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Poems

by Julia C. R. Dorr

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  1. 1Dedication — Epigraph
  2. 2Earlier Poems
  3. 3Maud and Madge
  4. 4A Mother’s Question
  5. 5Over the Wall
  6. 6Outgrown
  7. 7A Song for Two
  8. 8A Picture
  9. 9Hymn to Life
  10. 10The Chimney Swallow
  11. 11Heirship
  12. 12Hilda, Spinning
  13. 13Hereafter
  14. 14Without and Within
  15. 15Vashti’s Scroll
  16. 16What My Friend Said to Me
  17. 17Hymn for the Dedication of a Cemetery
  18. 18Yesterday and To-Day
  19. 19Lyric for the Dedication of a Music-Hall
  20. 20What I Lost
  21. 21Once!
  22. 22Catharine
  23. 23The Name
  24. 24Under the Palm-Trees
  25. 25Night and Morning
  26. 26Agnes
  27. 27“Into Thy Hands”
  28. 28Idle Words
  29. 29The Sparrow to the Skylark
  30. 30The Bell of St. Paul’s
  31. 31December 26, 1910 — A Ballad of Major Anderson
  32. 32From Baton Rouge
  33. 33In the Wilderness — May 6, 1864
  34. 34Charley of Malvern Hill
  35. 35Supplicamus 1864
  36. 36The Last of Six
  37. 37The Drummer Boy’s Burial
  38. 38Our Flags at the Capitol
  39. 39My Mocking-Bird
  40. 40Coming Home
  41. 41Wakening Early
  42. 42Blest — Dec. 1865
  43. 43Helen
  44. 44“Pro Patria”
  45. 45The River Otter — A Fragment
  46. 46Past and Present (Driftwood)
  47. 47Vermont (Written for the Vermont Centennial Celebration, at Benning…
  48. 48Gettysburg 1863-1889
  49. 49Grant — August 8, 1885
  50. 50Friar Anselmo and Other Poems
  51. 51The King’s Rosebud
  52. 52Somewhere
  53. 53Peradventure
  54. 54Rena (A Legend of Brussels)
  55. 55A Secret
  56. 56This Day
  57. 57“Christus!”
  58. 58The Kiss
  59. 59What She Thought
  60. 60What Need?
  61. 61Two
  62. 62Unanswered
  63. 63The Clay to the Rose
  64. 64At the Last
  65. 65To the “Bouquet Club”
  66. 66Eventide
  67. 67My Lovers
  68. 68The Legend of the Organ-Builder
  69. 69Butterfly and Baby Blue
  70. 70King Ivan’s Oath
  71. 71At Dawn
  72. 72In Memoriam
  73. 73Weaving the Web
  74. 74The “Christus” of the Passion Play of Oberammergau
  75. 75Rabbi Benaiah
  76. 76A Child’s Thought
  77. 77“God Knows”
  78. 78The Mountain Road
  79. 79Entering In
  80. 80A Flower for the Dead
  81. 81Thou Knowest
  82. 82Winter
  83. 83Five
  84. 84Unsolved
  85. 85Quietness
  86. 86The Difference
  87. 87My Birthday
  88. 88A Red Rose
  89. 89Twenty-One
  90. 90Singing in the Dark
  91. 91Thomas Moore — May 28, 1779-1879
  92. 92A Last Word
  93. 93Sonnets
  94. 94At Rest
  95. 95Too Wide!
  96. 96Mercédès — (June 27, 1878)
  97. 97Grass-Grown
  98. 98To Zülma
  99. 99Sleep
  100. 100In King’s Chapel — (Boston, November 3, 1878)
  101. 101To-Day
  102. 102F. A. F.
  103. 103Day and Night
  104. 104Thy Name
  105. 105Resurgamus
  106. 106At the Tomb
  107. 107Three Days
  108. 108Darkness
  109. 109Silence
  110. 110Sanctified
  111. 111A Message
  112. 112When Lesser Loves
  113. 113George Eliot
  114. 114Knowing
  115. 115A Thought (Suggested by Reading — “A Miracle in Stone”)
  116. 116To-Morrow
  117. 117“O Earth! Art Thou Not Weary?”
  118. 118Alexander
  119. 119The Place — “I Go to Prepare a Place for You”
  120. 120To a Goddess
  121. 121O. W. H. (August 29, 1809.)
  122. 122Gifts for the King — (H. W. L., February 27th)
  123. 123Recognition (H. W. L.)
  124. 124Shakespeare — (April 23, 1664-1889)
  125. 125To E. C. S. With a Rose From Conway Castle
  126. 126A Christmas Sonnet
  127. 127Poverty
  128. 128Surprises
  129. 129C — H. R. (Lost Off Hai-Mun in the China Sea)
  130. 130A New Beatitude L. G. W.
  131. 131Compensation
  132. 132Questionings
  133. 133Remembrance
  134. 134In the High Tower
  135. 135Afternoon Songs
  136. 136A Dream of Songs Unsung
  137. 137Questioning a Rose
  138. 138The Fallow Field
  139. 139Out and In
  140. 140Her Flowers
  141. 141Three Laddies
  142. 142Summer, 1882 R. W. E.
  143. 143Thornless Roses
  144. 144Treasure-Ships
  145. 145Choosing
  146. 146Not Mine
  147. 147The Chamber of Silence
  148. 148Three Roses
  149. 149Four Letters (Inscribed to Oliver Wendell Holmes)
  150. 150Valdemar
  151. 151Jubilate!
  152. 152Easter Lilies
  153. 153“O Wind That Blows Out of the West”
  154. 154A Summer Song
  155. 155The Urn
  156. 156The Parson’s Daughter
  157. 157March Fourth 1881-1882
  158. 158Roy
  159. 159The Painter’s Prayer — “Nec Me Prætermittas, Domine!”
  160. 160From Exile — Paris, September 3, 1879
  161. 161A Mother-Song
  162. 162Easter Morning
  163. 163Sealed Orders
  164. 164An Anniversary
  165. 165Martha
  166. 166The Hour
  167. 167The Closed Gate
  168. 168My Wonderland
  169. 169The Guest
  170. 170An Old-Fashioned Garden
  171. 171Discontent
  172. 172The Doves at Mendon
  173. 173A Late Rose
  174. 174Periwinkle
  175. 175Afternoon
  176. 176The Lady of the Prow — Bermuda, May, 1883
  177. 177Thou and I
  178. 178Later Poems
  179. 179Daybreak — An Easter Poem
  180. 180The Apple-Tree
  181. 181The Comforter
  182. 182Santa Claus
  183. 183The Armorer’s Errand — A Ballad of 1775
  184. 184Foreshadowings
  185. 185Won
  186. 186Baptism of Fire
  187. 187At the Feast — “And the Lord of the Castle Is Time”
  188. 188Over and Over
  189. 189A Listening Bird
  190. 190The First Fire
  191. 191Midnight Chimes
  192. 192My Lady Sleep
  193. 193The King’s Touch
  194. 194The Blind Bird’s Nest
  195. 195Two Paths
  196. 196St. John’s Eve
  197. 197A Little Song
  198. 198The Princes’ Chamber
  199. 199Wonderland
  200. 200In a Gallery (Antwerp, 1891)
  201. 201In Marble Prayer (Canterbury, 1891)
  202. 202Nocturne
  203. 203Come What May
  204. 204Nuremberg
  205. 205A Mater Dolorosa
  206. 206After Long Waiting

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