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In Russet & Silver

By Edmund Gosse
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)

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DEDICATION To TUSITALA IN VAILIMA
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In Russet & Silver
  
IN RUSSET AND SILVER
  
IMPRESSION
  
DISCIPLINE
  
A WINTER NIGHT'S DREAM
  
REVELATION
  
TRISTIA
  
PLAYTHINGS
  
CLASPING THE CLOUD
  
NUNC DIMITTIS
  
THE SCHOOL OF FAITH
  
AN EVENING VOLUNTARY
  
SECRETA VITÆ
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Poems of Experience
  
A TRAGEDY WITHOUT WORDS
  
MANES, THE HERETIC
  
THE NEW MEMNON
  
CHATTAFIN
  
THE WOUNDED GULL
  
THE PRODIGAL
  
AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
  
NEURASTHESIA
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Lyrics
  
ALERE FLAMMAM
  
THE SWAN
  
THE WALL-PAPER
  
THE NAUTILUS
  
A DREAM OF NOVEMBER
  
ON YES TOR
  
TO A CHILD OF FIFTEEN
  
TO THE ALMOND
  
PHILOMEL IN LONDON
  
THE IRIS
  
SONG FOR MUSIC
  
HOPE DEFERRED
  
TO A TRAVELLER
  
THE FIELDFARE'S NEST
  
SHUT OF EVE
  
THE POPLAR TREE
  
CIRCLING FANCIES
  
LOVE-LETTERS
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Memorial Verses
  
IN POETS' CORNER
  
BALLADE
  
ANNE CLOUGH
  
BEATRICE
  
BLAKE
  
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
  
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
  
TO JENNY LIND
  
LECONTE DE LISLE
  
MADRIGAL
  
WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS
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Miscellany Poems
  
THE WITCHES
  
THE DEATH OF PROCRIS
  
THE GARDEN OF CHRIST'S
  
A SYRIAN INSCRIPTION
  
THE PICTURE OF VIRTUE
  
THE MARRIED BIBLIOPHIL
  
TO A BIBLIOMANIAC
  
THE SICK GARDENER
  
RUIN
  
OPIUM HARVEST
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Exotic Sonnets
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FROM THE SWEDISH OF GUSTAF ROSENHANE
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FROM THE SWEDISH OF OLOF WEXIONIUS
  
ON THE DEATH OF A PIOUS LADY
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FROM THE SWEDISH OF ERIK JOHAN STAGNELIUS
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I. HOPE REPULSED
  
II. MEMORY
  
III. LUNA
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FROM THE DUTCH OF PIETER CORNELISZOON HOOFT
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I. TO HUGO GROTIUS
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II. FRIENDSHIP
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FROM THE DUTCH OF JOOST VAN VONDEL
  
ON THE TRUCE OF THE NETHERLANDS
  
FROM THE SPANISH OF CERVANTES
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The Masque of Painters:

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IV

Vanish'd? ay, that's still the trouble,
Tusitala!
Though your tropic isle rejoices,
'Tis to us an Isle of Voices
Hollow like the elfin double
Cry of disembodied echoes,
Or an owlet's wicked laughter,
Or the cold and hornèd gecko's
Croaking from a ruined rafter,—
Voices these of things existing,
Yet incessantly resisting
Eyes and hands that follow after;
You are circled, as by magic,
In a surf-built palmy bubble,
Tusitala;
Fate hath chosen, but the choice is
Half delectable, half tragic,
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For we hear you speak, like Moses,
And we greet you back, enchanted,
But reply's no sooner granted,
Than the rifted cloud-land closes.
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