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• Iona

  We gazed on Corryvrekin’s whirl,
  We sailed by Jura’s shore,
  Where sang of old the mermaid-girl, …

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe

• From "A Poet's Hope"

  Lady, there is a hope that all men have,—
  Some mercy for their faults, a grassy place
  To rest in, and a flower-strown, gentle grave; …

  William Ellery Channing

• Hymn of the Earth

  My highway is unfeatured air,
  My consorts are the sleepless Stars,
  And men my giant arms upbear,— …

  William Ellery Channing

• The Barren Moors

  On your bare rocks, O barren moors,
  On your bare rocks I love to lie!—
  They stand like crags upon the shores, …

  William Ellery Channing

• Tears in Spring

  The swallow is flying over,
  But he will not come to me;
  He flits, my daring rover, …

  William Ellery Channing

• Edith

  Edith, the silent stars are coldly gleaming,
  The night wind moans, the leafless trees are still.
  Edith, there is a life beyond this seeming, …

  William Ellery Channing

• The Sunflower to the Sun

  Hymettus’ bees are out on filmy wing,
  Dim Phosphor slowly fades adown the west,
  And Earth awakes. Shine on me, O my king! …

  Mary Elizabeth (Hewitt) Stebbins

• Harold the Valiant

  I mid the hills was born,
  Where the skilled bowmen
  Send with unerring shaft …

  Mary Elizabeth (Hewitt) Stebbins

• New England's Dead

  New england’s dead! New England’s dead!
  On every hill they lie;
  On every field of strife, made red …

  Isaac McLellan

• Washington's Statue

  The quarry whence thy form majestic sprung
  Has peopled earth with grace,
  Heroes and gods that elder bards have sung, …

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

• The Star of Calvary

  It is the same infrequent star,—
  The all-mysterious light,
  That like a watcher, gazing on …

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Clouds

  I cannot look above and see
  Yon high-piled, pillowy mass
  Of evening clouds, so swimmingly …

  William Croswell

• A World Beyond

  Science long watched the realms of space,
  A planet’s devious path to trace:
  Convinced of heaven’s harmonious law, …

  Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch

• It Is Not Death to Die

  It is not death to die,
  To leave this weary road,
  And, midst the brotherhood on high, …

  George Washington Bethune

• Paraphrase of Luther's Hymn

  A mighty fortress is our God,
  A bulwark never failing;
  Our helper he amid the flood …

  Frederic Henry Hedge

• Milton's Prayer of Patience

  i am old and blind!
  Men point at me as smitten by God’s frown;
  Afflicted and deserted of my kind, …

  Elizabeth Lloyd Howell

• The Angels' Song

  It came upon the midnight clear,
  That glorious song of old,
  From angels bending near the earth …

  Edmund Hamilton Sears

• The Other World

  It lies around us like a cloud,
  The world we do not see;
  Yet the sweet closing of an eye …

  Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

• Love Unchangeable

  Yes, still I love thee! Time, who sets
  His signet on my brow,
  And dims my sunken eye, forgets …

  Rufus Dawes

• Love Unsought

  They tell me that I must not love,
  That thou wilt spurn the free
  And unbought tenderness that gives …

  Emma Catharine Embury

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