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Poems and dramas of George Cabot Lodge

Lodge, George Cabot (1873-1909)

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VOLUME I
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THE SONG OF THE WAVE AND OTHER POEMS
  
[dedication]
  
EXORDIUM
  
A FIRST WORD
  
THE OCEAN SINGS
  
THE SONG OF THE WAVE
  
THE EAST WIND
  
THE NORSEMEN
  
“WAS HAT MAN DIR, DU ARMES KIND, GETHAN?”
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THE SONG OF THE SWORD
  
BALLAD
  
DAWN
  
SUNSET
  
THE GATES OF LIFE
  
MOTHERS OF MEN
  
LOVE IN AGE
  
A MEMORY
  
AGE
  
EVENING
  
TO A WOMAN
  
THE END
  
NEANT
  
YOUTH
  
SERENADE
  
SONG
  
SONG
  
[Silent, alone! Around the wrinkled earth]
  
THEY
  
TO A BUST OF THE MATER DOLOROSA
  
TO PSYCHE
  
THE WILL
  
TUCKANUCK
  
PASTORAL
  
FALL
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SONNETS
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I TO SILENCE
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II TO THE EARTH
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III ESSEX
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IV ESSEX
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[V Toward thine Eastern window when the morn]
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VI FOG AT SEA
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VII NIRVANA
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VIII NIRVANA
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IX PASSING DAYS
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X ON AN ÆOLIAN HARP
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XI THE SPHINX
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[XII Whiles were, I almost seemed to understand]
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XIII TO THE MEMORY OF W. H. P.
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XIV INSOMNIA
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[XV I stood upon the old Earth's breast and gazed]
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[XVI Our lips are laughing while our eyes are wet]
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XVII THE GATE OF DREAMS
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XVIII TO GIACOMO LEOPARDI
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XIX TO J. T. S.
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XX TO THE CHILDREN OF THE MUSE
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XXI L'ENFANT DU SIÈCLE
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XXII AUX MODERNES
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XXIII AUX MODERNES
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[XXIV Of this that I have written none is mine]
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XXV TO A STATUE
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XXVI A DREAM
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XXVII “ELI! ELI! LAMA SABACTHANI!”
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XXVIII DANTE
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XXIX LOVE
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XXX LOVE
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[XXXI I dreamed of Thee, O Wonder, with the sheen]
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[XXXII She came once only in a dream of death]
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[XXXIII The low moon quivers on the hyacinth sky,]
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[XXXIV Tell me again, and then lift up to me]
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[XXXV Give me thy pitiful, soft-moulded hand]
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[XXXVI If I have touched thy heart, as Solomon]
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XXXVII TOO SOON
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XXXVIII TOO LATE
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XXXIX THE NIGHT-WIND
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[XL And they shall say to thee, “He died distraught]
  
A LAST WORD
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POEMS (1899–1902)
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CAIN
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VOLUME II

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[Silent, alone! Around the wrinkled earth]

“Or poserai per sempre,
Stanco mio cor.”
—Leopardi.

Silent, alone! Around the wrinkled earth
My lips can feel the final heart-throb creep,
While autumn fills the world with solemn mirth
That freights the vine and gilds the ripened sheaves
That summer promised; and upon my sleep
The guardian oak shall drop its pride of leaves.
Silent, alone! Beneath the sleepless stars
This cloven peak shall stand against the moon
In windy solitude, the whispered wars
Of waters writhed in silver at my feet
Shall hush the verges of the world and croon
A sure compassion for my sure defeat.
Silent, alone! The river seeks the sea,
The dew-drop on the rose desires its sun!
Oh, prisoned Soul, shalt thou alone be free?
Shalt thou escape the curse of death and birth
And merge thy sorrows in oblivion?
Thou, thou alone of all the living earth?
Silent, alone! I know when next the dawn
Shall cast its vision through the desert sea
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And find me not, the sword that I have drawn
Shall flash between the twilights, and a word
Shall praise what I was not but strove to be,
Saying: “Behold the mercy of the Lord.”
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