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    Poems
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    Poems

    By Cora C. Bass

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Poems" by Cora C. Bass. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 4, 2022
    ISBN8596547208044
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      Poems - Cora C. Bass

      Cora C. Bass

      Poems

      EAN 8596547208044

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      THE SWEETEST SONGS.

      UNBIDDEN GUESTS.

      SEA AND CLIFF.

      THE MARCH OF TIME.

      A GIFT.

      WOULD WE DWELL ON THE MOUNTAIN HEIGHT?

      CHILL NOT THE HEART THAT TRUSTS THEE.

      HE LIES IN STATE.

      HOPE-ON-RIVER.

      AT SEA.

      MIRTH.

      FLORA.

      WHERE PASSACONAWAY WAS WONT TO STAND.

      SPRING.

      KEARSARGE.

      DEAD ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.

      LISTEN, COMRADES.

      MEMORIAL POEM.

      ARISE, MY SOUL!

      A HYMN OF PRAISE.

      BRIGHT AS THE SUNSHINE AFTER SHOWERS.

      THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.

      RISING TIDE.

      THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

      THE LORD WILL PROVIDE.

      JOY.

      THE MISSING PATH.

      LIFE.

      ANOTHER DAY.

      THE FUTURE.

      DO NOT SAY THAT THE WORLD IS COLD.

      A SONG TO THE ZEPHYR.

      LAUGH AND BE HAPPY.

      SPARE THE TREES.

      THOUGHTS OF YOU.

      TRUE, AH, TRUE, THE ROSES FALL.

      LAUGH ON.

      THE WORKER BEE.

      THE COMFORTER.

      THE CLOUDS CANNOT LAST FOREVER.

      THE HEART THAT IS HARD TO WIN.

      SLEEP, MINSTREL, SLEEP!

      THE STORM.

      'MID ETERNAL SNOW.

      OUR DEAR ONES.

      EVEN-TIDE.

      PRESS ON.

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

      Thanks are due to The New York Observer, The Churchman, Zion's Herald, Christian Register, The Standard, Outing, Boston Transcript, Portland Transcript, The New England Home Magazine, and others, for permission to re-print poems of mine that have appeared in their columns.

      CORA C. BASS.

      THE SWEETEST SONGS.

      Table of Contents

      The sweetest songs are left unsung,

      The sweetest themes unread,

      The sweetest chords are left unstrung,

      The sweetest words unsaid.

      How strange it is, and yet how true,

      Surpassing mortal ken,

      We still can catch a blessed view

      Of thought and times and men.

      Though brightest paths remain unknown,

      And few the heights we tread,

      Though we must struggle on alone

      With deepest tears unshed;

      Although our hearts are anguish wrung

      And ev'ry effort pain,

      If we can keep another young,

      We have not lived in vain.

      'Tis said the fairest buds decay;

      Perhaps they do, and yet,

      Upon the darkest, dullest way

      How many flowers are met.

      The happy hours so quickly flee

      We sigh to see them go,

      When out upon life's troubled sea

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