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Henry Timrod. Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir
Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Late Judge George S. Bryan
POEMS OF HENRY TIMROD
Spring
The Cotton Boll
Præceptor Amat
The Problem
A Year's Courtship
Serenade
Youth and Manhood
Hark to the Shouting Wind
Too Long, O Spirit of Storm
The Lily Confidante
The Stream is Flowing from the West
Vox et Præterea Nihil
Madeline
A Dedication
Katie
Why Silent?
Two Portraits
La Belle Juive
An Exotic
The Rosebuds
A Mother's Wail
Our Willie
Address Delivered at the Opening of the New Theatre at Richmond
A Vision of Poesy
The Past
Dreams
The Arctic Voyager
Dramatic Fragment
The Summer Bower
A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night
Flower-Life
A Summer Shower
Baby's Age
The Messenger Rose
On Pressing Some Flowers
1866—Addressed to the Old Year
Stanzas: A Mother Gazes Upon Her Daughter,
Hymn Sung at an Anniversary of the Asylum of Orphans at Charleston
To a Captive Owl
Love's Logic
Second Love
Hymn Sung at the Consecration of Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C
Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia, S.C
Lines to R. L
To Whom?
To Thee
Storm and Calm
Retirement
A Common Thought
POEMS WRITTEN IN WAR TIMES
Carolina
A Cry to Arms
Charleston
Ripley
Ethnogenesis
Carmen Triumphale
The Unknown Dead
The Two Armies
Christmas
Ode Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead,
SONNETS
POEMS NOW FIRST COLLECTED
Song Composed for Washington's Birthday,
A Bouquet
Lines: "I Stooped from Star-Bright Regions"
A Trifle
Lines: "I Saw, or Dreamed I Saw, Her Sitting Lone"
Sonnet: "If I Have Graced No Single Song of Mine"
To Rosa——: Acrostic
Dedication
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Henry Timrod
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The poet's mother was the daughter of Mr. Charles Prince, a citizen of Charleston, whose parents had come from England just before the Revolution. Mr. Prince had married Miss French, daughter of an officer in the Revolution, whose family were from Switzerland. It was the influence of his mother also that helped to form the poet's character, and his intense and passionate love of nature. Her beautiful face and form, her purity and goodness, her delight in all the sights and sounds of the country, her childish rapture in wood and field, her love of flowers and trees, and all the mystery and gladness of nature, are among the cherished memories of all her children, and vividly described by the poet's sister.
William Henry Timrod, father of the poet, died of disease contracted in the Florida war, and his family thereafter were in straitened circumstances. Nevertheless, the early education of his gifted son was provided for. Paul H. Hayne, the poet, was one of his earliest friends and schoolmates at Charleston's best school. They sat together, and to his brother boy-poet he first showed his earliest verses in exulting confidence. This friendship and confidence lasted through life, and Hayne has tenderly embalmed it in his sketch of the poet. We have this faithful picture of him at that time:—
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