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Title: Poems

Author: Sophia M. Almon

Release Date: March 6, 2006 [EBook #17936]

Language: English

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POEMS

BY

SOPHIE M. ALMON.

(For Private Circulation.)

_April, 1889:_

_Printed for the Author by J. J. Anslow._

_Windsor, N. S._

CONTENTS.

_Sonnets_:--

Crows.
Futurity.
There is no God.
Disappointment.
A Shallow.
Triumph.

* * * * *

_Rondeaux_:--

I Will Forget.
When Summer Comes.
It Might Have Been.
Brother and Friend.
Pourquoi?
For our Love's Sake.

* * * * *

Echoes.
Noon.
Pictures.
Eurydice.
Slack Tide.
An Evening in October.
Parted.
Tout pour L'Amour.
Soothing.

CROWS.

They stream across the fading western sky
A sable cloud, far o'er the lonely leas;
Now parting into scattered companies,
Now closing up the broken ranks, still high
And higher yet they mount, while, carelessly,
Trail slow behind, athwart the moving trees
A lingering few, 'round whom the evening breeze
Plays with sad whispered murmurs as they fly.

A lonely figure, ghostly in the dim
And darkening twilight, lingers in the shade
Of bending willows: "Surely God has laid
His curse on me," he moans, "my strength of limb
And old heart-courage fail me, and I flee
Bowed with fell terror at this augury."

FUTURITY.

What of our life when this frail flesh lies low
A withered clod, and the free soul has burst
Through the world-fetters? Not of souls