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Robert Louis Stevenson: Collected Poems

Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Janet Adam Smith
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

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POEMS 1869–1879
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UNDERWOODS
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BALLADS
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SONGS OF TRAVEL
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POEMS 1880–1894
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DEDICATIONS AND POEMS FROM BOOKS
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LIGHT VERSE
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III To Charles Baxter
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IV Ne Sit Ancillae Tibi Amor Pudori
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V Poem for a Class Re-union
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VI Browning
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VII On an Inland Voyage
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VIII Dedication
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IX On Some Ghostly Companions at A Spa
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X Brasheanna
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XI To A. G. Dew-Smith
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XIII
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XVI To Time
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XVII Fragment
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XVIII Burlesque Sonnet To Æneas William Mackintosh
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XIX Rhymes to Henley
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XX Epitaphs
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XXI The Fine Pacific Islands
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XXII To Henry James
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XXIII Athole Brose
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POEMS FOR CHILDREN

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XVIII
Burlesque Sonnet To Æneas William Mackintosh

Thee, Mackintosh, artificer of light,
Thee, the lone smoker hails! the student, thee;
Thee, oft upon the ungovernable sea,
The seaman, conscious of approaching night;
Thou, with industrious fingers, hast outright
Mastered that art, of other arts the key,
That bids thick night before the morning flee.
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And lingering day retains for mortal sight.
O Promethean workman, thee I hail,
Thee hallowed, thee unparalleled, thee bold
To affront the reign of sleep and darkness old,
Thee William, thee Æneas, thee I sing;
Thee by the glimmering taper clear and pale,
Of light, and light's purveyance, hail, the king.
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