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The Poetical Works of John Payne

Definitive Edition in Two Volumes
Payne, John (1842-1916)

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[section]
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VOL. I
  
[dedication]
  
SINE ME, LIBER.....
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NARRATIVE POEMS.
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THE ROMAUNT OF SIR FLORIS.
  
[prologue]
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I.THE FIRST COMING OF THE DOVE.
  
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POSTLUDE.
  
PRELUDE TO CANTO II OF SIR FLORIS.
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THE BUILDING OF THE DREAM.
  
[prologue]
 I. 
I.DESIRE.
 II. 
II.ATTAINMENT.
 III. 
III.FALLING AWAY.
  
SALVESTRA
  
THORGERDA.
  
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
  
LAUTREC.
  
THE MASQUE OF SHADOWS.
  
LIGHT O' LOVE.
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FLOWERS FROM SYRIAN GARDENS.
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I.The Apples of Paradise.
 II. 
II.The Scavenger of Baghdad.
 III. 
III.The Blacksmith who could handle fire without hurt.
 IV. 
IV.The Golden Cup.
 V. 
V.By the token of the Bean.
 VI. 
VI.The two Cakes of Bread.
 VII. 
VII.The Hermit's Heritage.
 VIII. 
VIII.The Mad Lover.
  
THE LAST OF HERCULES.
  
USQUE AD PORTAS.
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THE PACT OF THE TWIN GODS.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
  
ANCHISES.
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VOL. II
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LONDON CITY POEMS.
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I.A CITY APOLOGUE.
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II.AN IDYLL OF THE PLAGUE.
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III.QUIA MULTUM AMAVIT. )
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IV.A CHRISTMAS VIGIL.
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V.A DREAM OF FAITHS.
 VI. 
VI.A PORTRAIT.
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VII.A DREAM-LIFE.
 VIII. 
VIII.THE RED ROSE.
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IX.CHRISTMAS BELLS.
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BALLADS AND ROMANCES.
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I.THE RIME OF REDEMPTION.
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II.THE BALLAD OF ISOBEL.
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III.INTO THE ENCHANTED LAND.
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IV.SIR WINFRITH.
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V.THE KING'S SLEEP.
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VI.MADONNA DEI SOGNI.
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VII.THE HOUSE OF SORROW.
 VIII. 
VIII.IN ARMIDA'S GARDEN.
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IX.THE WESTWARD SAILING.
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X.SIR ERWIN'S QUESTING.
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XI.THE BALLAD OF SHAMEFUL DEATH.
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XII.THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S DAUGHTER.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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XIII.THE ROSES OF SOLOMON.
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XIV.THE BALLAD OF MAY MARGARET.
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XV.THE MARSH-KING'S DAUGHTER.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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SONNETS.
  
INTROIT.
  
AD DANTEM.
  
TROPIC FLOWER.
  
HAUNTED LIFE.
  
HESPERIA.
  
WINTER ROSES.
  
DORIC MODE.
  
THE GARDEN OF ADONIS.
  
SOVRAN SORROW.
  
FRANCOIS RABELAIS.
  
EVOCATION.
  
ROCOCO.
  
LIFE UNLIVED.
  
BELPHOEBE.
  
ON LECONTE DE LISLE'S PROSE TRANSLATION OF HOMER.
  
AFTER LONG YEARS.
  
FATAL ATTAINMENT.
  
JACOB AND THE ANGEL.
  
SIBYL.
  
LONG DESIRE.
  
ON THE BORDERS OF THE NIGHT.
  
FEMME FELLAH DE LANDELLE.
  
PROJECTED SHADOWS.
  
AZALEAS.
  
BRIDE-NIGHT.
  
FLITTING HOPE.
  
LOVE'S EPITAPH.
  
INDIAN ISLE.
  
SIREN.
  
NIRWANA.
  
SLEEPERS AND ONE THAT WATCHES.
  
ALTISIDORA.
  
LONELY THOUGHT.
  
WESTERING HOPE.
  
SILENTIA LUNÆ.
  
IGNIS FATUUS.
  
BEATRICE.
  
MAY MEMORIES.
  
OUTSTRETCHED HANDS.
  
ANGEL DEATH.
  
BURIED CITIES.
  
EXIT.
  
WITH A COPY OF THE DIVINA COMMEDIA.
  
SUNFLOWER SOUL.
  
WITH A COPY OF HENRY VAUGHAN'S SACRED POEMS.
  
J. B. COROT.
  
ALOE-BLOSSOM.
  
DREAM-LIFE.
  
AD ZOÏLOS.
  
INDIAN SUMMER.
  
FADED LOVE.
  
SAD SUMMER.
  
THE LAST OF THE GODS.
  
ENGLAND'S HOPE.
  
SARVARTHASIDDHA-BUDDHA.
  
OMAR KHEYYAM.
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FROM BOCCACCIO.
  
TO PETRARCH DEAD.
  
TO HIS OWN SOUL, EXHORTING IT TO REPENTANCE.
  
