Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Born in February 4, 1821 / Died in May 9, 1873 / United States / English
Poems by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
"Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed"
... All world asperities, lightly touched and smoothed ...
"An upper chamber in a darkened house"
... Where, ere his footsteps reached ripe manhood's brink, ...
"His heart was in his garden..."
... Or, like a garden-engine's, steered the stream,- ...
"Under the mountain..."
... The glass falls from the window, part by part, ...
"Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips"
... To tell his half-shaped thought with stumbling lips, ...
"Dank fens of cedar..."
... Beds of the black pitch-pine in dead leaves set ...
The Cricket
... yet the hours existRejoice or mourn, and let the world swing onUnmoved by Cricket-song of thee or me ...
Sonnets, II
... rowned, yet blind, must goThe sensible king, -- is but a UnityCompressed of motes impossible to know ...
Sonnets. I
... ering this, --His hand, who touched the sod with showers of gold,Stippled Orion on the midnight blue ...
Sonnets. Part I, XVIII
... mantel set, --Here, in the forest-heart, hung blackeningThe wolf-bait on the bush beside the spring ...
Sonnets. Part II, VII
... prize, --And talked of tan and bone-dust, cutworms, grubs,As though all Nature held no higher strain ...
Sonnets. Part II, XXX
... late capesHeard the sea break like iron bars: and still,In all, I seemed to hear the same deep dirge ...
