| Preface | iii |
| Diamond Cove—By S. B. Beckett | 9 |
| Our Own Country—By James Brooks | 13 |
| The Cruise of The Dart—By S. B. Beckett | 21 |
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| To M—, on her Birth-Day,—By William Cutter | 59 |
| Religious Obligation in Rulers—By John W. Chickering | 60 |
| A New-England Winter Scene—By William Cutter | 74 |
| Loch Katrine—By N. H. Carter | 78 |
| Worship—By Asa Cummings | 82 |
| The Valley of Silence—By William Cutter | 86 |
| Descriptions of The Divine Being—By Gershom F. Cox | 88 |
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| The French Revolution—By Charles S. Daveis | 98 |
| Mrs. Sykes—From the papers of Dr. Tonic, recently brought to light—By Nathaniel Deering | 102 |
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| Old and Young—By James Furbish | 115 |
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| Autumnal Days—By P. H. Greenleaf | 119 |
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| The Plague—By Charles P. Ilsley | 123 |
| 'Oh, This is not My Home'—By Charles P. Ilsley | 125 |
| The Village Prize—By Joseph Ingraham | 126 |
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| Indifference to Study—By George W. Light | 134 |
| The Village of Auteuil—By Henry W. Longfellow | 138 |
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| The Past and The New Year—By Prentiss Mellen | 145 |
| The Ruin of a Night—By Grenville Mellen | 150 |
| Courtship—By William L. McClintock | 152 |
| Venetian Moonlight—By Frederick Mellen | 158 |
| Ballooning—By I. McLellan, Jr. | 160 |
| Ode—By Grenville Mellen | 166 |
| The Boy's Mountain Song—By I. McLellan, Jr. | 167 |
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| The Unchangeable Jew—By John Neal | 168 |
| A War-Song of The Revolution—By John Neal | 183 |
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| Musings on Music—By James F. Otis | 185 |
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| Sin estimated by the Light of Heaven—By Edward Payson | 194 |
| The Way of the Soul—By L. S. P. | 200 |
| Fragments of An Address on Music—By Edward Payson | 206 |
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| The Blush—By Mrs. Elizabeth Smith | 212 |
| The Widowed Bride—By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens | 216 |
| Jack Downing's Visit to Portland—By Seba Smith | 227 |
