Poems.
ByClaude Lake.
London:
Alfred W. Bennnett
5, Bishopsgate Without.
1867.CONTENTS.
- POEMS TO J. M.
- THE TORRENT 7
- ASPIRATIONS:—
- I. I saw thee in the streets, so wan and pale 14
- II. Each word that falleth from thy lips 15
- III. Weeping, weary, did I wander 16
- IV. Am I, indeed, th’ Æolian harp 17
- V. I move amid a golden cloud 18
- VI. My soul is like a fragile flower 19
- VII. Like to the echoes, clear and light 20
- VIII. My heart is hushed and holy 21
- IX. Sometimes, in the summer night 22
- X. Like Jove’s great eagle, who on giant wings 23
- XI. Blossoms rain upon the lea 24
- XII. Creature of moods and changes manifold 25
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- DELIGHT 26
- A SIGH 27
- THE WIND 29
- ON A LETTER:—
- ECHOES OF SPRING:—
- I. I walk about in driving snow 37
- II. Oft on the gleaming April days 38
- III. Sometimes on my soul will throng 39
- IV. Fain would I sing of each sweet sight and sound 41
- V. There’s somewhat in the loveliness of spring 42
- VI. Oh, birds, winged voices! children of the light 42
- VII. Oh, soft sweet air of early spring 43
- VIII. The blooming hedge, the budding grove 44
- IX. Like a flower‐fall of rain 45
- X. With thousand gaps the earth is split 45
- THE ORANGE‐PEEL IN THE GUTTER 47
- QUESTION AND ANSWER 58
- THE WANDERER 60
- ENTANGLED 62
- TO HOPE 65
- INVOCATION 78
- ODE TO A CHILD 82
