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Sonnets and Other Poems

By John K. Ingram

Ingram, John K. (1823-1907)

I.

I. LOVE AND SORROW.

II.

II. THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY.

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III.

III. MISCELLANEOUS.

A NATION'S WEALTH.

SOCIAL HEREDITY.

SOCIAL ORIGINS.

THE SOCIAL FUTURE.

PASTOR AB AMPHRYSO.

NATIONAL PRESAGE.

ON READING THE SONNET BY R.C.D.,

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL.

A FILIAL TRIBUTE.

SIR L. ALMA-TADEMA'S ‘WOMEN OF AMPHISSA.’

WINGED THOUGHTS.

[How brief our dates! how soon Death apprehends]

[Would'st thou be economical of Time]

[The moon was bright that Autumn night]

[‘Vos plaudite!’ th' imperial Roman said]

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[What is the watchword of the coming ages?]

[Content thee to obey: thou would'st not tread]

[‘How to be happy?’—smiling, spoke the sage—]

[When in a man the flower of courtesy]

[Each nation master at its own fireside—]

[Live for thyself, thy pleasure and thy gain]

[The Records of the Time each morning bring]

[‘How sacred is this place,’ in awe I cried]

[The thoughts that wait upon the uninspired]

[As down the westward slope of life we move]

[Fain would I serve my brethren. How shall I]

[Be not too much exalted, if to-day]

[Despair not, if thy spirit-fire burns low]

[‘These thoughts are old.’ True; but each race of men]

THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

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[Each nation master at its own fireside—]

Each nation master at its own fireside—
The claim is just, and so one day 'twill be;
But a wise race the time of fruit will bide,
Nor pluck th' unripen'd apple from the tree.