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Poems

By the author of "The Patience of Hope" [i.e. Dora Greenwell]
Greenwell, Dora (1821-1882)
  
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CHRISTINA.
  
GOD'S SINGER.
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A STORY OF OLDEN TIME.
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[[FIRST PART.]]
 II. 
SECOND PART.
  
SEEKING.
  
THE KISS.
  
WHEN THE NIGHT AND MORNING MEET.
  
THE SOUL'S PARTING.
  
RECONCILIATION.
  
GONE.
  
HAUNTED GROUND.
  
POETS.
  
A COMPARISON.
  
THE ETERNAL NOW.
  
CONSOLATION.
  
PENCIL-MARKS IN A BOOK OF DEVOTION.
  
“FAINT, YET PURSUING.”
  
ENTREAT FOR ME.
  
A VISION OF GREEN LEAVES.
  
TO A LONG-PARTED FRIEND.
  
“SO IT HAPPENS.”
  
THE PICTURE AND THE SCROLL.
  
TO A YOUNG GIRL.
  
A SONG OF MEMORY.
  
TO JOSEPHINE.
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THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS.
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I. AGNES AT HER WINDOW.
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II. THE SERENADE.
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III. AGNES AMONG THE SISTERS.
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IV. And oft upon me is the fancy borne
  
WITHOUT AND WITHIN.
  
MADANA.
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VALENTINES AND SONGS.
  
LUISA.
  
THE SUMMER FRIEND.
  
“QUI SAIT AIMER, SAIT MOURIR.”
  
THE BROKEN CHAIN.
  
A VALENTINE.
  
A VALENTINE.
  
“ICH DIEN.”
  
THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
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SONNETS.
  
ASCENDING.
  
LIFE TAPESTRY.
  
LOVE BIRDS.
  
TO ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING.
  
TO A REMEMBERED STREAM, AND A NEVER FORGOTTEN FRIEND.
  
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
  
RESERVE.
  
DREAMS.
  
THE SOUL'S WOOERS.
  
HOPE.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
TO L. M.
  
TO THE AUTHOR OF ZISKA.
  
REST.
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PART FIRST
  
TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
  
TO AN EARLY FRIEND.
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OLD LETTERS.
  
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
 VI. 
VI.
  
AFTER PARTING.
  
IN ABSENCE.
  
THE FIRST LETTER.
  
SILENCE.
  
IN ILLNESS.
  
VII.
  
VIII.
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TO A LONG-PARTED FRIEND.
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I.
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II.
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TO --- ---.
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I.
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II.
  
TO A DISTANT FRIEND.
  
TO MY FRIENDS AT ------.
  
MEETING.
  
PARTING.
  
TO A DEPARTED SPIRIT.
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PART SECOND.
  
THE RECONCILER.
  
THE QUESTION.
  
FORSAKEN.
  
THE LESSON.
  
THE TWO RELIGIONS.
  
LOVE.
  
IN SADNESS.
  
THE SUMMONS.
  
PAX IN NOVISSIMO.
  
A MEDITATION.
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EARLIER POEMS.
  
ASPIRATION.
  
MARY.
  
CHILDHOOD.
  
WINTER.
  
THE DEFORMED CHILD.
  
THE DAUGHTER OF THE HALL.
  
THE LOVER'S QUARREL.
  
THE OLD FAMILY.
  
“REJOICE EVERMORE.”
  
BALLAD.
  
THE IRISH EMIGRANT'S SONG.
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SONGS OF FAREWELL.
  
PARTING.
  
DEATH.

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RESERVE.

Now would I learn thee like some noble task
That payeth well for labour; I would find
Thy soul's true Dominant, and thus unwind
Its deeper, rarer harmonies, that ask
Interpreting; for like a gracious mask
Is thy calm, quiet bearing; far behind
Thy spirit sits and smiles in sunshine kind,
And fain within that fulness mine would bask:
Set if thou wilt this bar betwixt thy tide
Of feeling and the world that might misknow
Its strength; use ever with the crowd this pride,
“Thus far, and yet no farther shall ye go;”
But not with me, dear friend, whose heart stands wide
To drink in all thy Being's overflow.
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