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The poems of Trumbull Stickney

Stickney, Trumbull (1874-1904)

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I DRAMATIC VERSES

LODOVICO MARTELLI

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[You say, Columbus with his argosies]

[They say that Cleopatra who of yore]

[They lived enamoured of the lovely moon]

ON RODIN'S “L'ILLUSION, SŒUR D'ICARE”

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[I My friend, who in this March unkind, uncouth]

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[II Your image walks not in my common way]

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[III Were you called home and I were left to grief]

IN A CHURCHYARD

[When I hereafter shall recover thee]

[Tho' inland far with mountains prisoned round]

ON SOME SHELLS FOUND INLAND

[Tho' lack of laurels and of wreaths not one]

[Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord]

[Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream]

[The melancholy year is dead with rain]

[As a sad man, when evenings grayer grow]

[He said: “If in his image I was made]

PROMETHEUS PYRPHOROS [1900]

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II FRAGMENTS OF A DRAMA ON THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN

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III LATER LYRICS

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IV A DRAMATIC SCENE

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[XI
The passions that we fought with and subdued]

The passions that we fought with and subdued
Never quite die. In some maimed serpent's coil
They lurk, ready to spring and vindicate
That power was once our torture and our lord.