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Poems with Fables in Prose

By Frederic Herbert Trench
Trench, Herbert (1865-1923)

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I:NARRATIVE POEMS
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DEIRDRE WEDDED
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I: THE CHANTERS
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2: VOICE OF FINTAN
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3: VOICE OF CIR
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4: VOICE OF URMAEL
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5: VOICE OF FINTAN
  
THE ROCK OF CLOUD
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THE QUEEN OF GOTHLAND
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APOLLO AND THE SEAMAN
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I: APOLLO'S COMING
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2: THE RUMOUR
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3: THE SHIP
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4: THE TIDINGS
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5: THE TALE OF APOLLO
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6: THE REBUKE
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7: THE NEW SHIP
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8: THE EMBARCATION
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II:SHORTER POEMS
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Night under Monte Rosa
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Requiem of Archangels for the World
  
SONG OF THE VINE
  
Epitaph on an Infant
  
Song of the Larks at Dawn
  
Bitter Serenade
  
The Challenge
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MILO
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I
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Warm Bask the Vines, Light-thrilled
  
Advance on the Somme
  
Three Hours, O Christ
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Battle of the Marne
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SHORTER POEMS
  
The Strait
  
Who art Thou, Starry Ghost
  
Lines from Salonica
  
Thou Stream
  
Deep in a High Valley
  
Flame-footed Youth
  
On the State
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TO AROLILIA
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I: A SONG TO AROLILIA, DWELLER BY THE FOUNTAIN
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2: THE CROCUS
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3: THE NIGHT
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4: THE REPARATION
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5: THINE EYES IN MINE EYES
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6: COME, LET US MAKE LOVE DEATHLESS
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7: SONG ON BLACKDOWN
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8: THERE IS A PLANT THAT BLOSSOMS AT MIDNIGHT
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9: SHE COMES NOT WHEN NOON IS ON THE ROSES
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10: A SONG
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11: REQUICKENING VOICE
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12: TO-NIGHT DARK SEAS AND LANDS
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13: TO AROLILIA, URGING HIM
  
Stanzas to Tolstoi in his Old Age
  
Stanzas on Poetry
  
Prelude to a Masque
  
An Ode to Beauty
  
A Silver Birch
  
Woman's Song for a Soldier
  
Song for the Funeral of a Boy
  
Chant Sung in Darkness
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To a Dead Poet
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Fraternity
  
Adam Outside the Gate
  
Since I have given Thee all my very Heart
  
Far off, may be, the Heart's Eyes shall Behold You
  
The Questioners
  
The Requital
  
To a Nightingale heard upon a Hilltop before Dawn
  
In Summer when the Vales are clear
  
The Horn of the Moon
  
Mounting the Hill
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The Shepherd
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O Dreamy, Gloomy, Friendly Trees
  
Lindisfarne
  
The Shell
  
Old Anchor Chanty
  
Chorus at the Green Bear Inn
  
Daughters of Joy
  
The Gemless Ring
  
Chinese Drinking Song
  
O Birds of the Air
  
Almond, Wild Almond
  
In Summer-time when Mary bathes
  
Byron
  
In the Roman Amphitheatre, Verona
  
Shakespeare
  
There comes a Moment of the Twilight
  
Schiehallion
  
Jean Richepin's Song
  
Maurya's Song
  
Killary
  
You were Stay'd
  
Musing on a Great Soldier
  
Inscription for the Scabbard of a Sword of Honour
  
I Seek Thee in the Heart alone
  
The Rider on the Shore
  
Fantasia on Claviers at Night
  
The Man Digging
  
The Bloom
  
A Winter Song
  
Fragment
  
The Nutter
  
Romney Marshman's Love Song
  
I Heard a Soldier
  
A Charge
  
How shall I find . . .
  
Starlight Distilleth
  
What Bids me Leave . . .
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III:LEVIA
  
The Unhappy Marriage
  
A Rude Song of the Switzer and his Pine
  
Multatuli Remoulded

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IV

And here your armies, leopard-like, well shielded,
Leaf-strewn and shadow-mottled in the dews
As the moths that shower about their torch-lit blades,
Are couch'd in the wet glades,
The young men in their flower
Lying in their shoddy coats of shabby blue;
And heavy on their hearts
Lies all that ground of France that they have yielded.
From her they ask no thanks,
They who to-day will choose
That they must die. They know
How lovely is the world that they must lose:
This bracken smell, these rivulets floating by,
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Yet word is passed along the ranks;
A surge of joy along the endless ranks—
The bayonets rise, the young men rise and go.
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