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- O heaven born muse! inspire my humble lay
- The earth is parched with heat, flowers droop and die
- Lines, Written on Reading Stuart's Account of The Treatment of Slaves in Charleston
- Lines on Mount Auburn
- Lines suggested by hearing the beach, at F. Peabody's Mills, South Salem
- Hast thou ever heard the voice of nature
- 'Ambitione inani pectus caret'
- What more delightful than to wander forth
- A Song Composed by Mr J. Very, to be Sung at the Class-Supper of the Sophomore Class of 1834
- Death of Lafayette
- Old Age
- Lines Suggested By Seeing A Butterfly Sculptured Upon A Tomb
- Kind Words
- Pleasure ("Goddess of pleasure, where thy golden car?")
- Give me an eye, that manly deeds
- I saw a child, whose eyes had never drank
- The New Year
- Sleigh Ride
- The Snow Drop
- Cold cold thy lips my gentle boy
- Spring ('Look! Winter now in trembling haste')
- The morn may lend its golden smile
- Lines To — On the Death of His Friend
- North River
- Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, Labuntur anni
- The Humming-Bird
- Nature ('I love to sit on the green hill's side')
- Religion
- A Withered Leaf—seen on a Poet's Table
- The Stars
- The Snow Bird
- Memory ('Soon the silver chord is broken')
- Memory ('Soon the waves, so lightly bounding')
- King Philip
- The Painted Columbine
- The Frozen Ship
- My Mother's Voice
- The Arab Steed
- Hymn, Sung At The Dedication of The New Stone Church of The North Society In Salem June 22d, 1836
- Song: For the Valedictory Exercises of the Senior Class of Harvard University, 1836
- Washington
- The Autumn Leaf
- The Winter Bird
- The Boy's Dream: A Ballad
- I murmur not though hard the lot
- The Torn Flower
- The moon was shining on the deck
- Home of my youth! Where first my lot was cast
- Haunts of my youth farewell! A while I leave
- Death Decay and Change
- The Portrait
- The Canary Bird
- The Tree ('I love thee when thy swelling buds appear')
- The Fossil Flower
- The April Snow
- Nature ('Nature, my love for thee is deeper far')
- An Evening Walk
- Beauty
- The Voice of God
- The Wind-Flower
- The Sabbatia
- The Passage Bird
- A Sonnet
- The Columbine
- The Robin
- Hymn ('Thou who keepst us each together')
- The Stranger's Gift
- The New Birth
- The Journey
- 'In Him we live, & move, & have our being'
- Enoch
- The Son
- Love
- Day
- Night
- The Coming
- The Morning Watch
- The Weary and Heavy Leaden
- The Garden
- The Song
- The Spirit Land ('Father! thy wonders do not singly stand')
- The Slave
- The Bread from Heaven
- The Latter Rain
- The Word ('The Word! it cannot fail; it ever speaks')
- Worship ("There is no worship now—the idol stands")
- The Living God
- Time
- The Violet
- The Heart
- The Trees of Life
- The Soldier of the Cross
- The Spirit
- The Serpent
- The Dead
- The Presence
- The Lost
- The Robe
- The Will
- The War
- Life
- The Reaper
- Simmons Mobile Alabama
- Winter ("There is a winter in the godless heart")
- John
- The Flight
- The Priest
- The Resurrection
- My Father's House
- The Servant
- I Was Sick And In Prison
- He Was Acquainted With Grief
- The Fragments
- The Winter Rain
- Forbearance
- The Wolf and the Lamb Shall Feed Together
- The Rail Road
- Behold He Is at Hand That Doth Betray Me
- The Fruit
- To Him That Hath Shall Be Given
- The Thorns
- The River
- The New Jerusalem ('I saw the city, 'twas not built by hands')
- The Cross
- Nature ('Nature would speak through her first master man')
- Ye Gave Me No Meat
- Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech
- Labor and Rest
- The Disciple
- The Mountain
- The Mustard Seed
- Eden
- My meat and drink
- Forgive me my trespasses
- The Star
- The Watchman
- The Prison
- The Prophet
- The Flood
- The Corrupt Tree
- The Pure in Heart
- The Complaint
- Whither shall I go from thy Spirit
- The First shall be Last
- The Laborer
- Thy Brother's Blood
- The Graveyard
- Sacrifice
- The Son of Man
- The Ark
- The Father
- Rachel
- Christmas
- The Earth
- The Hours
- The Christ
- The Things Before
- The Cup
- Old Things are passed away
- The Harvest ('They love me not, who at my table eat')
- The City
- The Rose
- Faith ('There is no faith; the mountain stands within')
- The Jew
- Spring ('The stem that long has borne the wintry blast')
- The Temple
- The White Horse
- The Tent
- My Sheep
- The Corner Stone
- The Good Ground
- The Beginning and The End
- Nature ('The bubbling brook doth leap when I come by')
- Morning
- The Temptation
- Help
- Change
- The Poor
- They Who Hunger
- Who Hath Ears To Hear Let Him Hear!
