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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.
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