_All of the author's best-known hymns are included in this collection, as well as many poems written in girlhood and during the years she resided in Lynn, Mass., and which appeared in various publications of that day. Among her earliest poems are "Upward," "Resolutions for the Day," "Autumn" (written in a maple grove), "Alphabet and Bayonet," and "The Country-Seat" (written while visiting a family friend in the beautiful suburbs of Boston); yet, even these are characterized by the same lofty trend of thought that reached its fulness in her later productions._ _In May, 1910, Mrs. Eddy requested her publisher to prepare a few bound volumes of her poems, for private distribution. When this became known to her friends, they urged her to allow a popular edition to be issued, to which she assented. With grateful acknowledgment, therefore, of this permission, this little volume is presented to the public, in the hope that these gems of purest thought from this spiritually-minded author will prove a joy to the heavy laden and a balm to the weary heart._ ADAM H. DICKEY. CHESTNUT HILL, MASS., September 24, 1910. CONTENTS PAGE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN 1 CONSTANCY 3 MOTHER'S EVENING PRAYER 4 LOVE 6 I'M SITTING ALONE 8 THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN 10 CHRIST MY REFUGE 12 "FEED MY SHEEP" 14 THE VALLEY CEMETERY 15 UPWARD 18 THE OAK ON THE MOUNTAIN'S SUMMIT 20 WOMAN'S RIGHTS 21 THE NEW CENTURY 22 TO MY ABSENT BROTHER 23 SIGNS OF THE HEART 24 FLOWERS 25 TO THE OLD YEAR--1865 26 INVOCATION FOR 1868 28 CHRISTMAS MORN 29 EASTER MORN 30 RESOLUTIONS FOR THE DAY 32 O FOR THY WINGS, SWEET BIRD! 34 COME THOU 36 WISH AND ITEM 38 DEDICATION OF A TEMPERANCE HALL 39 LINES 41 TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN 43 HOPE 45 TO ETTA 46 NEVERMORE 47 MEETING OF MY DEPARTED MOTHER AND HUSBAND 48 ISLE OF WIGHT 51 SPRING 53