Poems by William Wetmore Story

Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895)

VOL. I. PARCHMENTS AND PORTRAITS

BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION.

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NOTE BY THE EDITOR.

PARCHMENTS AND PALIMPSESTS.

A ROMAN LAWYER IN JERUSALEM.

A JEWISH RABBI IN ROME.

A PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN IN ROME.

PHIDIAS TO PERICLES.

MARCUS AURELIUS TO LUCIUS VERUS.

GIROLAMO, DETTO IL FIORENTINO, DESPONDS AND ABUSES THE WORLD.

PORTRAITS AND PERSONS.

PRAXITELES AND PHRYNE.

CHERSIPHRON.

TANTALUS.

PADRE BANDELLI PROSES TO THE DUKE LUDOVICO SFORZA ABOUT LEONARDO DA VINCI.

LEONARDO DA VINCI POETIZES TO THE DUKE IN HIS OWN DEFENCE.

A CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM:

IN THE ANTECHAMBER OF MONSIGNORE DEL FIOCCO.

THE LESSON OF MONSIGNORE GALEOTTO.

THE PADRE AND THE NOVICE.

THE DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM.

AN ENGLISH HUSBAND TO HIS ITALIAN WIFE.

BLACK EYES.

ARTEMIS.

NINA AND HER TREASURES.

NEMESIS.

VOL II. MONOLOGUES AND LYRICS

DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES AND NARRATIVES.

COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD.

VETERIS VESTIGIA FLAMMÆ.

TWO STARS.

THE END OF THE BANQUET.

SONNETS.

LITTLE WE KNOW WHAT SECRET INFLUENCE.

GLAD IS THE SUNSHINE.

THE MIGHTY MAKERS.

EUROPA.

GIOTTO'S CHAPEL.

IT WOULD NOT SEEM TO ME ONE HALF SO STRANGE.

TIMON.

[I. What were we made for? If to struggle here]

[II. We are pursued by Fate; nothing on earth]

III. High as man's hopes may fly, he ever falls

AFTER LONG DAYS OF DULL PERPETUAL RAIN.

SCHERZI.

SINGING AT TWILIGHT.

UN BACIO DATO NON È MAI PERDUTO.

[I. To each his separate work; the ox to drag the plough]

II. SHAKESPEARE.

[III. Strive not to say the whole! the Poet, in his Art]

[IV. We of our age are part, and every thrill that wakes]

[V. All Arts are one, howe'er distributed they stand]

[VI. Lift thou thyself above the accidents of life]

[VII. Yes, thrift is very good. Respect to men of thrift]

[VIII. Live not without a friend! The Alpine rock must own]

[IX. While we are young our youth too near for Art doth lie]

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[X. That dress of thine is made of many lives; I see]

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[XI. The conscious Intellect the servant is of Art]

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[XII. An inward faith alone can make our life sincere]

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[XIII. Nature in circles moves round fixed and central laws]

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[XIV. We are but what we think, and must immortal be]

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[XV. The East for sweet luxurious ease and rest]

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[XVI. The Imperfect hath a charm the Perfect cannot own]

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TWO STARS.

Look! love, into the sky, and say,
When I am gone beyond the sea,
What stars of all the many stars
Shall shine for you and me.

See! there above, in Charles's Wain,
Those two, that close together shine,
One bright and large—that shall be yours—
The little faint one, mine.

The little one, that has no praise
From all who look—the satellite—
I know not if it have a name,
It shrinks so out of sight.

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TWO STARS.