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Poetry.

A

Age of Reptiles

612

A. L. B., Lines to him

492

Album, Lines in,

12

,

177

,

272

,

369

,

467

,

611

,

667

,

748

Ann, Lines to

466

Answer to "My Life is like the Summer Rose"

452

Answer to Willis's, "They may talk of your Love in a Cottage"

612

Anticipation

161

Apostrophe of the Æolian Harp to the Wind

396

"Arnold and Andre," an unpublished Drama, scene from

555

Autumn

453

Autumn Woods

179

B

Ballad

705

Barlow's Monument, Lines on

369

Battle of Breed's Hill

185

Beauty of Time

161

Beauty without Loveliness

208

Bible, Lines to the

371

Blackstone's "Farewell to his Muse"

208

Broken Heart

404

Brown, Mrs. D. P., Lines to her Infant Daughter

13

To her Children, on the New Year

14

Byron's Last Words

177

C

Cantilena Amatoria

776

Cemetery, the, from the Russian

63

Changes of Nature

240

Christiana, Lines to

755

Claudia, To

776

Coldness of Character, Lines on being accused of

635

Coliseum, the, a Prize Poem, by Edgar A. Poe

706

Collegian, Poems by, Extracts from

117

Columbus before the University of Salamanca

12

Content's Mishap, by Pertinax Placid

450

Coquetry, Lines on, to Miss C.

369

Creation of the Antelope

216

Curse of the Betrayed One, a Fragment

763

D

D——, Lines to, by a Young Lady

160

Dandy Chastised

96

Davis, Warren R., Lines to his Memory

317

Death among the Trees, by Mrs. Sigourney

51

Death of the Motherless, by the same

372

Declaration, the

180

Desart Grief, by Lucy T. Johnson

771

Despair, Lines to

200

Diamond Chain

611

Dirge, by Mrs. Willard

539

E

Elegy, by Frederick Speece

636

Eolian Harp's Apostrophe to the Wind

396

Epigram Francaise, and Translation

186

Epigrams

317

,

320

,

612

Epitaph on a Young Lady

319

Estelle, Verses to

539

Eugene Aram, Paraphrase of a Figure in

604

Exile, The

317

Extempore, on hearing Mr. Wickham in the House of Delegates

208

F

F——, Lines to

691

Farewell to Rosa

540

Fated City

100

Friends of Man, by Mrs. Sigourney

755

From my Scrap Book

180

From my Mother's Note Book

318

G

Genius of Columbia to her Native Muse

50

Girl of Beauty

667

Grave Seekers

101

H

Happy Love

208

Heart, The

184

Hector and Andromache, parting of—

translated by William Munford

768

H. W. M. Lines to

634

Hope, Address to

370

Hopes and Sorrows

371

Hymn to the Stars

101

I

"I met Thee by Moonlight alone"

764

Ianthe, Lines to

186

Impromptus

183

,

198

Infant Nephew in England, Address to

699

Intemperance, by Mrs. Sigourney

13

Invocation

453

Invocation to Religion

161

Irish Peasant Wife's Song, by Mrs. Norton

206

Italian Extravaganza, and Translation

452

J

James Gibbon Carter—lines on his death

660

Jeu de Mots

—on a Name

319

Josephine

775

Julia Bruce, the blind, deaf mute—Lines on by Mrs. Sigourney

635

K

Kiss, The—

a la Moore

199

L

La Fayette, by Mrs. Willard

538

Last Gift

396

Last Indian, by Larry Lyle

402

Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse

316

"Let Ocean swell with angry spite,"

452

Lines to —— —— of the United States Navy

49

on Finding a Billet from an early Friend

62

placed with a Rose on a Lady's Cheek

96

to ——, by L.

101

written in the Village of A—— in Virginia

706

to ——, by Powhatan

164

by the late Dr. Drake

177

by Alexander L. Beard

699

to a Lady

186

on Poesy and Religion

660

to Mrs. B. G. S. by E. A. S.

