A PSALM OF LIFE―― What the young woman said to the old maid, by Phœbe Carey, 1854 11 “Tell me not in doleful murmurs,” by Thomas Thatcher 11 “Please be cheerful,” advice to Novelists 11 A Psalm of Farming 12 A Song of St. Stephen’s, 1882 12 A Psalm of Burial (on Cremation) 12 On Reading a Life and Letters 12 An Imitation, by C. Baudelaire 24 A Christmas Psalm of Life 246 A Psalm for the Trade 246 The Yankee Merchant to his book-keeper 247 The Psalm of Life as exhibited in Christmas Annuals 247 THE DAY IS DONE―― A parody of, by Phœbe Carey, 1854 12 THE ARROW AND THE SONG 13 The Birds and the Pheasant, 1867 13 The Ex-Premier (Mr. Gladstone), 1877 13 The Arrow and the Hound, 1884 13 The Bubble and the Bullet, by William Sawyer 248 BEWARE!―― “I know a maiden fair to see” (Kate Vaughan) 9 “I know a masher dark to see” 9 “I know a youth who can flirt and flatter” 247 “I know a Barber who in town doth dwell” 248 “I know a maiden with a bag” 248 The Song of the Oyster Land 248 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. Under Britannia’s spreading Oak, 1884 9 The Low Bohemian, 1878 10 The Village Schoolboy 10 “Beside a Dingy Public-house,” 10 The War Blacksmith, 1866 18 The Lord Chancellor, Finis, 1877 19 The Village Pet. R. E. Blow 21 The City Blackleg 249 “Before a Study of the Nude” 249 THE NORMAN BARON―― The Roman Prelate, by Walter Parke 249 VOICES OF THE NIGHT―― Voices of our Nights, 1861 9 THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS 23 Imitated by C. Baudelaire 24 FLOWERS―― Flowers of Rotten Row in 1858 250 THE BRIDGE―― “I lay in my bed at midnight” 250 THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD―― The Soirée, by Phœbe Carey, 1854 14