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Sonnets and canzonets
Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888)
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PROEM.
1.
PART I.
1.
[I. Auspicious morn, com'st opportune, unbought?]
2.
[II. Ah! why so brief the visit, short his stay?]
3.
[III. Not all the brilliant beauties I have seen]
4.
[IV. The April rains are past, the frosts austere]
5.
[V. Most precious leaves the mail delights to bring]
6.
[VI. 'T is but a half-hour's walk the Mill-Dam o'er]
7.
[VII. The morning's clear, the sky without a frown]
8.
[VIII. Mean are all titles of nobility]
9.
[IX. Now I no longer wait my love to tell]
10.
[X. Unconquerable and inviolate]
11.
[XI. Ancestral tendencies far down descend]
12.
[XII. Hither, the gray and shapely church beside]
13.
[XIII. My Lady reads, with judgment and good taste]
14.
[XIV. Not Wordsworth's genius, Pestalozzi's love]
15.
[XV. Daughter, beloved of all, thy tender eye]
16.
[XVI. When I remember with what buoyant heart]
17.
[XVII. 'T was not permitted thee the Fates to please]
18.
XVIII. LOVE'S MORROW.
19.
[XIX. O Death! thou utterest deeper speech]
20.
[XX. Voyager across the seas]
21.
[XXI. Dear Heart! if aught to human love I've owed]
22.
[XXII. Calm vale of comfort, peace, and industry]
2.
PART II.
1.
[I. In Youth's glad morning, when the rising East]
2.
[II. My thought revives at utterance of thy name]
3.
[III. Christian beloved! devoid of art and wile]
4.
[IV. Channing! my Mentor whilst my thought was young]
5.
[V. Daughter of Memory! who her watch doth keep]
6.
[VI. Misfortune to have lived not knowing thee]
7.
[VII. Hierophant, and lyrist of the soul]
8.
[VIII. Pleased, I recall those hours, so fair and free]
9.
[IX. Dear Lady! oft I meditate on thee]
10.
[X. Thou, Sibyl rapt! whose sympathetic soul]
11.
[XI. Priest of the gladsome tidings, old and new]
12.
[XII. Interpreter of the Pure Reason's laws]
13.
[XIII. Who nearer Nature's life would truly come]
14.
[XIV. Much do they wrong our Henry, wise and kind]
15.
[XV. Whilst from the cloistered schools rushed forth in view]
16.
[XVI. Bright visions of my sprightlier youthful days]
17.
[XVII. Sweet saint! whose rising dawned upon the sight]
18.
[XVIII. Adventurous mariner! in whose gray skiff]
19.
[XIX. Romancer, far more coy than that coy sex]
20.
[XX. Still held in sweet remembrance thou, my friend]
21.
[XXI. Poet of the Pulpit, whose full-chorded lyre]
22.
[XXII. People's Attorney, servant of the Right]
23.
[XXIII. 'T was when the land was struggling to break free]
24.
[XXIV. Bold Saint, thou firm believer in the Cross]
25.
[XXV. Nobly censorious of our transient age]
26.
[XXVI. Freedom's first champion in our fettered land]
3.
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27.
[XXVII. O Thou, my country, ope thine eyes]
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Sonnets and canzonets
Sonnets and canzonets
Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888
Roberts Brothers
Boston
[1882]
Sonnets and canzonets