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Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter

August

Buttercup nodded and said good-by,
    Clover and daisy went off together,
But the fragrant water-lilies lie
    Yet moored in the golden August weather.
 
The swallows chatter about their flight,
    The cricket chirps like a rare good fellow,
The asters twinkle in clusters bright,
    While the corn grows ripe and the apples mellow.

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SUNFLOWER tall and hollyhock,… Cornflower, poppy, and marigold, b… Delicate sweet-peas, glowing brigh… While over the fence, on fire with… Quaint little wilderness of flower…
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THE wind blows from the stormy qu… Trouble has gathered in the sky so… Can this be morning? Is the world… Down yonder dim horizon something… What is it? 'T is the ghost of jo…
Flowers for the Brave

HERE bring your purple and gold, Glory of color and scent; Scarlet of tulips bold, Buds blue as the firmament. Hushed is the sound of the fife
In Kittery Churchyard

CRUSHING the scarlet strawberr… I kneel to read the slanting stone… How sharp a sorrow speaks! A hund… And more have vanished, with their… Since here was laid, upon an Apri…
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THE childish voice rose to my ear Sweet toned and eager, praying me, “I am so little, Granna dear, Please lift me up, so I can see.” I looked down at the pleading face…
New Year Song

O SORROW, go thy way and leave… Weary am I of thee, thou Sorrow o… Unclasp thy hand from mine and cea… Fade like the winter sunset dim an… Depart, and trouble me no longer!
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To J. G. W.

WHAT is there left, I wonder, To give thee on this glad day? Vainly I muse and ponder; What is there left to say? There is winter abroad, and snow,
March

THE keen north wind pipes loud; Swift scuds the flying cloud; Light lies the new fallen snow; The ice-clad eaves drip slow, For glad Spring has begun,
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“TELL us a story of these isles,… The daughters of the West, whose… For the first time the circling se… Of the blown prairie’s waves of gr… “Tell us of wreck and peril, storm…
Reverie

THE white reflection of the sloop… Sleeps trembling on the tide; In scarlet trim her crew lean o’er… Lounging on either side. Pale blue and streaked with pearl…
Song

O LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! Whether it rain or shine, Whether the clouds frown or the sk… Whether the thunder fill the air w… Whether the winter rage or peace i…
Impatience

ONLY to follow you, dearest, onl… Only to feel for one instant the t… Only to tell you once of the love… To say the world without you is li… That the flowers have lost their p…
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NANETTE! Can you not teach me to forget? It is so hard to understand! You would not lift your slender ha… To keep me yours, yet must I be
As Linnets Sing

NAY, wherefore should I seek thy… To weary thee with words that naug… This faltering voice will not ring… It will but break and fail. And yet I cannot keep back any pa…
In Death's Despite

WHITHER departs the perfume of… Into what life dies music’s golden… Year after year life’s long proces… To hide itself beneath the sensele… Upon the grave’s inexorable brink



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