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Old Year Leaves

Being Old Verses Revised: By H. T. Mackenzie Bell ... New Edition

Bell, Mackenzie (1856-1930)

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[The leaves which in the autumn of the years]

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

SONNETS ON THE POWER OF THOUGHT.

IN MEMORY OF The gallant men who fell fighting at Isandhlwana, South Africa, in a surprise by the Zulus, 23d January 1879.

THE POET'S POWERLESSNESS.

THE OMNIPRESENCE OF POETRY.

FRAGMENT FOR MUSIC.

AN EVENING LANDSCAPE.

THE GUERDON OF TRIBULATION NOT INCURRED BY GUILT.

THE TRUE TREASURE.

VERSES OF TRAVEL.

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SONGS AND LYRICS.

THE LATE AUTUMN IS DYING.

UNFULFILLED YEARNINGS.

GLAD DREAMS OF THE FUTURE COME O'ER US.

A SONG OF HOPE.

HOW OFT ARISE TO SOOTHE OUR WOE.

HAPPINESS HERE.

A SONG IN THE SOUTH.

TWILIGHT MEMORIES.

A WINTRY MOOR AT NIGHT.

WHY DO I TRACE.

A PRACTICAL THEORY OF LIFE.

EVENING THOUGHTS.

AFTER FIVE YEARS.

AN OCEAN GLOAMING.

A SUMMER SCENE.

SUMMER SORROW.

A SUMMER EVENING IN THE WOODS.

TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.

A LESSON IN THE GLOAMING.

MEADOW MUSINGS.

FLOWER-GATHERING.

GARDEN MUSINGS.

IN TENEBRIS LUX.

A MORNING MEDITATION.

THE WARBLERS' MISSION.

MIDNIGHT MUSINGS.

“'TIS GONE.”

A LIFE-CHRONICLE.

A DREAM OF LONG AGO.

IMAGINATION'S HARVEST.

HISTORICAL PIECES.

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SUMMER SORROW.

Each season hath its sadness, and for me
Summer not least of all. I know not why,
But though its sylvan beauty soothes my soul
Into delicious reveries; while birds,
Discoursing music, fill my dreamy mind
With melodies, and thoughts, and deep delight,
I never felt before—yet still there lurks
Within my heart a strange unfathomed grief,
Which, even amidst harsh Autumn's ravages,
Or grim old Winter's storms, I rarely feel.