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A lyric collection that ranges across seasons, landscapes, and intimate domestic scenes, pairing meditations on memory, loss, and mortality with vivid natural imagery. Several poems revisit ruined houses, sea-worn shores, and ancestral shame, while others examine the strains of marriage, private grief, and artistic longing. Formally the volume mixes short lyrics, narrative sketches, and occasional dramatic addresses, shifting tone between elegy, irony, and spare tenderness. Recurring motifs of autumn, winter, music, and architecture bind contemplative reflections on time, identity, and the consolations and limits of memory and art.

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Title: Poems

Author: Elizabeth Stoddard

Release date: May 1, 2004 [eBook #12391]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

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POEMS

BY

ELIZABETH STODDARD

1895


CONTENTS

THE POET'S SECRET
NOVEMBER
MUSIC IN A CROWD
"I LIVE WITHIN THE STRANGER'S GATE"
THE HOUSE OF YOUTH
THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
CHRISTMAS COMES AGAIN
MARCH
THE SPRING AFAR
WHY?
AUGUST
OCTOBER
"THE WILLOW BOUGHS ARE YELLOW NOW"
"IN THE STILL, STAR-LIT NIGHT"
AUTUMN
THE AUTUMN SHEAF
IN THE CITY
"I LOVE YOU, BUT A SENSE OF PAIN"
NAMELESS PAIN
A BABY SONG
THE WIFE SPEAKS
THE HUSBAND SPEAKS
"ONE MORN I LEFT HIM IN HIS BED"
BEFORE THE MIRROR
"THE SHADOWS ON THE WATER REACH"
A SUMMER NIGHT
"FAN ME WITH THESE LILIES FAIR"
"OH, THE WILD, WILD DAYS OF YOUTH!"
"ON MY BED OF A WINTER NIGHT"
"HALLO! MY FANCY, WHITHER WILT THOU GO?"
YOU LEFT ME
"O FRIEND, BEGIN A LOFTIER SONG"
"NOW THAT THE PAIN IS GONE, I TOO CAN SMILE"
THE COLONEL'S SHIELD
A FEW IDLE WORDS
VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ
THE RACE
THE WOLF-TAMER
THE ABBOT OF UNREASON
EL MANOLO
MERCEDES
THE BULL-FIGHT
ON THE CAMPAGNA
THE QUEEN DEPOSED
A UNIT
ZANTHON—MY FRIEND
ACHILLES IN ORCUS
ABOVE THE TREE
TO AN ARTIST
A LANDSCAPE
FROM THE HEADLAND
AS ONE
THE VISITINGS OF TRUTH KNOWN ELSEWHERE
WE MUST WAIT
UNRETURNING
CLOSED
MEMORY IS IMMORTAL
THE TRYST
NO ANSWER
ON THE HILLTOP
THE MESSAGE
EXILE
A SEASIDE IDYL
THE CHIMNEY-SWALLOW'S IDYL
LAST DAYS


POEMS