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'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition

Ward, F. W. Orde (1843-1922)
  
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THE SILENT GODDESS.
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BALLADS, &c.
  
DEDICATION TO MY WIFE.
  
BETWEEN THE KISS AND THE LIP.
  
THREADING THE NEEDLE.
  
BAPTIZED BY FIRE.
  
MY CREED.—MY HEART AND I.
  
THE NEW CRUSADE.
  
PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.
  
THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
  
“WOMEN MUST WEEP.”
  
MAN.
  
GENTLEMAN.
  
THE TWO PICTURES.
  
BEAUTY OR BEAST?
  
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
  
BEAUTY IN THE BEAST.
  
THE SONG OF THE SIBYL.
  
THE MAIDEN WIFE.
  
A CHRISTMAS CONTRAST.
  
FIFTY PER CENT. ET CETERA.
  
PARTING.
  
THE OLD GOSPEL AND THE NEW.
  
SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM.
  
THE SHOP GIRL.
  
BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN.
  
THE CHILD INNOCENTS.
  
GOD BLESS THE QUEEN.
  
CLARA.
  
ASK ETERNITY.
  
MY PICTURE.
  
A BLEEDING BREAST.
  
IN HONOREM —10 March, 1888.
  
ALEXANDRA.
  
UNDER HIS WINGS.
  
APRIL SKIES.
  
BROWN BEAUTY.
  
KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY.
  
OUR SISTER.
  
ERIN MA CUSHLA.
  
ERIN MAVOURNEEN.
  
LOYAL IRELAND.
  
THE NORTH EASTER.
  
COWARD'S CASTLE.
  
WRIT IN WATER.
  
BUILT ON SAND.
  
WORK! 1888.
  
NATIONAL HYMN.
  
THE FEAST OF SCIENCE.
  
WHITE WINGS AND BLUE BREASTS.
  
OUR FEATHERED DARLINGS.
  
“BROWN HAND AND WHITE” IN 1886.
  
THE RUINED GAMESTER, 1886.
  
THE FAMINE FIEND, 1886.
  
“UNDER THE RED, WHITE, BLUE.”
  
BEFORE DAWN.
  
ONE.
  
MADE IN HEAVEN.
  
JACOB'S LADDER..
  
THE TWIN SISTERS.
  
WONDERFUL SNOW.—JULY 1888.
  
HELL.
  
BROKEN WINGS.
  
“TURPE SENILIS AMOR.”
  
ONCE ONLY.
  
DAMAGED DARLINGS.
  
THE DANCE TO DEATH.
  
POCULA CIRCES.
  
VENUS VICTRIX.
  
JACTA EST ALEA.
  
A BROKEN HEART.
  
THE LAST STRAW.
  
WICKED OR WITCHED?
  
DEATH IN THE CUP.
  
THE LAST KISS.
  
MY MANUSCRIPT.
  
THE UNKNOWN GODDESS.
  
AT HIS POST.
  
NOT ANOTHER.
  
JUST A WOMAN.
  
HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER.
  
THE MODERN ARMADA.
  
A MAID OF DEVON.
  
“THE BEAUTIFUL NANCY.”
  
DIOGENES IN SEARCH OF VIRTUE.
  
A THREEFOLD CORD..
  
QUEEN VICTORIA.
  
THE ASSIGNATION.
  
THE BUNCH OF FLOWERS.
  
WITHOUT AND WITHIN.
  
THE STRAYED ANGEL..
  
THE IRISH INTERDICT.
  
VICTORIA DEI GRATIA REGINA.
  
THE SOCIAL DEMOCRAT.
  
THE FOUR SISTERS.
  
ONE FAITH, ONE FLAG.
  
“NO SPACE.”
  
ST. COLUMB'S.
  
VENUS AND ASCANIUS.—1865.
  
THE SUNBEAM.
  
THE STORM WIND.
  
THE SUMMER WIND.
  
MY QUEEN.
  
WAITING.
  
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
  
COUNTRY NOTES.
  
GARDEN FANCIES.
  
THE OLD AND THE NEW MAGDALEN.
  
DIS-CROWNED NOT DIS-KINGED.
  
“THE CHILD OF THE MADONNA.”
  
THE TIDE OF TEARS.
  
CONFESSIONS OF A CLERGYMAN.
  
BABY.
  
ON THE HAYMARKET.
  
THE OLD HOME.
  
TO A COLD BEAUTY.
  
WILLING BUT WEAK.
  
LOVE.
  
