The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)

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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”

INTERLUDE

PART IV

THE CELESTIAL PASSION

LYRICS

TWO WORLDS AND OTHER POEMS

THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE AND OTHER POEMS

IN PALESTINE AND OTHER POEMS

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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”