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The Poems of Sir William Watson
1878-1935
Watson, William (1858-1935)
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DEDICATION
SONNETS
THE FRONTIER
TO A FRIEND UNITING ANTIQUARIAN TASTES WITH PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
AT THE SEASON'S END
HISTORY
VOICE AND VISION
THE IDEAL POPULAR LEADER
LA HAUTE POLITIQUE
THE MODERN SADNESS
NIGHTMARE
TO ONE WHO ACCUSED ME OF POLITICAL APOSTASY
FRANCE
TO ONE ESPOUSING UNPOPULAR TRUTH
CHRISTMAS DAY
TO AN AMERICAN POET
THE MOUNTAIN RAPTURE
THE ENGLISH DEAD
GLADSTONE, 1885
MELANCHOLIA
A DIZZYING SURMISE
NIGHT ON CURBAR EDGE
ABDICATION
WRITTEN IN A COPY OF R.L. STEVENSON'S “CATRIONA”
THE SLAIN
ON THE AUTHOR'S SEVENTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY
FORCE AND FREEDOM
THE MOCK SELF
TO A HIGHBORN BEAUTY
PEACE AND WAR
ESTRANGEMENT
TO AUBREY DE VERE
THE INEXORABLE LAW
BARREN LEVITY
HIS SPLENDID DEFECT
SECRET COMMUNION
TRANQUIL LIBERTY
TO A SON OF WALES
THE PLAGUE OF APATHY
THE WORLD IN ARMOUR
I.
I
II.
II
III.
III
TO AMERICA, CONCERNING ENGLAND
NIGHT AND TIME
POWER AND CHARM
RESTORED ALLEGIANCE
TO ABERDEEN
ON EXCESSIVE DEFERENCE TO FOREIGN LITERARY OPINION
OUR EASTERN TREASURE
HOME-ROOTEDNESS
TO A SCOTTISH FRIEND
TERMONDE
THE SCOTT MONUMENT, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH
ON HEARING MADAME OLGA SAMAROFF PLAY
MINIATURES
SCULPTURE AND SONG
SHELLEY AND HARRIET
THE WINGS OF EROS
TO ---
THE INTERRUPTION
THE FATAL SCRUTINY
BETROTHAL AND WEDLOCK
TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
FROM THE SPANISH
THE UNSPOTTED ONES
AFTER READING “TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT”
THE ROBE OF THEMIS
THE APPEAL TO PARNASSUS
ON LONGFELLOW'S DEATH
AN EPITAPH
IMAGINARY INSCRIPTION
ACTS
JUST A POSSIBILITY
TO A BERKELEYAN IDEALIST
A WISE PRECAUTION
KEATS
YOUTH THE OVERPRAISED
BACH, IN THE FUGUES AND PRELUDES
FAIRY DIET
EPITAPH ON AN OBSCURE PERSON
BYRON THE VOLUPTUARY
ONE OF THE FALLACIES
THE CHURCH TO-DAY
THE NOBLE ANGUISH
YOUTH AND THE MUSE
TO A CLEVER CRITIC
FROM THE FRENCH
THREE KINDS OF SONG
TO A LADY RECOVERED FROM A DANGEROUS SICKNESS
AUREA MEDIOCRITAS
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE LORD OXFORD
ON A STATUE OF LIBERTY
ON A PEOPLE'S POET
TO ONE BEREAVED
THE BAFFLING COIL
THE MASTER RHETORICIAN
THE TOMB OF A PHARAOH
THE CHARIOT OF THE UNTARRYING
BIRTH AND DEATH
WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
LYRICS AND LONGER POEMS
NATURE'S WAY
REJUVENESCENCE
UNINHABITED
TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC
THE ETERNAL SEARCH
THE THREE GIVERS
THOMAS HOOD
TO RICHARD HOLT HUTTON
O LIKE A QUEEN
THE STORMS AND THE HAVENS
DAWN ON THE HEADLAND
THE KNIGHTS AND THE KING
THE HUMOUR OF OLYMPUS
MYSTIC RECALL
THE CHURCHYARD IN THE WOLD
THE FIRST SKYLARK OF SPRING
ART'S RIDDLE
THE LOST EDEN
REVELATION
THE WIZARD'S CRUX
THE EXILES
INVENTION
A CHILD'S HAIR
THE KEYBOARD
THE FOILED PURSUERS
ENGLAND MY MOTHER
APRIL
ODE IN MAY
THE GLIMPSE
THE RAVEN'S SHADOW
TELL ME NOT NOW
UTOPIA
THE SONGSTERS
THE MUSE IN EXILE
SCENTLESS FLOWERS
THE LUTE-PLAYER
THE WINTER SLEEP
THE VISITOR ABHORRED
THE LARK AND THE THRUSH
THE THUNDER-SHOWER
THE VOICE FROM DREAMLAND
LIBERTY REJECTED
A HUMBLE ENTREATY
THE CATHEDRAL MUSIC
LUX PERDITA
THE TARN AND THE TORRENT
NAY, BID ME NOT
BAFFLED DEITY
HATE
THE FLEETS OF INFINITY
THE FOWLS OF THE AIR
CAPRICES OF THE GODS
THE NOBLEST VICTORY
THE TRUE IMPERIALISM
A HALF-REAL SOLACE
CEASE, FOOLISH ROSEBUD
MIDNIGHT
O TO SAIL
SONG FROM AN UNFINISHED PLAY
THE PROTEST
THE FELLS
SCIENCE AND NATURE
AUTUMN
ROME AND ANOTHER
THE FOREST VOICES
DUSK
JANUARY DOWN WEST
THE FALSE SUMMER
“THE THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXCELLENT”
THE DREAM OF MAN
THE DESERT HEART
THE BLIND SUMMIT
TO A YOUNG AMERICAN LADY
THE STRANGER-MINSTREL
COLUMBUS
THE UNVANQUISHED
TO MY MOTHER'S MEMORY
THE WARRIOR LOVER
MASTERY
THE TWO IFS
STORM IN MID-ATLANTIC
THE ELF-KING'S DAUGHTER
THE EARTH'S DESIRE
IN DREAMS
NIGHT
I CARE NOT
CHANGE AND INTERCHANGE
TU QUOQUE
AN IDEAL PASSION
WHITHER AFAR?
