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Poems by Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb]
With Portrait engraved by E. Stodart ... in two volumes
Fane, Violet (1843-1905)
[epigraph]
1.
VOLUME THE FIRST
1872. EARLY POEMS.
TO HIM.
WRITTEN ON SAND.
“OH, SING THAT SONG YOU SANG BEFORE!”
“SPEAK OF THE PAST.”
“FOR EVER AND FOR EVER!”
THE SECRET.
A THOUGHT.
BURNING LETTERS.
HIS NAME.
THE COQUETTE.
“I LIVE MY LIFE AWAY FROM THEE!”
NEW YEAR'S DAY.
MY KING.
IN YEARS TO COME.
SO LATE!
LOVE IN WINTER.
“HE WILL NOT COME!”
ON A GLOOMY DAY.
MY RECORDS.
LONDON.
“TOUT VIENT À QUI SAIT ATTENDRE.”
“AFTER LONG YEARS.”
COMPENSATION.
BEFORE AND AFTER.
NOW.
1876
THE SHRINE OF THE THREE KINGS.
A LAWLESS CREED.
THE KISS.
THE PLAIN WOMAN.
REST.
THE RIDDLE.
A MEMORY.
TO TIME.
TO A GARDEN.
1880.
A REVERIE.
“GOING SOUTH.”
TOO LATE!
A FOREBODING.
TO A COUNTRY DAFFODIL.
A MAY SONG.
A REGRET.
THE KINGFISHER.
A WEDDING.
“IN GREEN OLD GARDENS.”
“IF ONLY WE HAD TIME TO SPARE.”
UNDER A LATTICE.
WAITING.
THE SILENT PLAYER.
DIVIDED.
ANOTHER SPRING.
THE PEAR-TREE.
“DOLCE FAR NIENTE.”
AT MIDNIGHT.
IN AN IRISH CHURCHYARD.
THE POET.
“TILL ALL THINGS FADE.”
AT TWILIGHT.
2.
VOLUME THE SECOND
1880.
THE CENTENARIAN.
A LETTER.
THE GHOST STORY.
TIME.
AFTERWARDS.
1889
THE SCARAB.
LIFE'S AFTERNOON.
CONTRASTS.
TWO PICTURES.
VICTORIA.
LINES UPON A STATUETTE REPRESENTING LOVE AND DEATH.
THE MER-BABY.
THE LAMENT OF A WHITE ROSE.
A CHANCE LIKENESS.
CLARA.
HAZELY HEATH.
SOUVENIR.
AN EGOTIST'S CREED.
AN EQUINOCTIAL GALE.
ON CHRISTMAS-EVE.
WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF “THE WORKS OF SHENSTONE,”
A FABLE.
SONG.
SNOW AT CHRISTMAS.
“SHE WILL NOT WAKE!”
A MAY MEETING.
THE GUEST-CHAMBER.
THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED.
FALSE OR TRUE?
IN MEMORIAM.
A HOMELESS LOVE.
SIX SONNETS.
I.
I. CONCENTRATION.
II.
II. LOVE'S VANITY.
III.
III. UNCERTAINTY.
IV.
IV. THE SLAVE TURNED TYRANT.
V.
V. THE VOW.
VI.
VI. THE VOW BROKEN.
MEMORIES.
A WISH.
THE BEST AND THE WORST.
1890–2.
THE LAST WORDS OF DON CARLOS.
“FIN DE SIECLE.”
THE OLD ROCKING HORSE.
FIRST LOVE.
BY THE SEA.
AN “OLD, OLD STORY.”
TO THE BIRDS.
A WIFE'S CONFESSION.
THE DORMOUSE.
A LATTER-DAY MARTYR.
TO A NEW SUNDIAL.
BY THE INDIAN MAIL.
ALL SOULS' DAY.
AT THE CLOSE OF A YEAR.
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Poems by Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb]