The poems of Trumbull Stickney

Stickney, Trumbull (1874-1904)

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I DRAMATIC VERSES

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

III LATER LYRICS

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

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

[III With long black wings an angel standing by]

[IV You are to me the full vermilion rose]

[V The trees and shrubbery glimmer]

[VI A glad little rift, so shy]

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

[VIII Dear and rich as a dawn of summer]

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

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XV CHESTNUTS IN NOVEMBER

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XVI FIDELITY

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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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XIX LONELINESS

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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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XXV SEPARATION

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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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XXXII IN A CITY GARDEN

IV A DRAMATIC SCENE

V JUVENILIA

VI FRAGMENTS

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Dull words that swim upon the page
Thro' filmy tears of joy and pain!
Poor silly words, my only gage!
Mere words, recurrent as refrain!

Ye prove me language less than nought
And all the loss of utterance.
Ye give me scraps of withered thought
And sounds that meet as by a chance.

If I should find ye once again,
If you should come again to me,
Dull words about my joy and pain,
Mere words, what would ye signify?

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