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• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
  The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Complete in One Volume from the Last London Edition
  James Miller, Publisher, 779 Broadway, New York, 1870, Decorative Cloth, , Reprint in One volume of first American , Very Good /No Jacket
  
  

  533 pp. Brown cloth stamped in black and gold. Lovely floral design. AEG. A reprint of the 1862 edition, 'Complete in One Volume.' There is some fraying beginning at top and bottom of spine. Three corners are bent but barely rubbed. The brown endpapers have split at the hinges, but the cloth hinges are still intact. 'Experience, like a pale musician, holds / A dulcimer of patience in his hand / Whence harmonies we cannot understand, Of God's will in His worlds, the strain unfolds / In sad perplexed minors.'

  

SEPTEMBER

Sweet is the voice that calls
From babbling waterfalls
In meadows where the downy seeds are flying;
And soft the breezes blow,
And eddying come and go,
In faded gardens where the rose is dying.

Among the stubbled corn
The blithe quail pipes at morn,
The merry partridge drums in hidden places,
And glittering insects gleam
Above the reedy stream,
Where busy spiders spin their filmy laces.

At eve, cool shadows fall
Across the garden wall,
And on the clustered grapes to purple turning;
And pearly vapors lie
Along the eastern sky,
Where the broad harvest-moon is redly burning.

Ah, soon on field and hill
The winds shall whistle chill,
And patriarch swallows call their flocks together
To fly from frost and snow,
And seek for lands where blow
The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather.

The pollen-dusted bees
Search for the honey-lees
That linger in the last flowers of September,
While plaintive mourning doves
Coo sadly to their loves
Of the dead summer they so well remember.

The cricket chirps all day,
"O fairest summer, stay!"
The squirrel eyes askance the chestnuts browning;
The wild fowl fly afar
Above the foamy bar,
And hasten southward ere the skies are frowning.

Now comes a fragrant breeze
Through the dark cedar-trees,
And round about my temples fondly lingers,
In gentle playfulness,
Like to the soft caress
Bestowed in happier days by loving fingers.

Yet, though a sense of grief
Comes with the falling leaf,
And memory makes the summer doubly pleasant,
In all my autumn dreams
A future summer gleams,
Passing the fairest glories of the present!