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The Gift [also known as "Julia" or "The Poet's Choice"]

The Gift [also known as "Julia" or "The Poet's Choice"]

John Cheney after Thomas Sully
Album [title vignette]

Album [title vignette]

John Cheney after Henry Inman
The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry (frontispiece)

The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry (frontispiece)

John Gadsby Chapman
Then Said the Shepherds One to Another...

Then Said the Shepherds One to Another...

George Hewitt Cushman after H(arden S.?) Melville
The Poets and Poetry of America [title page]

The Poets and Poetry of America [title page]

George Hewitt Cushman after Thomas Creswick
The Poets and Poetry of America [title page vignette]

The Poets and Poetry of America [title page vignette]

George Hewitt Cushman after Thomas Creswick
Song of the Open Road ["Let the paper remain" (text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["Let the paper remain" (text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road [Man working into landscape: "Will you come travel with me?" (stanza 17)]

Song of the Open Road [Man working into landscape: "Will you come travel with me?" (stanza 17)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road [Nude woman and child: "Sunset"(stanza 16)]

Song of the Open Road [Nude woman and child: "Sunset"(stanza 16)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["Smartly attired..."(text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["Smartly attired..."(text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["Desperate, proud..."(text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["Desperate, proud..."(text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road [Nudes flying above city: "Traveling souls" (stanza 14)]

Song of the Open Road [Nudes flying above city: "Traveling souls" (stanza 14)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["To Carny buildings and streets" (text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["To Carny buildings and streets" (text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["Old age" (text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["Old age" (text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["they too are on the road!" (text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["they too are on the road!" (text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road [Figures on road: "Allons! after the Great Companions" (stanza 12)]

Song of the Open Road [Figures on road: "Allons! after the Great Companions" (stanza 12)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["No diseas'd person..."(text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["No diseas'd person..."(text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road [Man struggling to free himself from a crowd: "The irresistible call to depart you but arrive at the city to which you were detin'd you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction" (stanza 11)]

Song of the Open Road [Man struggling to free himself from a crowd: "The irresistible call to depart you but arrive at the city to which you were detin'd you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction" (stanza 11)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["Anchor here..."( text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["Anchor here..."( text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road [Three figures walking along shoreline: "Where winds blow, waves dash, and the yankee clipper speeds by under full sail" (stanza 10)]

Song of the Open Road [Three figures walking along shoreline: "Where winds blow, waves dash, and the yankee clipper speeds by under full sail" (stanza 10)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road ["The roots of themselves..." (text plate)]

Song of the Open Road ["The roots of themselves..." (text plate)]

Lewis C. Daniel
Song of the Open Road [Man climbing over fallen tree: "Be not discouraged--keep on" (stanza 9)]

Song of the Open Road [Man climbing over fallen tree: "Be not discouraged--keep on" (stanza 9)]

Lewis C. Daniel
The Lost Children

The Lost Children

John Cheney after Ary Scheffer
Just Seventeen

Just Seventeen

John Cheney after Thomas Lawrence