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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris
Morris, William (1834-1896)

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VOLUME I THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE AND OTHER POEMS
  
[dedication]
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INTRODUCTION
  
[THE MAYING OF QUEEN GUENEVERE.]
  
[THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE.]
  
[SIR PETER HARPDON'S END.]
  
[A BALLAD.]
  
THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE
  
KING ARTHUR'S TOMB
  
SIR GALAHAD: A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY
  
THE CHAPEL IN LYONESS
  
SIR PETER HARPDON'S END
  
RAPUNZEL
  
CONCERNING GEFFRAY TESTE NOIRE
  
A GOOD KNIGHT IN PRISON
  
OLD LOVE
  
THE GILLIFLOWER OF GOLD
  
SHAMEFUL DEATH
  
THE EVE OF CRECY
  
THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
  
THE LITTLE TOWER
  
THE SAILING OF THE SWORD
  
SPELL-BOUND
  
THE WIND
  
THE BLUE CLOSET
  
THE TUNE OF SEVEN TOWERS
  
GOLDEN WINGS
  
THE HAYSTACK IN THE FLOODS
  
TWO RED ROSES ACROSS THE MOON
  
WELLAND RIVER
  
RIDING TOGETHER
  
FATHER JOHN'S WAR-SONG
  
SIR GILES' WAR-SONG
  
NEAR AVALON
  
PRAISE OF MY LADY
  
SUMMER DAWN
  
IN PRISON
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A Dream.
  
[No memory labours longer from the deep]
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GERTHA'S LOVERS
  
[All thoughts, all passions, all delights]
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CHAPTER I. BY THE RIVER.
  
[“The King rode out in the morning early]
  
[“The King rode out in the morning early]
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Lindenborg Pool.
  
[“The Duke went to Treves]
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The Hollow Land.
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CHAPTER III. LEAVING THE WORLD. FYTTE THE FIRST.
  
[“Christ keep the Hollow Land]
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FYTTE THE THIRD.
  
[“Christ keep the Hollow Land]
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Golden Wings.
  
[“He was fair and free]
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Frank's Sealed Letter.
  
[“‘White honour shall be like a plaything to him]
  
[“Wearily, drearily]
  
WINTER WEATHER
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VOLUME II THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JASON
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JASON
 I. 
BOOK I JASON, HAVING GROWN UP TO MANHOOD IN THE WOODS, IS WARNED OF WHAT HIS LIFE SHALL BE.
 II. 
BOOK II JASON CLAIMS HIS OWN: PELIAS TELLS ABOUT THE GOLDEN FLEECE: JASON VOWS THE QUEST THEREOF.
 III. 
BOOK III THE ARGONAUTS CALLED TOGETHER.
 IV. 
BOOK IV THE QUEST BEGUN: THE LOSS OF HYLAS AND HERCULES.
 V. 
BOOK V THE DEATH OF CYZICUS: PHINEUS FREED FROM THE HARPIES.
 VI. 
BOOK VI THE PASSAGE OF THE SYMPLEGADES: THE HEROES COME TO ÆA.
 VII. 
BOOK VII JASON FIRST SEES MEDEA: THE MAGIC POTION OF MEDEA.
 VIII. 
BOOK VIII THE TAMING OF THE BRAZEN BULLS: THE QUELLING OF THE EARTH-BORN.
 IX. 
BOOK IX THE FLEECE TAKEN FROM THE TEMPLE: THE DEPARTURE OF ARGO: THE DEATH OF ABSYRTUS.
 X. 
BOOK X ARGO CUT OFF FROM THE STRAITS: THE ENTRY OF THE RIVER: THE PASSAGE NORTHWARD.
 XI. 
BOOK XI THE PASSAGE NORTHWARD CONTINUED: ARGO DRAWN OVER-LAND: THE WINTER BY THE NORTHERN RIVER.
 XII. 
BOOK XII THE HEROES REACH THE NORTHERN SEA: AND PASS UNKNOWN LANDS, & SEAS WITHOUT LAND, TILL THEY COME AT LAST TO THE PILLARS OF HERCULES.
 XIII. 
BOOK XIII MEDEA SEES CIRCE AND HAS GOOD COUNSEL FROM HER.
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BOOK XIV THE SIRENS: THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES: THE HEROES DO SACRIFICE AT MALEA.
 XV. 
BOOK XV ARGO IN AMBUSH: MEDEA GOES TO IOLCHOS AND BY HER WILES BRINGS PELIAS TO HIS DEATH.
 XVI. 
BOOK XVI THE LANDING OF THE HEROES: JASON IS MADE KING IN IOLCHOS, AND THE ARGONAUTS GO TO THEIR OWN HOMES.
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BOOK XVII JASON AT CORINTH: THE WEDDING OF GLAUCE: THE DEATH OF JASON.
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VOLUME III, IV, V, VI THE EARTHLY PARADISE
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INTRODUCTION
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[THE EARTHLY PARADISE]
  
[MARCH]
  
[AUGUST]
  
[OCTOBER.]
  
[SEPTEMBER.]
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[OCTOBER.]
  
[subsection]
  
SONG
  
[subsection]
  
[FEBRUARY.]
  
[FEBRUARY.]
  
[FEBRUARY.]
  
[FEBRUARY.]
  
[FEBRUARY.]
  
[FEBRUARY.]
  
[JUNE.]
  
[JULY.]
  
[OCTOBER or NOVEMBER.]
  
[JANUARY and FEBRUARY.]
  
[MARCH.]
  
[L'ENVOI.]
  
[L'ENVOI.]
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The Earthly Paradise
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I
  
[dedication]
  
AN APOLOGY
  
PROLOGUE:
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The Author to the Reader
  
[subsection]
  
[subsection]
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MARCH
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
ATALANTA'S RACE
  
[prologue]
  
THE MAN BORN TO BE KING
  
[epilogue]
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APRIL
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE DOOM OF KING ACRISIUS
  
THE PROUD KING
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II
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MAY
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE
  
[prologue]
  
THE WRITING ON THE IMAGE
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JUNE
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE LOVE OF ALCESTIS
  
[prologue]
  
THE LADY OF THE LAND
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JULY
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE SON OF CRŒSUS
  
[prologue]
  
THE WATCHING OF THE FALCON
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AUGUST
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
PYGMALION AND THE IMAGE
  
[prologue]
  
OGIER THE DANE
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III
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SEPTEMBER
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE DEATH OF PARIS
  
[prologue]
  
THE LAND EAST OF THE SUN & WEST OF THE MOON
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OCTOBER
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE STORY OF ACONTIUS & CYDIPPE
  
[prologue]
  
THE MAN WHO NEVER LAUGHED AGAIN
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NOVEMBER
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE STORY OF RHODOPE
  
[prologue]
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THE LOVERS OF GUDRUN
  
