THE NEW DAY
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PRELUDE |
3
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PART I
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I— |
Sonnet |
4
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II— |
Sonnet |
4
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III— |
"A barren stretch that slants to the salt sea's gray" |
5
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IV— |
Hesitation. (A Portrait) |
5
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V— |
Love grown Bold |
6
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INTERLUDE |
6
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PART II
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I— |
Words without Song |
7
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II— |
The Traveler |
7
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III— |
"Come to me ye who suffer" |
8
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IV— |
Written on a Fly-Leaf of "Shakespeare's Sonnets" |
9
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V— |
"And were that best!" |
9
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VI— |
"There is nothing new under the sun" |
10
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VII— |
Love's Cruelty |
11
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INTERLUDE |
11
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PART III
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I— |
"The pallid watcher of the eastern skies" |
12
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II— |
"My love for thee doth march like armèd men" |
12
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III— |
"What would I save thee from?" |
13
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IV— |
"What would I win thee to?" |
13
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V— |
"I will be brave for thee" |
14
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VI— |
"Love me not, Love, for that I first loved thee" |
14
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VII— |
Body and Soul:—
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VIII— |
"Thy lover, Love, would have some nobler way" |
16
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IX— |
Love's Jealousy |
16
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X— |
Love's Monotone |
17
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XI— |
"Once Only" |
17
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XII— |
Denial |
18
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XIII— |
"Once when we walked within a summer field" |
18
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XIV— |
Song: "I love her gentle forehead" |
19
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XV— |
Listening to Music |
19
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XVI— |
"A song of the maiden morn" |
20
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XVII— |
Words in Absence |
20
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XVIII— |
Song: "The birds were singing" |
21
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XIX— |
Thistle-Down |
21
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XX— |
"O sweet wild roses that bud and blow!" |
22
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XXI— |
The River |
22
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XXII— |
The Lover's Lord and Master |
23
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XXIII— |
Song: "My love grew" |
23
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XXIV— |
"A night of stars and dreams" |
24
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XXV— |
A Birthday Song |
24
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XXVI— |
"What can love do for thee, Love?" |
25
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XXVII— |
"The smile of her I love" |
25
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XXVIII— |
Francesca and Paolo |
26
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XXIX— |
The Unknown Way |
26
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XXX— |
The Sower |
27
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XXXI— |
"When the last doubt is doubted" |
28
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INTERLUDE |
29
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PART IV
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I— |
Song: "Love, Love, my love" |
30
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II— |
The Mirror |
30
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III— |
Likeness in Unlikeness |
30
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IV— |
Song: "Not from the whole wide world" |
31
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V— |
All in One |
31
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VI— |
"I count my time by times that I meet thee" |
32
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VII— |
Song: "Years have flown" |
32
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VIII— |
The Seasons |
32
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IX— |
"Summer's rain and winter's snow" |
33
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X— |
The Violin |
33
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XI— |
"O mighty river, triumphing to the sea" |
34
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XII— |
"My songs are all of thee" |
35
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XIII— |
After Many Days |
35
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XIV— |
Weal and Woe |
36
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XV— |
"O, Love is not a summer mood" |
36
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XVI— |
"Love is not bond to any man" |
37
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XVII— |
"He knows not the path of duty" |
37
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AFTER-SONG |
38
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THE CELESTIAL PASSION
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PRELUDE |
41
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PART I
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Art and Life |
41
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The Poet and his Master |
43
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Mors Triumphalis |
45
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The Master-Poets |
49
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PART II
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A Christmas Hymn |
49
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Easter |
50
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A Madonna of Fra Lippo Lippi |
52
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Cost |
52
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The Song of a Heathen (sojourning in Galilee, A. D. 32) |
53
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Holy Land |
53
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On a Portrait of Servetus |
54
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"Despise not thou" |
54
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"To rest from weary work" |
55
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PART III
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Recognition |
55
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Hymn sung at the Presentation of the Obelisk to the City of New York, February 22, 1881 |
57
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A Thought |
58
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The Voice of the Pine |
59
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Morning, Noon, and Night |
60
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"Day unto day uttereth speech" |
61
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PART IV
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The Soul |
61
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"When Love dawned" |
62
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Love and Death:—
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Father and Child |
63
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"Beyond the branches of the pine" |
64
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An Autumn Meditation |
64
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"Call me not dead" |
66
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"Each moment holy is" |
66
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"When to sleep I must" |
66
