When the Birds Go North Again, first edition.

 

Ella Higginson’s popular book of poetry, When the Birds Go North Again, was published by New York’s Macmillan Company in 1898. Subsequent editions were published by Macmillan in 1902, 1910, and 1911. The book is dedicated to Higginson’s older sister, Carrie Blake Morgan, a well-known Oregon writer.
The volume contains 113 poems. Here is their listing from the table of contents in the first edition.

“When the Birds Go North Again”
“God’s Creed”
“Four-Leaf Clover”
“Beggars”
“The Meadow-Lark”
“A Prayer”
“We Two in Arcadie”
“Dream-Time”
“Serenade”
“The Novices of Heaven”
“Easter Dawn”
“The Way Thou Singest”
“The Long Ago”
“I Could Not Be a Nun”
“Eve”
“Wearing Out Love”
“The Rhododendron Bells”
“If I Should Die”
“Reaping”
“The Tide is Low”
“Moonrise in the Rockies”
“Hate”
“April”
“Two Days”
“Love-Song”
“I Thank Thee, God”
“The Dead”
“June Night”
“When I am Dead”
“The Poppy Land”
“Cradle-Song of the Fisherman’s Wife”
“The Lady of High Degree”
“Adrift and Anchored”
“The Passing of the Hours”
“The Room by the Sea”
“A Thank-Offering”
“Humility”
“Despair”
“The Petaled Thorn”
“The Snow Mountain”
“Moods”
“The Falling Star”
“To an Enemy”
“The Lingering of the Flowers”
“Christmas Eve”
“Sunrise on the Willamette”
“The Pathway of Souls”
“Have Mercy Upon Us”
“August”
“Love”
“The Poet and the Star”
“Two Prayers”
“June”
“The Lamp in the West”
“The Simple Creed of Christ”
“’My Vineyard which was Mine is behind Me’”
“Two”
“Beside the Sea”
“Parting”
“December”
“The Czar of All the Russias”
“The Evergreen State”
“Always Some One Below”
“The Wreck of the Premier”
“A Fairy’s Love-Song”
“Finis”
“Where Can She Be?”
“Where Hudson Sweeps Between the Hills”
“The ‘Dropping-Song’ of the Mocking-Bird”
“That Other Prayer”
“To One Leaving for Sweden”
“The Awakening”
“Lost”
“The Snow”
“Enduring”
“The Low Brown Hills”
“The Coming of Spring”

Sonnets:
“Yet Am I Not for Pity”
“An Autumn Day”
“Going Blind”
“The Spent Year”
“The Summons”
“He to Her”
“Indian Summer”
“Delilah”
“Thanksgiving”
“Dawn on the Willamette”
“A Dream of Sappho”
“April Night”
“He Speaks at Parting”
“A Perfect Day”
“‘The Opal Sea'”
“A Dream”
“A Sonnet”
“Sleep”
“The Grand Ronde Valley”
“The New West”
“A Prayer of the Heart”
“The Last Message of Summer”
“Dawn”
“Semiahmoo Spit”
“The Holy Dawn”
“What Dost Thou See, O Night?”
“Storm”
“A Dream of Cleopatra”
“After Death”
“‘Being so Bereft'”
“In a Valley of Peace”
“The Statue”
“February Night”
“Night”
“Ebb-Tide”
“In Absence”