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In Cornwall and Across the Sea

With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen

Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1856-1947)

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TO THE COUNTESS OF PORTSMOUTH,

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I.

PART I. IN CORNWALL.

ALICE OF THE LEA.

THF BELLS OF FORRABURY.

ST IVES, CORNWALL.

THE MERMAID OF ZENNOR—A BALLAD.

THE CAPTIVE RIVER.

SIR TRISTRAM AT TINTAGEL.

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CORNISH SONNETS.

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SONNETS OF THE CORNISH MOORS.

ON THE CORNISH MOORS.

RIALOBRAN, THE SON OF CUNOVAL.

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SONNETS OF MOUNTS BAY.

ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT.

ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT, CORNWALL, AT SUNSET.

ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT BY MOONLIGHT.

TO A YOUNG AUSTRALIAN LADY E. M. S.

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SONNETS OF THE LAND'S END.

THE LAND'S END.

SENNEN—THE VILLAGE UPON THE LAND'S END.

VELLANDREATH—WHITESAND BAY.

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SONNETS OF THE LIZARD.

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SONNETS OF ARTURIAN CORNWALL.

[Not Camelot the towered—the goodly town]

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS WRITTEN IN CORNWALL.

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY'S SEAT, GULVAL CARN.

TO E. M. S. AFTER A TOUR IN CORNWALL.

BEHIND THE SCENES.

THE CISTERCIANS.

“CORN AND ACORN,”

THE LEGEND OF THE LILY AND THE ROSE.

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II.

PART II. ACROSS THE SEA.

MELBOURNE. January 1880.

IN MEMORIAM.—SIR CHARLES SLADEN, K.C.M.G.

THE SOUTH-SEA VOYAGER.

AT SUEZ. May 1884.

UPON THE S.S. “BALLAARAT.”

TWO YEARS OLD TO-DAY.

AN OLD ROMANCE.

THE GENTLEMAN-DROVER'S GOOD-BYE.

THE QUEEN OF HEARTS.

THE SIGH OF THE SHOUTER.

TO G. E. MORRISON, Esq.,

AT WINDSOR, NEW SOUTH WALES, IN WINTER.

COOPER OF TUMUT,

A BALLAD OF WATTLE-BLOSSOM.

LIGHT AND SHADE.

WORDSWORTH'S “TWO VOICES.”

THE BARBED ARROW.

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III.

PART III. POEMS WRITTEN IN LONDON.

THE EXILE'S RETURN.

“MAMMON AND POESY;”

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IV.

PART IV. POEMS WRITTEN IN DEVONSHIRE CHIEFLY AT TORQUAY.

A BALLAD OF PLEASURE.

A BALLAD OF PAIN.

A BALLAD OF A GRAVEYARD.

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UNDER THE MISTLETOE.

I.

II.

III.

TO A LADY ON HER TWENTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY.

A TALE OF TWO COLLEGES.

THE TWO SPIRITS.

THE HOUR OF PRAYER.

A LEGEND OF THE SABBATH.

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PATRIOTIC POEMS.

A LETTER FROM GORDON.

PRAYING FOR GORDON.

GORDON IS DEAD.

“ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA!”

WAITING FOR WAR.

GORDON OF KHARTOUM.

TO OUR CHILDREN.

ENGLAND AND ATHENS.

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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

MARGARET OF SCOTLAND.

ON A DEAD INFANT.

EXETER CATHEDRAL.

COCKINGTON LANES,

A WALK IN SPRING.

THE HERB-ROBERT.

THE BEECH TREE.

THE SONNET'S SCANTY PLOT.

OXFORD, THE GRAND UNDOER.

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THE DEDICATION OF “A SUMMER CHRISTMAS.”

THE STARRY SISTERS.

FORSTER'S “MIDAS.”

TO SIR SAMUEL WILSON,

TO J. HENNIKER HEATON, Esq.

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THE HERB-ROBERT.

[Written Close to Ilsham Farm, Torquay, in Winter.]

Herb-Robert, wherefore Robin of the flowers?
Because thou art their Red-breast, red in leaves
And blossoms, when the latest of the sheaves
Have long been garnered and ere April showers
Have filled the womb of May and she embowers
All Nature. Not the glow on summer eves,
Just ere the sea the setting sun receives,
Can shame the crimson, which in autumn hours
Flows through thy fronds, and thy wee pink-tinged bloom,
Amid the darkness of November days,
Serves with its small light to dispel the gloom—
Its small light hardly noticed mid the blaze
Of huge bright summer-blossoms—as sick room
Is cheered by humble folk with kindly ways.