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The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson

Edited, with an introduction, by Desmond Flower
Dowson, Ernest Christopher (1867-1900)

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PART I LYRICAL POETRY
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PART II DRAMATIC AND EPIC POETRY
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THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE
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EPIGRAM

Because I am idolatrous and have besought,
With grievous supplication and consuming prayer,
The admirable image that my dreams have wrought
Out of her swan's neck and her dark, abundant hair:
The jealous gods, who brook no worship save their own,
Turned my live idol marble and her heart to stone.
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