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The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)

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THE NEW DAY
  
PRELUDE
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PART I
  
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INTERLUDE
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PART II
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I
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II—THE TRAVELER
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III—“COME TO ME YE WHO SUFFER”
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IV—WRITTEN ON A FLY-LEAF OF “SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS”
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V—“AND WERE THAT BEST!”
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VI—“THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN”
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VII—LOVE'S CRUELTY
  
INTERLUDE
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PART III
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 1. 
I—“THE PALLID WATCHER OF THE EASTERN SKIES”
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II—“MY LOVE FOR THEE DOTH MARCH LIKE ARMÈD MEN”
 3. 
III—“WHAT WOULD I SAVE THEE FROM?”
 4. 
IV—“WHAT WOULD I WIN THEE TO?”
 5. 
V—“I WILL BE BRAVE FOR THEE”
 6. 
VI—“LOVE ME NOT, LOVE, FOR THAT I FIRST LOVED THEE”
 7. 
VII—BODY AND SOUL
 8. 
VIII—“THY LOVER, LOVE, WOULD HAVE SOME NOBLER WAY”
 9. 
IX—LOVE'S JEALOUSY
 10. 
X—LOVE'S MONOTONE
 11. 
XI—“ONCE ONLY”
 12. 
XII—DENIAL
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XIII—“ONCE WHEN WE WALKED WITHIN A SUMMER FIELD”
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XIV—SONG
 15. 
XV—LISTENING TO MUSIC
 16. 
XVI—“A SONG OF THE MAIDEN MORN”
 17. 
XVII—WORDS IN ABSENCE
 18. 
XVIII—SONG
 19. 
XIX—THISTLE-DOWN
 20. 
XX—“O SWEET WILD ROSES THAT BUD AND BLOW”
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XXI—THE RIVER
 22. 
XXII—THE LOVER'S LORD AND MASTER
 23. 
XXIII—SONG
 24. 
XXIV—“A NIGHT OF STARS AND DREAMS”
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XXV—A BIRTHDAY SONG
 26. 
XXVI—“WHAT CAN LOVE DO FOR THEE, LOVE?”
 27. 
XXVII—“THE SMILE OF HER I LOVE”
 28. 
XXVIII—FRANCESCA AND PAOLO
 29. 
XXIX—THE UNKNOWN WAY
 30. 
XXX—THE SOWER
 31. 
XXXI—“WHEN THE LAST DOUBT IS DOUBTED”
  
INTERLUDE
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PART IV
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I—SONG
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II—THE MIRROR
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III—LIKENESS IN UNLIKENESS
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IV—SONG
 5. 
V—ALL IN ONE
 6. 
VI—“I COUNT MY TIME BY TIMES THAT I MEET THEE”
 7. 
VII—SONG
 8. 
VIII—THE SEASONS
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IX—“SUMMER'S RAIN AND WINTER'S SNOW”
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X—THE VIOLIN
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XI—“O MIGHTY RIVER, TRIUMPHING TO THE SEA”
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XII—“MY SONGS ARE ALL OF THEE”
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XIII—AFTER MANY DAYS
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XIV—WEAL AND WOE
 15. 
XV—“O, LOVE IS NOT A SUMMER MOOD”
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XVI—“LOVE IS NOT BOND TO ANY MAN”
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XVII—“HE KNOWS NOT THE PATH OF DUTY”
  
AFTER-SONG
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THE CELESTIAL PASSION
  
PRELUDE
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PART I
  
ART AND LIFE
  
THE POET AND HIS MASTER
  
MORS TRIUMPHALIS
  
THE MASTER-POETS
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PART II
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PART III
  
RECOGNITION
  
HYMN
  
A THOUGHT
  
THE VOICE OF THE PINE
  
MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT
  
“DAY UNTO DAY UTTERETH SPEECH”
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PART IV
  
THE SOUL
  
“WHEN LOVE DAWNED”
  
LOVE AND DEATH
  
FATHER AND CHILD
  
“BEYOND THE BRANCHES OF THE PINE”
  
AN AUTUMN MEDITATION
  
“CALL ME NOT DEAD”
  
“EACH MOMENT HOLY IS”
  
“WHEN TO SLEEP I MUST”
  
TO A DEPARTED FRIEND
  
“THE EVENING STAR”
  
LIFE
  
THE FREED SPIRIT
  
UNDYING LIGHT
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LYRICS
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PART I
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ODE
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I
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II
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III
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IV
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V
  
