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Richard Watson Gilder

1844–1909

Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) was an American poet and editor, born at Bordentown, New Jersey. From 1881 until his death he edited The Century Magazine, one of the most influential American periodicals of the period.

His own poems, including the sonnet sequence The New Day (1875) and later lyrics, were admired for their delicacy and were frequently anthologised.

Poems (34)

  1. On the Life-mask of Abraham Lincoln
  2. Song
  3. The Woods that Bring the Sunset Near
  4. At Night
  5. A Woman's Thought
  6. At the President's Grave
  7. Charleston
  8. "The White City"
  9. The Comfort of the Trees
  10. Ode
  11. The Celestial Passion
  12. I Count My Time by Times That I Meet Thee
  13. Songs
  14. The Sonnet
  15. Evening in Tyringham Valley
  16. Sherman
  17. Hast Thou Heard the Nightingale?
  18. The Cello
  19. Ah, Be Not False
  20. Of One Who Neither Sees Nor Hears
  21. The Birds of Bethlehem
  22. Noël
  23. The Song of a Heathen
  24. The Heroic Age
  25. After-Song
  26. Because the Rose Must Fade
  27. Call Me Not Dead
  28. Great Nature Is an Army Gay
  29. Sonnets after the Italian
  30. My Love for Thee Doth March like Armed Men
  31. A Midsummer Song
  32. Oh, Love Is Not a Summer Mood
  33. Prelude to The New Day
  34. A Song of Early Autumn

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