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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”
THE FIRE DIVINE
THE FIRE DIVINE
THE INVISIBLE
DESTINY
THE OLD FAITH
THE DOUBTER'S SOLILOQUY
LAW
IDENTITY
“SPARE ME MY DREAMS”
HYMN
THE VALLEY OF LIFE
TO ONE IMPATIENT OF FORM IN ART
TO THE POET
COMPENSATION
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 VOICE
WAGNER
“THE PATHETIC SYMPHONY”
MACDOWELL
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
CARL SCHURZ
GEORGE MACDONALD
JOSEPHINE SHAW LOWELL
“ONE ROSE OF SONG”
JOHN MALONE
“LOST LEADERS”
ON A CERTAIN “AGNOSTIC”
“A WEARY WASTE WITHOUT HER”
THE POET'S SLEEP
WHERE SPRING BEGAN
AVARICE
PITY THE BLIND
PROOF OF SERVICE
CONQUERED
BLAME
THE WHISPERERS
BEFORE THE GRAND JURY
“IN THE CITIES”
A TRAGEDY OF TO-DAY
THE OLD HOUSE
“THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE THE OLD PLACE!”
GLEN GILDER
SONG
OBSCURATION
“I DREAMED”
IMPROMPTUS
“FROM LOVE TO LOVE”
“I ASKED YOU TO READ MY POEM”
NAZIMOVA
A WARRIOR OF TROY
THE OBELISK (1881)
CROWNED ABSURDITIES
TO “LITTLE LADY MARGARET”—WITH A BOOK OF POEMS
SACRILEGE
TO THE HERO OF A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE
THE WATCHMAN ON THE TOWER
UNDER THE STARS
IN HELENA'S GARDEN
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The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder
SACRILEGE
Wed
, thou, with sweet and silent Death,
Rather than join the prurient throng
Would soil, with foul, empoisoned breath,
The sanctity of song.
The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder
