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    Poems
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    Poems

    By Sophia Margaretta Hensley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Poems - Sophia Margaretta Hensley

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Sophia M. Almon

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Poems

      Author: Sophia M. Almon

      Release Date: March 6, 2006 [EBook #17936]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***

      Produced by Thierry Alberto, Richard J. Shiffer, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      (This file was produced from images generously made

      available by the Canadian Institute for Historical

      Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org).

      POEMS

      BY

      SOPHIE M. ALMON.

      (For Private Circulation.)

      April, 1889:

      Printed for the Author by J. J. Anslow.

      Windsor, N. S.

      CONTENTS.

      Sonnets:—

      Crows.

      Futurity.

      There is no God.

      Disappointment.

      A Shallow.

      Triumph.

      Rondeaux:—

      I Will Forget.

      When Summer Comes.

      It Might Have Been.

      Brother and Friend.

      Pourquoi?

      For our Love's Sake.

      Echoes.

      Noon.

      Pictures.

      Eurydice.

      Slack Tide.

      An Evening in October.

      Parted.

      Tout pour L'Amour.

      Soothing.

      CROWS.

      T HEY stream across the fading western sky

      A sable cloud, far o'er the lonely leas;

      Now parting into scattered companies,

      Now closing up the broken ranks, still high

      And higher yet they mount, while, carelessly,

      Trail slow behind, athwart the moving trees

      A lingering few, 'round whom the evening breeze

      Plays with sad whispered murmurs as they fly.

      A lonely figure, ghostly in the dim

      And darkening twilight, lingers in the shade

      Of bending willows: "Surely God has laid

      His curse on me, he moans, my strength of limb

      And old heart-courage fail me, and I flee

      Bowed with fell terror at this augury."

      FUTURITY.

      W HAT of our life when this frail flesh lies low

      A withered clod, and the free soul has burst

      Through

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