46

The Declaration 48

Isabel 49

Mere Accident 51

The Earl's Minstrel 53

The Serenade 57

Hero 60

April 62

To ---- 64

Twenty-two 66

On the Picture of a child playing. By FISHER. 68

To a sleeping Boy 70

Sonnet 73

Sonnet 74

Sonnet 75

Sonnet 76

Sonnet 77

Andre's Request 78

Discrimination 79

The Solitary 80

Lines on the death of Miss Fanny V. Apthorp 82

A Portrait 83

May 84

On seeing through a window a Belle completing her Toilet for a Ball 86

To a Belle 88

FUGITIVE POETRY.

THE SHUNAMITE.[A]

It was a sultry day of summer time.
The sun pour'd down upon the ripen'd grain
With quivering heat, and the suspended leaves
Hung motionless. The cattle on the hills
Stood still, and the divided flock were all
Laying their nostrils to the cooling roots,
And the sky look'd like silver, and it seem'd
As if the air had fainted, and the pulse
Of nature had run down, and ceas'd to beat.

'Haste thee, my child!' the Syrian mother said,