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The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang

Edited by Mrs. Lang
Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)

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Vol. I
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I OXFORD AND ST. ANDREWS
  
Almæ Matres
  
Freshman's Term
  
Ballade of the Summer Term
  
‘Oh, what should I do there’
  
The Singing Rose
  
A Toast
  
St. Andrews Bay
  
The End of the Term
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II SCOTLAND
  
Ballade of his own Country
  
Grass of Parnassus
  
A Galloway Garland
  
A Sunset on Yarrow
  
Ballade of the Tweed
  
April on Tweed
  
Twilight on Tweed
  
Ballant o' Ballantrae
  
Ballade of his Choice of a Sepulchre
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III LOYAL LYRICS AND DEEDS OF MEN
  
White Rose Day
  
The Tenth of June, 1715
  
The Prince's Birthday
  
How they Held the Bass for King
  
Kenmure
  
Culloden
  
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
  
Lone Places of the Deer
  
Red and White Roses
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Three Portraits of Prince Charles
  
1731
  
1744
  
1773
  
An Old Song
  
Jacobite ‘Auld Lang Syne’
  
The Last of the Leal
  
A Scot to Jeanne d'Arc
  
Jeanne d'Arc
  
How the Maid marched from Blois
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DEEDS OF MEN
  
Seekers for a City
  
The White Pacha
  
Midnight, January 25, 1886
  
England
  
Advance, Australia
  
Colonel Burnaby
  
Melville and Coghill
  
To Colonel Ian Hamilton
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IV HESPEROTHEN
  
The Seekers for Phæacia
  
A Song of Phæacia
  
The Departure from Phæacia
  
A Ballade of Departure
  
They Hear the Sirens for the Second Time
  
Circe's Isle Revisited
  
The Limit of Lands
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V BOOKS
  
To the Gentle Reader
  
Ballade of the Book-hunter
  
Ballade of the Bookman's Paradise
  
To F. L.-L.
  
The Rowfant Books
  
Verses inscribed in the Supplement to the Rowfant Catalogue
  
Doris's Books
  
Ode on the Distant Prospect of a New Novel
  
A Mes Livres
  
From Colletet
  
Ballade of Railway Novels
  
The Property of a Gentleman who has given up Collecting.
  
Beauty and the Beast
  
Ballade of his Books
  
Ballade of the Unattainable
  
Ballade of the Bookworm
  
Old Friends
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VI HIS FRIENDS OLD AND YOUNG
  
Clevedon Church
  
To E. M. S.
  
Tusitala
  
To Robert Louis Stevenson
  
Once Again
  
Ballade Dedicatory
  
E. C. S.
  
L'Envoi
  
Desiderium
  
In Augustinum Dobson
  
Ballade of Summer
  
Ode to Mr. Saintsbury
  
To Louisa Viscountess Wolseley
  
Introductory Verses
  
For Mark Twain's Jubilee
  
She
  
To R. L. S.
  
With a Fairy Book
  
To D. R. T.
  
To Master Frederick Longman
  
To Francis McCunn
  
To Joan, Toddles, and Tiny: otherwise Meg and Maisie
  
To Miss Sybil Corbet
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VII BALLADES
  
At the Sign of the Ship
  
Ballade of Literary Fame
  
Ballade of the Primitive Jest
  
Ballade of Sleep
  
Ballade of the Girton Girl
  
Ballade of the Penitents
  
Ballade to Theocritus, in Winter
  
Ballade of Difficult Rhymes
  
Ballade of Blue China
  
Ballade of Middle Age
  
Ballade of the Voyage to Cythera
  
Ballade of Aucassin
  
Ballade of a Friar
  
Ballade of Neglected Merit
  
Ballade of Autumn
  
Ballade of True Wisdom
  
Valentine in Form of Ballade
  
Ballade of Old Plays
  
Ballade of Life
  
Ballade of the Southern Cross
  
Double Ballade of Primitive Man
  
Ballade of the Dream
  
Ballade of Queen Anne
  
Ballade of the Real and Ideal
  
Ballade of Yule
  
Ballade against the Jesuits
  
Ballade of Dead Cities
  
Ballade of the Wicked Earl
  
Ballade for the Laureate
  
Ballade of the Midnight Forest
  
Ballade of Cleopatra's Needle
  
Ballade of Æsthetic Adjectives
  
Ballade for a Baby
  
Ballade of the Muse
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Vol. II
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VIII SONNETS
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The Sonnet
  
