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The poetical works of Edward Rowland Sill
Sill, Edward Rowland (1841-1887)
UNDERGRADUATE AND EARLY POEMS
POEMS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1862 AND 1867
THE RUBY HEART
TO CHILD ANNA
A FABLE
THE CREATION
THE FIRST CAUSE
SEMELE
CLASS SONG
THE GAME OF LIFE
MAN, THE SPIRIT
THE CHOICE
WISDOM AND FAME
SERENITY
THE HERMITAGE, AND OTHER POEMS
POEMS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1867 AND 1872
POEMS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1872 AND 1880
THE VENUS OF MILO, AND OTHER POEMS
LATER POEMS
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The poetical works of Edward Rowland Sill
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AN ADAGE FROM THE ORIENT
At
the punch-bowl's brink,
Let the thirsty think
What they say in Japan:
“First the man takes a drink,
Then the drink takes a drink,
Then the drink takes the man!”
The poetical works of Edward Rowland Sill