Poems: Second Series
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| Renunciation (fac-similie) | Frontispiece. | |
| Preface | Page 3 | |
| Prelude | 17 | |
| BOOK I.—LIFE. | ||
| I. | "I'm nobody! Who are you?" | 21 |
| II. | "I bring an unaccustomed wine" | 22 |
| III. | "The nearest dream recedes unrealized" | 24 |
| IV. | "We play at paste" | 25 |
| V. | "I found the phrase to every thought" | 26 |
| VI. | Hope | 27 |
| VII. | The White Heat | 28 |
| VIII. | Triumphant | 29 |
| IX. | The Test | 30 |
| X. | Escape | 31 |
| XI. | Compensation | 32 |
| XII. | The Martyrs | 33 |
| XIII. | A Prayer | 34 |
| XIV. | "The thought beneath so slight a film" | 36 |
| XV. | "The soul unto itself" | 37 |
| XVI. | "Surgeons must be very careful" | 38 |
| XVII. | The Railway Train | 39 |
| XVIII. | The Show | 40 |
| XIX. | "Delight becomes pictorial" | 41 |
| XX. | "A thought went up my mind to-day" | 42 |
| XXI. | "Is Heaven a physician?" | 43 |
| XXII. | The Return | 44 |
| XXIII. | "A poor torn heart, a tattered heart" | 45 |
| XXIV. | Too Much | 46 |
| XXV. | Shipwreck | 48 |
| XXVI. | "Victory comes late" | 49 |
| XXVII. | Enough | 50 |
| XXVIII. | "Experiment to me" | 51 |
| XXIX. | My Country's Wardrobe | 52 |
| XXX. | "Faith is a fine invention" | 53 |
| XXXI. | "Except the heaven had come so near" | 54 |
| XXXII. | "Portraits are to daily faces" | 55 |
| XXXIII. | The Duel | 56 |
| XXXIV. | "A shady friend for torrid days" | 57 |
| XXXV. | The Goal | 58 |
| XXXVI. | Sight | 60 |
| XXXVII. | "Talk with prudence to a beggar" | 62 |
| XXXVIII. | The Preacher | 63 |
| XXXIX. | "Good night! which put the candle out?" | 64 |
| XL. | "When I hoped I feared" | 65 |
| XLI. | Deed | 66 |
| XLII. | Time's Lesson | 67 |
| XLIII. | Remorse | 68 |
| XLIV. | The Shelter | 69 |
| XLV. | "Undue significance a starving man attaches" | |
| XLVI. | "Heart not so heavy as mine" | 71 |
| XLVII. | "I many times thought peace had come" | 73 |
| XLVIII. | "Unto my books so good to turn" | 74 |
| XLIX. | "This merit hath the worst" | 75 |
| L. | Hunger | 76 |
| LI. | "I gained it so" | 78 |
| LII. | "To learn to transport by the pain" | 79 |
| LIII. | Returning | 80 |
| LIV. | Prayer | 82 |
| LV. | "I know that he exists" | 83 |
| LVI. | Melodies Unheard | 84 |
| LVII. | Called Back | 85 |
| BOOK II.—LOVE. | ||
| I. | Choice | 89 |
| II. | "I have no life but this" | 90 |
| III. | "Your riches taught me poverty" | 91 |
| IV. | The Contract | 93 |
| V. | The Letter | 94 |
| VI. | "The way I read a letter's this" | 96 |
| VII. | "Wild nights! Wild nights!" | 97 |
| VIII. | At Home | 98 |
| IX. | Possession | 100 |
| X. | "A charm invests a face" | 101 |
| XI. | The Lovers | 102 |
| XII. | "In lands I never saw, they say" | 103 |
| XIII. | "The moon is distant from the sea" | 104 |
| XIV. | "He put the belt around my life " | 105 |
| XV. | The Lost Jewel | 106 |
| XVI. | "What if I say I shall not wait? " | 107 |
| BOOK III. NATURE. | ||
| I. | Mother Nature | 111 |
| II. | Out of the Morning | 113 |
| III. | "At half-past three a single bird " | 114 |
| IV. | Day's Parlor | 115 |
| V. | The Sun's Wooing | 116 |
| VI. | The Robin | 117 |
| VII. | The Butterfly's Day | 118 |
