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^^T^: BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF 1891 A.4UL.5:..TS-9- s/.s:y/€X. 9963 Cornell University Library PS 611.S63 3 1924 022 499 333 Cornell University Library The original of tliis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022499333 YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS ; OTHER WORKS BY DOUGLAS SLADEN. FBITHJOF AND INGEBJOEG, and other Poems. By an Australian Colonist. In green cloth boards. Prize 5s. Published by Kegan Paul, Tkench & Co., London. And Published by GRIFFITH, FARRAN &• CO., 0/ London Sfi Sydney. AUSTKAUAN LYRICS.I Second Editions, in white parchment covers, A arvr'Fo-v ew wtt i?e L scarlet-printed, on thick, rough-edged, hand- A POETEY or EXILES, J (Second Series). [In the Press. EDWAED THE BLACK PBIITCE. Second Edition. Uniform with the two last named, but thrice as thick. Price 45. A SnMSIEE CHEISTMAS: A Story of Station Life in Australia. In green cloth boards. Price 6s. IK COENWALL AND ACEOSS THE SEA. A thick Octavo Volumt, in scarlet and white binding. Printed on thick, rough-edged, hand- made paper. Price 6s. SEIZED BY A SHADOW : A Novel with a Ghost Story. Written under the pseudonym of Rose Mullion. In fancy paper covers. Price is. THE SPANISH AEMADA: A Ballad of 1588. Second Edition. Uni- form with Australian Lyrics, but in old Dutch paper covers. Price 6d. And Published by WALTER SCOTT &= CO. AUSTRALIAN BALLADS AND EHYMES in the 'Canterbury Poets' Series. Price is. ' A CENTURY OF AUSTRALIAN SONG in the Windsor Poets ' Series. Price 3s. 6d. And, Unifotm with this Volume, AVBTRALIAN POETS. Griffith, Faekan & Co., London and Sydney Cassell & Co., New York. YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS 1830-1890 EDITED BY DOUGLAS SLADEN, B-A. OxoN. B.A., LL.B. Melbourne, Australia AUTHOR OF "AUSTRALIAN LYRICS," "a POETRY OF EXILES," ETC., ETC., AND EDITOR OF "AUSTRALIAN POETS," "a CENTURY OF AUSTRALIAN SONG," ETC., ETC. WITH AN APPENDIX OF YOUNGER CANADIAN POETS ' EDITED BY GOODRIDGE BLISS ROBERTS OF St John, N.B.' GRIFFITH, FARRAN, OKEDEN & WELSH NEWBERY HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD LONDON AND SYDNEY 1891 \_TAe Rights of Translation and of Reproduction are reserved.^ — DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF BOSTON,— THE CRADLE OF LITERATURE IN AMERICA, THE GREAT CITY, WHICH, AS IT TOOK THE LEAD IN WAGING WAR WITH ENGLAND A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, NOW TAKES THE LEAD IN WAGING PEACE, AS A HOMAGE TO ITS GREATNESS AND A GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE HOSPITALITY RECEIVED AT MY FIRST RESTING-PLACE IN AMERICA. TO THE AMERICAN FALL AT NIAGARA. Niagara, national emblem I Cataract Born of the maddened rafids, sweeping down Direct, resistless from- the abysms crown Into the deep, fierce pool with vast impact Scarce broken by the giant boulders, stacked To meet thine onslaught, threatening to drown Each tillaged plain, each level-loving town 'Twixt thee and ocean. Lo I the type exact 1 America Niagariaed the world. Europe, a hundredyears agone, beheld An avalanche, like pent-up Erie, hurled Through barriers, to which the rocks of eld Seemed toy things—leaping