OF HERDHOLT AND BATHSTEAD
  
THE PROPHECY OF GUEST THE WISE
  
GUDRUN TWICE WEDDED, WIDOWED, AND WOOED OF KIARTAN
  
THE DEALINGS OF KING OLAF TRYGGVISON WITH THE ICELANDERS
  
BODLI BRINGS TIDINGS TO BATHSTEAD
  
KIARTAN'S FAREWELL TO NORWAY
  
KIARTAN BACK IN ICELAND: REFNA COMES INTO THE TALE
  
TIDINGS BROUGHT TO BATHSTEAD OF KIARTAN'S COMING BACK
  
THE YULE-FEAST AT BATHSTEAD
  
KIARTAN WEDS REFNA
  
THE SWORD COMES BACK WITHOUT THE SCABBARD
  
THE STEALING OF THE COIF
  
REFNA HEARS WOMEN TALKING
  
KIARTAN FETCHES THE PRICE OF THE COIF FROM BATHSTEAD
  
THORHALLA TELLS OF KIARTAN'S COMINGS AND GOINGS
  
THE SLAYING OF KIARTAN OLAFSON
  
KIARTAN BROUGHT DEAD TO BATHSTEAD
  
WHAT FOLK DID AT HERDHOLT AFTER THE SLAYING
  
GUDRUN'S DEEMING OF THE MEN WHO LOVED HER
  
[epilogue]
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IV.
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DECEMBER
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
THE GOLDEN APPLES
  
THE FOSTERING OF ASLAUG
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JANUARY
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
BELLEROPHON AT ARGOS
  
THE RING GIVEN TO VENUS
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FEBRUARY
  
[prologue]
  
[prologue]
  
BELLEROPHON IN LYCIA
  
THE HILL OF VENUS
  
EPILOGUE
  
L'ENVOI
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VOLUME VII THE STORY OF GRETTIR THE STRONG. THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS
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INTRODUCTION
  
[Sonnet (2).]
  
BALDUR'S DREAM
  
THE LAY OF THRYM
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GRETTIS SAGA: THE STORY OF GRETTIR THE STRONG:
  
[A life scarce worth the living, a poor fame]
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THIS FIRST PART TELLS OF THE FOREFATHERS OF GRETTIR IN NORWAY, AND HOW THEY FLED AWAY BEFORE HARALD FAIRHAIR, AND SETTLED IN ICELAND; AND OF THEIR DEEDS IN ICELAND BEFORE GRETTIR WAS BORN.
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CHAPTER III
  
[“What joy since that day can I get]
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CHAPTER IV
  
[“Yea, seest thou thy wide wounds bleed?]
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CHAPTER VIII
  
[“Meet was I in days agone]
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CHAPTER IX
  
[“Brand-whetter's life awry doth go.]
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CHAPTER XI
  
[“The brave men of days of old]
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CHAPTER XII
  
[Song of the meeting of the Fore-fathers of Grettir.]
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HERE BEGINS THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF GRETTIR THE STRONG.
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CHAPTER XIV. OF GRETTIR AS A CHILD, AND HIS FROWARD WAYS WITH HIS FATHER.
  
[“Surely as winter comes, shall I]
  
[“This jewel-strewer, O ground of gold]
  
[“Grettir has in such wise played]
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CHAPTER XVI. OF THE SLAYING OF SKEGGI.
  
[Of the Slaying of Skeggi.]
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CHAPTER XVII. OF GRETTIR'S VOYAGE OUT.
  
[“Rider of wind-driven steed]
  
[“Good luck, scurvy starvelings, if I should behold]
  
[“Otherwise would matters be]
  
[“Grettir, stand up from thy grave]
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CHAPTER XVIII. OF GRETTIR AT HARAMSEY AND HIS DEALINGS WITH KARR THE OLD.
  
[“Lessener of the flame of sea]
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CHAPTER XIX. OF YULE AT HARAMSEY, AND HOW GRETTIR DEALT WITH THE BEARSERKS.
  
[“By the sea's wash have we made]
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CHAPTER XXI. OF GRETTIR AND BIORN AND THE BEAR.
  
[“Oft that war-god came to hall]
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CHAPTER XXII. OF THE SLAYING OF BIORN.
  
[“In hard strife I slew the bear]
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CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE SLAYING OF GUNNAR, & GRETTIR'S STRIFE WITH EARL SVEIN.
  
[“To our helping came]
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CHAPTER XXVII. THE SUIT FOR THE SLAYING OF THORGILS MAKSON.
  
[“Mighty strife the warrior made]
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CHAPTER XXVIII. GRETTIR COMES OUT TO ICELAND AGAIN.
  
[“Prithee, Audun, who can tell]
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CHAPTER XXXI. HOW GRETTIR MET BARDI, THE SON OF GUDMUND, AS HE CAME BACK FROM THE HEATH-SLAYINGS.
  
[“My life trust I 'gainst three]
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CHAPTER XXXVII. OLAF THE SAINT, KING IN NORWAY; THE SLAYING OF THORBIORN TARDY; GRETTIR GOES TO NORWAY.
  
[“Day by day full over long]
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CHAPTER XL. OF GRETTIR AND SNŒKOLL.
  
[“There the shield that men doth save]
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CHAPTER XLVII. GRETTIR COMES OUT TO ICELAND AGAIN.
  
[“Heavy tidings thick and fast]
  
[“One that helm-fire well can wield]
  
[“Sawest thou him who did me harm]
  
[“Say to guard of deep-sea's flame]
  
[“What foreteller of spear-shower]
  
[“Who rode on my mare away?]
  
[“I did ride thy mare to Grim]
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CHAPTER XLVIII. THE SLAYING OF THORBIORN OXMAIN.
  
[“Giant's friend fell dead to earth]
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CHAPTER LII. HOW GRETTIR WAS TAKEN BY THE ICEFIRTH CARLES.
  
[“Ill luck to me]
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CHAPTER LIV. GRETTIR MEETS HALLMUND ON THE KEEL.
  
[“To the Kettle's side]
  
[“Too far on this luckless day]
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CHAPTER LVII. HOW THORIR OF GARTH SET ON GRETTIR ON ERNEWATERHEATH.
  
[Grettir's lay on Hallamind.]
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CHAPTER LIX. GISLI'S MEETING WITH GRETTIR.
  
[“In fighting ring where steed meets steed]
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CHAPTER LXI. HOW GRETTIR LEFT FAIR-WOOD-FELL, & OF HIS ABIDING IN THORIR'S-DALE
  
[“O thou warder of horn's wave]
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CHAPTER LXII. OF THE DEATH OF HALLMUND, GRETTIR'S FRIEND.
  
[“Now know I aright]
  
[“When I drew adown]
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CHAPTER LXIII. HOW GRETTIR BEGUILED THORIR OF GARTH WHEN HE WAS NIGH TAKING HIM.
  
[“Now make I no battle-field]
  
[“O wise sun of golden stall]
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CHAPTER LXVI. OF THE DWELLER IN THE CAVE UNDER THE FORCE.
  
