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Looking Toward Sunset

by Lydia Maria Child

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Dedication
  3. 3Preface
  4. 4The Friends. By L. M. Child
  5. 5The Good Old Grandmother, Who Died Aged Eighty
  6. 6The Consolations of Age. Translated From the German of Zschokke’s A…
  7. 7The Old Man Dreams. By Oliver Wendell Holmes
  8. 8A Russian Lady of the Old School
  9. 9The Old Man’s Song. To His Wife
  10. 10The Twenty-Seventh of March — The Birthday of ——
  11. 11A Christmas Story for Grandfather. By Charles Dickens
  12. 12John Anderson, My Jo. by Robert Burns
  13. 13Old Folks at Home
  14. 14Everlasting Youth. By Rev. Edmund H. Sears
  15. 15Life
  16. 16The Mysterious Pilgrimage. By L. Maria Child
  17. 17The Happiest Time. By Eliza Cook
  18. 18Ode of Anacreon. Translated From the Greek
  19. 19Cicero’s Essay on Old Age
  20. 20The Fountain. By William Wordsworth
  21. 21A Poet’s Blessing. From the German of Uhland
  22. 22Bernard Palissy
  23. 23Old Age Coming
  24. 24Unmarried Women. By L. Maria Child
  25. 25The Old Maid’s Prayer to Diana
  26. 26Grandfather’s Reverie. By Theodore Parker
  27. 27The House in the Meadow. By Louise Chandler Moulton
  28. 28A Story of St. Mark’s Eve. by Thomas Hood
  29. 29What the Old Woman Said
  30. 30The Spring Journey
  31. 31Moral Hints. By L. Maria Child
  32. 32The Boys. Written for a Meeting of College Classmates. By Oliver W.…
  33. 33Ode of Anacreon. Translated From the Greek
  34. 34Mysteriousness of Life. From Mountford’s Euthanasy
  35. 35Extracts From the Grandmother’s Apology. By Alfred Tennyson
  36. 36The Ancient Man
  37. 37Milton’s Hymn of Patience. By Elizabeth Lloyd Howell
  38. 38Letter From an Old Woman, on Her Birthday. By L. Maria Child
  39. 39Bright Days in Winter. By J. G. Whittier
  40. 40The Canary Bird
  41. 41Old Bachelors. By L. Maria Child
  42. 42Taking It Easy. By George H. Clark
  43. 43Old Aunty
  44. 44Richard and Kate — A Suffolk Ballad
  45. 45Ludovico Cornaro — Derived From the Writings of Cornaro
  46. 46Robin and Jeannie. By Dora Greenwell
  47. 47A Good Old Age. From Mountford’s Euthanasy
  48. 48My Psalm. By John G. Whittier
  49. 49John Henry von Dannecker — Derived From Mrs. Jameson’s Sketches, Lo…
  50. 50The Kitten and the Falling Leaves. By William Wordsworth
  51. 51Dr. Doddridge’s Dream
  52. 52The Old Psalm-Tune. By Harriet Beecher Stowe
  53. 53The Lost Books of Livy
  54. 54To One Who Wished Me Sixteen Years Old. by Alice Cary
  55. 55The Silvery Head
  56. 56Growing Old — Addressed to Unmarried Women
  57. 57Equinoctial. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
  58. 58Epitaph on the Unmated
  59. 59A Beautiful Thought
  60. 60At Anchor
  61. 61November. By Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
  62. 62Meditations on a Birthday Eve. by Rev. John Pierpont
  63. 63The Grandmother of Slaves. By Her Granddaughter
  64. 64Auld Lang Syne. By Robert Burns
  65. 65Old Folks at Home
  66. 66Old Uncle Tommy From the Christian Register
  67. 67Sitting in the Sun
  68. 68Aunt Kindly. By Theodore Parker
  69. 69Crossing Over. From the German of Uhland
  70. 70A Love Affair at Cranford. By Mrs. Gaskell
  71. 71To My Wife. On the Anniversary of Our Wedding
  72. 72The Evergreen of Our Feelings — Extracts From the German of J. P. R…
  73. 73Our Secret Drawer
  74. 74The Golden Wedding
  75. 75The Worn Wedding Ring. By W. C. Bennett
  76. 76Hints About Health. By L. Maria Child
  77. 77The Invalid’s Prayer
  78. 78The Old Pastor and His Son. From the German of Jean Paul Richter
  79. 79Rest at Evening. By Adelaide A. Procter

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