I am his friend, nor ever was his foe? Whose the sweet season, if it be not mine? Mine, not the bobolinks, that song divine, Chasing the shadows o'er the flying wheat! 'Tis a dead voice, not his, that sounds so sweet. Whose passionate heart burns in this flaming rose But his, whose passionate heart long since lay still? Whose wan hope pales this snowlike lily tall, Beside the garden wall, But his whose radiant eyes and lily grace Sleep in the grave that crowns you tufted hill? All hope, all memory, Have their deep springs in me; And love, that else might fade, By ine immortal made, TELL me, wide wandering soul, in all thy quest Sipping or draining deep from crystal rim I saw her scan again the scroll,- Name after name, with quick reply, hate Rage from Fez to Tetuan! Open straight.” The watchman heard as thunder from afar: "Go to! In peace this city lies asleep; To all-knowing Allah 't is no news you bring;" Then turned in slumber still his watch to keep. At once a nightingale began to sing, 1 Bookra-To-morrow. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER III SECOND LYRICAL PERIOD (IN THREE DIVISIONS) FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE HUNDREDTH PRESIDENTIAL YEAR 1861-1889 Mitchell (S. Weir's) first book of verse," The Hill of Stones, and Other Poems” (Boston) did not appear until 1882 Hayne (Paul II.'s) “ Poems”: Boston, 1854 66 Winter's "Poems" : Boston, 1854; “ The Queen's Domain": Boston, 1858 Mrs. Moulton's “This, That, and the Other": Boston, 1854 ; "Poems": Boston, 1877 Aldrich's" The Bells" : New York, 1854; “The Ballad of Babie Bell": N. Y. Journal of Commerce, 1855; “ The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems": New York, 1858 Stedman's “Poems Lyrical and Idyllic": New York, 1860 Piatt's and Howells's “ Poems of Two Friends": Columbus, 1859 Mr. and Mrs. Piatt's" The Nests at Washington": New York, 1863 44 Mrs. Spofford's “ Amber Gods," prose: Boston, 1863 ; "Poems": Boston, 1881 Howells's "No Love Lost" : New York, 1869; “Poems”: Boston, 1873 Harte's “Luck of Roaring Camp": Overland Monthly, 1868 ; “ Poems" : Boston, 1870 Hay's "Pike County Ballads" : Boston, 1871 Mrs. Jackson's “ Verses by II. II" : Boston, 1873 Lanier's "Corn": Lippincott's, 1874 ; "Centennial Cantata," 1876 Miss Lazarus's "Poems and Translations": New York, 1866; “Admetus and Other Poems": New York, 1871 Sill's "The Hermitage": New York, 1867 O'Reilly's "Songs from the Southern Seas": Boston, 1873 Gilder's" The New Day": New York, 1875 Miss Coolbrith's “ A Perfect Day, and Other Poems": San Francisco, 1881 Mrs. E. M. (Hutchinson) Cortissoz's “ Songs and Lyrics": Boston, 1881 Riley's" The Old Swimmin'-Hole, and 'Leven More Poems": Indianapolis, 1883 44 Miss Thomas's “ A New Year's Masque": Boston, 1884 Bates's "Berries of the Brier": Boston, 1886 Field's Culture's Garland": Boston, 1887; .64 1889 "A Little Book of Western Verse": Chicago, Tabb's "Poems": Baltimore, 1882; "Poems": Boston, 1894 Markham's" The Man with the Iloe, and Other Poems": New York, 1899 3 Woodberry's "The North Shore Watch, a Threnody" (privately printed): Cambridge, 1883; "The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems": Boston, 1890 Bunner's" Airs from Arcady": New York, 1884 Miss Guiney's "Songs at the Start": Boston, 1884 Sherman's “Madrigals and Catches" : New York, 1887 Miss Reese's" A Branch of May": Baltimore, 1887; “A Handful of Lavender": Boston, 1891 Miss Monroe's "Valeria, and Other Poems": Chicago, 1891; "Commemoration Ode": deliv ered, Chicago, 1892, published, Chicago, 1893 Garland's "Prairie Songs": Cambridge and Chicago, 1893 Burton's "Dumb in June": Boston, 1895 The dates given are those of copyright entry SECOND LYRICAL PERIOD (IN THREE DIVISIONS) DIVISION I (MITCHELL, TIMROD, HAYNE, MRS. JACKSON, MISS DICKINSON, STEDMAN, THE PIATTS, MRS. SPOFFORD, MRS. MOULTON, WINTER, Aldrich, howells, hay, harte, sill, MILLER, Lanier, and others) Silas Weir Mitchell' ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF "KING HENRY V" WHEN youth was lord of my unchallenged fate, And time seemed but the vassal of my will, I entertained certain guests of state The great of older days, who, faithful still, Have kept with me the pact my youth had made. And I remember how one galleon raro So the Great Harry with high trumpetings, And under-flown the Lily standard trails, The waves she rode are strewn with silent wrecks, Her proud sea-comrades once; but ever yet Comes time defying laughter from her decks, Where stands the lion-lord Plantagenet, Large-hearted, merry, king of court and camp. Sail on! sail on! The fatal blasts of time That spared so few, shall thee with joy escort; And with the stormy thunder of thy rhyme Shalt thou salute full many a centuried port With "Ho! for Harry and red Agincourt!" TO A MAGNOLIA FLOWER IN THE GARDEN OF THE ARMENIAN CONVENT AT VENICE I SAW thy beauty in its high estate Of perfect empire, where at set of sun In the cool twilight of thy lucent leaves The dewy freshness told that day was done. Hast thou no gift beyond thine ivory cone's Surpassing loveliness? Art thou not near More near than we-to nature's silentness; Is it not voiceful to thy finer ear? Thy folded secrecy doth like a charm Compel to thought. What spring-born yearning lies Within the quiet of thy stainless breast That doth with languorous passion seem to rise? The soul doth truant angels entertain Who with reluctant joy their thoughts confess: Low-breathing, to these sister spirits give The virgin mysteries of thy heart to guess. 1 Sce BIOGRAPHiCal Note, p. 810. |