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Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems

including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds
Lefroy, Edward Cracroft (1855-1891)

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ECHOES FROM THEOCRITUS
  
[dedication]
 I. 
I BATTUS
 II. 
II A SHEPHERD MAIDEN
 III. 
III DAPHNIS
 IV. 
IV A SICILIAN NIGHT
 V. 
V A SUMMER DAY IN OLD SICILY
 VI. 
VISIMAETHA, I
 VII. 
VII SIMAETHA, II
 VIII. 
VIII THE GOATHERD IN LOVE
 IX. 
IX THE LOVE-SPELL
 X. 
X SIMICHIDAS
 XI. 
XI AGEANAX
 XII. 
XII COMATAS
 XIII. 
XIII AT THE SHRINE OF PAN
 XIV. 
XIV AT THE FARM OF PHRASIDAMUS
 XV. 
XV THE SINGING-MATCH, I
 XVI. 
XVI THE SINGING-MATCH, II
 XVII. 
XVII THE SINGING-MATCH, III
 XVIII. 
XVIII MENALCAS
 XIX. 
XIX THE TOMB OF DIOCLES
 XX. 
XX HYLAS
 XXI. 
XXI THE TUNNY-FISHERS
 XXII. 
XXII THE YOUTH OF HERACLES
 XXIII. 
XXIII THE FLUTE OF DAPHNIS
 XXIV. 
XXIV A SACRED GROVE
 XXV. 
XXV A SYLVAN REVEL
 XXVI. 
XXVI THYRSIS
 XXVII. 
XXVII CLEONICUS
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII THE EPITAPH OF EUSTHENES
 XXIX. 
XXIX THE MONUMENT OF CLEITA
 XXX. 
XXX THE GRAVE OF HIPPONAX
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS
 I. 
I TO CERTAIN KIND CRITICS
 II. 
II A WOODLAND STREAM, I
 III. 
III A WOODLAND STREAM, II
 IV. 
IV A WOODLAND STREAM, III
 V. 
V A WOODLAND STREAM, IV
 VI. 
VI IN THE MEADOW
 VII. 
VII A RUSTIC BRIDGE, I
 VIII. 
VIII A RUSTIC BRIDGE, II
 IX. 
IX POPPIES
 X. 
X ON THE BEACH
 XI. 
XI FROM A QUIET PLACE
 XII. 
XII SUBURBAN MEADOWS
 XIII. 
XIII AN AUTUMN THOUGHT
 XIV. 
XIV TOWARDS EVENING
 XV. 
XV A CHANGE
 XVI. 
XVI ON THE SUMMIT
 XVII. 
XVII ON THE BEACH IN NOVEMBER
 XVIII. 
XVIII SOMETHING LOST
 XIX. 
XIX THE CHILDREN'S PRIVILEGE
 XX. 
XX A VIEW
 XXI. 
XXI SARK
 XXII. 
XXII IN FEBRUARY
 XXIII. 
XXIII IN THE CITY, I
 XXIV. 
XXIV IN THE CITY, II
 XXV. 
XXV A COLLEGE FOR DECAYED MERCHANTS, I
 XXVI. 
XXVI A COLLEGE FOR DECAYED MERCHANTS, II
 XXVII. 
XXVII A FOOTBALL PLAYER
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII A CRICKET BOWLER
 XXIX. 
XXIX BEFORE THE RACE
 XXX. 
XXX THE NEW CRICKET-GROUND
 XXXI. 
XXXI A PALÆSTRAL STUDY
 XXXII. 
XXXII CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII A REBUKE
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV THE POWER OF CHILDHOOD
 XXXV. 
XXXV FLORA
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI BILL: A PORTRAIT
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII FROM ANY POET
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII A STORY OF AURELIUS
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX A THOUGHT FROM PINDAR
 XL. 
XL VIRGIL
 XLI. 
XLI IN THE CLOISTERS
 XLII. 
XLII IN THE CLOISTERS
 XLIII. 
XLIII TWO THOUGHTS
 XLIV. 
XLIV A BENEDICTION
 XLV. 
XLV THE EXCUSE
 XLVI. 
XLVI A PLEA FOR DELAY
 XLVII. 
XLVII THE DYING PRINCE
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII A DREAM OF PICTURES
 XLIX. 
XLIX AFTER TEN YEARS
 L. 
L TO A WORKER RESIGNED
 LI. 
LI THE END OF IT
 LII. 
LII IN A CHURCHYARD
 LIII. 
LIII TO ANY PAINTER
 LIV. 
LIV TO AN INVALID
 LV. 
LV A PENITENT
 LVI. 
LVI A PILGRIM
 LVII. 
LVII QUEM DI DILIGUNT
 LVIII. 
LVIII BY A GRAVE-SIDE
 LIX. 
LIX ON READING A POET'S “LIFE”
 LX. 
LX TO A MOTHER
 LXI. 
LXI TO A STRANGE TEACHER
 LXII. 
LXII WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH
 LXIII. 
LXIII WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH
 LXIV. 
LXIV WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH
 LXV. 
LXV WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH
 LXVI. 
LXVI THE TORCH-BEARER
 LXVII. 
LXVII THE POET
 LXVIII. 
LXVIII THE ART THAT ENDURES
 LXIX. 
LXIX WORDS AND THOUGHTS
 LXX. 
LXX AN APOLOGY
 LXXI. 
LXXI LIFE
 LXXII. 
LXXII TO A STUDENT
 LXXIII. 
LXXIII AT THE ISTHMIAN GAMES
 LXXIV. 
LXXIV IN THE SOPHIST'S AKADEMÊ: AN IDLER
 LXXV. 
LXXV THE SAME CONTINUED
 LXXVI. 
LXXVI A PHILISTINE
 LXXVII. 
LXXVII A PHILOSOPHER
 LXXVIII. 
LXXVIII DEDICATION TO “THE WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH”
 LXXIX. 
LXXIX A DISCIPLE SECRETLY, I
 LXXX. 
LXXX A DISCIPLE SECRETLY, II
 LXXXI. 
LXXXI DREAM-TRAVEL
 LXXXII. 
LXXXII ISABEL: A PORTRAIT
 LXXXIII. 
LXXXIII THE HONEY-MOON
 LXXXIV. 
LXXXIV A POETASTER
 LXXXV. 
LXXXV AN EVENING WALK
 LXXXVI. 
LXXXVI SHELLEY
 LXXXVII. 
LXXXVII THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
 LXXXVIII. 
LXXXVIII AUTUMN LEAVES
 LXXXIX. 
LXXXIX A LATE SPRING
 XC. 
XC TO E. C. P.
 XCI. 
XCI ADVICE
 XCII. 
XCII SIBYL'S HAND
 XCIII. 
XCIII SAINTS
 XCIV. 
XCIV ON A DULL DOG
 XCV. 
XCV THE CARPET-WEAVER
 XCVI. 
XCVI FAITH AND LOVE
 XCVII. 
XCVII REVERENCE
 XCVIII. 
XCVIII THE BEST ANSWER
 XCIX. 
XCIX RATAPLAN
 C. 
C THE INQUISITOR
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LYRICAL POEMS
  
