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The Poems of Sir William Watson

1878-1935

Watson, William (1858-1935)

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LYRICS AND LONGER POEMS

TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC

THE ETERNAL SEARCH

THE THREE GIVERS

TO RICHARD HOLT HUTTON

THE STORMS AND THE HAVENS

DAWN ON THE HEADLAND

THE KNIGHTS AND THE KING

THE HUMOUR OF OLYMPUS

THE CHURCHYARD IN THE WOLD

THE FIRST SKYLARK OF SPRING

THE WIZARD'S CRUX

THE FOILED PURSUERS

ENGLAND MY MOTHER

THE RAVEN'S SHADOW

TELL ME NOT NOW

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

THE TARN AND THE TORRENT

NAY, BID ME NOT

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

SONG FROM AN UNFINISHED PLAY

SCIENCE AND NATURE

ROME AND ANOTHER

THE FOREST VOICES

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

THE UNVANQUISHED

TO MY MOTHER'S MEMORY

THE WARRIOR LOVER

STORM IN MID-ATLANTIC

THE ELF-KING'S DAUGHTER

THE EARTH'S DESIRE

CHANGE AND INTERCHANGE

AN IDEAL PASSION

HYMN TO THE SEA

SHELLEY'S CENTENARY

THE GREAT MISGIVING

THE TOMB OF BURNS

THE TERRORS OF TRUTH

ON ONE OF THE PORTRAITS OF EMMA, LADY HAMILTON

THE INDESTRUCTIBLES

THE HEART OF THE ROSE

AN INSOLUBLE PROBLEM

THE NEWS FROM THE FIELD

THE FUGITIVE IDEAL

THE HOPE OF THE WORLD

TO THE LADY KATHARINE MANNERS

THE NORTH HAS MY HEART

A WORD WITH FORTUNE

EARTH-SWEETNESS

ODE ON THE DAY OF THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII

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

KILLINEY STRAND

THE UNKNOWN GOD

ENGLAND'S CHOICE

TO A STRENUOUS CRITIC

HER THIRD BIRTHDAY

SONG IN AN ARCHAIC MANNER

A GUESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

THE NECESSITY OF WRATH

THE LIGHTHOUSE OF LOVE

PART OF MY STORY

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

TO MY ELDEST CHILD

ODE TO LICINIUS

CROSS BROW, AMBLESIDE

DOMINE, QUO VADIS?

IN LALEHAM CHURCHYARD

VERSES TO THE DUCHESS OF HAMILTON

THE FATHER OF THE FOREST

ON A TOO PROLIFIC ESSAYIST

LINES WRITTEN IN RICHMOND PARK

THE SOVEREIGN POET

A RIDDLE OF THE THAMES

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

EUROPE AT THE PLAY

A STUDY IN CONTRASTS

THE MOSSGROWN PORCHES

THE TEST OF THE BARDS

ON BEING STYLED UNPATRIOTIC

THE UNWRITTEN PACT

LAKELAND ONCE MORE

THE FIGHT IN THE BIGHT

THE SOUL OF ROUGET DE LISLE

TO HENRY C. MONTGOMERY, OF BALLYHACKAMORE

THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FUTURE

THE YELLOW PANSY

ODE IN THE DAY OF TRANSITION

THE MAN WHO SAW

THIS BRINE-BEGIRT HOME

ORMAZD AND AHRIMAN

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A WORD WITH FORTUNE

I never ask to live and bask
In sunlight splendid.
I take my share of foul and fair
Till life be ended.

When knaves prevail I do not wail
And rend my raiment.
I bide the day when haply they
Shall reap due payment.

I nurse no spleen 'gainst Powers unseen,
Ev'n if they leave me
Torn to and fro 'twixt bliss and woe
Till Earth receive me.