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Sonnets and Other Poems

By John K. Ingram
Ingram, John K. (1823-1907)

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I. LOVE AND SORROW.
  
DELGANY.
 II. 
II. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.
 III. 
III. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 IV. 
IV. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 V. 
V. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 VI. 
VI. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 VII. 
VII. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 VIII. 
VIII. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 IX. 
IX. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 X. 
X. LOVE'S TEACHINGS.
 XI. 
XI. AN APPEAL.
 XII. 
XII. VISITATIONS.
 XIII. 
XIII. PAST AND PRESENT.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE ANGELUS.
 XV. 
XV.
 XVI. 
XVI.
 XVII. 
XVII.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. HALLOWED GROUND.
 XIX. 
XIX.
 XX. 
XX.
 XXI. 
XXI. TREASURED WORDS.
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II. THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY.
 I. 
I. TO THE READER.
 II. 
II. TRANSFIGURATION.
 III. 
III. TRANSFIGURATION.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI. GUARDIAN ANGELS.
 VII. 
VII. INTERPRETERS.
 VIII. 
VIII.
 IX. 
IX. PISGAH.
 X. 
X. ‘UTINAM VIDEREM.’
 XI. 
XI. THE CHILDHOOD OF HUMANITY.
 XII. 
XII. THE HUMAN HERITAGE.
 XIII. 
XIII.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE NEW SYNTHESIS.
 XV. 
XV. MEA CULPA.
 XVI. 
XVI.
 XVII. 
XVII. DE PROFUNDIS.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. A POSITIVIST SOLEMNITY.
 XIX. 
XIX. A RELIGIOUS SYMBOL.
 XX. 
XX. THE MODERN FETISHISM.
 XXI. 
XXI.
  
THE TRIUMPH OF HUMANITY:
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III. MISCELLANEOUS.
  
A NATION'S WEALTH.
  
SOCIAL HEREDITY.
  
SOCIAL ORIGINS.
  
SAINT PAUL.
  
THE SOCIAL FUTURE.
  
PASTOR AB AMPHRYSO.
  
STREAMS.
  
NATIONAL PRESAGE.
  
A PROTEST.
  
MAJUBA.
  
ON READING THE SONNET BY R.C.D.,
  
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL.
  
1899.
  
A MONITION.
  
A FILIAL TRIBUTE.
  
SIR L. ALMA-TADEMA'S ‘WOMEN OF AMPHISSA.’
  
NOSTALGIA.
  
WINGED THOUGHTS.
  
[How brief our dates! how soon Death apprehends]
  
[Would'st thou be economical of Time]
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
TO A.J.
  
[The moon was bright that Autumn night]
  
[‘Vos plaudite!’ th' imperial Roman said]
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VERSICLES.
  
[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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V. DANTEAN DREAMS.

III.

‘But knew she that I saw her, Power benign?’
Turning, I ask'd; he answer'd—‘When the light,
That clothes a blessed one, glows doubly bright,
Of some new joy is this the outward sign.
The mirror of th' Intelligence Divine
Shows her all good; because she knew the grace
That was vouchsafed thee, was it that her face
Thou saw'st with such transcendent lustre shine.’
‘I thank thee, blessed Spirit!’ I replied;
‘Now all is well; I go with heart content
My purgatorial suffering to abide.
I shall rejoin her, when my term is spent.’
The Angel smiled, then vanish'd from my side,
And I address'd me to the steep ascent.
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