Uncollected Prose

The Editor to the Reader
Thoughts on Modern Literature
New Poetry
Two Years Before the Mast
Social Destiny of Man

In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord’s Supper. There never has been any unanimity in the understanding of its nature, nor any uniformity in the mode of celebrating it.

Chardon Street and Bible, Conventions, English Reformers, Letter to W. E. Channing, Fourierism & the Socialists, The Senses and the Soul, Transcendentalism
Prayers, Agriculture/Massachusetts, The Zincali, Ancient Spanish Ballads, Tecumseh Poem, Intelligence, Harvard University, Tennyson

Michael Angelo
Essays and Poems
Walter Savage Landor

Antislavery Poems, Augustine‘s, Confessions, The Bible in Spain, Channing‘s Poems, The Dream of a Day, Literary Intelligence, The Spanish Student, Paracelsus, Europe & European Books, Past and Present, Sonnets, America – an Ode, A Letter, The Huguenots

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the House of Pain. As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity. The conversation of men is a mixture of regrets and apprehensions. I do not know but the prevalent hue of things to the eye of leisure is melancholy.