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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait

Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)

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I.

Idyls and Legends of Inverburn.

Miscellaneous Poems.

North Coast, and other Poems.

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Sonnets WRITTEN BY LOCH CORUISK, ISLE OF SKYE.

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CORUISKEN SONNETS.

I.

I. Lord, is it Thou?

II.

II. We are Fatherless.

III.

III. We are Children.

IV.

IV. When we are all Asleep.

V.

V. But the Hills will bear Witness.

VI.

VII.

VII. Lord, art Thou here?

VIII.

VIII. God is Beautiful.

IX.

IX. The Motion of the Mists.

X.

XI.

XI. But Whither?

XII.

XII. God is Pitiless.

XIII.

XIII. Yea, Pitiless.

XIV.

XIV. Could God be Judged.

XV.

XV. The Hills on their Thrones.

XVI.

XVI. King Blaabhein.

XVII.

XVII. Blaabhein in the Mists.

XVIII.

XVIII. The Fiery Birth of the Hills.

XIX.

XIX. The Changeless Hills.

XX.

XX. O Mountain Peak of a God.

XXI.

XXI. God the Image.

XXII.

XXII. The Footprints.

XXIII.

XXIII. We are Deathless.

XXIV.

XXIV. A Voice in the Whirlwind.

XXV.

XXV. Cry of the Little Brook.

XXVI.

XXVI. The Happy Hearts of Earth.

XXVII.

XXVII. Father, forgive Thy Child.

XXVIII.

XXVIII. God's Loneliness.

XXIX.

XXIX. The Cup of Tears.

XXX.

XXX. The Light of the World.

XXXI.

XXXI. Earth's Eldest Born.

XXXII.

XXXII. What Spirit Cometh?

XXXIII.

XXXIII. Stay, O Spirit!

XXXIV.

XXXIV. Quiet Waters.

The Book of Orm.

Political Mystics.

Songs of the Terrible Year.

Saint Abe and his Seven Wives.

II.

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As thro' the Town of Vanity I trod,
I heard one calling in the name of God,
And turning I beheld a wan-eyed wight,
Clad in a garment that had once been bright,
Who, while a few pale children gathered round,
Did plant his faded Peepshow on the ground.
Trembling the children|peep'd; and lingering nigh,
E'en thus I heard the ragged Showman cry:—