The Sisters' Tragedy

A Mood

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A Mood

A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness--

Some vague, remote ancestral touch of sorrow, or of madness;

A fear that is not fear, a pain that has not pain's insistence;

A sense of longing, or of loss, in some foregone existence;

A subtle hurt that never pen has writ nor tongue has spoken--

Such hurt perchance as Nature feels when a blossomed bough is broken.

About Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The Sisters' Tragedy

The Last Caesar

In Westminster Abbey

Alec Yeaton's Son

At the Funeral of a Minor Poet

Batuschka.

Act V

Tennyson

The Shipman's Tale

"I Vex Me Not with Brooding on the Years"

Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips

Interludes

Echo-Song

A Mood

Guilielmus Rex

"Pillared Arch and Sculptured Tower"

Threnody

Sestet

A Touch of Nature

Memory

"I'll Not Confer with Sorrow"

A Dedication

No Songs in Winter

"Like Crusoe, Walking by the Lonely Strand"

The Letter

Sargent's Portrait of Edwin Booth at "The Players"

Pauline Pavlovna

Bagatelle

Corydon: A Pastoral

At a Reading

The Menu

An Elective Course

L'Eau Dormante

Thalia

Palinode

A Petition

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