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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]
Author
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 May 15, 2025.

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CONTENTS.

  • FLOWER AND THORN 13
  • I. CLOTH OF GOLD.
    • Proem 17
    • An Arab Welcome 17
    • A Turkish Legend 18
    • The Crescent and the Cross 19
    • The Unforgiven 20
    • Dressing the Bride 21
    • Two Songs from the Persian 22
    • Tiger-Lilies 23
    • The Sultana 24
    • The World's Way 25
    • Latakia 26
    • When the Sultan goes to Ispahan 28
    • Hascheesh 30
    • A Prelude 31
  • II. INTERLUDES.
    • Hesperides 35
    • Before the Rain 36
    • After the Rain 36
    • Castles 37
    • Ingratitude 38
    • December 39
    • The Faded Violet 41
    • Ballad 42
    • The Lunch 42
    • The One White Rose 43
    • Nameless Pain 43
    • At Two-and-Twenty 44
    • Song-Time 45
    • The Dæmon Lover 45
    • Palabras Cariñosas 46
    • May 47

Page vi

    • The Bluebells of New England 48
    • Wedded 49
    • Romance 50
    • Destiny 51
    • Unsung 52
    • Frost-Work 53
    • Landscape 53
    • Rococo 54
    • Haunted 55
    • Fable 56
    • A Snow-Flake 57
    • Across the Street 57
    • Identity 58
    • Nocturne 59
    • An Untimely Thought 60
    • Rencontre 61
    • A Winter Piece 61
    • Love's Calender 62
    • Palinode 62
  • III. SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND AND OTHER POEMS.
    • Spring in New England 67
    • Baby Bell 73
    • Pampina 77
    • Sorcery 80
    • Invocation to Sleep 81
    • Seadrift 83
    • In the Old Church Tower 85
    • Piscataqua River 86
    • The Flight of the Goddess 88
    • On an Intaglio Head of Minerva 90
    • An Old Castle 92
    • Lost at Sea 95
    • The Queen's Ride 97
    • Dirge 98
    • On Lynn Terrace 100
    • The Piazza of St. Mark at Midnight 103
    • The Metempsychosis 104
  • IV. FRIAR JEROME'S BEAUTIFUL BOOK, ETC.
    • Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book 111
    • Miantowona 119
    • The Guerdon 127
    • The Jew's Gift 130
    • Tita's Tears 134

Page vii

    • The Lady of Castelnore 136
    • In an Atelier 140
    • The Tragedy 143
    • Pepita 146
    • The Legend of Ara-Cœli 149
    • Judith.
      • I. Judith in the Tower 164
      • II. The Camp of Assur 174
      • III. The Flight 185
  • V. SONNETS AND QUATRAINS.
    • SONNETS.
      • "Sick of myself and all that keeps the light" 201
      • "The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed" 202
      • "When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit" 202
      • "Fantastic Sleep is busy with my eyes" 203
      • "Thus spake the Preacher: O, my friends, beware" 204
      • "Now if Euterpe held me not in scorn" 204
      • "Pleasant it is to lie amid the grass" 205
      • "Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights" 206
      • "The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves" 206
      • "Enamored architect of airy rhyme" 207
      • "Herewith I send you three pressed withered flowers" 208
      • "Stand here and look, and softly hold your breath" 208
      • "You by the Arno shape your marble dream" 209
      • "While men pay reverence to mighty things" 210
      • "Yonder we see it from the steamer's deck" 210
      • "In scarlet clusters o'er the gray stone-wall" 211
      • "They never crowned him, never knew his worth" 212
      • "Touched with the delicate green of early May" 212
      • "Thus spake his dust, so seemed it as I read" 213
      • "While yet my lip was breathing youth's first breath" 214
      • "When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away" 215
    • QUATRAINS.
      • Day and Night 216
      • Maple Leaves 216
      • A Child's Grave 217
      • Pessimist and Optimist 217
      • Grace and Strength 217
      • Among the Pines 218
      • From the Spanish 218
      • Masks 218
      • Coquette 219

Page viii

      • Epitaphs 219
      • Popularity 219
      • Human Ignorance 220
      • Spendthrift 220
      • The Iron Age 220
      • Myrtilla 221
      • On her Blushing 221
      • On a Volume of Anonymous Poems 221
      • Fame 222
      • The Difference 222
      • On Reading— 222
      • The Rose 223
      • Moonrise at Sea 223
      • Romeo and Juliet 223
      • Omar Khayyám 224
      • Circumstance 224
      • Herrick 224
      • Memories 225
      • From Eastern Sources 225
      • Evil easier than Good 226
      • The Parcæ 226
  • VI. MERCEDES.
    • I. The Bivouac 229
    • II. At Arguano 243
  • VII. LATER LYRICS.
    • Intaglios 269
    • Lyrics and Epics 270
    • Heredity 270
    • Comedy 271
    • Prescience 272
    • One Woman 273
    • Realism 273
    • Discipline 274
    • Appreciation 275
    • Thorwaldsen 275
    • The Voice of the Sea 276
    • Knowledge 276
    • In the Belfry of the Nieuwe Kerk 277
    • Apparitions 278
    • Maréchal Niel 278
    • Bayard Taylor 279
    • Epilogue 280
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