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The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson
Edited, with an introduction, by Desmond Flower
Dowson, Ernest Christopher (1867-1900)
I.
PART I LYRICAL POETRY
VERSES
IN PREFACE: FOR ADELAIDE
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam.
A CORONAL
NUNS OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION
VILLANELLE OF SUNSET
MY LADY APRIL
TO ONE IN BEDLAM
AD DOMNULAM SUAM
AMOR UMBRATILIS
AMOR PROFANUS
VILLANELLE OF MARGUERITES
YVONNE OF BRITTANY
BENEDICTIO DOMINI
GROWTH
AD MANUS PUELLAE
FLOS LUNAE
NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE
VANITAS
EXILE
SPLEEN
O MORS! QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA HOMINI PACEM HABENTI IN SUBSTANTIIS SUIS
[You would have understood me, had you waited]
APRIL LOVE
VAIN HOPE
VAIN RESOLVES
A REQUIEM
BEATA SOLITUDO
TERRE PROMISE
AUTUMNAL
IN TEMPORE SENECTUTIS
VILLANELLE OF HIS LADY'S TREASURES
GRAY NIGHTS
VESPERAL
THE GARDEN OF SHADOW
SOLI CANTARE PERITI ARCADES
ON THE BIRTH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD
EXTREME UNCTION
AMANTIUM IRAE
IMPENITENTIA ULTIMA
A VALEDICTION
SAPIENTIA LUNAE
[Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad]
SERAPHITA
EPIGRAM
QUID NON SPEREMUS, AMANTES?
CHANSON SANS PAROLES
DECORATIONS:
BEYOND
IN VERSE
DE AMORE
THE DEAD CHILD
CARTHUSIANS
THE THREE WITCHES
VILLANELLE OF THE POET'S ROAD
VILLANELLE OF ACHERON
SAINT GERMAIN-EN-LAYE
AFTER PAUL VERLAINE
I.
I
TO HIS MISTRESS
JADIS
IN A BRETON CEMETERY
TO WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS ON HIS RENAISSANCE CLOAK
THE SEA-CHANGE
DREGS
A SONG
BRETON AFTERNOON
VENITE DESCENDAMUS
TRANSITION
EXCHANGES
TO A LADY ASKING FOOLISH QUESTIONS
RONDEAU
MORITURA
LIBERA ME
TO A LOST LOVE
WISDOM
IN SPRING
A LAST WORD
HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEMS
TO CYNARA
A MOSAIC
REQUIEM
POTNIA THEA
RONDEAU
RONDEAU
SONNETS
I.
in memoriam. H.C. ob. Feb. 24, 1886
II.
NOVALIS
OF A LITTLE GIRL
LA JEUNESSE N'A QU'UN TEMPS
SONG OF THE XIXTH CENTURY
A LULLABY
SPLEEN
AFTER MANY YEARS
PRAETERITA
ADIOS!
SERAPHITA—SERAPHITUS
IT IS FINISHED
ERE I GO HENCE
TRANSIT GLORIA
SONNET
AWAKENING
LULLABY
THE OLD YEAR
THE NEW YEAR
FROM THE ICELANDIC
LOVE'S EPILOGUE
RONDEAU
ROUNDEL
RONDEL
Discedam, explebo numerum, reddarque tenebris, I decus, i, nostrum; melioribus utere fatis.
AGAINST MY LADY BURTON:
THE REQUITAL
A LETTER FROM M.M. VERSIFIED OUT OF POOR PROSE INTO CATCHPENNY VERSE!
[In the days of the good, gay people]
[As his own Arthur fared across the mere]
HITHERTO UNCOLLECTED POEMS
THE PASSING OF TENNYSON
FANTASIE TRISTE
II.
PART II DRAMATIC AND EPIC POETRY
THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE
The Moon Maiden's Song
SECTIONS FROM LA PUCELLE
EXTRACT FROM CANTO XIII
XVII.
CANTO XVII CORISANDRE
XXI.
CANTO XXI
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The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson
The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson
Edited, with an introduction, by Desmond Flower
Ernest Christopher Dowson
1867-1900
Cassell John Lane, The Bodley Head
London
1934
The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson