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Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments

By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers
Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901)

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STANZAS ON SHELLEY
  
TO TENNYSON
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EARLY POEMS
  
SAINT PAUL
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THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH AND OTHER POEMS
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POEMS FROM “FRAGMENTS OF PROSE AND POETRY”
  
RETROSPECT
  
VENICE
  
[In dreams the heart is waking]
  
[O God, no proper place I see]
  
[Thro' what new world, this happy hour]
  
DVM MEMOR IPSE MEI
  
ODE TO NATURE
  
TO LADY MOUNT TEMPLE
  
ON A WINDOW IN DONINGTON CHURCH
  
IAMQVE VALE
  
SLEEP
  
FEROR INGENTI CIRCUMDATA NOCTE
  
FROM ALFRED DE MUSSET
  
[Oh, when thro' all the crowd she came]
  
[O waving veil of shade and sun!]
  
MADEIRA
  
“FAERY LANDS FORLORN”
  
SILVIA
  
TO ALICE'S PICTURE
  
[“Soul, that in some high world hast made]
  
GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES
  
[When in late twilight slowly thou hast strayed]
  
[She wears her body like a veil]
  
[And all is over; and again I stand]
  
IN THE WOLSEY CHAPEL, WINDSOR
  
[O rock and torrent, lake and hill]
  
WIND, MOON, AND TIDES
  
SOLOMON
  
[And thou too knew'st her, friend! thy lot hath been]
  
A CHILD OF THE AGE
  
[What heart with waiting broken]
  
SUNRISE
  
[Oh stars in heaven that fade and flame]
  
[I wailed as one who scarce can be forgiven]
  
BRIGHTON
  
HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD
  
ASHRIDGE
  
[Not even in death thou diest; so strong to save]
  
[Let each alone with timely thought]
  
[Love, they said, is faint and dying]
  
FREDERIC TEMPLE
  
IMMORTALITY
  
PALLIDA MORTE FUTURA
  
FROM BRUTE TO MAN
  
A COSMIC HISTORY
  
A COSMIC OUTLOOK
  
TO THE QUEEN
  
THE SAINT
  
[I knew a man in early days]
  
[Oh fair and fleet with eager feet]
  
[O bear it, bear it, lonely heart]
  
[In that still home, while Tyne went murmuring by]
  
[Nay, would'st thou know her? let thine hid heart declare]
  
THE GENESIS OF A MISSIONARY
  
A WHITE WITCH
  
FINAL PERSEVERANCE
  
FRIENDSHIP AND HOPE
  
PRAYER
  
[O God, how many years ago]
  
[O that the sorrowful joy, that the fears and the tumult of loving]
  
[I am tired of all the years can give]

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A PRAYER

O for one minute hark what we are saying!
This is not pleasure that we ask of Thee!
Nay, let all life be weary with our praying,
Streaming of tears and bending of the knee:—
Only we ask thro' shadows of the valley
Stay of thy staff and guiding of thy rod,
Only, when rulers of the darkness rally,
Be thou beside us, very near, O God!
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