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Lyrical and other poems

Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870)
  
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THE BROKEN ARROW.
  
THE DESTRUCTION OF SCIO.
  
SONG.
  
CALM AT SEA.
  
DEATH OF KING PHILIP.
  
SONG OF PHILIP.
  
THE CAVALIER'S CALL.
  
BENEDICT ARNOLD.
  
OH! TELL ME NOT
  
SUMMER,
  
OH! MINGLE NOT
  
THE SOLDIER'S BRIDE.
  
ON MY BIRTH-DAY.
  
A DREAM—A REALITY.
  
OH! WANDER, WANDER HERE.
  
MAJOR ANDRE.
  
A SKETCH.
  
MEMORY'S PAGE,
  
SING NOT OF FAME!
  
I HAVE NO HEART
  
THIS LONELY ROCK
  
SONNET.
  
AT MIDNIGHT
  
SHADOWS.
  
DITHYRAMBIC.
  
I COME TO THEE,
  
[I saw the love of Mackintosh, she lay]
  
TO --- ON HER BIRTH-DAY.
  
VIVE MEMOR LETHI.
  
TO THE EVENING STAR.
  
THE MARTYR.
  
WRITTEN IN MISSISSIPPI.
  
THOU CAM'ST
  
SONG.
  
MY NATAL STAR.
  
AH! DEEM NOT
  
THE FOREST MAIDEN.
  
THE EVENING BREEZE.
  
SONG.
  
YES, LONE IS MY BOSOM.
  
ODE.
  
THIS FLOW'R IT BLOOMS
  
CAMP MEETING.
  
TO A WINTER FLOWER,
  
PEACE.
  
OH! LET ME DREAM
  
AND DOST THOU TOO JOY.
  
CAIUS MARIUS,
  
A SCENE.
  
THE LOST VOICE.
  
ALEXANDER,
  
I DO NOT ASK THY TEAR.
  
SONG.
  
STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
  
SONNET
  
A SKETCH.
  
GO FAITHLESS ONE.
  
OH! SCION OF A ROYAL STOCK.
  
SONNET TO ---
  
ONE LOOK.
  
THE STAR OF LIFE.
  
YOUNG GLORY IS SLEEPING
  
A DRAMATIC SKETCH.
  
TO A FRIEND,
  
OH! THINK NOT TIME
  
ANATIS.
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ILLUSTRATIONS,
 1. 
1. Nourmahal and the Fairy.
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2. THE TWO LOVERS,
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3. THE PILGRIM ON A ROCK.
 1. 
NO. 1. Richard---, at Washington, to his friend Edward --- in Charleston.
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NO. 2. Miss Emily --- in Charleston to her Friend in Walterborough, S. C.
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NO. 3. Richard ---, Esq. at Washington to his Friend, Edward ---, in Charleston.
  
THE BIRTH OF LIGHT
  
THE WILDERNESS.
  
STANZAS.
  
INDIAN HUNTER'S SONG.
  
TO --- ON LEAVING HOME.
  
OH! WANDERER
  
SIX YEARS, TO V. M.
  
HOW LITTLE HAVE I KNOWN
  
FORGIVE THE EYE
  
WHERE ART THOU?
  
LA-FAYETTE.
  
WELL THEN, WE PART!
  
COME SEEK
  
TO A BIRD AT SEA
  
SONNET
  
DREAM ON FOND HEART!
  
THE REBEL FLOWER.
  
THE LOST HOPE.
  
SONNET TO DESPAIR
  
MEMORY.
  
THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE.
  
TO MY LYRE.

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GO FAITHLESS ONE.

Go faithless one, go wander
Where Fortune's gales may blow,
'Twere less than vain to squander
One thought upon thee now!
To distant regions roving,
Where other hearts may bind,
But none so truly loving
As her's, thou leav'st behind.
No loud reproach shall tell thee,
What thou can'st well believe;
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No foolish tear impel thee,
To capture and deceive!
What, tho' the heart be breaking,
That bids thee, false one, go—
No painful throbs awaking,
Its innate grief shall show.
And tho' its hope has perish'd,
No curious eye shall see
That it has ever cherish'd
One thought on such as thee!
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