Poems
POEMS
JULIA C. R. DORR
COMPLETE EDITION
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
MDCCCXCII
Copyright, 1879, 1885, 1892, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK
Let us go forth and gather golden-rod! O love, my love, see how upon the hills, Where still the warm air palpitates and thrills, And earth lies breathless in the smile of God, Like plumes of serried hosts its tassels nod! All the green vales its golden glory fills; By lonely waysides and by mountain rills Its yellow banners flaunt above the sod. Perhaps the apple-blossoms were more fair; Perhaps, dear heart, the roses were more sweet, June’s dewy roses, with their buds half blown; Yet what care we, while tremulous and rare This golden sunshine falleth at our feet And song lives on, though summer birds have flown? August, 1884.
Let the words stand as they were writ, dear heart! Although no more for thee in earthly bowers Shall bloom the earlier or the later flowers; Although to-day ’tis springtime where thou art, While I, with Autumn, wander far apart, Yet, in the name of that long love of ours, Tested by years and tried by sun and showers, Let the words stand as they were writ, dear heart!
Julia C. R. Dorr
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EARLIER POEMS
MAUD AND MADGE
A MOTHER’S QUESTION
OVER THE WALL
OUTGROWN
A SONG FOR TWO
A PICTURE
HYMN TO LIFE
THE CHIMNEY SWALLOW
HEIRSHIP
HILDA, SPINNING
HEREAFTER
WITHOUT AND WITHIN
VASHTI’S SCROLL
WHAT MY FRIEND SAID TO ME
YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY
WHAT I LOST
ONCE!
CATHARINE
THE NAME
UNDER THE PALM-TREES
NIGHT AND MORNING
AGNES
“INTO THY HANDS”
IDLE WORDS
THE SPARROW TO THE SKYLARK
THE BELL OF ST. PAUL’S
FROM BATON ROUGE
CHARLEY OF MALVERN HILL
THE LAST OF SIX
THE DRUMMER BOY’S BURIAL
1865
OUR FLAGS AT THE CAPITOL
MY MOCKING-BIRD
COMING HOME
WAKENING EARLY
HELEN
“PRO PATRIA”
THE DEAD CENTURY
“NO MORE THE THUNDER OF CANNON”
FRIAR ANSELMO AND OTHER POEMS
FRIAR ANSELMO
THE KING’S ROSEBUD
SOMEWHERE
PERADVENTURE
A SECRET
THIS DAY
“CHRISTUS!”
THE KISS
WHAT SHE THOUGHT
WHAT NEED?
TWO
UNANSWERED
THE CLAY TO THE ROSE
AT THE LAST
TO THE “BOUQUET CLUB”
EVENTIDE
MY LOVERS
THE LEGEND OF THE ORGAN-BUILDER
BUTTERFLY AND BABY BLUE
KING IVAN’S OATH
AT DAWN
IN MEMORIAM
WEAVING THE WEB
THE “CHRISTUS” OF THE PASSION PLAY OF OBERAMMERGAU
RABBI BENAIAH
A CHILD’S THOUGHT
“GOD KNOWS”
THE MOUNTAIN ROAD
ENTERING IN
A FLOWER FOR THE DEAD
THOU KNOWEST
WINTER
FIVE
UNSOLVED
QUIETNESS
THE DIFFERENCE
MY BIRTHDAY
A RED ROSE
TWENTY-ONE
SINGING IN THE DARK
A LAST WORD
SONNETS
AT REST
TOO WIDE!
GRASS-GROWN
TO ZÜLMA
SLEEP
TO-DAY
F. A. F.
DAY AND NIGHT
THY NAME
RESURGAMUS
AT THE TOMB
THREE DAYS
DARKNESS
SILENCE
SANCTIFIED
A MESSAGE
WHEN LESSER LOVES
GEORGE ELIOT
KNOWING
TO-MORROW
“O EARTH! ART THOU NOT WEARY?”
ALEXANDER
TO A GODDESS
A CHRISTMAS SONNET
POVERTY
SURPRISES
COMPENSATION
QUESTIONINGS
REMEMBRANCE
IN THE HIGH TOWER
AFTERNOON SONGS
FOUR-O’CLOCKS
A DREAM OF SONGS UNSUNG
QUESTIONING A ROSE
THE FALLOW FIELD
OUT AND IN
HER FLOWERS
THREE LADDIES
THORNLESS ROSES
TREASURE-SHIPS
CHOOSING
NOT MINE
THE CHAMBER OF SILENCE
THREE ROSES
VALDEMAR
JUBILATE!
EASTER LILIES
“O WIND THAT BLOWS OUT OF THE WEST”
A SUMMER SONG
THE URN
THE PARSON’S DAUGHTER
ROY
A MOTHER-SONG
EASTER MORNING
SEALED ORDERS
AN ANNIVERSARY
MARTHA
THE HOUR
THE CLOSED GATE
CONTENT
MY WONDERLAND
THE GUEST
AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN
DISCONTENT
THE DOVES AT MENDON
A LATE ROSE
PERIWINKLE
AFTERNOON
THOU AND I
LATER POEMS
THE APPLE-TREE
THE COMFORTER
SANTA CLAUS
FORESHADOWINGS
WON
BAPTISM OF FIRE
OVER AND OVER
A LISTENING BIRD
THE FIRST FIRE
MIDNIGHT CHIMES
MY LADY SLEEP
THE KING’S TOUCH
“BY DIVERS PATHS”
THE BLIND BIRD’S NEST
TWO PATHS
ST. JOHN’S EVE
A LITTLE SONG
THE PRINCES’ CHAMBER
WONDERLAND
NOCTURNE
COME WHAT MAY
NUREMBERG
A MATER DOLOROSA
AFTER LONG WAITING
