The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)

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III—“COME TO ME YE WHO SUFFER”

IV—WRITTEN ON A FLY-LEAF OF “SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS”

V—“AND WERE THAT BEST!”

VI—“THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN”

I—“THE PALLID WATCHER OF THE EASTERN SKIES”

II—“MY LOVE FOR THEE DOTH MARCH LIKE ARMÈD MEN”

III—“WHAT WOULD I SAVE THEE FROM?”

IV—“WHAT WOULD I WIN THEE TO?”

V—“I WILL BE BRAVE FOR THEE”

VI—“LOVE ME NOT, LOVE, FOR THAT I FIRST LOVED THEE”

VII—BODY AND SOUL

VIII—“THY LOVER, LOVE, WOULD HAVE SOME NOBLER WAY”

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XIII—“ONCE WHEN WE WALKED WITHIN A SUMMER FIELD”

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XIV—SONG

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XV—LISTENING TO MUSIC

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XVI—“A SONG OF THE MAIDEN MORN”

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XVII—WORDS IN ABSENCE

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XVIII—SONG

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XIX—THISTLE-DOWN

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XX—“O SWEET WILD ROSES THAT BUD AND BLOW”

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XXI—THE RIVER

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XXII—THE LOVER'S LORD AND MASTER

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XXIII—SONG

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XXIV—“A NIGHT OF STARS AND DREAMS”

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XXV—A BIRTHDAY SONG

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XXVI—“WHAT CAN LOVE DO FOR THEE, LOVE?”

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XXVII—“THE SMILE OF HER I LOVE”

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XXVIII—FRANCESCA AND PAOLO

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XXIX—THE UNKNOWN WAY

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XXX—THE SOWER

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XXXI—“WHEN THE LAST DOUBT IS DOUBTED”

III—LIKENESS IN UNLIKENESS

IV—SONG

V—ALL IN ONE

VI—“I COUNT MY TIME BY TIMES THAT I MEET THEE”

VII—SONG

VIII—THE SEASONS

IX—“SUMMER'S RAIN AND WINTER'S SNOW”

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X—THE VIOLIN

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XI—“O MIGHTY RIVER, TRIUMPHING TO THE SEA”

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XII—“MY SONGS ARE ALL OF THEE”

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XIII—AFTER MANY DAYS

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XIV—WEAL AND WOE

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XV—“O, LOVE IS NOT A SUMMER MOOD”

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XVI—“LOVE IS NOT BOND TO ANY MAN”

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XVII—“HE KNOWS NOT THE PATH OF DUTY”

AFTER-SONG

THE CELESTIAL PASSION

PRELUDE

PART I

ART AND LIFE

THE POET AND HIS MASTER

THE VOICE OF THE PINE

MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT

“DAY UNTO DAY UTTERETH SPEECH”

“BEYOND THE BRANCHES OF THE PINE”

AN AUTUMN MEDITATION

“CALL ME NOT DEAD”

“EACH MOMENT HOLY IS”

“WHEN TO SLEEP I MUST”

A SONG OF EARLY SUMMER

A MIDSUMMER SONG

“ON THE WILD ROSE TREE”

“BEYOND ALL BEAUTY IS THE UNKNOWN GRACE”

THE VIOLET

THE YOUNG POET

A SONG OF EARLY AUTUMN

THE BUILDING OF THE CHIMNEY

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VII

“A WORD SAID IN THE DARK”

A RIDDLE OF LOVERS

THE DARK ROOM

BEFORE SUNRISE

“THE WOODS THAT BRING THE SUNSET NEAR”

SUNSET FROM THE TRAIN

“AFTER SORROW'S NIGHT”

“BACK FROM THE DARKNESS TO THE LIGHT AGAIN”

PART II

FATE

“WE MET UPON THE CROWDED WAY”

THE WHITE AND THE RED ROSE

THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH

THE BURIAL OF GRANT

THE DEAD COMRADE

ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I—TO F. F. C. ON THE PANSY, HER CLASS FLOWER

II—ART

III—TO A SOUTHERN GIRL

IV—FOR A FAN

V—TO T. B. A.

VI—A THEME

VII—THE CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE NURSERY

“WHEN THE TRUE POET COMES”

AN INSCRIPTION IN ROME

LONGFELLOW'S “BOOK OF SONNETS”

“H. H.”