- The Sign
- The Tree ('I too will wait with thee returning spring')
- The Meek
- The Desert
- The Clay
- The Altar
- Praise
- Terror
- The Prayer ('Father! help them who walk in their own light')
- Humility
- Forgiveness
- The Heavenly Rest
- Compassion
- The Rock
- To notice other days were pages given
- The Crocus
- The Plant
- I am the Way
- The kingdom of God Is within you
- My Church
- The Charge
- The Sabbath
- The Invitation ('There is no sound but thou dost hear my voice')
- The Preacher
- Come unto me
- Flee to the mountains
- Blessed are they that mourn
- Faith ('Hast thou but faith thou shalt the mountain bid')
- Redeeming the Time
- Tis Finished
- Effort
- To the pure all things are pure
- The Task
- Spring ('I have not lived the flesh has hedged me in')
- The Day
- The Strong Man
- The Warrior
- The Acorn
- The Shelter
- The Harvest ('The plant it springs it rears its drooping head')
- The Husbandman
- The Last
- The Call ('Come thou and labor with me I will give')
- The Promise ('The words I give thee they are not thine own')
- Joy ('The joy Thou giv'st no man can take away')
- Hope
- Relief
- Joy ('Thou hast a moon for every cloudy night')
- The Creation
- The Snare
- The Yoke
- The Promise ('I come the rushing wind that shook the place')
- The Path of Peace
- Obedience
- Grief
- The Reward
- So is every one who is born of the spirit
- The Seed
- I am the Light of the World
- The Apostle
- The Message
- I Am the Bread of Life
- The Foe
- Yet Once More
- The Humble
- Comfort
- The Guest
- The Eagles
- Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn
- Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand
- Thy Name
- The Mourner
- The Giants
- To the Fishermen
- The Sower
- Charity
- The Created
- To All
- The Unrevealed
- Sayings
- The Prisoner
- Eternal Life
- Unto you is born a Saviour
- The Redeemed
- Hallowed be they Name
- To him who overcometh
- The Children
- The New Man
- The Veil of the Temple
- The Holy of Holies
- The Brethren
- The Prodigal
- The Fig Tree
- The Branch
- Not as the World giveth
- The Good Gift
- History
- The Spirit Land ('Open our eyes that we the world may see')
- Thy Father's House
- Jacob's Well
- The Day of Denial
- Spiritual Darkness
- The New World
- The Word ('The voice that speaks when thou art in thy tomb')
- The Field and Wood
- The Apostles
- The House
- The Tenant
- This Morn
- The Call ('Why are thou not awake my son?')
- The Prayer ('Wilt Thou not visit me?')
- The Bride
- My Garden
- The Unripe Fruit
- The Immortal
- The Serving-Man
- The Cottage
- The Still-Born
- To-Day
- The Withered Tree
- The Hour
- The Old Road
- The Fair Morning
- The Clouded Morning
- The Plagues of Egypt
- The Dark Day
- The Removal
- The Rain
- The Frost
- Autumn Days
- Autumn Leaves
- The Lost Sheep
- The Shepherd's Life
- The Good Samaritan
- The Birds of Passage
- The Feast
- The Ramble
- The Barberry Bush
- The Hand and the Foot
- The Eye and Ear
- The Sunset
- Yourself
- Thy Better Self
- The Glutton
- The Day not for Gain
- The World ('The end of all thou seest is near')
- The House Not Made With Hands, Eternal In The Heavens
- The Broken Bowl
- The Bunch of Flowers
- Hymn: Home
- The Ghost
- The Seasons
- The Silent
- The Way
- The Sun
- The Worm
- The Watcher
- The Physician
- The Miser
- The Spheres
- The Builders
- Give and it shall be given unto you. Spiritual Debtors
- The Laborers
- The Unfaithful Servants
- The Thieves
- The Strangers
- The Light from Within
- Thou know'st not what thy Lord will say
- The Good
- The Distant
- A Word
- The Settler
- The Dwellings of the Just
- Death
- The Birth-Day of the Soul
- The Bee Hive
- Time's House
- The Fox and the Bird
- Faith and Light
- The Word ('The Word where is it? hath it voice')
- The Absent
- The Pilgrim
- The Idler
- The Lost
- The Narrow Way
- The True Light
- The Invitation ('Stay where thou art, thou need'st not further go')
- The Sick
- The Flesh
- Decay
- The New Sea
- The Baker's Island Light
- The Gifts of God
- The Sepulchre of the Books
- The Robin's Song
- The Wounded Pigeon
- The Swift
- The World ('Tis all a great show')
- The Evening Choir
- The Cold Spring In North Salem
- Lines on Reading the Death of Rev. Henry Ware, Jr.
