"Old Grimes is dead, that good old man We never shall see more; He used to wear a long black coat All buttoned down before."

Old Grimes.

"England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland."

Supposititious Speech of James Otis. The Rebels, Chap. iv.

"He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks."

Douglas Jerrold's Wit.

"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."

Douglas Jerrold's Wit.

"The nobleman of the garden."

The Pineapple.

"That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment."

A Comic Author.

"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

The Anglo-French Alliance.

"The life of the husbandman,--a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven."

The Husbandman's Life.

"Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it."

Meeting Troubles Half-way.

"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."

A Land of Plenty [Australia].

"The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment."

Ugly Trades.

"A blessed companion is a book,--a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend."

Books.

"There is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world."

A Wedding-gown.

"He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad."

A Charitable Man.

"As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in in malice."

Shakespeare Grog.

"Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps."

A Matter-of-fact Man.

"Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone."

Each and All.

"I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar."

Each and All.

"Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought."

The Problem.

"Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old."

The Problem.

"The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew."

The Problem.

"Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone."

The Problem.

"Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave."

Hamatreya.

"Good bye, proud world! I 'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine."

Good Bye.

"For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?"

Good Bye.

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

The Rhodora.

"Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind."

Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing.

"Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so."

Ode to Beauty.

"Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive."

Give all to Love.

"Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names."

Blight.

"The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem."

Dirge.

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world."

Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument.

"What potent blood hath modest May!"

May-Day.

"And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form."

May-Day.

"And every man, in love or pride, Of his fate is never wide."

Nemesis.

"None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have."

Boston Hymn. 1863.

"Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire."

Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.

"Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."

Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can!"

Voluntaries.

"Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore."

Voluntaries.

"Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit."

Solution.

"Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes."

In Memoriam.

"Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays."

In Memoriam.

"Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There 's no god dare wrong a worm."

Compensation.

"He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread."

Beauty.

"Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill?"

Suum Cuique.

"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."

Quatrains. Nature.

"Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,-- "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.""

Sacrifice.

"For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?"

Boston.

"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar.