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I. Success.
[Published in "A Masque of Poets" at the request of "H.H.," the author's fellow-townswoman and friend.]
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!
I. Life
II. Love
III. Nature
- I.
- II. May-Flower.
- III. Why?
- IV.
- V.
- VI. A Service of Song.
- VII.
- VIII. Summer's Armies.
- IX. The Grass.
- X.
- XI. Summer Shower.
- XII. Psalm of the Day.
- XIII. The Sea of Sunset.
- XIV. Purple Clover.
- XV. The Bee.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX. Two Worlds.
- XXI. The Mountain.
- XXII. A Day.
- XXIII.
- XXIV. The Wind.
- XXV. Death and Life.
- XXVI.
- XXVII. Indian Summer.
- XXVIII. Autumn.
- XXIX. Beclouded.
- XXX. The Hemlock.
- XXXI.
IV. Time and Eternity
- I.
- II. Too Late.
- III. Astra Castra.
- IV.
- V.
- VI. From the Chrysalis.
- VII. Setting Sail.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI. "Troubled About Many Things."
- XII. Real.
- XIII. The Funeral.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI. Refuge.
- XVII.
- XVIII. Playmates.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI. The First Lesson.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV. Dying.
- XXVI.
- XXVII. The Chariot.
- XXVIII.
- XXIX. Resurgam.
- XXX.
- XXXI.
- XXXII.
- XXXIII. Along the Potomac.
- XXXIV.
- XXXV. Emancipation.
- XXXVI. Lost.
- XXXVII.
- XXXVIII.
- XXXIX.
- XL.
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