Poems, Series 1

IX.

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IX.

Have you got a brook in your little heart,

Where bashful flowers blow,

And blushing birds go down to drink,

And shadows tremble so?

And nobody knows, so still it flows,

That any brook is there;

And yet your little draught of life

Is daily drunken there.

Then look out for the little brook in March,

When the rivers overflow,

And the snows come hurrying from the hills,

And the bridges often go.

And later, in August it may be,

When the meadows parching lie,

Beware, lest this little brook of life

Some burning noon go dry!

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Summary

Preface.

Prelude

I. Life

I. Success.

II.

III. Rouge et Noir.

IV. Rouge Gagne.

V.

VI.

VII. Almost!

VIII.

IX.

X. In a Library.

XI.

XII.

XIII. Exclusion.

XIV. The Secret.

XV. The Lonely House.

XVI.

XVII. Dawn.

XVIII. The Book of Martyrs.

XIX. The Mystery of Pain.

XX.

XXI. A Book.

XXII.

XXIII. Unreturning.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

II. Love

I. Mine.

II. Bequest.

III.

IV. Suspense.

V. Surrender.

VI.

VII. With a Flower.

VIII. Proof.

IX.

X. Transplanted.

XI. The Outlet.

XII. In Vain.

XIII. Renunciation.

XIV. Love's Baptism.

XV. Resurrection.

XVI. Apocalypse.

XVII. The Wife.

XVIII. Apotheosis.

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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