INTRODUCTORY ESSAY:

"AN INTERPRETER OF LIFE." By _Lyman Abbot_


POEMS OF SORROW AND CONSOLATION:

DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE
PARTING AND ABSENCE
ADVERSITY
COMFORT AND CHEER
DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT
CONSOLATION


INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW _Frontispiece_

_Photogravure from photograph by Hanfstaengl after portrait by Kramer_.

PENELOPE AWAITING ULYSSES

_The patient grief and endurance of Absence: while the tapestry
woven by day stands on the frame to be unravelled by night, as the