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THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
H.L. GORDON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
PRELUDE
THE MISSISSIPPI
THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS[1]
A LEGEND OF THE DAKOTAS
THE GAME OF BALL[2]
HEYOKA WACIPEE[16]
THE GIANT'S DANCE.
THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS
TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEVOTED WIFE DEAD AND GONE YET ALWAYS WITH ME I DEDICATE PAULINE THE FLOWER OF MY HEART NURSED INTO BLOOM BY HER LOVING CARE AND OFTTIMES WATERED WITH HER TEARS H.L.G.
PAULINE
PART I
INTRODUCTION
THE CAPTAIN'S STORY
PART II
PAUL' S HISTORY
FOOTNOTES
THE SEA-GULL.[1]
THE LEGEND OF THE PICTURED ROCKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR. OJIBWAY
In the measure of Hiawatha.
POETRY.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
BETZKO
A HUNGARIAN LEGEND
WESSELENYI
A HUNGARIAN TALE
ISABEL
BYRON AND THE ANGEL
CHRISTMAS EVE
I
II
OUT OF THE DEPTHS
FAME
WINONA.
THE FOOT RACES.
THE WAKAN-WACEPEE, OR SACRED DANCE. [81]
WINONA'S WARNING.
DULUTH'S DEPARTURE
THE CANOE RACE.
IN CAMP.
WINONA AND TA-TE-PSIN.
FAMINE.
DEATH OF TA-TE-PSIN.
DEATH OF WINONA.
FOOTNOTES
SPRING
TO MOLLIE
TO SYLVA
THANKSGIVING.
[Nov. 26, 1857, during the great financial depression.]
CHARITY
CHARITY
[Written in a friend's book of autographs, 1876.]
SAILOR-BOY'S SONG
MY DEAD
DUST TO DUST
O LET ME DREAM THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO
THE PIONEER
[MINNESOTA—1860-1875]
FOOTNOTES
NIGHT THOUGHTS
DANIEL
[Written at the grave of an old friend.]
MINNETONKA[BZ]
FOOTNOTES
BEYOND
LINES
On the death of Captain Hiram A. Coats, my old schoolmate and friend.
MAULEY
THE BRAVE FERRY-MAN
FOOTNOTES
MEN
HELOISE
CHANGE
FIDO
THE REIGN OF REASON
LOVE WILL FIND
AN OLD ENGLISH OAK
THE LEGEND OF THE FALLS[CH]
[Read at the Celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County, at the Academy of Music, Minneapolis, July 4, 1879.]
THE LEGEND
FOOTNOTES
CHICKADEE
ANTHEM
[APRIL, 1861.]
HURRAH FOR THE VOLUNTEERS
[May, 1861.]
CHARGE OF "THE BLACK-HORSE"
[First battle of Bull Run.]
ONLY A PRIVATE KILLED
DO THEY THINK OF US?
[October, 1861, after the Battle of Ball's Bluff.]
CHARGE OF FREMONT'S BODY-GUARD
A MILLION MORE
[AUGUST, 1862.]
FOOTNOTES
ON READING PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LETTER
To Horace Greeley, of date Aug. 22, 1862—"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it," etc.
THE DYING VETERAN
GRIERSON'S RAID
THE OLD FLAG
[Written July 4, 1863.]
GETTYSBURG: CHARGE OF THE FIRST MINNESOTA
ADDRESS TO THE FLAG
[After the Battle of Gettysburg.]
FOOTNOTES
NEW-YEARS ADDRESS—JANUARY 1, 1866
[Written for the St. Paul Pioneer.]
FOOTNOTES
MY FATHER-LAND
[From the German of Theodor Korner.]
MY HEART'S ON THE RHINE
[From the German of Wolfgang Muller.]
THE MINSTREL
[From the German of Goethe]
[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Book 2, Chap. 2.]
HOPE
[From the German of Schiller.]
MRS. MCNAIR
THE DRAFT
[January, 1865.]
THE DEVIL AND THE MONK
FOOTNOTES
THE TARIFF ON TIN
PAT AND THE PIG
FOOTNOTES
NOTES
NOTES TO THE SEA-GULL
FINIS
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