A SONG OF EARLY SUMMER
  
A MIDSUMMER SONG
  
“ON THE WILD ROSE TREE”
  
“BEYOND ALL BEAUTY IS THE UNKNOWN GRACE”
  
THE VIOLET
  
THE YOUNG POET
  
A SONG OF EARLY AUTUMN
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THE BUILDING OF THE CHIMNEY
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I
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II
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III
 4. 
IV
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V
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VI
 7. 
VII
  
“A WORD SAID IN THE DARK”
  
A RIDDLE OF LOVERS
  
THE DARK ROOM
  
BEFORE SUNRISE
  
“THE WOODS THAT BRING THE SUNSET NEAR”
  
SUNSET FROM THE TRAIN
  
“AFTER SORROW'S NIGHT”
  
A NOVEMBER CHILD
  
AT NIGHT
  
CRADLE SONG
  
“NINE YEARS”
  
“BACK FROM THE DARKNESS TO THE LIGHT AGAIN”
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PART II
  
FATE
  
“WE MET UPON THE CROWDED WAY”
  
THE WHITE AND THE RED ROSE
  
A WOMAN'S THOUGHT
  
THE RIVER INN
  
THE HOMESTEAD
  
AT FOUR SCORE
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JOHN CARMAN
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I
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II
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III
  
DRINKING SONG
  
THE VOYAGER
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A LAMENT
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I
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II
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III
  
ILL TIDINGS
  
A NEW WORLD
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PART III
  
CONGRESS: 1878
  
THE CITY
  
REFORM
  
AT GARFIELD'S GRAVE
  
MEMORIAL DAY
  
THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH
  
THE BURIAL OF GRANT
  
THE DEAD COMRADE
  
ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  
THE PRESIDENT
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PART IV
  
ESSIPOFF
  
ADELE AUS DER OHE
  
MODJESKA
  
THE DRAMA
  
FOR AN ALBUM
  
PORTO FINO
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IMPROMPTUS
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I—TO F. F. C. ON THE PANSY, HER CLASS FLOWER
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II—ART
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III—TO A SOUTHERN GIRL
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IV—FOR A FAN
 5. 
V—TO T. B. A.
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VI—A THEME
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VII—THE CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE NURSERY
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PART V
  
MUSIC AND WORDS
  
THE POET'S FAME
  
THE POET'S PROTEST
  
TO A YOUNG POET
  
“WHEN THE TRUE POET COMES”
  
YOUTH AND AGE
  
THE SONNET
  
A SONNET OF DANTE
  
THE NEW TROUBADOURS
  
KEATS
  
AN INSCRIPTION IN ROME
  
DESECRATION
  
“JOCOSERIA”
  
TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND
  
OUR ELDER POETS
  
LONGFELLOW'S “BOOK OF SONNETS”
  
“H. H.”
  
THE MODERN RHYMER
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TWO WORLDS AND OTHER POEMS
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PART I
  
TWO WORLDS
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PART II
  
THE STAR IN THE CITY
  
MOONLIGHT
  
“I CARE NOT IF THE SKIES ARE WHITE”
  
CONTRASTS
  
SERENADE
  
LARGESS
  
INDOORS, AT NIGHT
  
THE ABSENT LOVER
  
“TO-NIGHT THE MUSIC DOTH A BURDEN BEAR”
  
SANCTUM SANCTORUM
  
THE GIFT
  
“AH, TIME, GO NOT SO SOON”
  
“THE YEARS ARE ANGELS”
  
“IN HER YOUNG EYES”
  
“YESTERDAY, WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS”
  
A NIGHT SONG
  
LEO
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PART III
  
BROTHERS
  
LOVE, ART, AND TIME
  
THE DANCERS
  
THE TWENTY-THIRD OF APRIL
  
EMMA LAZARUS
  
THE TWELFTH OF DECEMBER
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PART IV
  
SHERIDAN
  
SHERMAN
  
PRO PATRIA
  
TO THE SPIRIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  
FAILURE AND SUCCESS
  
J. R. L.
  
NAPOLEON
  
THE WHITE CZAR'S PEOPLE
  
CHARLESTON
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PART V
  
HIDE NOT THY HEART
  
“THE POET FROM HIS OWN SORROW”
  
“WHITE, PILLARED NECK”
  
“GREAT NATURE IS AN ARMY GAY”
  
“LIFE IS THE COST”
  
THE PRISONER'S THOUGHT
  
THE CONDEMNED
  
“SOW THOU SORROW”
  
TEMPTATION
  
A MIDSUMMER MEDITATION
  
AS DOTH THE BIRD”
  
