Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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- Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- 1885
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"Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9188.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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III.
WHEN I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is; Then mark how full Possession falls from this How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit— I am perplext, and often stricken mutePage 203
Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wingéd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot. Spirit of verse, that still elud'st my art, Thou airy phantom that dost ever haunt me, O never, never rest upon my heart, If when I have thee I shall little want thee! Still flit away in moonlight, rain, and dew, Will-of-the-wisp, that I may still pursue!