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Avolio ; a legend of the island of Cos
With poems, lyrical, miscellaneous, and dramatic
Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886)
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DEDICATORY SONNET
AVOLIO—A LEGEND OF THE ISLAND OF COS.
SONNETS.
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF A SPELL OF ARCTIC WEATHER IN MAY, 1858.
1.
[I. An idle Poet dreaming in the sun]
2.
[II. Yet Stock depreciates, even Banks decay]
[Are these the mountains, this the forest gay]
POLITICAL SONNETS.
SONNET
[I. Hath the proud Spirit which o'erruled this land]
2.
[II. Strike! 'tis a righteous quarrel! strike as they]
SONNET
1.
[I. The conflict swells apace! the rallying cries]
2.
[II. Our ancient Honor, our ancestral Pride]
3.
[III. Ay! deaf, blind! lulled with opiates of self-praise]
SONNET
1.
I. Ye cannot add by any pile YE raise
2.
[II. Still must the common Voice denounce the deed]
MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS
2.
[O! pour thine inmost soul upon the Air]
WRITTEN AFTER READING TRELAWNEY'S DESCRIPTION OF THE BURNING OF SHELLEY'S BODY.
[Thou who art moving ever in the round]
[O lady! radiant lady! thy sweet eyes]
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.
THE REVELATION OF DEATH.
PRE-EXISTENCE.
ELEGIAC.
IMMATURITY.
[He stands as one to whom all life is vain]
THE GARDEN IN THE CITY.
[O! weary bondage of the clouding clay]
TO A CELEBRATED ACTRESS.
WRITTEN ON A FLY-LEAF OF THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF SIR HUDSON LOWE, EDITED BY WILLIAM FORSYTH, M. A.
AFTER THE STORM.
[Well spake the Poet, that howe'er the cry]
DEDICATED TO M. H. H.
THE ACTOR TO THE THINKER.
[All day the distant mountain tops have worn]
[The West is one great sea of cloudy fire]
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
QUEEN GALENA;
LINES
THE BATTLE IN THE DISTANCE.
TO A FRIEND IN AFFLICTION.
LIFE'S UNDER-CURRENT.
SONG.
PALINGENESIS.
LINES.
THE TEMPTER IN THE HOUSE.
THE UNPRISONED SPIRITS.
SUNSET AND MOONLIGHT.
FLOWERS FROM A GRAVE.
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
PERFECT CALM.
FRAGMENT OF AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF A GREAT STATESMAN.
JANUARY TO MAY.
A REMEMBRANCE.
LUCETTE.
THE PICTURE OF A BEAUTIFUL DEATH
THE PESTILENCE.
RETROSPECTION AND ASPIRATION.
[Vainly a hostile world may strive to tame]
[Moments there are when most familiar things]
FUGITIVE VERESES.
[Through dismal nights, and long laborious days]
A LIFE-HISTORY,—BRIEFLY TOLD.
TO G. C. H.
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Avolio ; a legend of the island of Cos
Avolio ; a legend of the island of Cos
With poems, lyrical, miscellaneous, and dramatic
Paul Hamilton Hayne
1830-1886
Ticknor and Fields
Boston
1860
Avolio ; a legend of the island of Cos