Five sections of lyrics range from songs of love and the bobolink, the song-sparrow and the south wind to night in New York, a rune of the rain, Helen weaving the tale of Troy at her loom, meditations on death, and closing patriotic poems such as “Arise, American” and a tribute to the name of Washington.
Graceful late-nineteenth-century verse by the son-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Download the free EPUB.