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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.

[But Nature where she gives must give in kind]

2.

[Nor, though she seem to cast with backward hand]

3.

[And yet tonight, when summer-daylight dies]

4.

[But man finds means, grant him but place and room]

5.

[Where will the ladder land? Who knows?—who knows]

6.

[Licentiate of the schools, with knowledge hot]

7.

[That night the town turned out and crammed the hall]

8.

[A garden lodge, shut in with quaintest growth]

9.

[For these, my friend, were but the foldings fair]

10.

[A poet's moonshine! Yes, for love must lend]

11.

[Another. Opposite as sky and lands]

12.

['Twas granted. But the bitter god of love]

13.

[A wash of rippling breath that just arrives]

14.

[And me my winter's task is drawing over]

15.

[Let me give something!—though my spring be done]

16.

[Let me give something!—as the years unfold]

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The Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

1821-1873

Alfred A. Knopf

New York, London

1931