VISIONS
  
WITH A CROSS OF IMMORTELLES
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THE PASSING OF CHRIST
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I
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II
  
CREDO
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NON SINE DOLORE
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I
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II
 3. 
III
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PART VI
  
ODE
  
AFTER-SONG
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THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE AND OTHER POEMS
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PART I
  
THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE
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PART II
  
“THE WHITE CITY”
  
THE VANISHING CITY
  
THE TOWER OF FLAME
  
LOWELL
  
THE SILENCE OF TENNYSON
  
ON THE DEATH OF A GREAT MAN
  
A HERO OF PEACE
  
WASHINGTON AT TRENTON
  
FAME
  
A MONUMENT BY SAINT-GAUDENS
  
A MEMORY OF RUBINSTEIN
  
PADEREWSKI
  
HANDEL'S LARGO
  
THE STAIRWAY
  
THE ACTOR
  
THE STRICKEN PLAYER
  
AN AUTUMN DIRGE
  
ELEONORA DUSE
  
KELP ROCK
  
AT NIAGARA
  
THE CHILD-GARDEN
  
THE CHRIST-CHILD
  
A CHILD
  
TWO VALLEYS
  
ON THE BAY
  
WASHINGTON SQUARE
  
THE CITY
  
A RHYME OF TYRINGHAM
  
ELSIE
  
INDIRECTION
  
“AH, BE NOT FALSE”
  
THE ANSWER
  
HOW DEATH MAY MAKE A MAN
  
“CAME TO A MASTER OF SONG”
  
BARDS
  
MERIDIAN
  
EVENING IN TYRINGHAM VALLEY
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A WEEK'S CALENDAR
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I—NEW YEAR
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II—A NEW SOUL
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III—“KEEP PURE THY SOUL”
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IV—“THY MIND IS LIKE A CRYSTAL BROOK”
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V—“ONE DEED MAY MAR A LIFE”
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VI—THE UNKNOWN
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VII—IRREVOCABLE
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PART IV
  
“BECAUSE THE ROSE MUST FADE”
  
“FADES THE ROSE”
  
THE WINTRY HEART
  
HAST THOU HEARD THE NIGHTINGALE?
  
“IN THAT DREAD, DREAMED-OF HOUR”
  
“ROSE-DARK THE SOLEMN SUNSET”
  
“WINDS TO THE SILENT MORN”
  
THE UNRETURNING
  
TWO YEARS
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IN PALESTINE AND OTHER POEMS
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PART I
  
IN PALESTINE
  
THE ANGER OF CHRIST
  
THE BIRDS OF BETHLEHEM
  
NOËL
  
“THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS”
  
THE DOUBTER
  
THE PARTHENON BY MOONLIGHT
  
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
  
KARNAK
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“ANGELO, THOU ART THE MASTER”
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I
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II
  
A WINTER TWILIGHT IN PROVENCE
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PART II
  
“THE POET'S DAY”
  
“HOW TO THE SINGER COMES THE SONG?”
  
“LIKE THE BRIGHT PICTURE”
  
REMEMBRANCE OF BEAUTY
  
MUSIC IN SOLITUDE
  
“A POWER THERE IS”
  
THE SONG'S ANSWER
  
THE 'CELLO
  
THE VALLEY ROAD
  
HAWTHORNE IN BERKSHIRE
  
LATE SUMMER
  
AN HOUR IN A STUDIO
  
ILLUSION
  
A SONG OF THE ROAD
  
“NOT HERE”
  
“‘NO, NO,’ SHE SAID”
  
A SOUL LOST, AND FOUND
  
“THIS HOUR MY HEART WENT FORTH, AS IN OLD DAYS”
  
“EVEN WHEN JOY IS NEAR”
  
RESURRECTION
  
“AS SOARS THE EAGLE”
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PART III
  
ROBERT GOULD SHAW
  
“THE NORTH STAR DRAWS THE HERO”
  
GLAVE
  
OF HENRY GEORGE
  
SCORN
  
THE HEROIC AGE
  
THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT
  
“THROUGH ALL THE CUNNING AGES”
  
ONE COUNTRY—ONE SACRIFICE
  
“WHEN WITH THEIR COUNTRY'S ANGER”
  
A VISION
  
THE WORD OF THE WHITE CZAR
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PART IV
  
