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Claribel and Other Poems

By W. J. Linton
Linton, W. J. (1812-1897)
  
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THREE ENGLISHMEN
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THE BATTLE OF NEWBURY
  
THE OLD LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR
  
THRENODY
  
EURYDICE
  
QUEEN LIBUSSA
  
THE BRAVE WOMEN OF TANN
  
THE CAPTIVE ARAB
  
THE RUINED CITY
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FIVE SERMONS FROM ONE TEXT:
  
THE HUNCHBACK
  
GOD WISH
  
SONG OF THE STREAMS
  
CHORUSES
  
DEFINITIONS
  
REAL AND TRUE
  
SHADOWS
  
DEATH
  
A FUNERAL HYMN
  
A DIRGE
  
NIGHT-MUSIC
  
OLD FRIENDS
  
THE DIRGE OF LOVE
  
NOUGHT
  
HOPE
  
GONE
  
TO THE WEST WIND
  
LITERÆ SCRIPTÆ
  
FALSE HOPE
  
VAIN COUNSEL
  
FOOT-PRINTS
  
TO HIS LOVE
  
BEGINNINGS
  
LOVE'S TALISMAN
  
THE WOUNDED KNIGHT
  
TEARS
  
WATCHING
  
A ROMANCE
  
PARTING
  
VALENTINE'S DAY
  
MIND YOUR KNITTING
  
TWO FABLES
  
MAIDEN WISDOM
  
WINE SONG
  
WHAT I HATE
  
TRIADS
  
SWEET GALE
  
AN HOUR OF ROBIN HOOD
  
THE SONG OF THE PAUPER
  
RICH AND POOR
  
UNSEEN WORTH
  
THE PALACE
  
NATURE'S GENTLEMAN
  
PRAYER
  
TRIUMPH
  
AFTER A DEFEAT
  
THE PEARL
  
SAD QUESTIONING
  
MIDWINTER
  
GAUDIAMUS IGITUR
  
TIME'S GIFTS
  
CHANGE
  
SELF-JUSTIFICATION
  
THE ADVENT OF PEACE
  
NARROWNESS
  
LOVE
  
TWO STORIES OF ONE FATE
  
A HOMILY
  
WHAT LOVE IS
  
LOVE'S TRINITY
  
MARRIED
  
POETS
  
THE POET-PROPHET
  
THE POET'S MISSION
  
LABOUR IN VAIN
  
PRINCIPLE AND OPINION
  
THOUGHT AND DEED
  
WORD AND DEED
  
JUNE—1849
  
JUNE—1849
  
OUR COUNTRY
  
BE THYSELF
  
1854
  
HEART AND WILL
  
A NATIONAL HYMN
  
PRAYER FOR ENGLAND
  
A PRAYER FOR TRUTH

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VAIN COUNSEL

Cease to love! since all thy wooing
Can not win her, cease pursuing!
Cease thy loving all so gainless!
Cease, since love can not be painless!
Love not to thine own undoing!
Cease to love love so uncaring!
Cease a love she is not sharing!
Cease to love whose love is fickle!
Fling aside thy broken sickle!
Why should one reap but despairing?
Cease rejected vows to tender!
Cease! thy worthless hope surrender!
Cease to love!—But words are idle.
Will could never yet Love bridle:
Love struck mad with loving splendour.
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