'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!
       If I should fail, what poverty!
       And yet, as poor as I
       Have ventured all upon a throw;
       Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
       This side the victory!
       Life is but life, and death but death!
       Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!
       And if, indeed, I fail,
       At least to know the worst is sweet.
       Defeat means nothing but defeat,
       No drearier can prevail!
       And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea,
       Oh, bells that in the steeples be,
       At first repeat it slow!
       For heaven is a different thing
       Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
       And might o'erwhelm me so!

Preface.
Prelude
i. life
   I. Success.
   II.
   III. Rouge et Noir.
   IV. Rouge Gagne.
   V.
   VI.
   VII. Almost!
   VIII.
   IX.
   X. In a Library.
   XI.
   XII.
   XIII. Exclusion.
   XIV. The Secret.
   XV. The Lonely House.
   XVI.
   XVII. Dawn.
   XVIII. The Book of Martyrs.
   XIX. The Mystery of Pain.
   XX.
   XXI. A Book.
   XXII.
   XXIII. Unreturning.
   XXIV.
   XXV.
   XXVI.
ii. love
   I. Mine.
   II. Bequest.
   III.
   IV. Suspense.
   V. Surrender.
   VI.
   VII. With a Flower.
   VIII. Proof.
   IX.
   X. Transplanted.
   XI. The Outlet.
   XII. In Vain.
   XIII. Renunciation.
   XIV. Love's Baptism.
   XV. Resurrection.
   XVI. Apocalypse.
   XVII. The Wife.
   XVIII. Apotheosis.
iii. nature
   I.
   II. May-Flower.
   III. Why?
   IV.
   V.
   VI. A Service of Song.
   VII.
   VIII. Summer's Armies.
   IX. The Grass.
   X.
   XI. Summer Shower.
   XII. Psalm of the Day.
   XIII. The Sea of Sunset.
   XIV. Purple Clover.
   XV. The Bee.
   XVI.
   XVII.
   XVIII.
   XIX.
   XX. Two Worlds.
   XXI. The Mountain.
   XXII. A Day.
   XXIII.
   XXIV. The Wind.
   XXV. Death and Life.
   XXVI.
   XXVII. Indian Summer.
   XXVIII. Autumn.
   XXIX. Beclouded.
   XXX. The Hemlock.
   XXXI.
iv. time and eternity
   I.
   II. Too Late.
   III. Astra Castra.
   IV.
   V.
   VI. From the Chrysalis.
   VII. Setting Sail.
   VIII.
   IX.
   X.
   XI. "Troubled About Many Things."
   XII. Real.
   XIII. The Funeral.
   XIV.
   XV.
   XVI. Refuge.
   XVII.
   XVIII. Playmates.
   XIX.
   XX.
   XXI. The First Lesson.
   XXII.
   XXIII.
   XXIV.
   XXV. Dying.
   XXVI.
   XXVII. The Chariot.
   XXVIII.
   XXIX. Resurgam.
   XXX.
   XXXI.
   XXXII.
   XXXIII. Along the Potomac.
   XXXIV.
   XXXV. Emancipation.
   XXXVI. Lost.
   XXXVII.
   XXXVIII.
   XXXIX.
   XL.