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Poems
Calvert, George Henry (1803-1889)
POEMS.
HOPE PROPHESIES TO MAN.
ASPIRATION.
THE MARTYR'S MOTHER.
THE LOVED DEPARTED.
DIDACTIC.
WHY ARE POETS SAD?
BURNS.
IMPROMPTU,
O, DREAM NO MORE!
TO LITTLE MARY GRIFFIN,
INVOCATION.
FREILIGRATH.
THE LOST FOUND.
GIVE! GIVE!
AGNES.
I WILL BE FREE.
THE SUFFERINGS OF JESUS.
THE BERNESE ALPS AT SUNSET.
A GORGEOUS SUNSET.
ECHO FROM ITALY IN 1830.
REUBEN JAMES.
SCENE BEFORE TRIPOLI.
EPIGRAMS.
THE POETASTER.
“GREAT STATESMEN.”
ISMS.
SONNETS.
ON THE FIFTY-FIFTH SONNET OF SHAKSPEARE.
TO THE STATUE OF EVE, BY POWERS.
TO THE SAME.
TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND,
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THE POETASTER.
What
is he like, a prosy versifier?
Like a clipt goose he is, immersed in mire.
He could not fly, unclogged by any balk;
Behampered thus, he cannot even walk.
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