His wines or many an autumn vintage, pressed
From wildwood grapes, or vineyard fields that slept
On sunny hillsides, by his own hand dressed;
And calls his neighbors in to taste and share
His store; yet overvaluing, perchance,
What seemed to keep for him a flavor rare
Which love might prize when critics frown askance:
So to my board I bid my friends, and ope
The hoarded flasks of many a varying year,—
The verse from lonely dells of dreamland won,
Or by sweet toiling on the sun-flecked slope
Of life, ere yet my summer leaves were sere
In lengthening shadows of the sinking sun.
By Christopher Pearse Cranch
Boston: James Osgood and Company
[Introduction]
THE BIRD AND THE BELL.
THE THREE MUSES.
THE SHADOWED RIVER.
NOVEMBER TREES.
THE FLOWER AND THE BEE.
THE CATARACT ISLE.
IN THE GARDEN.
IN THE PINE-WOODS.
LUNA THROUGH A LORGNETTE.
IN THE PALAIS ROYAL GARDEN.
CORNUCOPIA.
A FRIEND.
THE AUTUMN RAIN.
SPIRITS IN PRISON.
BLONDEL.
THE OLD DAYS AND THE NEW.
WHY?
THROUGH THE FIELDS TO ST. PETER’S.
MARION DALE.
VEILS.
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
ATALANTA.
AL HASSAN’S SECRET.
MY OLD PALETTE.
THE BOBOLINKS.
CRETE.
J.R.L. ON HIS FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY.
SEA SHADOWS.
THE MOUNTAIN PATH.
BIRD LANGUAGE.
THE CHANGING YEAR.
SONG,—“SOFT, BROWN, SMILING EYES”.
THE DREAM OF PILATE’S WIFE.
THE DISPUTE OF THE SEVEN DAYS.
A THRUSH IN A GILDED CAGE.
UNDER THE SKYLIGHT.
I IN THEE, AND THOU IN ME.
ODE,—MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI.
IAPIS.
THE WORKSHOP AND THE BRONZE.
THE EVENING PRIMROSE.
IN A CHURCH.
DECEMBER.
A CHINESE STORY.
A SONG OF HOME.
A SPRING-GROWL.
WAITING BY THE SEA.
SHELLING PEAS,—A PASTORAL.
LOUIS NAPOLEON.
BY THE SHORE OF THE RIVER.
THE AMERICAN PANTHEON.
IN THE FOREST OF FONTAINEBLEAU.
A DAY OF MEMORIES.
THE GUEST.
OCTOBER.
TO A HALF-FRIEND.
MUSIC.
COMPENSATION.
A BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS.
MEMORIAL HALL.
DREAM-LIFE.
THE CENTURY AND THE NATION,—Φ BK POEM.
THE LAY OF THRYM; OR, THE HAMMER RECOVERED.
MICHAEL ANGELO BUONAROTTI.
ON RE-READING TENNYSON’S PRINCESS.
THE HIGHER LAW.
CIRCUMSTANCE.
SHAKESPEARE.
THE GARDEN.
THE GARDEN (continued).
To G.W.C.
To W.W.S.
To W.W.S.
To O.B.F.
To O.B.F. (continued).
YOUTH AND AGE.
THE BURIAL OF THE FLAG.
THE ROSE OF DEATH,—A BALLAD.
NOVEMBER 8TH, 1864.
SONNETS FOR THE TIMES.
I. THE DARK TOWER.
II. DELIVERANCE.
III. THE ABOLITIONISTS.
IV. THE DAWN OF PEACE.
V. THE DEATH-BLOW.
VI. THE MARTYR.
VII. OUR COUNTRY.
