Produced by Alan LightPOEMS OF HENRY TIMRODBy Henry TimrodWith MemoirContents   Introduction   The Late Judge George S Bryan   Spring   The Cotton Boll   Præceptor Amat   The Problem   A Years Courtship   Serenade   Youth and Manhood   Hark to the Shouting Wind   Too Long O Spirit of Storm   The Lily Confidante   The Stream is Flowing from the West   Vox et Præterea Nihil   Madeline   A Dedication   Katie   Why Silent   Two Portraits   La Belle Juive   An Exotic   The Rosebuds   A Mothers Wail   Our Willie   Address Delivered at the Opening of the New Theatre at Richmond   A Vision of Poesy   The Past   Dreams   The Arctic Voyager   Dramatic Fragment   The Summer Bower   A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night   FlowerLife   A Summer Shower   Babys Age   The Messenger Rose   On Pressing Some Flowers   1866Addressed to the Old Year   Stanzas  A Mother Gazes Upon Her Daughter Arrayed for an Approaching Bridal     Written in Illustration of a Tableau Vivant   Hymn Sung at an Anniversary of the Asylum of Orphans at Charleston   To a Captive Owl   Loves Logic   Second Love   Hymn Sung at the Consecration of Magnolia Cemetery Charleston SC   Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia SC   Lines to R L   To Whom   To Thee   Storm and Calm   Retirement   A Common Thought   Poems Written in War Times   Carolina   A Cry to Arms   Charleston   Ripley   Ethnogenesis   Carmen Triumphale   The Unknown Dead   The Two Armies   Christmas   Ode Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead     at Magnolia Cemetery Charleston SC 1867   Sonnets      I    Poet If on a Lasting Fame Be Bent     II    Most Men Know Love But as a Part of Life    III    Life Ever Seems as from Its Present Site     IV    They Dub Thee Idler Smiling Sneeringly      V    Some Truths There Be Are Better Left Unsaid     VI    I Scarcely Grieve O Nature at the Lot    VII    Grief Dies Like Joy the Tears Upon My Cheek   VIII    At Last Beloved Nature I Have Met     IX    I Know Not Why But All This Weary Day      X    Were I the PoetLaureate of the Fairies     XI    Which Are the Clouds and Which the Mountains  See    XII    What Gossamer Lures Thee Now  What Hope What Name   XIII    I Thank You Kind and Best Beloved Friend    XIV    Are These Wild Thoughts Thus Fettered in My Rhymes     XV    In MemoriamHarris Simons  Poems Now First Collected  Song Composed for Washingtons Birthday and Respectfully Inscribed  to the Officers and Members of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston  February 22 1859  A Bouquet  Lines  I Stooped from StarBright Regions  A Trifle  Lines  I Saw or Dreamed I Saw Her Sitting Lone  Sonnet  If I Have Graced No Single Song of Mine  To Rosa   Acrostic  DedicationIntroductionA true poet is one of the most precious gifts that can be bestowed ona generation He speaks for it and he speaks to it Reflecting andinterpreting his age and its thoughts feelings and purposes he speaksfor it and with a love of truth with a keener moral insight into theuniversal heart of man and with the intuition of inspiration he speaksto it and through it to the world It is thus    The poet to the whole wide world belongs    Even as the Teacher is the childsNor is it to the great masters alone that our homage and thankfulnessare due Wherever a true child of song strikes his harp we love tolisten All that we ask is that the music be native born of impassionedimpulse that will not be denied heartfelt like the lark when she soarsup to greet the morning and pours out her song by the same quiveringecstasy that impels her flight For though the voices be many theoracle is one for God gave the poet his songSuch was Henry Timrod the Southern poet A child of nature his songis the voice of the Southland Born in Charleston SC December 8th1829 his life cast in the seething torrent of civil war his voice wasalso the voice of Carolina and through her of the South in all therich glad life poured out in patriotic pride into that fatal strugglein all the valor and endurance of that dark conflict in all the gloomof its disaster and in all the sacred tenderness that clings about itsmemories He was the poet of the Lost Cause the finest interpreter ofthe feelings and traditions of the splendid heroism of a brave peopleMoreover by his catholic spirit his wide range and worldwidesympathies he is a true American poetThe purpose of the _TIMROD MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION_ of his native city andState in