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The Poems of Sir William Watson

1878-1935
Watson, William (1858-1935)

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DEDICATION
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SONNETS
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MINIATURES
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LYRICS AND LONGER POEMS
  
NATURE'S WAY
  
REJUVENESCENCE
  
UNINHABITED
  
TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC
  
THE ETERNAL SEARCH
  
THE THREE GIVERS
  
THOMAS HOOD
  
TO RICHARD HOLT HUTTON
  
O LIKE A QUEEN
  
THE STORMS AND THE HAVENS
  
DAWN ON THE HEADLAND
  
THE KNIGHTS AND THE KING
  
THE HUMOUR OF OLYMPUS
  
MYSTIC RECALL
  
THE CHURCHYARD IN THE WOLD
  
THE FIRST SKYLARK OF SPRING
  
ART'S RIDDLE
  
THE LOST EDEN
  
REVELATION
  
THE WIZARD'S CRUX
  
THE EXILES
  
INVENTION
  
A CHILD'S HAIR
  
THE KEYBOARD
  
THE FOILED PURSUERS
  
ENGLAND MY MOTHER
  
APRIL
  
ODE IN MAY
  
THE GLIMPSE
  
THE RAVEN'S SHADOW
  
TELL ME NOT NOW
  
UTOPIA
  
THE SONGSTERS
  
THE MUSE IN EXILE
  
SCENTLESS FLOWERS
  
THE LUTE-PLAYER
  
THE WINTER SLEEP
  
THE VISITOR ABHORRED
  
THE LARK AND THE THRUSH
  
THE THUNDER-SHOWER
  
THE VOICE FROM DREAMLAND
  
LIBERTY REJECTED
  
A HUMBLE ENTREATY
  
THE CATHEDRAL MUSIC
  
LUX PERDITA
  
THE TARN AND THE TORRENT
  
NAY, BID ME NOT
  
BAFFLED DEITY
  
HATE
  
THE FLEETS OF INFINITY
  
THE FOWLS OF THE AIR
  
CAPRICES OF THE GODS
  
THE NOBLEST VICTORY
  
THE TRUE IMPERIALISM
  
A HALF-REAL SOLACE
  
CEASE, FOOLISH ROSEBUD
  
MIDNIGHT
  
O TO SAIL
  
SONG FROM AN UNFINISHED PLAY
  
THE PROTEST
  
THE FELLS
  
SCIENCE AND NATURE
  
AUTUMN
  
ROME AND ANOTHER
  
THE FOREST VOICES
  
DUSK
  
JANUARY DOWN WEST
  
THE FALSE SUMMER
  
“THE THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXCELLENT”
  
THE DREAM OF MAN
  
THE DESERT HEART
  
THE BLIND SUMMIT
  
TO A YOUNG AMERICAN LADY
  
THE STRANGER-MINSTREL
  
COLUMBUS
  
THE UNVANQUISHED
  
TO MY MOTHER'S MEMORY
  
THE WARRIOR LOVER
  
MASTERY
  
THE TWO IFS
  
STORM IN MID-ATLANTIC
  
THE ELF-KING'S DAUGHTER
  
THE EARTH'S DESIRE
  
IN DREAMS
  
NIGHT
  
I CARE NOT
  
CHANGE AND INTERCHANGE
  
TU QUOQUE
  
AN IDEAL PASSION
  
WHITHER AFAR?
  
