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The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)

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THE CELESTIAL PASSION

TWO WORLDS AND OTHER POEMS

THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE AND OTHER POEMS

IN PALESTINE AND OTHER POEMS

“IN THE HIGHTS”

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THE FIRE DIVINE

THE FIRE DIVINE

THE DOUBTER'S SOLILOQUY

“SPARE ME MY DREAMS”

THE VALLEY OF LIFE

TO ONE IMPATIENT OF FORM IN ART

THE POET'S SECRET

“THE DAY BEGAN AS OTHER DAYS BEGIN”

A POET'S QUESTION

PRELUDE FOR “A BOOK OF MUSIC”

MUSIC AT TWILIGHT

MUSIC IN MOONLIGHT

THE UNKNOWN SINGER

“THE PATHETIC SYMPHONY”

A FANTASY OF CHOPIN

“HOW STRANGE THE MUSICIAN'S MEMORY”

“IN A NIGHT OF MIDSUMMER”

IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS

JOHN PAUL JONES

TO EMMA LAZARUS

GEORGE MACDONALD

JOSEPHINE SHAW LOWELL

“ONE ROSE OF SONG”

“LOST LEADERS”

ON A CERTAIN “AGNOSTIC”

“A WEARY WASTE WITHOUT HER”

THE POET'S SLEEP

WHERE SPRING BEGAN

PROOF OF SERVICE

BEFORE THE GRAND JURY

“IN THE CITIES”

A TRAGEDY OF TO-DAY

“THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE THE OLD PLACE!”

“I DREAMED”

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“FROM LOVE TO LOVE”

“I ASKED YOU TO READ MY POEM”

A WARRIOR OF TROY

THE OBELISK (1881)

CROWNED ABSURDITIES

TO “LITTLE LADY MARGARET”—WITH A BOOK OF POEMS

TO THE HERO OF A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE

THE WATCHMAN ON THE TOWER

UNDER THE STARS

IN HELENA'S GARDEN

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THE OBELISK (1881)

Beneath a stone wrenched from Egyptian sands
Six rivers run through six imperial lands;
Nile, Bosphorus, Tiber, Seine, and Thames, till now
The Hudson wears the jewel on her brow.
Land that we love! O be thou, by this sign,
Tho' last, the noblest of the mighty line.