FOR SALE BY J. MILLER M'KIM, NO. 31 NORTH FIFTH STREET,

MERRIHEW & THOMPSON, PRINTERS.

1846.

THE LOVERS of that truth and beauty which SHALL EXALT MEN TO A HIGHER LIFE,

THIS VOLUME,

-ALTHOUGH WRITTEN BY THOSE WHO, BECAUSE THEY WERE HUMAN, OFTEN ERRED; AND EVEN

IN THE PIECES HEREIN COLLECTED DID NOT APPROVE THEMSELVES PERFECT,

IS DEDICATED.

IN THE HOPE THAT ITS GOOD MAY LIVE FOR EVER, AND ITS EVIL DIE WITH IT.

Lilias Grieve, by Professor Wilson,

33 To the Unsatisfied, by Harriet Winslow,

73

The Cry of the Children, by Elizabeth B. Barrett, 35 The Happy Life, by Sir Henry Wotton,

73

Instinct of Childhood, by John Neal,

37 Life's Pilgrimage, by Robert Nicoll,

74

My Friend,

39 The Happy Home,

74

The Factory Girls of Lowell, by J. G. Whittier,

40 Childhood,

75

The Labourer, by William D. Gallagher,

41 The Dead Child, by William H. Burleigh,

77

Reform, by Thomas L. Harris,

42 Summer Woods, by Mary Howitt,

77

Truth and Freedom, by William D. Gallagher,

42 The Poor Voter's Song,

78

A Glimpse at Merrie England,' by Elizur Wright, 43 Fashionable Follies,

A Chippewa Legend, by James Russell Lowell, 221 John G. Whittier,

by Lydia H. Sigourney, 236

Footsteps of Angels, by Henry W. Longfellow, 238

The Cypress Tree of Ceylon, by J. G.Whittier, 248

To my Books, by Caroline E. S. Norton,

The Song of the Shirt, by Thomas Hood, 249

A Starvation Anthem for the Royal Christening, 250

Sonnet, by Frances Ann Butler,