SHAKESPEARE
HYMN TO THE SEA
SHELLEY'S CENTENARY
THE GREAT MISGIVING
THE TOMB OF BURNS
TEMPEST
RETROGRESSION
DISCLOSURE
THE TERRORS OF TRUTH
ON ONE OF THE PORTRAITS OF EMMA, LADY HAMILTON
THE INDESTRUCTIBLES
THE HEART OF THE ROSE
AN INSOLUBLE PROBLEM
MARCH
ART MAXIMS
THE LISTENERS
THE NEWS FROM THE FIELD
TOO LATE
THE FUGITIVE IDEAL
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
TO THE LADY KATHARINE MANNERS
THE NORTH HAS MY HEART
A WORD WITH FORTUNE
GIVE NOT TO ME
EARTH-SWEETNESS
IRELAND'S EYE
ODE ON THE DAY OF THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII
LIGHTLY WE MET
THE MIGHTY DENIER
THE SAINT AND THE SATYR
THE EASIEST REVENGE
WALES: A GREETING
THE PEERAGE OF THE LYRE
LINES READ BY THE AUTHOR AT THE DICKENS CENTENARY CELEBRATION IN NEW YORK
WORLD-STRANGENESS
BEWARE
KILLINEY STRAND
THE UNKNOWN GOD
ENGLAND'S CHOICE
TO A FRIEND
TO A STRENUOUS CRITIC
THE ADJECTIVE
HER THIRD BIRTHDAY
SONG IN AN ARCHAIC MANNER
A GOLDEN HOUR
A GUESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
THE NECESSITY OF WRATH
THE LIGHTHOUSE OF LOVE
APOLOGIA
TOO SOON
PART OF MY STORY
HEPHÆSTUS
INDIA'S GUEST
THE SAVIOURS
O PLACID MOON
THE MOUND IN THE MEADS
THE BETTER CHOICE
LACRIMÆ MUSARUM
THE ELOPING ANGELS
THE SAPPERS AND MINERS
THE HUSBANDMAN OF HEAVEN
TO A GOVERNMENT
THE BALLAD OF SEMMERWATER
TO A GREAT POET OF A PAST ERA
TO A SLOVENLY VERSIFIER
EDENHUNGER
TO MY ELDEST CHILD
ODE TO LICINIUS
THEY AND WE
CROSS BROW, AMBLESIDE
DOMINE, QUO VADIS?
AT A BURIAL
IN LALEHAM CHURCHYARD
VERSES TO THE DUCHESS OF HAMILTON
THE FATHER OF THE FOREST
A RECIPE
ON A TOO PROLIFIC ESSAYIST
LINES WRITTEN IN RICHMOND PARK
THE SOVEREIGN POET
LEAVETAKING
A RIDDLE OF THE THAMES
THOUGHTS
ELUSION
ENGLAND AND HER DOMINIONS
ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD VII
THE FAITHLESS AND THE CONSTANT
THE FATAL PRAYER
WORDSWORTH'S GRAVE
THE STONES OF STANTON DREW
VITA NUOVA
EUROPE AT THE PLAY
A STUDY IN CONTRASTS
I.
I
II.
II
THE MOSSGROWN PORCHES
THE TEST OF THE BARDS
THE SEVERERS
A PRELUDE
ON BEING STYLED UNPATRIOTIC
THE UNWRITTEN PACT
TAVERN SONG
LAKELAND ONCE MORE
THE FIGHT IN THE BIGHT
THE HARMONISTS
THE LOST SOULS
THE SOUL OF ROUGET DE LISLE
TO HENRY C. MONTGOMERY, OF BALLYHACKAMORE
THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FUTURE
BEHOLD!
THE YELLOW PANSY
ODE IN THE DAY OF TRANSITION
THE MAN WHO SAW
THIS BRINE-BEGIRT HOME
RETRIBUTION
ORMAZD AND AHRIMAN
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The Poems of Sir William Watson
The Poems of Sir William Watson
1878-1935
William Watson
1858-1935
George G. Harrap
London Bombay
1936
The Poems of Sir William Watson