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Idyls and Songs

by Francis Turner Palgrave: 1848-1854
Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824-1897)

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 I. 
TO ALFRED TENNYSON, POET LAUREATE.
 II. 
II. RIDING TO COVER.
 III. 
III. THE ADOPTED CHILD.
 IV. 
IV. AS YOU LIKE IT.
 V. 
V. THE PROPOSAL.
 VI. 
VI. BLANCHE AND ADA.
 VII. 
VII. THYRSIS.
 VIII. 
VIII. FROM SAPPHO. (I)
 XII. 
XII. FROM EURIPIDES.
 XIV. 
XIV. FROM CATULLUS. (I)
 XV. 
XV. FROM CATULLUS. (II)
 XVI. 
XVI. FROM CATULLUS. (III)
 XVII. 
XVII. FROM HORACE.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. THE FALL OF PAGANISM.
 XIX. 
XIX. ON READING THEOCRITUS.
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XX. THE BIRTH OF ART.
  
INTRODUCTION.
  
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EPILOGUE.
 XXI. 
XXI. THE SCULPTOR.
 XXII. 
XXII. THE CHRISTIAN ARTIST.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. THE BURIAL OF ST. CATHERINE,
 XXIV. 
XXIV. FLORICE AND BLANCHEFLEUR.
 XXV. 
XXV. DANTE TO BEATRICE. I.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. DANTE TO BEATRICE. II.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. THE JUDAS KISS.
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XXVIII. ROMANCE.
 I. 
Part I.
 II. 
Part II.
 III. 
Part III.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. COSPATRICK.
 XXX. 
XXX. THE LASS OF LOCHROYAN.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. REDBREAST'S DIRGE.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. MARY AT LOCHLEVEN.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. AMY ROBSART.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. INTRODUCTION
 XXXV. 
XXXV. MILTON.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. SONG OF GOETHE.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. TO LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. ON THE DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.
  
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.
 XL. 
XL. MOTHER AND CHILD.
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XLI. Lament and Answer.
  
LAMENT.
 XLII. 
XLII. TO AGNES GRACE.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. DEDICATION
 XLIV. 
XLIV. THE DREAM-CHILD.
 XLV. 
XLV. TO FLORENCE.
 XLVI. 
XLVI. TO ------
 XLVII. 
XLVII. FIORETTA.
 XLIX. 
XLIX. TO THE LADY-AUTHOR OF THE ‘CHILD'S SUMMER.’
 L. 
L. TO W. W.
 LI. 
LI. TO M--- M---.
 LII. 
LII. TO G. C. A.
 LIII. 
LIII. TO HENRY HALLAM.
 LIV. 
LIV. TO BURNET MORIER.
 LV. 
LV. THE BIRTHPLACE.
 LVI. 
LVI. SONG ON A DAY IN SPRING.
 LVII. 
LVII. SONG.
 LVIII. 
LVIII. THE OFFERING.
 LIX. 
LIX. FROM HEINRICH HEINE.
 LX. 
LX. LOVE'S TEMPERANCE.
 LXI. 
LXI. ROUNDELAY.
 LXIII. 
LXIII. SONNET.
 LXIII. 
LXIII. SONG.
 LXIV. 
LXIV. TANTALUS.
 LXV. 
LXV. SONG. (I)
 LXVI. 
LXVI. SONG. (II)
 LXVII. 
LXVII. PAST AND PRESENT.
 LXVIII. 
LXVIII. SUMMER GARDEN.
 LXIX. 
LXIX. ES AEI.
 LXX. 
LXX. IRONY.
 LXXI. 
LXXI. PRAYER AND ANSWER.
 LXXII. 
LXXII. IN DESIDERIUM.
 LXXIII. 
LXXIII. NIGHT AND MORNING.
 LXXIV. 
LXXIV. FROM TORQUATO TASSO.
 LXXV. 
LXXV. SUPER MONTES.
 LXXVI. 
LXXVI. FRIENDS TO FRIENDS.
 LXXVII. 
LXXVII. IN MEMORIAM C. W.
 LXXVIII. 
LXXVIII. THE BUTTERFLY.
 LXXIX. 
LXXIX. DAS IMMERGRÜN.
 LXXX. 
LXXX. ABSENCE.
 LXXXII. 
LXXXII. L'ENVOY.

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LXIII. SONNET.
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The poem is wrongly numbered in the source text. It should be LXII.

‘IT VER, ET VENUS.’

I know not in all life a time more drear
Than when, pale east winds fading from the blue,
The palpitating skies their flush renew,
And with a liquid smile salute the year:
When Hyperíon, (doff'd the shepherd guise,
Admétus' winter-thrall), waves wide his hair,
Scattering the mists that bar the fields of air,
The fleecy cloud-flocks of the dappled skies:—
—O deep flush'd skies: O passion-trembling blue—
High heavenly sea for Afrodíté's birth!
In vain her purple light is on the earth,
In vain her rosy smiles their bow renew:—
Thoughts of past days a drear heart-winter bring,
And with gray snow-wreaths stain the heav'n of Spring.
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