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Title: Illustrated poems
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888, illus
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hand.And, eager, gave commandTo repel the threatening guest. I 408 MANS THREE GUESTS. So the Esculapian band, In their armour old and tried,Were summond to his side.And the watchful nurses came,Whose lamp, like vestal flame,Never died.But the tottering bulwarks their trust betrayd.And the old man groand as a breach was made;Then through the chasm a skeleton foot Forced its way.And a fleshless hand to a shaft was put,And he was clay. 3I1.77-9 SilBii- : •* ■:-^:^^ xC
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THE MOST VENERABLE POET OF EUROPE,AND THE FRIEND OF AMERICA, WHOSE STRAINS, READ IN THE SOLITUDE OF EARLY YEARS, .ND WHOSE KIND WORDS TO THE STRANGER IN HIS OWN HOME, ARE ALIKE HELD AMONG THE PlfasurcB of McmoxQ, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. J PKEFACE. The edition now presented to the publiccomprises selections from previous volumes, poemsthat have appeared only in a fugitive form, andothers that have never before been indebted tothe ministry of the press. It is hoped that its tripartite character maynot be displeasing to the reader, since the geniusof the artist and the taste of the publisher havelent their powerful aid to render it attractive.In the alcove of the library, on the centre-tableof the matron, to the ear of the young and beau-tiful, it shall breathe only pure thoughts, likethe dew-drops lingering upon the rose. May itbe found worthy to touch some chord of thatspirit-intercourse, to be perfected in a clime wherethe rose never fades, and the music-strain is im-mo

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