OF

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

BY

NATHAN HASKELL DOLE

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

PUBLISHERS

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY
MAR 2 1957

COPYRIGHT, 1892, 1898,

By T. Y. CROWELL & CO.

RARVARD UNIVERSITY
\/BRARY OF THE GRADUATE SCOGS

OF EDUCATION

SEP 2 1 1943

Charice Carin Thomas

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith

Norwood Magg. U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH .

ix

EARLY POEMS.

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Sonnet

Hakon's Lay

Out of Doors

A Reverie

In Sadness

Farewell .

A Dirge.

Fancies about a Rosebud

New Year's Eve, 1844

A Mystical Ballad

Opening Poem to A Year's Life

Dedication to Volume of Poems entitled A Year's Life .

The Serenade .

Song

The Departed .

The Bobolink .

Forgetfulness

Song

The Poet

Flowers

The Lover

To E. W. G.

Isabel

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Music

Song

Ianthe

Love's Altar

Impartiality

Bellerophon

Something Natural .

A Feeling

The Lost Child

The Church

The Unlovely

Love-Song

Song

A Love-Dream

Fourth of July Ode

Sphinx

" Goe, Little Booke!”

Sonnets

Sonnets on Names

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