| 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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