The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

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Charlotte Fiske Bates
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1882 - American poetry - 882 pages
 

Contents

Bosom Sin
xlvi
A Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents
xlvii
The Little Shroud
xlviii
Hand in Hand with Angels
xlix
Too Near
l
Calling the Dead
lii
Afar in the Desert
liii
Crities
liv
From The Ode on Shakespeare
lv
At Last
lvi
To a Bavarian Girl
lvii
Harmosan
lviii
After All
lix
Mercy
3
On a Sermon against Glory
4
Auf Wiedersehen
6
Waiting
8
The Broom Flower
13
Autumnal Sonnet
18
Garrison
19
After a Mothers Death
21
Cui Bono
23
Pats Criticism
28
Somewhere
32
In Autumn
37
Autumn Song
45
The Other World
48
The Return of Kane
57
Waiting for the Ship
60
Apollo Belvedere
63
Kilcoleman Castle
66
In a Year
68
Evelyn Hope
69
The Two Kisses
70
The Passage from Birth to Age
79
The Past
92
Calm and Tempest at Night on Lake Leman
101
Apostrophe to Ada
105
Wandering Willie
106
On Completing my ThirtySixth Year
107
Yawcob Strauss Adams 685
110
To the Fire
113
On Doves and Serpents
114
Apostrophe to Hope
117
Peace and Pain
135
In Blossom Time
153
Reason an aid to Revelation
156
Apostrophe to Liberty
157
Mercy to Animals
160
The Paupers Deathbed
163
After the Ball
165
Cupid Grown Careful
178
Thou hast Sworn by thy God
179
A Welcome to Alexandra
180
The Angels Kiss her
185
Merit beyond Beauty
186
Heart Essential to Genius
192
Peradventure
194
Thou Knowest
195
Midnight
197
The Angels Wing
205
A Wife
206
The Rhodora
214
Apostrophe to the Ocean
215
Pescadero Pebbles
219
The River in the Mammoth Cave
222
Forget Me Not
223
The Perpetuity of Song
225
A Protest
226
Weak Consolation
231
The Village Preacher
234
The Perversion of Great Gifts
245
A Womans Love
254
One Presence Wanting
258
Evening Prayer at a Girls School
262
Calm on the Bosom of our God
263
Three Epitaphs
266
Love
271
The Awful Vacancy
274
Three Friends of Mine
276
Love Bettered by Time
284
Daily Dying
286
Forever Unconfessed
288
The Poets Friends
292
Three Sonnets on Prayer
295
The Ballad of Baby Bell
300
Aged Sophocles Addressing the Athenians
301
We are Seven
313
Scott
318
Day Dreaming
320
The Poets Pen
326
A Question Answered
328
Catos Soliloquy
329
Heart Superior to Head
333
Picture of Marian Erle
336
Yield not thou Sad One to Sighs Lover
348
Only Waiting
360
Heliotrope
361
Alexander at Persepolis
370
The Rose of Jericho
372
Pleasure Mixed with Pain
374
Song from Right
378
On Man
380
Forever with the Lord
384
Excessive Praise or Blame
432
The White Flag
439
A Womans Question
442
Incompleteness
443
Highland Mary
445
On Reading Chapmans Homer
451
Friendship
452
The Brave at Home
456
Exhortation to Marriage
461
True Union
462
Alexander Selkirk
469
A Scene in the Highlands
476
The Wit
495
Death the Leveller
498
President Garfield
501
Independence
502
Hohenlinden
504
Never Cast a Flower away
515
The Bride Beautiful Body and Soul
524
The Bridge of Sighs
534
A Womans Way
540
Songs of Seven
541
Weighing the Baby
542
Cayuga Lake
547
The Woodland
548
Friendship in Age and Sorrow
552
From Dejection
560
Sonnet
561
Prometheus
565
Reconciliation
568
Changes
569
What Ails this Heart o Mine
571
In Garfields Danger
572
Ashes of Roses
578
Charge of the Light Brigade
584
In Kittery Churchyard
589
Prospice
591
Love in Age
598
The Development of Poetic Creations
606
Purity
609
The Souls Farewell
616
Remedial Suffering
619
The Woodturtle
620
A Little before Death
636
Charity
639
The Stars
643
Charity Gradually Pervasive
647
Repose
648
Sonnet on Chillon
650
The Golden Silence
661
Charles XII
664
A Little While
667
From Intimations of Immortality
670
The World a Grave
675
Cheerfulness in Misfortune
684
The Worlds Wanderers
685
Lovely Mary Donnelly
686
All Change nó Death
689
From Lines composed in a Concert Room
698
White Poppies
702
Exile of Erin
707
Cowper
711
From Poverty
722
Quakerdom
726
Hay
730
City Experience
744
Why dont the Men Propose?
747
M
749
Extract from A Reverie in the Grass
754
Extracts from Miss Biddys Letters
760
December
765
Loves Jealousy
769
Reverie
774
Quebec at Sunrise
780
Sonnet to Sleep
783
Faciebat
798
Havergal
823
Faith in Doubt
827
Hutchinson
830
The Gold under the Roses
846
Riches of a Man of Taste
851
Decoration
855
Willis
859
Gilder
860
Cleansing Fires
861
Faith in Unfaith
863
Misspent time
865
Swinburne
866
Conclusions
867
Last Verses
868
March
869
D
871
P Cary
872
Hymn to Cynthia
873
A T De Vere
874
The Burial of the Champion of his Class
875
On the Headland
876
The Last Man
877
E Goodale
878
Phelps
879
Norton
880
Ganging to and Ganging frae
881
Few in Many
882

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