The Legendary, ed. N. P. Willis. Boston: Samuel G. Goodrich, 1828.

• Several pieces were reprinted in The Garland, for 1831. (NY: C. H. Peabody, 1830.
• “A Canadian Legend”—by the author of “Extract from a Journal of an Excursion from Montreal to St. Andrews”—appeared in the 1828 volume of The Token.

Volume 1

• Church in the Wilderness, The (Lydia Maria Child; author/ Hobomok), 1 [There is a solitary spot, in a remote part of Maine, known by the name of Indian Old Point.]
• Valley of Silence, The /p (William Cutter), 23 [Has thy foot ever trod that silent dell?—/ But all its deep, hushed voices kept for God!]
• Wedding, The, 26 [At the little village of Stanton-Drew, in Somersetshire, and not far from the splendid city of Bath, there is a large circle of upright stones,…]
• Exile at Rest, The /p (John Pierpont), 35 [His falchion flashed along the Nile;/ The cloud’s deep voice—the wind’s low sigh.]
• Unwritten Poetry (N. P. Willis), 36 [There is poetry that is not written.]
• Descriptive Sonnets: Sky, The /p (H. Pickering), 53 [The sun went calmly to his rest, but threw/ Seemed then that heavenly pavilion spread.]
• Descriptive Sonnets: Autumnal Picture /p (H. Pickering), 53 [See how the forest waves! The gnarled oak/ That wild and melancholy music makes.]
• Descriptive Sonnets: Rainbow, The /p (H. Pickering), 54 [Symbol of peace! lo, there the ethereal bow!/ The torrent gives to air, its hoarse and louder song.]
• Descriptive Sonnets: Sunlight at Evening /p (H. Pickering), 54 [How beautifully soft it seems to sleep/ Night never comes, and day is without dawn.]
• Clouds, The /p (Grenville Mellen). 55 [O Clouds! ye ancient messengers,/ Ye pass like life’s dim dreams away.]
• Pampas Plains of Buenos Ayres, The /p (Isaac McLellan), 59 [How calmly sleeps the desert! bright/ When their free shouts are on the gale.]
• New Oxford (Lydia Sigourney; author/ Moral Pieces), 61 [The rash intolerance of Louis the Fourteenth reached its climax in the revocation of the Edict of Nantz.]
• On Seeing a Beautiful Boy at Play /p (N. P. Willis), 78 [Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls/ I sigh to look upon thy face, young boy!—]
• Haunted Grave, The /p (E. P. Blount), 80 [The sun had set and the last faint trace/ Approach that haunted ground.]
• Extract from a Journal of an Excursion from Montreal to St. Andrews (author/ A Canadian Legend), 82 [We were now sailing on the Lake of the Two Mountains, here twentyfive miles broad,… [sic]]
• Annoyer, The /p (N. P. Willis), 90 [Love knoweth every form of air,/ Will Love be lurking nigh.]
• Grave of an Unknown Genius, The /p (Joseph H. Nichols), 92 [How peacefully yon winding brook/ Both undiscovered and unknown.]
• Forest Scene, A /p (H. Pickering), 95 [Primeval shades! and ye majestic woods,/ To view the type of a more glorious world.]
• Rapids, The, 98 [Midnight on board a steam boat, a full moon, and a soft panorama of the shores of the St. Lawrence gliding by like a vision!]
• Notes of Our Birds, The /p (Isaac McLellan), 108 [Well do I love those various harmonies/ So thrillingly from beauty’s ruby lip.]
• Mere Accident /p (N. P. Willis), 111 [It was a shady nook that I had found/ And fell in love. Was *that* all, Viola?]
• Vermont, 112 [“This is a strange world,” said a friend, laying down the Token.]
• Nun, The /p (Emma C. Manly), 116 [She was very fair,/ Had burst from its sealed fountain.]
• Romance in Real Life (Catharine Maria Sedgwick; author/ Redwood), 118 [Many fortunate travellers on the western border of Massachusetts, and not many miles from the Hudson,…] [reprinted in The Garland as by author/ Hope Leslie]
• Palisadoes, The (Grenville Mellen), 162 [“This, then, at last,” said I, “is the broad and beautiful Hudson!”]
• Haunted Wood, The /p (Isaac McLellan), 192 [I ofttimes hide in this lonely place,/ Will often startle the passer by.]
• Doomed Ship, The /p, Lightly the south wind kissed the sea,/ And tread the trim decks of the gallant Kazie.]
• Indian Wife, The (Lydia Maria Child; author/ Hobomok), 197 [Tahmiroo was the daughter of a powerful Sioux chieftain;…]
• Angling (Isaac McLellan), 208 [“There is no life so pleasant as the life of a well governed angler,” exclaimed that experience prince of fishermen, old Izaak Walton.]
• Ascutney /p (Mrs. A. M. Wells), 212 [In a low white-washed cottage, overrun/ Still, mid all other claims, that mountain hath its part.] [in Ladies’ Magazine review]
• Telling the Dream /p (W. G. Crosby), 213 [ ’T is a most beauteous night! Ianthe, come!/ And then— Do dreams always prove true, Ianthe?]
• Sisters, The, 216 [It was on the thirtyfirst of December, 1779, that an alarm of fire was given in Paris.]
• Bruce’s Heart, The /p (Lydia Sigourney; author/ Moral Pieces), 230 [The couch of death King Robert prest;/ Shall mourn the Douglas’ fall.]
• Legend of Bethel Rock, The ([Samuel Griswold Goodrich]), 233 [In the picturesque State of Connecticut, there is not a spot more beautiful than the village of Pomperaug.]
• Columbus /p (J. W. Miller), 240 [Day broke—upon the seaward hills/ He saw his monument—a world!]
• Conscript Brothers, The, 243 [It was in the dark and smoky room of an alehouse, the walls stained by the dirt of years, that three young men were seated at a table.]
• Sachem’s Hill /p ([Eliza Lee Follen]), 267 [Here, from this little hillock in days long since gone by,/ And all the treasures of their souls shall be with us forever!]
• Frontier House, The (Sarah Josepha Hale; author/ Northwood), 269 [“I shall return before dark,” said Edward Abbot to his young wife, as he kissed their boy, and laid it in her arms.]
• Devil’s Leap, The, 281 [There is a pleasant village, not far from the capital of New England,…]
• Table of Emerald, The /p ([N. P. Willis]), 284 [That “Emerald Green of the Pyramid”—/ And how can it soar above?]
• prospectus, with list of agents
• advertisement for The Token (1829) & for Sad Tales and Glad Tales

