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Idyls and Songs

by Francis Turner Palgrave: 1848-1854
Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824-1897)

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 I. 
TO ALFRED TENNYSON, POET LAUREATE.
 II. 
II. RIDING TO COVER.
 III. 
III. THE ADOPTED CHILD.
 IV. 
IV. AS YOU LIKE IT.
 V. 
V. THE PROPOSAL.
 VI. 
VI. BLANCHE AND ADA.
 VII. 
VII. THYRSIS.
 VIII. 
VIII. FROM SAPPHO. (I)
 XII. 
XII. FROM EURIPIDES.
 XIV. 
XIV. FROM CATULLUS. (I)
 XV. 
XV. FROM CATULLUS. (II)
 XVI. 
XVI. FROM CATULLUS. (III)
 XVII. 
XVII. FROM HORACE.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. THE FALL OF PAGANISM.
 XIX. 
XIX. ON READING THEOCRITUS.
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XX. THE BIRTH OF ART.
 XXI. 
XXI. THE SCULPTOR.
 XXII. 
XXII. THE CHRISTIAN ARTIST.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. THE BURIAL OF ST. CATHERINE,
 XXIV. 
XXIV. FLORICE AND BLANCHEFLEUR.
 XXV. 
XXV. DANTE TO BEATRICE. I.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. DANTE TO BEATRICE. II.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. THE JUDAS KISS.
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XXVIII. ROMANCE.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. COSPATRICK.
 XXX. 
XXX. THE LASS OF LOCHROYAN.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. REDBREAST'S DIRGE.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. MARY AT LOCHLEVEN.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. AMY ROBSART.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. INTRODUCTION
 XXXV. 
XXXV. MILTON.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. SONG OF GOETHE.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. TO LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. ON THE DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.
  
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.
 XL. 
XL. MOTHER AND CHILD.
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XLI. Lament and Answer.
 XLII. 
XLII. TO AGNES GRACE.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. DEDICATION
 XLIV. 
XLIV. THE DREAM-CHILD.
 XLV. 
XLV. TO FLORENCE.
 XLVI. 
XLVI. TO ------
 XLVII. 
XLVII. FIORETTA.
 XLIX. 
XLIX. TO THE LADY-AUTHOR OF THE ‘CHILD'S SUMMER.’
 L. 
L. TO W. W.
 LI. 
LI. TO M--- M---.
 LII. 
LII. TO G. C. A.
 LIII. 
LIII. TO HENRY HALLAM.
 LIV. 
LIV. TO BURNET MORIER.
 LV. 
LV. THE BIRTHPLACE.
 LVI. 
LVI. SONG ON A DAY IN SPRING.
 LVII. 
LVII. SONG.
 LVIII. 
LVIII. THE OFFERING.
 LIX. 
LIX. FROM HEINRICH HEINE.
 LX. 
LX. LOVE'S TEMPERANCE.
 LXI. 
LXI. ROUNDELAY.
 LXIII. 
LXIII. SONNET.
 LXIII. 
LXIII. SONG.
 LXIV. 
LXIV. TANTALUS.
 LXV. 
LXV. SONG. (I)
 LXVI. 
LXVI. SONG. (II)
 LXVII. 
LXVII. PAST AND PRESENT.
 LXVIII. 
LXVIII. SUMMER GARDEN.
 LXIX. 
LXIX. ES AEI.
 LXX. 
LXX. IRONY.
 LXXI. 
LXXI. PRAYER AND ANSWER.
 LXXII. 
LXXII. IN DESIDERIUM.
 LXXIII. 
LXXIII. NIGHT AND MORNING.
 LXXIV. 
LXXIV. FROM TORQUATO TASSO.
 LXXV. 
LXXV. SUPER MONTES.
 LXXVI. 
LXXVI. FRIENDS TO FRIENDS.
 LXXVII. 
LXXVII. IN MEMORIAM C. W.
 LXXVIII. 
LXXVIII. THE BUTTERFLY.
 LXXIX. 
LXXIX. DAS IMMERGRÜN.
 LXXX. 
LXXX. ABSENCE.
 LXXXII. 
LXXXII. L'ENVOY.

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LXXII. IN DESIDERIUM.

‘O last Regret—Regret can die.’

You ask me why, when Hope long since
Has own'd herself but folly,
I still retain this deep-grooved chain
Of cankering melancholy.
And I might say we are not free
Our own fond love to master:
That we confess her nothingness,
Yet cling to Hope the faster.
But Hope's sweet eyes are closed with dust,
Blind to their own ‘to-morrow’:
And on the heart Time works his part:
And 'tis for that we sorrow.
'Tis not alone the shrine of grief
That his pale hand defaces:
Time's icy breath, a living death,
Love's very grave effaces.
O thrice accurst—O worse than worst—
Past all despair's conceiving,
When 'tis not for the loss we grieve,
But for the loss of grieving!
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