- Jonathan Huntington Bright
- God's Host
- The Worm
- The White Dove And The Snow
- The Latter Rain
- Moses In Infancy
- Moses at the Bush
- Moses As Leader Of Israel
- The New Jerusalem ('There are towers; where they are')
- The Autumn Flowers
- The Death Of Man
- As ye sow, so shall ye reap
- God Not Afar Off
- The Indian's Retort
- The Widow
- Impatience
- Abdolonymus—The Sidonian
- The Arrival
- The Soul's Preparation For Adversity
- Change In The Seasons
- The Just Shall Live by Faith
- Salem ("Boast not, my native spot, thy sons were first")
- Spring in the Soul
- Nature's Invitation
- Christ's Compassion
- Hymn: Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Luke XVIII:8
- The Man of Science
- The Congress Of Peace At Brussels
- 'Tis A Great Thing to Live
- The Indian's Petition
- The Struggle
- The Things Before
- The Dying Leaf
- The New Body
- The Clock
- On The Sudden Snow
- On the late Disgraceful Scene in Congress
- The Funerals
- The New Aqueduct
- The Soul's Freedom
- Looking Before And After
- The Succory
- The Reapers Are The Angels
- The Sumach Leaves
- The Just
- Slavery
- The Fugitive Slaves
- The Lost Sheep: Suggested by an Engraving
- Thoughts and Desires
- Hymn ('As by the quickening breath of Spring')
- The Soul's Rest
- The Sliding Rock
- The Potato Blight
- Congregational Singing
- Kossuth
- John Woolman
- Hymn: Waiting For Christ
- The Wild Rose of Plymouth
- Voting In The Old North Church
- The Day Lily
- The Solitary Worshipper
- Sonnet, To the Rev. James Flint, D. D., On reading his Collection of Poems
- The Mind The Greatest Mystery
- The Conspiracy
- The Horsemen on the Sands
- My Dear Brother Washington
- On Seeing The Victoria Regia In Bloom, At The Garden of J. Fisk Allen Esq. July 22d, 1853
- On Finding the Truth
- Goliath
- A Sunset In Haverhill
- The Past
- Hymn, Sung at the Thompson Jubilee, at Barre, Jany. 12, 1854
- On The Nebraska Bill
- On An Ear Of Wheat Brought, By My Brother, From The Field Of Waterloo
- The Dead Elm
- Hymn: Sung at the Celebration of the Fourth of July, in Salem, 1854
- The Camphene Lamp
- The Homeless Wind
- What Of The Night?
- To the Memory of the Rev. James Flint, D. D.
- McLean Asylum, Somerville
- The Age Changeful and Worldly
- Hymn: So also will God, through Jesus, bring with him them who sleep
- 'Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted' Math. 5:4
- To the Memory of the Rev. James Chisholm
- The Woodwax
- The First Telegraphic Message
- The Mission Of The Friends To The Emperor Nicholas
- Be of Good Courage
- To An Ancient Locust-Tree, Opposite Carltonville
- A Walk In The Pastures
- O, cleave not to the things of earth
- Nature Intelligible
- The Great Facts Of Christ's History
- Freedom National, Slavery Sectional
- Christ Abiding Forever
- The South River At Sunset
- On Receiving A Flower From the Rev. C. H. A. Dall, in India
- Hymn: Sung at the Dedication of Plummer Hall, Salem, Oct. 6, 1857
- Philosophy and Religion
- The Day Begins To Dawn
- On The Late Mild Winter
- The Evergreen
- Hindoo Converts
- The Soul's Invitation
- Morning Hymn for a little Child
- Nature Teaches only Love
- The First Atlantic Telegraph
- Life and Death
- Lines On The Old Danvers Burying Ground
- On Seeing The Portrait of Helen Ruthven Waterston
- Hymn: The Promise of The Spirit
- The Moss and Its Teachings
- On The Bunyan Tableau
- The Lament Of The Flowers
- The Voice In The Poplars
- How Faith Comes
- The Poet
- The Set Times, And The Boundaries of Nations, Appointed By God
- The Cemetery of Harmony Grove
- Preparation for Life's Voyage
- The Slowness of Belief in a Spiritual World
- Hymn: The Dew
- The Triennial
- Welcome: Written for the Essex Institute Fair, Held at Salem Sept. 4th, 1860
- The Child's Answer
- Freedom And Union
- The Cross
- On reading the Memorial of John White Browne
- Hymn ("Not tears alone for natural grief")
- One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Ecclesiastes 1:4
- What of Our Country?
