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Vigil and vision

New Sonnets by John Payne

Payne, John (1842-1916)

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I.

I. SIGNS AND SEASONS.

IN THE HALLERTHAL.

PROPHETS OF THE PRIME.

NATURE'S SECRET.

FALSE FEBRUARY.

THE HILLS WHENCE MY HELP COMETH.

THE FIRST OF THE ALPS.

SPRING-SADNESS.

VER SALUTIFERUM.

ROSA BENEDICTA.

THE DEATH OF THE WOOD-WARBLER.

FEATHERED INGRATES.

CONVALLARIA MAJALIS.

A MID-MARCH DAY.

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II.

II. THE NIGHT-WATCHES.

DREAM-MEETINGS.

ANIMAE VIGILIUM.

THE FOREDAWN HOUR.

TO THE BELOVED DEAD.

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III.

III. MUSICALIA.

BUT FOR MUSIC ------

6. DIVINA COMMEDIA SYMPHONY.

THE PEDIGREE OF THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN MUSIC.

LA COURSE À L'ABÎME.

FIELD'S NOCTURN, No. 16 IN F.

J. P. E. HARTMANN.

VALLÉE D'OBERMANN.

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IV.

IV. LITTERALIA.

HAFIZ AND PAUL.

HERMAN MELVILLE.

STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ.

AUGUSTE VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM.

THEODORE DE BANVILLE.

LECONTE DE LISLE.

TRINITAS ANGLICA.

WITH A COPY OF SULLY PRUDHOMME'S “LES VAINES TENDRESSES”.

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V.

V. UT PICTURA ------

PAN IM GEBÜSCH.

LE CAPUCHON ROUGE.

DER TOD ALS FREUND.

GÖTTER IM WALDE.

THE RAPE OF PSYCHE.

JESUS ON LAKE GENNESARET.

EDWARD BURNE JONES.

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VI.

IN MEMORIAM “ROVER”, OB. JULY 2, 1902.

MARTYRS OF HISTORY.

WO GÖTTER SIND NICHT ------

TO MAX EBERSTADT IN WILLESDEN CEMETERY.

ON THE LIMPOPO. 1900.

HERCULIS COLUMNÆ.

ΠΕΡΙΛΕΙΜ(ΜΑ ΕΘΝΙΚΟΝ.

LOVE AND REASON.

SPES CRUDELIOR.

FALSE SLAVERY AND TRUE.

CATKIND AND HUMANKIND.

THE CREATION OF WOMAN.

RIGHTS AND DUTIES.

NATURA NATURANS.

ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN HORSE-HOLOCAUST.

HILLFOOT AND SUMMIT.

PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE.

OIGNEZ VILAIN, IL VOUS POINDRA ------

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY.

TWO WAYS OF LOVE.

CONSCRIPT AND VOLUNTEER.

“A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS!”

THE END OF THE ÆON.

THE RETURN OF THE GODS.

THE RETURN TO BARBARISM.

EDUCATION TRUE AND FALSE.

THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.

THE NEW INVASION OF THE BARBARIANS.

PROGRESS ------ OVER THE CLIFF.

THE LAST OF THE GODS.

THOUGHT AND TRUTH.

THE GOD OF THE PAST.

THE GOD OF THE FUTURE.

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VII.

VII. THE SILVER AGE.

THE SILVER AGE.

HYPNEROTOMACHIA.

LIFE'S SUMMING-UP.

MORS JANUA VITÆ.

MORTUIS DILECTIS.

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PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE.

HERE have we but the Present: with the Past
Nor with the Future our concernments are.
Past is the Past, the Future overfar.
Since that which now is with us will not last,
Why leave unjoyed the life that flits so fast,
Why from the sight of sun and moon and star
Hide in the dark, when all before us are
The deserts of Eternity the vast?
Why with the Past concern us, since Time's plough,
Present and past, the selfsame soil doth ear
And the same fruits of joy and pain doth rear?
Why with the Future? Since foregoing men
Were no wise happier when the Now was Then,
How were we happier, if the Then were Now?