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Poems of Henry Timrod with memoir and portrait

Timrod, Henry (1828-1867)

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THE COTTON BOLL

PRÆCEPTOR AMAT

A YEAR'S COURTSHIP

YOUTH AND MANHOOD

HARK TO THE SHOUTING WIND

TOO LONG, O SPIRIT OF STORM

THE LILY CONFIDANTE

THE STREAM IS FLOWING FROM THE WEST

VOX ET PRÆTEREA NIHIL

A MOTHER'S WAIL

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW THEATRE AT RICHMOND

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A VISION OF POESY

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THE ARCTIC VOYAGER

DRAMATIC FRAGMENT

THE SUMMER BOWER

A RHAPSODY OF A SOUTHERN WINTER NIGHT

A SUMMER SHOWER

THE MESSENGER ROSE

ON PRESSING SOME FLOWERS

TO A CAPTIVE OWL

A COMMON THOUGHT

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POEMS WRITTEN IN WAR TIMES

CARMEN TRIUMPHALE

THE UNKNOWN DEAD

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[I. Poet! if on a lasting fame be bent]

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[II. Most men know love but as a part of life]

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[III. Life ever seems as from its present site]

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[IV. They dub thee idler, smiling sneeringly]

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[V. Some truths there be are better left unsaid]

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[VI. I scarcely grieve, O Nature! at the lot]

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[VII. Grief dies like joy; the tears upon my cheek]

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[VIII. At last, beloved Nature! I have met]

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[IX. I know not why, but all this weary day]

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[XI. Which are the clouds, and which the mountains? See]

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[XII. What gossamer lures thee now? What hope, what name]

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[XIII. I thank you, kind and best beloved friend]

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[XIV. Are these wild thoughts, thus fettered in my rhymes]

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POEMS NOW FIRST COLLECTED

TO ROSA ---: ACROSTIC

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Poems of Henry Timrod with memoir and portrait

Henry Timrod

1828-1867

Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press

Boston, New York Cambridge

1899