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Sonnets and Other Poems

By John K. Ingram
Ingram, John K. (1823-1907)

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I. LOVE AND SORROW.
  
DELGANY.
 II. 
II. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.
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III. DANTEAN DREAMS.
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IV. DANTEAN DREAMS.
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V. DANTEAN DREAMS.
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VI. DANTEAN DREAMS.
 VII. 
VII. DANTEAN DREAMS.
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VIII. DANTEAN DREAMS.
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IX. DANTEAN DREAMS.
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X. LOVE'S TEACHINGS.
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XI. AN APPEAL.
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XII. VISITATIONS.
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XIII. PAST AND PRESENT.
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XIV. THE ANGELUS.
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XV.
 XVI. 
XVI.
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XVII.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. HALLOWED GROUND.
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XIX.
 XX. 
XX.
 XXI. 
XXI. TREASURED WORDS.
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II. THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY.
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I. TO THE READER.
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II. TRANSFIGURATION.
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III. TRANSFIGURATION.
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IV.
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V.
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VI. GUARDIAN ANGELS.
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VII. INTERPRETERS.
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VIII.
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IX. PISGAH.
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X. ‘UTINAM VIDEREM.’
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XI. THE CHILDHOOD OF HUMANITY.
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XII. THE HUMAN HERITAGE.
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XIII.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE NEW SYNTHESIS.
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XV. MEA CULPA.
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XVI.
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XVII. DE PROFUNDIS.
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XVIII. A POSITIVIST SOLEMNITY.
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XIX. A RELIGIOUS SYMBOL.
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XX. THE MODERN FETISHISM.
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XXI.
  
THE TRIUMPH OF HUMANITY:
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III. MISCELLANEOUS.
  
A NATION'S WEALTH.
  
SOCIAL HEREDITY.
  
SOCIAL ORIGINS.
  
SAINT PAUL.
  
THE SOCIAL FUTURE.
  
PASTOR AB AMPHRYSO.
  
STREAMS.
  
NATIONAL PRESAGE.
  
A PROTEST.
  
MAJUBA.
  
ON READING THE SONNET BY R.C.D.,
  
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL.
  
1899.
  
A MONITION.
  
A FILIAL TRIBUTE.
  
SIR L. ALMA-TADEMA'S ‘WOMEN OF AMPHISSA.’
  
NOSTALGIA.
  
WINGED THOUGHTS.
  
[How brief our dates! how soon Death apprehends]
  
[Would'st thou be economical of Time]
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
TO A.J.
  
[The moon was bright that Autumn night]
  
[‘Vos plaudite!’ th' imperial Roman said]
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VERSICLES.
  
[What is the watchword of the coming ages?]
  
[Content thee to obey: thou would'st not tread]
  
[‘How to be happy?’—smiling, spoke the sage—]
  
[When in a man the flower of courtesy]
  
[Each nation master at its own fireside—]
  
[Live for thyself, thy pleasure and thy gain]
  
[The Records of the Time each morning bring]
  
[‘How sacred is this place,’ in awe I cried]
  
[The thoughts that wait upon the uninspired]
  
[As down the westward slope of life we move]
  
[Fain would I serve my brethren. How shall I]
  
[Be not too much exalted, if to-day]
  
[Despair not, if thy spirit-fire burns low]
  
[‘These thoughts are old.’ True; but each race of men]
  
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

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[Would'st thou be economical of Time]

Would'st thou be economical of Time
That, heedless squanderer of its treasury,
Wastes its dear wealth on years that bring no prime,
And grants no law to genius lest it die?
Would'st thou have store of that thou canst not bind,
And win dominion o'er the uncontroll'd?
While having but as much as all mankind,
Would'st yet have more than others of this gold?
Then use time well, and crowd thy useful years
With action, knowing that, where idlers are,
The plea of occupation most appears,
And who use most, most hours have still to spare:
For this is true, and will be to the end,
Who wastes the least, has ever most to spend.
T.D.I.
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