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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston

Marston, Philip Bourke (1850-1887)

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TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON.
  
TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON.
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SONG-TIDE.
  
PRELUDE.
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 1. 
SONNET I. A GREETING.
 II. 
SONNET II. THE LAST BETROTHED.
 III. 
SONNET III. WEDDED GRIEF.
 IV. 
SONNET IV. UNUTTERED THOUGHTS.
 V. 
SONNET V. A LAKE.
 VI. 
SONNET VI. ANTICIPATION.
 VII. 
SONNET VII. TOO NEAR.
 VIII. 
SONNET VIII. THE LAST LOOK.
 IX. 
SONNET IX. A VAIN WISH.
 X. 
SONNET X. LOVE AND FORGETFULNESS.
 XI. 
SONNET XI. A SUMMER DREAM.
 XII. 
SONNET XII. KNOWN TOO WELL.
 XIII. 
SONNET XIII. EXPIATION.
 XIV. 
SONNET XIV. BITTER GIFTS.
 XV. 
SONNET XV. LOVE'S DESPERATION.
 XVI. 
SONNET XVI. A POEM.
 XVII. 
SONNET XVII. A MESSAGE TO THE SEA.
 XVIII. 
SONNET XVII. LOVE'S STRENGTH.
 XIX. 
SONNET XIX. LOVE'S WEAKNESS.
 XX. 
SONNET XX. A DAY'S SECRET.
 XXI. 
SONNET XXI. PERSISTENT MUSIC.
 XXII. 
SONNET XXII. SIX MONTHS AGO.
 XXIII. 
SONNET XXIII. LOVE'S CONQUEROR.
 XXIV. 
SONNET XXIV. THE WIND'S MESSAGE.
 XXV. 
SONNET XXV. BRIEF REST.
 XXVI. 
SONNET XXVI. AT DAWN.
 XXVII. 
SONNET XXVII. DIVINE PITY.
 XXVIII. 
SONNET XXVIII. TWILIGHT VIGIL.
 XXIX. 
SONNET XXIX. REMEMBERED WORDS.
 XXX. 
SONNET XXX. DE PROFUNDIS.
 XXXI. 
SONNET XXXI. LOVE'S YEARNINGS.
 XXXII. 
SONNET XXXII. VAIN LOVE.
 XXXIII. 
SONNET XXXIII. ASSOCIATIONS.
 XXXIV. 
SONNET XXXIV. BEFORE SEVERING.
 XXXV. 
SONNET XXXV. RETROSPECT.
 XXXVI. 
SONNET XXXVI. BODY AND SOUL.
 XXXVII. 
SONNET XXXVII. DISTANT LIGHT.
 XXXVIII. 
SONNET XXXVIII. WHY DO I LOVE?
 XXXIX. 
SONNET XXXIX. BEFORE MEETING.
 XL. 
SONNET XL. WASTED STRENGTH.
 XLI. 
SONNET XLI. LOVE'S SELFISHNESS.
 XLII. 
SONNET XLII. LOVE'S MAGNETISM.
 XLIII. 
SONNET XLIII. LOVE'S SHRINES.
 XLIV. 
SONNET XLIV. SEVERED FOREVER.
 XLV. 
SONNET XLV. LOVE PAST UTTERANCE.
 XLVI. 
SONNET XLVI. UNSOLVED.
 XLVII. 
SONNET XLVII. HOPELESS LOVE.
 XLVIII. 
SONNET XLVIII. SONNETS TO A VOICE.
 XLIX. 
SONNET XLIX. SONNETS TO A VOICE.
 L. 
SONNET L. SONNETS TO A VOICE.
 LI. 
SONNET LI. A VISION OF DAYS.
 LII. 
SONNET LII. PARTING WORDS.
 LIII. 
SONNET LIII. PRESENTIMENT.
 LIV. 
SONNET LIV. LOVE AND HOPE.
 LV. 
SONNET LV. LOVE'S MUSIC.
 LVI. 
SONNET LVI. SUMMER'S RETURN.
 LVII. 
SONNET LVII. FINIS.
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GARDEN SECRETS.
  