THE MODERN RHYMER

TWO WORLDS AND OTHER POEMS

“I CARE NOT IF THE SKIES ARE WHITE”

“TO-NIGHT THE MUSIC DOTH A BURDEN BEAR”

SANCTUM SANCTORUM

THE GIFT

“AH, TIME, GO NOT SO SOON”

“THE YEARS ARE ANGELS”

“IN HER YOUNG EYES”

“YESTERDAY, WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS”

THE TWENTY-THIRD OF APRIL

EMMA LAZARUS

THE TWELFTH OF DECEMBER

TO THE SPIRIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

FAILURE AND SUCCESS

J. R. L.

NAPOLEON

THE WHITE CZAR'S PEOPLE

CHARLESTON

PART V

HIDE NOT THY HEART

“THE POET FROM HIS OWN SORROW”

“WHITE, PILLARED NECK”

“GREAT NATURE IS AN ARMY GAY”

“LIFE IS THE COST”

THE PRISONER'S THOUGHT

THE CONDEMNED

“SOW THOU SORROW”

TEMPTATION

A MIDSUMMER MEDITATION

AS DOTH THE BIRD”

VISIONS

WITH A CROSS OF IMMORTELLES

THE PASSING OF CHRIST

THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE AND OTHER POEMS

PART I

THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE

THE SILENCE OF TENNYSON

ON THE DEATH OF A GREAT MAN

A HERO OF PEACE

WASHINGTON AT TRENTON

FAME

A MONUMENT BY SAINT-GAUDENS

A MEMORY OF RUBINSTEIN

HOW DEATH MAY MAKE A MAN

“CAME TO A MASTER OF SONG”

BARDS

MERIDIAN

EVENING IN TYRINGHAM VALLEY

III—“KEEP PURE THY SOUL”

IV—“THY MIND IS LIKE A CRYSTAL BROOK”

V—“ONE DEED MAY MAR A LIFE”

VI—THE UNKNOWN

VII—IRREVOCABLE

PART IV

“BECAUSE THE ROSE MUST FADE”

“FADES THE ROSE”

THE WINTRY HEART

HAST THOU HEARD THE NIGHTINGALE?

“IN THAT DREAD, DREAMED-OF HOUR”

“ROSE-DARK THE SOLEMN SUNSET”

“WINDS TO THE SILENT MORN”

THE UNRETURNING

TWO YEARS

IN PALESTINE AND OTHER POEMS

PART I

IN PALESTINE

THE ANGER OF CHRIST

THE BIRDS OF BETHLEHEM

NOËL

“THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS”

THE DOUBTER

THE PARTHENON BY MOONLIGHT

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

KARNAK

“ANGELO, THOU ART THE MASTER”

A WINTER TWILIGHT IN PROVENCE

PART II

“THE POET'S DAY”

“HOW TO THE SINGER COMES THE SONG?”

“LIKE THE BRIGHT PICTURE”

REMEMBRANCE OF BEAUTY

HAWTHORNE IN BERKSHIRE

A SOUL LOST, AND FOUND

“THIS HOUR MY HEART WENT FORTH, AS IN OLD DAYS”

“EVEN WHEN JOY IS NEAR”

“THE NORTH STAR DRAWS THE HERO”

THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

“THROUGH ALL THE CUNNING AGES”

ONE COUNTRY—ONE SACRIFICE

“WHEN WITH THEIR COUNTRY'S ANGER”

A VISION

THE WORD OF THE WHITE CZAR

PART IV

A SONG FOR DOROTHEA, ACROSS THE SEA

A BLIND POET

ON A WOMAN SEEN UPON THE STAGE

OF ONE WHO NEITHER SEES NOR HEARS

FOR THE ESPOUSALS OF JEANNE ROUMANILLE, OF AVIGNON

TO MARIE JOSEPHINE GIRARD, QUEEN OF THE FÉLIBRES

INSCRIPTION FOR A TOWER IN FLORENCE

WITH A VOLUME OF DANTE

POEMS

AUTUMN AT FOUR-BROOKS FARM

INDOORS IN EARLY SPRING

THE NIGHT PASTURE

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A LETTER FROM THE FARM

SUMMER BEGINS

“STROLLING TOWARD SHOTTERY”

STRATFORD BELLS

IN WORDSWORTH'S ORCHARD

SIR WALTER SCOTT

A DAY IN TUSCANY

A SACRED COMEDY IN FLORENCE

MICHAEL ANGELO'S AURORA

“O, GLORIOUS SABBATH SUN”

