Page:The poems of Richard Watson Gilder, Gilder, 1908.djvu/25

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CONTENTS
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"Tell me good-by" 347
Farewell to Charleston 348
"The Pines" 348
"Not wreaths alone" 349
For the City Club 349
To Charles H. Russell. (Whose father was one of Lincoln's helpers) 349
"Give thy day to duty" 350
Two Optimists. (A letter to Joseph Jefferson, acknowledging a copy of Helen Keller's Essay on "Optimism") 350
The Passing of Joseph Jefferson 351
"Shall we not praise the living?" 353
Hymn. (Written for the service in memory of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, held by the Southern Education Conference, Richmond, Virginia, April 26, 1903) 356
John Wesley. (Written for the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Wesley, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, June, 1903) 357
A Temple of Art. (Written for the opening of the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, May 31, 1905) 361
THE FIRE DIVINE
The Fire Divine 367
The Invisible. (At a lecture) 368
Destiny. (After reading a work on Astronomy) 369
The Old Faith 369
The Doubter's Soliloquy 370
Law 372
Identity 373
"Spare me my dreams" 374
Hymn. (Thanksgiving for Saints and Prophets) 374
The Valley of Life 375
To One Impatient of Form in Art 377
To the Poet 378
Compensation 379
The Poet's Secret 380
"The day began as other days begin" 380