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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]
 2. 
[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]
 3. 
[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
 2. 
[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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SONG.

I.

Here, long ago,
While the fair River in its spring-time flow,
Murmured with happy voice
“Rejoice! Rejoice!”
While youth's full pulses thrilled within our breasts,
Far from life's hopeless calms, or fierce unrests,
We told our love;
The April sunset heaven was bright above,
The earth below
Most beautiful—but this was long ago,
Long, very long ago.

II.

Here, once again,
While the dark River like a soul in pain
Heaves, as it were from depths of human care,
A sigh of lorn despair;
Youth's glorious pulses stilled within our breasts,
The haunt of hopeless calms, or fierce unrests,
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We speak—but NOT of love!
The angry winter's heaven is wild above,
The earth below
Drear as the hopes that withered long ago,
Long, very long ago.
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