A SONG FOR DOROTHEA, ACROSS THE SEA
  
A BLIND POET
  
ON A WOMAN SEEN UPON THE STAGE
  
OF ONE WHO NEITHER SEES NOR HEARS
  
FOR THE ESPOUSALS OF JEANNE ROUMANILLE, OF AVIGNON
  
TO MARIE JOSEPHINE GIRARD, QUEEN OF THE FÉLIBRES
  
INSCRIPTION FOR A TOWER IN FLORENCE
  
WITH A VOLUME OF DANTE
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POEMS
  
AUTUMN AT FOUR-BROOKS FARM
  
INDOORS IN EARLY SPRING
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THE NIGHT PASTURE
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I
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II
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III
 4. 
IV
  
A LETTER FROM THE FARM
  
SUMMER BEGINS
  
“STROLLING TOWARD SHOTTERY”
  
STRATFORD BELLS
  
IN WORDSWORTH'S ORCHARD
  
SIR WALTER SCOTT
  
A DAY IN TUSCANY
  
A SACRED COMEDY IN FLORENCE
  
MICHAEL ANGELO'S AURORA
  
THE OLD MASTER
  
AT LUTHER'S GRAVE
  
BEETHOVEN
  
THE DESERT
  
EGYPT
  
SYRIA
  
THE DEAD POET
  
WAR
  
THE BLAMELESS KNIGHT
  
THE DEMAGOGUE
  
THE TOOL
  
THE NEW POLITICIAN
  
A LADY TO A KNIGHT
  
“IS HOPE A PHANTOM?”
  
SONG
  
MEMORY
  
“O, GLORIOUS SABBATH SUN”
  
MOTTO FOR A TREE-PLANTING
  
JANET
  
ON BEING ASKED FOR A SONG
  
TO AUSTIN DOBSON
  
TO L. R. S.
  
A NAME
  
JOHN GEORGE NICOLAY
  
THE COMFORT OF THE TREES
  
THE CITY OF LIGHT
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“IN THE HIGHTS”
  
“IN THE HIGHTS”
  
HOME ACRES
  
A CALL TO THE MOUNTAINS
  
SPRING SURPRISE
  
AUTUMN TREES
  
“THE LIGHT LIES ON THE FARTHER HILLS”
  
“AH, NEAR, DEAR FRIEND”
  
MUSIC IN DARKNESS
  
THE ANGER OF BEETHOVEN
  
MOTHER AND CHILD
  
ALICE FREEMAN PALMER
  
“MOTHER OF HEROES”
  
THE GREAT CITIZEN
  
ON READING OF A POET'S DEATH
  
JOHN HENRY BONER
  
“A WONDROUS SONG”
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A NEW POET
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I
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II
 3. 
III
  
THE SINGER OF JOY
  
BREAD UPON THE WATERS
  
LOST
  
“WHAT MAN HATH DONE”
  
“HE PONDERED WELL”
  
“THOU THINKEST THOU HAST LIVED”
  
THE GOOD MAN
  
“SO FIERCE THE BUFFETS”
  
TWO HEROES
  
THE WORLD'S END
  
SHELLEY'S “OZYMANDIAS”
  
LA SALLE
  
INAUGURATION DAY
  
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT
  
BUILDERS OF THE STATE
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IMPROMPTUS
  
TO WILLIAM WATSON
  
“LIFE IS THE HAMMER”
  
“THE CRITIC SCANNED THE POET'S BOOK”
  
“HER DELICATE FORM”
  
FRANCESCA MIA
  
AGE, AND THE SCORNER
  
TO JACOB A. RIIS
  
MUSIC AND FRIENDSHIP
  
FRIENDSHIP
  
TO E. C. S.
  
“TELL ME GOOD-BY”
  
FAREWELL TO CHARLESTON
  
“THE PINES”
  
“NOT WREATHS ALONE”
  
FOR THE CITY CLUB
  
TO C. H. RUSSELL
  
“GIVE THY DAY TO DUTY”
  
TWO OPTIMISTS
  
THE PASSING OF JOSEPH JEFFERSON
  
“SHALL WE NOT PRAISE THE LIVING?”
  
