I like to see it lap the miles,
       And lick the valleys up,
       And stop to feed itself at tanks;
       And then, prodigious, step
       Around a pile of mountains,
       And, supercilious, peer
       In shanties by the sides of roads;
       And then a quarry pare
       To fit its sides, and crawl between,
       Complaining all the while
       In horrid, hooting stanza;
       Then chase itself down hill
       And neigh like Boanerges;
       Then, punctual as a star,
       Stop -- docile and omnipotent --
       At its own stable door.

Preface
Prelude
i. life
   I. I'm nobody! Who are you?
   II. I bring an unaccustomed wine
   III. The nearest dream recedes, unrealized.
   IV. We play at paste
   V. I found the phrase to every thought
   VI. Hope.
   VII. The White Heat.
   VIII. Triumphant.
   IX. The Test.
   X. Escape.
   XI. Compensation.
   XII. The Martyrs.
   XIII. A Prayer.
   XIV. The thought beneath so slight a film
   XV. The soul unto itself
   XVI. Surgeons must be very careful
   XVII. The Railway Train.
   XVIII. The Show.
   XIX. Delight becomes pictorial
   XX. A thought went up my mind to-day
   XXI. Is Heaven a physician?
   XXII. The Return.
   XXIII. A poor torn heart, a tattered heart
   XXIV. Too Much.
   XXV. Shipwreck.
   XXVI. Victory comes late
   XXVII. Enough.
   XXVIII. Experiment to me
   XXIX. My Country's Wardrobe.
   XXX. Faith is a fine invention
   XXXI. Except the heaven had come so near
   XXXII. Portraits are to daily faces
   XXXIII. The Duel.
   XXXIV. A shady friend for torrid days
   XXXV. The Goal.
   XXXVI. Sight.
   XXXVII. Talk with prudence to a beggar
   XXXVIII. The Preacher.
   XXXIX. Good night! which put the candle out?
   XL. When I hoped I feared
   XLI. Deed.
   XLII. Time's Lesson.
   XLIII. Remorse.
   XLIV. The Shelter.
   XLV. Undue significance a starving man attaches
   XLVI. Heart not so heavy as mine
   XLVII. I many times thought peace had come
   XLVIII. Unto my books so good to turn
   XLIX. This merit hath the worst
   L. Hunger.
   LI. I gained it so
   LII. To learn the transport by the pain
   LIII. Returning.
   LIV. Prayer.
   LV. I know that he exists
   LVI. Melodies Unheard.
   LVII. Called Back.
ii. love
   I. Choice.
   II. I have no life but this
   III. Your riches taught me poverty
   IV. The Contract.
   V. The Letter.
   VI. The way I read a letter's this
   VII. Wild nights! Wild nights!
   VIII. At Home.
   IX. Possession.
   X. A charm invests a face
   XI. The Lovers.
   XII. In lands I never saw, they say
   XIII. The moon is distant from the sea
   XIV. He put the belt around my life
   XV. The Lost Jewel.
   XVI. What if I say I shall not wait?
iii. nature
   I. Mother Nature.
   II. Out of the Morning.
   III. At half-past three a single bird
   IV. Day's Parlor.
   V. The Sun's Wooing.
   VI. The Robin.
   VII. The Butterfly's Day.
   VIII. The Bluebird.
   IX. April.
   X. The Sleeping Flowers.
   XI. My Rose.
   XII. The Oriole's Secret.
   XIII. The Oriole.
   XIV. In Shadow.
   XV. The Humming-Bird.
   XVI. Secrets.
   XVII. Who robbed the woods
   XVIII. Two Voyagers.
   XIX. By the Sea.
   XX. Old-Fashioned.
   XXI. A Tempest.
   XXII. The Sea.
   XXIII. In the Garden.
   XXIV. The Snake.
   XXV. The Mushroom.
   XXVI. The Storm.
   XXVII. The Spider.
   XXVIII. I know a place where summer strives
   XXIX. The one that could repeat the summer day
   XXX. The Wlnd's Visit.
   XXXI. Nature rarer uses yellow
   XXXII. Gossip.
   XXXIII. Simplicity.
   XXXIV. Storm.
   XXXV. The Rat.
   XXXVI. Frequently the woods are pink
   XXXVII. A Thunder-Storm.
   XXXVIII. With Flowers.
   XXXIX. Sunset.
   XL. She sweeps with many-colored brooms
   XLI. Like mighty footlights burned the red
   XLII. Problems.
   XLIII. The Juggler of Day.
   XLIV. My Cricket.
   XLV. As imperceptibly as grief
   XLVI. It can't be summer, -- that got through
   XLVII. Summer's Obsequies.
   XLVIII. Fringed Gentian.
   XLIX. November.
   L. The Snow.
   LI. The Blue Jay.
iv. time and eternity
   I. Let down the bars, O Death!
   II. Going to heaven!
   III. At least to pray is left, is left
   IV. Epitaph.
   V. Morns like these we parted
   VI. A death-blow is a life-blow to some
   VII. I read my sentence steadily
   VIII. I have not told my garden yet
   IX. The Battle-Field.
   X. The only ghost I ever saw
   XI. Some, too fragile for winter winds
   XII. As by the dead we love to sit
   XIII. Memorials.
   XIV. I went to heaven
   XV. Their height in heaven comforts not
   XVI. There is a shame of nobleness
   XVII. Triumph.
   XVIII. Pompless no life can pass away
   XIX. I noticed people disappeared
   XX. Following.
   XXI. If anybody's friend be dead
   XXII. The Journey.
   XXIII. A Country Burial.
   XXIV. Going.
   XXV. Essential oils are wrung
   XXVI. I lived on dread; to those who know
   XXVII. If I should die
   XXVIII. At Length.
   XXIX. Ghosts.
   XXX. Vanished.
   XXXI. Precedence.
   XXXII. Gone.
   XXXIII. Requiem.
   XXXIV. What inn is this
   XXXV. It was not death, for I stood up
   XXXVI. Till the End.
   XXXVII. Void.
   XXXVIII. A throe upon the features
   XXXIX. Saved!
   XL. I think just how my shape will rise
   XLI. The Forgotten Grave.
   XLII. Lay this laurel on the one