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Ariel and Caliban with other poems

Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)

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ARIEL AND CALIBAN.
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I.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
  
L'ENVOI.
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LIONEL AND LUCILLE.
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I.
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II.
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III.
  
SAN BORONDON.
  
THE OLD YEAR.
  
THE CENTENNIAL YEAR.
  
AFTER THE CENTENNIAL.
  
A NIGHT-PICTURE.
  
A CHILD-SAVIOR.
  
AN OLD UMBRELLA.
  
TO IONE.
  
AFTER-LIFE.
  
PRINCE YOUSUF AND THE ALCAYDE.
  
ROSAMOND.
  
A QUESTION.
  
MY STUDIO.
  
TALENT AND GENIUS.
  
VENICE.
  
THE TWO DREAMS.
  
AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS.
  
BROKEN WINGS.
  
SEA PICTURES.
  
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS.
  
LOVE'S VOYAGE.
  
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
  
A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS.
  
THE COAL-FIRE.
  
TWO VIEWS OF IT.
  
OLD AND YOUNG.
  
THE VICTORIES OF PEACE.
  
SUMMER DAWN.
  
THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN.
  
THE WEATHER-PROPHET.
  
OMAR KHAYYÁM.
  
LONGFELLOW.
  
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
  
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE, D. D.
  
SO FAR, SO NEAR.
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SONNETS.
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TO E. P. C.
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[I. 1. The Summer goes, with all its birds and flowers]
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[II. 2. Parted by time and space for many a year]
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[III. 3. Ah, happy time! when music bound in one]
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[IV. 4. Friend, dear as Memory's joys! of life that's past]
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[V. 5. All loves have frailer roots than loves that start]
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[VI. 6. Ah, many a time our memory slips aside]
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[VII. 7. Those times are gone, that circle thinned away]
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[VIII. 8. You were not born to hide such gifts as yours]
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[IX. 9. I needs must praise the natural gifts of one]
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[X. 10. Forgive—that thus the trumpet I have blown]
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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
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XI. THE PRINTING PRESS.
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XII. THE OCEAN STEAMER.
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XIII. THE LOCOMOTIVE.
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XIV. THE TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE.
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XV. THE PHOTOGRAPH.
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XVI. THE SPECTROSCOPE.
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XVII. THE MICROPHONE.
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XVIII. THE FIRESIDE.
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XIX. THE LADY'S SONNET. TWILIGHT.
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XX. THE LOVER'S SONNET. MIDNIGHT.
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XXI. THE PINES AND THE SEA.
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XXII. PENNYROYAL.
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XXIII. BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY.
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XXIV. THE SECEDERS. 1.
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XXV. [THE SECEDERS.] 2.
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XXVI. IN A LIBRARY. 1.
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XXVII. [IN A LIBRARY.] 2.
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XXVIII. PAST SORROWS.
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XXIX. LIFE AND DEATH. 1.
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XXX. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 2.
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XXXI. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 3.
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XXXII. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 4.
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XXXIII. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 5.
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XXXIV. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 6.
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XXXV. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 7.
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XXXVI. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 8.
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XXXVII. TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
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XXXVIII. TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ÆT. 70.
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XXXIX. BAYARD TAYLOR.
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XL. JOHN WEISS.
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XLI. GEORGE RIPLEY.
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XLII. TO G. W. C.
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XLIII. LONDON.
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XLIV. VEILED MEMORIES.
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XLV. TENNYSON. 1.
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XLVI. [TENNYSON.] 2.
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XLVII. TO G. W. C.
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XLVIII. GLADSTONE.
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XLIX. J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE.) 1.
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L. [J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE.)] 2.
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LI. THE HUMAN FLOWER. 1.
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LII. [THE HUMAN FLOWER.] 2.
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LIII. AUGUST.
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LIV. IDLE HOURS.
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LV. MUSIC AND POETRY. 1.
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LVI. [MUSIC AND POETRY.] 2.
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LVII. TO SLEEP.
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ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN.
  
THE OVERTURE.
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PART I.
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PART II.
  
A POET'S SOLILOQUY.

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XVI.
THE SPECTROSCOPE.

All honor to that keen Promethean soul
Who caught the prismic hues of Jove and Mars,
And from the glances of the dædal stars,
And from the fiery sun, the secret stole
That all are parts of one primeval Whole,—
One substance beaming through Creation's bars
Consent and peace, amid the chemic wars
Of gases and of atoms. Yonder roll
The planets; yonder, baffling human thought,
Suns, systems, all whose burning hearts are wooed
To one confession—so hath Science caught
Those eye-beams frank, whose speech cannot delude,—
How of one stuff our mortal earth is wrought
With stars in their divine infinitude.
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