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Lyrics of Nature, Art and Love. By Francis William Bourdillon

Bourdillon, Francis William (1852-1921)

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I.

Part I Art and Nature

The Shelley Memorial

An Artist's Litany

When Music Dies

The Myriad-Mother

Poeta atque Navis

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II.

Love's Largesse

Mother-of-Pearl

The Words of Lovers

Darkening Years

A Rippled Stone

A Butterfly on a Glacier

After their Year

“Where all Love's Pilgrims come”

What is Love but a Dreamer?

The Song-Master

The Herald-Flower

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Lost Leaves of the Greek Anthology

[Halcyon, by the gods' decree]

[From earthy crust]

[A feeble hand can spoil the flowers]

(With a mirror)

[So sweet is my love's name that all]

[Woman is like the Sea, y-wis]

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Part III Man's Love

In Inferno Sustulit Oculos

In Exitu Amoris

A Song of Farewell

Omens and Dreams

Visa Mihi Veritas

The Word after Farewell

Ask of the Nightingale

Any Man to any Woman

A Man's Question

The Bird and the Beacon

The Story of a Lover's Soul

The Poisoned Butterfly

Finis sine Fine

The Happy Spring

The Magic Maiden

Earth has Forgotten

A Rondel of the Ivy-Leaf

A Rondel of Absence

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IV.

Part IV Maiden's Love

The Story of the Rose

To-day He Loves Me

“Si vous croyez que je vais dire.”

Ce que vivent les Roses.

A Woman's Question

A Story heard on a Violin

Planctus Displicentis

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[Woman is like the Sea, y-wis]

Woman is like the Sea, y-wis
That changes every hour, but is
The same through all the centuries.

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