SYLVESTER B. BECKETT-O, Lady, Sing that Song Again'. .274 CHARLES P. ROBERTS-The Sleep of Nature,.. .275 BENJ. A. G. FULLER-Faith. Hope, Charity,. 277 'FLORENCE PERCY,-June Shower,.. 279 EDWARD M. FIELD-My Sister,.. .281 MELVILLE W. FULLER-Remorse,... 283 MISS FANNY P. LAUGHTON-Castles in the Fire,. .281 GEORGE W. SNow-The Tempest Driven,.. 285 MISS HANNAH E. BRADBURY-The Covered Bridge,. 287 MISS SARAH W. SPAULDING-The Storm and the Rainbow,. .288 CHARLES P. ILSLEY-O this is not my Home.'. 290 MISS HANNAH A. MOORE-The Spirit of Song,. .291 .293 MISS SARAH HAYFORD-The Sleeping Babe,. .295 ORIGINAL POEMS. BACCHANALIAN SONG-Melville W. Fuller,. 298 299 THE FORSAKEN ARBOR-Benj. A. G. Fuller, SHIP OF STATE. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! We know what Master laid thy keel, Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee. Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,-are all with thee! UNIV OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. AGE, 47 YEARS. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW is a son of the late Hon. Stephen Longfellow, and a native of Portland, in which city he was born on the twenty-seventh day of February, 1807. He was graduated from Bowdoin College, in the class of 1825, and being desirous of visiting the scenes of beauty and grandeur in the old world, he soon after made an extended tour through England, France, Spain, Germany and Italy, which occupied nearly four years. Much of this time was given to the study of the languages, manners and customs, and historical incidents of the different nations that he visited. For nearly five years, after his return, he occupied the chair of Professor of Modern Languages, in Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine, from which he was a graduate. In 1835, he again visited Europe, accompanied by his wife, to whom he was married four years previous, and who died very suddenly during the ensuing winter, while they were sojourning at Heidelberg. He spent considerable time in Germany, Tyrol and Switzerland, and Denmark and Sweden, devoting himself to the study of Northern languages and literature. He returned home during the fall of 1836, and received the appointment of Professor of French and Spanish Languages, in Harvard University, at Cambridge, Mass., where he still resides. Mr. Longfellow's first efforts in literature, were made while he was a Sophomore in Bowdoin College, as a contributor to the "United States Literary Gazette," by which he acquired considerable popularity among the reading community; he was also a contributor to the "North American Review," while a Professor in the College. In 1839, he published "Hyperion," of which Dr. Griswold, a very able critic, says, "it is one of the most beautiful prose compositions in our lan guage." Subsequent to this, he published "Outre-Mer, a Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea;" in 1840, "Voices of the Night," his first volume of Poems, and two years later, "Ballads and Other Poems;" in 1848, 66 'Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie," one of his most beautiful and admired poems; in 1849, "Kavanagh," a prose tale; in 1850, "Sea-Side and Fireside," a collection of Poems; in 1852, “The Golden Legend,” a Poem dramatique. In 1853, his publishers, Messrs. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, of Boston, issued his complete poetical works and translations, in two volumes, not including, however, "The Golden Legend," his longest poem, which was published at nearly the same time. Professor Longfellow, by his earnest and persevering study of the Modern Languages, has been able to give to the literature of this country, some of the most beautiful and correct translations in the English language; among which are, "The Children of the Lord's Supper," "Frithiof's Saga," and "Coplas de Manrique,” and a numerous collection of minor ones. Although he has achieved a fame greater than any American Poet, he is still adding to it by frequent productions from his prolific pen. What he has written, will remain before the public, and in the hearts of his countless friends, when the long grass shall wave and fall over the poet's sacred place of rest, and they will gather around his "FIRESIDE," and that calm and holy 'Resignation" will teach them 66 To think day after day what he is doing In those bright realms of air? "Thus will they walk with him, and keep unbroken Thinking that their remembrance, though unspoken, There is something so tender, so gentle, and so woman-like in the nature of Mr. Longfellow, that his poems imbibe it bountifully, and it brings them home to the heart, and not the mind alone, and what the heart loves and admires, will linger long ere time can obliterate it. He is yet a Professor in Harvard University, and resides at Cambridge, in the old mansion once the head-quarters of George Washington, and of which he writes, in a poem, "To a Child": Once, ah, once within these walls, One whom Memory oft recalls, And yonder meadows broad and damp, |