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Ariel and Caliban with other poems

Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)

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ARIEL AND CALIBAN.
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LIONEL AND LUCILLE.
  
SAN BORONDON.
  
THE OLD YEAR.
  
THE CENTENNIAL YEAR.
  
AFTER THE CENTENNIAL.
  
A NIGHT-PICTURE.
  
A CHILD-SAVIOR.
  
AN OLD UMBRELLA.
  
TO IONE.
  
AFTER-LIFE.
  
PRINCE YOUSUF AND THE ALCAYDE.
  
ROSAMOND.
  
A QUESTION.
  
MY STUDIO.
  
TALENT AND GENIUS.
  
VENICE.
  
THE TWO DREAMS.
  
AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS.
  
BROKEN WINGS.
  
SEA PICTURES.
  
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS.
  
LOVE'S VOYAGE.
  
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
  
A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS.
  
THE COAL-FIRE.
  
TWO VIEWS OF IT.
  
OLD AND YOUNG.
  
THE VICTORIES OF PEACE.
  
SUMMER DAWN.
  
THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN.
  
THE WEATHER-PROPHET.
  
OMAR KHAYYÁM.
  
LONGFELLOW.
  
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
  
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE, D. D.
  
SO FAR, SO NEAR.
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SONNETS.
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TO E. P. C.
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[I. 1. The Summer goes, with all its birds and flowers]
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[II. 2. Parted by time and space for many a year]
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[III. 3. Ah, happy time! when music bound in one]
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[IV. 4. Friend, dear as Memory's joys! of life that's past]
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[V. 5. All loves have frailer roots than loves that start]
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[VI. 6. Ah, many a time our memory slips aside]
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[VII. 7. Those times are gone, that circle thinned away]
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[VIII. 8. You were not born to hide such gifts as yours]
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[IX. 9. I needs must praise the natural gifts of one]
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[X. 10. Forgive—that thus the trumpet I have blown]
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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
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XVIII. THE FIRESIDE.
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XIX. THE LADY'S SONNET. TWILIGHT.
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XX. THE LOVER'S SONNET. MIDNIGHT.
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XXI. THE PINES AND THE SEA.
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XXII. PENNYROYAL.
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XXIII. BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY.
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XXIV. THE SECEDERS. 1.
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XXV. [THE SECEDERS.] 2.
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XXVI. IN A LIBRARY. 1.
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XXVII. [IN A LIBRARY.] 2.
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XXVIII. PAST SORROWS.
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XXIX. LIFE AND DEATH. 1.
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XXX. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 2.
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XXXI. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 3.
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XXXII. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 4.
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XXXIII. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 5.
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XXXIV. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 6.
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XXXV. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 7.
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XXXVI. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 8.
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XXXVII. TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
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XXXVIII. TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ÆT. 70.
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XXXIX. BAYARD TAYLOR.
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XL. JOHN WEISS.
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XLI. GEORGE RIPLEY.
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XLII. TO G. W. C.
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XLIII. LONDON.
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XLIV. VEILED MEMORIES.
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XLV. TENNYSON. 1.
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XLVI. [TENNYSON.] 2.
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XLVII. TO G. W. C.
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XLVIII. GLADSTONE.
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XLIX. J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE.) 1.
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L. [J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE.)] 2.
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LI. THE HUMAN FLOWER. 1.
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LII. [THE HUMAN FLOWER.] 2.
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LIII. AUGUST.
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LIV. IDLE HOURS.
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LV. MUSIC AND POETRY. 1.
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LVI. [MUSIC AND POETRY.] 2.
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LVII. TO SLEEP.
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ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN.
  
A POET'S SOLILOQUY.

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XXVIII.
PAST SORROWS.

As tangled driftwood barring up a stream
Against our struggling oars when hope is high
To reach some fair green island we descry
Lying beyond us in the morning's gleam,
And shimmering like a landscape in a dream—
Yet waiting patiently the logs float by,
And all our course lies open to the eye—
So sorrows come and go. What though they seem
A blight whose touch might turn a young head gray,
Joy dawns again. Hope beckons us before.
The tide that pressed against us breaks our bars;
The visionary islands smile once more.
Life, with its rest by night, its work by day,
Forgets the old griefs, and heals their deepest scars.
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