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Charles Hanson Towne's Poetry, by popularity

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  • To My Country
    One told me he had heard it whispered: "Lo!
        The hour has come when Europe, desperate
    14 lines
  • Love, The Victor
    Time was, O Love, when I a vassal knelt,
    Obedient, at the footstool of thy throne;
    29 lines
  • Spring Rapture
    Once more the Spring's exultant joy
    And flowery dream have come to pass;
    18 lines
  • The Boast
    I do not need you now! Thus do I end
    Our days together, O beloved friend;
    16 lines
  • The King
    I am the king of a wide domain, and you deem it a wonderful thing;
    But the kingly height is a terrible height--God pity the lonely k
    49 lines
  • The Good Queen
    Pale ruler of the heavens, with lavish hands,
    The spendthrift Moon arose,
    3 lines
  • Next Door
    We saw the tapers burn
    In the home so close to ours;
    12 lines
  • The Flame
    O moth, that yearns for me,
    The whole world pities thee,
    13 lines
  • To A Hurdy-Gurdy
    Playing on Sixth Avenue
    Here's to you, brave Hurdy-gurdy,
    20 lines
  • The Parks
    There are green islands in the city sea,
    Where all day long, the endless, passionate waves
    13 lines
  • The Mosques
    There was a flower in ancient Fez
    That (so the glowing legend says)
    16 lines
  • Fulfilment
    This was my dream in May--to have one bloom,
    Fragrant with apple-scent and Springtide rain,
    16 lines
  • The Procession
    The gray year drifted out
    As a tired love might go,
    19 lines
  • The Voices
    I heard the voice of the city,
    Calling again and again,
    13 lines
  • Indian Summer
    When Eve grew old,
    How many a time she must have dreamed and dreamed
    16 lines
  • Villanelle
    The lilies whisper in the park,
    Pale watchers in the heavy night,
    23 lines
  • In The Night
    I heard the football of the hail;
    The armies of the sky
    18 lines
  • The Lover In April
    Thou hast come back to me!
    (Thou who didst die a year ago,
    18 lines
  • The Lights
    Ten thousand jewels flash out
    When the darkness of night appears;
    8 lines
  • September
    Now at the grave of summer stands
    A priest, in purple vestments stoled,
    3 lines
  • The Gladness of Spring
    When Spring, with blossom-haunted lanes,
    With sudden gusts of rippling rains,
    13 lines
  • Love of Beauty
    Who loves all beauty loves beyond that we see;
    The gods give him a vision doubly blest;
    8 lines
  • New Buildings
    The turrets leap higher and higher,
    And the little old homes go down;
    3 lines
  • The Footfarer
    Now that Spring is in the land,
    Now that April wakes the wood,
    43 lines
  • In The Meadows Of The Sky
    When the great sower, Night,
    Lets down his sable bars,
    8 lines
  • The Room
    Now that my heart is empty,
    Empty of you,
    8 lines
  • Toward Bethlehem
    Toward that sweet city where the Virgin mild
    Brought forth her Child
    48 lines
  • Resurrection
    When one had gone away
    To join the quiet dead,
    12 lines
  • The Woman's Way
    There are things, I know, that are sad and strange,
    As the world swings round in the old-time way;
    25 lines
  • Traffic
    Hoof-beats thundering on the paves,
    Wagons crashing by.
    8 lines
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