGE
POST-PRANDIAL: PHI BETA KAPPA,
1881
THE FLANEUR: DURING THE TRANSIT OF VENUS,
1882
AVE
KING'S CHAPEL READ AT THE TWO
HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
HYMN FOR THE SAME
OCCASION
HYMN.--THE WORD OF PROMISE
HYMN
READ AT THE DEDICATION OF THE OLIVER WENDELL
HOLMES HOSPITAL AT HUDSON, WISCONSIN, JUNE 7, 1887

ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD
THE
GOLDEN FLOWER
HAIL, COLUMBIA!
POEM FOR THE
DEDICATION OF THE FOUNTAIN AT
STRATFORD-ON-AVON, PRESENTED
BY GEORGE CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIA
TO THE POETS
WHO ONLY READ AND LISTEN
FOR THE DEDICATION
OF THE NEW CITY LIBRARY
FOR THE WINDOW IN ST.
MARGARET'S
JAMES RUSSELL LO WELL: 1819-1891
POEMS FROM OVER THE TEACUPS.
TO THE ELEVEN LADIES WHO PRESENTED ME WITH A
SILVER LOVING CUP THE PEAU DE CHAGRIN OF STATE
STREET
CACOETHES SCRIBENDI
THE ROSE AND THE
FERN
I LIKE YOU AND I LOVE YOU
LA MAISON D'OR
BAR HARBOR
TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE
THE
BROOMSTICK TRAIN; OR, THE RETURN OF THE WITCHES

TARTARUS
AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD

INVITA
MINERVA

READINGS OVER THE TEACUPS
TO MY OLD READERS
THE BANKER'S SECRET
THE
EXILE'S SECRET
THE LOVER'S SECRET
THE
STATESMAN'S SECRET
THE MOTHER'S SECRET
THE
SECRET OF THE STARS
VERSES FROM THE OLDEST PORTFOLIO
FIRST VERSES: TRANSLATION FROM THE THE MEETING
OF THE DRYADS THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
THE
TOADSTOOL
THE SPECTRE PIG
TO A CAGED LION

THE STAR AND THE WATER-LILY
ILLUSTRATION OF A
PICTURE: "A SPANISH GIRL REVERIE"
A ROMAN
AQUEDUCT
FROM A BACHELOR'S PRIVATE JOURNAL

LA GRISETTE
OUR YANKEE GIRLS
L'INCONNUE

STANZAS
LINES BY A CLERK
THE PHILOSOPHER TO
HIS LOVE
THE POET'S LOT
TO A BLANK SHEET OF
PAPER
TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A GENTLEMAN" IN THE
ATHENAEUM GALLERY THE BALLAD OF THE
OYSTERMAN
A NOONTIDE LYRIC
THE HOT SEASON

A PORTRAIT
AN EVENING THOUGHT. WRITTEN AT SEA

THE WASP AND THE HORNET
"QUI VIVE?"
NOTES
TO MY READERS
NAY, blame me not; I might have spared
Your patience many a
trivial verse,
Yet these my earlier welcome shared,
So, let the better
shield the worse.
And some might say, "Those ruder songs
Had freshness which the
new have lost;
To spring the opening leaf belongs,
The
chestnut-burs await the frost."

When those I