Thomas Holley Chivers

American poet (1809-1858)

Thomas Holley Chivers (October 18, 1807December 18, 1858) was an American poet from Georgia.

Thomas Holley Chivers
As an egg, when broken, never
Can be mended, but must ever
Be the same crushed egg for ever—
So shall this dark heart of mine!

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  • Many mellow Cydonian suckets
    Sweet apples, anthosmial, divine,
    From the ruby-rimmed beryline buckets
    Star-gemmed, lily-shaped, hyaline;
    Like the sweet golden goblet found growing
    On the wild emerald cucumber-tree,
    Rich, brilliant, like chrysophrase glowing
    Was my beautiful Rosalie Lee.
    • Rosalie Lee.
  • In the music of the morns
    Blown through the Conchimarian horns,
    Down the dark vistas of the reboantic Norns,
    To the Genius of Eternity
    Crying, “Come to me! Come to me!”
    • The Poet's Vacation.
  • On the beryl-rimmed rebecs of Ruby
    Brought fresh from the hyaline streams,
    She played on the banks of the Yuba
    Such songs as she heard in her dreams.
    • Lily Adair.
  • As an egg, when broken, never
    Can be mended, but must ever
    Be the same crushed egg for ever—
    So shall this dark heart of mine!
    • To Allegra Florence in Heaven.
  • As the diamond is the crystalline Revelator of the achromatic white light of Heaven, so is a perfect poem the crystalline revelation of the Divine Idea.
    • Preface to Eonchs of Ruby.
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