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Ionica

By William Cory [i.e. Johnson]

Cory, William Johnson (1823-1892)

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After reading “Ajax.”

Mimnermus in Church.

The Daughter of Cleomenes.

Caius Gracchus.

Mortem, quæ violat suavia, pellit amor.

Two Fragments of Childhood.

Words for a Portuguese Air.

Adrienne and Maurice.

The Hallowing of the Fleet.

The Cairn and the Church.

A Queen's Visit.

After reading “Maud.”

A Study of Boyhood.

A New Year's Day.

A New Michonnet.

Notes of an Interview.

All that was Possible.

Scheveningen Avenue.

A Merry Parting.

School Fencibles.

A Sketch after Brantôme.

On Livermead Sands.

Lacordaire at Oxford.

A Retrospect of School Life.

Clovelly Beach.

An Epoch in a Sweet Life.

Phaedra's Nurse.

Below Boulter's Lock.

From Halsdon to Cheltenham.

A poor French Sailor's Sweetheart.

To Two Young Ladies.

A House and a Girl.

A Fellow-Passenger Unknown.

Nuremberg Cemetery.

[Mortal thing not wholly clay]

A Sick French Poet's English Friends.

A Soldier's Miracle.

A Ballad for a Boy.

Je Maintiendrai.

Sapphics for a Tune.

To Britomart musing.

Sappho's Cursing.

A Serving-man's Epitaph.

Age and Girlhood.

A Legend of Porto Santo.

A Song for a Parting.

Mir ist Leide.

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Mir ist Leide.

Woe worth old Time the lord,
Pointing his senseless sword
Down on our festal board,
Where we would dine,
Chilling the kindly hall,
Bidding the dainties pall,
Making the garlands fall,
Souring the wine.