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Flame and Shadow(80)
2023-12-06Alone I am alone, in spite of love, In spite of all I take and give —— In spite of all your tenderness, Sometimes I am not glad to live. I...
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Flame and Shadow(81)
2023-12-06Red Maples In the last year I have learned How few men are worth my trust; I have seen the friend I loved Struck by death into the dust, And fears I n...
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Flame and Shadow(82)
2023-12-06Debtor So long as my spirit still Is glad of breath And lifts its plumes of pride In the dark face of death; While I am curious still Of love and fame...
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Flame and Shadow(83)
2023-12-06The Wind in the Hemlock Steely stars and moon of brass, How mockingly you watch me pass! You know as well as I how soon I shall be blind to stars and ...
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Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto1,11)
2023-12-06XI. Yet my fond love I never told, But kept it, as the miser keeps, In his rude hut, his hoarded heaps Of gleaming gems, and glittering gold: Gloating...
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Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto1,12)
2023-12-06XII. Nor was it I alone, to whom Those words had been as words of doom, By some malicious fiend rehearsed: Another one was standing by, With princely ...
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Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto2,1)
2023-12-06I. He stood where the mountain moss outspread Its smoothness beneath his dusky foot; The chestnut boughs above his head, Hung motionless and mute. The...
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Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto2,2)
2023-12-06II. And who by kith, and who by name, Is he, that lone, yet haughty one? By his high brow, and eye of flame, I guess him old Ottalli's son. Ottall...
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Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto2,3)
2023-12-06III. And thus from varying year to year, The youthful chief has lingered here; Chief!——why is he so nobly named? How many warriors at his ...
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Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto2,4)
2023-12-06IV. And this was he who, standing there, Seemed as an image of Despair, Which agony's convulsive strife, Had quickened into breathing life. The wr...