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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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[XV. Think not that you may calmly tread]

Think not that you may calmly tread
The loftier height that thousands miss,
Till you have measured all the dread
And darkness of the abyss.

That foot which climbs where towers most high
The peak of blended sun and snow,
Is always guarded by an eye
That dares to look below!