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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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[I Listen! As though from other times and days]

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[II I saw how that a painter, given o'er]

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[III With long black wings an angel standing by]

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[IV You are to me the full vermilion rose]

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[V The trees and shrubbery glimmer]

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[VI A glad little rift, so shy]

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[VII I love thee longer and I love thee most]

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[VIII Dear and rich as a dawn of summer]

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[IX And, the last day being come, Man stood alone]

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XV CHESTNUTS IN NOVEMBER

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[XVII With thy two eyes look on me once again]

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[XVIII When bye and bye relenting you regret]

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[XX As pilgrims, when the ways of winter ope]

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[XXI Quiet after the rain of morning]

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[XXII If tho' alone I scarce do sigh]

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[XXIII Grudge not that I so long for thee]

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[XXIV Spirits that might have been]

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XXVI AT SAINTE-MARGUERITE

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[XXVII I dreamed. Aye, it was very dark]

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[XXVIII Leave him now quiet by the way]

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XXIX AN ATHENIAN GARDEN

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XXX SONNETS FROM GREECE

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XXXI SIX O'CLOCK

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XXXII IN A CITY GARDEN

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IV A DRAMATIC SCENE

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III

ANGELO
We spend a playful youth to find at last
A woman saviour of ourselves. I 've found.
And in my iron arms the surge can beat
Importunate and long. I shall not yield.
I loved her as in play: I love her now
With the great steady need of all a soul.