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In Cornwall and Across the Sea

With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen

Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1856-1947)

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TO THE COUNTESS OF PORTSMOUTH,

PART I. IN CORNWALL.

ALICE OF THE LEA.

THF BELLS OF FORRABURY.

ST IVES, CORNWALL.

THE MERMAID OF ZENNOR—A BALLAD.

THE CAPTIVE RIVER.

SIR TRISTRAM AT TINTAGEL.

CORNISH SONNETS.

CORNWALL.

SONNETS OF THE CORNISH MOORS.

ON THE CORNISH MOORS.

CASTLE CHUN.

RIALOBRAN, THE SON OF CUNOVAL.

SONNETS OF MOUNTS BAY.

ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT, CORNWALL, AT SUNSET.

ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT BY MOONLIGHT.

TO A YOUNG AUSTRALIAN LADY E. M. S.

SONNETS OF THE LAND'S END.

THE LAND'S END.

SENNEN—THE VILLAGE UPON THE LAND'S END.

VELLANDREATH—WHITESAND BAY.

SONNETS OF THE LIZARD.

TO THE LIZARD.

SONNETS OF ARTURIAN CORNWALL.

TINTAGEL.

[Not Camelot the towered—the goodly town]

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS WRITTEN IN CORNWALL.

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY'S SEAT, GULVAL CARN.

TO E. M. S. AFTER A TOUR IN CORNWALL.

SYLVIA.

THE LEGEND OF THE LILY AND THE ROSE.

II.

PART II. ACROSS THE SEA.

MELBOURNE. January 1880.

IN MEMORIAM.—SIR CHARLES SLADEN, K.C.M.G.

GORDON'S TOMB.

MELBOURNE.

THE SOUTH-SEA VOYAGER.

UPON THE S.S. “BALLAARAT.”

AT PLYMOUTH.

ICHABOD.

TWO YEARS OLD TO-DAY.

AN OLD ROMANCE.

THE VALSE.

THE GENTLEMAN-DROVER'S GOOD-BYE.

THE QUEEN OF HEARTS.

THE SIGH OF THE SHOUTER.

TO G. E. MORRISON, Esq.,

AT WINDSOR, NEW SOUTH WALES, IN WINTER.

COOPER OF TUMUT,

A BALLAD OF WATTLE-BLOSSOM.

LIGHT AND SHADE.

THEMISTOCLES

WORDSWORTH'S “TWO VOICES.”

III.

PART III. POEMS WRITTEN IN LONDON.

THE EXILE'S RETURN.

THE POET.

“MAMMON AND POESY;”

IV.

PART IV. POEMS WRITTEN IN DEVONSHIRE CHIEFLY AT TORQUAY.

A BALLAD OF PLEASURE.

A BALLAD OF PAIN.

A BALLAD OF A GRAVEYARD.

MAIDENHOOD

UNDER THE MISTLETOE.

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II.

III.

KING CHARLIE.

TO A LADY ON HER TWENTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY.

A TALE OF TWO COLLEGES.

A LEGEND OF THE SABBATH.

THE LOST POEM.

PATRIOTIC POEMS.

A LETTER FROM GORDON.

PRAYING FOR GORDON.

GORDON IS DEAD.

“ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA!”

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

PERICLES.

MARGARET OF SCOTLAND.

THE SONNET'S SCANTY PLOT.

OXFORD, THE GRAND UNDOER.

ADDENDA.

THE DEDICATION OF “A SUMMER CHRISTMAS.”

THE STARRY SISTERS.

FORSTER'S “MIDAS.”

TO SIR SAMUEL WILSON,

TO J. HENNIKER HEATON, Esq.

PRIMROSE DAY.

WAR.

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SYLVIA.

Sylvia are you, gentle Lady?
Rightly Sylvia, recalling
Sunlight through the foliage shady,
Cleft by morning breezes, falling.

Sylvia are you? Woodland flowers
Are as delicate as moon-light,
With no brightness and no powers
Like the heather and the noon-light.

But the noon-light and the heather,
Spite of all their strength and splendour,
Cannot match, the two together,
With the Wind-flow'r's beauty tender.