Richard Henry Stoddard
Best-known poems
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The Flight of Youth
There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs, …
All poems (13)
- A GazelleLast night, when my tired eyes were shut with sleep,
- Abraham LincolnNot as when some great Captain falls
- AdsumThe angel came by night
- An Old Song Reversed“there are gains for all our losses.”
- Melodies and CatchesSongs
- Men of the North and West[April, 1861]
- Mors et Vita“under the roots of the roses,
- Oriental SongsThe divan
- The Country LifeNot what we would, but what we must,
- The Flight of the ArrowThe life of man
- The Flight of YouthThere are gains for all our losses,
- The LoverIt is dark and lonesome here,
- The Witch's WhelpAlong the shore the slimy brine-pits yawn,