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Feda with Other Poems

Chiefly Lyrical. By Rennell Rodd ... With an Etching by Harper Pennington
Rodd, Rennell (1858-1941)

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FEDA: A Story.
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SONG.
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LYRICS.
  
[I heard a bird sing in a leafless tree]
  
THE JOURNEY HOME.
  
ALBANO.
  
REVERIE.
  
NIGHT VOICES.
  
PRAGUE.
  
THE SKYLARKS.
  
RICHARD WAGNER.
  
VICTOR HUGO.
  
THE NATURE-CHILD.
  
“I KNEW A POET.”
  
LYRICS.
  
IN WINTER.
  
SPRING'S PARDON.
  
“THE PITY OF IT.”
  
TO ---
  
SONG.
  
GOOD-BYE.
  
A MEMORY.
  
A NOCTURNE OF CHOPIN.
  
AT WORST.
  
AT BEST.
  
“WHETHER IN DAWN'S GREY GOLD.”
  
CREDO.
  
THE HERMIT'S TALE.
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PETRARCH:
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I.—PADUA.
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II.—AVIGNON.
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III.-ARQUA.
  
THE END OF THE QUARREL.
  
JUBA'S DEATH.
  
A PICTURE.
  
A DEDICATION.

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“THE PITY OF IT.”

A tiny mound of grassy earth,
And whose no word to tell,—
The little life was hardly worth
Recording when it fell.
The birthright Joy it never found,—
A cold and hungry hearth,
The city street for playing ground,
And not the flower-path.
An autumn wind that blew too soon
Unheeded bore away
The butterfly whose life's one noon
Fell on a cloudy day.
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