[“There into gloomy gulf I passed]
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CHAPTER LXXIV. OF GRETTIR'S WRESTLING: AND HOW THORBIORN ANGLE NOW BOUGHT THE MORE PART OF DRANGEY.
  
[“I, well known to men, have been]
  
[“Raisers-up of roof of war]
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CHAPTER LXXVII. GRETTIR AT THE HOMESTEAD OF REEKS.
  
[“Stay a little, foolish one!]
  
[“Sweet amender of the seam]
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CHAPTER LXXXII. GRETTIR SINGS OF HIS GREAT DEEDS.
  
[“Doubtful played the foredoomed fate]
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CHAPTER LXXXVI. HOW THORBIORN ANGLE BROUGHT GRETTIR'S HEAD TO BIARG.
  
[“A greedy head I bring with me]
  
[“O thou poor wretch, as sheep that flee]
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CHAP. XC. HOW THE LADY SPES REDEEMED THORSTEIN FROM THE DUNGEON.
  
[“Field of rings, eight men, who raise]
  
[conclusion]
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VÖLSUNGA SAGA: THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS, WITH CERTAIN SONGS FROM THE ELDER EDDA.
  
A PROLOGUE IN VERSE
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CHAPTER VIII. THE DEATH OF KING SIGGEIR AND OF SIGNY.
  
[Sinfjotli sawed]
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CHAP. XIV. REGIN'S TALE OF HIS BROTHERS, AND THE GOLD CALLED ANDVARI'S HOARD.
  
[“‘What fish of all fishes]
  
[“‘Andvari folk call me]
  
[“‘Gold enow, good enow]
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CHAPTER XVII. OF SIGURD'S AVENGING OF SIGMUND HIS FATHER.
  
[“Hnikar I hight]
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CHAPTER XIX. OF THE SLAYING OF REGIN, SON OF HREIDMAR.
  
[The wood-peckers a-singing.]
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CHAPTER XX. OF SIGURD'S MEETING WITH BRYNHILD ON THE MOUNTAIN.
  
[What bit on the byrny]
  
[“Sigmund's son]
  
[“Long have I slept]
  
[“Beer bring I to thee]
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CHAPTER XXVII. THE WOOING OF BRYNHILD.
  
[Song.]
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CHAPTER XXVIII. HOW THE QUEENS HELD ANGRY CONVERSE TOGETHER AT THE BATHING.
  
[Song.]
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CHAP. XXIX. OF BRYNHILD'S GREAT GRIEF AND MOURNING.
  
[Song of Sigurd.]
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CHAPTER XXX. OF THE SLAYING OF SIGURD FAFNIR'S BANE.
  
[Song.]
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CHAPTER XXXI. OF THE LAMENTATION OF GUDRUN OVER SIGURD DEAD, AS IT IS TOLD IN THE ANCIENT SONGS.
  
[Gudrun of old days]
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CHAP. XXXIII. GUDRUN WEDDED TO ATLI.
  
[Song.]
  
[Song.]
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CHAPTER XLIII. THE LATTER END OF ALL THE KIN OF THE GIUKINGS.
  
[Song.]
  
[conclusion]
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CERTAIN SONGS FROM THE ELDER EDDA, WHICH DEAL WITH THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS
  
PART OF THE SECOND LAY OF HELGI HUNDING'S-BANE
  
PART OF THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA
  
THE LAY CALLED THE SHORT LAY OF SIGURD
  
THE HELL-RIDE OF BRYNHILD
  
FRAGMENTS OF THE LAY OF BRYNHILD
  
THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LAY OF GUDRUN
  
THE SONG OF ATLI
  
THE WHETTING OF GUDRUN
  
THE LAY OF HAMDIR
  
THE LAMENT OF ODDRUN
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VOLUME IX LOVE IS ENOUGH. POEMS BY THE WAY
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INTRODUCTION
  
[LOVE IS ENOUGH. OR, THE FREEING OF PHARAMOND.]
  
[WINTER.]
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LOVE IS ENOUGH; OR, THE FREEING OF PHARAMOND
  
LOVE IS ENOUGH
  
THE MUSIC
  
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THE MUSIC
  
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OF PHARAMOND THE FREED
  
THE MUSIC
  
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THE MUSIC
  
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THE MUSIC
  
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THE MUSIC
  
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THE MUSIC
  
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THE MUSIC
  
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POEMS BY THE WAY
  
FROM THE UPLAND TO THE SEA
  
OF THE WOOING OF HALLBIORN THE STRONG
  
ECHOES OF LOVE'S HOUSE
  
THE BURGHERS' BATTLE
  
HOPE DIETH: LOVE LIVETH
  
ERROR AND LOSS
  
THE HALL AND THE WOOD
  
THE DAY OF DAYS
  
TO THE MUSE OF THE NORTH
  
OF THE THREE SEEKERS
  
LOVE'S GLEANING-TIDE
  
THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND
  
A DEATH SONG
  
ICELAND FIRST SEEN
  
THE RAVEN AND THE KING'S DAUGHTER
  
SPRING'S BEDFELLOW
  
MEETING IN WINTER
  
THE TWO SIDES OF THE RIVER
  
LOVE FULFILLED
  
THE KING OF DENMARK'S SONS
  
ON THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS
  
A GARDEN BY THE SEA
  
MOTHER AND SON
  
THUNDER IN THE GARDEN
  
THE GOD OF THE POOR
  
LOVE'S REWARD
  
THE FOLK-MOTE BY THE RIVER
  
THE VOICE OF TOIL
  
GUNNAR'S HOWE ABOVE THE HOUSE AT LITHEND
  
THE DAY IS COMING
  
EARTH THE HEALER, EARTH THE KEEPER
  
ALL FOR THE CAUSE
  
PAIN AND TIME STRIVE NOT
  
DRAWING NEAR THE LIGHT
  
VERSES FOR PICTURES
  
FOR THE BRIAR ROSE
  
ANOTHER FOR THE BRIAR ROSE
  
THE WOODPECKER
  
THE LION
  
THE FOREST
  
POMONA
  
FLORA
  
THE ORCHARD
  
TAPESTRY TREES
  
THE FLOWERING ORCHARD
  
THE END OF MAY
  
THE HALF OF LIFE GONE
  
MINE AND THINE
  
THE LAY OF CHRISTINE
  
HILDEBRAND AND HELLELIL
  
THE SON'S SORROW
  
AGNES AND THE HILL-MAN
  
KNIGHT AAGEN & MAIDEN ELSE
  
HAFBUR AND SIGNY
  
GOLDILOCKS AND GOLDILOCKS
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VOLUME X THREE NORTHERN LOVE STORIES. THE TALE OF BEOWULF
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THREE NORTHERN LOVE STORIES AND OTHER TALES TRANSLATED FROM THE ICELANDIC BY EIRÍKR MAGNÚSSON AND WILLIAM MORRIS
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THE STORY OF GUNNLAUG THE WORM-TONGUE AND RAVEN THE SKALD
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CHAPTER I. OF THORSTEIN EGILSON & HIS KIN.
  
