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Songs of Doubt and Dream (Poems)

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.

A NINETEENTH CENTURY KING.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON.

MARRIED BOHEMIANS.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S WIFE.

A CITY ECLOGUE.

MEMORIAL VERSES.

IN THE YEAR TEN THOUSAND.

A SLAYER OF POETS.

QUEEN CHRISTINA AND DE LIAR.

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.

AFRICAN BALLAD.

LYRIC INTERLUDE.

HOW A QUEEN LOVED.

THE TEARS OF TULLIA.

THE DYING ACTOR.

TWO SCENES IN THE LIFE OF BEAU BRUMMELL.

THARAK AND THE LION.

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I.—The Wood-Turtle.

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[II. Above the porch, full in dawn's rosy view]

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[III. Shadows hung dense on the burnished lake]

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IV.—Asters and Goldenrods.

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[V. All day the reapers on the hill]

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VI.—To a Friend Who Slept Ill.

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[VII. How long ere the blast that is nipping and bitter]

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VIII.—Babes in the Wood.

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IX.—Aquarelle.

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[X. How sad, in this wide airy glade]

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XI.—Cradle-Song.

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[XII. They led the pale Christ through the mouthing throng]

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[XIII. How marvellously all the deeps of night]

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XIV.—To a Literary Fop.

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[XV. Think not that you may calmly tread]

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[XVI. An old man mused, amid twilight's haze]

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[XVII. I saw in dreams a system of dead worlds]

THE CARISFORT CURSE.

AGNOSTIC AND CHRISTIAN.

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IX.—Aquarelle.

Far away westward the cattle go,
Dotting the land's dim edges;
Isled in the roseate afterglow,
Darken the long cloud-ledges.

Burning each moment with warmer beams,
Moon, by your sweet chaste power
Lull the world into lotus-dreams
While you hang like a lotus-flower!