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Born in March 8, 1813 / Died in January 20, 1892 / United States / English

Poems by Christopher Pearse Cranch

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The Centennial Year

... While thus the flattering world crowds round her feet, ...

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December

... Ere snow-drifts pile their mounds about my door, ...

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The Spirit Of The Age

... And the priest kneels down at his lighted shrine, ...

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Sonnet III.

... Well pleased, bestowed: ah, sweeter than we met ...

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Survival Of The Fittest

... Your mind's best work, your heart's best choice ...

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Sonnet XIX. The Lady’s Sonnet. Twilight.

... To write these lines — and yet must write to own ...

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Two Views Of It

... My chanticleer, half dreaming, sees the light ...

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Sonnet X.

... Or thoughts of loftier flight, yet shun the clear ...

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Talent And Genius

... II. Wing'd like an eagle o'er mountains and meadows, ...

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At The Grave Of Keats

... Through high-walled lanes o'erhung with blossoms white ...

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Ormuzd And Ahriman. Part I

... THIRD SPIRIT. There swims the pale, green Earth, half drowned and thunder-rifted, ...

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Sonnet LIV. Idle Hours.

... Bright hill-tops with their sloping forest mass, ...

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Sonnet XXXVII. To John Greenleaf Whittier.

... To greet thy seventy years, their wreaths of rhyme, — ...

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Sonnet XXX. Life And Death. 2.

... OR endless sleep 't will be, — and that is rest, ...

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The Higher Law

...   To lift the weak, and strike the oppressor dumb ...