[“Bade I the middling mighty]
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CHAPTER VII. OF GUNNLAUG IN THE EAST AND THE WEST.
  
[“A courtman there is]
  
[“As God are all folk fearing]
  
[“Evil counselled art thou]
  
[“My ways must I be wending]
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CHAPTER VIII. OF GUNNLAUG IN IRELAND.
  
[“Swaru's steed]
  
[“Tell ye, staves of spear-din]
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CHAPTER XI. OF HOW GUNNLAUG MUST NEEDS ABIDE AWAY FROM ICELAND.
  
[“Light the weather wafteth]
  
[“He who brand of battle]
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CHAPTER XIII. OF THE WINTER-WEDDING AT SKANEY, AND HOW GUNNLAUG GAVE THE KING'S CLOAK TO HELGA.
  
[Raven.]
  
[Gunnlaug.]
  
[“God of wound-flames' glitter]
  
[“The fair-hued golden goddess]
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CHAPTER XIV. OF THE HOLMGANG AT THE ALTHING.
  
[Gunnlaug.]
  
[“Thou, singer, knowest not surely]
  
[“Born was she for men's bickering]
  
[“Moon of linen-lapped one]
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CHAP. XVI. HOW THE TWO FOES MET AND FOUGHT AT DINGNESS.
  
[“Grim and Olaf, great-hearts]
  
[“O thou sword-storm stirrer]
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CHAPTER XVII. THE NEWS OF THE FIGHT BROUGHT TO ICELAND.
  
[“Knew I of the hewing]
  
[“Red is the sword, but I now]
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE DEATH OF HELGA THE FAIR.
  
[“Dead in mine arms she droopeth]
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THE STORY OF FRITHIOF THE BOLD
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CHAPTER V. THOSE BRETHREN COME HOME AGAIN.
  
[“Now must I tell]
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CHAPTER VI. FRITHIOF SAILS FOR THE ORKNEYS.
  
[“Oft let I swim from Sogn]
  
[“Now is the sea a-swelling]
  
[“In days foredone]
  
[“The salt waves see we nought]
  
[“Helgi it is that helpeth]
  
[“So come in the West-sea]
  
[“With love-moved mouth the maiden]
  
[“No widow, methinks]
  
[“Sharp work about the sail was]
  
[“On bolster I sat]
  
[“Yet one gain have I gotten]
  
[“Both sheets are bursten]
  
[“The red ring here I hew me]
  
[“See I troll women]
  
[“Ellidi, hail!]
  
[“No need, fair fellows]
  
[“Fast bare I up]
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CHAPTER VII. FRITHIOF AT THE ORKNEYS.
  
[“Men see I a-baling]
  
[“Take up from the floor]
  
[“Nay, nay, in nought]
  
[“There baled we, wight fellows]
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CHAP. IX. FRITHIOF BRINGS THE TRIBUTE TO THE KINGS.
  
[“Frank and free]
  
[“All alone go I]
  
[“Have here thy scat]
  
[“The heavy purse smote Helgi]
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CHAPTER X. FRITHIOF MADE AN OUTLAW.
  
[“Young Ingibiorg]
  
[“Sail we away from Sogn]
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CHAPTER XI. FRITHIOF FARETH TO SEE KING RING AND INGIBIORG.
  
[“Peace-thief they called me]
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CHAP. XIV. KING RING'S GIFT TO FRITHIOF.
  
[“Have great thanks for the guesting]
  
[“Oh, live, King Ring]
  
[“Fare not away]
  
[“Nay, how from thine hands]
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THE STORY OF VIGLUND THE FAIR
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CHAPTER V. THE WEDDING OF OLOF SUNBEAM.
  
[“Sure glad ring-warder singeth]
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CHAPTER XI. THE BREWING OF A WITCH-STORM
  
[No more now may my eyen meet the sea ungreeting]
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CHAPTER XII. OF HAKON THE EAST-MAN.
  
[“Young now I shall not ever]
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CHAPTER XIV. KETILRID BETROTHED TO HAKON.
  
[“Stem where the gathered gold meets]
  
[“I would abide the bale-fire]
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CHAPTER XVII. THE PARTING OF VIGLUND AND KETILRID.
  
[“Maiden, my songs remember]
  
[“A little way I led him]
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CHAPTER XX. VIGLUND COMES OUT TO ICELAND AGAIN.
  
[“The linen-oak bath-lovely]
  
[“Behold the hill whereunder]
  
[“Ketilrid her carle bade]
  
[“The fight-grove of Van's fire]
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CHAPTER XXI. GUESTING AT GAUTWICK.
  
[“Nought shall I say thee lie now]
  
[“Never, burnt-rings' breaker]
  
[“My friend, mind here the maiden]
  
[“The white hands' ice-hill's wearer]
  
[“O battles' thunder-bearer]
  
[“Again to-day gold-goddess]
  
[“O slender sweet, O fair-browed]
  
[“Friend, watch and ward now hold thou]
  
[“Another man's wife love I]
  
[“Sweet linen-bride, full seldom]
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CHAPTER XXII. A WEDDING AT GAUTWICK.
  
[Whoso thinketh this good game]
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THE TALE OF HOGNI AND HEDINN
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CHAP.IV. SORLI SLAYETH KING HALFDAN.
  
