Potential Titles: W. Gilmore Simms

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Wisely one sweet instrument to choose - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Brought other Muses down to aid - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Had all the orchestra at service - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The wild strain that night-winds wake from reeds - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

From reeds that breathe in pain - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Compelled a voice from native oracles - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

That still survive their altars by their spells - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Guarding with might each avenue to fame - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

If erring often, never commonplace - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

When wo commands the tear to speak - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

His wit ne'er drives his wisdom out of court - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Whose skill brings hosts to worship - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

By fantastic wiles persuade the passions - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Making the heart forgetful of itself - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

To follow out and trace its labyrinths - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

With what art he fashioned fairy realms - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Milton sings with drooping spheres about him - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The sense of the invisible and true still present - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The consciousness of duration through all time - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Perchance have never in communion met - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Some thousand miles of sea, wild tract, and weary - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

There shall be blessings from the skies for thee - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

When every bird was on his wing - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

That sacred freshness of the heart - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Yet untaught by shame and art - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Throned in her realm of wood and field - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Of rocky realm and haunted shade - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Drives Winter from his path of strife - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

While all her thousand fingers play - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"


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