Volume 2

• Field of the Grounded Arms, The /p (Fitz-Greene Halleck), 1 [Strangers! your eyes are on that valley fixed/ Gazing on Marathon!] [in The Critic review; reprinted in The Garland]
• Stepmother, The, 5 [“I do n’t want to see her!]
• Lionel /p (Robert Morris), 84 [The brave, the bright, the beautiful have fallen,/ The yielded up life’s miseries, and died!]
• Murderer’s Grave, The, 89 [A few hundred yards from the small stream which, known by the whites under the appellation of “Line Creek,”…]
• Musings: To Rosabelle /p (Willis G. Clarke), 94 [There is light abroad in thy pathway now,/ While it lifts thy affections up to God!]
• Leaves from a Colleger’s Album ([N. P. Willis]), 96 [Horace Fritz! thou inimitable dandy! thou strange compound…] [in The Critic review]
• Autumn Musings /p (George Lunt), 110 [Come thou with me!—if thou hast worn away/ Shall keep us in the troubles of the day.] [reprinted in The Garland]
• Camp Meeting, The, 113 [On the sixteenth day of September, in a memorable year, a Camp Meeting was appointed.]
• Hudson, The /p (H. Pickering), 127 [Imperial Flood! on thy romantic banks/ Nor Tyre, nor Sidon—and their fate is thin!”]
• Schoolmaster, The ([Silas P. Holbrook]), 133 [On a memorable day in August, I emerged from the red schoolhouse on the Germantown road,…]
• Bennett’s Bridge /p (Joseph H. Nichols), 142 [Thou beautiful, romantic Dell!/ Along my own blue-flowing river.]
• To the Ice Mountain /p (James O. Rockwell), 144 [Grave of waters gone to rest!/ Mingle with the wave again!] [reprinted in The Garland]
• First Meeting of the Old and New World /p (Lydia Sigourney), 145 [She comes! she comes! with her white sails spread,/ And the blood that stained her glory.]
• Extracts from a Sea Book (Samuel Hazzard), 146 [“You must leave college,” said the doctor, with an ominous shake of the head.]
• Idleness /p (N. P. Willis), 182 [The rain is playing its soft, pleasant tune/ And this, ’t is true, were only idleness!]
• Interview Between Cleaveland and Minna, The /p (Louisa P. Hickman), 185 [The lofty Cathedral is solemnly still,/ Ere the morrow sees it dipped in gore.”]
• Mother’s Grave, The /p (William Grigg), 188 [It was a morn in summer. Nature smiled/ Of childhood’s grateful duty!] [reprinted in The Garland]
• Witch, The, 191 [It is a very common observation, but not the less true on that account, that no advantage is fully prized except by the want of it.]
• Poet’s Dream, The /p, 200 [The poet sleeps in his attic rude,/ And were crowned with palm-leaves there.]
• Hope /p (William Grigg), 201 [Hope is the bird we fondly chase/ On the scroll of deathless fame.]
• Burial at Sea, A /p (S. G. Goodrich), 203 [The shore hath blent with the distant skies/ Where the lonely sleeper lies.]
• Siege of Soleure, The, 204 [There can hardly be any traditions more interesting to Americans than those which relate to Switzlerland.]
• Romance /p ([Mary E. Brooks]; Norna), 219 [The warrior knelt before the maid—/ But that first young dream of love!]
• Unwritten Philosophy (N. P. Willis), 223 [A summer or two since, I was wasting a college vacation among the beautiful creeks and falls in the neighbourhood of New York.]
• Elizabeth Latimer, 243 [It is hard that, with man, talent, combined with perseverance, should be almost omnipotent…]
• Stanzas to the Memory of John G. C. Brainard /p ([Willis G. Clarke]), 272 [Peace to the slumberer!—On his wasting breast,/ The Friend, the Bard, in hope, to God and Heaven!]
• Painter’s Revelation, The, 275 [“I cannot paint it!” exclaimed Duncan Weir, as he threw down his pencil in despair.]