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Charles Hanson Towne's Poetry, by title

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  • A Baghdad Lover
    (Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")
    O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,
    130 lines
  • A Ballad Of The Nativity
    Now it was Mary dreamed this dream,
    Ere yet her child was born
    40 lines
  • A Broken Friendship
    If this be friendship--that one broken hour
    (O fragile link in all the loving years!)
    13 lines
  • A City Sunset
    Across the roof-tops of the town
    I saw the flaming sun go down;
    8 lines
  • A Distant Spring
    I who love the Spring so well
    Shall be sleeping, some glad day,
    29 lines
  • A Lover in Damascus
    Far, far across the desert sands,
    I hear the camel-bells;
    83 lines
  • A Mother
    It rained all day the day she died,
    And yet she thought it sweet and fair;
    14 lines
  • A Rose Whispers
    I am the flower within her garden-close
    She cast aside;
    17 lines
  • A Sunset
    Far in the gold-embroidered west
    The round and red sun lay,
    8 lines
  • A Winter Dream
    The host of flakes that float thro' leafless trees
    When pale December reigns in Autumn's stead,
    3 lines
  • Aere Perennius
    As long as the stars of God
    Hang steadfast in the sky,
    20 lines
  • After Drought
    There came an army from the sky,
    And surged across the parched plain;
    8 lines
  • After Reading Keats
    Down his great corridors of sumptuous sound
    Today I wandered once again. Each word
    13 lines
  • After The Circus
    We came away from the tinsel and false,
    From the rings where we saw the elephants waltz;
    16 lines
  • Afterward
    The sick man said: "I pray I shall not die
    Before this tumult which now rocks the earth
    25 lines
  • An Autumn Leaf
    Upon my parchment, sadly old,
    The record lives of Summer's gold;
    9 lines
  • An Easter Canticle
    In every trembling bud and bloom
    That cleaves the earth, a flowery sword,
    28 lines
  • Around The Corner
    Around the corner I have a friend,
    In this great city that has no end,
    23 lines, 7 comments
  • At Nightfall
    I need so much the quiet of your love,
            After the day's loud strife;
    8 lines, 5 comments
  • August In The City
    The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon,
    Pause, while a torrid sun flames in the sky.
    18 lines
  • Awaited
    Although I dare to say
    My heart untarnished is from day to day,
    18 lines
  • Beyond The Stars
    Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead, 
    (It was so strange to me that they should weep!) 
    88 lines, 8 comments
  • Broadway
    Here surge the ceaseless caravans,
    Here throbs the city's heart,
    8 lines
  • Care
    She leaves upon our brows her written sign,
    Where all may read, inscribed with perfect art;
    3 lines
  • Certain Fragments from the Arabic
    You who are wise today,
    What of your knowledge when life's little play
    31 lines
  • Certainty
    She knew that Love was dying--not so much
    When Love's dear eyes were closed and blind to her,
    3 lines
  • City Children
    Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known the sun!
    Your little faces like sad blossoms seem,
    13 lines
  • City Roofs
    Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover?
    Sad folk, bad folk, and many a glowing lover;
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • Death At Morning
    She died when dawn was sweeping o'er the land,
    When morning-glories lit the gleaming wall;
    13 lines
  • Distances
    I had a friend who went away
    Over the distant sea,
    8 lines
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