OF THREE DAMSELS IN A MEADOW.
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EXOTICA.
  
CHANT ROYAL OF THE GOD OF LOVE.
  
VIRELAY.
  
RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ.
  
DOUBLE BALLAD
  
BALLAD OF POETS.
  
VILLANELLE.
  
RONDEL.
  
BALLAD OF PAST DELIGHT.
  
RONDEAU.
  
BALLAD OF LOVE'S DESPITE.
  
RONDEAU.
  
VILLANELLE.
  
KYRIELLE.
  
PANTOUM.
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SONGS OF LIFE AND DEATH.
  
DEDICATION
  
A PRELUDE.
  
A SONG BEFORE THE GATES OF DEATH.
  
FALSE SPRING.
  
HYMN TO THE NIGHT.
  
MADRIGAL TRISTE.
  
A SONG OF ROSES.
  
A FAREWELL.
  
AUBADE.
  
COURANTE.
  
THE DEAD MASTER.
  
VOCATION SONG.
  
SUNDOWN.
  
SHADOW-SOUL.
  
A BIRTHDAY SONG.
  
IN THE NIGHT-WATCHES.
  
A SONG OF DEAD LOVE.
  
CADENCES.
  
AREOPAGITICA.
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A BACCHIC OF SPRING.
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II.
  
A SOUL'S ANTIPHON.
  
A SONG OF WILLOW.
  
SONGS' END.
  
TOURNESOL.
  
A FUNERAL SONG FOR THÉOPHILE GAUTIER.
  
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY SONG.
  
LOVE'S AMULET.
  
MADRIGAL GAI.
  
LOVE'S AUTUMN.
  
ASPECT AND PROSPECT.
  
MELISANDE.
  
IN MEMORIAM
  
SALUT D'AMOUR.
  
EPILOGUE
  
DUST TO DUST.
  
VERE NOVO.
  
PRELUDE TO HAFIZ.
  
THE DOPPER'S LAMENT.
  
REQUIEM
  
BASSARID'S HORN.
  
NOCTURN.
  
BARCAROLLE.
  
ARCADES AMBO.
  
IMPERIA
  
LITANY.
  
LOVE SOLICITOUS.
  
SUNSET-VOICES.
  
TRINITAS TRINITATUM.
  
DE PROFUNDIS.
  
A GHAZEL OF SPRING.
  
SOLITUDINEM FACIUNT.....
  
BIRD-PEEP.
  
A LAST LULLABY.
  
EVENSONG.
  
THE GRAVE OF MY SONGS.

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FROM BOCCACCIO.

TO PETRARCH DEAD.

NOW, dear my lord, unto those realms of light
Thou'rt mounted, whither looketh still to fare
Each soul of God elect unto that share,
On its departure from this world of spite;
Now art thou where full oft the longing spright
Drew thee, with Laura to commune whilere:
Now art thou come whereas my lovely fair
Fiammetta sitteth with her in God's sight.
Yea, with Sennuccio , Cino , Dante, thou
Assured of ease enternal dwellest now,
Things seeing our intelligence above.
Oh, in this world if I was dear to thee,
Draw thou me straight to thee, where I may see,
Joyful, her face who fired me first with love.
 

Boccaccio's mistress, the Princess Maria of Naples.

Sennuccio del Bene, a fourteenth-century Florentine poet and a friend of Petrarch, who celebrated him in his verse.

Cino da Pistoia, the contemporary and friend of Dante.

TO HIS OWN SOUL, EXHORTING IT TO REPENTANCE.

TURN, turn thee, weary soul: nay, hearken me.
Turn thee and note where thou hast run astray,
The course of idle lusts ensuing aye,
And in the fosse thy feet enmired thou'lt see.
Wake, ere thou fall! What dost thou? Presently
Return to Him, Him who the true allay
To who will giv'th and from the sore affray
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Of woeful death, whereto thou far'st, doth free.
Return thee unto Him and thy last years
Yield, at the least, unto His will and gree,
Mourning the ills done in the days bygone.
Let the late season waken not thy fears;
He will accept thee, doing unto thee
That which He did erst with the last hired one.
 

Alluding, of course, to the parable of the labourers in the vineyard, Matt. XX, 1—16.

OF THREE DAMSELS IN A MEADOW.

ABOUT a well-spring, in a little mead,
Of tender grasses full and flow'rets fair,
There sat three youngling angels, as it were
Their loves recounting; and for each, indeed,
Her sweet face shaded, 'gainst the noontide need,
A spray of green, that bound her golden hair;
Whilst, in and out by turns, a frolic air
The two clear colours blended at its heed.
And one, after a little, thus heard I
Say to her mates, “Lo, if by chance there lit
The lovers of each one of us hereby,
Should we flee hence for fear of quiet sit?”
Whereto the twain made answer, “Who should fly
From such a fortune sure were scant of wit.”
 

Angiolette, lit. “she-angellings”, i.e. pretty young girls.

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