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Poems
Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln (1803-1844)
[section]
[dedication]
SONNET.
“OH THAT THE DESERT WERE MY DWELLING PLACE.”
CANZONET.
CANTICLE.
RELIGION.
IDEAL BEAUTY.
THELYPHTHORA.
TO MYRRHA.
THE GRECIAN CROSS.
THRENODY.
HYMN.
FAREWELL.
EUTHANASIA.
ODE TO EVENING.
NEPENTHE.
Hebrew Melodies.
[The moon unfurls her blushing sail]
THE RURAL RUELLE.
SONNET.
REMINISCENCE.
SCALDIC SONG.
[When tortured life, and visionary schemes]
THE ANGEL OF PEACE.
BELLONA.
[I stood amid the perfumed foliage]
[I saw a yacht, in gay career]
[Come to the bower, that love has wove]
[There is a fountain welling, yet unknown]
ELEGY
THE REQUIEM.
THE WANDERER.
[There's a crystalline cove hid in the deep-bosomed hills]
THE ORPHAN.
THE SAILOR'S DREAM.
THE FELO-DE-SE.
A NONDESCRIPT.
LESANG;
A SEASIDE REVERIE.
THE MANIAC.
[There's a dome in yon star, that is floating on high]
[The night-hawks fly]
COLUMBIA; A SAPPHIC ODE.
MY NATAL SCENES;
FANCY'S ROMAUNT.
THE DESPERATE MAID.
THE OUTLAW'S BRIDE.
ADIEU.
INOSCULATION.
MONOLOGUE.
[I love to linger on the hours]
WINTER.
[Here on this velvet-mantled lawn]
A CANTLET.
ENNUI.
LATRIA.
MATERNAL LOVE.
ODE TO DEITY.
MNEMOSYNE.
ANTHEM.
THE DAWN.
PALESTINE.
SONNET.
[O, that in listening to my youthful strain]
A FRAGMENT.
STANZAS.
[When, like austral breezes light soft breathing o'er the fields of roses]
[My bosom has become a sepulchre]
THE REBELLION.
THE SABBATH.
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TO
William Cullen Bryant, Esq.
AS A FEEBLE TESTIMONY TO HIS TALENTS, AND IN ADMIRATION OF HIS GENIUS, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED.
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