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A Dream of Death (prose)
How appropriate, and sadly truthful, is the expression, “The night of the grave!” How the deep shadows of impenetrable mystery hang about the dread portals of eternity; … Continue Reading …
A Fragment
Thou darest not love me!—thou canst only see
The great gulf set between us. Hadst thou love,
‘T would bear thee o’er it on a wing of fire! … Continue Reading …
A Lay
The glorious queen of heaven, who flings
Her royal radiance round me now,
As with clasped hands and upturned brow … Continue Reading …
An Offering To Anna
I send this ring of braided hair,
A simple gift, to thee,
One more fond pledge of perfect trust, … Continue Reading …
Ariadne
Daughter of Crete, how one brief hour,
E’en in thy young love’s early morn,
Sends storm and darkness o’er thy bower, … Continue Reading …
Arnold De Winkelried
Day immortal in Helvetia,—day to every Switzer dear,—
Day that saw Duke Leopold down before Sempach appear,
Just as morning fresh and stilly dawned above the ancient town, … Continue Reading …
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Constance
The tropic stars are looking down
Upon the midnight deep;
The wind blows fresh, as on our course… Continue Reading …
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Darkened Hours
With folded arms and drooping head
I stand, my heart’s blest goal unwon,
My soul’s high purpose unattained; … Continue Reading …
Dreams
There was a season when I loved
The calm and holy night,—
When, like yon silvery evening star, … Continue Reading …
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Emilie Plater
O rainbow of the battle-storm!
Methinks thou ‘rt gleaming on my sight;
I see thy fair and fragile form … Continue Reading …
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Fanny Forester
A thousand sweet ties bind her here,—
O friend! thy fears are vain!
The blessed angels will not break … Continue Reading …
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Hervey To Nina.—Miss Bremer
Divided in our lives, and yet twin-hearted!
Our sad first parents shared a happier fate;
When, from Love’s Eden, dearest, we departed, … Continue Reading …
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I Never Will Grow Old
O, no, I never will grow old;
Though years on years roll by,
And silver o’er my dark brown hair, … Continue Reading …
Illumination For Victories In Mexico
Light up thy homes, Columbia,
For those chivalric men
Who bear to scenes of warlike strife … Continue Reading …
Invocation To Mother Earth
O Earth! thy face hath not the grace
That smiling Heaven did bless,
When thou wert “good,” and blushing stood … Continue Reading …
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L’Envoi
I know these lays will come to thee
Like flowers along thy pathway strown,
And wear, to thy young, generous eyes, … Continue Reading …
Love-Letter To A Friend
Dear Anna, hast ne’er heard it told
How florists have the curious power
To graft on some rude garden-plant … Continue Reading …
Love’s Emblems
There was a rose, that blushing grew
Within my life’s young bower;
The angels sprinkled holy dew … Continue Reading …
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Nina To Hervey.—Miss Bremer
Canst thou forget, beloved, our first awaking
From out the shadowy realm of doubts and dreams
To know Love’s perfect sunlight round us breaking, … Continue Reading …
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Proem
Some poet dreams come to the soul
In mystic beauty clad,
Unearthly in their loveliness,… Continue Reading …
Putnam
Let the haughty smile, the low defame,
The heartless worldling mock;
I thank my God my fathers came … Continue Reading …
Pygmalion
The sculptor paused before his finished work,—
A wondrous statue of divinest mould.
Like Cytherea’s were the rounded limbs, … Continue Reading …
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Reconciliation
Yes, all is well. The cloud hath passed away
That hung above our friendship’s path awhile;
For truth hath pierced it with a golden ray, … Continue Reading …
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Siri, The Swimmer.—Miss Bremer
When evening with its breezy air
Succeeds the sultry day,
Let others wear, in crowds and glare, … Continue Reading …
Songs
No passionless creature of duty,
No child of capricious delay,
Our love, like the goddess of beauty, … Continue Reading …
Spirit Longings
ife’s glorious things,
The deathless themes of song,
The grand, the proud, the beautiful, … Continue Reading …
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The Army Of Reform
Yes, ye are few,—and they were few,
Who, daring storm and sea,
Once raised upon old Plymouth rock … Continue Reading …
The Dream
Last night, my love, I dreamed of thee,
Yet ‘t was no dream Elysian:
Draw closer to my breast, dear Blanche, … Continue Reading …
The First Doubt
My heart is chilled with sudden fear,
And heavy on my spirit lies
The doubt that breathed from thy harsh tones, … Continue Reading …
The Flight Of Genius
Where in their Northern grandeur lie
Old Ocean’s craggy shores,—
Where waves give back the glorious sky, … Continue Reading …
The Gold-Seeker
‘T was upon a Southern desert, and beneath a burning sky,
That a pilgrim to the gold-clime sunk, o’erwearied, down to die!
