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Voices and visions

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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WOLFE AT QUEBEC

BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER

THE OLD NOVELIST'S MONOLOGUE

BASILICA SAN PIETRO

THE TWILIGHT OF POETRY

AN IDYL OF THE SLUMS

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I ONE TOUCH OF NATURE

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[II A thousand years ago]

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III HOME-COMING

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IV ENCOURAGEMENT

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[VI O Prejudice, thou spider shrewd]

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[VII There are three ways God might reveal Himself]

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[VIII If, after many a year of cold eclipse]

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[IX Imperious to the dying rose rang forth]

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X A VISION OF PROGRESS

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[XI To the ivy said the oak]

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[XII We greet with quickening pulse the story]

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XIII THE OUTLOOK

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[XIV So many of us are dead before we die]

SLEEP AND DEATH

HYDE PARK ON SUNDAY

THE DAWN OF ETHICS

WHOM THE GODS LOVE

‘BLEST BE THAT PATRIOT’

LOVE'S LITTLE DIARY

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

BORROWED PLUMES

A MILLIONAIRE'S FUNERAL

A VENETIAN HONEYMOON

A BOY'S THOUGHTS OF LIFE

LANDSCAPE IN SOME OTHER PLANET

PAVEMENT PICTURES

WAYNE AT BRANDYWINE

TO ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

TO A YOUNG VERSIFIER

NOCTES DOLOROSAE

ŒDIPUS AND THE SPHINX

ANNORUM RECENTIORUM

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TO A COQUETTE

They laud to-night your dark eyes' diamond thrall,
Your lily of hand or rose of lip. ... And yet
Some trick of lamplight on the gilded wall
Has made your shadow a hag's gaunt silhouette.