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Songs of Doubt and Dream (Poems)

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
  
EVOLUTION.
  
PEACE AND WAR.
  
A NINETEENTH CENTURY KING.
  
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON.
  
MARRIED BOHEMIANS.
  
A RETROSPECT.
  
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S WIFE.
  
AT A WINDOW.
  
BIRD-LANGUAGE.
  
A CITY ECLOGUE.
  
MEMORIAL VERSES.
  
IN THE YEAR TEN THOUSAND.
  
A SLAYER OF POETS.
  
PAUL AVENEL.
  
THE ASPIRER.
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REVERIES.
 1. 
I.—A Tulip-Bulb.
 2. 
[II. O swan, what memories rarely sweet]
 3. 
III.—In Mid-Ocean.
 4. 
[IV. While the broad night above me broods]
 5. 
V.—A Squirrel.
 6. 
[VI. Dear lavish blossoms that light the Junes]
 8. 
[VIII. Somehow I have lived without you]
 9. 
[IX. I feel the huge dim city round me lie]
 10. 
X.—To a Reformer.
 11. 
XI.—Grass.
  
QUEEN CHRISTINA AND DE LIAR.
  
CAPRICE.
  
SUB ROSÂ.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.
  
JACYNTH.
  
AFRICAN BALLAD.
  
A DIALOGUE.
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LYRIC INTERLUDE.
 1. 
[I. You tell me, friend, that seeing how fate has said]
 2. 
II.—A Graveyard.
 3. 
III.—In Poverty.
 4. 
IV.—Low Life.
 5. 
[V. The year was dying, the wind went sighing]
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VI.—To E. N. C.
 7. 
[VII. The clouded east was fiery-creased where the late moon mounted up]
 8. 
VIII.—A Blackberry Idyl.
 9. 
IX.—Pigeons.
 10. 
X.—A Dead World.
 11. 
XI.—For a Book of Light Rhymes.
 12. 
XII.—Environment.
 13. 
XIII.—Death's Plaint.
 14. 
[XIV. Ho! for Dreamland's happy harbors]
 15. 
XV.—Meteors.
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HOW A QUEEN LOVED.
 1. 
I.
 2. 
II.
 3. 
III.
  
THE TEARS OF TULLIA.
  
THE DYING ACTOR.
  
VICISSITUDE.
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TWO SCENES IN THE LIFE OF BEAU BRUMMELL.
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I. 1810.
 2. 
II. 1836.
  
THARAK AND THE LION.
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INTERMEZZO.
 1. 
I.—The Wood-Turtle.
 2. 
[II. Above the porch, full in dawn's rosy view]
 3. 
[III. Shadows hung dense on the burnished lake]
 4. 
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.
 7. 
[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.
 10. 
[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]
 14. 
XIV.—To a Literary Fop.
 15. 
[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.
  
KATE ROMNEY.
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INCONGRUITIES.
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I.
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II.
  
THE MILKY WAY.
  
HISTORY.
  
ENNUI.
  
ILLEGITIMACY.
  
THE ICICLE.
  
COURAGE!

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A RETROSPECT.

Wandering where mortals have no power to gauge
The enormity of night that space outrolls,
Floated or paused, in shadowy pilgrimage,
Two disembodied souls.
One towered a shape with dark wild-trailing shroud,
With face by sorrow and anger seamed and drawn;
One loomed a holy glory, as when some cloud
Swims deep in baths of dawn.
World after world they gazed on, till beguiled
They flew toward earth, and hovering where she swept,
One with a saturnine dejection smiled,
And one with slow tears wept.
“On that star,” said the spirit of sombre mien,
“As Dante I passed through pain's most blinding heats”...
“On that star,” said the spirit of look serene,
“I suffered, and was Keats!”
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