[[The Sorli-Song]]
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THE TALE OF BEOWULF SOMETIME KING OF THE FOLK OF THE WEDER GEATS. TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM MORRIS AND A. J. WYATT
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THE STORY OF BEOWULF
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I. AND FIRST OF THE KINDRED OF HROTHGAR.
 II. 
II. CONCERNING HROTHGAR, AND HOW HE BUILT THE HOUSE CALLED HART. ALSO GRENDEL IS TOLD OF.
 III. 
III. HOW GRENDEL FELL UPON HART AND WASTED IT.
 IV. 
IV. NOW COMES BEOWULF ECGTHEOW'S SON TO THE LAND OF THE DANES, AND THE WALL-WARDEN SPEAKETH WITH HIM.
 V. 
V. HERE BEOWULF MAKES ANSWER TO THE LAND-WARDEN, WHO SHOWETH HIM THE WAY TO THE KING'S ABODE.
 VI. 
VI. BEOWULF AND THE GEATS COME INTO HART.
 VII. 
VII. BEOWULF SPEAKETH WITH HROTHGAR, AND TELLETH HOW HE WILL MEET GRENDEL.
 VIII. 
VIII. HROTHGAR ANSWERETH BEOWULF AND BIDDETH HIM SIT TO THE FEAST.
 IX. 
IX. UNFERTH CONTENDETH IN WORDS WITH BEOWULF.
 X. 
X. BEOWULF MAKES AN END OF HIS TALE OF THE SWIMMING. WEALHTHEOW, HROTHGAR'S QUEEN, GREETS HIM; AND HROTHGAR DELIVERS TO HIM THE WARDING OF THE HALL.
 XI. 
XI. NOW IS BEOWULF LEFT IN THE HALL ALONE WITH HIS MEN.
 XII. 
XII. GRENDEL COMETH INTO HART: OF THE STRIFE BETWIXT HIM AND BEOWULF.
 XIII. 
XIII. BEOWULF HATH THE VICTORY: GRENDEL IS HURT DEADLY AND LEAVETH HAND AND ARM IN THE HALL.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE DANES REJOICE; THEY GO TO LOOK ON THE SLOT OF GRENDEL, & COME BACK TO HART, AND ON THE WAY MAKE MERRY WITH RACING AND THE TELLING OF TALES.
 XV. 
XV. KING HROTHGAR AND HIS THANES LOOK ON THE ARM OF GRENDEL. CONVERSE BETWIXT HROTHGAR AND BEOWULF CONCERNING THE BATTLE.
 XVI. 
XVI. HROTHGAR GIVETH GIFTS TO BEOWULF.
 XVII. 
XVII. THEY FEAST IN HART. THE GLEEMAN SINGS OF FINN AND HENGEST.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. THE ENDING OF THE TALE OF FINN.
 XIX. 
XIX. MORE GIFTS ARE GIVEN TO BEOWULF. THE BRISING COLLAR TOLD OF.
 XX. 
XX. GRENDEL'S DAM BREAKS INTO HART AND BEARS OFF AESCHERE.
 XXI. 
XXI. HROTHGAR LAMENTS THE SLAYING OF AESCHERE, AND TELLS OF GRENDEL'S MOTHER AND HER DEN.
 XXII. 
XXII. THEY FOLLOW GRENDEL'S DAM TO HER LAIR.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. BEOWULF REACHETH THE MERE-BOTTOM IN A DAY'S WHILE, AND CONTENDS WITH GRENDEL'S DAM.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. BEOWULF SLAYETH GRENDEL'S DAM, SMITETH OFF GRENDEL'S HEAD, AND COMETH BACK WITH HIS THANES TO HART.
 XXV. 
XXV. CONVERSE OF HROTHGAR WITH BEOWULF.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. MORE CONVERSE OF HROTHGAR AND BEOWULF: THE GEATS MAKE THEM READY FOR DEPARTURE.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. BEOWULF BIDS HROTHGAR FAREWELL: THE GEATS FARE TO SHIP.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. BEOWULF COMES BACK TO HIS LAND. OF THE TALE OF THRYTHO.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. BEOWULF TELLS HYGELAC OF HROTHGAR: ALSO OF FREAWARU HIS DAUGHTER.
 XXX. 
XXX. BEOWULF FOREBODES ILL FROM THE WEDDING OF FREAWARU: HE TELLS OF GRENDEL AND HIS DAM.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. BEOWULF GIVES HROTHGAR'S GIFTS TO HYGELAC, AND BY HIM IS REWARDED. OF THE DEATH OF HYGELAC AND OF HEARDRED HIS SON, AND HOW BEOWULF IS KING OF THE GEATS: THE WORM IS FIRST TOLD OF.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. HOW THE WORM CAME TO THE HOWE, & HOW HE WAS ROBBED OF A CUP; AND HOW HE FELL ON THE FOLK.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. THE WORM BURNS BEOWULF'S HOUSE, AND BEOWULF GETS READY TO GO AGAINST HIM. BEOWULF'S EARLY DEEDS IN BATTLE WITH THE HETWARE TOLD OF.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. BEOWULF GOES AGAINST THE WORM. HE TELLS OF HEREBEALD AND HÆTHCYN.
 XXXV. 
XXXV. BEOWULF TELLS OF PAST FEUDS, AND BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS FELLOWS: HE FALLS ON THE WORM, AND THE BATTLE OF THEM BEGINS.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. WIGLAF SON OF WEOHSTAN GOES TO THE HELP OF BEOWULF: NÆGLING, BEOWULF'S SWORD, IS BROKEN ON THE WORM.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. THEY TWO SLAY THE WORM. BEOWULF IS WOUNDED DEADLY: HE BIDDETH WIGLAF BEAR OUT THE TREASURE.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. BEOWULF BEHOLDETH THE TREASURE AND PASSETH AWAY.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. WIGLAF CASTETH SHAME ON THOSE FLEERS.
 XL. 
XL. WIGLAF SENDETH TIDING TO THE HOST: THE WORDS OF THE MESSENGER.
 XLI. 
XLI. MORE WORDS OF THE MESSENGER. HOW HE FEARS THE SWEDES WHEN THEY WOT OF BEOWULF DEAD.
 XLII. 
XLII. THEY GO TO LOOK ON THE FIELD OF DEED.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. OF THE BURIAL OF BEOWULF.
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VOLUME XII THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG AND THE FALL OF THE NIBLUNGS
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INTRODUCTION
  
[THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG AND THE FALL OF THE NIBLUNGS.]
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THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG AND THE FALL OF THE NIBLUNGS
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BOOK I. SIGMUND
  
OF THE DWELLING OF KING VOLSUNG, AND THE WEDDING OF SIGNY HIS DAUGHTER.
  
HOW THE VOLSUNGS FARED TO THE LAND OF THE GOTHS, AND OF THE FALL OF KING VOLSUNG.
  
OF THE ENDING OF ALL VOLSUNG'S SONS SAVE SIGMUND ONLY, AND OF HOW HE ABIDETH IN THE WILD WOOD.
  
OF THE BIRTH AND FOSTERING OF SINFIOTLI, SIGNY'S SON.
  
OF THE SLAYING OF SIGGEIR THE GOTH-KING.
  
HOW SIGMUND COMETH TO THE LAND OF THE VOLSUNGS AGAIN, AND OF THE DEATH OF SINFIOTLI HIS SON.
  
OF THE LAST BATTLE OF KING SIGMUND, AND THE DEATH OF HIM.
  
HOW KING SIGMUND THE VOLSUNG WAS LAID IN MOUND ON THE SEA-SIDE OF THE ISLE-REALM.
  
HOW QUEEN HIORDIS IS KNOWN; AND HOW SHE ABIDETH IN THE HOUSE OF ELF THE SON OF THE HELPER.
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BOOK II. REGIN
  
OF THE BIRTH OF SIGURD THE SON OF SIGMUND.
  
SIGURD GETTETH TO HIM THE HORSE THAT IS CALLED GREYFELL.
  
REGIN TELLETH SIGURD OF HIS KINDRED, & OF THE GOLD THAT WAS ACCURSED FROM ANCIENT DAYS.
  
OF THE FORGING OF THE SWORD THAT IS CALLED THE WRATH OF SIGURD.
  
OF GRIPIR'S FORETELLING.
  
