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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

Morris, William (1834-1896)

VOLUME I THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE AND OTHER POEMS

II.

VOLUME II THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JASON

III, IV, V, VI.

VOLUME III, IV, V, VI THE EARTHLY PARADISE

VII.

VOLUME VII THE STORY OF GRETTIR THE STRONG. THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS

IX.

VOLUME IX LOVE IS ENOUGH. POEMS BY THE WAY

VOLUME X THREE NORTHERN LOVE STORIES. THE TALE OF BEOWULF

XII.

VOLUME XII THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG AND THE FALL OF THE NIBLUNGS

XIV.

VOLUME XIV THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS. THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN

XV.

VOLUME XV THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS

XVI.

VOLUME XVI NEWS FROM NOWHERE. A DREAM OF JOHN BALL. A KING'S LESSON

XVII.

VOLUME XVII THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD. CHILD CHRISTOPHER. OLD FRENCH ROMANCES

XXI.

VOLUME XXI THE SUNDERING FLOOD. UNFINISHED ROMANCES

XXIV.

VOLUME XXIV SCENES FROM THE FALL OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS AND FRAGMENTS

EARLY POEMS

POEMS OF THE EARTHLY PARADISE TIME (About 1865-1870)

LATE POEMS

THE PILGRIMS OF HOPE

[I.] THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND

II.

II. THE BRIDGE AND THE STREET.

III.

III. SENDING TO THE WAR.

IV.

IV. MOTHER AND SON.

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V. NEW BIRTH.

VI.

VI. THE NEW PROLETARIAN.

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VII.

VII. IN PRISON—AND AT HOME.

VIII.

VIII. THE HALF OF LIFE GONE.

IX.

IX. A NEW FRIEND.

X. READY TO DEPART.

XI.

XI. A GLIMPSE OF THE COMING DAY.

XII.

XII. MEETING THE WAR-MACHINE.

XIII.

XIII. THE STORY'S ENDING.

NO MASTER

THE MARCH OF THE WORKERS

DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN

MAY DAY

MAY DAY, 1894

FOR THE BED AT KELMSCOTT

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So saying, slowly, as a man who needs
Must do a deed that woe and evil breeds,
He rose, and took his writing tools to him,

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And ere the day had made the tapers dim,
Two letters with his own hand had he made,
And open was the first one, and it said
These words: