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Avolio ; a legend of the island of Cos

With poems, lyrical, miscellaneous, and dramatic
Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886)

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DEDICATORY SONNET
  
AVOLIO—A LEGEND OF THE ISLAND OF COS.
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SONNETS.
  
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF A SPELL OF ARCTIC WEATHER IN MAY, 1858.
 1. 
[I. An idle Poet dreaming in the sun]
 2. 
[II. Yet Stock depreciates, even Banks decay]
  
[Are these the mountains, this the forest gay]
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POLITICAL SONNETS.
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SONNET
  
[I. Hath the proud Spirit which o'erruled this land]
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[II. Strike! 'tis a righteous quarrel! strike as they]
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SONNET
 1. 
[I. The conflict swells apace! the rallying cries]
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[II. Our ancient Honor, our ancestral Pride]
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[III. Ay! deaf, blind! lulled with opiates of self-praise]
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SONNET
 1. 
I. Ye cannot add by any pile YE raise
 2. 
[II. Still must the common Voice denounce the deed]
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS
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[O! pour thine inmost soul upon the Air]
  
WRITTEN AFTER READING TRELAWNEY'S DESCRIPTION OF THE BURNING OF SHELLEY'S BODY.
  
[Thou who art moving ever in the round]
  
[O lady! radiant lady! thy sweet eyes]
  
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.
  
THE REVELATION OF DEATH.
  
PRE-EXISTENCE.
  
ELEGIAC.
  
IMMATURITY.
  
[He stands as one to whom all life is vain]
  
THE GARDEN IN THE CITY.
  
[O! weary bondage of the clouding clay]
  
TO A CELEBRATED ACTRESS.
  
WRITTEN ON A FLY-LEAF OF THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF SIR HUDSON LOWE, EDITED BY WILLIAM FORSYTH, M. A.
  
AFTER THE STORM.
  
[Well spake the Poet, that howe'er the cry]
  
DEDICATED TO M. H. H.
  
THE ACTOR TO THE THINKER.
  
[All day the distant mountain tops have worn]
  
[The West is one great sea of cloudy fire]
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
  
QUEEN GALENA;
  
LINES
  
THE BATTLE IN THE DISTANCE.
  
TO A FRIEND IN AFFLICTION.
  
LIFE'S UNDER-CURRENT.
  
SONG.
  
PALINGENESIS.
  
LINES.
  
THE TEMPTER IN THE HOUSE.
  
THE UNPRISONED SPIRITS.
  
SUNSET AND MOONLIGHT.
  
FLOWERS FROM A GRAVE.
  
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
  
PERFECT CALM.
  
FRAGMENT OF AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF A GREAT STATESMAN.
  
JANUARY TO MAY.
  
A REMEMBRANCE.
  
LUCETTE.
  
THE PICTURE OF A BEAUTIFUL DEATH
  
THE PESTILENCE.
  
RETROSPECTION AND ASPIRATION.
  
[Vainly a hostile world may strive to tame]
  
[Moments there are when most familiar things]
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FUGITIVE VERESES.
  
[Through dismal nights, and long laborious days]
  
A LIFE-HISTORY,—BRIEFLY TOLD.
  
TO G. C. H.

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AFTER THE STORM.

A long, wild swell! a waste of turbulent sea,
Thrilled with the storm's last thunders; overhead,
A spectral sky down-glimmering, white and dead,
On the gray billows staring sullenly
Up to the colorless heavens;—the winds so free
But yester-eve, so furious, harsh, and dread,
Have hushed their warring turmoils, and are fled
To ocean-gulfs;—the zephyr's gentle glee
Waits for the lingering sunrise;—while we look,
The clouds, like leaves of some dark-volumed book,
Holding a glorious mystery, roll apart,
A sudden splendor smites the leaden skies,
The waste is all ablaze, the waters start
To rapture 'neath the morning's passionate eyes!
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