AT LYNMOUTH
  
AUTUMN LEAVES
  
TO A MAIDEN WHO WISHES TO DRESS A LA MODE
  
ODE
  
TO AMARYLLIS
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RONDEAUS
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
 III. 
III
 IV. 
IV
  
THE DEAD POET
  
VALEDICTORY
  
IS IT SO?
  
HEROISM: A THOUGHT
  
O LOVE, O LOVE, HOW LONG?
  
SONG
  
LOVE'S DELAY
  
DON'T YOU THINK—?
  
THE PAGE
  
COLORES
  
LOOKING BACK
  
“LORD, AND WHAT SHALL THIS MAN DO?”

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LXXXIV
A POETASTER

Of common things I treat in scanty rhymes,
My verse is wrung from life's familiar prose,
I hardly guess if Hippocrene still flows,
'Tis not my wit that Helicon sublimes.
Like that rude peasant-lad of mythic times,
I press my beanstalk with illiterate toes,
Not envious of the learnèd wight who knows
A lordlier stair perchance,—and never climbs.
Or change the trope; my lines are coined of stuff
That lay where no Scamander richly rolled.
From native soil, obscure, unvalued, rough,
I dig the metal for my sonnet-mould.
It melts, it runs, it sparkles—'tis enough!
Men call it copper: well, I dream it gold.
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