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Maurice Thompson

I lived from 1844-1901. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

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  • Eos
    She stood between two gold pillars;
    Behind her lay a misty field,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • The Final Thought
    What is the grandest thought
    Toward which the soul has wrought?
    103 lines
  • A Dream Of Romance
    The day is but a breezy dream,
    The sky is like a bloom;
    96 lines
  • In Capacity
    You ask me why
    I long to fly
    177 lines
  • A Creole Slave-Song (Ah, lo zo-zo chan' dan' branche)
    What bird is that, with voice so sweet,
    Sings to the sun from yonder tree?
    55 lines
  • Nectar And Ambrosia
    If I were a poet, my sweetest song
    Should have the bouquet of scuppernong,
    26 lines
  • Farewell
    Farewell! It is no sorrowful word.
    It has never had a pang for me.
    20 lines
  • A Green Heron
    Where a bright creek into the river's side
    Shoots its keen arrow, a green heron sits
    14 lines
  • A Morning Sail
    What art thou, say, a bird, or beast, or what?
    Leering from that old plane-tree's hollow stem!
    14 lines
  • In The Haunts Of Bass And Bream
    I
    Dreams come true, and everything
    141 lines
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