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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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8: THERE IS A PLANT THAT BLOSSOMS AT MIDNIGHT

There is a plant that blossoms at midnight
And fosters in itself a sombre dawn;
And some in passion only find delight
Leaping to sorrow, like seed furnace-drawn;
But thou upon the forces that enslave
Breakest like light, where the deep chasms immure,
For thou art of the race of them that save,
And where thy footstep passes it makes pure.
Like the first hour of morning, sleep-washed, free,
When every pulse of man's collected soul
Ascends to be what it was born to be,
Returning like the needle to the pole,
Noiselessly as a perfume or a prayer,
Or lake-born cloud, the flame that in thee lies
Unseals over the mountains of dense care
The welling golden water of sunrise.
Gignese, above Lago Maggiore, 1912.
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