The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston

Marston, Philip Bourke (1850-1887)

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TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON.

SONG-TIDE.

PRELUDE.

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SONNET I. A GREETING.

II.

SONNET II. THE LAST BETROTHED.

III.

SONNET III. WEDDED GRIEF.

IV.

SONNET IV. UNUTTERED THOUGHTS.

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.

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.

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.

THE ROSE AND THE WIND.

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

II.

III.

IV.

TO M. C., ON HER VISIT TO LONDON IN WINTER.

IN THE JUNE TWILIGHT.

IN THE NOVEMBER NIGHT.

FIRST KNOWLEDGE.

SONNETS.

LOVE AND RESURRECTION.

II.

SAVING LOVE.

POSSIBLE MEETING.

SAD SONGS REMEMBERED.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

LOVE'S JOURNEY UNENDED.

HOW MY SONGS OF HER BEGAN.

II.

A TERRIBLE SUGGESTION.

BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.

A MESSAGE FOR THE OLD YEAR.

A PARABLE.

LOVE AND SORROW.

CONCERNING THE NEXT BOOK, TO BE CALLED “THE PILGRIMAGE.”

THE SEASON'S ASSOCIATIONS.

A DREAM.

TO CICELY NARNEY MARSTON.

A BALLAD OF BRAVE WOMEN.

ESTRANGED.

THY GARDEN.

THE OLD CHURCHYARD OF BONCHURCH.

BETWEEN JOY AND SORROW.

IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY.

A BURDEN.

CAUGHT IN THE NETS.

THE BALLAD OF MONK JULIUS.

FALSE REST AND TRUE REST.

“LOVE HAS TURNED HIS FACE AWAY.”

“LOVE LIES A-DYING.”

AT LOVE'S GRAVE.

LOVE'S RESURRECTION SONG.

BEFORE AND AFTER FLOWERING.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

THE FLOWER AND THE HAND.

Just after Nightfall.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

AFTER READING IN INGRAM'S MONOGRAPH ON OLIVER MADOX BROWN THE CHAPTER ENTITLED “FRIENDSHIP.”

II.

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS.

II.

III.

PARABLES.

II.

III.

IV.

THREE SONNETS ON SORROW.

II.

III.

II.

II.

III.

WARFARE WITH THE GODS.

THE SOUL'S PREGNANCY.

ATHEIST TO PANTHEIST.

TO PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.

JONATHAN SWIFT; HIS LAST ILLNESS.

TO ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY.

TO JAMES THOMSON, AUTHOR OF “THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT.”

II.

IN MEMORY OF D. G. ROSSETTI.

A LAST HARVEST.

LYRICS.

LOVE'S LOST PLEASURE-HOUSE.

LOVE'S LADY.

ALAS!

MY LIFE PUTS FORTH TO SEA ALONE.

AFTER LOVE'S PASSING.

A QUESTION.

HEART-BREAKS AND SONGS.

LOOKING FORWARD, IN FEBRUARY.

ROSES AND THE NIGHTINGALE.

WHEN WITH THY LIFE THOU DIDST ENCOMPASS MINE.

THE BREADTH AND BEAUTY OF THE SPACIOUS NIGHT.

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.

FOUR PARABLES.

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.

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.

II.

ON HEARING OLE BULL IMPROVISE ON THE VIOLIN.

DURING BATTLE.

LYRICS.

LOVE STRONG AS DEATH.

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A BURDEN.

Have I not dreamed of you all night long,
Love, my Love?
Shall I not tell my dream in a song,
O my Love?

Have I not worshipped you six long years,
Queen, my Queen?
Have I not given you bounteous tears,
O my Queen?

Have I not said, when the spring was here, —
“Sweet, my Sweet,
More than the pride and flower of the year,
O my Sweet”?

Have I not said, in the dawning gray, —
“Heart, my Heart,
I shall see my lady ere close of day,
O my Heart”?

Have I not said, in the silent night, —
“Dove, my Dove,
So soft of voice and rapid of flight,
O my Dove”?

Have I not said, in the summer hours, —
“Rose, my Rose,
Greatly exalted above all flowers,
O my Rose”?

Have I not said, in my great despair, —
“Soul, my Soul,
Love is a grievous burden to bear
O my Soul”?

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Have I not turned to the sea, and said, —
“Life, my Life,
If she be not mine, be thou my bed,
O my Life”?

Have I not dreamed of your eyes, and cried, —
“Light, my Light,
Lead me where love may be satisfied,
O my Light!”

Have I not trodden a weary road,
Saint, my Saint?
And where, at last, shall be my abode,
O my Saint?

Sometimes I say, in an hour supreme,
“Bride, my Bride!
I shall hold you fast, and not in a dream,
O my Bride!”

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