Poetry Codex

American

Julia C. R. Dorr

1825–1913

Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1825–1913) was an American poet, novelist and travel writer, born in Charleston, South Carolina, and long associated with Vermont, whose centennial and landscape she celebrated in verse. She was best known for her poetry, which is gentle, devotional and carefully shaped, and which was widely printed in the American magazines of her day.

This selection follows her Complete Edition of Poems (Scribner, 1892), which gathers her earlier books in their own sections, and her later volume Afterglow (Scribner, 1900). Each book opens with a verse dedication to “S. M. D.”, her husband, and both dedications are kept here as poems.

Poems (248)

  1. To S. M. D. (Poems, 1892)
  2. The Three Ships
  3. Maud and Madge
  4. A Mother’s Question
  5. Over the Wall
  6. Outgrown
  7. A Song for Two
  8. A Picture
  9. Hymn to Life
  10. The Chimney Swallow
  11. Heirship
  12. Hilda, Spinning
  13. Hereafter
  14. Without and Within
  15. Vashti’s Scroll
  16. What My Friend Said to Me
  17. Hymn: For the Dedication of a Cemetery
  18. Yesterday and To-Day
  19. Lyric: For the Dedication of a Music-Hall
  20. What I Lost
  21. Once!
  22. Catharine
  23. The Name
  24. Under the Palm-Trees
  25. Night and Morning
  26. Agnes
  27. “Into Thy Hands,”
  28. Idle Words
  29. The Sparrow to the Skylark
  30. The Bell of St. Paul’s
  31. December 26, 1910: A Ballad of Major Anderson
  32. From Baton Rouge
  33. In the Wilderness
  34. Charley of Malvern Hill
  35. Supplicamus
  36. The Last of Six
  37. The Drummer Boy’s Burial
  38. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Five
  39. Our Flags at the Capitol
  40. My Mocking-Bird
  41. Coming Home
  42. Wakening Early
  43. Blest
  44. Helen
  45. The Dead Century
  46. The River Otter
  47. Past and Present
  48. Vermont
  49. Gettysburg, 1863–1889
  50. “No More the Thunder of Cannon,”
  51. Grant
  52. Friar Anselmo
  53. The King’s Rosebud
  54. Somewhere
  55. Peradventure
  56. Rena: A Legend of Brussels
  57. A Secret
  58. This Day
  59. “Christus!”
  60. The Kiss
  61. What She Thought
  62. What Need?
  63. Two
  64. Unanswered
  65. The Clay to the Rose
  66. At the Last
  67. To the “Bouquet Club,”
  68. Eventide
  69. My Lovers
  70. The Legend of the Organ-Builder
  71. Butterfly and Baby Blue
  72. King Ivan’s Oath
  73. At Dawn
  74. In Memoriam
  75. Weaving the Web
  76. The “Christus” of Oberammergau
  77. Rabbi Benaiah
  78. A Child’s Thought
  79. “God Knows,”
  80. The Mountain Road
  81. Entering In
  82. A Flower for the Dead
  83. Thou Knowest
  84. Winter
  85. Five
  86. Unsolved
  87. Quietness
  88. The Difference
  89. My Birthday
  90. A Red Rose
  91. Twenty-One
  92. Singing in the Dark
  93. Thomas Moore
  94. A Last Word
  95. The Sonnet: I. To a Critic
  96. The Sonnet: II. To a Poet
  97. At Rest
  98. Too Wide!
  99. Mercédès
  100. Grass-Grown
  101. To Zülma
  102. Sleep
  103. In King’s Chapel
  104. To-Day
  105. F. A. F.
  106. Day and Night
  107. Thy Name
  108. Resurgamus
  109. At the Tomb
  110. Three Days
  111. Darkness
  112. Silence
  113. Sanctified
  114. A Message
  115. When Lesser Loves
  116. George Eliot
  117. Knowing
  118. A Thought
  119. To-Morrow
  120. “O Earth! Art Thou Not Weary?”
  121. Alexander
  122. The Place
  123. To a Goddess
  124. O. W. H.
  125. Gifts for the King
  126. Recognition
  127. Shakespeare
  128. To E. C. S.
  129. A Christmas Sonnet
  130. Poverty
  131. Surprises
  132. C. H. R.
  133. A New Beatitude
  134. Compensation
  135. Questionings
  136. Remembrance
  137. In the High Tower
  138. Four O’clocks
  139. A Dream of Songs Unsung
  140. Questioning a Rose
  141. The Fallow Field
  142. Out and In
  143. Her Flowers
  144. Three Laddies
  145. Summer
  146. Thornless Roses
  147. Treasure-Ships
  148. Choosing
  149. Not Mine
  150. The Chamber of Silence
  151. Three Roses
  152. Four Letters
  153. Valdemar
  154. Jubilate!
  155. Easter Lilies
  156. “O, Wind That Blows Out of the West,”
  157. A Summer Song
  158. The Urn
  159. The Parson’s Daughter
  160. March Fourth, 1881–1882
  161. Roy
  162. The Painter’s Prayer
  163. From Exile
  164. A Mother-Song
  165. Easter Morning
  166. Sealed Orders
  167. An Anniversary
  168. Martha
  169. The Hour
  170. The Closed Gate
  171. Content
  172. My Wonderland
  173. The Guest
  174. An Old-Fashioned Garden
  175. Discontent
  176. The Doves at Mendon
  177. A Late Rose
  178. Periwinkle
  179. Afternoon
  180. The Lady of the Prow
  181. Thou and I
  182. The Legend of the Baboushka: A Christmas Ballad
  183. Daybreak: An Easter Poem
  184. The Apple-Tree
  185. The Comforter
  186. Santa-Claus
  187. The Armorer’s Errand
  188. Foreshadowings
  189. Won
  190. Baptism of Fire
  191. At the Feast
  192. Over and Over
  193. A Listening Bird
  194. The First Fire
  195. Midnight Chimes
  196. My Lady Sleep
  197. The King’s Touch
  198. “By Divers Paths,”
  199. The Blind Bird’s Nest
  200. Two Paths
  201. St. John’s Eve
  202. A Little Song
  203. The Princes’ Chamber
  204. Wonderland
  205. In a Gallery
  206. In Marble Prayer
  207. Nocturne
  208. Come What May
  209. Nuremberg
  210. A Mater Dolorosa
  211. After Long Waiting
  212. To S. M. D. (Afterglow)
  213. Inconsistency
  214. Whom the Gods Love
  215. Hush!
  216. Thy Songs and Mine
  217. A Poet’s Wife
  218. “Do They Measure Time Where Thou Art?”
  219. The Wise Men
  220. A Knight-Errant
  221. The Countersign
  222. The Dower
  223. Supplication
  224. The Comrades
  225. An Afterthought
  226. The Sanctuary Lamp
  227. After the Magnificat
  228. Three Crosses
  229. On the Height
  230. When Spenser Died
  231. Looking Toward Spain
  232. Installation Hymn
  233. The Sacramental Hymn
  234. Lessons Twain
  235. Outlived
  236. Jacques and Suzette
  237. At Bar Harbor
  238. Hubert de Burgh
  239. Christiana
  240. The Chamber
  241. “In Manus Tuas, Domine!”
  242. The City Called Chu
  243. The Death-Song of the Hemlock
  244. For a Christening
  245. The Dream-Bearer
  246. The Secret Chamber
  247. “Out of the Silence, Speak!”
  248. After Many Days

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