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Collected poems

By Austin Dobson: Ninth edition

Dobson, Austin (1840-1921)

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[To you I sing, whom towns immure]

OLD-WORLD IDYLLS

PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN

VIGNETTES IN RHYME

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE

MEMORIAL VERSES

FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART

VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ

PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES

ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS

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A MADRIGAL

FOR A COPY OF “THE COMPLEAT ANGLER”

VERSES READ AT THE DINNER OF THE OMAR KHAYYÁM CLUB

VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE MENU OF THE OMAR KHAYYÁM CLUB

FOR “AN APPENDIX TO THE ROWFANT LIBRARY”

FOR A CHARITY ANNUAL

FOR A COPY OF “THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD”

AFTER A HOLIDAY

THE BALLAD OF THE BORE

TO THE LADY DOROTHY NEVILL

TO EDMUND GOSSE

FOR LOCKER'S “LONDON LYRICS”

TO BRANDER MATTHEWS

TO THE LATE H. C. BUNNER

TO RICHARD WATSON GILDER

“GOOD LUCK TO YOUR FISHING!”

1.

A BALLAD OF ANTIQUARIES

2.

A SECOND BALLAD OF ANTIQUARIES

LUDIBRIA VENTIS

ADDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

[In after days when grasses high]

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A MADRIGAL

[Who can dwell with greatness! Greatness is too high]

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[Written for Choral Songs in Honour of Queen Victoria, 1899, and set to music by Sir Hubert Parry .]

Who can dwell with greatness! Greatness is too high;
Flowers are for the meadow, suns are for the sky;—
Ah! but there is greatness in this land of ours,
High as is the sunlight, humble as the flowers!

Queen, of thee the fable! Lady, thine the fate!
Royal, and yet lowly, lowly, and yet great;—
Great in far dominion, great in bannered years,
Greater still as woman, greatest in thy tears!