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Fantasy and Passion

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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[dedication]
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I. MINORCHORDS.
  
SEA-GULLS.
  
REVERIE.
  
AN INTERIOR.
  
AN OLD TEA-CUP.
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AFFINITIES.
 1. 
I.
 2. 
II.
  
TO THE EVENING STAR.
  
A HUMMING-BIRD.
  
TO AN ORIOLE.
  
HEAT-LIGHTNING.
  
CLOUDS.
  
A STRAGGLER.
  
WATER-LILIES.
  
FANTAISIE DE PRINTEMPS.
  
ANALOGIES.
  
RARITY.
  
VIOLETS IN WINTER.
  
IMMORTELLES.
  
TO A TEA-ROSE.
  
WILD ROSES.
  
A TUBEROSE.
  
IVY.
  
HEMLOCKS.
  
THE ACORN.
  
FERNS.
  
MOSS.
  
LEAVES.
  
CLOVER.
  
GRAPES.
  
A TOAD.
  
WEEDS.
  
A BAT.
  
BOX.
  
DEW.
  
FIREFLIES.
  
FOUR DAYS.
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II. VOICES AND VISIONS.
  
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL.
  
FIDELITAS.
  
ADORATION.
  
IF TRULY.
  
DARKNESS.
  
HIS CHILD.
  
SELF-DECEPTION.
  
CHIAROSCURO.
  
A BIRD OF PASSAGE.
  
A LEAVE-TAKING.
  
VESTA.
  
ONE NIGHT IN SEVILLE.
  
BARCAROLLE.
  
CRADLE-SONG.
  
ONE MAY NIGHT.
  
FORGETFULNESS.
  
SOUVENIR.
  
THE MEETING.
  
D'OUTRE MORT.
  
FROM SHADOWLAND.
  
PEST.
  
WINE.
  
TO-MORROW.
  
DEGREE.
  
THE ATONEMENT.
  
TIGER TO TIGRESS.
  
JAEL.
  
VIOLANTE.
  
MOZART'S REQUIEM.
  
BEHIND HISTORY.
  
THE STATUETTE.
  
INDIVIDUALITY.
  
ORDER.
  
CONCEPTION.
  
FAME.
  
CRITICISM.
  
ATTAINMENT.
  
A KING.
  
WINDS.
  
THE COMET.
  
THE ICEBERG.
  
PERSPECTIVES.
  
THE MOON IN THE CITY.
  
FIRE.
  
DECAY.
  
WASTE.
  
DECORATION DAY.
  
CUSTER.
  
CUBA.
  
ALBERT F. WEBSTER, JR.
  
TO EDWIN BOOTH.
  
THE SCHOLAR'S SWEETHEART.
  
LA BELLE HÉLÈNE.
  
GENTLEMAN JO.
  
PIPES AND BEER.
  
TO AN OLD STREET-LAMP.
  
A BARNYARD ECLOGUE.
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III. SONNETS.
  
ART.
  
GENIUS.
  
SLEEP.
  
TO ---.
  
THE CITY.
  
KINDLINESS.
  
COMMONPLACES.
  
CITY WINDOWS.
  
A THISTLE.
  
MAPLES.
  
A COBWEB.
  
AN OCTOBER DAY.
  
A WILLOW-TREE.
  
THISTLEDOWN.
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FABRICS.
  
I. VELVET.
  
II. SATIN.
  
III. BROCADE.
  
THE OLD MIRROR.
  
EARTHQUAKE.
  
TO F. S. S.
  
MEDUSA.
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ANTIPODES.
 1. 
I. POE.
 2. 
II. WHITTIER.
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CAMEOS.
 1. 
I. THACKERAY.
 2. 
II. DICKENS.
 3. 
III. KEATS.
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IV. DUMAS, PÈRE.
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V. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
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VI. HERBERT SPENCER.
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VII. GUSTAVE DORÉ.
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VIII. BAUDELAIRE.

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SOUVENIR.

Dark hickory-boughs against blue shining sea;
Sharp-shapen fir-trees pluming sombre rocks;
The cadence of wind-murmurs fresh and free;
The merry sunlight on brown girlish locks;
The sounding of two tender voices low ...
And all so long ago!
A building of sweet castles in the air,
Frail as the slim calm cloud o'er distant seas;
Delicious idlesse; carelessness of care;
Fragments of song; unutterable case!
Life's music at soft pianissimo . ...
And all so long ago!
A purple whorl of sunset in the West;
A great gold star through a wide oriel seen;
Two lilied hands upon a placid breast;
A mute pale face, ineffably serene!
A mourner kneeling in impassioned woe ...
And all so long ago!
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