George Parsons Lathrop Poems

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1.
Jessamine

Here stands the great tree still, with broad bent head;
Its wide arms grown aweary, yet outspread
With their old blessing. But wan memory weaves
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2.
The Child’s Wish Granted

Do you remember, my sweet, absent son,
How in the soft June days forever done
You loved the heavens so warm and clear and high;
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3.
Gettysburg: A Battle Ode

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Victors, living, with laureled brow,
And you that sleep beneath the sward!
Your song was poured from cannon throats:
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4.
Keenan's Charge

The sun had set;
The leaves with dew were wet:
Down fell a bloody dusk
On the woods, that second day of May,
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5.
The Sailor’s Song, Returning

The sea goes up; the sky comes down.
Oh, can you spy the ancient town,—
The granite hills so green and gray,
That rib the land behind the bay?
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6.
The Name Of Washington

Sons of the youth and the truth of the nation,
Ye that are met to remember the man
Whose valor gave birth to a people's salvation,
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7.
The Singing Wire

Ethereal, faint that music rang,
As, with the bosom of the breeze,
It rose and fell and murmuring sang
Aeolian harmonies!
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8.
The Song-Sparrow

Glimmers gray the leafless thicket
Close beside my garden gate,
Where, so light, from post to picket
Hops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;
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9.
The Bobolink

How sweetly sang the bobolink,
When thou, my love, wast nigh!
His liquid music from the brink
Of some cloud-fountain seemed to sink,
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10.
The Flown Soul

Come not again! I dwell with you
Above the realm of frost and dew,
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