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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
TALES IN RHYME
VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ
VARIA
PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES
ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS
CARMINA VOTIVA
A MADRIGAL
RANK AND FILE
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
TO THE SAME
TO THE SAME
TO THE SAME
TO THE SAME
TO THE SAME
TO THE SAME
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
LATER POEMS
ADDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
[In after days when grasses high]
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FOR LOCKER'S “LONDON LYRICS”
1881
Apollo
made, one April day,
A new thing in the rhyming way;
Its turn was neat, its wit was clear,
It wavered 'twixt a smile and tear,
Then
Momus
gave a touch satiric,
And it became a “London Lyric.”
Collected poems