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Voices and visions

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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WOLFE AT QUEBEC
  
THE OLD ACTOR
  
CONJECTURE
  
NATURE TO ART
  
PORTRAITS
  
BURIALS
  
AUX INVALIDES
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LUTE AND FLUTE
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[I Fancy, my falcon, from this willing wrist]
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II WHITE VIOLETS
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[III I dreamed that Love came knocking]
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IV BOUNDARY LINES
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[V From its myriads mazy]
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[VI In her bodice there were lilies of the valley]
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VII BROWN EYES
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[VIII In this green glade, at set of sun]
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IX SYMPATHY
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[X Girt by a meadow mirthful in flowers]
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XI FLOWER GIRLS
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XII INNUENDO
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[XIII The flowers have their bold bees to woo them]
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XIV EXTRAVAGANZA
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XV FELICIA'S FAN
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[XVI I am alone with you, Ellen Vane]
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XVII SERENADE
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XVIII SANCTUARY
  
BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER
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MONITIONS
  
TO A COQUETTE
  
TO A POET
  
TO A STATESMAN
  
AN EPITAPH
  
ASSOCIATION
  
THE AËRONAUT
  
THE OLD NOVELIST'S MONOLOGUE
  
DEI GRATIÂ
  
BASILICA SAN PIETRO
  
THE TWILIGHT OF POETRY
  
AN IDYL OF THE SLUMS
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CONTEMPLATIONS
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I ONE TOUCH OF NATURE
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[II A thousand years ago]
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III HOME-COMING
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IV ENCOURAGEMENT
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V HOLLYHOCKS
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[VI O Prejudice, thou spider shrewd]
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[VII There are three ways God might reveal Himself]
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[VIII If, after many a year of cold eclipse]
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[IX Imperious to the dying rose rang forth]
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X A VISION OF PROGRESS
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[XI To the ivy said the oak]
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[XII We greet with quickening pulse the story]
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XIII THE OUTLOOK
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[XIV So many of us are dead before we die]
  
SLEEP AND DEATH
  
HYDE PARK ON SUNDAY
  
LOVE AT SCHOOL
  
ANTITHESES
  
ACTÆON
  
TO DANTE
  
SLANDER
  
ALLEGORY
  
TRIUMPH
  
THE DAWN OF ETHICS
  
WHOM THE GODS LOVE
  
POMPEII
  
HER STATUE
  
‘BLEST BE THAT PATRIOT’
  
LOVE'S LITTLE DIARY
  
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
  
BORROWED PLUMES
  
VENICE
  
LONDON
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FOUR CHORUSES
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I CHORUS OF UNTHINKING TOILERS
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II CHORUS OF SO-CALLED CHRISTIANS
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III CHORUS OF THINKING TOILERS
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IV CHORUS OF EVERYDAY OPTIMISTS
  
A MILLIONAIRE'S FUNERAL
  
LITERATURE
  
SURRENDER
  
A VENETIAN HONEYMOON
  
THE STRUGGLER
  
A BOY'S THOUGHTS OF LIFE
  
LANDSCAPE IN SOME OTHER PLANET
  
HELEN, OLD
  
THE PAWNBROKER
  
CLOUDED NIGHTS
  
HOPE
  
PAVEMENT PICTURES
  
TRAFFIC
  
WAYNE AT BRANDYWINE
  
TO ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
  
TO A YOUNG VERSIFIER
  
NOCTES DOLOROSAE
  
COINCIDENCE
  
ANDRÉE
  
KNOW THYSELF
  
ŒDIPUS AND THE SPHINX
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ANNORUM RECENTIORUM
  
THE PHILIPPINE PURCHASE
  
THE ENIGMA
  
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
  
THE SULTAN'S JUBILEE
  
TO NIKOLA TESLA
  
LINCOLN LOQUITUR
  
INGERSOLL DEAD
  
THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS
  
PRIDE OF NATIONS
  
TO ZOLA IN EXILE
  
AFRICA AD EUROPAM
  
THE BATTLE SONG OF PEACE
  
THE YELLOW DANGER
  
SOCIALISM
  
THE CZAR'S MESSAGE
  
ANARCHY
  
THE FORBIDDEN CITY
  
PEACE INDIGNANT
  
THE FALLEN CAMPANILE
  
THE NEGRO LYNCHINGS
  
THE OLD CENTURY TO THE NEW

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‘BLEST BE THAT PATRIOT’

Blest be that patriot whose firm-handed might
Can twist the snake of bribery till its fangs
Turn on its own coils with self-murdering pangs
And slay them with its own shrewd guile and spite!
Sovereign, yet servant of the people's right,
A chief contemptuous of all deft harangues
Whose oily flattery soothes rash mobs and gangs,—
History's wide page could have no grander sight.
On faction's crags, where feuds in ireful foam
Tumble tempestuous tides, big-packed with ill,
The lamp of his large honour shines and stays:
And here greeds, frauds (the sinewy birds that roam
Our storm-swept sea of life to swoop and kill),
Dash themselves dead against its blinding blaze.
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