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NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS


Poems found: 120

A CHILD'S FIRST IMPRESSION OF A STAR

A GIRL LEADING HER BLIND MOTHER THROUGH THE WOOD

A THOUGHT OVER A CRADLE

A TRUE INCIDENT

ABSALOM, SELS.

ABSENCE

ACROSTIC-SONNET

AN APOLOGY FOR AVOIDING ... A WOMAN ONCE LOVED

ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780]

BAPTISM OF CHRIST

BEAUTY AFTER DEATH

BETTER MOMENTS

BIANCA VISCONTI; OR THE HEART OVERTASKED

BIBLE STORY FOR MOTHERS

BIRTHDAY ON A FOREIGN ISLE

CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN

CHRIST'S ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM

CHRIST'S MOTHER

CITY LYRICS

CONTEMPLATION

DAVID'S GRIEF FOR HIS CHILD

DAVID'S LAMENT OVER ABSALOM

DAWN

DEDICATION HYMN, CONSECRATION OF HANOVER ST. CHURCH, BOSTON

EXTRACT FROM A POEM .. DEPARTURE OF THE SENIOR CLASS, YALE

FAIL ME NOT THOU!

FLORENCE GRAY

FRANK AVOWAL

GOING HOME

HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS

HANNAH AND SAMUEL

HERO

HOMES FOR THE FRIENDLESS

IDLENESS

January 1, 1829

JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER

LAMENT FOR ABSALOM

LAZARUS AND MARY

LEPER (1)

LITTLE PEOPLE

LOOK NOT UPON THE WINE WHEN IT IS RED

LORD IVON AND HIS DAUGHTER

LOVE IN A COTTAGE

MAY

MELANIE

MEPHIBOSHETH

NUMBER THY LAMPS OF LOVE, AND TELL ME, NOW

OH! MAN MAY BEAR WITH SUFFERING; HIS HEART

ON A PICTURE OF A CHILD TIRED OF PLAY

ON SEEING A BEAUTIFUL BOY AT PLAY

ON THE DEATH OF A MISSIONARY

ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL

ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD PAYSON, D.D.

ON THE DEPARTURE OF REV. MR. WHITE; CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF WABASH COLLEGE

ON WITNESSING A BAPTISM

PARRHASIUS

PARRHASIUS AND THE CAPTIVE

PIGEON

POEM DELIVERED AT BROWN UNIVERSITY, 1831

PSYCHE, BEFORE THE TRRIBUNAL OF VENUS

REVERIE AT GLENMARY

RIZPAH WITH HER SONS

ROARING BROOK; A PASSAGE OF SCENERY IN CONNECTICUT

SATURDAY AFTERNOON (WRITTEN FOR A PICTURE)

SCENE IN GETHSEMANE

SHE WAS NOT THERE'

SONNET

SPIRIT-WHISPERS

SPRING

STARLIGHT

SUNRISE THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF A BALL

THAT SHE WE LOVED IS WITH US, HERE, NO MORE

THE ANNOYER

THE BELFRY PIGEON

THE BURIAL OF ARNOLD, CHAMPION OF HIS CLASS AT YALE COLLEGE

THE CONFESSIONAL

THE DEATH OF HARRISON

THE DECLARATION

THE DYING ALCHEMIST

THE ELMS OF NEW HAVEN

THE HEALING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS

THE LADY IN THE WHITE DRESS, WHOM I HELPED INTO THE OMNIBUS

THE LADY JANE; A HUMOROUS NOVEL IN VERSE: CANTO 1

THE LADY JANE; A HUMOROUS NOVEL IN VERSE: CANTO 2

THE LADY JANE; A HUMOROUS NOVEL IN VERSE: CONCLUSION TO THE READER

THE LEPER (2)

THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER

THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD

THE NEW YEAR

THE PITY OF THE PARK FOUNTAIN

THE SABBATH

THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM

THE SCHOLAR OF THEBET BEN KHORAT

THE SHUNAMMITE

THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW (WRITTEN FOR A PICTURE)

THE SOLITARY

THE TORN HAT

THE WHITE CHIP HAT

THE WIDOW OF NAIN

THE WIFE'S APPPEAL

THIRTY-FIVE

THOUGHT ANGEL

THOUGHTS WHILE MAKING THE GRAVE OF A NEWBORN CHILD

TO A CHILD

TO A CITY PIGEON

TO A FACE BELOVED

TO A STOLEN RING

TO CHARLES ROUX, OF SWITZERLAND

TO ERMENGARDE

TO GIULIA GRISI, AFTER HEARING HER IN ANNA BOLENA

TO HELEN IN A HUFF

TO HER WHO HAS HOPES OF ME

TO LAURA [W.], TWO YEARS OF AGE

TO M -, FROM ABROAD

TO MY MOTHER FROM THE APENNINES

TO THE LADY IN THE CHIMSETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS

TWO WOMEN

WAKING-DREAM IN SICKNESS

WATER, SOFT, PURE GRACEFUL WATER! THERE IS NO SHAPE

YOU KNOW IF IT WAS YOU



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