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To a Departed Friend. (J. G. H.) |
67
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"The Evening Star" |
67
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Life:—
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The Freed Spirit |
69
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Undying Light:—
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LYRICS
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PART I
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Ode |
73
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A Song of Early Summer |
75
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A Midsummer Song |
76
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"On the wild rose tree" |
77
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"Beyond all beauty is the unknown grace" |
78
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The Violet |
78
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The Young Poet |
80
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A Song of Early Autumn |
81
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The Building of the Chimney |
82
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"A word said in the dark" |
87
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A Riddle of Lovers |
87
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The Dark Room. (A Parable) |
88
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Before Sunrise |
89
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"The woods that bring the sunset near" |
89
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Sunset from the Train |
90
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"After Sorrow's night" |
91
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A November Child |
92
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At Night |
92
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Cradle Song |
93
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"Nine years" |
93
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"Back from the darkness to the light again" |
94
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PART II
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Fate |
94
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"We met upon the crowded way" |
96
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The White and the Red Rose |
96
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A Woman's Thought |
98
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The River Inn |
99
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The Homestead |
100
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At Four Score |
101
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John Carman |
103
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Drinking Song |
106
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The Voyager |
106
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A Lament for the Dead of the Jeannette brought Home on the Frisia |
107
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Ill Tidings. (The Studio Concert) |
110
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A New World |
110
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PART III
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Congress: 1878 |
111
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The City |
112
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Reform |
112
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At Garfield's Grave. (September, 1881) |
113
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Memorial Day |
114
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The North to the South |
114
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The Burial of Grant. (New York, August 8, 1885) |
115
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The Dead Comrade. (At the burial of Grant, a bugler stood forth and sounded "taps") |
116
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On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln |
117
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The President. (Written during the first administration of President Cleveland) |
118
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PART IV
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Essipoff |
118
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Adele aus der Ohe |
119
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Modjeska |
120
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The Drama. (Supposed to be from the Polish) |
120
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For an Album. (To be read one hundred years after) |
122
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Porto Fino |
123
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Impromptus:—
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PART V
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Music and Words |
128
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The Poet's Fame |
129
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The Poet's Protest |
131
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To a Young Poet |
132
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"When the true poet comes" |
132
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Youth and Age |
133
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The Sonnet |
134
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A Sonnet of Dante. "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare" |
134
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The New Troubadours. (Avignon, 1879) |
135
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Keats |
135
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An Inscription in Rome. (Piazza di Spagna) |
136
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Desecration |
136
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"Jocoseria" |
137
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To an English Friend, with Emerson's "Poems" |
138
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Our Elder Poets. (1878) |
139
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Longfellow's "Book of Sonnets" |
140
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"H. H." |
140
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The Modern Rhymer |
141
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TWO WORLDS AND OTHER POEMS
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PART I
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Two Worlds
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PART II
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The Star in the City |
145
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Moonlight |
146
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"I care not if the skies are white" |
147
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Contrasts |
148
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Serenade. (For Music) |
148
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Largess |
149
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Indoors, at Night |
149
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The Absent Lover |
150
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"To-night the music doth a burden bear" |
150
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Sanctum Sanctorum |
150
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The Gift |
151
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"Ah, Time, go not so soon" |
153
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"The years are angels" |
153
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"In her young eyes" |
153
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"Yesterday, when we were friends" |
153
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A Night Song. (For the Guitar) |
154
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Leo |
154
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PART III
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Brothers |
155
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Love, Art, and Time. (On a picture entitled "The Portrait," by Will H. Low) |
156
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The Dancers. (On a picture entitled "Summer," by T. W. Dewing) |
156
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The Twenty-third of April |
157
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Emma Lazarus |
157
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The Twelfth of December. (Robert Browning) |
