Book/Printed Material Poems.
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- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 2 of Poems. b^y, y. /frzy 5 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. ap fopsnglit Jo. J UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. J
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 7 of Poems. POEMS. BY AMANDA T. JONES. $riuUb at tlje Uivcxsibz Press, AND FOR SALE BY HURD AND HOUGHTON, NEW YORK. 1867.
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 8 of Poems. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by Amanda T. Jones, in the Clerk s Office of the District Conrt for the Northern District of New York. 3y~z
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 9 of Poems. MEMBERS OF THE NAMELESS CLUB, I WOULD GRATEFULLY PRESENT THE RESULTS OF THAT LABOR WHICH THEY HAVE SO KINDLY ENCOURAGED AND AP- PROVED, PRAYING THEM TO ACCEPT THEREWITH EARNEST ASSURANCES OF MY...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 10 of Poems.
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 11 of Poems. CONTENTS. PAGE Atlantis 11 The Prophecy of the Dead 64 The Soldier s Mother .67 Fort- Donelson 70 The Battle of Gaines Hill 73 Richmond 78 The Soldier s Bride 81 The...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 12 of Poems. vi CONTENTS. PAGE Morta 148 do we love as we loved long ago? 152 Shipwrecked 155 Hertha 158 The Ballad of Ethel Lee 163 The Evening Star 166 My Glade in the...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 14 of Poems.
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 15 of Poems. ATLANTIS. THE ARGUMENT. Neptune, having made war with Athena for the possession of Acta, and being about to prevail, the noise of their conflict reached the ears of Zeus, monarch of the...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 16 of Poems. 10 THE ARGUMENT. the valleys were laden with dead. These, being upgathered, were cast upon the decks of their vessels, and, drifted by a miraculous tide, came at sunset to their own...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 17 of Poems. ATLANTIS. PRELUDE. I. F earth s lost youth thou hast re- vived in dreams, Hast set swift sails and moored in ports of yore, Up shining channels traced forgotten streams Enriched with...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 18 of Poems. 12 ATLANTIS. II. Unkinged, Atlantis, are thy hapless guests They mourn, they wail for thee through ice-wrought caves By torrid isles they lift sea-burdened breasts, They fail with grief, they sink in...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 19 of Poems. ATLANTIS. 13 There weedy shoals their urgent barks detain, And rushes o er the ruffled surface stir That seem of fearful matters always to confer. IV. So they the careful scribes of...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 20 of Poems. CANTO I. i. ^HEN first Athena s wind-borne arrows sang Through Acta s clouds and down its ranges grand, At once to life her symbol olive sprang, And Terra hailed her goddess...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 21 of Poems. A TLANTIS. 15 Arid briny founts these roofs of granite rend Straight did her bow the maiden-goddess bend, Mine are the plains, she echoed, mine the shores For me their songs the...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 22 of Poems. 16 ATLANTIS. IV. Strong were the wrathful gods the strife was dire From glittering shield and helm and bald- rick brave, Their clashing javelins strewed the winds with fire In onset swift...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 23 of Poems. A TLANTIS. 17 The whirlwind died along its scathful line The tempest-herded clouds did shrink and fade, And rolling seas of light pursued the fleeting shade. VI. Lo, the sheen azure of...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 24 of Poems. 18 ATLANTIS. Where knelt the strivers, pale as snow-fed flowers No more, he said, the blasts of War unbind Still for Athena flourish Acta s bowers All else be thine, thou lord...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 25 of Poems. ATLANTIS. 19 Those glowing shapes of beauteous godship hide But brow and breast and limb of ivory shone Fair as the milk-white moons that rise and glide O er distant HerschePs night-involved...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 26 of Poems. 20 ATLANTIS. And nightingales begin to wave the wing And pant and thrill in ecstasies of pride Their welling raptures ripple and subside, Till all the passing zephyrs swoon with song Athena...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 27 of Poems. CANTO II. r OW summer-fair, in central ocean, rose Thy shore, Atlantis, wrought with fret and bay What time the orient banners might disclose The azure-staining gules of dawning day How frail...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 28 of Poems. 22 ATLANTIS. A thousand lucent, winding rivers strayed By fragrant mounds, where flights of golden bees The leaf-enshielded chalices o erweighed, Spilling the dew to reach the honey-lees And there were verdant...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 29 of Poems. ATLANTIS. 23 All tropic drupes from rustling branches hung, Sun steeped, delicious, fair of hue and shape And vines far-climbing, such as greenly drape Unsightly rocks, o er every boulder grew Dark...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 30 of Poems. 24 ATLANTIS. VI. There human voices, ever soft and clear, Framed murmuring speech or rose in wafts of song And tremulous laughters, light and sweet to hear, Echo s fine bugles faintly...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 31 of Poems. ATLANTIS. 25 To gather, as the breezy echoes melt And grander bards forgive, who at thy grave have knelt VIII. No murky cloud his spotless disk to hide, The sun, through surges...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 32 of Poems. 26 ATLANTIS. With streaming mane on buoyant winds out- spread, From Acta s coast, full far, his westward course had sped. x. Across the wild Ionian floods that pour Libations low at...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 33 of Poems. A TLANTIS. 27 Down lapsing waves their filmy raiment sailed, Nor scarce their half-emergent forms might screen Along the surf their white arms lightly trailed, Or lifted high the sea-weed garland green...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 34 of Poems. 28 ATLANTIS. And ledge-built cave where falling waters hide, Thrilled with his lifted voice that rang amain, And Amphitrite Amphitrite wide The bruiting winds his ardent summons cried, With Amphitrite ,f startling...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 35 of Poems. ATLANTIS. 29 As wind-brought wave she moved with un- dulate grace, And all the goddess shone resplendent in her face xv. And wheresoe er her feet did press the vales, There snow-excelling...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 36 of Poems. 30 ATLANTIS. Their flitting shapes, from whispering ce- dars freed, Shall haunt as dreams our shadow-veiled re- treat, Where slumber-silenced hours shall move with slothful feet. XVII. Here while the cycles blissfully...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 37 of Poems. ATLANTIS, 31 Their half-furled wings yet tremulous with flight Their rose-like cheeks aflush with nectarous wine, Their locks afloat on aery billows bright While mossy couches soft to rest invite, By rills,...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 38 of Poems. CANTO III. MYSTIC realm where ruled the death- less kings, While times unmeasured rolled in light away Serene wert thou with oft-recurring springs, And soft reflections of transplendent day. Celestial heralds waved...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 39 of Poems. ATLANTIS. 33 Oft through thy skies, with pomp imperial riven, Great Zeus rode, his hissing bolts unhurled Down jasper ways his flying steeds were driven, And all the isle was sweet with...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867
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Image 40 of Poems. 34 ATLANTIS. Nathless, in Acta s glowing land afar, Loved of the gods, Athena ruled alone Against her cliffs the fettered floods did moan Her opulent olives drooped with tawny fruit Her...
- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1867