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Ariel and Caliban with other poems

Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)

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ARIEL AND CALIBAN.
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LIONEL AND LUCILLE.
  
SAN BORONDON.
  
THE OLD YEAR.
  
THE CENTENNIAL YEAR.
  
AFTER THE CENTENNIAL.
  
A NIGHT-PICTURE.
  
A CHILD-SAVIOR.
  
AN OLD UMBRELLA.
  
TO IONE.
  
AFTER-LIFE.
  
PRINCE YOUSUF AND THE ALCAYDE.
  
ROSAMOND.
  
A QUESTION.
  
MY STUDIO.
  
TALENT AND GENIUS.
  
VENICE.
  
THE TWO DREAMS.
  
AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS.
  
BROKEN WINGS.
  
SEA PICTURES.
  
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS.
  
LOVE'S VOYAGE.
  
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
  
A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS.
  
THE COAL-FIRE.
  
TWO VIEWS OF IT.
  
OLD AND YOUNG.
  
THE VICTORIES OF PEACE.
  
SUMMER DAWN.
  
THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN.
  
THE WEATHER-PROPHET.
  
OMAR KHAYYÁM.
  
LONGFELLOW.
  
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
  
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE, D. D.
  
SO FAR, SO NEAR.
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SONNETS.
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TO E. P. C.
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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
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XVIII. THE FIRESIDE.
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XIX. THE LADY'S SONNET. TWILIGHT.
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XX. THE LOVER'S SONNET. MIDNIGHT.
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XXI. THE PINES AND THE SEA.
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XXII. PENNYROYAL.
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XXIII. BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY.
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XXIV. THE SECEDERS. 1.
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XXV. [THE SECEDERS.] 2.
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XXVI. IN A LIBRARY. 1.
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XXVII. [IN A LIBRARY.] 2.
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XXVIII. PAST SORROWS.
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XXIX. LIFE AND DEATH. 1.
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XXX. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 2.
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XXXI. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 3.
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XXXII. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 4.
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XXXIII. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 5.
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XXXIV. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 6.
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XXXV. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 7.
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XXXVI. [LIFE AND DEATH.] 8.
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XXXVII. TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
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XXXVIII. TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ÆT. 70.
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XXXIX. BAYARD TAYLOR.
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XL. JOHN WEISS.
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XLI. GEORGE RIPLEY.
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XLII. TO G. W. C.
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XLIII. LONDON.
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XLIV. VEILED MEMORIES.
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XLV. TENNYSON. 1.
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XLVI. [TENNYSON.] 2.
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XLVII. TO G. W. C.
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XLVIII. GLADSTONE.
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XLIX. J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE.) 1.
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L. [J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE.)] 2.
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LI. THE HUMAN FLOWER. 1.
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LII. [THE HUMAN FLOWER.] 2.
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LIII. AUGUST.
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LIV. IDLE HOURS.
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LV. MUSIC AND POETRY. 1.
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LVI. [MUSIC AND POETRY.] 2.
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LVII. TO SLEEP.
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ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN.
  
A POET'S SOLILOQUY.

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XLIII.
LONDON.

Black in the midnight lies the City vast.
Its dim horizon from my window high
I see shut in beneath a misty sky
Red with the light a million lamp-fires cast
Up from the humming streets. And now at last
With lessening roar the weary wheels go by.
At last in sleep all discords swoon and die.
Now wakes the solemn visionary Past,
Peopled with spirits of the mighty dead
Whose names are London's glory and her shame—
Seers, poets, heroes, martyrs—deathless lives
Long blazoned in the chronicles of fame.
The inglorious Present veils its dwarfish head.
England's ideal life alone survives!
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