158
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PART IV
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Sheridan |
158
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Sherman |
160
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Pro Patria. (In memory of a faithful chaplain: the Rev. William Henry Gilder) |
161
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To the Spirit of Abraham Lincoln. (Reunion at Gettysburg twenty-five years after the battle) |
163
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Failure and Success. (G. C., 1888) |
163
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J. R. L.: on his Birthday |
164
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Napoleon |
164
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The White Czar's People |
164
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Charleston: 1886 |
167
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PART V
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Hide not thy Heart |
168
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"The poet from his own sorrow" |
169
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"White, pillared neck" |
170
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"Great nature is an army gay" |
170
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"Life is the cost" |
171
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The Prisoner's Thought |
172
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The Condemned |
173
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"Sow thou sorrow" |
174
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Temptation |
174
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A Midsummer Meditation |
174
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"As doth the bird" |
175
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Visions:—
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With a Cross of Immortelles |
176
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The Passing of Christ |
177
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Credo |
180
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Non Sine Dolore |
181
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PART VI
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Ode. (Read before the Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University, June 26, 1890) |
185
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AFTER-SONG: To Rosamond |
189
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THE GREAT REMEMBRANCE
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PART I
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The Great Remembrance. (Read at the Annual Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, Faneuil Hall, Boston, June 27, 1893) |
193
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PART II
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"The White City". (The Columbian Exposition) |
201
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The Vanishing City |
202
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The Tower of Flame. (The Columbian Exposition, July 10, 1893) |
204
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Lowell |
205
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The Silence of Tennyson |
206
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On the Death of a Great Man. (Phillips Brooks) |
207
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A Hero of Peace. (In memory of Robert Ross: shot March 6, 1894) |
207
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Washington at Trenton. (The Battle Monument, October 19, 1893) |
208
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Fame |
209
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A Monument by Saint-Gaudens |
209
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A Memory of Rubinstein |
210
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Paderewski |
210
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Handel's Largo |
211
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The Stairway |
212
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The Actor |
212
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The Stricken Player. (Edwin Booth) |
212
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An Autumn Dirge. (E. F. H.) |
213
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Eleonora Duse |
215
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Kelp Rock. (E. C. S.) |
215
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At Niagara |
215
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The Child-Garden |
216
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The Christ-Child. (A picture by Frank Vincent Du Mond) |
217
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A Child |
218
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Two Valleys |
218
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On the Bay |
219
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Washington Square |
219
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The City |
220
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A Rhyme of Tyringham. (In the Berkshire Mountains) |
221
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Elsie |
222
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Indirection |
223
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"Ah, be not false" |
223
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The Answer |
224
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How Death may make a Man |
224
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"Came to a master of song" |
225
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Bards |
226
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Meridian |
227
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Evening in Tyringham Valley |
228
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PART III
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A Week's Calendar:—
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PART IV
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Songs:—
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IN PALESTINE AND OTHER POEMS
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PART I
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In Palestine |
239
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The Anger of Christ |
242
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The Birds of Bethlehem |
243
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Noël |
244
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"The supper at Emmaus." (A picture by Rembrandt) |
244
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The Doubter |
245
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The Parthenon by Moonlight |
245
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The Ottoman Empire |
246
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Karnak |
247
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"Angelo, thou art the master" |
249
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A Winter Twilight in Provence |
250
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PART II
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"The poet's day" |
253
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"How to the singer comes the song?" |
253
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"Like the bright picture" |
254
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Remembrance of Beauty |
254
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Music in Solitude |
255
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"A power there is" |
256
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The Song's Answer |
257
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The 'Cello |
257
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The Valley Road |
258
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Hawthorne in Berkshire |
259
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Late Summer |
260
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An Hour in a Studio. (F. L.) |
260
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Illusion |
261
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A Song of the Road |
261
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"Not here" |
262
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"'No, no,' she said" |
262
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A Soul Lost, and Found |
263
