The Sisters' Tragedy

Threnody

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Threnody

I

Upon your hearse this flower I lay.

Brief be your sleep! You shall be known

When lesser men have had their day:

Fame blossoms where true seed is sown,

Or soon or late, let Time wrong what it may.

II

Unvext by any dream of fame,

You smiled, and bade the world pass by:

But I--I turned, and saw a name

Shaping itself against the sky--

White star that rose amid the battle's flame!

III

Brief be your sleep, for I would see

Your laurels--ah, how trivial now

To him must earthly laurel be

Who wears the amaranth on his brow!

How vain the voices of mortality!

About Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Summary

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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