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Channing, William Ellery (1817-1901)

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EDWARD AND MARGARET.

THE EARTH SPIRIT.

TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE.

THE NIAGARA FALL.

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THE LOVER'S SONG.

A SONG OF SPRING.

ON RECEIVING SOME DRAWINGS.

OUR BIRTH DAYS.

WRITTEN IN THE EVENING OF A NOVEMBER DAY.

INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN.

THE LOVER'S FEAR.

THE BENIGHTED TRAVELLER.

STILLWATER.

THE SIBYL TO HER LOVER.

FOR A WOOD SCENE IN WINTER.

WRITTEN AMONG THE LENOX HILLS.

AUTUMN'S APPROACH.

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I. TO AN IDEAL OBJECT.

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[II. Thou art like that which is most sweet and fair]

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[III. Men change, that heaven above not more]

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[IV. Hearts of Eternity,—hearts of the deep]

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[V. The brook is eddying in the forest dell]

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[VI. There never lived a man, who with a heart]

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VII. THE ETERNAL LANDSCAPE.

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[VIII. I mark beneath thy life the virtue shine]

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[IX. In those bright, laughing days that pierce the fall]

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[X. Earth hath her meadows green, her brooklets bright]

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[XI. I love the universe,—I love the joy]

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STILLWATER.

Thou lazy river flowing neither way
Me figurest, and yet thy banks seem gay.
I flow between the shores of this large life,
My banks are fair as thine, with joy as rife;
Thy tides will swell when the next moon comes round,
But mine far higher in their rise be found.