SHAKESPEARE
  
HYMN TO THE SEA
  
SHELLEY'S CENTENARY
  
THE GREAT MISGIVING
  
THE TOMB OF BURNS
  
TEMPEST
  
RETROGRESSION
  
DISCLOSURE
  
THE TERRORS OF TRUTH
  
ON ONE OF THE PORTRAITS OF EMMA, LADY HAMILTON
  
THE INDESTRUCTIBLES
  
THE HEART OF THE ROSE
  
AN INSOLUBLE PROBLEM
  
MARCH
  
ART MAXIMS
  
THE LISTENERS
  
THE NEWS FROM THE FIELD
  
TOO LATE
  
THE FUGITIVE IDEAL
  
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
  
TO THE LADY KATHARINE MANNERS
  
THE NORTH HAS MY HEART
  
A WORD WITH FORTUNE
  
GIVE NOT TO ME
  
EARTH-SWEETNESS
  
IRELAND'S EYE
  
ODE ON THE DAY OF THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII
  
LIGHTLY WE MET
  
THE MIGHTY DENIER
  
THE SAINT AND THE SATYR
  
THE EASIEST REVENGE
  
WALES: A GREETING
  
THE PEERAGE OF THE LYRE
  
LINES READ BY THE AUTHOR AT THE DICKENS CENTENARY CELEBRATION IN NEW YORK
  
WORLD-STRANGENESS
  
BEWARE
  
KILLINEY STRAND
  
THE UNKNOWN GOD
  
ENGLAND'S CHOICE
  
TO A FRIEND
  
TO A STRENUOUS CRITIC
  
THE ADJECTIVE
  
HER THIRD BIRTHDAY
  
SONG IN AN ARCHAIC MANNER
  
A GOLDEN HOUR
  
A GUESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  
THE NECESSITY OF WRATH
  
THE LIGHTHOUSE OF LOVE
  
APOLOGIA
  
TOO SOON
  
PART OF MY STORY
  
HEPHÆSTUS
  
INDIA'S GUEST
  
THE SAVIOURS
  
O PLACID MOON
  
THE MOUND IN THE MEADS
  
THE BETTER CHOICE
  
LACRIMÆ MUSARUM
  
THE ELOPING ANGELS
  
THE SAPPERS AND MINERS
  
THE HUSBANDMAN OF HEAVEN
  
TO A GOVERNMENT
  
THE BALLAD OF SEMMERWATER
  
TO A GREAT POET OF A PAST ERA
  
TO A SLOVENLY VERSIFIER
  
EDENHUNGER
  
TO MY ELDEST CHILD
  
ODE TO LICINIUS
  
THEY AND WE
  
CROSS BROW, AMBLESIDE
  
DOMINE, QUO VADIS?
  
AT A BURIAL
  
IN LALEHAM CHURCHYARD
  
VERSES TO THE DUCHESS OF HAMILTON
  
THE FATHER OF THE FOREST
  
A RECIPE
  
ON A TOO PROLIFIC ESSAYIST
  
LINES WRITTEN IN RICHMOND PARK
  
THE SOVEREIGN POET
  
LEAVETAKING
  
A RIDDLE OF THE THAMES
  
THOUGHTS
  
ELUSION
  
ENGLAND AND HER DOMINIONS
  
ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD VII
  
THE FAITHLESS AND THE CONSTANT
  
THE FATAL PRAYER
  
WORDSWORTH'S GRAVE
  
THE STONES OF STANTON DREW
  
VITA NUOVA
  
EUROPE AT THE PLAY
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A STUDY IN CONTRASTS
  
THE MOSSGROWN PORCHES
  
THE TEST OF THE BARDS
  
THE SEVERERS
  
A PRELUDE
  
ON BEING STYLED UNPATRIOTIC
  
THE UNWRITTEN PACT
  
TAVERN SONG
  
LAKELAND ONCE MORE
  
THE FIGHT IN THE BIGHT
  
THE HARMONISTS
  
THE LOST SOULS
  
THE SOUL OF ROUGET DE LISLE
  
TO HENRY C. MONTGOMERY, OF BALLYHACKAMORE
  
THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FUTURE
  
BEHOLD!
  
THE YELLOW PANSY
  
ODE IN THE DAY OF TRANSITION
  
THE MAN WHO SAW
  
THIS BRINE-BEGIRT HOME
  
RETRIBUTION
  
ORMAZD AND AHRIMAN

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CEASE, FOOLISH ROSEBUD

Cease, foolish rosebud, cease unfolding
So fast thy bosom's guarded sweetness!
Thy charm was a most rich withholding;
Thy beauty, a perfect incompleteness.
Ah, by thy youth to-day enchanted,
I must endure a honied sorrow,
Finding thy lovely self supplanted
By thy yet lovelier self to-morrow.
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