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Poems of Henry Timrod
Poems of Henry Timrod

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Poems of Henry Timrod is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!
Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!
A Mother's Wail My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!
My single rose-bud in a crown of thorns!
My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Poems of Henry Timrod

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Poems of Henry Timrod is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/19 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!
Line 2
Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!
Line 3
A Mother's Wail My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!
Line 4
My single rose-bud in a crown of thorns!
Line 5
My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

All words in this reading · 52

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A

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

away

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

babe

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From this reading A Mother's Wail My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!

crown

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From this reading My single rose-bud in a crown of thorns!

dared

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

ears

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

Enough

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

fancy

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

far

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

forth

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

future

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

happy

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

How

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

Hummed

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

hut

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

I

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

in

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

lamp

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

life

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

like

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

looked

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

lover's

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

mist

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

Mother's

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From this reading A Mother's Wail My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!

my

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

narrow

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

needs

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

night

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

not

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

of

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

only

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From this reading A Mother's Wail My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!

passed

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

reverence

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

rose-bud

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From this reading My single rose-bud in a crown of thorns!

say

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

seer's

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

single

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From this reading My single rose-bud in a crown of thorns!

something

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

storm

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

stray

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

tears

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

that

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

the

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

thorns

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From this reading My single rose-bud in a crown of thorns!

tiny

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From this reading A Mother's Wail My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!

to

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

trancèd

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

upon

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

vision

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From this reading How far my fancy dared to stray, A lover's reverence needs not say-- Enough--the vision passed away!

Wail

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From this reading A Mother's Wail My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!

Whence

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From this reading My lamp that in that narrow hut of life, Whence I looked forth upon a night of storm!

While

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From this reading Passed in a mist of happy tears, While something in my trancèd ears Hummed like the future in a seer's!

Chapter 7 of Poems of Henry Timrod by Henry Timrod holds 95 sentences, grouped into 19 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 7 of Poems of Henry Timrod contain?

Chapter 7 holds 95 sentences of Poems of Henry Timrod, unabridged, divided into 19 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 7 of Poems of Henry Timrod by Henry Timrod exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 95 sentences, grouped into 19 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

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Work through the 19 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 19 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 7 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Introduction
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Judge
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George
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Bryan
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