POEMS

BY CLARENCE COOK NEW YORK 1902

COPYRIGHT, 1902 BY LOUISA W. COOK PRIVATELY PRINTED AT THE GILLISS PRESS, NEW YORK FOR LOUISA W. COOK AND HER FRIENDS 1902 THIS LITTLE VOLUME OF PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED VERSES BY THE LATE CLARENCE COOK IS DEDICATED TO HIS MANY FRIENDS AND LOVERS BY HIS WIFE LOUISA W. COOK

CHRONOLOGY

1828

September 8th, Clarence Chatham Cook born at Dorchester, Massachusetts.

1849

Graduated at Harvard College.

Studied architecture for a season. Then became a tutor. Lectured on Art and gave readings from Shakespeare’s plays.

1852

Married Tuesday, October 26th, to Louisa De Wint Whittemore, widow of Samuel Whittemore of New York City.

1863

Began a series of articles published in the New York Tribune, on “American Art and Artists.”

1864

Editor of The New Path, a pre-Raphaelite journal published in New York.

1868

Published “The Central Park.”

1869

Paris correspondent of The New York Tribune. Went to Italy at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war.

1870

Returned to the United States and renewed his connection with The New York Tribune.

1874

Wrote the text of a heliotype reproduction of Dürer’s “Life of the Virgin.”

1878

Completed “The House Beautiful” and edited, with notes, the translation of Lübke’s “History of Art.”

1884

Editor and proprietor of The Studio, a monthly magazine of art published in New York.

1886

Published an illustrated work in three large volumes entitled “Art and Artists of Our Time.”

1900

Clarence Chatham Cook died at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson May 31, aged 72 years.

THE MAPLE TREE

The Roses, April, 1853.{6}

ABRAM AND ZIMRI Poem founded on a Rabinnical Legend

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AN APRIL VIOLET

The Roses, May 4, 1853.{12}

REGRET

Newburgh, January 4, 1854.{14}

L’ENNUI

The Roses, April 20, 1853.{16}

ASPIRATION

The Roses, Newburgh, April 21, 1853. {18}

THE SOUL’S QUESTION Inscribed to Rev. A. Dwight Mayo

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Written 1849.{32}

ASSERTION

New York, March 1, 1854.{33}