THE DISPUTE.
  
WHAT THE ROSE SAW.
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THE ROSE AND THE WIND.
  
Dawn.
  
Morning.
  
Evening.
  
THE GARDEN'S LOSS.
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POEMS.
  
A CHRISTMAS VIGIL.
  
SHAKE HANDS AND GO.
  
TO A CHILD.
  
BEFORE BATTLE.
  
UPON THE SHORE.
  
WAITING.
  
IN PRAISE OF HER.
  
IN GRIEF.
  
PAST AND FUTURE.
  
BALLAD.
  
AFTER MANY DAYS.
  
OUT OF EDEN.
  
A GARDEN REVERIE.
  
“MY LOVE IS DEAD.”
  
DEAD LOVE.
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
  
BEREFT.
  
TO ------.
  
DESOLATE.
  
FORSAKEN.
  
FIRST AND LAST KISS.
  
NOT LIVED IN VAIN.
  
CHANGELESS.
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ACROSS SEAS.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
  
SPEECHLESS:
  
TO SLEEP.
  
A MOOD.
  
LOVE'S ILLUSIONS.
  
SLEEPLAND GLORIFIED.
  
SLEEPLAND FORSAKEN.
  
JUSTIFICATION.
  
LOVE'S WARFARE.
  
LOVE'S TRUCE.
  
COUNSEL.
  
IN BONDAGE.
  
TO A TUNE.
  
TO A DAY.
  
STRONGER THAN SLEEP.
  
SHAMELESS LOVE.
  
STRICKEN!
  
ABOVE LOVE.
  
THE FIRST KISS.
  
BOUNDED LOVE.
  
CONJECTURE.
  
TO M. C., ON HER VISIT TO LONDON IN WINTER.
  
CAPTURED THOUGHT.
  
SUPPLANTED LOVES.
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ALL IN ALL.
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PRELUDE.
  
INSEPARABLE.
  
IN THE JUNE TWILIGHT.
  
IN THE NOVEMBER NIGHT.
  
FIRST KNOWLEDGE.
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SONNETS.
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LOVE AND RESURRECTION.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
  
SAVING LOVE.
  
POSSIBLE MEETING.
  
SAD SONGS REMEMBERED.
  
LOVE'S ANSWER.
  
A DAY OF PEACE.
  
THE ONE GIFT.
  
MOVELESS MEMORIES.
  
COMFORT IN ABSENCE.
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PRELUDES.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII.
  
NOT THOU BUT I.
  
NOT DEATH, BUT LIFE.
  
A YEAR AGO.
  
DREAMLESS LIFE.
  
LIFE IN MEMORY.
  
THE WATCHERS.
  
LOVE'S JOURNEY UNENDED.
  
LIFELESS LIFE.
  
FOREDOOMED.
  
CHANGED MUSIC.
  
LOVE'S RANGES.
  
TO LOVE.
  
SPRING'S RETURN.
  
WEARY WAITING.
  
I ABIDE IT.
  
A LOST CHANCE.
  
TOO LATE.
  
LOVE MET BY DEATH.
  
THE SOUL'S YEARNING.
  
HOW MY SONGS OF HER BEGAN.
  
BEYOND RECALL.
  
VAIN COMFORT.
  
AS THOU WILT.
  
AN INVOCATION.
  
SAD DREAMS.
  
THE ONE QUESTION.
  
REBUKED OF LOVE.
  
THE NEW RELIGION.
  
FATED!
  
A FAIR THOUGHT.
  
DIVINE COUNSEL.
  
BITTER POSSESSION.
  
UNCONFESSED WORSHIP.
  
A PARABLE.
  
A LOST JOY.
  
LETHARGY.
  
AN UNKNOWN TONGUE.
  
THE DEAD HOPE.
  
WEDDED MEMORIES.
  
SAD MEMORIES.
  
DEATHWARD WAYS.
  
WAS IT FOR THIS?
  
