In the Woods And Elsewhere
IN THE WOODS AND ELSEWHERE - I888 - PREFACE - THESE Verses are selected from a scrap-book which it has taken over forty years to fill. The larger part of them came to me unsought while I was driving my horse or resigning myself to the movement of the railway - train. Goethe somewhere says that such spontaneous verses are the truest revelation of the man who writes a them - CONTENTS - I11 the Woods . . . . Symplocarpus . . . . The Rlarsll . . . To a Prairie Rose . . The Baltimore Oriole . The Mile Run . . . . Rue-leaved Anemone . New England Thrushes . The American Robin . The Bobolink . . . . Sunrise and Sunset . . The Earliest Fire-fly . . A Smoky Day . . . . A Summer Evening . . The Hymn of Niagara . Tl eM ountains . . . From the Greek . . . The Black-cap Titmouse The Winter is Past . . Carpe Dienl . . . . Bloodroot . . . . . Agnes Star . . . . Hymn of the Seasons . Art and Nature . . . 8 Cotz tents . To a Physalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P A 6 G 6 E A November Problem . . . . .
.... . . . . . . 68 Antiopa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Quando veniet Lux . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Birds in M y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Sunrise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 TheTempest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 ANovember Sunrise . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 A March Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Beech Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Totum in Eo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 MTalpole. N . H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The Apotheosis of Pail . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Ode. Memorial Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 De Republics bene speravi . . . . . . . . . . 97 September 12. 1869 . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Resurget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 01 Spriugtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 To an Antiopa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 ltealities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 07 Chickadee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 09 To the Catbird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 The Brown Thrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 13 The Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 13 Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 14 The Ship of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 16 Flag of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 19 The Nativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 24 The Resurrection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 29 Lo-Nehushtan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 35 9 PAGE The Everlasting Light . . . . . . . . . . . 1 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Come unto Me 137 The Heavenly Guest . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 39 E o K v . P C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 The Crucifixio l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 A Thanksgiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 43 Cheerful Praise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 45 Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 The Eternal Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Moods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 49 Out of the Depths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 50 Joyous Submission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 51 Immanuels Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 In His Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 53 Patient Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 54 Dedicatioli at Walpole. N . H . . . . . . . . 155 Easter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 57 Lux e Tenebris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 58 Light and Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 59 Advent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 The Sinless Sufferer . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Ave Vivens Hostia . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 63 The Light of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 64 Christ our Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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