Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations, The things I miss., page 89

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To James Russell Lowell , school-mate and fellow townsman, this book is inscribed.

Sonnet to duty.

A jar of rose-leaves.

Sub pondere crescit.

The playmate hours.

The Baby sorceress.

Sixty and six : or, a fountain of youth.

The soul of a butterfly.

The lesson of the leaves.

Vestis angelica.

Sea-gulls at Fresh Pond .

The dying house.

A song of days.

Treasure in heaven.

Beneath the violets.

The reed immortal.

Dwelling-places.

To the memory of H. H.

Venus Multiformis.

To John Greenleaf Whittier .

Corporal Alston 's discourse.

Waiting for the bugle.

The last Palatine light.

The February hush.

To a young convert.

Serenade by the sea.

The frozen cascade: the bride of the rock.

The things I miss.

Sonnet from Petrarch ( 123 ).

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Sonnet from Petrarch ( 302 ).

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[89]
Could I have felt thy presence near,
Had I possessed what I held dear?
My deepest fortune, highest bliss,
Have grown perchance from things I miss.

Sometimes there comes an hour of calm;
Grief turns to blessing, pain to balm;
A Power that works above my will
Still leads me onward, upward still.
And then my heart attains to this,--
To thank Thee for the things I miss.

1870.

Longmans, Green and company. 1889. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

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