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Book: XXVIII Sonnets

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  • Fredericksburg
    THE increasing moonlight drifts across my bed,
    And on the churchyard by the road, I know
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  • Invita Minerva
    Not of desire alone is music born,
    Not till the Muse wills is our passion crowned;
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  • Henry Howard Brownell
    They never crowned him, never dreamed his worth,
    And let him go unlaurelled to the grave:
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  • By The Potomac
    The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves
    By the Potomac; and the crisp ground-flower
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  • Reminiscence
    Though I am native to this frozen zone
    That half the twelvemonth torpid lies, or dead;
    14 lines
  • Pursuit And Possession
    When I behold what pleasure is pursuit,
    What life, what glorious eagerness it is;
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  • Ellen Terry In The Merchant Of Venice
    As there she lives and moves upon the scene,
    So lived and moved this radiant womanhood
    14 lines
  • Miracles
    Sick of myself and all that keeps the light
    Of the wide heavens away from me and mine,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • An Alpine Picture
    Stand here and look, and softly draw your breath
    Lest the dread avalanche come crashing down!
    14 lines
  • Enamored Architect Of Airy Rhyme
    Enamored architect of airy rhyme,
    Build as thou wilt, heed not what each man says:
    14 lines
  • Books And Seasons
    Because the sky is blue; because blithe May
    Masks in the wren's note and the lilac's hue;
    14 lines
  • Eidolons
    Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights
    That flash on lone morasses, the quick wind
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  • The Undiscovered Country
    Forever am I conscious, moving here,
    That should I step a little space aside
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  • At Bay Ridge, Long Island
    Pleasant it is to lie amid the grass
    Under these shady locusts, half the day,
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  • Thorwaldsen
    Not in the fabled influence of some star,
    Benign or evil, do our fortunes lie;
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  • Even This Will Pass Away
    Touched with the delicate green of early May,
    Or later, when the rose uplifts her face,
    14 lines
  • To L.T. In Florence
    You by the Arno shape your marble dream,
    Under the cypress and the olive trees,
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  • Egypt
    Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes;
    I seem in some waste solitude to stand
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  • The Rarity Of Genius
    While yet my lip was breathing youth's first breath,
    I all too young to know their deepest spell,
    14 lines
  • At Stratford-Upon-Avon
    Thus spake his dust (so seemed it as I read
    The words): Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare
    13 lines
  • Outward Bound
    I leave behind me the elm-shadowed square
    And carven portals of the silent street,
    14 lines
  • With Three Flowers
    Herewith I send you three pressed withered flowers:
    This one was white, with golden star; this, blue
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  • The Poets
    When this young Land has reached its wrinkled prime,
    And we are gone and all our songs are done,
    14 lines
  • The Lorelei
    Yonder we see it from the steamer's deck,
    The haunted Mountain of the Lorelei --
    14 lines
  • Andromeda
    The smooth-worn coin and threadbare classic phrase
    Of Grecian myths that did beguile my youth,
    14 lines
  • Sleep
    When to oft sleep we give ourselves away,
    And in a dream as in a fairy bark
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • On Reading William Watson's Sonnet Entitled The Purple East
    Restless the Northern Bear amid his snows
    Crouched by the Neva; menacing is France,
    14 lines
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