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Poems

By Alfred Domett
Domett, Alfred (1811-1887)
  
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THE PEDESTRIAN.
  
A REVERIE.
  
WINTER.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
THE STEAM-BOAT.
  
[As the April sun breaking]
  
SUNSET.
  
A STARRY NIGHT.
  
DEATH.
  
DESPAIR.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
PLAIN TRUTHS.
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CHORUS IN THE ‘SEVEN AGAINST THEBES’ OF ÆSCHYLUS.
  
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Strophe 1.
  
Antistrophe 1.
  
Strophe 2.
  
Antistrophe 2.
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OPENING SCENES OF THE “CLOUDS” OF ARISTOPHANES.
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Scene first.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
  
THE FIRST ODE OF HORACE,
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FRAGMENTS.
  
DEATH.
  
A WISH.
  
IN AN ALBUM.
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COMMONPLACES.
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FRAGMENT OF A CHORUS IN THE AJAX OF SOPHOCLES.
  
TEARS.
  
ODE TO THE MATHEMATICS.
  
[Oft when I read the lays]
  
STANZAS.
  
FRAGMENT.
  
TO A LADY.
  
TO ------.
  
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
  
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
  
LINES.
  
ON THE BIRTH OF A NEAR RELATION.
  
GREEK SONG.
  
[Whence is it mountains, forests, fields, and floods]
  
“GOOD BYE.”
  
['Twas in the twilight once—and Sorrow's shadow lay]
  
“LONG AGO,”
  
ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE IN AN ALBUM.
  
ANOTHER.
  
TO AGNES.
  
STANZAS.
  
FLOWERS.
  
A SIMILE.
  
THE BROKEN TRYST.
  
A SEA SIDE CALM.
  
THE CARD CASE'S PETITION.
  
THE “LAND O' THE LEAL.”
  
“GOOD-BYE!”
  
TO IONE.
  
TO AGNES.
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THE LONE STAR OF LOVE.
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LOVE AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
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ADRIAN'S DYING ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL.
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WELLINGTON.
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ADRIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL WHEN DYING.
  
SISERA.
  
THE VOICE OF THE PESTILENCE.
  
NIGHT.
  
HORACE TO LAMIAS.
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To “------,”
  
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF FRISK.
  
HORACE TO HIS PAGE.
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THE STARS.
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MIDNIGHT.
  
[This brave bright Earth with Mind o'erflows—]
  
A SUMMER THOUGHT.
  
TO BIANCA.
  
SONG.
  
THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
LOVE THE POET.
  
REMORSE.
  
SONG.
  
[My own—my absent one! thou who art still]
  
PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS
  
L'Envoy.

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A WISH.

TO A YOUNG FRIEND.

The Lark who sings in the morning air
Is happy as happy may be;
On wings of joy he rises there—
May'st thou be as happy as he!
The Bee in the stilly summer noon,
O'er the bright fields wanders free,
And begs of each flower a honied boon—
May'st thou be as happy as he!
And when all the sky is dimly chill,
And there's nothing but snow to see,
At the window the Robin sings happily still—
May'st thou be as happy as he!
And when the fire is blazing bright,
As at Christmas is wont to be,
The Cricket full blithely chirps at night—
May'st thou be as happy as he!
And so may to thee summer, winter, and spring,
Measured many and many times o'er,
In this bright world as much of pure happiness bring,
Till a brighter shall lure thee to more!
December, 1829.
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