I'll tell you how the sun rose, --
       A ribbon at a time.
       The steeples swam in amethyst,
       The news like squirrels ran.
       The hills untied their bonnets,
       The bobolinks begun.
       Then I said softly to myself,
       "That must have been the sun!"
       * * *
       But how he set, I know not.
       There seemed a purple stile
       Which little yellow boys and girls
       Were climbing all the while
       Till when they reached the other side,
       A dominie in gray
       Put gently up the evening bars,
       And led the flock away.

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.