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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]
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[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]
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[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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TO G. C. H.

I.

I know not where thou art my Friend,
But tender thoughts arise, and wend
Their way to thee, where'er thou art;
No distance chills the loyal heart.

II.

If ocean breezes fan thy cheek,
Oh, may their breath be mild and meek,
And every wind that stirs the sea
Come like a mother's kiss to thee!

III.

Or if, the mighty billows past,
Thy eager feet have touched at last
That glorious realm which filled thy dreams,
While pondering by our Western streams,

IV.

May all those antique scenes be bright
As when beheld in Fancy's light,
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So that thy soul may haply chance
To wander still with old Romance.

V.

Once, the delicious hope was mine
To blend a traveller's joys with thine,
From farthest frith of Northern sea,
To the fair fields of Italy:

VI.

But Fate stepped in with stern command,
And bound me to this barren land;—
What matter?—though by Fate denied,
No Power can keep me from thy side.
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