" By _Lyman Abbot_
POEMS OF SORROW AND CONSOLATION:
DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE
PARTING AND ABSENCE
ADVERSITY
COMFORT AND CHEER
DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT
CONSOLATION
INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW _Frontispiece_
_Photogravure from photograph by Hanfstaengl after portrait by Kramer_.
PENELOPE AWAITING ULYSSES
_The patient grief and endurance of Absence: while the tapestry
woven by day stands on the frame to be unravelled by night, as the
loyal wife puts off her suitors. Painting by Rudolph von Deutsch_.
ABSENCE
"What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?"
_From a photograph by the Berlin Photographic Co., after a painting by
R. Poetzelberger_.
WAIL OF PROMETHEUS BOUND
"Behold me, a god, what I endure from gods!
Behold, with throe on throe,
How, wasted by this woe,
I wrestle down the myriad years of Time!"
_From photograph after a painting by G. Graeff_.
PIERRE-JEAN DE BERANGER
_From lithograph after a crayon-drawing by H. Alophe_.
THOMAS HOOD
_After an engraving from contemporary portrait_.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
_After a photograph from life by Talfourd, London_.
THE COUNTRY CHURCHYARD
"Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
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