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Old and New

A Collection of Poems. By Ernest Radford

Radford, Ernest (fl.1880-1920)

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I.

PART I FROM THE VOLUME OF 1882

READER TO NOVELIST

CAMBRIDGE ROWING, 1874-8

IN THE ‘LONG’

CAMBRIDGE LODGINGS, 1877

MORAL FRAGMENTS

ART AND RELIGION IN CAMBRIDGE, 1874-78

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II.

PART II LIGHT VERSE

IDYLL OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

MY LADY NICOTINE

‘OLD BOYS’ AT AMERSHAM HALL

INCIDENT OF THE OFFICE

LATTER-DAY SONG

THE BOOK OF THE RHYMERS' CLUB

‘SOME EMOTIONS AND A MORAL’

BY GERARD DOW

A PRESIDING EXAMINER

JEREMIAH AT THE CHESHIRE CHEESE

SHELLEY AT OXFORD

PSEUDONYM LIBRARY

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III.

PART III TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

MOTHER EARTH AND THE NEW WOMAN

SONG IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT

PLYMOUTH HARBOUR

MY LOVE: WHERE ART THOU?

IN ACCOUNT WITH TIME

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

TO A SWEET SINGER

AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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PICTURES BY FLORENCE SMALL

I.

II.

AN UNFINISHED PORTRAIT

TO WILLIAM THOMPSON

IN A BACHELOR'S GARDEN

A SCIENCE OF HISTORY

IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

TO JOSEPH SKIPSEY

R. A. LEDWARD, SCULPTOR

THE PROTEST OF SPRING

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68

BY GERARD DOW

True, true, very true; but you see
It's useless to argue with me.
Ascetical scruples? Fiddle-dee-dee!
She's there, in the Dresden gallery—
‘A girl with a candle’—19c—
And any one, worthy to loosen her sandal,
Would give, though a belted earl,
His total possessions to blow out her candle,
I tell you, and kiss that girl!