into godlike space A sign and wonder to the human race. Douglas Sladen Niagara, October 18, 1B89. / desire to crave the indulgence of the reader for typographical errors, the book having had the dis- advantage of passing through the Press while I was away in Japan, without the proper works at hand for correcting the proofs. DOUGLAS SLADEN, Yokohama, "jth December iS — — — CONTENTS. Dedication v Dedicatory Sonnet vi To THE ReADBB XXV YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS. Paul Hamilton Hajne (1830-1886)— Vicksburg ......... 1 Beauregard's Appeal 3 Beyond the Potomac ....... 4 The Eose and Thorn . .... 6 The Ked LUy 6 Ariel 7 Pre-Exisfcence ........ 8 After the Tornado ....... 9 Tristram of the Wood 9 Will. Waxlace Harney (1831) Adonais ......... 11 Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833) ' Pan in Wall Street . ' . .13 Toujours Amour ........ 16 " The TJndisoovered Country " 17 Song from a Drama . .17 The Discoverer 18 " The Death of Bryant . ' . .20 Proven^l Lovers 23 The Hand of Lincoln 25 " The World Well Lost . ' . .26 ' Liberty Enlightening the World . .27 Charles Henrt Webb [John Paul] (1834) Little Mamma 29 With a Nantucket SheU 32 The King and the Pope .33 —— — X CONTENTS. PAOE George Arnold (1834-1865)— Beer 34 A Sunset IFantasie 85 John James Piatt (1835) Awake in Darkness ....... 3/ The Buried Ring 37 Apart 39 The Mower in Ohio 39 The Blackberry Tarm 42 Conflagration ........ 44 The New House 45 A Song of Content 46 Fires in Illinois 47 \ William Winter (1836)— My Queen 48 Adelaide Keilson 49 David Gray (1836-1888)— To J. H. (Colonel John Hay) 50 Divided 51 Sir John Franklin and his Crew 51 Rest 53 Cross of Gold 53 Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836) Palabras CariSosas ....... 55 Identity 56 WilliXm Dean Howblls (1837) Forlorn 56 Thanksgiving 61 Through the Meadow 61 Dead . 62 The Poet's Friends 63 '. Avery . 63 Henry Ames Blood (1838) Shakespeare 66 Pro Mortuis 68 The Two Enchantments 69 Colonel John Hay (1838) .Jem Bludso ....'.. 70 How it Happened 71 Regardant 73 — . —— — CONTENTS. xi PAGE Father Abram Joseph Etan (1839-1886) In Memory of my Brother 74 Sentinel Songs 75 The Conquered Banner 77 O. S. A 79 [Francis] Beet Haute (1839)— Her Letter 80 Dickens in Camp 83 Hbzekiah Buttbbworth (1839)— The Clocks of Kenilworth 84 The Florida Ibis 88 EossiTER Johnson (1840) Faith's Surrender 90 Lawrence ......... 92 Henry Bernard Carpenter (1840-1890) A Trio for Twelfth Night 94 Love's Infinite made Finite (Liher Atnoris) ... 99 The Creed of Love {Liber Amoris) 100 The Sense of Loss {Liber Amoris) 100 EoBERT Kellt "Weeks (1840-1876) — By the Light of the Moon 101 On the Beach 102 The Mist 102 AKainyDay 103 Edward Eowland Sill, (1841-1887)— - Opportunity ^ . 104 Five Lives 105 The Fool's Prayer 106 James Herbert Morse (1841)— The Errand 108 Waiting in the Bain 109 Song . .110 Who Knows 110 Labour and Life . Ill The Power of Beauty- HI CiNciNNATtJS Hinbr Millbr [Joaquin Miller] (1841) The Ship in the Desert 113 The Rhyme of the Great River- 117 From the Khyme of the Great Eiver .... 