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Search - XXXVI Lyrics And XII Sonnets : Selected From Cloth Of Gold And Flower And Thorn

XXXVI Lyrics And XII Sonnets Selected From Cloth Of Gold And Flower And Thorn
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

XXXVI Lyrics and XI1 Sonnets - 1873 - Take them and Keep them, SiIvery thorn and flower, Plucked just at random I f z the rosy weather-Snowdrojs and pansies, e n g s of wayside heather, And ve - leaved wild-rose Dead within an hour. Take them and keep them W i o can tell some day, dear, n o u g h they be withered, FZmer and thorn and blossom, He... more »ld for an instalzt Up against thy bosom, They might make December Seem to t4ee like a y , dear l CONTENTS . Destiny . . . . . . . . . . . . PAG I E I Hesperides . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Nocturne . . . . . . . . . . . I4 The Sheiks Welcome . . . . 15 Palabras Carifiosas . . . . . . . . 16 A Snow-Flake . . . . . . . . . 18 Across the Street . . . . . . . . 1 9 Rencontre . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 An Untimely Thought . . . . . . 21 Nameless Pain . . . . . . . . . 23 On an Intaglio Head of Minerva . . . 2 4 The One White Rose . . . . . . . 27 The Queens Ride . . . . . . . . 28 Rococo . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Dirge . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Before the Rain . . . . . . . . . 34 After the Rain . . . . . . . . . 35 The Unforgiven . . . 36 Loves Calendar . . . . . . . . 3 8 Latakia . . . . . . . . . . . . PA 3 G 9 E A Winter-Piece . . . . . . . . . 41 Tiger-Lilies . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 Piscataqua River . . . . . . . . 44 Quatrains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Lamia . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8 Amontillado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . s o The Faded Violet . . 53 Ah sad are they who know not Love . 55 The Kings Wine . . . . . . . . . s6 Castles . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 s Unsung . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 0 An Old Castle . . . . . . . . . 62 The Flight of the Goddess . . . . . 65 The Worlds Way . . . . . . . . 69 Palinode . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2 LYRICS. DESTINY. Three roses, wan as moonlight and weighed down Each with its loveliness as with a crown, Drooped in a florists window in a town. The first a lover bought. It lay at rest, Like flower on flower, that night, on Beautys breast. The second rose, as virginal and fair, Shrunk in the tangles of a harlots hair. The third, a widow, with new grief made wild, Shut in the icy palm of her dead child. XXXYI LYRICS. HESPERIDES. If thy soul, Herrick, dwelt with me, This is what my songs would be Hints of our sea-breezes, blent With odors from the Orient Indian vessels deep with spice Star-showers from the Norland ice Wine-red jewels that seem to hold Fire, but only burn with coId Antique goblets, strangely wrought, Filled with the wine of happy thought Bridal measures, vain regrets, Laburnum buds and vioIets Hopeful as the break of day Clear as crystal new as May Musical as brooks that run Oer yellow shallows in the sun Soft as the satin fringe that shades The eyelids of thy fragrant maids Brief as thy lyrics, Herrick, are, And polished as the bosom of a star. XXXYI LYRICS. IDENTITY. Somewhere - in desolate wind-swept space - In Twilight-land-in No-mans-land-Two hurrying Shapes met face to face, And bade each other stand. And who are you cried one, agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. I know not, said the second Shape, I only died last night 14 XXXYI LYRICS. IV. NOCTURNE. BELLAGGIO. Up to her chamber window A slight wire trellis goes, And up this Romeos ladder Clambers a bold white rose. I lounge in the ilex shadows, I see the lady lean, Unclasping her silken girdle, The curtains folds between...

ISBN-13: 9781408621813
ISBN-10: 1408621819
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 92
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