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  • Song for “The Jaquerie”
    Betrayal
    THE SUN has kissed the violet sea,
    56 lines
  • Remonstrance.
    "Opinion, let me alone:  I am not thine.
    Prim Creed, with categoric point, forbear
    78 lines
  • The Centennial Cantata.
    The Centennial Meditation of Columbia.  1776-1876.  A Cantata.
        [Musical Annotations, in angled brackets, pr
    92 lines
  • Tyranny.
    "Spring-germs, spring-germs,
    I charge you by your life, go back to death.
    38 lines
  • To Richard Wagner.
    "I saw a sky of stars that rolled in grime.
    All glory twinkled through some sweat of fight,
    54 lines
  • Sunrise
    In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain
    Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main.
    208 lines
  • The Ship Of Earth.
    "Thou Ship of Earth, with Death, and Birth, and Life, and Sex aboard,
    And fires of Desires burning hotly in the hold,
    8 lines
  • On Huntingdon's "Miranda"
    The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet,
    And laid him kneeling at thy feet.
    24 lines
  • To Charlotte Cushman
    Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam
    Into the slumb'rous tissue of some stream,
    15 lines
  • To Dr. Thomas Shearer
    Presenting a portrait-bust of the author.
    9 lines
  • Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn
    Sin's rooster's crowed, Ole Mahster's riz,
    De sleepin'-time is pas';
    36 lines
  • On Violet's Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill
    Fine-tissued as her finger-tips, and white
    As all her thoughts; in shape like shields of prize,
    15 lines
  • The Waving Of The Corn
    Ploughman, whose gnarly hand yet kindly wheeled
    Thy plough to ring this solitary tree
    33 lines
  • The Stirrup-Cup
    Death, thou'rt a cordial old and rare:
    Look how compounded, with what care!
    13 lines
  • To: Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach
    Als du im Saal mit deiner himmlischen Kunst
    Beethoven zeigst, und seinem Willen nach
    15 lines
  • Strange Jokes
    Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad
    Grim squatting on a twilight road.
    28 lines
  • Thou And I
    So one in heart and thought, I trow,
    That thou might'st press the strings and I might draw the bow
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • On A Palmetto
    Through all that year-scarred agony of height,
    Unblest of bough or bloom, to where expands
    15 lines
  • The Power Of Prayer
    You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet.
    De Lord, HE made dese black-jack roots to twis' into a seat.
    60 lines
  • Our Hills
    Dear Mother-Earth
    Of Titan birth,
    37 lines
  • The Dove
    If haply thou, O Desdemona Morn,
    Shouldst call along the curving sphere, "Remain,
    20 lines
  • To ----
    The Day was dying; his breath
    Wavered away in a hectic gleam;
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • To: Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach
    Oft as I hear thee, wrapt in heavenly art,
    The massive message of Beethoven tell
    15 lines
  • Owl Against Robin
    Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him
    Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him
    80 lines
  • Special Pleading
    Time, hurry my Love to me:
    Haste, haste! Lov'st not good company?
    36 lines
  • Tampa Robins
    The robin laughed in the orange-tree:
    "Ho, windy North, a fig for thee:
    28 lines
  • To Beethoven
    In o'er-strict calyx lingering,
    Lay music's bud too long unblown,
    85 lines, 1 comment
  • To J. D. H.
    Dear friend, forgive a wild lament
    Insanely following thy flight
    16 lines
  • To Wilhelmina
    A white face, drooping, on a bending neck:
    A tube-rose that with heavy petal curves
    15 lines, 1 comment
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