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Flower o' the thorn

A book of wayside verse: By John Payne

Payne, John (1842-1916)

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[Flower o' the thorn]

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ARCADIA IN URBE.

THE LAND OF THE MORNING-CALM.

A FRIEND FROM OVERSEA.

THE STREETS IN FLOWER.

LIGHTED WINDOWS.

THE GODS IN VICTORIA PARK.

ON THE RAILWAY BRIDGE.

WIND, RAIN, SUN.

THE HUSH OF DUSK.

BIRDS IN SNOWTIME.

THE SPIRIT-HOUR.

A PAUSE OF PEACE.

CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

LONDON LIGHTNING.

THE CUCKOO'S CALL.

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SUN AND SHADOW.

[Out of the shadow into the sun]

THE OLD AND THE NEW.

THE SEVEN SPELLS.

THE AIM OF LIFE.

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BRITANNIA CORAM BARBARIS.

I.

II.

THE LEAVES' LESSON.

TIME AND HIS TENDERLINGS.

THE COMMON HOPE.

UNSEASONABLE SUMMER.

A VOICE FROM DREAMLAND.

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VARIATIONS ON AN ALPINE THEME.

I.

I. THE HOPE OF THE HILLS.

II.

II. THE HUSH OF THE HILLS.

III.

III. THE HALLUCINATION OF THE HILLS.

IV.

IV. THE HONOUR OF THE HILLS.

V.

V. THE HUNGER OF THE HILLS.

VI.

VI. THE HORROR OF THE HILLS.

VII.

VII. THE HALLOWING OF THE HILLS.

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MARTYRS OF HISTORY.

XI. JESUS OF NAZARETH.

XVIII. VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA.

XIX. DON QUIXOTE.

XXI. A NAMELESS HERO.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.

THE HONEYSUCKLE.

THE SANCTUARY LAMPS.

QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE.

DUO IN DESERTIS.

THE SOUL'S COLOUR.

OLD CYNICS AND NEW.

ANNUS VOLUBILIS.

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES.

FREDERICK BURNABY.

FELIX, INFELIX.

NESSUN MAGGIOR DOLORE.

WALLS OF SEVERANCE.

DATUR HORA QUIETI.

RESURGENT SORROW.

LIFE TRIUMPHANT.

DIMENSIO QUARTA.

RONSARD TO HIS MISTRESS.

ÆTAS PERVERSA.

ABRANYI.

“NACH RAUM!”

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ABRANYI.

MAGYAR IRALYU SZONATA.

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(Sonata in the Hungarian Gipsy style) Op. 84.

WHAT strain of far fantastic strife o'errides,
Abranyi, this thy high heroic tale,
What drone of age-old dreams of joy and ail,
By Orient oceans dreamed and streamlet-sides?
As in the shell a mystic murmur bides
(The poets fable) and a voice of wail,
Echo of its mother-ocean's surge and swale,
So in the stresses of thy song the tides
Of tune of ancient India swell and break,
Melodious memories of her sun-steeped plains
And passes, with nostalgic hearts and ears,
O'er range and river, land and sea and lake,
To our cold Europe of the snows and rains
Borne by the exiles of eight hundred years.

Kornel Abranyi (1822–1903) is perhaps the most remarkable of the modern Hungarian composers who have founded themselves upon the traditional music of the Magyar gipsies, now recognized as of Indian origin.

The Jâts, the minstrel-tribe of North-West India supposed to have been the ancestors of the gipsies, are reported to have migrated to Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.