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Clip imagination's wing and kill delight - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

Go hence bearing a talisman - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

Wrapt among the balms and hieroglyphs - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

After the lapse of thrice a thousand years - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

A spirit on slender ropes of mist - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Before the Rain"

Tangled in tremulous skeins of rain - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Before the Rain"

Where the foxglove hangs its bells - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Echo-Song"

Where the white owl sits and blinks - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Echo-Song"

Phantom of the crystal Air - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Echo-Song"

Chalky cliffs and miles of sand - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Ragged reefs and salty caves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861] (other versions of the poem use 'mossy reefs')

Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

In those ten dreamy days of old - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Chameleons run through twenty colors in the sun - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Kaleidoscopic hints, to be worked up in farce or tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

In the mountain's adamantine heart - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"

In the miraculous sessions of the moon - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"

What august Shade at midnight here convene - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"

The Sphinx that puzzled Europe - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Trumpets blaring to the patient skies - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

On his path the Furies waited - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

The dust of twilight sifting down - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Like a river of molten amethyst - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

What hour may bring the doom - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Coins between a dying miser's fingers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Maple Leaves"

Veined shells and burnished scales - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Catacombs and fragments of old worlds - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Never reaching to the end - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

A hundred years I trembled in the grass - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

In the veins and sinews of a pine on a lone isle - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Drawing the sunlight from the stooping clouds - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Splintered the pine and split the iron rock - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Yet I hold one hour beyond all price - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Breaking through leafless brambles and dead leaves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Star-lit brows of the brave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

The last of the Titan brood - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

Flashed with a sabre's azure gleam - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

To the petrel the swooping gale - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

Like the air that folds a star - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

A blind man knows the night - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

In the livery of a lie - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

And stabs me with a smile - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

Improvised between two cups of tea - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

This cruel juggling with human hearts - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

Some key unlocks the labyrinth - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

The clash of knightly steel on steel - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Sestet"

Mine is the glacier's way - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Thalia"

Yours is the blossom's weather - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Thalia"

The tremulous sense of bud and bower - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "A Touch of Nature"

Inarticulate ardors of the vine - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "A Touch of Nature"

A gilded weathercock at intervals glimmers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Whose brickwork base the cunning Romans laid - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

To train the ivy of an idle legend on - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Sand and surf in curving parallels - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Whose sharp incisors have gnawed many a keel - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

In ill-weather lets the ledge show fang - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Locked in the memories of forgotten men - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Vaguely caught through whispers fallen from tradition's lip - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Time-stained and crusted with the sea's salt breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Set on some precipice's perilous edge - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Moulded the court's high atmosphere to breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

The soul half eaten out with solitude - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Left in sheath asleep and lost to action - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Through the crooked working of his mind - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

A grapestone choked Anacreon and hushed his song - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

In a raindrop's compass lie a planet's elements - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

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