A LEGEND OF THE INQUISITION.
  
TO ESTHER (STAR.)
  
THE FRAGMENT FINISHED.
  
THE FEAST OF PHILOSOPHY.—1866.
  
“O I LOVE THE GLEAM OF GOLDEN HAIR.”
  
LITTLE BROWN PATCH.
  
NOVISSIMA VERBA
  
AUTUMN HOURS.
  
LETHE.
  
RUSHMERE AND HAZELDEN,
  
VERSES TO A MARCHIONESS.
  
THE STORY OF A SHELL.
  
OUT IN THE WORLD.
  
THE NIGHT ROSE.
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THE LAST OF THE IMMORTALS.
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[PART I.]
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PART II.
  
THE LITTLE ANGEL WITHOUT WINGS.
  
THE PAUPER'S FRIEND.
  
THE STEP ON THE STAIRS.
  
NECESSITY.
  
THE FOOL OF FORTUNE.
  
PRÆTERHUMANUS.
  
TIDE AND TIME.
  
ON A RAILWAY PLATFORM.
  
THE SOLDIER'S OATH.
  
CROWNS OF SORROW.
  
THE CURSE OF CADWALLADER
  
SWEET IMPERFECTION.
  
ON THE MARKET.
  
A LIBEL.
  
THE PARADISE OF FOOLS.
  
BY THE BANKS.
  
“AURORA AUSTRALIS.”
  
THE SLEEP OF DEATH.
  
THE GREAT MYSTERY.
  
THE GREATER MYSTERY.
  
SHADOWS ON THE WALL.
  
THE BULGARIAN'S BELIEF (A FACT), 1876.
  
“SHE IS COMING.” (1876.)
  
CHARLOTTE.
  
VANISHED VOICES.
  
THE RIVER.
  
MAD!
  
BROKEN HEARTS.
  
THE CAGED BIRD.
  
A PÆAN OF THE PAVEMENT.
  
AT THE FINISH.
  
A FALLEN ANGEL.
  
THE WOMAN'S HEEL.
  
MAN'S WOMAN.
  
GOD'S WOMAN.
  
JESSIE'S REVENGE.
  
THE OLD ORDER.
  
THE LAST OF THE GIANTS
  
THE DOOMED CLASS.
  
REMEMBER THE CHILDREN.
  
“NO ROOM.”
  
A WHIM.
  
CHARLES GEORGE GORDON, 1888.
  
“DECLINED WITH THANKS.”
  
THE STORY OF THE STONES.
  
“AT THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE.”
  
MAGNA CHARTA.
  
VULGARIA.
  
A KING OF COMMERCE.
  
THE WILD ROSE OF DEVON.
  
ONLY A WOMAN.
  
THY SISTER'S KEEPER.
  
“GIVE US THIS DAY,” ETC.
  
MISUNDERSTOOD.
  
THE CRY OF BLOOD.
  
JIM GIVENS, 1889.
  
A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT. —(M. Post.)
  
AN INCONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT.
  
SOMEBODY'S PET—NOBODY'S PET.
  
CENT. PER CENT.—UP.
  
A HALFPENNY AN HOUR.—DOWN.
  
BABY FINGERS.
  
BABY FEET.
  
BABY LIPS.
  
BABY EYES.
  
BABY BEAUTIFUL in the BLACK COUNTREE.
  
CONFESSIONS OF AN ACTRESS.
  
SOME DAY.
  
MY LADY BEAUTIFUL.
  
THE CHILDREN'S CRY.
  
RED REVOLUTION.
  
STOLEN WATERS.
  
THE CONQUEROR.
  
“A MARRIAGE IS ARRANGED,” Etc.
  
“UNTO BABES.”
  
“MEN MUST WORK.”
  
THE RUSSIAN MOLOCH.
  
TO FEAR IS TO GOVERN.
  
MY SWEETEST HEART.
  
BY THE CROSS.
  
NEW LIFE.
  
THE BLOT ON THE 'SCUTCHEON.
  
ONE MAD MOMENT.
  
THE FIRST KISS.
  
A WOMAN'S BREAST.
  
SOCIAL DEMOCRAT TO NIHILIST.
  
MY MOTHER'S HAIR.
  
A WITCH.
  
NO—YES.
  
THE ANARCHIST.
  
THE MERCHANT PRINCE.
  
TO THE TSAR.
  
QUEEN PUSSY AT PLAY:
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POLITICAL POEMS.
  
QUEEN VICTORIA, 1887.
  
