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Forest Songs and Other Poems
By John Todhunter
Todhunter, John (1839-1916)
[dedication]
FOREST SONGS.
PRELUDE.
A SONG OF DAWN.
A SONG IN SADNESS.
THE LOST CHILD.
THE GREY MAN.
FOREST-POOL.
ON THE SEUFZERS-BANK.
LONELY FLOWERS.
WATERFALL.
A SYMPOSIUM.
BIRDS OF PREY.
SLEEPLESS.
EVENING SONG.
THE HAZEL.
LONGING.
FOLKSONG AT SUNSET.
BY THE SCHLUCHSEE.
FOREST MYSTERY.
SONG.
SWALLOW FLIGHT.
EVENING PRIMROSE.
THE CHRIST OF THE TITI-SEE.
A DREAM OF JUDGMENT.
GOLGOTHA.
THE MODERN GETHSEMANE.
SONG-TIDE.
SONG-TIDE.
THE DEAD NUPTIAL.
THE BLACK KNIGHT.
SONG.
RECONCILIATION.
GHOSTS.
SONG.
NOCTURNE.
AN AUTUMN LOVE SONG.
A PHANTASY.
SNAKE-CHARM.
A DIRGE FOR SUMMER.
A SONG OF NIGHT AND DEATH.
LONGING.
PARTING.
ABSENCE.
THE DREAM.
A MESSAGE.
HOMEWARD.
MEETING.
SONNETS.
MAGNOLIAS.
A DAY-DREAM IN KENT.
LOVE AND LIFE.
A DREAM OF EGYPT.
TO THE ALBANI ATHENA.
A JULY NIGHT.
THE MARSEILLAISE.
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LONGING.
1
When
the sun flamed fiercely on me
Longed I for the rain,
When the rain beat cold upon me,
For the sun again.
2
All our life is but a longing,
Joy's but one sweet sigh,
All our life is but a longing,
Cease to long, we die.
Forest Songs and Other Poems