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Poems

By Alfred Domett
Domett, Alfred (1811-1887)
  
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THE PEDESTRIAN.
  
A REVERIE.
  
WINTER.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
THE STEAM-BOAT.
  
[As the April sun breaking]
  
SUNSET.
  
A STARRY NIGHT.
  
DEATH.
  
DESPAIR.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
PLAIN TRUTHS.
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CHORUS IN THE ‘SEVEN AGAINST THEBES’ OF ÆSCHYLUS.
  
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Strophe 1.
  
Antistrophe 1.
  
Strophe 2.
  
Antistrophe 2.
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OPENING SCENES OF THE “CLOUDS” OF ARISTOPHANES.
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Scene first.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
  
THE FIRST ODE OF HORACE,
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FRAGMENTS.
  
DEATH.
  
A WISH.
  
IN AN ALBUM.
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COMMONPLACES.
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FRAGMENT OF A CHORUS IN THE AJAX OF SOPHOCLES.
  
TEARS.
  
ODE TO THE MATHEMATICS.
  
[Oft when I read the lays]
  
STANZAS.
  
FRAGMENT.
  
TO A LADY.
  
TO ------.
  
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
  
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
  
LINES.
  
ON THE BIRTH OF A NEAR RELATION.
  
GREEK SONG.
  
[Whence is it mountains, forests, fields, and floods]
  
“GOOD BYE.”
  
['Twas in the twilight once—and Sorrow's shadow lay]
  
“LONG AGO,”
  
ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE IN AN ALBUM.
  
ANOTHER.
  
TO AGNES.
  
STANZAS.
  
FLOWERS.
  
A SIMILE.
  
THE BROKEN TRYST.
  
A SEA SIDE CALM.
  
THE CARD CASE'S PETITION.
  
THE “LAND O' THE LEAL.”
  
“GOOD-BYE!”
  
TO IONE.
  
TO AGNES.
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THE LONE STAR OF LOVE.
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LOVE AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
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ADRIAN'S DYING ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL.
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WELLINGTON.
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ADRIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL WHEN DYING.
  
SISERA.
  
THE VOICE OF THE PESTILENCE.
  
NIGHT.
  
HORACE TO LAMIAS.
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To “------,”
  
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF FRISK.
  
HORACE TO HIS PAGE.
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THE STARS.
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VIII.
  
MIDNIGHT.
  
[This brave bright Earth with Mind o'erflows—]
  
A SUMMER THOUGHT.
  
TO BIANCA.
  
SONG.
  
THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
LOVE THE POET.
  
REMORSE.
  
SONG.
  
[My own—my absent one! thou who art still]
  
PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS
  
L'Envoy.

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ANACREONTIC.

The red sun drinks of the cooling wave,
When his shining course is over,
And the moon, with pale and watery beam,
Drinks brightness from her lover:
The dry earth drinks the shower,
And flowers spring anew;
The bee sips from the flower,
And the flower drinks the dew—
Then why should we refuse
To drink together too?
The brilliant sun-beams glancing
On the billows of the ocean,
Are ever with them dancing,
In ever-restless motion—
The flow'rets of the dingle,
And the leaves upon the trees,
In merry dances mingle
To the music of the breeze—
Then why should we refuse
To join the dance with these?
June, 1827.
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