HOW THEY GOVERN US.
  
POLITICS.
  
A PERSONAGE IN POLITICS.
  
HOME CURED.
  
A CRY FROM THE GUTTER.
  
SPUNKY TIM,
  
THE CURSE OF NO LABOUR.
  
THE ADJOURNMENT. (26th May, 1882.)
  
“ONLY ANOTHER MURDER.”
  
THE DEVIL AND THE PITCHFORK, 1882.
  
A PAGE FROM THE DEVIL'S DIARY.
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PROTEUS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
  
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EPITAPH.
  
THE CONFERENCE OF 1882.
  
THE FIRST SHOT
  
THE ROUSED LION. (1882.)
  
THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST.
  
LIBERAL PROTECTION IN JUNE, 1882.
  
THE IRISH TELEGRAM.
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A STATESMAN OF 1882.
 I. 
Act I—Ireland.
 II. 
Act II.—Egypt.
  
HOW TO VOTE.
  
THE MAN AND THE HOUR. (FEB., 1885.)
  
NO ONE AT THE HELM. 1885.
  
THE WORST CLUB IN LONDON.
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HUMOROUS POEMS AND POEMS FOR CHILDREN.
  
ROBIN REDBREAST,
  
THE STORY OF A ST---K (Tellurium) .
  
A LOVER'S JOURNAL,
  
THE STORY OF A STOMACH.
  
THE “BRITISH ASS.” 1888.
  
A VALENTINE.
  
A MODEL NURSERY.
  
THE POOR OLD VICAR.
  
ON THE PORTRAIT OF A DONKEY.
  
“IN A QUIET SORT OF WAY.”
  
A CLERICAL CAUCUS.
  
THE OMITTED INITIAL.
  
KILLED BY CONSCIENCE.
  
THE DEVIL.
  
JENNY WREN AND ROBIN.
  
MEN MUST WORK.
  
HOW TO BE AN ANGEL.
  
MARRIED OR MARRED.
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RELIGIOUS POEMS, ETC.
  
THE CHURCH CLOCK.
  
THE SECRET OF THE PRESENCE.
  
THE TREE OF DEATH.
  
OUR MOTHER.
  
THE CHURCH.
  
“THOUGH HE SLAY ME”
  
MEMENTO MORI.
  
THE HUMAN COMPASS.
  
TO MY FATHER DIVINE.
  
THE BOOK.
  
“UNTO ME.”
  
THE INCARNATION OF INNOCENCE.
  
“NOT FOR MYSELF BUT THEE.”
  
THE CHURCH.
  
“HE HATH DONE ALL THINGS WELL.”
  
HOLD ME!
  
AT THE DOOR.
  
THE DOVE.
  
THE SUPPER OF THE SOUL.
  
THE SHADOW
  
CHILDLESS.
  
“FAINT YET PURSUING.”
  
MY BELOVED.
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SONNETS TO A CHILD (M. W. L.) 1874 .
  
“STORIED FRAMES.”
  
THE MUSIC IN THE SHELL.
  
FIRE AND SNOW.
  
THE SUMMER IN THE SEED.
  
“SMOTHERED FLAME.”
  
WHITE ROSE MAIDEN.
  
CHILD OF EVENING.
  
MOONLIGHT MAID.
  
GOSPEL OF CHILDHOOD.
  
THE CROWN OF STARS.
  
NO LONGER.
  
YET AGAIN.
  
THE STARRY WAY.
  
TO HAVE SEEN.
  
COME TO ME.
  
INFLUENCE.
  
MOONLIGHT KISSES.
  
SHINING SHADOWS.
  
ENCHANTED WALLS.
  
GOD IN CHILDHOOD.
  
THE NEW SONG.
  
THE STEP ON THE STAIRS.
  
AT THE GATE.
  
LIGHTS AND SHADES.
  
WHITE ROBES.
  
DIVINE AND HUMAN.
  
THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL.
  
IF ONLY—
  
THE GREAT GULF FIXED.
  
DAY AND NIGHT.
  
ANGELS UNAWARES.
  
WALKING ON THE HEART.
  
THE BURDEN OF BEAUTY.
  
THE BANNER OF BLOOD.
  
KNOCKING.
  
THE CHILDREN'S DAY.
  
THE PASSION OF THE PINES.
  
“I SLEEP, BUT MY HEART WAKETH.”
  
THE HUMAN FACE ANGELICAL.
  
“UN GRAND PEUT-ÊTRE.”
  
MORE THAN LIGHT.
  
