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IX.
The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
I. Life
II. Love
III. Nature
- I.
- II. May-Flower.
- III. Why?
- IV.
- V.
- VI. A Service of Song.
- VII.
- VIII. Summer's Armies.
- IX. The Grass.
- X.
- XI. Summer Shower.
- XII. Psalm of the Day.
- XIII. The Sea of Sunset.
- XIV. Purple Clover.
- XV. The Bee.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX. Two Worlds.
- XXI. The Mountain.
- XXII. A Day.
- XXIII.
- XXIV. The Wind.
- XXV. Death and Life.
- XXVI.
- XXVII. Indian Summer.
- XXVIII. Autumn.
- XXIX. Beclouded.
- XXX. The Hemlock.
- XXXI.
IV. Time and Eternity
- I.
- II. Too Late.
- III. Astra Castra.
- IV.
- V.
- VI. From the Chrysalis.
- VII. Setting Sail.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI. "Troubled About Many Things."
- XII. Real.
- XIII. The Funeral.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI. Refuge.
- XVII.
- XVIII. Playmates.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI. The First Lesson.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV. Dying.
- XXVI.
- XXVII. The Chariot.
- XXVIII.
- XXIX. Resurgam.
- XXX.
- XXXI.
- XXXII.
- XXXIII. Along the Potomac.
- XXXIV.
- XXXV. Emancipation.
- XXXVI. Lost.
- XXXVII.
- XXXVIII.
- XXXIX.
- XL.
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