WINONA
A DAKOTA LEGEND

AND OTHER POEMS

BY
CAPTAIN E. L. HUGGINS
2d Cavalry U. S. Army

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

NEW YORK
27 West Twenty-third St.

LONDON
27 King William St., Strand

Knickerbocker Press
1890

Copyright, 1890
BY
ELI L. HUGGINS.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York
Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by
G. P. Putnam’s Sons

CONTENTS.

Transcriber’s Note: Incorrect page numbering in the original has been amended here.

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Winona, A Dakota Legend.
Proem.[3]
Part I.[9]
Part II. [20]
Part III.[33]
Miscellaneous Poems.
To a Young Man[43]
Tell me, Dear Bird[45]
Perdita[47]
Stanzas to ⸺[52]
Love’s Tribute[55]
The Little Shepherdess.—Pastorelle[57]
A Farewell[58]
To a Fickle Fair One[59]
To the Same[59]
The Palace of Repose[60]
Moods[63]
To ⸺[74]
To ⸺[76]
To The Same[76]
To the Same[76]
Translations and Imitations.
If My Verses Had Wings Like a Bird.—Hugo[79]
’Twixt Sleep and Waking.—Prosper Blanchemain[80]
White Swan Sailing.—From the Russian,[81]
The Roses of Saadi.—Desbordes-Valmore,[84]
Rose-Buds.—Béranger[85]
The Bird I Wait for.—Moreau[87]
Visions.—De Musset[89]
The Fisherman’s Bridal.—Delavigne[92]
You Had My Whole Heart.—Desbordes-Valmore[95]
Art.—Théophile Gautier[97]
Barcarolle.—Théophile Gautier[100]
Shadows.—Théophile Gautier[103]
Sonnet: Ou Vont Ils?—Sully Prudhomme,[113]
The Gay Cashier.—Adapted from the French[114]
The Ravages of Time.—Scarron[115]
Hallucination.—From the French.
I.[116]
II.[117]
III.[117]
IV. In The Grove[118]
To My Critics.—De Musset[119]
The Youth and the Old Man.—Florian[121]
The Cathedral Bell and Its Rival.—Iriarte[123]
Blue Eyes and Black Eyes.—Imitated from Andalusian Coplas.
I.[125]
II.[126]
Complaint to the Virgin.—From a Cuban Poetess[128]
The Crucifixion. Old French Sonnet[132]
From The Spanish[133]
The Book of Life.—Lamartine[134]
Memorial Day and Other Poems. Dedicated to the G. A. R.
Twenty Years Ago. Written for Memorial Day, 1885[137]
Abraham Lincoln[141]
The Prisoner’s Dream[142]
How Oft a Sentry Sad and Lone[143]
From Coplas of an Andalusian Soldier[144]
From the Same[145]
The Glory of a Spanish Dragoon.—From the Same[146]
Written for a Reunion of Veterans in the Year 1915[148]
Twenty-five Sonnets.
To ⸺[153]
Poesy[154]
The Rose[155]
To a Fair Santa Barbaran[156]
La Diva[157]
To a Happy Lover[158]
Metempsychosis.
I.[159]
II.[159]
Three Sonnets in Memoriam.
I. Despair—The Abyss[161]
II. Questioning[161]
III. Consolation[162]
In Memory of D. G. R.[163]
In Memory of John Brown of Ossawattomie. Inscribed to John J. Ingalls.
I.[164]
II.[165]
III.[165]
Our Lost Ones[167]
The Ocean of the Past[168]
Evil Days[169]
Envy and Slander. To N. N. M.[170]
True Freedom. To J. F. F.[171]
“Society”[172]
The Stagnant Pool[173]
The Man with the Muck Rake[174]
Immortality[175]
To a Young Artist[176]