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The Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard (1821-1873)

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SONNETS 1860–1872

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1.

[Still, like a city, seated on a height]

2.

[But thought, like a mailed archer helmed and tall]

3.

[And thus the mind by its own impulse deep]

4.

[Yes, pray thy God to give, whate'er thou art]

5.

[Yet some there be, believers for the nonce]

6.

[And two I knew, an old man and a boy]

7.

[But war his overturning trumpet blew]

8.

[Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds]

9.

[Here, where the red man swept the leaves away]

10.

[Hast thou seen reversed the prophet's miracle]

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	The Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

The Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

1821-1873

Alfred A. Knopf

New York, London

1931

	The Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman