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Dramatic chapters, poems and songs

By Charles Swain
Swain, Charles (1801-1874)
  
[dedication]
  
[epigraph]

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DRAMATIC CHAPTERS.
 I. 
Chapter I.
 II. 
Chapter II.
 III. 
Chapter III.
 IV. 
Chapter IV.
 V. 
Chapter V.
 VI. 
Chapter VI.
 VII. 
Chapter VII.
 VIII. 
Chapter VIII.
 IX. 
Chapter IX.
 X. 
Chapter X.
 XI. 
Chapter XI.
 XII. 
Chapter XII.
 XIII. 
Chapter XIII.
 XIV. 
Chapter XIV.
 XV. 
Chapter XV.
 XVI. 
Chapter XVI.
 XVII. 
Chapter XVII.
 XVIII. 
Chapter XVIII.
 XIX. 
Chapter XIX.
 XX. 
Chapter XX.
 XXI. 
Chapter XXI.
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POEMS AND SONGS.
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]
  
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THE ANGEL-WATCH, OR THE SISTERS.
  
THE POETICAL AND THE PRACTICAL.
  
THE BRITISH FLAG.
  
WRECK OF THE STEAM-SHIP THE “PRESIDENT.”
  
SO DARKLY, BRIGHTLY, BEAMING.
  
IF THOU SPEAK'ST.
  
LIFE.
  
GOVERN YOUR TEMPER.
  
SOON FORGOT.
  
TWILIGHT.
  
WHEN FIRST.
  
KING BACCHUS.
  
HOPE FOR THE BEST.
  
BELIEVE ME.
  
THERE ARE MOMENTS IN LIFE.
  
LET US TRY.
  
I TOLD YOU.
  
THE WIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
  
VOICE OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
BALLAD.
  
LONELY AGE.
  
IF THY FORM.
  
LOVING AND FORGIVING.
  
EXPRESSION AND BEAUTY.
  
WHY LEAPS MY HEART?
  
YES, TELL ME 'TIS HOPELESS.
  
THERE'S A DUTY.
  
SORROW.
  
I SOUGHT MY LOVE.
  
CONRADIN.
  
COME, HALLOW THE GOBLET.
  
OH, BLEST THE HOME.
  
THEY HAVE MET.
  
IF YOU KNEW.
  
HAWKING IN THE OLDEN TIME.
  
SELFISHNESS.
  
THE COVENANTER'S SON.
  
SONG.
  
THE FLOWER AND THE RUIN.
  
LET THERE BE LIGHT.

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Les plus simples objets; le chant d'une fauvette,
Le matin d'un beau jour, le verdure des bois,
Le fraîcheur d'une violette;
Mille spectacles, qu'autrefois
On voyoit avec nonchalance,
Transportent aujourd'hui, présentent des appas
Inconnus à l'indifference
Et que la foule ne voit pas.
Gresset.

The common earth, the air, the skies,
To him are opening Paradise.
Gray.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
Wordsworth.

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