The lost chimes, and other poems
by Gustav Melby
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Excerpt from The Lost Chimes, and Other PoemsCount not the cost, a thousand more or less Is not the question, but a perfect tone, A clang as clear as the Italian sky, As strong and joyful as the Victor's cry, As deep and mellow as the ocean's moan, And tender as a mother's fond caress. And let there be no stint of pure alloy, Of bronze and silver, no, not even of gold, Yea, let this be thy very master-piece.
Chapters (308)
- THE LOST CHIMES
- CONTENTS
- THE LOST CHIMES
- II
- III
- IV
- V
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- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
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- XVI
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- XIX
- XX
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- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- XXXI
- XXXII
- XXXIII
- XXXIV
- XXXV
- XXXVI
- XXXVII
- XXXVIII
- XXXIX
- THE SIBYL’S PROPHECY
- ELEGIACS IN MEMORIAM Judge Gorham Powers, Died April 15, 1915.
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- X
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- XII
- THE FAREWELL In Memoriam Frank J. Cressy, M. D.
- BABY BRUCE
- A FUNERAL OF A CHILD ON CHRISTMAS EVE
- THE WREATH
- LINES WRITTEN ON RECEIVING NEWS OF MY FATHER’S DEATH
- THE GREAT STRIFE WAR AND PROVIDENCE
- THE YELLOW PERIL
- THE VETERAN
- DIES IRAE
- A MAY MORNING, 1917
- MY SAILOR-LAD’S LETTER
- THE BUGLE CALL
- FLAG-RAISING
- THE RED CROSS (In hoc signo vinces.)
- THE DOLEFUL MOTHER OF MANKIND
- MIDWINTER’S DREAM (1918)
- THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
- MOUNT SHASTA
- VERSES Written while sailing from Vancouver to Seattle.
- TO AN UNKNOWN MUSICIAN
- SEATTLE (A meditation)
- GJOA Capt. Amundsen’s Ship in San Francisco
- THE GRAVE IN THE DESERT
- THE MOUNTAINS OF THE PROPHET
- CHICAGO
- THE ISLE OF DREAMS
- LAKE HARRIET
- THE CUBIST
- THE HANDCLASP
- A COUNTRY STORE
- SUNSETS ON CLEARWATER LAKE, MINN. (To Mrs. A. W. W.)
- First Evening
- Second Evening
- Third Evening
- Fourth Evening
- Fifth Evening
- TWILIGHT
- APRIL
- I’M A PART OF THE WIND AND THE CURLING WAVE
- THE CHIPPING SPARROW
- IN THE LILAC-BLOSSOM-TIME
- THE RUNNEL’S DITTY
- THE CHILD AND THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN
- THE BIRTHDAY CAKE
- MY GOLDFISH
- II
- THE FIDDLER’S CHRISTMAS MUSIC (Founded on a Norwegian Folk-lore.)
- CRUEL KITTY
- TO ——
- FAREWELL
- ALONE
- LINES ON AN OLD SONGBOOK
- PEARLS AND PALACES
- VICTOR HUGO
- TO A FRIEND
- TO A “KNOCKER”
- A VISION
- SIGNS CELESTIAL
- DESPAIR
- HOPE
- BE STILL MY SOUL, BE STILL
- AWAKE
- THE AWAKENING
- ASTERS
- BUTTERFLIES
- THE ROSEBUSH
- TWO ASPECTS
- THE GREAT “I AM”
- THE DEATH CHANT
- THE LETTER
- GOD’S TRUTH-TELLER
- THE DEATH OF THE POET
- IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT
- THE CHRISTMAS CACTUS
- CHRISTMAS NIGHT
- A NEW YEAR’S INVOCATION, 1918
- EASTER
- SONNETS LUX EX ORIENTE (Inscription on Haskal hall, University of Chicago)
- ON THE STATUE OF VOLTAIRE (In the Art Institute, Chicago)
- A VENETIAN WELL-HEAD (XV CENTURY) (In the Gothic room of the Minneapolis Art Institute)
- THE PROSPECT
- THE HARVEST
- THE REWARD OF EPIMENIDES
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