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Thoughts in Verse

A Volume of Poems

Rowe, George Clinton (1853-1903)

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I.

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II.

PART II.—SUNBEAMS.

A CHRISTMAS STORY.

A RECORD ABOVE.

HOLD FAST, HOLD ON, HOLD OUT.

SABBATH MORNING.

FIRELIGHT FANCIES.

POWER OF A SONG.

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III.

PART III.—IN MEMORIAM.

Rev. Allan McLean,

Wendell Phillips.

Miss Ann Eliza Davis,

Janie Armstrong.

Dr. George W. Levere.

[Dr. George W. Levere.]

Mrs. A. Isabel Herron.

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IV.

PART IV.—PSALMS IN VERSE.

TWENTY-THIRD PSALM.

THIRTY-NINTH PSALM.

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V.

PART V. BETHESDA, AND OTHER POEMS.

MOTHER'S 69TH BIRTHDAY.

BURNING OF ACADEMIC HALL.

SISTERS OF PLYMOUTH.

PLYMOUTH CHOIR.

THE SONG OF MOSES.

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VI.

PART VI—AMBITION.

THE REASON WHY.

TEACHERS OF GEORGIA.

IT IS NOT ALL OF LIFE TO LIVE.

SLUICE THE DYKE.

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VII.

PART VII.—MISCELLANEOUS.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

REDEEM THE TIME.

LE COQ ET LA PERLE.

GENIUS IN RUINS.

THE HOUR OF DEATH.

THE EARTHQUAKE.

JEALOUSY.

THE PASSING YEAR.

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JEALOUSY.

Call it the green-eyed monster?
Name most mild for such an attribute!
The half is not expressed—it is a brute!
Of all things most unreasonable;
Of all things most unseasonable;
Of all things disagreeable!
Meanness in the superlative degree!
The crowning ill of life is—jealousy.