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A correction to the transcription of the book "Fugitive Poetry," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented.

The poem "To a Belle," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: All that thou art, I thrillingly; Last Line: And my strong deep heart were thine.

A correction to the several lines in the poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented.

The poem "A Portrait," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: She's beautiful! Her raven curls; Last Line: And keep it-till we meet again.

The poem "On Seeing Through a Distant Window a Belle Completing her Toilet for a Ball," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: 'Tis well-'tis well-that clustering shade; Last Line: That will, this night, bewilder me!

The poem "May," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Oh the merry May has pleasant hours, Last Line: In the beautiful time of Spring.

The poem "A Portrait," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: She was not very beautiful, if it be beauty's test; Last Line: As if they had been used to track the universe with wings.

The poem "On the Death of Miss Fanny V. Apthorp," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. 'Tis difficult to feel that she is dead. Last Line: In its most ravishing sweetness rudely broken.

The poem "The Solitary," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Alone! alone! How drear it is; Last Line: My spirit thirsts to hear?

The poem "Discrimination," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: I used to love a radiant girl- Last Line: Is like kissing her eyes as the lashes fall.

The poem "Andre's Request," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: It is not the fear of death; Last Line: With a soldier's death!

An untitled poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: There was a beautiful spirit in her air, Last Line: She has an angel's gifts-the radiant girl!

An untitled poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Exquisite Laura! with thy pouting lip, Last Line: Break thy sweet fetter, exquisite coquette!

An untitled poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Beautiful robin! with thy feathers red; Last Line: Before I to my better portion go.

An untitled poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Elegance floats about thee like a dress, Last Line: Like a gay dreamer clinging to his sleep.

An untitled poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Storm had been on the hills. The day had worn; Last Line: In the green summer of my youth might die!

The poem "Sonnet. Winter," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: The frozen ground looks gray. 'Twill shut the snow; In the green summer of my youth might die!

The poem "To a Sleeping Boy," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Sleep on! Sleep on! beguiling; Last Line: A shining wing in wait for thee.

The poem "On a Picture of Children Playing," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: I love to look on a scene like this, Last Line: To see the young so gay.

The poem "Twenty-Two," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: I'm twenty-two-I'm twenty-two- Last Line: And fame consumes ere won.

The poem "To a Bride," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Pass thou on! for the vow is said; Last Line: The beautiful gift of thy light-Pass on!

The poem "April," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: I have found violets. April hath come on, Last Line: To hunt for violets in the April time.

The poem "Hero," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Gentle and modest Hero! I can see; Last Line: And break the heart that wrote it.

The poem "Roaring Brook," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: It was a mountain stream that with the leap; Last Line: To loiter with these wayside comforters.

The poem "Starlight," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: The evening star will twinkle presently. Last Line: Shall be as constant as its gentle star.

The poem "The Earl's Minstrel," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: I had a passion when I was a child; Last Line: Do not remember, and so ends the tale.

The poem "Isabel," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: They said that I was strange. I could not bear; Last Line: Upon her holy forehead and be calm!

The poem "The Declaration," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: 'Twas late, and the gay company was gone, Last Line: Earnestly on me-She had been asleep!

The poem "The Serenade," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Innocent dreams be thine! The silver night; Last Line: Farewell! Farewell!"

The poem "Lassitude," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: I will throw by my book. The weariness; Last Line: My lyre shall have a nobler sweep in Heaven.

The poem "Mere Accident," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: It was a shady nook that I had found; Last Line: And fell in love. Was that all, Viola?

The poem "The Annoyer," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Love knoweth every form of air, Last Line: Will Love be lurking nigh.

The poem "The Table of Emerald," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: That 'Emerald Green of the Pyramid'- Last Line: And how can it soar above?

The poem "The Baptism," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: She stood up in the meekness of a heart; Last Line: In leading its young spirit up to God.

The poem "Dedication Hymn," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: The perfect world by Adam trod, Last Line: A humbler temple, "made with hands."

The poem "A Child's First Impression of a Star," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: She had been told that God made all the stars; Last Line: "Father! dear Father! God has made a star!"

The poem "On Seeing a Beautiful Boy at Play," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls; Last Line: I sigh to look upon thy face, young boy!

The poem "Psyche," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented: First Line: Lift up thine eyes, sweet Psyche! What is she; Last Line: Have had their deeper fountains broken up.

The poem "January 1, 1829," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Winter is come again. The sweet south west; Last Line: That Winter with the dying year should come!

The poem "January 1, 1828," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: Fleetly hath past the year. The seasons came; Last Line: Have praises for the well-completed year.

The poem "The Tri-Portrait," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: 'Twas a rich night in June. The air was all; Last Line: A light as beautiful to lead you on.

The poem "On the Death of Edward Payson, D.D.," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: A servant of the living God is dead! Last Line: Shall we bewail our brother that he died?

The poem "Idleness," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune; Last Line: And this, 'tis true, were only idleness!

The poem "Sketch of a Schoolfellow," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: He sat by me in school. His face is now; Last Line: With the unplayfulness of this grown up world.

The poem "Contemplation," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: 'They are all up-the innumerable stars- Last LIne: A holy aspiration after heaven!

The poem "Scene in Gethsemane," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: The moon was shining yet. The Orient's brow, Last Line: For "he that should betray him was at hand."

The poem "The Shunamite," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented. First Line: It was a sultry day of summer time. Last Line: From death's dark portal! It surpasseth words.

The front cover of the book "Fugitive Poetry," by Nathaniel Parker Willis is presented.

The man who the author would like to dedicate his book "Fugitive Poetry" is mentioned.