In Ithaca
  
Homer
  
Homeric Unity
  
The Odyssey
  
A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty
  
Two Homes
  
San Terenzo
  
Love's Easter
  
Twilight
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Two Sonnets of the Sirens
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II
  
Herodotus in Egypt
  
Metempsychosis
  
An Old Garden
  
A Star in the Night
  
Love's Miracle
  
Dreams
  
Lost in Hades
  
Natural Theology
  
To Izaak Walton
  
Lines after Wordsworth
  
The Spinet
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CAMEOS
  
Cameos
  
Helen on the Walls
  
The Isles of the Blessed
  
Death
  
Nysa
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Colonus
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II
  
The Passing of Œdipus
  
The Taming of Tyro
  
To Artemis
  
Criticism of Life
  
The Cannibal Zeus
  
Amaryllis
  
Invocation of Isis
  
The Coming of Isis
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TO POETS
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I Jacques Tahureau
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II François Villon
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III Pierre Ronsard
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IV Gérard de Nerval
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V The Death of Mirandola
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IX GAMES AND SPORT
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Ballade of the Three Graces
  
A Ballade of Mourning
  
The Old Cricketer's Lament
  
Death in June
  
Brahma
  
Ballade of Dead Cricketers
  
To Helen
  
Ballade of Cricket
  
[A hope for the hopeless lips to frame]
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GOLF
  
A Song of Life and Golf
  
Ode to Golf
  
Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf
  
Off my Game
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Ballade of Roulette
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FISHING
  
Piscatori Piscator
  
The Contented Angler
  
The Last Cast
  
Shameful Death
  
Piscatrix
  
The Salmo Irritans
  
The Last Chance
  
Scots Wha
  
The Philosophy of Fly-fishing
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X GHOSTS AND KINDRED SUBJECTS
  
The Haunted Homes of England
  
Ghosts in the Library
  
Gainsborough Ghosts
  
Ballade of a Choice of Ghosts
  
The Disappointment
  
The Haunted Tower
  
The Ballade of the Subconscious Self
  
Song by the Subconscious Self
  
Ballade of Christmas Ghosts
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XI PICTURES and BUSTS
  
A Nativity of Sandro Botticelli
  
The Lille Bust
  
Ideal
  
A Portrait of 1783
  
Benedetta Ramus
  
Colinette
  
A Sunset of Watteau
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Vol. III
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XIII BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS
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The Three Captains
  
The Bridge of Death
  
Le Père Sévère
  
A Lady of High Degree
  
For a Rose's Sake
  
The Fragment of the Fause Lover and the Dead Leman
  
The Brigand's Grave
  
The Sudden Bridal
  
Iannoula
  
The Milk-White Doe
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FOLK SONGS
  
French Peasant Songs
  
The Tell-Tales
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XIV MISCELLANEOUS
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On the Death of Lord Tennyson
  
Our Fathers
  
Scythe Song
  
Tired of Towns
  
Pen and Ink
  
Disillusions of Astronomy
  
Zimbabwe
  
A Review in Rhyme
  
The Banks of Wye
  
An Aspiration
  
Tout finit par des Chansons
  
A Dream
  
The Grave of Orpheus
  
The Melancholy Muses
  
Νηνεμος Αιων
  
The Old Love and the New
  
A Remonstrance with the Fair
  
The Lover in Hades
  
Lord Rosebery loquitur
  
A Song of Patents
  
Fairyland
  
Omar Khayyam
  
Waitin' on the Glesca' Train
  
The Shade of Helen
  
Love and Wisdom
  
Good-bye
  
Christmas Violets
  
The Nemesis of Art
  
Legion
  
Sylvie et Aurélie
  
The Tournay of the Heroes
  
Gallia
  
The Fairy Minister
  
To Correspondents
  
Partant pour la Scribie
  
The Fairy's Gift
  
Villanelle
  
Woman and the Weed
  
Another Way
  
Valé
  
To Fiona
  
Lines on the Inaugural meeting of The Shelley Society
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A New Shakespere
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RICHARD III
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ACT I.
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SCENE I London: a Street.
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SCENE II. The Same.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
  