MISTRUST.
  
A MESSAGE FROM LOVE.
  
LOVE'S PRE-VISION.
  
SORE LONGING.
  
DIVINE POSSIBILITY.
  
VAIN DREAMS.
  
DEAD!
  
GRIEF'S ASPECTS.
  
IMPOSSIBLE JOY.
  
A PARABLE.
  
THY VOICE.
  
RESTLESS SORROW.
  
THE DARK WAY.
  
HIDDEN EVIL.
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LOVE'S WORDS.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
  
THE STRANGERS.
  
GRIEF AGAINST GRIEF.
  
IN HEAVEN.
  
COMPLETE SACRIFICE.
  
FATE.
  
UNSEEN WORSHIP.
  
PROPHETIC MOMENTS.
  
LOVE'S BIRTH-HOUR.
  
TREASURED THOUGHTS.
  
HER MESSENGERS.
  
WASTED SPRING.
  
A TERRIBLE SUGGESTION.
  
ARRESTED SPRING.
  
AUTUMN QUIET.
  
PRAYER.
  
THE ONE GRACE.
  
MEMORY.
  
LIFE AND DEATH.
  
JUNE.
  
WHAT PROFITS IT?
  
VAIN DELAY.
  
LETHARGIC SORROW.
  
DESOLATE LOVE.
  
BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.
  
THE TWO TEMPTATIONS.
  
PAST AND PRESENT.
  
THE RIGHT TO LOVE.
  
AFFINITIES.
  
QUANTUM MUTATUS!
  
DREAMING LOVE.
  
LOVE AND DEATH.
  
LOVE'S SERVANTS.
  
LOVE'S SUFFICIENCY.
  
DEAD JOYS.
  
THE HIGHER SELF.
  
A MESSAGE FOR THE OLD YEAR.
  
A PARABLE.
  
LOVE AND SORROW.
  
CONCERNING THE NEXT BOOK, TO BE CALLED “THE PILGRIMAGE.”
  
A PARABLE.
  
PAST SUMMER.
  
SUMMER TWILIGHT.
  
THE BITTEREST.
  
THE UTTERED SOUL.
  
LOVE'S QUEST.
  
AND THOU SLEEPEST.
  
AFTER.
  
DE PROFUNDIS.
  
BEFORE SLEEPING.
  
WASTED.
  
AT A WINDOW.
  
HOPE AND MEMORY.
  
THE SEASON'S ASSOCIATIONS.
  
A DREAM.
  
TO CICELY NARNEY MARSTON.
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WIND-VOICES.
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PURE SOULS.
  
CÆDMON.
  
AT PARTING.
  
A BALLAD OF BRAVE WOMEN.
  
ESTRANGED.
  
THY GARDEN.
  
THE OLD CHURCHYARD OF BONCHURCH.
  
BETWEEN JOY AND SORROW.
  
THE TWO BURDENS.
  
UNGATHERED LOVE.
  
JUST ASLEEP.
  
NIGHTSHADE.
  
A LAMENT.
  
IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY.
  
A BURDEN.
  
CAUGHT IN THE NETS.
  
THE BALLAD OF MONK JULIUS.
  
RENUNCIATION.
  
HIS VIEW.
  
UNCOMPLETED LIVES.
  
HE AND SHE.
  
COME, BUY.
  
FALSE REST AND TRUE REST.
  
MY GARDEN.
  
PARTED LOVERS.
  
A GRAY DAY.
  
A SONG'S MESSAGE.
  
THE SWEETEST DREAM.
  
IN EXTREMIS.
  
AT HOPE'S GRAVE.
  
SOLITARY.
  
FROM FAR.
  
“LOVE HAS TURNED HIS FACE AWAY.”
  
“LOVE LIES A-DYING.”
  
AT LOVE'S GRAVE.
  
LOVE'S RESURRECTION SONG.
  
A SONG OF MEETING.
  
CHANGED LOVE.
  
TOO LATE.
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NEW GARDEN SECRETS.
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BEFORE AND AFTER FLOWERING.
  
