Poems
BY WILLIAM D. HOWELLS
BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 211 TREMONT STREET MDCCCLXXXVI
Copyright, 1873, by James R. Osgood and Company and 1885, By William D. Howells.
All rights reserved.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
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“Das Vergnügen ist Nichts als ein höchst angenehmer Schmerz.”––Heinrich Heine.
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William Dean Howells
POEMS
CONTENTS.
THE PILOT’S STORY.
FORLORN.
PLEASURE-PAIN.
IN AUGUST.
THE EMPTY HOUSE.
BUBBLES.
LOST BELIEFS.
LOUIS LEBEAU’S CONVERSION.
CAPRICE.
SWEET CLOVER.
THE ROYAL PORTRAITS.
(AT LUDWIGSHOF.)
THE FIRST CRICKET.
THE MULBERRIES.
BEFORE THE GATE.
CLEMENT.
SAINT CHRISTOPHER.
ELEGY ON JOHN BUTLER HOWELLS,
THANKSGIVING.
A SPRINGTIME.
IN EARLIEST SPRING.
THE BOBOLINKS ARE SINGING.
PRELUDE.
(TO AN EARLY BOOK OF VERSE.)
THE MOVERS.
SKETCH.
THROUGH THE MEADOW.
GONE.
THE SARCASTIC FAIR.
RAPTURE.
DEAD.
THE DOUBT.
THE THORN.
THE MYSTERIES.
THE BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS.
FOR ONE OF THE KILLED.
THE TWO WIVES.
(TO COLONEL J. G. M., IN MEMORY OF THE EVENT BEFORE ATLANTA.)
BEREAVED.
THE SNOW-BIRDS.
VAGARY.
FEUERBILDER.
AVERY.
[Niagara, 1853.]
BOPEEP: A PASTORAL.
WHILE SHE SANG.
A POET.
CONVENTION.
THE POET’S FRIENDS.
NO LOVE LOST.
A ROMANCE OF TRAVEL.
THE SONG THE ORIOLE SINGS.
PORDENONE.
THE LONG DAYS.