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Poems

By Alfred Domett

Domett, Alfred (1811-1887)

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THE PEDESTRIAN.

THE STEAM-BOAT.

[As the April sun breaking]

A STARRY NIGHT.

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CHORUS IN THE ‘SEVEN AGAINST THEBES’ OF ÆSCHYLUS.

Strophe 1.

OPENING SCENES OF THE “CLOUDS” OF ARISTOPHANES.

THE FIRST ODE OF HORACE,

FRAGMENT OF A CHORUS IN THE AJAX OF SOPHOCLES.

ODE TO THE MATHEMATICS.

[Oft when I read the lays]

WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.

WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.

ON THE BIRTH OF A NEAR RELATION.

[Whence is it mountains, forests, fields, and floods]

“GOOD BYE.”

['Twas in the twilight once—and Sorrow's shadow lay]

“LONG AGO,”

ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE IN AN ALBUM.

THE BROKEN TRYST.

A SEA SIDE CALM.

THE CARD CASE'S PETITION.

THE “LAND O' THE LEAL.”

“GOOD-BYE!”

THE LONE STAR OF LOVE.

LOVE AND CIRCUMSTANCE.

ADRIAN'S DYING ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL.

ADRIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL WHEN DYING.

THE VOICE OF THE PESTILENCE.

HORACE TO LAMIAS.

HORACE TO HIS PAGE.

[This brave bright Earth with Mind o'erflows—]

A SUMMER THOUGHT.

THE NIGHTINGALE.

[My own—my absent one! thou who art still]

PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS

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Strophe 1.

Hark! rolling through the streets afar,
Comes the clattering of the car!
Oh Juno, Juno hear!
Heavily creaking o'er the stones,
How the loaded axle groans!
Be thou, Diana, near!
The air is maddened with the sound
Of showers of spears that ring around!
What will be our city's fate!
What doom doth its defenders wait!
What dread result will soon be given
By the ruling powers of Heaven!