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Poem: A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream;

The Conqueror Worm

Lo! ’tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!

An angel throng, bewinged, bedight

In veils, and drowned in tears,

Sit in a theatre, to see

A play of hopes and fears,

While the orchestra breathes fitfully

The music of the spheres. [...]

Poem: The Bridal Ballad

The ring is on my hand,  And the wreath is on my brow; Satin and jewels grand Are all at my command, And I am happy now.

And my lord he loves me well; But, when [...]

Poem: Alone

From childhood’s hour I have not been  As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring.

Poem: A Psalm Of Life

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
 
Life is real!  Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

 

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