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The Poems of Sir William Watson

1878-1935

Watson, William (1858-1935)

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SCULPTURE AND SONG

SHELLEY AND HARRIET

THE WINGS OF EROS

THE INTERRUPTION

THE FATAL SCRUTINY

BETROTHAL AND WEDLOCK

TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

FROM THE SPANISH

THE UNSPOTTED ONES

AFTER READING “TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT”

THE ROBE OF THEMIS

THE APPEAL TO PARNASSUS

ON LONGFELLOW'S DEATH

IMAGINARY INSCRIPTION

JUST A POSSIBILITY

TO A BERKELEYAN IDEALIST

A WISE PRECAUTION

YOUTH THE OVERPRAISED

BACH, IN THE FUGUES AND PRELUDES

EPITAPH ON AN OBSCURE PERSON

BYRON THE VOLUPTUARY

ONE OF THE FALLACIES

THE CHURCH TO-DAY

THE NOBLE ANGUISH

YOUTH AND THE MUSE

TO A CLEVER CRITIC

FROM THE FRENCH

THREE KINDS OF SONG

TO A LADY RECOVERED FROM A DANGEROUS SICKNESS

AUREA MEDIOCRITAS

IN MEMORY OF THE LATE LORD OXFORD

ON A STATUE OF LIBERTY

ON A PEOPLE'S POET

TO ONE BEREAVED

THE BAFFLING COIL

THE MASTER RHETORICIAN

THE TOMB OF A PHARAOH

THE CHARIOT OF THE UNTARRYING

BIRTH AND DEATH

WHAT OF THE NIGHT?

LYRICS AND LONGER POEMS

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THE BAFFLING COIL

Think not thy wisdom can illume away
The ancient tanglement of night and day.
Enough, to acknowledge both! Around thee here,
They see not clearliest who see all things clear.

1882