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My Lyrical Life
Poems Old and New. By Gerald Massey
Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)
1.
FIRST SERIES.
Dedication.
A GREETING.
PREFATORY POEM.
BABE CHRISTABEL.
COUSIN WINNIE.
HESPER.
APOLOGUES.
THE YOUTH AND THE ANGEL.
SUNBEAM AND ROSE.
LOVE-LONGING.
THE NEST.
HUNT THE SQUIRREL.
THE GLOW-WORM.
THE SUNKEN CITY.
HOW IT SEEMS.
THE WILD-FLOWER.
THE BIRD OF MORN.
A BIRD OF NIGHT.
THE LADY OF LIGHT.
LITTLE PEARL.
THE MAIDEN MARRIAGE.
THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF.
AN APOLOGUE.
IN MEMORIAM.
CARMINA NUPTIALIA.
ANCIENT EGYPT.
EGYPTIAN ELYSIUM.
THE KRONIAN GODS.
PROTOPLASM.
A POET'S LOVE-LETTER.
A LETTER IN BLACK.
WIDOW MARGARET.
PICTURES IN THE FIRE.
SONGS.
2.
SECOND SERIES.
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My Lyrical Life
LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER.
You
say in front
our
Pitfalls wait
Agape to engulf us soon or late;
And open-eyed we face our fate!
We say
your
Pitfalls lurk behind,
And, driven backward, you will find
In falling you must go it blind!
My Lyrical Life