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George Edward Rice

 
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Synopsis

Nugamenta; A Book Of Verses by George Edward Rice. Nugamenta is a mid-19th-century collection of occasional verse from Boston-area poet George Edward Rice. Published in 1860 by J. E. Tilton and Company, the volume gathers lyric and narrative pieces, ballads, sonnets, and meditative poems that reflect refined sentiment, moral reflection, and gentle humor. Prefaced as a modest selection intended to beguile weary hours, the book traverses themes of love, memory, duty, faith, and the tension between romantic aspiration and everyday restraint. Its contents include pieces such as The Prophecy, Fantasia, What Might Have Been, Ataraxia, To Glycera, Twilight and Moonlight, Myrrha, At the Fireside, The Crowning Mercy, Love, Honor, and Glory, To the Night Winds, Stanzas, A Wreath of Smoke, Across the Way, New Year’s Eve, Miss Sweetbriar’s Courtship, To the Big Tree on Boston Common, A Revisit, To a Classmate, A Course of Bark, and more. The collection sits in the American Romantic tradition with elegant diction and imagery, balancing melancholy with hopeful strain, and offering social observation and light humor in several pieces.

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