120 — — — xii CONTENTS. PAGE Charity 120 To the Lion of Saint Mark 122 Pace Implora 123 Kit Carson's Ride 124 Charles M. Dickinson (1842)— . The Children 129 SiDNEr Lanier (1842-1881) Sunrise—A Hymn of the Marshes- 131 - • -- - The Marshes of Glynn J37 Song of the Chattahoochee 140 A Ballad of Trees and the Master 142 " " From The Symphony . 142 The Crystal .... 145 David Law Proudfit (1842)^ At Odds with Life 148 Charles Follen Adams [Yawcob Strauss] (1842) Der Oak and der Vine ....... 152 Mine Vamily 154 He gets here shust der same ! 154 Mine Moder-in-Law 156 Der Drummer ......... 157 " " Dou'd feel too Big ! 158 Der Vater-'MiU . 159 EiCHARD Watson Gilder (1844) Ode 161 A Woman's Thought 163 Reform 164 Decoration Day . ..... 165 " " There is Nothing new under the Sun . .165 The Sower 166 " " O Silver River flowing toward the Sea . .167 Sheridan 168 The White Tsar's People 169 Sunset from the Train ....... 171 The Master-Poets 172 Songs— The Song of a Heathen 173 I Love her Gentle Forehead 173 " Beyond the Branches of the Pine " .... 174 " " The Woods that bring the Sunset near . 174 " Oh Love is not a ^umnjer Mood " . 175 Song 175 Only Once 175 — — — ' CONTENTS. SOMNETS " " My Love for Thee doth March like Armed Men . 176 The Dark Room 176 On the Life-Mask ot Abraham Lincoln . 177 Love's Jealousy . .178 The Celestial Passion . ... 178 The Evening Star 179 The Sonnet .179 , Keats ... 180 Father and Child ... ... 180 "Call me not Dead" 181 John Botlb O'Reilly (1844-1890)— Jacqueminots 181 The Celebes . 182 A Savage 183 Love's Secret 183 Distance 184 Uncle Ned's Tale 184 Western Australia 193 Dying in Harness 194 J. H. BoNEE. (1845)— " We Walked among the Whispering Pines 197 The Light'ood Fire .... 198 Maurice Thompson (1844) The Death of the White Heron 199 Ceres ..... 202 Diana ..... 203 An Exile .... 204 Will Carlbton (1845) The First Settler's Story 209 Edgar Fawcett (1847)— Imperfection . 219 The Punishment . 219 The Meeting . 220 To an Oriole . 220 The Moon in the City 221 Decoration Day 221 Fiat Justitia . 222 Gold . 223 Still Water . 224 Master and Slave . 225 — — — — CONTENTS. PASS The Sorceress 226 A Straggler . 234 Ivy 235 Jambs Jeffrey Eoche (1847)— Sir Hugo's Choice 236 TheV-a-s-e 238 Andromeda . ' . 239 Babylon 239 Walter Learned (1847) On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays . .240 Marjorie's Kisses ........ 241 The Prime of Life 242 Eheu ! Fugaoes 242 Henrt Atjgustin Beers (1847) Beaver Pond Meadows .... 243 The Rising of the Curtain 245 Hugh Latimer . 247 John Vance Cheney (1848) Waiting 248 Our Mother 248 Great is To-Day . ' 249 Snowflakes 250 Spring Song ........ 250 Loves of Leaves and Grasses ...... 251 Song of the Gloaming 251 Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848) The Lost Hellas 252 Evolution 256 Charles De Kat (1848)- Arcana Sylvarum 258 Invocation 259 XJlf in Ireland 260 Surrender 263 The Tornado 264 Serenade 266 From "Barnaval" 266 Robert Burns Wilson (1850)- Life and Love . 269 My Lady Sleeps 272 —— CONTENTS. XV PAGE EusENB Field (1850)— Our Two Opinions 273 Lullaby 274 A Dul/ 4 LuUaby . , 275 A Norse Lullaby 277 George Washington Wright Houghton'(1850)— Anniversary Hymn 277 The Handsel Ring 278 The Harp (Legend of St Olafs Kirk) . .279 The Song {Legend of St Olafs Kirk) . .279 fione! {Legend of St Olafs Kirh) 280 Tapestries {Legend of St Olafs Kirk) , .