764

Love, Mutual, but Hopeless

199

M

Maniac's Address to the Moon

698

Marguerite, Lines to

465

Mary, Lines to

635

,

692

Miniature, The—by George P. Morris

317

Miss Martineau, Lines on

319

,

320

Moonlight

370

Musings, by the author of Vyvyan

14

,

50

,

99

My Child, Verses to—by Pertinax Placid

467

My Daughter's Lullaby

537

"My Life is Like the Summer Rose," by Wilde

13

Answer to it

452

My Native Home, by George Watterston

644

My Native Land, by Lucy T. Johnson

466

My own Opinion,

a la

Shakspeare

272

My Sisters, Lines to

604

My Wife, Lines to

199

N

Napoleon

453

Napoleon's Grave, by R. H. Wilde

231

Nature and Art

437

Nugator, Verses by

82

,

539

O

"O Give me that Oblivious Draught!"

320

Ocean, The

671

Ocean Hymn, by Mrs. Willard

538

Ode, on a Fine Night at Sea

179

Old Parish Church, by Nugator

539

"One who will understand me," Lines to

369

P

Parody on Bryant's Autumn

185

on Roy's Wife, by Warren R. Davis

207

on the Song in Marmion "Where shall the Lover rest," &c.

612

Parting

178

Passage of the Beresina

207

Peasant Women of the Canaries

184

Picture of Old Virginia, by Nugator

82

Pirate's Wife, Song of

771

Poems of Mrs. Jean Wood

209

Power of Faith

40

Prayer

272

R

"Remember me, Love!"

692

Richmond Theatre, the burning of

666

Rosalie Lee (Young Rosalie)

332

Ruins of Jamestown—Lines on Viewing

178

S

Sappho's Ode "To the Beloved Fair," a Stanza of it in Sarah—Lines to

692

Gaelic

454

Sea, a Sonnet on the—by A. L. Beard

260

Sea Bird's Revel, by Giles McQuiggin

764

Serenade

12

Sigourney, Mrs.—her Poems

12

,

51

,

371

,

372

,

635

,

755

Sleep

77

"Sleep on, thou Dear Maiden!"

604

Song

254

,

692

Song, by the author of Vyvyan

62

Song of the Pirate's Wife

771

Song of the Seasons, by Larry Lyle

232

Sonnets

49

,

99

,

116

,

185

,

260

,

636

Speece's Poems

118

Spider, The

317

Spring, by Eliza

492

by "a Prisoner"

492

by "Roy"

492

Stanzas

49

,

116

,

119

,

660

Stray Leaves

332

Susquehannah and Lackawanna, Lines on seeing their junction—by Mrs. Sigourney

371

Sybil's Leaf

199

T

"The Dial marks the Sunny Hour"

604

The Declaration

180

"The Dove of my Bosom lies bleeding"

644

The True Foundation

320

"There's nae Laddie Coming," by Hogg

200

"There is a Thought that still obtrudes"

540

"Thou Arch Magician!"

467

Thoughts, by E. A. S.

756

Thoughts on Seeing the Evening Star

319

Translations from Horace

712

from Adrian

712

True Consolation

186

True Riches and Glory

372

"Trust Not," by A. L. B.

320

Truth and Falsehood

320

U

Unfinished Poem, extract from

370

Unreasonable Wishes—to Miss S. S.

494

V

Victim of Disappointment

724

Visit to an Ancestral Vault

200

W

Wanderer, The—by A. L. Beard

392

Washington and Napoleon, Contrasted

90

"We parted, not as Lovers part"

452

What I Love

452

"Where is my Heart"

453

White, Thomas H., Lines in Memory of

491

,

698

Wilde, R. H.—Pieces by him

13

,

99

,

186

,

187

,

231

,

318

Willard, Mrs.—her contributions to the Messenger

538

,

539

Winter Scenes, at Williamsburg

403

Wood, Mrs. Jean—Poems by

209

Y

Young Rosalie Lee

332

Young Child, Lines to

101

Young Lady, Lines to

177

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