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A Collection of Poems. By Ernest Radford
Radford, Ernest (fl.1880-1920)
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I.
PART I FROM THE VOLUME OF 1882
WHITE LIES
READER TO NOVELIST
THE ANSWER
CAMBRIDGE ROWING, 1874-8
AN EXHORTATION
NOW AND THEN
SPRING-TIME
LIMITS
TOO HARD
CHARON
IN THE ‘LONG’
CAMBRIDGE LODGINGS, 1877
MORAL FRAGMENTS
VALENTINE
INTROSPECTION
ART AND RELIGION IN CAMBRIDGE, 1874-78
II.
PART II LIGHT VERSE
III.
PART III TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY
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LIFE—LIFE
Life
, life, if murmuring there be
Of low estate, or scanty pelf,
The plaint upgoeth not from me.
Thy toys lie broken on the shelf—
Love swept them with an idle breath:
Life, life! Love overmastereth thee:
Grant gentle passage unto death.
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