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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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VERSES
  
IN PREFACE: FOR ADELAIDE
  
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam.
  
A CORONAL
  
NUNS OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION
  
VILLANELLE OF SUNSET
  
MY LADY APRIL
  
TO ONE IN BEDLAM
  
AD DOMNULAM SUAM
  
AMOR UMBRATILIS
  
AMOR PROFANUS
  
VILLANELLE OF MARGUERITES
  
YVONNE OF BRITTANY
  
BENEDICTIO DOMINI
  
GROWTH
  
AD MANUS PUELLAE
  
FLOS LUNAE
  
NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE
  
VANITAS
  
EXILE
  
SPLEEN
  
O MORS! QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA HOMINI PACEM HABENTI IN SUBSTANTIIS SUIS
  
[You would have understood me, had you waited]
  
APRIL LOVE
  
VAIN HOPE
  
VAIN RESOLVES
  
A REQUIEM
  
BEATA SOLITUDO
  
TERRE PROMISE
  
AUTUMNAL
  
IN TEMPORE SENECTUTIS
  
VILLANELLE OF HIS LADY'S TREASURES
  
GRAY NIGHTS
  
VESPERAL
  
THE GARDEN OF SHADOW
  
SOLI CANTARE PERITI ARCADES
  
ON THE BIRTH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD
  
EXTREME UNCTION
  
AMANTIUM IRAE
  
IMPENITENTIA ULTIMA
  
A VALEDICTION
  
SAPIENTIA LUNAE
  
[Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad]
  
SERAPHITA
  
EPIGRAM
  
QUID NON SPEREMUS, AMANTES?
  
CHANSON SANS PAROLES
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DECORATIONS:
  
BEYOND
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IN VERSE
  
DE AMORE
  
THE DEAD CHILD
  
CARTHUSIANS
  
THE THREE WITCHES
  
VILLANELLE OF THE POET'S ROAD
  
VILLANELLE OF ACHERON
  
SAINT GERMAIN-EN-LAYE
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AFTER PAUL VERLAINE
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I
  
TO HIS MISTRESS
  
JADIS
  
IN A BRETON CEMETERY
  
TO WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS ON HIS RENAISSANCE CLOAK
  
THE SEA-CHANGE
  
DREGS
  
A SONG
  
BRETON AFTERNOON
  
VENITE DESCENDAMUS
  
TRANSITION
  
EXCHANGES
  
TO A LADY ASKING FOOLISH QUESTIONS
  
RONDEAU
  
MORITURA
  
LIBERA ME
  
TO A LOST LOVE
  
WISDOM
  
IN SPRING
  
A LAST WORD
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HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEMS
  
TO CYNARA
  
A MOSAIC
  
REQUIEM
  
POTNIA THEA
  
RONDEAU
  
RONDEAU
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SONNETS
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in memoriam. H.C. ob. Feb. 24, 1886
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NOVALIS
  
OF A LITTLE GIRL
  
LA JEUNESSE N'A QU'UN TEMPS
  
SONG OF THE XIXTH CENTURY
  
A LULLABY
  
SPLEEN
  
AFTER MANY YEARS
  
PRAETERITA
  
ADIOS!
  
SERAPHITA—SERAPHITUS
  
IT IS FINISHED
  
ERE I GO HENCE
  
TRANSIT GLORIA
  
SONNET
  
AWAKENING
  
LULLABY
  
THE OLD YEAR
  
THE NEW YEAR
  
FROM THE ICELANDIC
  
LOVE'S EPILOGUE
  
RONDEAU
  
ROUNDEL
  
RONDEL
  
Discedam, explebo numerum, reddarque tenebris, I decus, i, nostrum; melioribus utere fatis.
  
AGAINST MY LADY BURTON:
  
THE REQUITAL
  
A LETTER FROM M.M. VERSIFIED OUT OF POOR PROSE INTO CATCHPENNY VERSE!
  
[In the days of the good, gay people]
  
[As his own Arthur fared across the mere]
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HITHERTO UNCOLLECTED POEMS
  
THE PASSING OF TENNYSON
  
FANTASIE TRISTE
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PART II DRAMATIC AND EPIC POETRY
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THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE
  
The Moon Maiden's Song
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SECTIONS FROM LA PUCELLE
  
EXTRACT FROM CANTO XIII
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CANTO XVII CORISANDRE
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CANTO XXI

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BEYOND

Love's aftermath! I think the time is now
That we must gather in, alone, apart
The saddest crop of all the crops that grow,
Love's aftermath.
Ah, sweet,—sweet yesterday, the tears that start
Can not put back the dial; this is, I trow,
Our harvesting! Thy kisses chill my heart,
Our lips are cold; averted eyes avow
The twilight of poor love: we can but part,
Dumbly and sadly, reaping as we sow,
Love's aftermath.
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