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100 1 _aDorr, Julia C. R.
_q(Julia Caroline Ripley),
_d1825-1913
245 1 0 _aAfterglow
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-09
508 _aTim Miller, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aAfterglow by Julia C. R. Dorr is a collection of lyric and narrative poems written in the early 20th century. The book meditates on love, loss, faith, memory, nature, and art, often touching historical and biblical figures with a reflective, devotional tone. The poems move from intimate elegies and twilight prayers to dramatic monologues and historical vignettes. Early pieces weigh grief against gratitude and argue for the dignity of long life; others entrust unfinished songs to the living and wonder whether the dead still count time. Faith-focused lyrics include hymns of supplication, Marian reflections after the Magnificat, and meditations on ritual and prayer. History and legend appear in a moving deathbed portrait of Queen Berengaria and a ballad of Hubert de Burgh’s rescue, while domestic and temporal themes surface in keepsakes that outlast a life and in paired portraits of “Jacques and Suzette.” Nature is both balm and voice—from mountain afterglow to an ancient hemlock’s proud “death-song.” The closing poems bless a newborn, invite the Divine into the heart’s “secret chamber,” ask whether the departed would return, and contemplate the works we make for unknown hands “after many days.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900
653 _aAmerican poetry -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/afterglowlaterpo00dorr/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77657
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