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Carol and Cadence

New poems: MDCCCCII-MDCCCCVII: By John Payne
Payne, John (1842-1916)

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SONGBIRDS.
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THE BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS.
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THE BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS.
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THE BOOK OF BIRDS.
  
[Ye, that demi-spirits are]
  
THE THRUSH.
  
THE CUCKOO.
  
THE BLACKBIRD.
  
THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
THE LARK.
  
THE HAWFINCH.
  
THE FINCH.
  
THE SWALLOW.
  
THE CUSHAT.
  
THE SEDGE-WARBLER.
  
THE LINNET.
  
WHAT THE WHITETHROAT SANG.
  
THE LORIOT.
  
THE WREN.
  
THE FIELDFARE.
  
THE CROW.
  
THE ROBIN.
  
THE WOODPECKER.
  
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
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THE BOOK OF BEASTS.
  
THE GROCER'S DOG.
  
THE FISHMONGER'S CAT.
  
THE CARTHORSE.
  
THE ASS.
  
HOUSEHOLD GHOSTS.
  
THE PITY OF IT.
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LONDON VOICES.
  
THE TALE OF TIME.
  
KENSINGTON GARDENS.
  
THE STREETS.
  
WINTER DAWN.
  
SUMMER DAWN.
  
RAIN.
  
LONDON BY NIGHT.
  
VOICES.
  
MAY INTRA MUROS.
  
FOG.
  
MUNDUS SENESCENS.
  
FLOWERS OF NIGHT.
  
THE TELEPHONE HARP.
  
THE BEGGAR.
  
VER IN URBE.
  
ON THE OMNIBUS.
  
THE ALMOND TREE.
  
THE LABURNUM.
  
THE HORSE-CHESTNUT.
  
THE HAWTHORN.
  
SICK LIFE.
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BALLADS AND ROMANCES.
  
THE RIME OF MELISANDE.
  
WANDERERS.
  
NOVEMBER GHOSTS.
  
FLOUTED LOVE.
  
THE DEATH OF HAFIZ.
  
SIR ROSWAL.
  
HER GRAVE.
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THE DEATH OF PAN.
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ANGELS' VISITS.
  
THE WRATH OF VENUS.
  
WIND VOICES.
  
WRECK AND PORT.
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SONNETS.
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MARTYRS OF HISTORY.
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X. CLIVE.
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XI. EDWARD JOHN EYRE.
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XII. TOMAS ZUMALACARREGUI.
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XIII. QUI CARENT VATE SACRO.
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
  
FRANZ LISZT.
  
MATTHEW ARNOLD.
  
BERKELEY.
  
CHARLES ALLSTON COLLINS.
  
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON.
  
ST. AMBROSE'S PRAYER.
  
THE DAY'S END.
  
THE INSULTS OF THE VULGAR.
  
SCORN AND SYMPATHY.
  
IN THE CRUCIBLE.
  
THE LATTER DAYS.
  
ULTIMA RATIO.
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TIME AND TIDE.
  
A NEW YEAR'S CHIME.
  
GARDEN DAYS.
  
THE POETS OF THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE.
  
COWPER.
  
ADAM AND EVE.
  
FATUI AMBO.
  
SEX AND SEX.
  
DISEASE AND REMEDY.
  
THIS AND THAT.
  
THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN.
  
WHO KNOWS?
  
ON THE BERNINA.
  
AT SILVAPLANA.
  
WILLOW-SONG.
  
COUNTERPARTS.
  
LOVE'S END.
  
WELTSCHMERZ.
  
ALAS!
  
POLARITIES.
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THE MINSTREL'S BOOK.
  
SOLUS IN GREGE.
  
EGOMET.
  
SONG-STRESS.
  
SONG-TIDE.
  
SONGS' END.
  
THE POET'S LOT.
  
NOT ALL IN VAIN.
  
POPULO.
  
QUIA AMORE LANGUEO.
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IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN OF GOLD, THEY THOUGHT.
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FORSITAN.
  
CROSS-PURPOSES.
  
THE LIGHTS OF HEAVEN.
  
MARCH-MUSIC.
  
HORAE.
  
ANIMA CUM ANIMO.
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SONGS OF THE MORROW.
  
INVOCATION.
  
VOX CLAMANTIS.
  
THE SETTING SUN.
  
IN VAIN.
  
ELDORADO.
  
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DE PROFUNDIS.
  
THE TWO GATES.
  
THE FASHION OF THIS WORLD.
  
NATURE AND HER LOVER.
  
KING OF DREAMS.
  
NOX GRAVIDA.
  
RISUS SOLAMEN.
  
YOU AND I.
  
PACEM APPELLANT.
  
THE BREAD OF LIFE.
  
TENEBRÆ.
  
DREAM AND DAWN.
  
ETERNAL QUESTION.
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SAT ME LUSISTIS.
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DIIS VENTURIS.
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SOUL'S TWILIGHT.
  
AN OLD REFRAIN.
  
ON THE BEACH.
  
A LAST TOAST.

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58

THE WREN.

The wren
Pipes on the fence and mocks at foolish men,
Who waste their little lives in quests beyond their ken.
Small king,
Thou'rt happier than we who cannot sing,
To sweeten life, who pine to fly and have no wing.
No breath
Thou wast'st, as we, on what the dullard saith;
And when thy life is done, thou hast no fear of death.
Too wise
Thou art, the things that pass away to prize
Or waste a thought on that which is beyond the skies.
Scant store,
Wise wren, thou settest by our loveless lore;
Content art thou thy life to live and ask no more.
How vain,
Compared with thine, our lives of stress and strain!
How void the quests in which we weary heart and brain!
Well might
We lesson take from thee and live, whilst light
Abides with us, content to pass away at night.
 

Lat. Regulus, Fr. Roitelet, Ger. Zaunkönig.

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