Songs of Doubt and Dream (Poems)

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.

EVOLUTION.

PEACE AND WAR.

A NINETEENTH CENTURY KING.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON.

MARRIED BOHEMIANS.

A RETROSPECT.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S WIFE.

AT A WINDOW.

BIRD-LANGUAGE.

A CITY ECLOGUE.

MEMORIAL VERSES.

IN THE YEAR TEN THOUSAND.

QUEEN CHRISTINA AND DE LIAR.

TWO SCENES IN THE LIFE OF BEAU BRUMMELL.

THARAK AND THE LION.

INTERMEZZO.

I.—The Wood-Turtle.

[II. Above the porch, full in dawn's rosy view]

[III. Shadows hung dense on the burnished lake]

IV.—Asters and Goldenrods.

[V. All day the reapers on the hill]

VI.—To a Friend Who Slept Ill.

[VII. How long ere the blast that is nipping and bitter]

VIII.—Babes in the Wood.

IX.—Aquarelle.

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[X. How sad, in this wide airy glade]

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XI.—Cradle-Song.

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[XII. They led the pale Christ through the mouthing throng]

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[XIII. How marvellously all the deeps of night]

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XIV.—To a Literary Fop.

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[XV. Think not that you may calmly tread]

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[XVI. An old man mused, amid twilight's haze]

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[XVII. I saw in dreams a system of dead worlds]

THE CARISFORT CURSE.

AGNOSTIC AND CHRISTIAN.

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BIRD-LANGUAGE.

Hark, love, while through this wood we walk,
Beneath melodious trees,
How wrens with redbreasts ever talk
What tuneful words they please.

Lured by their feathered clans and sects,
The listener lightly notes
Those airy and dulcet dialects
That bubble from birds' throats.

Ah, joy, could we once clearly greet
The meanings gay that throng
Their silvery idioms and their sweet
Provincialisms of song!

No graybeard linguist, love, could vie
With our large learning, then!
You'd speak to me in Redbreast; I
Would answer you in Wren!

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BIRD-LANGUAGE.