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Fantasy and Passion

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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I. MINORCHORDS.
  
SEA-GULLS.
  
REVERIE.
  
AN INTERIOR.
  
AN OLD TEA-CUP.
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AFFINITIES.
 1. 
I.
 2. 
II.
  
TO THE EVENING STAR.
  
A HUMMING-BIRD.
  
TO AN ORIOLE.
  
HEAT-LIGHTNING.
  
CLOUDS.
  
A STRAGGLER.
  
WATER-LILIES.
  
FANTAISIE DE PRINTEMPS.
  
ANALOGIES.
  
RARITY.
  
VIOLETS IN WINTER.
  
IMMORTELLES.
  
TO A TEA-ROSE.
  
WILD ROSES.
  
A TUBEROSE.
  
IVY.
  
HEMLOCKS.
  
THE ACORN.
  
FERNS.
  
MOSS.
  
LEAVES.
  
CLOVER.
  
GRAPES.
  
A TOAD.
  
WEEDS.
  
A BAT.
  
BOX.
  
DEW.
  
FIREFLIES.
  
FOUR DAYS.
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II. VOICES AND VISIONS.
  
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL.
  
FIDELITAS.
  
ADORATION.
  
IF TRULY.
  
DARKNESS.
  
HIS CHILD.
  
SELF-DECEPTION.
  
CHIAROSCURO.
  
A BIRD OF PASSAGE.
  
A LEAVE-TAKING.
  
VESTA.
  
ONE NIGHT IN SEVILLE.
  
BARCAROLLE.
  
CRADLE-SONG.
  
ONE MAY NIGHT.
  
FORGETFULNESS.
  
SOUVENIR.
  
THE MEETING.
  
D'OUTRE MORT.
  
FROM SHADOWLAND.
  
PEST.
  
WINE.
  
TO-MORROW.
  
DEGREE.
  
THE ATONEMENT.
  
TIGER TO TIGRESS.
  
JAEL.
  
VIOLANTE.
  
MOZART'S REQUIEM.
  
BEHIND HISTORY.
  
THE STATUETTE.
  
INDIVIDUALITY.
  
ORDER.
  
CONCEPTION.
  
FAME.
  
CRITICISM.
  
ATTAINMENT.
  
A KING.
  
WINDS.
  
THE COMET.
  
THE ICEBERG.
  
PERSPECTIVES.
  
THE MOON IN THE CITY.
  
FIRE.
  
DECAY.
  
WASTE.
  
DECORATION DAY.
  
CUSTER.
  
CUBA.
  
ALBERT F. WEBSTER, JR.
  
TO EDWIN BOOTH.
  
THE SCHOLAR'S SWEETHEART.
  
LA BELLE HÉLÈNE.
  
GENTLEMAN JO.
  
PIPES AND BEER.
  
TO AN OLD STREET-LAMP.
  
A BARNYARD ECLOGUE.
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III. SONNETS.
  
ART.
  
GENIUS.
  
SLEEP.
  
TO ---.
  
THE CITY.
  
KINDLINESS.
  
COMMONPLACES.
  
CITY WINDOWS.
  
A THISTLE.
  
MAPLES.
  
A COBWEB.
  
AN OCTOBER DAY.
  
A WILLOW-TREE.
  
THISTLEDOWN.
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FABRICS.
  
I. VELVET.
  
II. SATIN.
  
III. BROCADE.
  
THE OLD MIRROR.
  
EARTHQUAKE.
  
TO F. S. S.
  
MEDUSA.
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ANTIPODES.
 1. 
I. POE.
 2. 
II. WHITTIER.
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CAMEOS.
 1. 
I. THACKERAY.
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II. DICKENS.
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III. KEATS.
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IV. DUMAS, PÈRE.
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V. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
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VI. HERBERT SPENCER.
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VII. GUSTAVE DORÉ.
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VIII. BAUDELAIRE.

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IV. DUMAS, PÈRE.

Born heir-presumptive to Boccaccio's bays,
What generous genial art this man possessed,
Pillaging history's mighty treasure-chest,
Loving the most her most adventurous days;
Painting, in such adroit and happy phrase,
King, priest, cavalier, the jester with his jest,
Or D'Artagnan, big Porthos and the rest,
Who fought so valorously for Louis Treize!
No morbid analyst, healthful, honest, bland,
How he adored all perilous deeds and wild!
Romance's monarch, story-teller grand,
How long he made, by halcyon spells beguiled,
Great haughty France, with head upon her hand,
Crouch at his feet and listen like a child!
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