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Poems with Fables in Prose

By Frederic Herbert Trench

Trench, Herbert (1865-1923)

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Who art Thou, Starry Ghost

Lines from Salonica

Deep in a High Valley

Flame-footed Youth

Stanzas to Tolstoi in his Old Age

Stanzas on Poetry

Prelude to a Masque

An Ode to Beauty

Woman's Song for a Soldier

Song for the Funeral of a Boy

Chant Sung in Darkness

Adam Outside the Gate

Since I have given Thee all my very Heart

Far off, may be, the Heart's Eyes shall Behold You

The Questioners

To a Nightingale heard upon a Hilltop before Dawn

In Summer when the Vales are clear

The Horn of the Moon

Mounting the Hill

O Dreamy, Gloomy, Friendly Trees

Old Anchor Chanty

Chorus at the Green Bear Inn

Daughters of Joy

The Gemless Ring

Chinese Drinking Song

O Birds of the Air

Almond, Wild Almond

In Summer-time when Mary bathes

In the Roman Amphitheatre, Verona

There comes a Moment of the Twilight

Jean Richepin's Song

You were Stay'd

Musing on a Great Soldier

Inscription for the Scabbard of a Sword of Honour

I Seek Thee in the Heart alone

The Rider on the Shore

Fantasia on Claviers at Night

The Man Digging

Romney Marshman's Love Song

I Heard a Soldier

How shall I find . . .

Starlight Distilleth

What Bids me Leave . . .

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Inscription for the Scabbard of a Sword of Honour

Draw me not! Let your laurels round me wreathe—
You that have kept, since you began to breathe,
The soul within you ready to unsheathe!

Engraved on Havelock's sword, presented to Field-Marshal Sir George White, V.C.