- The Hour Before The Dawn
- State Rights
- The Rights of Man
- A Longing For The Spring
- The Abolition Of Serfdom In Russia
- Fear not: for they that are with us are more than they that are with them. 2 Kings 6:16
- Hymn: Nature's Sympathy with Freedom
- Christ's Capture In The Garden: A Paraphrase
- Song: Words Of Love To A Parent
- The Comet
- Each Day a Prophecy
- The Influence Of The Night on Faith And Imagination
- Sunset in Derby's Woods
- My People are destroyed for lack of Knowledge. —Hosea 4:6
- Autumn Flowers
- Hymn ("From out its large estate")
- The Poet's Plea
- On The Completion Of The Pacific Telegraph
- On the First Church Built by the Puritans in 1634
- The Barque Aurelia of Boston
- The Traveller At The Depot
- Salvation Is Of The Lord: The Book of Jonah ii.9
- The Newspaper
- E Pluribus Unum
- Song ("I sought the flowers, but o'er them lay")
- This Mortal Shall put on Immortality
- Hymn: The Spirit Itself Maketh Intercession For Us
- The Elm Seed
- The Cause
- Outward Conquests Not Enough
- Ship Rock
- The Light Of Freedom Necessary To National Progress
- Ode to Freedom
- Philanthropy Before Nationality
- The King's Arm Chair
- The Falling Leaf
- National Unity ("A nobler unity, than that which came")
- Faith In Time Of War
- Hymn: The Light of Life
- Man's Heart Prophesieth Of Peace
- Hymn: The New Life of Humanity
- The Statue of Flora, On the grounds of R. Brookhouse Esq, Washington Street
- Hymn Sung At the Unitarian Festival, in Faneuil Hall, May 26th 1863
- The Tree of Liberty
- Hymn: Our Country's Dead
- The Intuitions Of The Soul
- Still a Day To Live
- The Vagrant at the Church Door
- Health of Body dependent on the Soul
- The Crisis
- The Forsaken Harvest Field
- The Freedmen of the Mississippi Valley
- Dying Words of John Foster: "I Can Pray, And That's a Glorious Thing"
- Home and Heaven
- The Search For The Truth Not Vain
- On The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birthday
- Hymn: The Way of the Righteous Easy
- Untimely Arguments
- Hymn ("In the shock of mighty armies")
- The Voice of Nature In Youth And Age
- Hymn: Christ's Invitation in the Apocalypse
- Hymn In Drought
- The Rain
- The Fair Morning
- The Clouded Morning
- Nature Repeats Her Lessons
- What Is A Word?
- To Charles W. Felt Esq. On His New Type-Setting Machine
- The Young Drummer Boy of Libby Prison: An Incident Related by Capt. James Hussey
- Inward Direction
- The Cherry Birds
- The Soul's Questioning Of The Universe, And Its Beginning
- Hymn Sung at the Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln June 1st 1865
- Soul-Sickness
- Song of The Early Spring
- Sensibility to the Beauty and Fragrance of Flowers
- What Is The Word?
- The Sight of the Ocean
- Prayer For Rain
- Hymn On The Logos: The Light Still Shining In The Darkness
- Hath The Rain A Father? Or Who Hath Begotten The Drops of Dew? Job 38:28
- "It is vain to say, that this is the country of the 'white man.' It is the country of man." Charles Sumner
- The East India Marine Museum
- Finishing The Work
- 'O Lord, How Long?'
