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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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NEW GARDEN SECRETS.

SONNETS TO C. N. M.

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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

I, LEAST OF ALL.

LOVE AND MUSIC.

REMEMBERED HOURS.

THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS.

LOVE'S LOST DAY.

OTHER TWILIGHTS.

LOVE'S INFINITY.

BESIDE THE DEAD.

SPRING SADNESS.

IN EARLY SPRING.

MAN AND SPRING.

YOUTH AND NATURE.

MOMENTS OF VISION.

THREE SONNETS ON SORROW.

IN PRAISE OF SLEEP.

WORTH REMEMBRANCE.

ANTICIPATED DEATH.

PRISONED THOUGHTS.

WARFARE WITH THE GODS.

DREAM-MOONLIGHT.

LIFE'S UNCERTAINTY.

LOVE AND DESPAIR.

THE SOUL'S PREGNANCY.

ATHEIST TO PANTHEIST.

TO PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.

WITHOUT PASSION.

JONATHAN SWIFT; HIS LAST ILLNESS.

TO ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY.

TO JAMES THOMSON, AUTHOR OF “THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT.”

IN MEMORY OF D. G. ROSSETTI.

A LAST HARVEST.

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MY HEART.

I gave you my heart for your own to rest on,
When the night was wild
Round your life, poor child,—
My lily, by rain and darkness prest on.

You broke my heart with your weight of sorrow;
But it failed not, Dear,
Till the day shone clear,
And storms no longer assailed your morrow.