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Poems

Alice Duer was a successful American author who wrote poetry, novels and screenplays and campaigned tirelessly for women's suffrage. Her sister Caroline was an editor at Vogue magazine. This beautiful collection published in 1896 and the first of their early poems, is centered around the themes of love, friendship and loss. - Summary by Nemo (0 hr 56 min)

Chapters

An International Episode

‭A Song

A Portrait‭

A Serenade‭

How Can One Tell‭?

A Sonnet

A Midsummer Night’s Dream‭

To Leeward‭

An Exhortation to Gentleness‭

Lines for the Skull at the Feast‭

The Image of the Earthy‭

Count Me Not Less‭

An Apology‭

Overheard in a Conservatory

To a Photograph

The Yellow Age

From the German‭

The Broken Wheel‭

After a Year‭

A Passing Fancy

To the Night-Breeze‭

A Dialogue

A Vignette

Good-Night

A Song

The Kingdom of the Present‭

From Phyllis‭

How Like a Woman

A Drinking-Song

My Rose of May

A Word to the Wise

The Snare of the Fowler‭

‘Once I Went‭' (‬After Walt Whitman.‭)

Nocturne

Wasted Time‭