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[Poems by Drake in] The life and works of Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)

Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820)

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SECTION I THE “TRIFLES IN RHYME” COLLECTION
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The Culprit Fay
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I
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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VIII
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IX
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X
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XI
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XII
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XIII
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XIV
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XV
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XVI
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XVII
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XVIII
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XIX
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XX
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XXI
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XXII
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XXIII
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XXIV
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XXV
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XXVI
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XXVII
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XXVIII
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XXIX
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XXX
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XXXI
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XXXII
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XXXIII
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XXXIV
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XXXV
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XXXVI
  
Song
  
Song
  
To Miss Mc--- WITH A WITHERED VIOLET
  
To --- (Fannie)
  
Miss H. R.
  
Song
  
Meeting
  
Lines
  
To Miss Mc---
  
The American Flag
  
Moi-même
  
Niagara
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SECTION II ADDITIONAL POEMS IN THE 1835 EDITION
  
To A Friend
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Extracts from Leon, A Tale
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[part]
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Leon—Part II
  
[section]
  
Lines Written in An Album
  
Hope
  
Fragment. Tuscara
  
To Lais
  
Stanzas
  
To Eva
  
Bronx
  
To Sarah
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SECTION III UNCOLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED POEMS
  
To Mrs. Abbe Allen
  
The Spectre, A Fact
  
The Mocking-Bird
  
The Past and the Present
  
To --- [Rosa]
  
To Mary
  
Fragments
  
Abelard to Eloise
  
[Poetic Epistle to Fitz-Greene Halleck, May 1, 1818]
  
[Poetic Epistle to Fitz-Greene Halleck, May 10, 1818]
  
To Lais
  
To ---
  
To A Lady
  
Lines Addressed to the Defenders of New Orleans
  
To the Heroes of Niagara
  
[The Kiss]
  
To My Sister Caroline
  
To My Sister Carry
  
Sonnet
  
Song at Sea
  
Stanzas
  
To Eva
  
[Stanzas]
  
To ---
  
To --- [Eva]
  
[Life and Love]
  
Lines to A Lady
  
Additional Verse
  
[Poetical Fragment]
  
[Poetical Fragment]
  
Song
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SECTION IV ATTRIBUTED POEMS AND PROSE
  
The Sigh
  
To the Moon
  
To Eliza
  
[To Prince Croaker]

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XXXI

But oh! how fair the shape that lay
Beneath a rainbow bending bright,
She seemed to the entranced fay
The loveliest of the forms of light;
Her mantle was the purple rolled
At twilight in the west afar;
'Twas tied with threads of dawning gold,
And buttoned with a sparkling star.
Her face was like the lily rune
That hides the vestal planet's hue;
Her eyes two beamlets from the moon,
Set floating in the welkin blue.
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Her hair is like the sunny beam,
And the diamond gems which round it gleam
Are the pure drops of dewy even
Which ne'er have left their native heaven.
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