| VIII. | The Bluebird | 120 |
| IX. | April | 121 |
| X. | The Sleeping Flowers | 122 |
| XL. | My Rose | 124 |
| XII. | The Oriole's Secret | 125 |
| XIII. | The Oriole | 126 |
| XIV. | In Shadow | 128 |
| XV. | The Humming-Bird | 130 |
| XVI. | Secrets | 131 |
| XVII. | "Who robbed the woods?" | 132 |
| XVIII. | Two Voyagers | 133 |
| XIX. | By the Sea | 134 |
| XX. | Old-Fashioned | 136 |
| XXI. | A Tempest | 138 |
| XXII. | The Sea | 139 |
| XXIII. | In the Garden | 140 |
| XXIV. | The Snake | 142 |
| XXV. | The Mushroom | 144 |
| XXVI. | The Storm | 146 |
| XXVII. | The Spider | 147 |
| XXVIII. | "I know a place where summer strives" | 148 |
| XXIX. | "The one that could repeat the summer day" | 149 |
| XXX. | The Wind's Visit | 150 |
| XXXI. | "Nature rarer uses yellow" | 152 |
| XXXII. | Gossip | 153 |
| XXXIII. | Simplicity | 154 |
| XXXIV. | Storm | 155 |
| XXXV. | The Rat | 156 |
| XXXVI. | "Frequently the woods are pink" | 157 |
| XXXVII. | A Thunder- Storm | 158 |
| XXXVIII. | With Flowers | 160 |
| XXXIX. | Sunset | 161 |
| XL. | "She sweeps with many-colored brooms" | 162 |
| XLI. | "Like mighty footlights burned the red" | 163 |
| XLII. | Problems | 164 |
| XLIII. | The Juggler of Day | 166 |
| XLIV. | My Cricket | 167 |
| XLV. | "As imperceptibly as grief" | 168 |
| XLVI. | "It can't be summer,—that got through" | 169 |
| XLVII. | Summer's Obsequies | 170 |
| XLVIII. | Fringed Gentian | 172 |
| XLIX. | November | 173 |
| L. | The Snow | 174 |
| LI. | The Blue Jay | 176 |
| BOOK IV. — TIME AND ETERNITY. | ||
| I. | "Let down the bars, O Death!" | 181 |
| II. | "Going to heaven!" | 182 |
| III. | "At least to pray is left, is left " | 184 |
| IV. | Epitaph | 185 |
| V. | "Morns like these we parted" | 186 |
| VI. | " A death-blow is a life-blow to some | 187 |
| VII. | "I read my sentence steadily" | 188 |
| VIII. | "I have not told my garden yet" | 189 |
| IX. | The Battle-Field | 190 |
| X. | "The only ghost I ever saw" | 191 |
| XI. | "Some, too fragile for winter winds" | 192 |
| XII. | "As by the dead we love to sit" | 193 |
| XIII. | Memorials | 194 |
| XIV. | "I went to heaven" | 196 |
| XV. | "Their height in heaven comforts not" | 197 |
| XVI. | "There is a shame of nobleness" | 198 |
| XVII. | Triumph | 199 |
| XVIII. | "Pompless no life can pass away" | 200 |
| XIX. | "I noticed people disappeared" | 201 |
| XX. | Following | 202 |
| XXI. | "If anybody's friend be dead" | 204 |
| XXII. | The Journey | 206 |
| XXIII. | A Country Burial | 207 |
| XXIV. | Going | 208 |
| XXV. | "Essential oils are wrung" | 210 |
| XXVI. | "I lived on dread; to those who know" | 211 |
| XXVII. | "If I should die" | 212 |
| XXVIII. | At Length | 213 |
| XXIX. | Ghosts | 214 |
| XXX. | Vanished | 216 |
| XXXI. | Precedence | 217 |
| XXXII. | Gone | 218 |
| XXXIII. | Requiem | 220 |
| XXXIV. | "What inn is this?" | 221 |
| XXXV. | "It was not death, for I stood up" | 222 |
| XXXVI. | Till the End | 224 |
| XXXVII. | Void | 225 |
| XXXVIII. | "A throe upon the features" | 226 |
| XXXIX. | Saved | 227 |
| XL. | "I think just how my shape will rise" | 228 |
| XLI. | The Forgotten Grave | 229 |
| XLII. | "Lay this laurel on the one" | 230 |
