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My Lyrical Life

Poems Old and New. By Gerald Massey
Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)

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FIRST SERIES.
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SONGS.
  
OLD FRIENDS.
  
SYLVIA MAY.
  
IN A DREAM.
  
THAT MERRY, MERRY MAY.
  
A LOVER'S FANCY.
  
NO JEWELLED BEAUTY IS MY LOVE.
  
THE TWO ROSES.
  
SWEET-AND-TWENTY.
  
THE WEDDING-RING.
  
LOVE'S WESTWARD HO!
  
MY LOVE.
  
LULLABY.
  
AUTUMN SONG.
  
SYRINX.
  
O LAY THY HAND IN MINE, DEAR!
  
LONG, LONG AGO.
  
A SOLDIER'S WIFE.
  
ROBIN'S SONG.
  
THE ONLY ONE.
  
A MAIDEN'S SONG.
  
LOVE.
  
NOW AND THEN.
  
EMIGRANT SONG.
  
THE SAILOR'S ORPHAN CHILD.
  
ON DECK TOGETHER.
  
A PEARL DIVER.
  
PARTING.
  
“FOR EVER.”
  
SHAKSPEARE.
  
“ALL READY AND ALL ONE.”
  
ENGLAND.
  
THE OLD LAND.
  
SEA-SONG.
  
OUR NATIVE LAND.
  
A NATIONAL ANTHEM.
  
HAVELOCK'S MARCH.
  
ONLY A DREAM.
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AN ORPHAN FAMILY'S CHRISTMAS.
  
THE BRIDEGROOM OF BEAUTY.
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POEMS FOR CHRISTIE.
  
A WINTER'S TALE FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
  
FOR CHRISTIE'S SAKE.
  
CHRISTIE'S PORTRAIT.
  
THE TWO HEAVENS.
  
SLEEP-WALKING.
  
CHRISTIE'S POOR OLD GRAN.
  
NEWS OF CHRISTIE.
  
LITTLE WILLIE.
  
WHEN CHRISTIE COMES AGAIN.
  
CHILDREN AT PLAY.
  
LITTLE LILYBELL.
  
OUR WHITE DOVE.
  
POOR ELLEN.
  
THE NABOB'S DOUBLE.
  
THE DIAKKA.
  
“THEY SANG A NEW SONG.”
  
FLOWER AND FRUIT.
  
PEGASUS IN HARNESS.
  
LOVE AND DEATH.
  
ORPHANS.
  
ONE OF SHAKSPEARE'S WOMEN.
  
IMPERFECTION.
  
SO IT GOES.
  
GROWING OLD.
  
A GREEK REPLY.
  
MAN AND HIS TWO MASTERS.
  
WOMANKIND.
  
A VERY EARLY RISER.
  
A PECULIAR PERSON.
  
DELIA BACON.
  
A PAINTED SPRAY OF APPLE-BLOSSOM.
  
AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.
  
SOULS OF ANIMALS.
  
TRUE POETS.
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THE HAUNTED HURST,
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SECOND SERIES.

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LOVE AND DEATH.

This butterfly of human breath,
Is followed far and fast by Death;
Some flower of life it settled on
He clasps and crushes, but—'tis gone.
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