MOTTO FOR A TREE-PLANTING

JANET

ON BEING ASKED FOR A SONG

THE COMFORT OF THE TREES

THE CITY OF LIGHT

“IN THE HIGHTS”

HOME ACRES

A CALL TO THE MOUNTAINS

SPRING SURPRISE

AUTUMN TREES

“THE LIGHT LIES ON THE FARTHER HILLS”

“AH, NEAR, DEAR FRIEND”

MUSIC IN DARKNESS

THE ANGER OF BEETHOVEN

ON READING OF A POET'S DEATH

BREAD UPON THE WATERS

LOST

“WHAT MAN HATH DONE”

“HE PONDERED WELL”

“THOU THINKEST THOU HAST LIVED”

THE GOOD MAN

“SO FIERCE THE BUFFETS”

TWO HEROES

THE WORLD'S END

SHELLEY'S “OZYMANDIAS”

LA SALLE

INAUGURATION DAY

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT

BUILDERS OF THE STATE

IMPROMPTUS

TO WILLIAM WATSON

“LIFE IS THE HAMMER”

“THE CRITIC SCANNED THE POET'S BOOK”

FAREWELL TO CHARLESTON

“GIVE THY DAY TO DUTY”

TWO OPTIMISTS

THE PASSING OF JOSEPH JEFFERSON

“SHALL WE NOT PRAISE THE LIVING?”

THE DOUBTER'S SOLILOQUY

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”

“THE PATHETIC SYMPHONY”

MACDOWELL

A FANTASY OF CHOPIN

“HOW STRANGE THE MUSICIAN'S MEMORY”

“IN A NIGHT OF MIDSUMMER”

IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS

JOSEPHINE SHAW LOWELL

“ONE ROSE OF SONG”

JOHN MALONE

“LOST LEADERS”

ON A CERTAIN “AGNOSTIC”

“A WEARY WASTE WITHOUT HER”

BEFORE THE GRAND JURY

“IN THE CITIES”

A TRAGEDY OF TO-DAY

THE OLD HOUSE

“THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE THE OLD PLACE!”

“I ASKED YOU TO READ MY POEM”

TO “LITTLE LADY MARGARET”—WITH A BOOK OF POEMS

SACRILEGE

TO THE HERO OF A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE

THE WATCHMAN ON THE TOWER

“THE GRAY WALLS OF THE GARDEN”

THE MARBLE POOL

THE TABLE ROUND

THE SUN-DIAL

“SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE GARDEN”

THREE FLOWERS OF THE GARDEN

EARLY AUTUMN

THE LAST FLOWER OF THE GARDEN

PART II

THE LION OF TYRINGHAM

THE VOICE OF THE HIGHT

A SONG OF FRIENDSHIP

A ROSE OF DREAM

SONG

“WHEN THE GIRLS COME TO THE OLD HOUSE”

THE SONG OF A SONG

THE NET

SONG

“WHEN THE WAR FLEET PUTS TO SEA”

ART

IN PRAISE OF PORTRAITURE

IN TIMES OF PEACE

IMPROMPTUS

EDWARD EVERETT HALE

BARDS OF BRITAIN (1908)

A NAVAL SURGEON OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION

A MOTHER'S PICTURE

ON A YOUNG HERO

A HERO'S BRIDE

TO ONE WHO PRAISED “THE GAY LIFE”

LYRIC LIVES

SONG

THE SINGING RIVER

THE SOLACE OF THE SKIES

THE WINDING PATH

“WHAT MAKES THE GARDEN GROW”

“IF, ONE GREAT DAY”

MUSIC BENEATH THE STARS

THE BIRDS OF WESTLAND

THE VEIL OF STARS

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XVII—“HE KNOWS NOT THE PATH OF DUTY”

He knows not the path of duty
Who says that the way is sweet;
But he who is blind to the beauty,
And finds but thorns for his feet.

He alone is the perfect giver
Who swears that his gift is naught;
And he is the sure receiver
Who gains what he never sought.

Heaven from the hopeless doubter
The true believer makes;
Against the darkness outer
The light God's likeness takes.

Like the pale, cold moon above her
With its heart of the heart of fire,
My Love is the one true lover,
And hers is the soul of desire.

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XVII—“HE KNOWS NOT THE PATH OF DUTY”