he gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr.
Atherton.

Note 9, page 120. The Female Anti-Slavery Society, at its first meeting
in Concord, was assailed with stones and brickbats.

Note 10, page 168. The election of Charles Sumner to the United States
Senate "followed hard upon" the rendition of the fugitive Sims by the
United States officials and the armed police of Boston.

Note 11, page 290. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson,
in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora,--

"If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."

VOLUME IV. PERSONAL POEMS

CONTENTS

PERSONAL POEMS
A LAMENT
TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS
LINES ON THE DEATH OF S. OLIVER TORREY
TO ----, WITH A COPY OF WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL
LEGGETT'S MONUMENT
TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE
LUCY HOOPER
FOLLEN
TO J. P.
CHALKLEY HALL
GONE
TO RONGE
CHANNING
TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER
DANIEL WHEELER
TO FREDRIKA BREMER
TO AVIS KEENE
THE HILL-TOP
ELLIOTT
ICHABOD
THE LOST OCCASION
WORDSWORTH
TO ---- LINES WRITTEN AFTER A SUMMER DAY'S EXCURSION
IN PEACE
BENEDICITE
KOSSUTH
TO MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER
THE CROSS
THE HERO
RANTOUL
WILLIAM FORSTER
TO CHARLES SUMNER
BURNS
TO GEORGE B. CHEEVER
TO JAMES T. FIELDS
THE MEMORY OF BURNS
IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOSEPH STURGER
BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE
NAPLES
A MEMORIAL
BRYANT ON HIS BIRTHDAY
THOMAS STARR KING
LINES ON A FLY-LEAF
GEORGE L. STEARNS
GARIBALDI
TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD
THE SINGER
HOW MARY GREW
SUMNER
THIERS
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT
BAYARD TAYLOR
OUR AUTOCRAT
WITHIN THE GATE
IN MEMORY: JAMES T. FIELDS
WILSON
THE POET AND THE CHILDREN
A WELCOME TO LOWELL
AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL
MULFORD
TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER
SAMUEL J. TILDEN

OCCASIONAL POEMS.