Poems by Henry Timrod
I Saw, Or Dreamed I Saw
... no rings Flashed from the dainty fingers, which held back ...
A Vision of Poesy - Part 01
... XXXVIII Yet something checked, that was and was not dread, ...
The Problem
... If thou think'st thy place above me, thou shalt never stoop to mine ...
Sonnet VI "I Scarcely Grieve, O Nature! at the Lot"
... so my youth Had missed full many a stern but wholesome truth ...
Sonnet X "Were I the Poet-Laureate of the Fairies"
... Yet, lady, when fit language shall have told it, ...
Sonnet IV "They Dub Thee Idler, Smiling Sneeringly"
... How know they, these good gossips, what to thee ...
A Common Thought
... Through the darkness - hist! oh, hist! ...
Sonnet I "Poet! If on a Lasting Fame Be Bent"
... The flower and fruit of wholesome human thought ...
A Bouquet
... You will possess - all folded up discreetly - ...
Sonnet XV In Memoriam -- Harris Simons
... Ah, no! ah, no! -- chant on! -- soar on! -- Reign on! ...
Praeceptor Amat
... let me see! Then was off in a moment, but turned with a glee, ...
Sonnet XII "What Gossamer Lures Thee Now? What Hope, What Name"
... The words are thine, and will not do thee wrong, ...
Youth And Manhood
... Plays with the baubles and the gauds of earth - ...
Flower-Life
... Oh! say you, friend, the creed is fraught ...
Sonnet XIII "I Thank You, Kind and Best Beloved Friend"
... "ed friend, With the same thanks one murmurs to a sister, ...