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A Midsummer Song

Richard Watson Gilder

A Midsummer Song

Richard Watson Gilder

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“O white and midnight sky, O starry bath,
Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood:
Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath—
Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!”

Richard Watson Gilder

The Celestial Passion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Not from the whole wide world I chose thee,
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me.”

Richard Watson Gilder

Song (1894).

“From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound,
A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees, and ground. The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo.”

Richard Watson Gilder A Midsummer Song

"A Midsummer Song", in Lyrics and Other Poems (1885).

“I am a woman—therefore I may not
Call to him, cry to him,
Fly to him,
Bid him delay not.”

Richard Watson Gilder

A Woman's Thought, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!”

Richard Watson Gilder

After-song (1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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