SIGURD RIDETH TO THE GLITTERING HEATH.
  
SIGURD SLAYETH FAFNIR THE SERPENT.
  
SIGURD SLAYETH REGIN THE MASTER OF MASTERS ON THE GLITTERING HEATH.
  
HOW SIGURD TOOK TO HIM THE TREASURE OF THE ELF ANDVARI.
  
HOW SIGURD AWOKE BRYNHILD UPON HINDFELL.
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BOOK III. BRYNHILD
  
OF THE DREAM OF GUDRUN THE DAUGHTER OF GIUKI.
  
HOW THE FOLK OF LYMDALE MET SIGURD THE VOLSUNG IN THE WOODLAND.
  
HOW SIGURD MET BRYNHILD IN LYMDALE.
  
OF SIGURD'S RIDING TO THE NIBLUNGS.
  
OF SIGURD'S WARFARING IN THE COMPANY OF THE NIBLUNGS, AND OF HIS GREAT FAME AND GLORY.
  
OF THE CUP OF EVIL DRINK THAT GRIMHILD THE WISE-WIFE GAVE TO SIGURD.
  
OF THE WEDDING OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG.
  
SIGURD RIDETH WITH THE NIBLUNGS, & WOOETH BRYNHILD FOR KING GUNNAR.
  
HOW BRYNHILD WAS WEDDED TO GUNNAR THE NIBLUNG.
  
OF THE CONTENTION BETWIXT THE QUEENS.
  
GUNNAR TALKETH WITH BRYNHILD.
  
OF THE EXCEEDING GREAT GRIEF & MOURNING OF BRYNHILD.
  
OF THE SLAYING OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG.
  
OF THE MIGHTY GRIEF OF GUDRUN OVER SIGURD DEAD.
  
OF THE PASSING AWAY OF BRYNHILD.
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BOOK IV. GUDRUN
  
KING ATLI WOOETH AND WEDDETH GUDRUN.
  
ATLI BIDDETH THE NIBLUNGS TO HIM.
  
HOW THE NIBLUNGS FARE TO THE LAND OF KING ATLI.
  
ATLI SPEAKETH WITH THE NIBLUNGS.
  
OF THE BATTLE IN ATLI'S HALL.
  
OF THE SLAYING OF THE NIBLUNG KINGS.
  
THE ENDING OF GUDRUN.
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VOLUME XIV THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS. THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN
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A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS AND ALL THE KINDREDS OF THE MARK WRITTEN IN PROSE AND IN VERSE BY WILLIAM MORRIS
  
[WHILES IN THE EARLY WINTER EVE]
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CHAPTER II. THE FLITTING OF THE WAR-ARROW.
  
[“Welcome, thou evening-farer, and holy be thine head]
  
[“Forth will we Wolfing children, and cast a sound abroad]
  
[“Now Wolfing children hearken, what the splintered War-shaft saith]
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CHAPTER III. THIODOLF TALKETH WITH THE WOOD-SUN.
  
[“We wrought in the ring of the hazels, and the wine of war we drank]
  
[“Nay, nay; I began, I was born; although it may be indeed]
  
[“In what land is she abiding? Is she near or far away?]
  
[“In many a stead Doom dwelleth, nor sleepeth day nor night]
  
[“I have deemed, and long have I deemed that this is my second life]
  
[“O mighty man and joyous, art thou of the Wolfing kin?]
  
[“In forty fights hast thou foughten, and been worsted but in four]
  
[“For thy fair love I thank thee, and thy faithful word, O friend!]
  
[“Keen-edged is the sword of the city, and bitter is its spear]
  
[“O Wood-Sun, thou wottest our battle and the way wherein we fare]
  
[“O Folk-wolf, heed and hearken; for when shall thy life be spent]
  
[“God's Daughter, long hast thou lived, and many a matter seen]
  
[“Yea, I that am God's Daughter may tell thee never a whit]
  
[“What evil thing abideth with this warder of the strife]
  
[“No ill for thee, beloved, or for me in the hauberk lies]
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CHAPTER IV. THE HOUSE FARETH TO THE WAR.
  
[“O Warriors of the Wolfings by the token of the flame]
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CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE HALL-SUN.
  
[“Hail, Hall-Sun of the Markmen! how fares it now with thee]
  
[“It fares with me, O mother, that my soul would fain go forth]
  
[“From a far folk have I wandered and I come of an alien blood]
  
[“Yea true it is, I am wedded to the mighty ones of old]
  
[“How glad shall be thy mother of thy worship and thy worth]
  
[“None knoweth who is my mother, nor my very father's name]
  
[“Yea, I have heard the story, but scarce therein might I trow]
  
[“Yea; thus much I remember for the first of my memories]
  
[“Nay damsel, long would I hearken to thy voice this summer day.]
  
[I awoke on a time in the even, and voices I heard as I woke]
  
[“I waxed 'neath the Roof of the Wolfings, till now to look upon]
  
[“Why went ye forth, O Wolfings, from the garth your fathers built]
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CHAPTER VI. THEY TALK ON THE WAY TO THE FOLK-THING.
  
[The South-Welsh Lay.]
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CHAPTER VIII. THE FOLK-MOTE OF THE MARKMEN.
  
[“O kindreds of the Markmen, hearken the words I say]
  
[“Lo thus much of my tidings! But this too it behoveth to tell]
  
[“Lo I am a man of the Shieldings and Geirmund is my name]
  
[“O men of the Mark, will ye meet them in the meadows and the field]
  
[“O kindreds of the Markmen; to-morrow with the day]
  
[“Now sunder we the Folk-mote! and the feast is for to-night]
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CHAPTER IX. THE ANCIENT MAN OF THE DAYLINGS.
  
[“How dear is the head of the mighty, and the apple of the tree]
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CHAPTER XI. THE HALL-SUN SPEAKETH.
  
[“Hear ye a matter, maidens, and ye Wolfing women all]
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CHAPTER XIII. THE HALL-SUN SAITH ANOTHER WORD.
  
[“The days of the world thrust onward, and men are born therein]
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CHAPTER XV. THEY HEAR TELL OF THE BATTLE ON THE RIDGE.
  
[“There are men through the dusk a-faring, our speech-friends and our kin]
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CHAPTER XVI. HOW THE DWARF-WROUGHT HAUBERK WAS BROUGHT AWAY FROM THE HALL OF THE DAYLINGS.
  
[“What then are the Gods devising, what wonders do they will?]
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CHAPTER XVII. THE WOOD-SUN SPEAKETH WITH THIODOLF.
  
[“I have dwelt a while with sorrow since we met, we twain, in the wood]
  
[“I am Thiodolf the Mighty: but as wise as I may be]
  
[“Nay thou shalt be dead, O warrior, thou shalt not see the Hall]
  
[“Not on earth shall I learn this wisdom; and how shall I learn it then]
  
[“O Thiodolf, now tell me for what cause thou wouldst not bear]
  
[“Hail be thy mouth, beloved, for that last word of thine]
  
[“Two things by these blue edges in the face of the dawning I swear]
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CHAPTER XIX. THOSE MESSENGERS COME TO THIODOLF.
  
