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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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[I The Autumn's done; they have the golden corn in]

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[II She sat under the naked bough]

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III FRAGMENT OF AN ODE FOR GREEK LIBERTY

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[IV My Ludovico, it is sad]

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[V The weakened eyes regain their sight]

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[VI And I stood ringed about with marble dreams]

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[VII 'T is said that hearts are won, at length]

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[VIII We learn by suffering and we teach by pity]

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[IX I hear a river thro' the valley wander]

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[X Nay, take it all in all, the human sort]

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[XI The passions that we fought with and subdued]

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[XII As one who loving beyond words will bring]

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[XIII Teased by the burden of this little sky]

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[XIV If with my life I lifted from thy head]

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[XV The immortal mixes with mortality]

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XVI FRAGMENT OF A DRAMA CALLED “THE CARDINAL PLAY”

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XVII “DRAMATIC FRAGMENTS

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II BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS

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III THE SOUL OF TIME

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BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS

[Enter X, who learns the dispute and says]
You waste good time.
More philosophic much it were to ask
By speculation or experiment
What midget skims the void of that man
Who being all these together: deaf, dumb, blind,
Yet must within himself, as, sepulchred
'Mid rings of brazen crenellation down
Under tremendous towers, the heart of Cain,
Be alive.