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Duganne's Poetical Works

Autograph edition. Seventy-five Copies

Duganne, A. J. H. (1823-1884)

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A world beyond.

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The Mission of Intellect.

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MDCCCXLVIII. The Year of the People.

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I. THANKSGIVING HYMN FOR 1848.

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III. REGENERATION.

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IV. FRANCE TO IRELAND.

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V. PRAYER OF ERIN.

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VI. FREEDOM BAFFLED.

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VII. STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE.

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VIII. AVATAR AND FLIGHT.

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XI. THE TRANCE.

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XII. UNCONQUERED.

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The Gospel of Labor.

THE CURSE AND THE BLESSING.

TYRANNY THE CURSE.

THE BOOK OF RUINS.

THE FATE OF DESPOTISM.

THE GOSPEL REVEALED.

THE MYSTERY OF CREATION.

The True Republic.

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TO The Beloved Ones.

THE SONG OF TOIL.

THE POET'S TASK.

THE POET AND THE PEOPLE.

THE POET TO THE PEOPLE.

THE CHAMPIONS OF MANKIND.

MEN OF THOUGHT.

LIFE'S ODYSSEY.

PAST—PRESENT—FUTURE.

THE LAMENT OF PAN.

LIVE THEM DOWN.

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ANGEL OF SUFFERING:

ANGEL OF SUFFERING:

THE WORLD'S LIE.

MEN OF MY COUNTRY.

THE PAUPER'S PLACE.

THE TOILER'S HOPE.

HEART AND SOUL.

OUR MOTHER EARTH.

THE UNSOLD LANDS.

HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS.

THE ACRES AND THE HANDS.

KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.

THE POOR MAN'S FATHERLAND.

WHO OWNETH AMERICA'S SOIL.

Parnassus in Pillory.

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Manifest Destiny. A WAR ECLOGUE

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I. TRUMPET-SONG.

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II. THE RUBICON.

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The Maiden of the Shield.

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The Human Heart.

THE HOME OF SONG.

THE DREAM OF THE TOMBSTONE.

MIDNIGHT IN THE CHURCH-YARD.

THE RECOMPENSE.

THE THREE MARIES.

LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP.

THE LOST PLEIAD.

TO ONE DEPARTED.

CRUSHED FLOWERS.

THE TRUE VISION.

TO A DYING SISTER.

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Metrical Miscellanies.

CARACTACUS— A ROMAN BALLAD.

THE GERM OF GOOD.

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BARONIAL TIMES.

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PART I.—BARONS OF THE PAST.

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PART II.—BARONS OF THE PRESENT.

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PART I.—ARMIES OF THE PRESENT.

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PART II.—ARMIES OF THE FUTURE.

TO THE PRINTERS.

ODE TO POWERS' GREEK SLAVE.

AN HONEST BALLAD TO JOHN BULL,

“PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.”

THE AUTOCRAT'S TRIUMPH.

THE PRAYER OF JESUS.

THE DRUNKARD'S LAMENT.

COLUMBUS AND GARIBALDI.

REQUIEM FOR JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

REQUIEM FOR A BELOVED CHILD.

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Poems of Boyhood.

“FRANGAS NON FLECTES.”

THE FALLING STAR.

SONG OF LIFE.

AFTER A THUNDER-STORM.

SUMMER-MUSINGS.

THE SWORD OF WASHINGTON,

TO A FRIEND IN HEAVEN.

THE UNSTRUNG LUTE.

EPITAPH ON A POET.

AN ALLEGORY FOR A LITTLE FRIEND, WHO WOULD KNOW THE MEANING OF “FAREWELL.”

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SONG OF LIFE.

SO MOTE it be!
If sorrow press our sinking souls—
If misery's tempest o'er us rolls,—
If wrecked we are on Fortune's shoals,—
So mote it be!
This merry strain the sexton trolls,
And so troll we.

So mote it be!
Is friendship false? is love betrayed?
Our being's sunshine turned to shade?
Do all our joys but bloom to fade?—
So mote it be!
The woe upon our hearts is laid:
We cannot flee.

So mote it be!
Shall death, in fearful guise, draw near,
And turn our brightest hopes to fear,
And friends shall o'er us shed no tear,—
So mote it be!
Through life our souls are wearied here—
In death are free.

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So mote it be!
If there in truth should be a heaven,
If there our sins are all forgiven,
If there our hearts no more are riven,—
So mote it be!
To port, at last, we shall be driven,
From life's rough sea.