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Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments

By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers

Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901)

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STANZAS ON SHELLEY

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THE DEATH OF SOCRATES

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON

THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE

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THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH AND OTHER POEMS

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I.

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THE TRANSLATION OF FAITH

I.

II.

III.

SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

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II.

THE IMPLICIT PROMISE OF IMMORTALITY

ON ART AS AN AIM IN LIFE

WOULD GOD IT WERE EVENING

WOULD GOD IT WERE MORNING

HIGH TIDE AT MIDNIGHT

ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD

AFTER AN INTERVIEW

A LETTER FROM NEWPORT

IN HENRY VII.'S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY

STANZAS ON MR. WATTS' COLLECTED WORKS

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II.

THE PASSING OF YOUTH

SWEET SEVENTEEN

[Ah, no more questions, no more fears]

[Who to the grave child-eyes could teach]

AUF FLÜGELN DES GESANGES

[“Oh never kiss me; stand apart]

[Though words of ice be spoken]

[When summer even softly dies]

A CRY FROM THE STALLS

THE BALLERINA'S PROGRESS, OR THE POETRY OF MOTION

[I saw, I saw the lovely child]

[Why should I strive to express it?]

ÉCHOS DU TEMPS PASSÉ

THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH

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POEMS FROM “FRAGMENTS OF PROSE AND POETRY”

[In dreams the heart is waking]

[O God, no proper place I see]

[Thro' what new world, this happy hour]

DVM MEMOR IPSE MEI

TO LADY MOUNT TEMPLE

ON A WINDOW IN DONINGTON CHURCH

FEROR INGENTI CIRCUMDATA NOCTE

FROM ALFRED DE MUSSET

[Oh, when thro' all the crowd she came]

[O waving veil of shade and sun!]

“FAERY LANDS FORLORN”

TO ALICE'S PICTURE

[“Soul, that in some high world hast made]

GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES

[When in late twilight slowly thou hast strayed]

[She wears her body like a veil]

[And all is over; and again I stand]

IN THE WOLSEY CHAPEL, WINDSOR

[O rock and torrent, lake and hill]

WIND, MOON, AND TIDES

[And thou too knew'st her, friend! thy lot hath been]

A CHILD OF THE AGE

[What heart with waiting broken]

[Oh stars in heaven that fade and flame]

[I wailed as one who scarce can be forgiven]

HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD

[Not even in death thou diest; so strong to save]

[Let each alone with timely thought]

[Love, they said, is faint and dying]

FREDERIC TEMPLE

PALLIDA MORTE FUTURA

FROM BRUTE TO MAN

A COSMIC HISTORY

A COSMIC OUTLOOK

[I knew a man in early days]

[Oh fair and fleet with eager feet]

[O bear it, bear it, lonely heart]

[In that still home, while Tyne went murmuring by]

[Nay, would'st thou know her? let thine hid heart declare]

THE GENESIS OF A MISSIONARY

A WHITE WITCH

FINAL PERSEVERANCE

FRIENDSHIP AND HOPE

[O God, how many years ago]

[O that the sorrowful joy, that the fears and the tumult of loving]

[I am tired of all the years can give]

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A WHITE WITCH

I

Eyes that the morning star outshine,
Veiled with their arching shade!
Eyes from whose amorous deeps divine
Looks forth a stainless maid!
Eyes that the painter's art in vain
Erewhile had burnt upon my brain,—
No longer look on mine, or nevermore refrain!

II

Turn, turn that lustrous gaze away,
Enchantress innocent!
No angers in those lightnings play,
No willing bolts are sent;—
All childly-free those glances fly,—
Nor yet the less must droop and die
The heart lost unaware, and won unconsciously.