[“White horse, with what are ye laden as ye wade the shallows warm]
  
[“O sun, pale up in heaven, shrink from us if thou wilt]
  
[“What do ye sons of the War-shield? what tale is there to tell?]
  
[“Still cold with dewin the morning the Shielding Roof-ridge stands]
  
[“O sons of Tyr, ye have vanquished, and sore hath been your pain]
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CHAPTER XX. OTTER AND HIS FOLK COME INTO MID-MARK.
  
[“Rideth lovely along]
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CHAPTER XXII. OTTER FALLS ON AGAINST HIS WILL.
  
[“Now red and grey is the pavement of the Bearings' house of old]
  
[“We sought the feast-hall over, and nought we found therein]
  
[“Ye tarry, Bears of Battle! ye linger, Sons of the Worm!]
  
[“Time was when hot was the summer and I was young on the earth]
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CHAPTER XXVI. THIODOLF TALKETH WITH THE WOOD-SUN.
  
[“Two griefs I see before me in mighty hearts grown great]
  
[“Thou sayest sooth, O daughter: I am no God of might]
  
[“Dear now are this dawn-dusk's moments as is the last of the light]
  
[“Here then the tale of the Hauberk and the truth there is to tell]
  
[“Lo, here art thou forgiven; and here I say farewell!]
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CHAPTER XXVII. THEY WEND TO THE MORNING BATTLE.
  
[“So fare we, O my daughter, to the sundering of the ways]
  
[“Though to-day the grief beginneth yet the bitterness is done.]
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CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THE STORM OF DAWNING.
  
[“Hear ye a word, O people, of the wisdom of the toe!]
  
[“Now, now, ye War-sons!]
  
[Song of Victory.]
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CHAPTER XXIX. OF THIODOLF'S STORM.
  
[“Now the latest hour cometh and the ending of the strife]
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CHAPTER XXX. THIODOLF IS BORNE OUT OF THE HALL AND OTTER IS LAID BESIDE HIM.
  
[“O warriors of the Wolfings, by the token of the flame]
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CHAPTER XXXI. OLD ASMUND SPEAKETH OVER THE WAR-DUKES: THE DEAD ARE LAID IN MOUND.
  
[“O Otter, there thou liest! and thou that I knew of old]
  
[“Wild the storm is abroad]
  
[“Now wendeth the sun westward, and weary grows the Earth]
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THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN OR THE LAND OF LIVING MEN
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CHAPTER VII. A FEAST IN THE ISLE OF RANSOM.
  
[The land lies black]
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CHAPTER XVII. HALLBLITHE AMONGST THE MOUNTAINS.
  
[Whence are ye and whither, O fowl of our fathers?]
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CHAPTER XVIII. HALLBLITHE DWELLETH IN THE WOOD ALONE.
  
[Fair is the world, now autumn's wearing]
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CHAPTER XIX. HALLBLITHE BUILDS HIM A SKIFF.
  
[I am the oak-tree, and forsooth]
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CHAPTER XXI. OF THE FIGHT OF THE CHAMPIONS IN THE HALL OF THE RAVAGERS.
  
[Now waneth spring]
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VOLUME XV THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS
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INTRODUCTION
  
[THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAIN.]
  
THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS WHEREIN IS TOLD SOMEWHAT OF THE LIVES OF THE MEN OF BURGDALE, THEIR FRIENDS THEIR NEIGHBOURS THEIR FOEMEN AND THEIR FELLOWS IN ARMS BY WILLIAM MORRIS
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CHAPTER III. THEY TALK OF DIVERS MATTERS IN THE HALL.
  
THE MINSTREL SAITH
  
THE MAIDENS ANSWER
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CHAPTER VI. OF FACE-OF-GOD AND THOSE MOUNTAIN DWELLERS.
  
[The Mountain-song.]
  
[The Song of the Ford.]
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CHAPTER IX. THOSE BRETHREN FARE TO THE YEW-WOOD WITH THE BRIDE.
  
[The Bride's Song.]
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CHAPTER XV. MURDER AMONGST THE FOLK OF THE WOODLANDERS.
  
[The Song of the Weaving of the Banner.]
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CHAPTER XX. THOSE TWO TOGETHER HOLD THE RING OF THE EARTH-GOD.
  
[The Maiden's Lifting.]
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CHAPTER XXIX. THEY BRING THE RUNAWAYS TO BURGSTEAD.
  
[The Song of Spring-tide.]
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CHAPTER XXXIV. THE CHIEFTAINS TAKE COUNSEL IN THE HALL OF THE FACE.
  
[Earth-wielders, that fashion the Dale-dwellers' treasure]
  
[It was but a while since for earth's sake we trembled]
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CHAPTER XXXVII. OF THE FOLK-MOTE OF THE DALESMEN, THE SHEPHERD-FOLK, AND THE WOODLAND CARLES: THE BANNER OF THE WOLF DISPLAYED.
  
[The Song of the Wolf.]
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CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE GREAT FOLK-MOTE: MEN TAKE REDE OF THE WAR-FARING, THE FELLOWSHIP, AND THE WARLEADER. FOLK-MIGHT TELLETH WHENCE HIS PEOPLE CAME. THE FOLK-MOTE SUNDERED.
  
[“O Men of the Dale and the Sheepcotes, I will do as ye bid me do]
  
[“Hearken a wonder, O Folk of the Field]
  
[“It is sooth that my Brother sayeth, and that now again we wend]
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CHAPTER XLI. THE HOST DEPARTETH FROM SHADOWY VALE: THE FIRST DAY'S JOURNEY.
  
[The Song of the Sword Unsheathed.]
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CHAPTER XLIV. OF THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE MEN OF THE STEER, THE BRIDGE, AND THE BULL.
  
[A song of onset of the Kindreds of the Upper Dale.]
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CHAPTER XLV. OF FACE-OF-GOD'S ONSLAUGHT.
  
[A Song of the harvest.]
  
[The Song of the Woodland Wolf.]
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CHAPTER XLVIII. MEN SING IN THE MOTE-HOUSE.
  
[Now raise we the lay]
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CHAPTER LI. THE DEAD BORNE TO BALE: THE MOTE-HOUSE RE-HALLOWED.
  
[The Song of returning.]
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CHAPTER LV. DEPARTURE FROM SILVERDALE.
  
[Back again to the dear Dale where born was the kindred]
  
[And yet what is this, and why fare ye so slowly]
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CHAPTER LVIII. HOW THE MAIDEN WARD WAS HELD IN BURGDALE.
  
[The sun will not tarry; now changeth the light]
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VOLUME XVI NEWS FROM NOWHERE. A DREAM OF JOHN BALL. A KING'S LESSON
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A DREAM OF JOHN BALL
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CHAPTER II. THE MAN FROM ESSEX.
  
