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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
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[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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[Moments there are when most familiar things]

Moments there are when most familiar things
Seem strangers to us; when 'round heart and head
The mists of unreality are spread,
From which our keenest searching, baffled, brings
Unformed conceptions, vague imaginings,
Tinged with the doubtful hues of a half-truth;
Chiefly in age, or in our dreaming youth
This phase of contemplation sternly wrings
Our bosoms with the thought,—“the soul is blind!”
Unfathomed meanings, beauty most divine,
Lie round about us,—but we cannot see;
In sky and forest burns a spirit's sign
Unrecognized, and in the whispering wind
Breathes a low undertone of mystery!
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