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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston

Marston, Philip Bourke (1850-1887)

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TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON.
  
TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON.
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SONG-TIDE.
  
PRELUDE.
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 1. 
SONNET I. A GREETING.
 II. 
SONNET II. THE LAST BETROTHED.
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SONNET III. WEDDED GRIEF.
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SONNET IV. UNUTTERED THOUGHTS.
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SONNET V. A LAKE.
 VI. 
SONNET VI. ANTICIPATION.
 VII. 
SONNET VII. TOO NEAR.
 VIII. 
SONNET VIII. THE LAST LOOK.
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SONNET IX. A VAIN WISH.
 X. 
SONNET X. LOVE AND FORGETFULNESS.
 XI. 
SONNET XI. A SUMMER DREAM.
 XII. 
SONNET XII. KNOWN TOO WELL.
 XIII. 
SONNET XIII. EXPIATION.
 XIV. 
SONNET XIV. BITTER GIFTS.
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SONNET XV. LOVE'S DESPERATION.
 XVI. 
SONNET XVI. A POEM.
 XVII. 
SONNET XVII. A MESSAGE TO THE SEA.
 XVIII. 
SONNET XVII. LOVE'S STRENGTH.
 XIX. 
SONNET XIX. LOVE'S WEAKNESS.
 XX. 
SONNET XX. A DAY'S SECRET.
 XXI. 
SONNET XXI. PERSISTENT MUSIC.
 XXII. 
SONNET XXII. SIX MONTHS AGO.
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SONNET XXIII. LOVE'S CONQUEROR.
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SONNET XXIV. THE WIND'S MESSAGE.
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SONNET XXV. BRIEF REST.
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SONNET XXVI. AT DAWN.
 XXVII. 
SONNET XXVII. DIVINE PITY.
 XXVIII. 
SONNET XXVIII. TWILIGHT VIGIL.
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SONNET XXIX. REMEMBERED WORDS.
 XXX. 
SONNET XXX. DE PROFUNDIS.
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SONNET XXXI. LOVE'S YEARNINGS.
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SONNET XXXII. VAIN LOVE.
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SONNET XXXIII. ASSOCIATIONS.
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SONNET XXXIV. BEFORE SEVERING.
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SONNET XXXV. RETROSPECT.
 XXXVI. 
SONNET XXXVI. BODY AND SOUL.
 XXXVII. 
SONNET XXXVII. DISTANT LIGHT.
 XXXVIII. 
SONNET XXXVIII. WHY DO I LOVE?
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SONNET XXXIX. BEFORE MEETING.
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SONNET XL. WASTED STRENGTH.
 XLI. 
SONNET XLI. LOVE'S SELFISHNESS.
 XLII. 
SONNET XLII. LOVE'S MAGNETISM.
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SONNET XLIII. LOVE'S SHRINES.
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SONNET XLIV. SEVERED FOREVER.
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SONNET XLV. LOVE PAST UTTERANCE.
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SONNET XLVI. UNSOLVED.
 XLVII. 
SONNET XLVII. HOPELESS LOVE.
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SONNET XLVIII. SONNETS TO A VOICE.
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SONNET XLIX. SONNETS TO A VOICE.
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SONNET L. SONNETS TO A VOICE.
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SONNET LI. A VISION OF DAYS.
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SONNET LII. PARTING WORDS.
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SONNET LIII. PRESENTIMENT.
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SONNET LIV. LOVE AND HOPE.
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SONNET LV. LOVE'S MUSIC.
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SONNET LVI. SUMMER'S RETURN.
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SONNET LVII. FINIS.
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GARDEN SECRETS.
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POEMS.
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
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ALL IN ALL.
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WIND-VOICES.
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A LAST HARVEST.
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AFTERMATH.

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TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON.

Sweet Poet, thou of whom these years that roll
Must one day yet the burdened birthright learn,
And by the darkness of thine eyes discern
How piercing was the sight within thy soul, —
Gifted, apart, thou goest to the great goal,
A cloud-bound, radiant spirit, strong to earn,
Light-reft, that prize for which fond myriads yearn
Vainly, light-blest, — the Seer's aureole.
And doth thine ear, divinely dowered to catch
All spheral sounds in thy song blent so well,
Still hearken for my voice's slumbering spell
With wistful love? Oh, let the muse now snatch
My wreath for thy young brows, and bend to watch
Thy veiled transfiguring sense's miracle!
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.
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