BEFORE.
  
AFTER.
  
NIGHT.
  
JUST BEFORE DAWN.
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THE ROSE'S DREAM.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
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THE FLOWER AND THE HAND.
 I. 
Just after Nightfall.
 II. 
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 V. 
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GARDEN FAIRIES.
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SONNETS TO C. N. M.
  
THE NINTH WAVE.
  
BEREAVEMENT.
  
ALONE.
  
THY BIRTHDAY.
  
EIGHT YEARS AGO.
  
FIVE YEARS AGO.
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AFTER READING IN INGRAM'S MONOGRAPH ON OLIVER MADOX BROWN THE CHAPTER ENTITLED “FRIENDSHIP.”
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
  
BEYOND REACH.
  
I, LEAST OF ALL.
  
LOVE AND MUSIC.
  
LOVE'S STRESS.
  
CROWNING LOVE.
  
OUTER SADNESS.
  
REMEMBERED HOURS.
  
A DREAM.
  
ALIEN HOURS.
  
THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS.
  
SOON TO MEET.
  
LOVE'S LOST DAY.
  
OTHER TWILIGHTS.
  
TWO PALACES.
  
TWO LIVES.
  
HOPE.
  
AT THE END.
  
LOVE'S INFINITY.
  
MY LOVE.
  
WHAT TWO SAW.
  
BESIDE THE DEAD.
  
SPRING SADNESS.
  
IN EARLY SPRING.
  
MAN AND SPRING.
  
VOID SPRING.
  
YOUTH AND NATURE.
  
A JUNE DAY.
  
A JULY DAY.
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MOMENTS OF VISION.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
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PARABLES.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
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THREE SONNETS ON SORROW.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
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IN PRAISE OF SLEEP.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
  
MY LIFE
  
HAUNTED ROOMS.
  
WORTH REMEMBRANCE.
  
A LIFE.
  
ANTICIPATED DEATH.
  
PRISONED THOUGHTS.
  
IRREVOCABLE.
  
MY LAND.
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THE TEMPTRESS.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
  
WARFARE WITH THE GODS.
  
LIFE.
  
A WISH.
  
A QUESTION.
  
MAN'S DAYS.
  
VAIN FREEDOM.
  
EVEN FOR THEE.
  
THE PRISONER.
  
THE LONG WAY.
  
BURIED SELF.
  
MY GHOSTS.
  
DREAM-MOONLIGHT.
  
BIDDEN.
  
LIFE'S UNCERTAINTY.
  
VAIN WAITING.
  
FATAL DELAY.
  
DEAD LOVE.
  
LATE LOVE.
  
LOVE AND DESPAIR.
  
LEAST LOVE.
  
BITTER-SWEET.
  
BRIDAL EVE.
  
THE SOUL'S PREGNANCY.
  
ATHEIST TO PANTHEIST.
  
TO PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.
  
NO DEATH.
  
WITHOUT PASSION.
  
LOST SOULS.
  
AT THE LAST.
  
JONATHAN SWIFT; HIS LAST ILLNESS.
  
TO ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY.
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TO JAMES THOMSON, AUTHOR OF “THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT.”
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
  
IN MEMORY OF D. G. ROSSETTI.
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A LAST HARVEST.
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LYRICS.
  
LOVE'S LOST PLEASURE-HOUSE.
  
LOVE'S LADY.
  
ALAS!
  
MY LIFE PUTS FORTH TO SEA ALONE.
  
FLOWN LOVE.
  
A BAGATELLE.
  
A CASTLE IN SPAIN.
  
A SONG FOR TWILIGHT.
  
THE RIVER.
  
LOVE'S FLYING FEET.
  
TO SLEEP.
  
LOVERS.
  
A REMEMBERED TUNE.
  
AFTER LOVE'S PASSING.
  
A QUESTION.
  
HEART-BREAKS AND SONGS.
  
LOOKING FORWARD, IN FEBRUARY.
  
HER PITY.
  
GO, SONGS OF MINE.
  