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"This hour my heart went forth, as in old days" |
264
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"Even when joy is near" |
265
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Resurrection |
266
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"As soars the eagle" |
266
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PART III
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Robert Gould Shaw. (The monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens) |
267
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""The North Star draws the hero." (To H. N. G.) |
268
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Glave |
269
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Of Henry George. (Who died fighting against political tyranny and corruption, New York, 1897) |
269
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Scorn |
269
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The Heroic Age. (Athens, 1896) |
270
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The Sword of the Spirit. (In memory of Joe Evans) |
271
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"Through all the cunning ages" |
272
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One Country—One Sacrifice. (Ensign Worth Bagley, May 11, 1898) |
273
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"When with their country's anger" |
273
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A Vision |
274
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The Word of the White Czar |
275
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PART IV
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A Song for Dorothea, across the Sea |
277
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A Blind Poet |
278
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On a Woman seen upon the Stage. ("Tess," as played by Mrs. Fiske) |
278
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Of One who neither Sees nor Hears. (Helen Keller) |
278
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For the Espousals of Jeanne Roumanille, of Avignon |
279
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To Marie Josephine Girard, Queen of the Félibres, on her Wedding-Day |
280
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Inscription for a Tower in Florence. (Written for the Chatelaine) |
280
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With a Volume of Dante |
281
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POEMS AND INSCRIPTIONS
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Autumn at Four-Brooks Farm |
285
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Indoors in Early Spring |
285
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The Night Pasture |
286
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A Letter from the Farm |
288
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Summer Begins |
291
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"Strolling toward Shottery" |
291
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Stratford Bells |
292
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In Wordsworth's Orchard. (Dove Cottage) |
293
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Sir Walter Scott |
293
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A Day in Tuscany |
295
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A Sacred Comedy in Florence. (In which takes part a certain statue on the façade of the Duomo) |
296
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Michael Angelo's Aurora. (The Medici Chapel, Florence) |
297
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The Old Master |
297
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At Luther's Grave. (Wittenberg) |
298
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Beethoven. (Vienna) |
298
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The Desert |
299
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Egypt |
299
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Syria |
300
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The Dead Poet. (A. H.) |
300
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War |
301
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The Blameless Knight |
302
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The Demagogue |
303
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The Tool |
303
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The New Politician |
304
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A Lady to a Knight |
305
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"Is Hope a phantom?" |
305
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Song: "If lest thy heart betray thee" |
305
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Memory |
306
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"O glorious Sabbath sun" |
307
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Motto for a Tree-Planting |
307
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Janet |
307
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On being asked for a Song concerning the Dedication of a Mountain in Samoa to the Memory of Stevenson. (A letter to I. O. S.) |
308
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To Austin Dobson |
309
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To L. R. S. |
309
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A Name |
310
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John George Nicolay. (Washington, D. C, September, 1901) |
310
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The Comfort of the Trees. (McKinley: September, 1901) |
310
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The City of Light. (The Pan-American Exposition) |
311
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Inscriptions for the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, 1901
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"IN THE HIGHTS"
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"In the hights." (John R. Procter) |
323
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Home Acres |
324
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A Call to the Mountains |
325
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Spring Surprise |
327
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Autumn Trees |
327
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"The light lies on the farther hills" |
327
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"Ah, near, dear friend" |
328
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Music in Darkness. (Adele aus der Ohe) |
328
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The Anger of Beethoven |
330
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Mother and Child |
330
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Alice Freeman Palmer |
331
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"Mother of heroes." (Sarah Blake Shaw) |
331
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The Great Citizen. (Abram Stevens Hewitt) |
332
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On Reading of a Poet's Death. (Carlyle McKinley) |
332
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John Henry Boner |
333
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"A wondrous song" |
333
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A New Poet |
334
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The Singer of Joy |
335
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Bread upon the Waters |
335
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Lost |
336
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"What man hath done" |
336
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"He pondered well" |
337
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"Thou thinkest thou hast lived" |
338
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The Good Man |
338
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"So fierce the buffets" |
339
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Two Heroes |
339
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The World's End |
340
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Shelley's "Ozymandias" |
340
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La Salle. (Explorer of the Mississippi) |
341
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Inauguration Day |
341
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The Washington Monument. (At Washington, D. C.) |
342
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Builders of the State |
