Alexander Smith 1830-1867 John Bartlett


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Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.
A Life Drama. Sc. 2.
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In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
A Life Drama. Sc. 2.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
A Life Drama. Sc. 2.
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Some books are drenchèd sands On which a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy.
A Life Drama. Sc. 2.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
A Life Drama. Sc. 12.
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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, 1 Who hold an hour’s converse, so short, so sweet; One little hour! And then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist and cloud and foam, To meet no more.
A Life Drama. Part iv.
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We hear the wail of the remorseful winds In their strange penance. And this wretched orb Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world, Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes.
Unrest and Childhood.
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The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
Horton.
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Each time we love, We turn a nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
City Poem: A Boy’s Dream.
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Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
City Poem: Dreamthorpe.



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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
City Poem: Dreamthorpe.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
City Poem: The Fear of Dying.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
City Poem: The Fear of Dying.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
City Poem: The Fear of Dying.

Note 1.
Longfellow: The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth, page 644. Thomas Moore: The Meeting of the Ships, page 644, note. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: A Lament, page 631. [back]

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