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The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder
Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)
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THE NEW DAY
THE CELESTIAL PASSION
LYRICS
TWO WORLDS AND OTHER POEMS
THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE AND OTHER POEMS
IN PALESTINE AND OTHER POEMS
POEMS
“IN THE HIGHTS”
“IN THE HIGHTS”
HOME ACRES
A CALL TO THE MOUNTAINS
SPRING SURPRISE
AUTUMN TREES
“THE LIGHT LIES ON THE FARTHER HILLS”
“AH, NEAR, DEAR FRIEND”
MUSIC IN DARKNESS
THE ANGER OF BEETHOVEN
MOTHER AND CHILD
ALICE FREEMAN PALMER
“MOTHER OF HEROES”
THE GREAT CITIZEN
ON READING OF A POET'S DEATH
JOHN HENRY BONER
“A WONDROUS SONG”
A NEW POET
THE SINGER OF JOY
BREAD UPON THE WATERS
LOST
“WHAT MAN HATH DONE”
“HE PONDERED WELL”
“THOU THINKEST THOU HAST LIVED”
THE GOOD MAN
“SO FIERCE THE BUFFETS”
TWO HEROES
THE WORLD'S END
SHELLEY'S “OZYMANDIAS”
LA SALLE
INAUGURATION DAY
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT
BUILDERS OF THE STATE
IMPROMPTUS
TO WILLIAM WATSON
“LIFE IS THE HAMMER”
“THE CRITIC SCANNED THE POET'S BOOK”
“HER DELICATE FORM”
FRANCESCA MIA
AGE, AND THE SCORNER
TO JACOB A. RIIS
MUSIC AND FRIENDSHIP
FRIENDSHIP
TO E. C. S.
“TELL ME GOOD-BY”
FAREWELL TO CHARLESTON
“THE PINES”
“NOT WREATHS ALONE”
FOR THE CITY CLUB
TO C. H. RUSSELL
“GIVE THY DAY TO DUTY”
TWO OPTIMISTS
THE PASSING OF JOSEPH JEFFERSON
“SHALL WE NOT PRAISE THE LIVING?”
HYMN
JOHN WESLEY
A TEMPLE OF ART
THE FIRE DIVINE
IN HELENA'S GARDEN
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“GIVE THY DAY TO DUTY”
Give
thy day to Duty!
To that high thought be given
Thine every hour.
So shall the bending heaven,
As from the root the flower,
Bring to thy glad soul Beauty.
The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder
