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Sonnets and canzonets

Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888)

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[I. Auspicious morn, com'st opportune, unbought?]

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[II. Ah! why so brief the visit, short his stay?]

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[III. Not all the brilliant beauties I have seen]

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[IV. The April rains are past, the frosts austere]

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[V. Most precious leaves the mail delights to bring]

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[VI. 'T is but a half-hour's walk the Mill-Dam o'er]

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[VII. The morning's clear, the sky without a frown]

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[VIII. Mean are all titles of nobility]

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[IX. Now I no longer wait my love to tell]

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[X. Unconquerable and inviolate]

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[XI. Ancestral tendencies far down descend]

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[XII. Hither, the gray and shapely church beside]

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[XIII. My Lady reads, with judgment and good taste]

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[XIV. Not Wordsworth's genius, Pestalozzi's love]

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[XV. Daughter, beloved of all, thy tender eye]

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[XVI. When I remember with what buoyant heart]

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[XVII. 'T was not permitted thee the Fates to please]

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XVIII. LOVE'S MORROW.

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[XIX. O Death! thou utterest deeper speech]

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[XX. Voyager across the seas]

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[XXI. Dear Heart! if aught to human love I've owed]

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[XXII. Calm vale of comfort, peace, and industry]

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Sonnets and canzonets

Amos Bronson Alcott

1799-1888

Roberts Brothers

Boston

[1882]