Death songs : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed, 1873 Dec. 7-1876 Feb. 26-7 where dated.

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Death songs : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed, 1873 Dec. 7-1876 Feb. 26-7 where dated.

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Includes: "From the winter's wan despair;" "Life is bitter. All the faces of the Years;" "Mixing a dream by the way;" "Doubtful soul, grown sad with seeing;" "The hardest lesson we must learn;" "The west superb with insupportable gold;" "The sea was loud and splendid;" "Will you spend your breaths in prayer;" "A broken wave, a dying fire;" "In the placid summer midnight;" "Thick is the darkness" [an early version of the poem published in "A Book of Verses" (1888), p. 66].

11 items (11 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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