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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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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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FOR A CHARITY ANNUAL

In Angel-Court the sunless air
Grows faint and sick; to left and right
The cowering houses shrink from sight,
Huddled and hopeless, eyeless, bare.

Misnamed, you say? For surely rare
Must be the angel-shapes that light
In Angel-Court!

Nay! the Eternities are there.
Death at the doorway stands to smite;
Life in its garrets leaps to light;
And Love has climbed that crumbling stair
In Angel-Court.