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Poems descriptive, dramatic, legendary and contemplative

Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870)

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SOUTHERN PASSAGES AND PICTURES.

FLIGHT TO NATURE.

SABBATH IN THE FOREST.

THE LOST PLEIAD.

FIRST DAY OF SPRING.

SONNET.—BY THE SWANANNOA.

THE TRAVELLER'S REST.

AUTUMN TWILIGHT.

HAST THOU A SONG FOR A FLOWER.

LYRICAL BALLAD.

FOREST REVERIE BY STARLIGHT.

INSCRIPTION FOR THERMOPYLÆ.

THE APPROACH OF SUMMER.

“WELL,” SANG A BLUE-EYED DAMSEL.

NATURE'S FAVORITE.

SONNETS.—DAWNINGS OF FANCY.

SONNETS.—POPULAR MISDIRECTION.

THE FIRST DREAM OF LOVE.

HAUNTED WOODS.—A FRAGMENT.

SLEEPING CHILD.

THE GRAPE-VINE SWING.

SONNET.—THE OLD MASTERS.

SEASIDE SOLITUDE.

MENTAL SOLITUDE.

“SUCH, O BEAUTY!”

SONNETS.—THE CAPRICE OF THE SENSIBILITIES.

MOTHER AND CHILD.

COME, WHEN THE EVENING INTO SILENCE CLOSES.

SONNET.—DEATH IN YOUTH.

SONNETS.—TO MY FRIEND.

FLOWERS IN AUTUMN.

THE LAND OF THE PINE.

THE INUTILE PURSUIT.

SONNETS.—THE SOUL IN IMAGINATIVE ART.

THE SHADED WATER.

AT A CHILD'S GRAVE.

EVENING BY THE SEA-SHORE.

CONGAREE BOAT-HORN BY MOONLIGHT.

SONNETS.—INVOLUNTARY STRUGGLE.

TO THE MOCK-BIRD,

SONNETS.—DESPONDENCY AND SELF-REPROACH.

STANZAS IN APRIL.

ZEPHYRS, THAT WAIT ON MY LADY.

SUMMER-NIGHT WIND.

SONNETS.—PROGRESS IN DENIAL.

EVENING AT SEA.

WHERE BY DARRO'S EVENING WATERS.

THE CHILD-ANGEL.

SONNET.—THE AGE OF GOLD.

FALL OF THE LEAF.

THE EUTAW MAID.

HEADS OF THE POETS.

SONNET TO THE PAST.

THE WESTERN EMIGRANTS.

FIRST PURPOSELESS STRIVINGS OF THE IMAGINATION.

THE DECAY OF A PEOPLE.

THE TEXAN HUNTER.

THE SHADE-TREES.

THE SACRIFICE UPON OUR ALTARS.

OH! WELCOME YE THE STRANGER.

CHILDRENS' EVENING GAMBOLS.

BEAUTY'S SPRING-TIME.

THE UNQUIET SPIRIT.

SONNET.—REPROACH AND CONSOLATION.

SUMMER WEST WIND.

THE KINGS IN SHEOL.

THE LONELY ISLET.

THE BURDEN OF THE DESERT.

THE EDGE OF THE SWAMP.

THE STRUGGLE OF ENDOWMENT WITH FORTUNE.

SONNET.—FRIENDSHIP.

THE LAY OF THE CARIB DAMSEL.

THE MAGIC VOICE.

NIGHT-WATCHING.

SONNETS.—RECOMPENSE.

SUMMER IN THE SOUTH.

HEART ESSENTIAL TO GENIUS.

TWINS IN DEATH.

BALLAD.—WHERE ART THOU?

SONNETS.—SPIRIT-FLIGHTS.

YES, LONE WERE MY BOSOM.

SONNET.—AIMS.

CHANGES OF HOME.

THE FOREST GRAVE.

THOU HAST EYES LIKE STARS.

“LA BOLSA DE LAS SIERRAS.”

MORNING IN THE FOREST.

WONDERS OF THE SEA.

'TIS A LOWLY GRAVE.

BLESSINGS ON CHILDREN.

SONG.—THE BREEZE THAT SIGHS.

ON THE DEATH OF AN OBSCURE CITIZEN.

THE IMMORTALITY OF THE BELOVED.

HISTORICAL LEGENDS.

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INSCRIPTION FOR THERMOPYLÆ.

Stranger! thou stand'st upon Thermopylæ!
The pass that led into the heart of Greece,
But gave no passage save through greater hearts:
They keep it still.—Their graves are at thy feet.