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To my readers; Earlier Poems (1830-1836) Old Ironsides; The last leaf; The cambridge churchyard; To an insect; The dilemma; My aunt; Reflections of a proud pedesthian; Daily trails, by a sensitve man; Evening, by a tailor; The dorchester giant; To the portrait of "A lady"; The comet; The music- Grinders; The treadmill song; The September gale; The height of the ridiculous; The last reader; Poetry: A metrical essay - Poems published between 1837 and 1848: The pilgrim's vision; The steamboat; Lexington; On lending a punch-bowl; A song for the centennial celeration of Harvard Collage, 1836; The island hunting song; Departed days; The only daughter; Song written for the dinner given to Charles Dickens, by The young men of Boston, February 1, 1842; Lines recited at the Berkshire Jubilee, Pittsfield, Mass., August 23, 1844; Nux Postocoenatica; Verses for after dinner; A modes request, compiled with after the Dinner at President Everett's Inauguartion; The parting word; A song of other days; Song for a temperance dinner to which ladies were invited (New York Mercantile library association, November 1842); A sentiment; A rhymed lesson (Urania); An after dinner poem (Terpsichore) -- Medical Poems: The morning visit; The two armies; The stethoscope song; Extracts from a medical poem A poem for the meeting of the American Medical Association at New York, May 5, 1853; A sentimet; Rip Van Winkle, M.D.; Poem read at the dinner given to the author by the medical profession of the city of New York, April 12, 1883 - Songs in many keys (1849-1861): Prologue; Agnes; The Ploughman; Spring; The study; The bells; Non-resistance; The moral bully; the mind's diet; Our limitations; The old player; A poem: Dedication of the Pittsfield Cemetery, September 9, 1850; To Governor Swain; To an English friend; After a lecture on Wordsworth; After a lecure on Moore; After a lecture on Keats; After a lecture on Shelley; At the close of a course of lectures; The Hudson; The New Eden; Semi-centennial Celebration of the New England Society, New York, December 22, 1855; Farewell to J. R. Lowell; For the meeting of the Burns Club, 1856; Ode for Washington's birthday; Birthday fo Daniel Wester; The voiceless; The two streams; The promise; Avis; The living Temple; At a birthday festival: To J.R. Lowell; A birthday tribute to J. F. Clarke; The gray chief; The last look: W.W. swain; In memory of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr.; Martha; Meeting fo the alumni of Harvard College, 1857; The parting song; For the meeting fo the national sanitary association, 1860; For the burns centennial celebration, 1859; At a meeting of friends; Boston common: there pictures; The old man of the sea; International Ode; Veve la France; Brother Jonathan's lament for sister Caroline - Poems for the class of '29 (1851-1889): Bill and Joe; A song of "Twenty-Nine"; Questions and answers; An improptu; The old man dreams; Remember- forget; Our indian summer; Mare rubrum; The boys; Lines; A voice of the loyal North; J.D.B.; Voyage of the good ship union "Choose you this day who ye will serve"; F. W. C.; The last charge; Our oldest friend; Sherman's in Savannah; My annual; All here; Once more; The old cruiser; Hymn for the class-meeting; Even=song; the smiling listener; Our sweet singer; J.A.
H.C.M.H.S.J.K.W; What I have come for; Our banker; For class meetings; "Ad Amicos"; How not to settle it; The last survivor; The archbishop and Gil Blas; The shadows; Benjamin Peirce; In the twilight; a loving cup song; The girdle of friendship; The lyre of Anacreon; The Old Tune; The broken circle; The angel Thief; After the curfew - Poems from the autocrat of the breakfast-table (1857-1858): The chambered nautilus; Sun and shadow; Musa; A parting health: to J.L. Motley; What we all think; Spring has come; Prologue; Latter-day warnings; Album verses; A good time going!; The last blossom; Contentment; Estivation; The Deacon's masterpiece: or, the wonderful "one-hoss shay"; Prelude; Parson Turell's legacy; or, the president's old arm chair; Ode for a social meeting with slight alterations by a teetotaler - Poems from the professor at the breakfast table (1858-1859): Under the voilets; Hymn of trust; A sunday hymn; the crooked footpath; Iris, her book; Robinson of leyden; St. Anthony the reformer; the opening of the piano; Midsummer; De sauty - Poems from the poet at the breakfast table (1871-1872): Homesick in heaven; Fantasia; Aunt Tabitha; Wind-clouds and star drifts; Epilogue to the breakfast-table series - Songs of many seasons (1862-1874): Opening the window; Programme; In the quiet days; Dorothy Q. A family portrait; the organ blower; After the fire; At the pantomime; 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; Hymn written for the great central fair in Philadelphia, 1864;One country; God save the flag!; Hymn after the emancipation proclamation; Hymn for the fair at Chicago, 1865; 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 Chinese embassy; At the Banquet to the Japanese Embassy; Bryant's sevetieth 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, June 1, 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, 1969; Poem at the dedication of the Halleck Monument, July 8, 1869; Hymn for the dedication of memorial Hall at Cambridge, June 23, 1874; Hymn at the funeral services of Charles Sumner, April 29, 1874; Rhymes of an hour: An impromptu at the walcker dinner upon the completion of the great organ for Boston music hall in 1863; Address for the opening of the fifth avenue theatre, New York, December 3, 1873; A sea dialogue; Chanson without music; For the Centennial dinner of the proprietors of Boston Pier, or the long wharf, April 16, 1873; A poem served to order; the fountain of youth; No time like the old time; A hymn of peace, sung at the "Jubilee," June 15, 1869, to the music of Keller's "American Hymn" - Bunker hill battle and other poems (1874-1877): Grandmother's story of bunker hill battle; At the "Atlantic" Denner, December 15,1874; "Lucy" for her golden wedding, October 18,1875; Hynm 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, 1873; Welcome to the Naitons, 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 Rutherford Birchard Hayes; The ship of State; A family record - The iron gate and other poems (1877-1881): The iron gate; Vestigia Quinque retrorsum; My aviary; On the treshold; To George Peabody; At the papyrus club; Hospital at Hudson, Wisconsin, June 7, 1887; On the death of President Garfield; The golden flower; Youth; Hail, columbia!; Poem for the Dedication of the fountain at Stratford on Avon presented by George W. Childs, of Philidelphia; To the ports who only read and listen; For the dedication fo the New city library, Boston; to James Russell Lowell, at the Dinner given in his honor at the tavern club, on his seventieth birthday, February 22, 1889; But one talent; For the window in St. Margaret's; James Russell Lowell: 1819-1891; In memory of John Greenleaf Whittier: December 17, 1807- September 7, 1892; to the teachers of America; Hymn written for the Twenty-fifth anniversary of the reorganization of the Boston young men's christian union, May 31, 1893; Francis Parkman: September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893 - 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 secret of the stars