Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 

 

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Literatur: The Atlantic Monthly

 

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5   ENAMORED architect of airy rhyme,
   Build as thou wilt; heed not what each man says.
   Good souls, but innocent of dreamers' ways,
   Will come, and marvel why thou wastest time:
Others, beholding how thy turrets climb
10      Twixt theirs and heaven, will hate thee all their days;
   But most beware of those who come to praise.
   O Wondersmith, O worker in sublime
And heaven-sent dreams, let art be all in all:
   Build as thou wilt, unspoiled by praise or blame,
        Build as thou wilt, and as the gods have given:
Then, if at last the airy structure fall,
   Dissolve, and vanish, – take thyself no shame.
      They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

 

 

 

 

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The Atlantic Monthly.
A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics.
Bd. 38, 1876, Nr. 227, September, S. 310.

Gezeichnet: Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

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Literatur: Aldrich

The Vault at Pfaff's.
An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)
Editor, Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer.
URL: https://pfaffs.web.lehigh.edu/node/54112


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Renker, Elizabeth: Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900. Oxford 2018.

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