- Our Soldiers' Graves
- The Still Small Voice
- Indian Relics
- The Veil upon the Heart
- True Knowledge Necessary for the Voyage of Life
- Sonnet ("I gazed upon the silent burial-ground")
- Nature's Help for the Soul
- Nature a Living Teacher
- Primitive Worship
- The Holy Land
- Standley's Grove
- October ("All day, admist the forests' splendor bright")
- The Soldier and the Statesman
- The Triumphs of Science, And of Faith
- Christian Influence
- The Reconciling Power
- The Heralds of the Spring
- The Bridge of Time
- Our Dear Mother
- Hymn: The Word Before All Things
- The Whiteweed
- The Teachings of the Spirit
- Hymn ("Admist the pastures green")
- The Help of the Spirit
- The Birthright Church
- Midas
- Revelation
- How come the Dead?
- The Hacker School House
- The Houstonia
- To The Salem Gazette, On The Completion Of Its First Century
- Ocean's Treasures
- Close sectionSonnets on Reconstruction
- Reflections on the History of Nations
- Scepticism With Regard To The Gospels
- The Tide
- The Spiritual Birth
- The Youth and the Stream
- The Daily News
- On A Hyacinth From Georgia
- Things Unseen
- The Oak And The Poplar
- The Yellow Violets
- The City of God
- The Scholar Dreaming
- Hymn Sung at the Dedication of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Aug. 18, 1869
- Spiritual Darkness
- Friendship
- The Sparrows And The Crop Of Weeds
- Ye have hoarded up treasure in the last days.—James 5:3
- Hymn: The Spiritual Body
- Hymn: The Efficacy of a Mother's Prayer
- The Fireflies
- Be Not Many Teachers
- Military surprises and the capture of capitals, are the events of a by-gone age. D'Israeli
- The Bible Does Not Sanction Polygamy
- Bitter-Sweet Rocks
- Humanity Mourning For Her Children Slain In War
- The Poor Clergyman
- The Teaching Of History Confirmed
- Childhood's Songs
- Hymn, Sung at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Essex Historical Society, Salem. April 21, 1871
- The Lessons of History Unlearned
- The Fulness of The Gentiles
- To a Cloud
- The Child's Dream of Reaching the Horizon
- Lead Me To The Rock That Is Higher Than I
- Forevermore
- Man's First Experience of Winter
- Interpreting God's Ways
- I Prayed, Thy Kingdom Come
- Justification By Faith
- The First of May
- On the Great Divisions of the Christian Church, The Catholic, the Protestant, and the Greek
- The Nine O'Clock Bell
- "Are there Few that be Saved?" Luke 13:23
- On Seeing the White Mountains from Cook's Hill, in West Peabody
- Signs in the Natural World
- A Walk in Harmony Grove
- The Prayer of Jabez
- The Life of the Flower
- The Old Danvers Burying-Ground
- Hymn ("He loveth not! he knows not God!")
- Norman's Rocks
- On visiting the beautiful estate of H. H. Hunnewell, Esq., at Wellesley
- The Revelation of The Spirit Through The Material World
- And a little child shall lead them. Isaiah XI. 6
- The Blessing of Rain
- On the Mountain Ash Tree In front of the house of the late Capt. Robert W. Gould
- October ("How beautiful the sight of woods still fair")
- The Mound Builders: On Reading the work of the late J. W. Foster
- Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted
- There shall be one Flock, one Shepherd
- Old Houses of Salem: Illustrated by George M. White
- Columbines and Anemones
- The Hepatica in Winter
- Reverence
- Inward Phenomena
- To the Memory of Alpheus Crosby
- The Birds
- Superfluities
- Arethusa Meadow
- The Night Blooming Cereus
- On The Wild Flowers of the Art Exhibition
- Interpreting Nature
- The Incarnation
- On a Lichen from North Cape: Gathered by Mr. J. M. Richards, July 3d, 1874
- For we Walk by Faith, not by Sight
- On the Neglect of Public Worship
- The Solitary Gentian
- Indian Remains
- English Sparrows
- The Home ("Love builds for us a bower")
- Behold, I Make All Things New
- Oliver C. Felton, Esq., of Brookfield
- On the Increase of Crime since the Late Civil War
- The Meteorologists
- The Origin of Man
- Sailing on Cakes of Ice in the North River
- Original Hymn ("Not unto men alone has come")
- The Faith of the First Christians
- On the Great Earthquake in New Grenada
- The Woodwax in Bloom
- On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau
- On Viewing the Falls of Niagara, as Photographed by George Barker
- Knowledge and Truth
- Mt. Shasta: A Painting, by H. O. Young
- Song: I Love the Light
- Nature Teaches Us of Time and its Duration
- Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. Mark 13:33
- The Ancient Burial Places in Peabody
- Man's Need of a Spiritual Birth
- On some Eternals from a friend's garden
- Hymn: The Rest of the Righteous
- "Tuesday night, the schooner Weaver, of Glen Creek, N.J., went to pieces near Sandy Hook, and her entire crew were lost": Transcript, March 22d
- The Purification of the Temple
- The May Flower
- The International Exhibition at Philadelphia
- Evolution
- Capt. Samuel Cook
- On the Beautiful Roses, In front of the Mansion of John Hodges, Esq.
