Verses

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Sonnets.

I. LE VIOL D’AMOUR.

II. VESPERS.

III. BETTINE TO GOETHE.

Spring Song.

Prophecies of Summer.

Song.

Heaven.

“Maiden, Arise.”

Spring.

Hildegard.

Walther.

Hildegard.

May Marian.

A BALLAD.

Moral.

Opportunities.

“The Last Token.”

Raffaelle to the Fornarina.

Chriemhild of Burgundy.

Some Woman to Some Man.

Lines on Chaucer.

What We Shall Say Fifty Years Hence, OF OUR FANCY-DRESS QUADRILLE.

Nothing More.

June and December.

October.

A Woman I Know.

Daisies.

Impromptu.

Notre Dame des Fleurs.

Translations from the German. THREE SONGS FROM THE GERMAN OF EMANUEL GEIBEL.

I.

II.

III.

Longing. FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHILLER.

“Be friendly, pray, to these fancies of mine.”

—Bettine Brentano.

NEWPORT, R. I.,
C. E. HAMMETT, Jr.,
1878.

 

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I. LE VIOL D’AMOUR.

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(An Organ-stop.)

O soft, caressing sound, more sweet than scent
Of violets in woody hollows! Tone
As amorous as the ring-dove’s tender moan
Beneath the spreading forest’s leafy tent;
What mystery of earth or air hath lent
Thee that bewitching music, where the drone
Of Summer bees in dewy buds new blown
With trembling, fainting melody is blent?
What master did conceive thee, as the sound
Most fit to woo his lady from her rest,
What wakeful maiden in thy wooing found
The passion of her lover first exprest,
And from her silken pillows, beauty-crowned,
Stept forth and smiled on him who loved her best?

November 10th, 1875.

II. VESPERS.

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