Sonnets and Songs

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Sonnets and Songs is a compilation of traditional songs and sonnets by Helen Hay Whitney. Whitney was an American poet, author and philanthropist. Excerpt:"The country road at lonely close of dayRests for a while from the long stress of rain;Dripping and bowed, the green walls of the laneReflect no glistening light, no colors gayHas dying Summer left. The sky is gray,As though the weeping had not eased the pain.The Autumn is not yet, and all in vainSeems Summer's lifea blossom cast away.The air is hushed, save in the emerald shadeThe rain still drips and stirs each fretting leafTo soft insistence of its little grief.The hopeless calm all thought of life deniesBut hark! out through the silence, unafraid,A robin ripples to the chilly skies."

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