AFTER SUMMER.
  
AT LAST.
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LAST GARDEN SECRETS.
  
ROSES AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
FLOWER FAIRIES.
  
THE LONELY ROSE.
  
SUMMER CHANGES.
  
A RUINED GARDEN.
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SONNETS.
  
WHEN WITH THY LIFE THOU DIDST ENCOMPASS MINE.
  
THE BREADTH AND BEAUTY OF THE SPACIOUS NIGHT.
  
WHICH IS IT, LOVE?
  
HER ATMOSPHERE.
  
LOVE ASLEEP.
  
LOVE'S GHOST.
  
APRIL.
  
MY GRAVE.
  
HER IN ALL THINGS.
  
OF EARLY VIOLETS.
  
BELLS OF LONDON.
  
A COUNTRY'S GHOST.
  
TO ALL SAD OF HEART.
  
TO ALL IN HAVEN.
  
FORECASTING.
  
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.
  
HERE IN THIS SUNSET SPLENDOR DESOLATE.
  
ALL ROUND ABOUT ME IS THE CITY'S NOISE.
  
O YE WHO SAILED WITH ME.
  
BELOVED OF HER.
  
COULD IT BUT BE!
  
NOT ONLY ROOMS WHEREIN THY LOVE HAS BEEN.
  
WHAT WAILING WIND.
  
I THOUGHT THAT I WAS HAPPY YESTERDAY.
  
WHEN THOU ART FAR FROM ME.
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FOUR PARABLES.
 I. 
I. HEIGHT UPON HEIGHT.
 II. 
II. ABOUT THIS LAND MOVES MANY A SAD-EYED GHOST.
 III. 
III. I WALKED ONE SPRING DAY, WHILE YET WINDS WERE COLD.
 IV. 
IV. BEFORE THIS NEW LORD CAME.
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LOVE'S DESERTED PALACE.
  
SPRING AND DESPAIR.
  
LETHARGY.
  
FROM LONDON STREETS.
  
OUT OF SLEEP.
  
RESIGNATION.
  
TO-MORROW.
  
SORROW'S GHOST.
  
LONDON, FROM FAR.
  
UNSHELTERED LOVE.
  
WHEN IN THE DARKNESS I WAKE UP ALONE.
  
A PRAYER TO SLEEP.
  
I WALKED IN LOVE'S DESERTED ROOM.
  
TO THE SPIRIT OF POETRY.
  
OLD MEMORIES.
  
GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORROW.
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AFTERMATH.
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SONNETS.
  
SORROW'S KINSHIP.
  
LOVE REFT OF HOPE.
  
CONSOLATION.
  
UNDESCRIED.
  
LOVE'S SUNSET.
  
COULD THIS THING BE?
  
FALLEN LOVE.
  
REMEMBERED GRIEF.
  
SHIPWRECK.
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DREAMS.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
  
CITY BELLS.
  
PARTING WITH SUMMER.
  
AT END OF LOVE.
  
A FALLEN CITY.
  
ON HEARING OLE BULL IMPROVISE ON THE VIOLIN.
  
DURING BATTLE.
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LYRICS.
  
LOVE STRONG AS DEATH.
  
MY HEART.
  
DEAD LOVE.
  
PRECIOUS COMFORT.
  
ACROSS THE SEA.
  
IF YOU WERE HERE.
  
WIND-GARDENS.
  
TO CICELY.

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AN UNKNOWN TONGUE.

Because my life is dark and desolate,
Like some gray, uninhabitable land,
Which hears forever on its wreck-strewn strand
The roar of waves inimical as fate;
Because I cry life's bitterest cry too late;
Because pale Grief, with her relentless hand,
Leads me up paths most steep, until I stand
Alone before the shut and shadowy gate
Which opens once to each, and only once,—
Would I make your lives sad, all ye who say
“Bright are the skies above, and fair the way;
Darkness may come, the present is the sun's!”
Love knows I would not; fear not then my song.
I speak strange words; ye know not yet the tongue.
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