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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait

Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)

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I.

Idyls and Legends of Inverburn.

Miscellaneous Poems.

North Coast, and other Poems.

Sonnets WRITTEN BY LOCH CORUISK, ISLE OF SKYE.

The Book of Orm.

Political Mystics.

Songs of the Terrible Year.

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Saint Abe and his Seven Wives.

A TALE OF SALT LAKE CITY.

Faces on the Wall.

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Balder the Beautiful.

I.

I. THE BIRTH OF BALDER.

II.

II. THE FINDING OF BALDER.

III.

III. THE HEAVENWARD JOURNEY.

IV.

IV. BALDER'S RETURN TO EARTH.

V.

V. BALDER'S QUEST FOR DEATH.

VI.

VI. BALDER AND DEATH.

VII.

VII. THE COMING OF THE OTHER.

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VIII.

VIII. THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.

I.

II.

III.

III. The Bridge of Ghosts.

IV.

IV. ‘Behold, I am risen.’

V.

VI.

VI. The Brethren.

VII.

VII. Father and Son.

VIII.

VIII. Twilight.

IX.

IX. ‘A Cross and a Lily.’

IX.

IX. THE LAST BLESSING.

Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads.

II.

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Thou hast set these Rulers above us, to bind us, to blind our eyes,
Thou hast sent these Priests to lure us with creeds and dogmas and lies,
Thou hast built Thy Church on the sands still shifting and tremulous:
From Churches, and Priests, and Liars, good Lord, deliver us.