Ronsard's Grave
  
The Barbarous Bird-gods: A Savage Parabasis
  
Pisidicé
  
Villanelle
  
Man and the Ascidian
  
In Tintagel
  
Romance
  
‘A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts.’
  
Love the Vampire
  
The Last Maying
  
A Jubilee Ode
  
The Fortunate Islands
  
William Nye's Experiment
  
From the East to the West
  
Love's Cryptogram
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Rococo
  
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The New Orpheus to his Eurydice
  
The Mythologist and Psyche
  
A Bric-à-Brac Lyre
  
To Lord Byron
  
The Friend of Man
  
The Temple of Bosh
  
The Member for Crete
  
Chinook and Chinok
  
Summer's Ending
  
Matrimony
  
Ye Ministers of England
  
A Dialogue
  
On Calais Sands
  
An Old Prayer
  
A Lost Path
  
From Omar Khayyám
  
Disdainful Diaphenia
  
Celia's Eyes
  
The Daughters of Cecrops
  
The Restoration of Romance
  
Boat Song
  
Æsop
  
Les Roses de Sâdi
  
Central American Antiquities
  
Tall Salmacis
  
The New Blondel
  
The Promise of Helen
  
Rhyme of Rhymes
  
Ballad of the (School-Board) Fleet
  
The Philanthropist
  
On an Expensive Volume of Verse
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JUBILEE POEMS
  
What Francesco said of the Jubilee
  
The Poet and the Jubilee
  
On any Beach
  
Ode of Jubilee
  
Jubilee before Revolution
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Vol. IV
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XV HELEN OF TROY
  
[To all old friends; to all who dwell]
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Book I
  
THE COMING OF PARIS
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BOOK II
  
THE SPELL OF APHRODITE
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BOOK III
  
THE FLIGHT OF HELEN
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BOOK IV
  
THE DEATH OF CORYTHUS
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BOOK V
  
THE WAR
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BOOK VI
  
THE SACK OF TROY. THE RETURN OF HELEN
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XVI SONGS FROM ‘THE WORLD'S DESIRE’ AND ‘CLEOPATRA’
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From ‘THE WORLD'S DESIRE’
  
Invitation
  
The Song of the Bow
  
‘Though the light of the sun be bidden’
  
‘The Lord our God’
  
A lamp for our feet
  
Lost Love
  
‘Endure my Heart’
  
‘O Joy of love's renewing’
  
‘Will ye bring Flame’
  
Palinode
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FROM ‘CLEOPATRA’
  
Lament for Osiris
  
The Awaking of Osiris
  
‘Night on the Sea’
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EPILOGUE
  
The Poet's Apology

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The Fairy's Gift

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‘Take short views.’—Sydney Smith.

The fays that to my christ'ning came
(For come they did, my nurses taught me,
They did not bring me wealth or fame—
'Tis very little that they brought me.
But one, the crossest of the crew,
The ugly old one, uninvited,
Said, ‘I shall be avenged on you,
My child; you shall grow up short-sighted!’
With magic juices did she lave
Mine eyes, and wrought her wicked pleasure.
Well, of all gifts the fairies gave,
Hers is the present that I treasure!
The bore whom others fear and flee,
I do not fear—I do not flee him;
I pass him calm as calm can be;
I do not cut—I do not see him!
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And with my feeble eyes and dim,
Where you see patchy fields and fences,
For me the mists of Turner swim—
My ‘azure distance’ soon commences!
Nay, as I blink about the streets
Of this befogged and miry city,
Why, almost every girl one meets
Seems preternaturally pretty!
‘Try spectacles,’ one's friends intone;
‘You'll see the world correctly through them.’
But I have visions of my own,
And not for worlds would I undo them.
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