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CONTENTS

CHIEF DATES IN BRYANT'S LIFE AND LITERARY CAREER

BRYANT ON HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY.

J. G. WHITTIER.

POEMS:

The Ages

Thanatopsis

The Yellow Violet

Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood.

A POEM BY

Song. Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow

To a Waterfowl.

Green River

A Winter Piece

The West Wind.

The Burial-place. A Fragment

Blessed are they that Mourn '

'No Man knoweth his Sepulchre '

A Walk at Sunset

Hymn to Death .

The Massacre at Scio

The Indian Girl's Lament

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An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers

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To the River Arve

To Cole, the Painter, departing for Europe

To the Fringed Gentian

The Twenty-second of December

Hymn of the City

The Prairies

Song of Marion's Men

The Arctic Lover

The Journey of Life

TRANSLATIONS :

Version of a Fragment of Simonides

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From the Spanish of Villegas

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Mary Magdalen. (From the Spanish of Bartolome Leonardo

The Life of the Blessed. (From the Spanish of Luis Ponce

de Leon)

Fatima and Raduan. (From the Spanish)

Love and Folly. (From La Fontaine)

The Siesta. (From the Spanish)

The Alcayde of Molina. (From the Spanish)

The Death of Aliatar. (From the Spanish)

Love in the Age of Chivalry. (From Peyre Vidal, the

Troubadour).

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The Love of God. (From the Provençal of Bernard Rascas) 137

From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro y Añaya

Sonnet. (From the Portuguese of Semedo)

Song. (From the Spanish of Iglesias)

The Count of Greiers. (From the German of Uhland)

The Serenade. (From the Spanish)

A Northern Legend. (From the German of Uhland).

The Paradise of Tears. (From the German of N. Müller).

The Lady of Castle Windeck.

An Evening Reverie. (From an unfinished Poem)

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