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Forest Songs and Other Poems

By John Todhunter

Todhunter, John (1839-1916)

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A SONG OF DAWN.

A SONG IN SADNESS.

THE LOST CHILD.

ON THE SEUFZERS-BANK.

LONELY FLOWERS.

SLEEPLESS.

FOLKSONG AT SUNSET.

BY THE SCHLUCHSEE.

FOREST MYSTERY.

SWALLOW FLIGHT.

EVENING PRIMROSE.

THE CHRIST OF THE TITI-SEE.

A DREAM OF JUDGMENT.

THE MODERN GETHSEMANE.

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SLEEPLESS.

1

I asked the woods, and I asked the streams
To send me quiet, and happy dreams.

2

But Night was angry, and sent instead
Her ugliest goblins to vex my bed.

3

'Twas not my sorrows, nor vain love-thirst:
My half-starved sins, 'twas, that plagued the worst.