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    Some Verses
    Some Verses
    Some Verses
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    Some Verses

    By Helen Hay Whitney

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    'Some Verses' by Helen Hay Whitney is a poetry compilation. Helen Julia Hay Whitney (1875 - 1944) was an American poet, writer, socialite, racehorse owner/breeder, and philanthropist.
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    And shall it be that these undaunted snows—That poise so lightly on the mountains' crest—A lily laid to cheer its lonely breast—
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 18, 2021
    ISBN4064066127527
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      Some Verses - Helen Hay Whitney

      Helen Hay Whitney

      Some Verses

      Published by Good Press, 2021

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066127527

      Table of Contents

      SONNETS

      THE DAYS

      THE EVERLASTING SNOWS

      THRONE AND ALTAR

      EAST AND WEST

      THE BATTLE

      WATER AND WINE

      PITY ME NOT!

      A DREAM IN FEVER

      A WOMAN'S PRIDE

      AGE

      IN THE MIST

      ON THE MOUNTAIN'S SLOPE

      TO THE BELOVED

      MY BROOK

      BENEATH THE MOON

      THE RUBY

      SPRING AND AUTUMN

      THE LOST MOMENT

      THE COMING OF LOVE

      EVENING AT WASHINGTON

      LOVE'S KISS

      THE SCARLET THREAD

      AUTUMN

      THE TIDE OF THE HEART

      POEMS

      DOES THE PEARL KNOW?

      IN AUTUMN

      WAITING FOR DAY

      THE ANGEL OF INDIFFERENCE

      DEAR DEAD WOMEN

      THE GRAVE OF HOPE

      TREES OF THE WILDERNESS

      THE LOVE OF THE ROSE

      IN THE GREEN YEW

      THE DEAD NIGHT

      SONG

      SIGH NOT FOR LOVE

      AMBITION AND LOVE

      TO B. D.

      LITTLE SAD FACE

      EARTH'S TEARS— AND MAN'S

      I HAVE SEEN WHAT THE SERAPHS HAVE SEEN

      A LASS FROM THE WOODS

      WAS THERE ANOTHER SPRING

      TO DIANE

      BIRD LOVE— ROSE LOVE

      THE JOY OF LIFE

      MIST

      THE LAST CLOUD

      SONG

      IN THE GRAVE

      THE FLOWERS OF PROSERPINE

      SONNETS

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      THE DAYS

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      A long grim corridor—a sullen bar

      Of light athwart the darkness—where no fleet

      Pale sunshine spreads for dark his winding sheet

      A light, not born of noon nor placid star

      Glows lurid thro' the gloom—while from afar,

      Beats marching of innumerable feet.

      Is this the place where tragic armies meet?

      The throb of terror that presages war?—

      I strain to see, then softly on my sight

      There falls the vision, manifold they come—

      White listless Day chained to her brother Night—

      Their hands are shackled and their lips are dumb,

      And as they meet the air where each one dies,

      They turn and smile at me—with weary eyes.

      THE EVERLASTING SNOWS

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