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The complete poems of S. Weir Mitchell

Mitchell, S. Weir (1829-1914)

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DRAMATIC POEMS
  
FRANCIS DRAKE A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA TIME, 1578
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PHILIP VERNON
  
THE INN
  
THE CHASE
  
THE GARDEN
  
THE CHASE
  
THE FORD
  
THE GARDEN
  
RESPONSIBILITY
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WIND AND SEA
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Scene I
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Scene II
  
THE SHRIVING OF GUINEVERE
  
THE SWAN-WOMAN
  
A MEDAL
  
THE HUGUENOT
  
HOW LANCELOT CAME TO THE NUNNERY IN SEARCH OF THE QUEEN
  
THE HILL OF STONES:
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THE CUP OF YOUTH
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
  
MY LADY OF THE ROSES
  
HOW THE POET FOR AN HOUR WAS KING
  
THE VIOLIN
  
FRANÇOIS VILLON
  
THE MISER
  
THE WAGER
  
BARABBAS
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
  
THE MOTHER
  
OF DEATH AND OF ONE WHO FELL ON THE WAY
  
OF THE REMEMBERED DEAD
  
E. D. M.
  
PAINED UNTO DEATH
  
THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH
  
IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
  
A CANTICLE OF TIME
  
LINCOLN
  
COLERIDGE AT CHAMOUNY
  
TENNYSON
  
CERVANTES
  
OF A POET
  
HERNDON
  
THE TOMBS OF THE REGICIDES
  
KEARSARGE
  
HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN
  
MY CASTLES IN SPAIN
  
DREAMLAND
  
THE QUAKER LADY
  
THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD
  
DOMINIQUE DE GOURGUES
  
THE WRECK OF THE EMMELINE
  
A PSALM OF THE WATERS
  
EVENING, AFTER A STORM ON THE RISTIGOUCHE RIVER
  
RAIN IN CAMP
  
ELK COUNTY
  
A CAMP IN THREE LIGHTS
  
LAKE NIPIGON
  
EVENING STORM—NIPIGON
  
NOONDAY WOODS—NIPIGON
  
AFTER SUNSET—LAKE WEELOKENE-BAKOK
  
THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA
  
THE GRAVE OF KEATS
  
ROMA
  
VENICE
  
VENICE TO ITALY
  
THE DECAY OF VENICE
  
PISA: THE DUOMO
  
THE VESTAL'S DREAM
  
AFTER RUYSDAEL
  
AFTER ALBERT CUYP
  
NEAR AMSTERDAM
  
AFTER TENIERS
  
MILAN
  
BRUGES: QUAI DES AUGUSTINS
  
THE WAVES AT MIDNIGHT
  
THE RISING TIDE
  
EVENING BY THE SEA
  
BEAVER-TAIL ROCKS
  
THE CARRY
  
IDLENESS
  
THE LOST PHILOPENA
  
GOOD-NIGHT
  
COME IN
  
LOSS
  
A GRAVEYARD
  
OCTOBER
  
SEPTEMBER
  
YOU AND I
  
THE CHRIST OF THE SNOWS
  
ST. CHRISTOPHER
  
LINES TO A DESERTED STUDY
  
AN OLD MAN TO AN OLD MADEIRA
  
ADAM
  
TO THE FORGET-ME-NOTS
  
TO A MAGNOLIA FLOWER
  
ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF THE PLAY OF “KING HENRY THE FIFTH”
  
GUIDARELLO GUIDARELLI
  
A WAR SONG OF TYROL
  
THE “TEXAS”
  
THE SEA-GULL
  
EGYPT
  
GIBRALTAR AT DAWN
  
STORM-WAVES AND FOG ON DORR'S POINT, BAR HARBOR
  
THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON
  
FLORENCE
  
WHICH?
  
JEKYL ISLAND
  
INDIAN SUMMER
  
FRIENDSHIP
  
LOVE
  
INNOGEN
  
PRAYER
  
THE ANGELS OF PRAYER
  
A CHILD'S PRAYER
  
LINES GIVEN TO M. AT CHRISTMAS
  
THE PURE OF HEART
  
THE COMFORT OF THE HILLS
  
AN ODE OF BATTLES
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POEMS OF OCCASION
  
A DOCTOR'S CENTURY
  
MINERVA MEDICA
  
VERSES
  
A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86
  
THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF PAIN
  
A PRAYER, AFTER SANTIAGO
  
BOOKS AND THE MAN
  
ON THE RETURN OF THE CONFEDERATE FLAGS BY CONGRESS
  
REMARKS OF DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL AT THE DINNER IN HONOR OF WILLIAM H. WELCH, 2 APRIL, 1910.
  
TO ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D.
  
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND
  
ODE ON A LYCIAN TOMB
  
VESPERAL

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LOSS

Life may moult many feathers, yet delight
To soar and circle in a heaven of joy;
The pinion robbed must learn more swift employ,
Till the thinned feathers end our eager flight.
Bar Harbor, 1892.
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