[Song.]
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CHAPTER VIII. SUPPER AT WILL GREEN'S.
  
[“On a fair field of France]
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VOLUME XVII THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD. CHILD CHRISTOPHER. OLD FRENCH ROMANCES
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INTRODUCTION
  
CHILD CHRISTOPHER
  
THE ORDINATION OF KNIGHTHOOD
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VOLUME XXI THE SUNDERING FLOOD. UNFINISHED ROMANCES
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INTRODUCTION
  
[MAN BORN TO BE KING.]
  
[THE LADY OF THE WASTED LAND.]
  
[A TALE OF PLANTAGENETS.]
  
[FRAGMENT FROM QUARTO NOTE-BOOK.]
  
THE WILLOW AND THE RED CLIFF
  
[POEM BY THE WAY.]
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THE SUNDERING FLOOD
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CHAPTER III. WOLVES HARRY THE FLOCK.
  
[All grey on the bent]
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CHAPTER V. OSBERNE SLAYS THE WOLVES.
  
[On the wind-weary bent]
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CHAPTER VI. THEY FARE TO THE CLOVEN MOTE.
  
[The stave against Surly John.]
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CHAPTER VII. OF A NEWCOMER, AND HIS GIFT TO OSBERNE.
  
[A shaft to the north]
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CHAPTER X. OSBERNE AND ELFHILD HOLD CONVERSE TOGETHER.
  
[Now the grass groweth free]
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CHAPTER XVII. THE SLAYING OF HARDCASTLE.
  
[Came sword and shield]
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CHAPTER XXIX. OSBERNE AND HIS MEN RETURN TO WETHERMEL.
  
[The War-god's gale]
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CHAPTER XXXVI. THE STAVES WHICH OSBERNE TAUGHT TO THE DALESMEN.
  
[The Song of the Dale.]
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CHAPTER XXXVII. OSBERNE TAKES LEAVE OF WETHERMEL.
  
[From the Wethermel reek]
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UNFINISHED ROMANCES
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THE FOLK OF THE MOUNTAIN DOOR
  
[Erst was the earth]
  
[Spring came of old]
  
[King, hast thou thought]
  
[Pour, white-armed ones]
  
[Wide is the land]
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THE STORY OF THE FLOWER
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VOLUME XXIV SCENES FROM THE FALL OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS AND FRAGMENTS
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EARLY POEMS
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SCENES FROM THE FALL OF TROY
  
HELEN ARMING PARIS
  
THE DEFIANCE OF THE GREEKS
  
HECTOR'S LAST BATTLE
  
HECTOR BROUGHT DEAD TO TROY
  
ACHILLES' LOVE-LETTER
  
HELEN'S CHAMBER
  
HELEN'S CHAMBER
  
THE DESCENT FROM THE WOODEN HORSE
  
HELEN AND MENELAUS
  
ONCE MY FELL FOE
  
THE LONG LAND
  
THE ROMANCE OF THE THREE WOOERS
  
ST AGNES' CONVENT
  
PALOMYDES' QUEST
  
BALLAD
  
WE HAVE DONE ALL THAT MEN COULD DO
  
SAINT GEORGE
  
TWAS IN CHURCH ON PALM SUNDAY
  
BLANCHE
  
WINTER WEATHER
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POEMS OF THE EARTHLY PARADISE TIME (About 1865-1870)
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THE WANDERERS
  
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SONG
  
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SONG
  
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[section]
  
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THE PEOPLE OF THE SHORE
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THE STORY OF ARISTOMENES
  
HOW THEY CAME TO LACONIA
  
HOW THEY CAME TO MESSENIA
  
HOW THEY MADE A STRONGHOLD ON THE HILL OF IRA
  
OF THEIR FIRST BATTLE
  
HOW ARISTOMENES SAW SPARTA AND CAME TO ITHOME
  
HOW THEY WOULD HAVE MADE ARISTOMENES A KING
  
TRUCE WITH SPARTA: THE YEARS GET OVER
  
THE DREAM OF GLAUCE
  
THE STORY OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
  
THE WOOING OF SWANHILD
  
IN ARTHUR'S HOUSE
  
[ANTHONY]
  
WRITTEN IN A COPY OF THE EARTHLY PARADISE, DEC. 25, 1870
  
VERSES FOR THE MONTHS EARTHLY PARADISE
  
HAPLESS LOVE
  
THE MOTHER UNDER THE MOULD
  
SAD-EYED AND SOFT AND GREY
  
RHYME SLAYETH SHAME
  
MAY GROWN A-COLD
  
AS THIS THIN THREAD
  
SONG
  
WHY DOST THOU STRUGGLE
  
O FAR AWAY TO SEEK
  
OUR HANDS HAVE MET
  
FAIR WEATHER AND FOUL
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LATE POEMS
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THE PILGRIMS OF HOPE
 I. 
[I.] THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND
 II. 
II. THE BRIDGE AND THE STREET.
 III. 
III. SENDING TO THE WAR.
 IV. 
IV. MOTHER AND SON.
  
[section]
 V. 
V. NEW BIRTH.
 VI. 
VI. THE NEW PROLETARIAN.
  
[section]
 VII. 
VII. IN PRISON—AND AT HOME.
 VIII. 
VIII. THE HALF OF LIFE GONE.
 IX. 
IX. A NEW FRIEND.
 X. 
X. READY TO DEPART.
 XI. 
XI. A GLIMPSE OF THE COMING DAY.
 XII. 
XII. MEETING THE WAR-MACHINE.
 XIII. 
XIII. THE STORY'S ENDING.
  
NO MASTER
  
THE MARCH OF THE WORKERS
  
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
  
MAY DAY
  
MAY DAY, 1894
  
FOR THE BED AT KELMSCOTT

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The Author to the Reader

Think, listener, that I had the luck to stand,
Awhile ago within a flowery land,
Fair beyond words; that thence I brought away
Some blossoms that before my footsteps lay,
Not plucked by me, not over-fresh or bright;
Yet, since they minded me of that delight,
Within the pages of this book I laid
Their tender petals, there in peace to fade.
Dry are they now, and void of all their scent
And lovely colour, yet what once was meant
By these dull stains, some men may yet descry
As dead upon the quivering leaves they lie.
Behold them here, and mock me if you will,
But yet believe no scorn of men can kill
My love of that fair land wherefrom they came,
Where midst the grass their petals once did flame.
Moreover, since that land as ye should know,
Bears not alone the gems for summer's show,
Or gold and pearls for fresh green-coated spring,
Or rich adornment for the flickering wing
Of fleeting autumn, but hath little fear
For the white conqueror of the fruitful year;
So in these pages month by month I show
Some portion of the flowers that erst did blow
In lovely meadows of the varying land,
Wherein erewhile I had the luck to stand.
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