SABBATH BELLS.
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
  
“MOTHER OF ALL THE DOVES.”
  
THE SERVICE OF SORROW.
  
TO THE MARCHIONESS C---.
  
TO THE COUNTESS R---.
  
VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON.
  
XANTHIPPE.
  
LESBIA.
  
“BONUS DORMITAT HOMERUS.”
  
THE COMEDY OF DEATH.
  
THE FERRYMAN.
  
THE DEVIL ABROAD.
  
THE SOILED PACKET.
  
PROBLEMS.
  
THE ANGEL AND THE CROSS.
  
POOR HEART.
  
WORKING—WORSHIPING.
  
MY MASTER.
  
SOFT CHEEKS.
  
TO MY WIFE.
  
ON JESUS' BREAST.
  
THE HUMAN VOICE DIVINE.
  
INNOCENCE.
  
THE BLISS OF IGNORANCE.
  
PURITY.
  
TO LADY J. HERSCHEL.
  
SWEET LIPS.
  
THE CUP OF SIN.
  
THE PLUCKED ROSE.
  
THE MARKED TREE.
  
THE FIRE FROM HEAVEN.
  
THE DISCOVERER.
  
TO CONSTANCE—
  
THE SECOND DAY.
  
IN MEMORY OF Clementine Augusta, Marchioness Camden, Born 6th May, 1848, and Died 27th March, 1886.
  
LEGEND OF THE ROBIN REDBREAST.
  
THE GERMAN KAISER. (March 9th, 1888.)
  
KAISER FRIEDRICH.
  
THE NORTH-EAST WIND.
  
OUTCAST ERIN.
  
VIXIT! VICIT!
  
ANGELS' FOOD.
  
EASTER EVE.
  
THE QUEEN OF SORROW.
  
ESTHER.
  
HEARTSEASE.
  
SWEET SEVENTEEN.
  
THE HOUSEHOLD ANGEL, 1880.
  
“SWEET AND TWENTY.” —Shakspeare.
  
THE LARGER HOPE.
  
TO AGNES.
  
TO ISOBEL.
  
THE GOLDEN SCEPTRE.
  
MY BEAUTIFUL.
  
THE FATAL GIFT.
  
A BROKEN HEART.
  
THE LONDON CADGER.
  
SHADOWS ON THE WALLS.
  
FALLEN STARS.
  
THE TREE OF DEATH.
  
UNCROWNED QUEENS.
  
HEARTSEASE.
  
BAPTISED IN BLOOD.
  
THE BURDEN OF BURDENS.
  
ROCKINGHAM.
  
THE DOG'S HEART.
  
UNDER THE CROSS.
  
(LABORARE EST ORARE.)
  
BENEATH HIS WINGS.
  
THE DARK MOUNTAINS.
  
“CLOUDS OF GLORY.”
  
“BRIGHT CLOUDS,”
  
THE CHILDLESS LAND.
  
THE SEAL OF SORROW.
  
THE JOY OF SORROW.
  
THE TEMPLE OF SORROW.
  
THE BAPTISM OF SORROW.
  
SORROW THE SAVIOUR.
  
THE GIFT OF TEARS.
  
THE CROWN OF SUFFERING.
  
THE HUNGER OF THE HEART.
  
THE FIRST IDOL.
  
AGAIN.
  
ANOTHER IDOL BROKEN.
  
LAST NOT LEAST.
  
THE ANGEL OF THE DAWN.
  
THE HEART AND ITS TREASURE.
  
THE TREASURE OF THE TOMB.
  
THE MARRIAGE OF LIFE AND DEATH.
  
ON THE PAVEMENT.
  
CURVES.
  
COLOUR.
  
COME HOME! COME HOME!
  
THE DOOM OF HELL.
  
THE CURSE OF HELL.
  
THE WORK OF HELL.
  
THE THOUGHT OF HELL.
  
HEAVEN.
  
DEFLOWERED.
  
ANGELS' THRONES.
  
AMARANTH.
  
THE CURSE OF BEAUTY.
  
THE VISION BEAUTIFUL.
  
THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE.
  
THE STING OF DEATH.
  
THE VICTORY OF THE GRAVE.
  
THE DOOR AJAR.
  
OUT INTO THE NIGHT.
  
THE RHYTHM OF LOVE.
  
THE FIFTH ESSENCE.
  
AT HIS FEET.
  
IN HIS ARMS.
  
FALLEN.
  
FROM GLORY TO GLORY.
  
STRONGER THAN DEATH.
  
