The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich; November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly, during which he published works by Charles W. Chesnutt and others. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book The Story of a Bad Boy, which established the "bad boy's book" sub genre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry, which included "The Unguarded Gates" (Wikipedia)
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The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic
Published by Good Press, 2022
EAN 4064066181956
Table of Contents
THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY
THE LAST CAESAR
III
IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
ALEC YEATON'S SON
AT THE FUNERAL OF A MINOR POET
ACT V
TENNYSON
THE SHIPMAN'S TALE
I VEX ME NOT WITH BROODING ON THE YEARS
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS
INTERLUDES
ECHO-SONG
A MOOD
GUILIELMUS REX
PILLARED ARCH AND SCULPTURED TOWER
THRENODY
SESTET
A TOUCH OF NATURE
MEMORY
I'LL NOT CONFER WITH SORROW
NO SONGS IN WINTER
LIKE CRUSOE, WALKING BY THE LONELY STRAND
THE LETTER
SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT THE PLAYERS
PAULINE PAVLOVNA
BAGATELLE
CORYDON
AT A READING
THE MENU
AN ELECTIVE COURSE
L'EAU DORMANTE
THALIA
PALINODE
A PETITION
THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY THE LAST CAESAR IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY ALEC YEATON'S SON AT THE FUNERAL OF A MINOR POET BATUSCHKA ACT V TENNYSON THE SHIPMAN'S TALE I VEX ME NOT WITH BROODING ON THE YEARS
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS INTERLUDES ECHO-SONG A MOOD GUILIELMUS REX PILLARED ARCH AND SCULPTURED TOWER THRENODY SESTET A TOUCH OF NATURE MEMORY
I'LL NOT CONFER WITH SORROW A DEDICATION NO SONGS IN WINTER
LIKE CRUSOE, WALKING BY THE LONELY STRAND THE LETTER SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT THE PLAYERS
PAULINE PAVLOVNA BAGATELLE. CORYDON: A PASTORAL AT A READING THE MENU AN ELECTIVE COURSE L'EAU DORMANTE THALIA PALINODE A PETITION
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THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY
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A. D. 1670
AGLAE, a widow
MURIEL, her unmarried sister.
IT happened once, in that brave land that lies
For half the twelvemonth wrapt in sombre skies,
Two sisters loved one man. He being dead,
Grief loosed the lips of her he had not wed,
And all the passion that through heavy years
Had masked in smiles unmasked itself in tears.
No purer love may mortals know than this,
The hidden love that guards another's bliss.
High in a turret's westward-facing room,
Whose painted window held the sunset's bloom,
The two together grieving, each to each
Unveiled her soul with sobs and broken speech.
Both still were young, in life's rich summer yet;
And one was dark, with tints of violet
In hair and eyes, and one was blond as she
Who rose—a second daybreak—from the sea,
Gold-tressed and azure-eyed. In that lone place,
Like dusk and dawn, they sat there face to face.
She spoke the first whose strangely silvering hair
No wreath had worn,