- The Cows waiting at the Pasture Gate
- Song: The Summer Day
- On some blue and golden Columbines from Pike's Peak, Colorado
- The Stony Desert of Life
- Cadmus
- The True Worshipers
- Song: We Have No Ship at Sea
- The Gospel the Reconciling Power
- Every Day a Day of Freedom
- Hymn: Reflections at the Close of the Year
- On Hearing the Clock Strike, in Harmony Grove
- The Indians' Belief in a Future State
- The Telephone
- Love Needing a Visible Object
- The Perfect Love that Casts out Fear
- The Glacial Marks on our Hills
- The Future State of the Wicked and its Duration
- Faith in the Resurrection Confirmed
- Spring and Summer Flowers
- The Return of the Columbine
- Man's Accountability
- Hymn: The Cause of Peace
- The Nodding Meadow Lily
- The Destruction of Public Property by Mobs
- The Barberry-Pickers
- Pompeii
- The Communion
- The Winter Night
- The Coasters
- The Message
- Do Nations Ever Become Insane?
- Know Thyself: Suggested by hearing Dr. A. E. Miller's Lectures on the Human Body
- The Blueberry Blossoms
- William Cullen Bryant
- "Agriculture the Source of Individual and National Prosperity"—Anne Pratt
- Pleasure ("With business haste, or with a worldly mind")
- On The Late Tornado, At Wallingford, Conn.
- Hymn ("Though few, with noble purpose came")
- On the Neglect of the Study of History
- Christ's Final Victory
- Thanksgiving Flowers
- Original Hymn ("We welcome, with the opening year")
- Our Lighthouses
- The African's First Sight of the Ocean
- The Zodiacal Light
- Education
- The Kingdom of Heaven: In Its Growth and Coming a Mystery
- Azalea Swamp
- Guido's Aurora
- The Humming Bird
- Jupiter as the Evening Star
- The National Thanksgiving
- The Stock-Gilly Flowers
- Spiritual Intercourse
- Invitation to the Robin
- The Influence of Channing
- The Calling
- Endecott
- Farewell
- The Departure
- The Petrels
- At Sea ("Day follows day, and week succeeds to week")
- At Sea ("Frail woman there and childhood's tender years")
- The Sabbath
- Land
- Salem ("They reach a harbor spacious and secure")
- The Landing
- The Old Planters
- Paradise
- Naumkeck River
- The Same
- Winter ("The perils of the ocean safely o'er")
- Location
- The Home ("See! from yon low-roofed cottage shines a light")
- The Home ("The supper o'er, with books, or converse sweet")
- Sickness
- Longing
- Winthrop's Fleet
- Arabella Johnson
- Spring ("The Spring returns, and, with fresh ardor filled")
- Motive
- The Church
- Worship ("But, still preserved by pious care behold")
- Song ("They sing of Zion, city built of old")
- 'Here let the Church her holy mission prove'
- The Puritan Church and State I.
- The Puritan Church and State II.
- The Puritan Church and State III.
- Appeal
- Influence of Puritanism
- The Bible
- The Common School
- A Christian Commonwealth
- Discontent
- Conclusion
- The Old Organ Of The East Society Salem
- On Some Beautiful Crocuses In Front of the House of B. H. Silsbee, Esq.
- The Return of the Savior
- The Kingdom of the Truth
- Sunset after a Clouded Day in April
- Hymn: Prayer for the Gift of the Holy Spirit
- Hymn ("Our voices with our hearts we lift")
- Hymn: The Forms of Nature, and the Unity of their Origin
- Friendship: To J. M. S.
- Hymn: The Good Fight
- The Day calling us to a New Life
- To the Misses Williams, On seeing their beautiful Paintings of Wild Flowers
- Jacob wrestling with the Angel
- Rain Clouds
- The Soul in Dreams
- Our Native Sparrows
- Hymn: I Am The Way
- Early Companions
- The Gift
- The Soul's Opportunities
- The Book of Life
- For the Sailors' Fair
- Parting Hymn
- The Peace Congress the Promise of a Higher Civilization
- Hymn to the Living
- Close section End Matter
