CONTENTS. A MEMOIR OF BRYANT, by Richard Henry Stoddard. A CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S LIFE, compiled by Henry C. Sturges. A CHRONOLOGY OF BRYANT'S POEMS, compiled by Henry C. Sturges. A LIST OF WORKS EDITED BY BRYANT OR CONTAINING INTRODUCTIONS AND ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS, Compiled by Henry C. Sturges. cix A LIST OF BIOGRAPHIES OF BRYANT, compiled by Henry C. Sturges. cxxiv A LIST OF MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON BRYANT, ETC., compiled by LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait of the author "Nature, in her calm, majestic march". "Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings" "Beside the snow-bank's edges cold" "Had shaken down on earth the feathery snow, And all was white " . . . yon clear spring, that, midst its herbs, Wells softly forth and wandering steeps the roots Of half the mighty forest" "Heavily poured on the shuddering ground" "Ah me! what armed nations-Asian horde, And Libyan host, the Scythian and the Gaul- "Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps" "Here are old trees, tall oaks, and gnarled pines" 239 "The sheltered glens are lovely and the rivulet's song is sweet" "... Oft we trod a waste of pearly sands, Spotted with rosy shells, and thence looked in At caverns of the sea whose rock-roofed halls Lay in blue twilight" "The elder of the brothers, as he stood "And in that hall a joyous multitude Of these by whom its glistening walls were reared" "Around that little grave, in the long night, "Deem not the framing of a deathless lay The pastime of a drowsy summer day 99 "... Do there not run Strange shudderings through your fibres when the axe Deals blow on blow?" 306 • 322 |