MORE CRUEL THAN THE GRAVE.
  
THE NAMELESS DEAD.
  
STORIES IN STONES.
  
WHAT IS TRUTH?
  
THE SUPERSCRIPTION.
  
THE FORGING OF THE FETTER.
  
THE BURDEN OF THE BELLS.
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“NOVISSIMA VERBA.”
  
THE INFINITE HEART.
  
“VINUM DÆMONUM.”
  
LACRYMÆ DEI.
  
SANGUIS CORDIS.
  
BEWITCHED.
  
THE CROWNED ASS.
  
THE PENNY POPULAR.
  
KING HODGE.
  
SOPS FOR CERBERUS.
  
KING CLOD.
  
THE GOSPEL OF DIRT. 1890.
  
THE COUNTRY CADGER.
  
IN ANGELLO CUM LIBELLO.
  
THE NEW SCANDALOUS CHRONICLE.
  
THROUGH YELLOW SPECTACLES.
  
THE LAST REVELATION.
  
CHEAP AND NASTY.
  
THE DEAD CHIEF.
  
THE NEW REFORMATION.
  
MY FOUR DARLINGS.
  
THE GRAND OLD WOMAN.
  
JENNY.
  
THE BLUE HOURS.
  
LAUGHING PHILOSOPHY.
  
THE SQUEAMIST.
  
“ALWAYS WRONG.”
  
TO A PURIST
  
DONNA JUAN.
  
DONNA QUIXOTE.
  
THE LOST LORD.
  
“VICTA CATONI.”
  
PRINCESS RITA.
  
BLOOD MONEY.
  
QUEEN OF THE GIPSIES.
  
A BABY'S PRICE.
  
THE LILY AND THE ROSE.
  
THE INNOCENTS.
  
AN EAGLE'S NEST.
  
THE T'OTHER WORLD.
  
THE MAN-WO.
  
WHITE HEATHEN.
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EPIGRAMS AND TRIFLES.
  
SIR W. GROVE.
  
DR. MORTIMER GRANVILLE.
  
LADY SWEETLIPS.
  
CARDINAL NEWMAN.
  
S. MORLEY.
  
THE FIRST WHIG.—(Dr Johnson.)
  
TO A MILLIONAIRE THREAD MANUFACTURER.—(Since Bankrupt.)
  
TO A LADY ON THE LOSS OF HER BEAUTY.
  
THE TRUE PRINCE.
  
KING CLOD.
  
THE NEW PEER.
  
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
  
THE FIRST MAN.
  
IRELAND.
  
THE SECOND STEP.
  
THE VALETUDINARIAN.
  
TRUE LOVE.
  
DEATH THE LEVELLER.
  
MODERN POETS.
  
PROPRIETY.
  
THE GOOSE THAT DOES NOT LAY GOLDEN EGGS.
  
A PERSONAGE IN POLITICS.
  
HUXLEY'S BATHYBIUS.
  
THE MARQUESS OF QUEENSBERRY.
  
DR. RICHARDSON.
  
AN EPITAPH.
  
A MODERN POLITICIAN.
  
EPITAPH.
  
THE TAILOR AND HIS WOODEN COAT.
  
CLAUDIA.
  
GORDON.
  
THE GOLDEN-HEADED IMAGE.
  
THE GAMBLER.
  
FORTUNE'S FAVOURITE.
  
WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING.
  
THE MODERN GALBA.
  
ROME.
  
THE CHURCH HOUSE.
  
CHANGE.
  
TO BISHOP KING.
  
SUPPER.
  
PHYSICK.
  
A PILL FOR THE DOCTOR.
  
TO THE MOSCOW STUDENT.
  
THE OLD MAN OMNISCIENT.
  
THE WOODMAN'S AXE.
  
THE “SICK WOMAN.”
  
THE SIERRA LEONE OF POLITICS.
  
WILFRID BLUNT.
  
POLITICS.
  
THE ANGEL.
  
W. TAYLER.
  
THE PRINCE AND THE DRAGON.
  
WRITTEN IN A LADY'S PHOTO ALBUM.
  
FINANCIAL FOOLING.
  
AN AFRICAN STUDY.
  
A FOOL.
  
DR. WHEWELL.
  
THE MODERN PHŒNIX.
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ILICET.
  
GOOD NIGHT.
  
EPILOGUE.

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SUPPER.

Last night I supped with one, who furnished well
My lower story and my upper;
And learnt, where wit and wine together dwell,
One swallow does not make a supper.
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