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The complete poetical works of John Hay

including many poems now first collected
Hay, John (1838-1905)

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THE PIKE COUNTY BALLADS
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WANDERLIEDER
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NEW AND OLD
  
MILES KEOGH'S HORSE
  
THE ADVANCE GUARD
  
LOVE'S PRAYER
  
CHRISTINE
  
EXPECTATION
  
TO FLORA
  
A HAUNTED ROOM
  
DREAMS
  
THE LIGHT OF LOVE
  
QUAND MÊME
  
WORDS
  
THE STIRRUP CUP
  
A DREAM OF BRIC-À-BRAC
  
LIBERTY
  
THE WHITE FLAG
  
THE LAW OF DEATH
  
MOUNT TABOR
  
RELIGION AND DOCTRINE
  
SINAI AND CALVARY
  
THE VISION OF SAINT PETER
  
ISRAEL
  
THE CROWS AT WASHINGTON
  
REMORSE
  
ESSE QUAM VIDERI
  
WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME
  
LÈSE-AMOUR
  
NORTHWARD
  
IN THE FIRELIGHT
  
IN A GRAVEYARD
  
THE PRAIRIE
  
CENTENNIAL
  
A WINTER NIGHT
  
STUDENT-SONG
  
HOW IT HAPPENED
  
GOD'S VENGEANCE
  
TOO LATE
  
LOVE'S DOUBT
  
LAGRIMAS
  
ON THE BLUFF
  
UNA
  
THROUGH THE LONG DAYS
  
A PHYLACTERY
  
BLONDINE
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DISTICHS
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[I Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her]
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[II There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going]
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[III Pleasures too hastily tasted grow sweeter in fond recollection]
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[IV As the meek beasts in the Garden came flocking for Adam to name them]
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[V What is a first love worth, except to prepare for a second]
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[VI Health was wooed by the Romans in groves of the laurel and myrtle]
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[VII Wine is like rain: when it falls on the mire it but makes it the fouler]
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[VIII Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient]
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[IX When you break up housekeeping, you learn the extent of your treasures]
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[X Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry]
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[XI Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him]
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[XII Be not too anxious to gain your next-door neighbor's approval]
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[XIII Who would succeed in the world should be wise in the use of his pronouns]
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[XIV The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish]
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[XV True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table]
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[XVI Pleasant enough it is to hear the world speak of your virtues]
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[XVII Try not to beat back the current, yet be not drowned in its waters]
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[XVIII Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting]
  
REGARDANT
  
GUY OF THE TEMPLE
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[XV
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table]

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table:
Luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
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