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Poems by Anne C. Lynch. With illustrations by Durand, Huntington, Darley, Duggan, Rothermel, etc

Botta, Anne C. Lynch (1815-1891)

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DEDICATION.
 
THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
 
ASPIRATION.
 
A THOUGHT BY THE SEA-SHORE.
 
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. N. P. WILLIS.
 
SONNET.
 
ON A PICTURE OF HARVEY BIRCH.
 
THOUGHTS IN A LIBRARY.
 
LINES
 
AN IMITATION.
 
DAY-DAWN IN ITALY.
 
FROM DE VIGNY.
 
ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.
 
TEACHING THE SCRIPTURES.
 
SONNET.
 
WASHINGTON.
 
TO ****, WITH FLOWERS.
 
TO A CHILD.
 
AN APOLOGY FOR SADNESS.
 
A DIRGE FOR O'CONNELL.
 
SONNET.
 
LINES
 
THE DUMB CREATION.
 
ON A PICTURE.
 
EVENING HYMN.
 
PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS.
 
BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE.
 
TO THE MEMORY OF CHANNING.
 
ODE
 
ODE.
 
SONNET.
 
A FAREWELL TO OLE BULL.
 
TO A POET, PAINTER AND MUSICIAN.
 
SONNET.
 
LINES.
 
LINES
 
THE WASTED FOUNTAINS.
 
CHRIST BETRAYED.
 
SONNET.
 
HAGAR.
 
SONNET.
 
THE IDEAL.
 
THE IDEAL FOUND.
 
IMAGE WORSHIP.
 
THE IMAGE BROKEN.
 
TO ---.
 
SONNET.
 
ON SEEING MRS. KEAN AS CONSTANCE IN KING JOHN.
 
THE WOUNDED VULTURE.
 
SONNET.
 
MEMORY.
 
HOPE.
 
TO ---.
 
TO ---, IN OBSCURITY.
 
THE DYING SYCAMORES.
 
LINES
 
TO ---.
 
TO AN ASTRONOMER.
 
TO ---.
 
EROS.
 
BONES IN THE DESERT.
 
SONNET.
 
TO A SILENT POET.
 
TO THE VENERABLE GENERAL GAINES.
 
TO MRS. KEAN.
 
SONNET.
 
ON A PICTURE OF RUTH.
 
SONNET.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.
 
TO ---.
 
ON A PICTURE.
 
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
 
TO THE SUN.
 
ON A PICTURE OF MY FATHER.
 
BYRON AMONG THE RUINS OF GREECE.
 
SCIENCE.
 
TO A FRIEND,
 
TO THE CENTURY PLANT.
 
WRITTEN AT TIVOLI FALLS,
 
LA FAYETTE.
 
TO ---.
 
THE EARTH TO THE SUN.
 
TO ---.
 
BRYANT.
 
DURAND.
 
TO DR. ---.
 
TO A POET'S WIFE.
 
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
 
TO ---.
 
CHENEY.
 
TO ---.
 
TO --- ---.
 
EPIGRAM.
 
TO ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
 
SONNET.
 
NIGHTFALL IN HUNGARY.
 
REQUIEM.
 
PROMETHEUS.
 
WEBSTER.

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AN APOLOGY FOR SADNESS.

When, in the miser's eager gaze,
His countless treasures lie,
Then most his coward spirit sinks,
With dread of poverty.
And when I felt within my grasp,
The treasure of thy love;
The insatiate avarice of the heart
Fierce with my spirit strove.
It troubled the clear fountain where
My thirsting soul had quaffed,
And mingled tears of bitterness
With the delicious draught.
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