He was young, and fair, and slender, but he bore a gallant heart,—… Continue Reading …
The Horseback Ride
When troubled in spirit, when weary of life,
When I faint ‘neath its burdens, and shrink from its strife
When its fruits, turned to ashes, are mocking ray taste … Continue Reading …
The Last Gift
I leave thee, love! In vain hast thou
The God of life implored;
My clinging soul is torn from thine, … Continue Reading …
The Leap From The Long Bridge
Now rest for the wretched. The long day is past,
And night on yon prison descendeth at last.
Now lock up and bolt.—Ha, jailer! look there! … Continue Reading …
The Lost Heart
“Say, have you found the heart I lost
As you and I, last night,
The fragrant, new-mown meadow crossed, … Continue Reading …
The May Morning
The morning brightness showereth down from heaven
The morning freshness goeth up from earth;
The morning gladness shineth everywhere! … Continue Reading …
The Midnight Vigil
They say a tempest is abroad to-night;
They tell me of its fearful sights and sounds,—
Of driving rains, the rush and roar of winds, … Continue Reading …
The Poet Of To-Day
What siren joy from thy high trust hath won thee,
O Poet of to-day?—thou still unheard,
Though struggling nations cast their eyes upon thee, … Continue Reading …
The Poet’s Home
We have struggled up the hill-side,
We stand upon its brow,—
O, lovely as a dream of heaven, … Continue Reading …
The Restored
Our Father, when our loved one lay
With her languid eyes half closed,
When the darkening shadow of the grave … Continue Reading …
The Story Of A Life
The world smiled on me at my birth,—
Beneath a rose-hued sky,
Rocked on the summer waves of love, … Continue Reading …
The Wife’s Appeal
I’m thinking, Charles, ‘t is just a year,
Or will be, very soon,
Since first you told me of your love, … Continue Reading …
Therese
A rose once pressed against thy lips,
Then gayly flung to me,
Is all the gift I treasure upIn memory of thee; … Continue Reading …
To ———
We never met; yet to my soul
Thy name hath been a voice of singing,
And ever to thy glorious lays … Continue Reading …
To ———, In Absence
When first we met, beloved, rememberest thou
How all my nature was athirst and faint?
My soul’s high powers lay wasting still and slow, … Continue Reading …
To A Bereaved Friend
Thy Mary hath gone from thee; —thou hast folded
For the last time her dear form to thy breast,
And on those lips, in softest beauty moulded, … Continue Reading …
To A Poet
Tender and pale the young moon shone,—
The time of dreams stole o’er the earth,
Stilling the greenwood’s sounds of mirth, … Continue Reading …
To A Poetess
A nameless power lives in thy verse,
A gleam of things divine!
And with meek looks and clasped hands … Continue Reading …
To A Reformer
“Enthusiast,” ” Dreamer,”—such the names
Thine age bestows on thee,
For that great nature, going forth … Continue Reading …
To Bayard Taylor
I send thee here no valentine,
I only dash thee off a line. … Continue Reading …
To Count ———
We need not to be told thou art
Of Rome’s own glorious race;
We hear her song breathe in thy voice, … Continue Reading …
To Fitz-Greene Halleck
Must silence rest upon thy lyre,
And will thy hand awake it never?
And must the great deeps of thy soul … Continue Reading …
To G. H. C.
