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American Sculptor, Poet and Lawyer now remembered as the centre of a circle of literary, theatrical, and social celebrities and for his Cleopatra, 1819-1895

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“On the broken stem of dreams Only disappointments grow.”
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“The rain keeps constantly raining, And the sky is cold and gray, And the wind in the trees keeps complaining That summer has passed away; --”
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“When, full of warm and eager love, I clasp you in my fond embrace, You gently push me back and say, "Take care, my dear, you'll spoil my lace."”
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“But the gray and the cold are haunted By a beauty akin to pain, -- By a sense of a something wanted, That never will come again.”
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“I dream of the purple glory Of the roseate mountain-height And the sweet-to-remember story Of a distant and clear delight.”
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“Hate me an hour, and then turn round And love me truly, just one minute.”
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“Give me the old enthusiasms back, Give me the ardent longings that I lack, -- The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth, The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .”
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“Those black eyes I once so praised Now are hard and sharp and cold; Where's the love that through them blazed? Where's the tenderness of old?”
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“The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart, Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.”
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“Do I hate you? No! Not hate? Hate's a word far too intense, Too alive, to speak a state Of supreme indifference.”
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