Alice Cary Poems

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11.
To The Winds

Talk to my heart, oh winds -
Talk to my heart to-night;
My spirit always finds
With you a new delight,
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12.
Abraham Lincoln

No glittering chaplet brought from other lands!
As in his life, this man, in death, is ours;
His own loved prairies o'er his 'gaunt, gnarled hands,'
Have fitly drawn their sheet of summer flowers!
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13.
The Coming Of Night

As white as the moonlight that fell at her feet
She stood, but for blushes, as many and sweet
As the tops of the blossoms that grew in the wheat,
And softly caressed me -
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14.
Little Cyrus

Emily Mayfield all the day
Sits and rocks her cradle alone,
And never a neighbor comes to say
How pretty little Cyrus has grown.
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15.
Pictures Of Memory

Among the beautiful pictures
That hang on Memory's wall,
Is one of a dim old forest,
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16.
Legend Of Seville

Three men that three gray mules bestrode
Went riding through a lonesome road -
Dust from the largest to the least
Up to the fetlock of each beast.
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17.
Balder's Wife

Her casement like a watchful eye
From the face of the wall looks down,
Lashed round with ivy vines so dry,
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18.
Mulberry Hill

OH, sweet was the eve when I came from the mill,
Adown the green windings of Mulberry hill:
My heart like a bird with his throat all in tune,
That sings in the beautiful bosom of June.
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19.
Content

My house is low and small,
But behind a row of trees,
I catch the golden fall
Of the sunset in the seas;
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20.
The Convent

Come, thou of the drooping eyelid,
And cheek that is meekly pale,
Give over thy pensive musing
And list to a lonesome tale;
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