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The Poems of A. C. Benson

Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925)
  
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PRELUDE
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ODES AND IDYLLS
  
MONNOW
  
FRITILLARIES
  
CHURCH WINDOWS
  
IN THE IRON CAGE
  
THOMAS GRAY
  
PEACE
  
TO OUR MOTHER
  
ODE IN MEMORY OF THE RT. HONBLE. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
  
ODE TO JAPAN
  
ODE TO MUSIC
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SONNETS
  
THOMAS GRAY
  
GILBERT WHITE
  
OMAR KHAYYAM
  
EDWARD FITZGERALD
  
SHADOWS
  
THE DEEPS OF GOD
  
WASTE
  
BY THE CAVE
  
BY THE STREAM
  
A LILY OF ANNUNCIATION
  
WOUNDS
  
IN THE CLOISTER
  
FATIDICA
  
GASTON DE FOIX
  
IMAGINATION
  
THE SECRET
  
OUTWARD BOUND
  
NEVERTHELESS
  
REPROOF
  
REGRET
  
I AM SMALL AND OF NO REPUTATION; YET DO I NOT FORGET THY COMMANDMENTS
  
M. E. B.
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SELF
 I. 
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 III. 
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IV
  
KEATS
  
VICTORY
  
THE PURSUIT
  
THE GENTIAN
  
THE GRASSHOPPER
  
UTTERANCE
  
ANNIVERSARIES
  
THE POET
  
PRID. KAL. OCT.
  
DEATH
  
ON THE HILL
  
THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD
  
IN SCHOOL-YARD
  
SEEDS
  
IN THE TRAIN
  
O LACRIMARUM FONS
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LYRICAL POEMS
  
HIDDEN LIFE
  
THE DRAGONFLY
  
KNAPWEED
  
THE WATER-OUSEL
  
SECRETS
  
DRIFTING
  
MY FRIEND
  
THE DEAD POET
  
DEAN SWIFT
  
ON THE WESTERN CLIFFS
  
VIATOR
  
MOLINOS
  
HOC UNUM CUPIO
  
STAND ASIDE
  
TO MY FATHER
  
THE THISTLEDOWN
  
BY THE GLACIER
  
OUT OF WEAKNESS
  
THE CARRIER PIGEON
  
THE MOLE
  
THE TOAD
  
THE BEETLE
  
THE DANDELION
  
UTRUMQUE NOSTRUM INCREDIBILI MODO CONSENTIT ASTRUM
  
FLOWER CROWNS
  
WILLIAM COLLINS
  
CHALVEY
  
IN EXILE
  
REDITURUS
  
MY WILL
  
ST. LUKE'S SUMMER
  
TWENTY YEARS AGO
  
TO EDMUND GOSSE
  
A CANTICLE OF COMMON THINGS
  
TAN-YR-ALLT
  
THE STAGE OF HEAVEN
  
CLOUDS
  
THE MILL-WHEEL
  
NASTURTIUMS
  
PINES
  
ROSEMARY
  
THE ORCHID
  
RED-FLOWERING CURRANT
  
THE YAFFLE
  
VESPERS
  
THE SPARROW
  
THE ANT-HEAP
  
THE NEWT
  
TO THE LADY KITTY
  
ROSALIND
  
AT NETHER-STOWEY
  
AN UNKNOWN MASTER
  
TIMON
  
DOROTHEA
  
MY POET
  
THE ROCKET
  
THE TRUANT
  
ATTRIBUTES
  
PRAYER
  
AFTER CONSTRUING
  
AT LOCK-UP
  
NEW YEAR'S DAY
  
AFTERWARDS
  
THE ROBIN AND THE CREDENCE
  
THE GIFT
  
LORD VYET
  
A TRIO
  
THE RAILWAY
  
THE MOWER
  
LIVE-BAIT
  
THE SHEPHERD
  
ONE BY ONE
  
WHEN PUNCTUAL DAWN
  
IN ETON CHURCHYARD
  
THE ARTIST IN CHURCH
  
THE OWL
  
THE RINGDOVE
  
THE CAT
  
THE HAWK
  
THE BARBEL
  
THE WISHING WELL
  
JACK IN THE BOX
  
THE PHŒNIX
  
EVENSONG
  
SONGS
  
CHILDHOOD
  
AT TWILIGHT
  
A DREAM
  
AT THE GRANGE
  
A SERMON
  
A REMINISCENCE
  
PEACE
  
THE SONG
  
IN THE DAWN
  
IN ABSENCE
  
TIDINGS
  
THE LABYRINTH
  
AMEN
  
THE CHARCOAL-BURNER
  
THE SHADOW OF DEATH
  
IN THAT DAY
  
THE BIRD
  
A SONG OF SWEET THINGS THAT HAVE AN END
  
THE FOOL
  
BY THE WEIR
  
MAKING HASTE
  
THE HIDDEN MANNA
  
AT EVENTIDE
  
THE LOOSESTRIFE
  
THE LIZARD
  
A MYSTERY
  
IN A COLLEGE GARDEN

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Arthur Christopher Benson

1862-1925
John Lane, The Bodley Head John Lane Company
London New York
1909
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