Sonnets and Songs

By Helen Hay Whitney

Sonnets and Songs is a compilation of traditional songs and sonnets by Helen Hay Whitney. Whitney was an American poet, author and philanthropist. Excerpt:
"The country road at lonely close of day
Rests for a while from the long stress of rain;
Dripping and bowed, the green walls of the lane
Reflect no glistening light, no colors gay
Has dying Summer left. The sky is gray,
As though the weeping had not eased the pain.
The Autumn is not yet, and all in vain
Seems Summer's life—a blossom cast away.
The air is hushed, save in the emerald shade
The rain still drips and stirs each fretting leaf
To soft insistence of its little grief.
The hopeless calm all thought of life denies—
But hark! out through the silence, unafraid,
A robin ripples to the chilly skies."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 10, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066221324

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Helen Hay Whitney

Sonnets and Songs

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066221324

Table of Contents

SONNETS

I

Ave atque Vale

II

Chaque baiser vaut un roman.

III

As a Pale Child

IV

Flower of the Clove

V

Too Late

VI

The Supreme Sacrifice

VII

Malua

VIII

Love’s Legacy

IX

How we would Live!

X

In Extremis

XI

The Forgiveness

XII

With Music

XIII

Alpha and Omega

XIV

Flowers of Ice

XV

Love and Death

XVI

The Message

XVII

Tempest and Calm

XVIII

After Rain

XIX

Not through this Door

XX

Pot-Pourri

XXI

Eadem Semper

XXII

To a Woman

XXIII

Aspiration

I

XXIV

Aspiration

II

XXV

The Gypsy Blood

XXVI

Not Dead but Sleeping

XXVII

The Last Gift

XXVIII

Amor Mysticus

XXIX

The Pattern of the Earth

XXX

Disguised

SONGS

I

On the White Road

II

The Wanderer

III

False

IV

A Song of the Oregon Trail

V

The Apple-Tree

VI

Silver and Rose

VII

To-Morrow

VIII

The Greater Joy

IX

The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree

X

Good-Bye Sorrow

XI

In Harbor

XII

Rosa Mundi

XIII

The Ribbon

XIV

The Aster

XV

Heart and Hand

XVI

The Golden Fruit

XVII

To a Moth

XVIII

Winter Song

XIX

Youth

XX

Persephone

XXI

Étoiles d’Enfer

XXII

Enough of Singing

XXIII

Truth

XXIV

The Philosopher

XXV

Prayers

XXVI

A South-Sea Lover Scorned

XXVII

In May

XXVIII

For Your Sake

XXIX

Lyric Love

XXX

Be Still

XXXI

Butterfly Words

XXXII

Music

XXXIII

The Ghost

XXXIV

Fight!

XXXV

In Tonga

XXXVI

This was the Song

XXXVII

To E. D.

XXXVIII

The Dance

XXXIX

Vanquished

XL

Tranquillity

SONNETS

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I

Ave atque Vale

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As a blown leaf across the face of Time

Your name falls emptily upon my heart.

In this new symmetry you have no part,

No lot in my fair life. The stars still chime

Autumn and Spring in ceaseless pantomime.

I play with Beauty, which is kin to Art,

Forgetting Nature. Nor do pulses start

To hear your soul remembered in a rhyme.

You may not vex me any more. The stark