Entered according to the act of congress, in the year 1834, by Key & Biddle, in the office of the clerk of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia:

T. K. Collins & Co., Printers.
No. 6, George Street.

PREFACE.

SOME of the poems contained in the present collection were written at an early age. Others interspersed themselves, at later periods, amid domestic occupations or maternal cares. The greater part were suggested by passing occasions, and partake of the nature of extemporaneous productions. All reveal, by their brevity, the narrow intervals of time. which were devoted to their composition.

They have sprung up like wild flowers in the dells, or among the clefts of the rock; wherever the path of life has chanced to lead. The hand that gathered and now presents them, borrows for their motto the sweetly eloquent words of Coleridge:

"I expect from them neither profit nor general fame; and I consider myself amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding

great reward. It possesses power to soothe affliction, to multiply and refine enjoyment,-to endear

solitude, and to give the habit of discovering the

good and the beautiful in all that meets or surrounds us."

Hartford, Conn., May 10, 1834.

L. H. S.

"Whither Shall I Flee from Thy Presence ?"

Columbus before the University of Salamanca,
"Charity Beareth all Things,"

"The Fashion of this World Passeth Away,"

The Burmans and their Missionary,

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Scene at the Death-bed of the Rev. Dr. Payson,