342
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Impromptus:—
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The Passing of Joseph Jefferson |
351
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"Shall we not praise the living?" |
353
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Hymn. (Written for the service in memory of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, held by the Southern Education Conference, Richmond, Virginia, April 26, 1903) |
356
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John Wesley. (Written for the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Wesley, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, June, 1903) |
357
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A Temple of Art. (Written for the opening of the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, May 31, 1905) |
361
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THE FIRE DIVINE
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The Fire Divine |
367
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The Invisible. (At a lecture) |
368
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Destiny. (After reading a work on Astronomy) |
369
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The Old Faith |
369
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The Doubter's Soliloquy |
370
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Law |
372
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Identity |
373
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"Spare me my dreams" |
374
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Hymn. (Thanksgiving for Saints and Prophets) |
374
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The Valley of Life |
375
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To One Impatient of Form in Art |
377
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To the Poet |
378
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Compensation |
379
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The Poet's Secret |
380
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"The day began as other days begin" |
380
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A Poet's Question |
381
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Prelude for "A Book of Music" |
382
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Music at Twilight |
384
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Music in Moonlight |
386
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The Unknown Singer |
387
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The Voice |
387
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Wagner |
388
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"The Pathetic Symphony." (Tschaikowsky) |
388
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MacDowell |
388
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A Fantasy of Chopin. (Gabrilowitsch) |
389
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"How strange the musician's memory" |
390
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"In a night of midsummer" |
390
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In the White Mountains |
391
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John Paul Jones |
391
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To Emma Lazarus. (1905) |
392
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Carl Schurz |
392
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George MacDonald |
393
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Josephine Shaw Lowell |
394
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"One rose of song." (Mary Putnam Jacobi) |
396
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John Malone. (1906) |
397
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"Lost Leaders." (City Club Memorial in honor of Wheeler H. Peckham, James C. Carter, William H. Baldwin, Jr., and Norton Goddard) |
397
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On a Certain Agnostic. (G. E.) |
398
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"A weary waste without her." (L. B. P.) |
398
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The Poet's Sleep. (T. B. A.) |
399
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Where Spring began |
399
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Avarice |
400
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Pity the Blind |
400
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Proof of Service. (To R. F. C.) |
400
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Conquered |
401
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Blame. (A memory of Eisleben, the place of Luther's birth and death) |
401
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The Whisperers. (New York, 1905) |
402
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Before the Grand Jury |
403
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"In the Cities" |
404
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A Tragedy of To-day. (New York, 1905) |
406
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The Old House |
409
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"There's no place like the old place." (Old Home Week, Tyringham, 1905) |
412
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Glen Gilder |
417
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Song: "Maria Mia" |
418
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Obscuration |
419
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"I dreamed" |
419
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Impromptus:—
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The Watchman on the Tower. (January, 1907) |
422
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Under the Stars: A Requiem for Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
424
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IN HELENA'S GARDEN
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PART I
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In Helena's Garden
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PART II
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The Lion of Tyringham |
437
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The Voice of the Hight |
437
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A Song of Friendship |
439
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A Rose of Dream |
440
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Song: "O whither has she fled from out the dawning and the day?" |
440
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"When the girls come to the old house" |
441
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The Song of a Song |
443
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The Net |
444
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Song: "O purer far than ever I!" |
445
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Song: "I awoke in the morning not knowing" |
445
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"When the war fleet puts to sea" |
446
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Art. (Miss Geraldine Farrar in "Madama Butterfly") |
447
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In Praise of Portraiture |
448
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In Times of Peace |
450
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Impromptus:—
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Song: "A little longer still in summer suns" |
453
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The Singing River |
454
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The Solace of the Skies |
454
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The Winding Path |
455
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"What makes the garden grow" |
456
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"If, one great day" |
457
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Music beneath the Stars |
458
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The Birds of Westland |
458
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The Veil of Stars |
459
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INDEX OF FIRST LINES |
461
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INDEX OF TITLES |
473
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Frontispiece: Photograph by Gessford.
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Decorations by H. de K. G.
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