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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

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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’

A PRESIDING EXAMINER

JEREMIAH AT THE CHESHIRE CHEESE

SHELLEY AT OXFORD

PSEUDONYM LIBRARY

III.

PART III TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

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JEREMIAH AT THE CHESHIRE CHEESE

O Heart of man!
What ills torment, what passions tear
The heart of man!
We Rhymers, gathered in a clan,
Disconsolate, aghast, declare
Thy burden is too hard to bear
O Heart of man!