As Linnæus wrote his name in flowers,
Thus, Artist, shall it ever be
That lily brows, carnation cheeks, … Continue Reading …
To G. P. Morris
Apollo once had leave to travel;
He sought our Yankee land,
And he lionized it through,… Continue Reading …
To Helen Irving
Again thou comest like a star of brightness,—
As pure and tender, as serene and fair;
I hear thy tones of love, or joyous lightness! … Continue Reading …
To Miss A. C. L ———
Thy life is like a fountain clear, upspringing
Beside the weary way I ‘m treading now;
I love to linger near, and feel it flinging … Continue Reading …
To Miss C. M. Sedgwick
O glory-wedded! to thy brow
A coronal is given,
For which, when song and Greece were young, … Continue Reading …
To Mr. Giles
A classic heaven of old thy soul,—
Song, grace, and fire divine;
But the heaven of a purer faith, … Continue Reading …
To Mr. Inman
Moore tells us, in his dulcet lays,
A damsel, in the good old days,
Fell most imprudently in love… Continue Reading …
To One Afar
O strong and pure of soul!—O earnest-hearted!
Like stranger-pilgrims at some way-side shrine
Have we two met, and mingled faith, and parted,— … Continue Reading …
To One Who Knows
They told me, when I knew thee first,
Thou wert not made for loving,
That next St. Valentine’s would see … Continue Reading …
To The Hon. D. P. King, With An Autograph
A child of the Republic,
I have never bowed the knee
To coronets or sceptres, … Continue Reading …
To The Wife Of A Poet
O faithful friend! O gentle wife!
I know I may not add to-day
One drop unto thy “wine of life, … Continue Reading …
To The Wife Of An Artist
How like soft skies that bend at even
Italia’s vales above,
Thy spirit’s pure and tranquil heaven, … Continue Reading …
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Valentines.
– To Fitz-Greene Halleck
Must silence rest upon thy lyre,
And will thy hand awake it never?
And must the great deeps of thy soul … Continue Reading …
– To A Reformer
“Enthusiast,” ” Dreamer,”—such the names
Thine age bestows on thee,
For that great nature, going forth … Continue Reading …
– To Miss C. M. Sedgwick
O glory-wedded! to thy brow
A coronal is given,
For which, when song and Greece were young, … Continue Reading …
– To Mr. Giles
A classic heaven of old thy soul,—
Song, grace, and fire divine;
But the heaven of a purer faith, … Continue Reading …
– To Bayard Taylor
I send thee here no valentine,
I only dash thee off a line. … Continue Reading …
– To G. P. Morris
Apollo once had leave to travel;
He sought our Yankee land,
And he lionized it through,… Continue Reading …
– To Miss A. C. L ———
Thy life is like a fountain clear, upspringing
Beside the weary way I ‘m treading now;
I love to linger near, and feel it flinging … Continue Reading …
– To A Poet
Tender and pale the young moon shone,—
The time of dreams stole o’er the earth,
Stilling the greenwood’s sounds of mirth, … Continue Reading …
– To The Wife Of A Poet
O faithful friend! O gentle wife!
I know I may not add to-day
One drop unto thy “wine of life, … Continue Reading …
– To The Wife Of An Artist
How like soft skies that bend at even
Italia’s vales above,
Thy spirit’s pure and tranquil heaven, … Continue Reading …
– To G. H. C.
As Linnæus wrote his name in flowers,
Thus, Artist, shall it ever be
That lily brows, carnation cheeks, … Continue Reading …
– To Mr. Inman
Moore tells us, in his dulcet lays,
A damsel, in the good old days,
Fell most imprudently in love… Continue Reading …
– To ———
We never met; yet to my soul
Thy name hath been a voice of singing,
And ever to thy glorious lays … Continue Reading …
– To Count ———
We need not to be told thou art
Of Rome’s own glorious race;
We hear her song breathe in thy voice, … Continue Reading …
– To One Who Knows
They told me, when I knew thee first,
Thou wert not made for loving,
That next St. Valentine’s would see … Continue Reading …
– To Helen Irving
Again thou comest like a star of brightness,—
As pure and tender, as serene and fair;
I hear thy tones of love, or joyous lightness! … Continue Reading …
– To A Poetess
A nameless power lives in thy verse,
A gleam of things divine!
And with meek looks and clasped hands … Continue Reading …
Voices From The Old World: The Famine Of 1847
A voice from out the Highlands,
Old Scotia’s mountain homes!
From wild burn-side, and darksome glen, … Continue Reading …
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Wanted.—A Theme
The spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,
Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, and love, and light;
The birds from out the sunny South, Heaven-guided, hither come; … Continue Reading …
War-Song Of The Magyars
A battle-shout for Hungary
Once more shall wake the day,—
A joyful summons to the brave, … Continue Reading …
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