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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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3.

1.

[Once on a day, alone but not elate]

2.

[But Nature, in her mood, pushes or pulls]

3.

[Yet not for him lifts the low weather cloud]

4.

[Thin little leaves of wood-fern, ribbed and toothed]

5.

[How well do I recall that walk in state]

6.

[I looked across the rollers of the deep]

7.

[O rest divine! O golden certainty]

8.

[As one turned round on some high mountain top]

9.

[But into order falls our life at last]

10.

[Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips]

11.

[Long Island! Yes! When first my vision swept]

12.

[“Young Silas Long, a carrier through these woods]

13.

[“Yes, the dead pines and deersfoot on the ground]

14.

[An episode: yet with a relish rank]

15.

[But we are set to strive to make our mark]

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The Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

1821-1873

Alfred A. Knopf

New York, London

1931