POEMS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL _WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH_ BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS |Copyright|, 1892, 1898, By T.Y. CROWELL & CO. Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. CONTENTS. PAGE |Biographical Sketch| ix EARLY POEMS. Sonnet 1 Hakon's Lay 1 Out of Doors 3 A Reverie 4 In Sadness 6 Farewell 7 A Dirge 10 Fancies about a Rosebud 15 New Year's Eve, 1844 17 A Mystical Ballad 20 Opening Poem to A Year's Life 23 Dedication to Volume of Poems entitled A Year's Life 24 The Serenade 24 Song 26 The Departed 27 The Bobolink 30 Forgetfulness 32 Song 33 The Poet 34 Flowers 35 The Lover 39 To E. W. G. 40 Isabel 42 Music 43 Song 46 Ianthe 48 Love's Altar 52 Impartiality 54 Bellerophon 54 Something Natural 58 A Feeling 58