Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Best-known poems
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Identity
Somewhere—in desolate wind-swept space—
In Twilight-land—in No-man’s-land—
Two hurrying Shapes met face to face, …
All poems (25)
- A PetitionTo spring belongs the violet, and the blown
- A Shadow of the NightClose on the edge of a midsummer dawn
- After the RainThe Rain has ceased, and in my room
- An OdeI
- AppreciationTo the sea-shell’s spiral round
- Baby BellI.
- Before the RainWe knew it would rain, for all the morn
- Broken Music“A note
- Guilielmus RexThe folk who lived in Shakespeare’s day
- HeredityA soldier of the Cromwell stamp,
- IdentitySomewhere—in desolate wind-swept space—
- MemoryMy mind lets go a thousand things,
- On an Intaglio Head of MinervaBeneath the warrior’s helm, behold
- Outward BoundI Leave behind me the elm-shadowed square
- Palabras CarinosasGood-night! i have to say good-night
- Palabras Cariñosas(Spanish Air)
- PrescienceThe new moon hung in the sky,
- QuatrainsMasks
- Sargent's Portrait of Edwin Booth at "The Players"That face which no man ever saw
- SonnetsEnamoured architect OF AIRY RHYME
- TennysonShakespeare and Milton—what third blazoned name
- ThaliaI say it under the rose—
- To HafizThough gifts like thine the fates gave not to me,
- Unguarded GatesWide open and unguarded stand our gates,
- When the Sultan Goes to Ispahanwhen the Sultan Shah-Zaman