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Lyrics of Nature, Art and Love. By Francis William Bourdillon
Bourdillon, Francis William (1852-1921)
I.
Part I Art and Nature
II.
Part II Love
Love's Largesse
Life and Love
Mother-of-Pearl
The Words of Lovers
Darkening Years
A Rippled Stone
Two Dreams
A Butterfly on a Glacier
After their Year
“Where all Love's Pilgrims come”
Star-Glimpses
What is Love but a Dreamer?
The Song-Master
The Herald-Flower
Lost Leaves of the Greek Anthology
III.
Part III Man's Love
IV.
Part IV Maiden's Love
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Love's Largesse
The
heaven has emptied all her stars
Into the glimmering sea;
Yet in yon skies the lifted eyes
Find not one less to be.
So Love gives all; and lo, the hand
Emptied, the head stripped bare,
Are ringed and crowned more richly round
With jewels yet more rare.
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