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Title: Poems

Author: William D. Howells

Release Date: September 15, 2009 [EBook #29993]

Language: English

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POEMS

BY
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS

BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
211 TREMONT STREET
MDCCCLXXXVI

COPYRIGHT, 1873, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY
AND 1885, BY WILLIAM D. HOWELLS.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
The Pilot's Story 3
Forlorn 13
Pleasure-Pain 19
In August 26
The Empty House 27
Bubbles 29
Lost Beliefs 31
Louis Lebeau's Conversion 32
Caprice 49
Sweet Clover 51
The Royal Portraits 54
The Faithful of the Gonzaga 59
The First Cricket 77
The Mulberries 79
Before the Gate 84
Clement 86
By the Sea 97
Saint Christopher 98
Elegy on John Butler Howells