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The poems of Trumbull Stickney
Stickney, Trumbull (1874-1904)
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I DRAMATIC VERSES
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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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V JUVENILIA
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I ART IN MAN
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II MUSIC
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III NIGHT
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IV EVENING
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V AGE AND YOUTH
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[VI This is the nursling of an hundred years]
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[VII Tho', moored along the quiet quay on some]
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VIII THE DEATH OF AISCHYLOS
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[IX My note is highest of them all]
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[X When you've averaged emotion, found where Nature goes to school]
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XI ODE
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[XII 'T was yet an hour to dawn. Revengeful storm]
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XIII COLOGNE CATHEDRAL
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[XIV When by you lies my broken heart, and I]
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[XV Now the lovely moon is wilted]
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[XVI I know where all the singers hide]
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[XVII Hold still, my brain! My temples burst! Shall e'er]
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XVIII NIMIUM PASSUS
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[XIX Spring is come. From the wind lightly dissipate feathers of mist that an upland exhales]
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XX IN AMPEZZO
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[XXI If, in the night and madness of thy mind]
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[XXII Henceforward I no longer shall be known]
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XXIII A LETTER
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[XXIV My life shall count by the smile and tear]
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XXV You'll say when here again after it all
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XXVI This is the violin. If you remember—
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VI FRAGMENTS
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The poems of Trumbull Stickney
[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.
The poems of Trumbull Stickney