HYMN
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JOHN WESLEY
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I
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II
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III
  
A TEMPLE OF ART
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THE FIRE DIVINE
  
THE FIRE DIVINE
  
THE INVISIBLE
  
DESTINY
  
THE OLD FAITH
  
THE DOUBTER'S SOLILOQUY
  
LAW
  
IDENTITY
  
“SPARE ME MY DREAMS”
  
HYMN
  
THE VALLEY OF LIFE
  
TO ONE IMPATIENT OF FORM IN ART
  
TO THE POET
  
COMPENSATION
  
THE POET'S SECRET
  
“THE DAY BEGAN AS OTHER DAYS BEGIN”
  
A POET'S QUESTION
  
PRELUDE FOR “A BOOK OF MUSIC”
  
MUSIC AT TWILIGHT
  
MUSIC IN MOONLIGHT
  
THE UNKNOWN SINGER
  
THE VOICE
  
WAGNER
  
“THE PATHETIC SYMPHONY”
  
MACDOWELL
  
A FANTASY OF CHOPIN
  
“HOW STRANGE THE MUSICIAN'S MEMORY”
  
“IN A NIGHT OF MIDSUMMER”
  
IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
  
JOHN PAUL JONES
  
TO EMMA LAZARUS
  
CARL SCHURZ
  
GEORGE MACDONALD
  
JOSEPHINE SHAW LOWELL
  
“ONE ROSE OF SONG”
  
JOHN MALONE
  
“LOST LEADERS”
  
ON A CERTAIN “AGNOSTIC”
  
“A WEARY WASTE WITHOUT HER”
  
THE POET'S SLEEP
  
WHERE SPRING BEGAN
  
AVARICE
  
PITY THE BLIND
  
PROOF OF SERVICE
  
CONQUERED
  
BLAME
  
THE WHISPERERS
  
BEFORE THE GRAND JURY
  
“IN THE CITIES”
  
A TRAGEDY OF TO-DAY
  
THE OLD HOUSE
  
“THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE THE OLD PLACE!”
  
GLEN GILDER
  
SONG
  
OBSCURATION
  
“I DREAMED”
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IMPROMPTUS
  
“FROM LOVE TO LOVE”
  
“I ASKED YOU TO READ MY POEM”
  
NAZIMOVA
  
A WARRIOR OF TROY
  
THE OBELISK (1881)
  
CROWNED ABSURDITIES
  
TO “LITTLE LADY MARGARET”—WITH A BOOK OF POEMS
  
SACRILEGE
  
TO THE HERO OF A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE
  
THE WATCHMAN ON THE TOWER
  
UNDER THE STARS
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IN HELENA'S GARDEN
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PART I
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IN HELENA'S GARDEN
  
THE SUNSET WINDOW
  
“THE GRAY WALLS OF THE GARDEN”
  
THE MARBLE POOL
  
THE TABLE ROUND
  
THE SUN-DIAL
  
“SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE GARDEN”
  
THREE FLOWERS OF THE GARDEN
  
EARLY AUTUMN
  
THE LAST FLOWER OF THE GARDEN
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PART II
  
THE LION OF TYRINGHAM
  
THE VOICE OF THE HIGHT
  
A SONG OF FRIENDSHIP
  
A ROSE OF DREAM
  
SONG
  
“WHEN THE GIRLS COME TO THE OLD HOUSE”
  
THE SONG OF A SONG
  
THE NET
  
SONG
  
SONG
  
“WHEN THE WAR FLEET PUTS TO SEA”
  
ART
  
IN PRAISE OF PORTRAITURE
  
IN TIMES OF PEACE
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IMPROMPTUS
  
EDWARD EVERETT HALE
  
BARDS OF BRITAIN (1908)
  
CALVÉ
  
IN A CONCERT ROOM
  
THE LONESOME WILD
  
NEW FRIENDS AND OLD
  
SHADOW AND SUN
  
A NAVAL SURGEON OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION
  
A MOTHER'S PICTURE
  
ON A YOUNG HERO
  
A HERO'S BRIDE
  
TO ONE WHO PRAISED “THE GAY LIFE”
  
LYRIC LIVES
  
SONG
  
THE SINGING RIVER
  
THE SOLACE OF THE SKIES
  
THE WINDING PATH
  
“WHAT MAKES THE GARDEN GROW”
  
“IF, ONE GREAT DAY”
  
MUSIC BENEATH THE STARS
  
THE BIRDS OF WESTLAND
  
THE VEIL OF STARS

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THE BIRDS OF BETHLEHEM

I heard the bells of Bethlehem ring—
Their voice was sweeter than the priests';
I heard the birds of Bethlehem sing
Unbidden in the churchly feasts.
They clung and sung on the swinging chain
High in the dim and incensed air;
The priests, with repetitions vain,
Chanted a never-ending prayer.
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So bell and bird and priest I heard,
But voice of bird was most to me;
It had no ritual, no word,
And yet it sounded true and free.
I thought Child Jesus, were he there,
Would like the singing birds the best,
And clutch his little hands in air
And smile upon his mother's breast.
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