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Epigrams of art, life, and nature

By William Watson
Watson, William (1858-1935)

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 I. 
I.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV. THE PLAY OF “KING LEAR.”
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII. SHELLEY AND HARRIET WESTBROOK.
 IX. 
IX. DÜRER'S ‘MELENCOLIA.’
 X. 
X.
 XII. 
XII. THINKERS, PAST AND PRESENT.
 XIII. 
XIII. TO A POET.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE YEAR'S MINSTRELSY.
 XVII. 
XVII. THE RUINED ABBEY.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. ANTONY AT ACTIUM.
 XX. 
XX.
 XXI. 
XXI.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. FROM THE SPANISH.
 XXIV. 
XXIV.
 XXV. 
XXV.
 XXVI. 
XXVI.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. BACK FROM ABROAD.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. TO ROSSETTI DEAD.
 XXX. 
XXX.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. TO EDWARD DOWDEN.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. MICHELANGELO'S “MOSES.”
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. ROCHEFOUCAULD CONSISTENT.
 XXXV. 
XXXV. THE COURSE OF MUSIC.—TO CERTAIN CONTEMPORARY MUSICIANS.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. TWO POETS.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. “ON SUCH A NIGHT.”
 XL. 
XL.
 XLI. 
XLII. WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI'S POEMS.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. THE ALPS.
 XLIV. 
XLIV.
 XLV. 
XLV.
 XLVI. 
XLVI. SHELLEY'S DEATH.
 XLVII. 
XLVII. THE CATHEDRAL SPIRE.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII.
 LI. 
LI. A MARGINAL NOTE ON “THE TEMPEST.”
 LII. 
LII.
 LIII. 
LIII.
 LIV. 
LIV. AN ALLEGED CHARACTERISTIC OF GOETHE.
 LV. 
LV. THE TOWN, BY GASLIGHT.
 LVI. 
LVI. BYRON AND WORDSWORTH.
 LVII. 
LVII. THE METROPOLITAN UNDERGROUND RAILWAY.
 LIX. 
LIX.
 LX. 
LX. ON SEEING THE TOMB OF INFANT BROTHERS TWIN-BORN.
 LXI. 
LXI. A MAIDEN'S EPITAPH.
 LXII. 
LXII.
 LXIII. 
LXIII.
 LXIV. 
LXIV. ON READING HOW THE WIDOW OF WAGNER CUT OFF HER HAIR, AND PLACED IT IN HER HUSBAND'S COFFIN WITH HIS CORPSE.
 LXV. 
LXV. A SOMETIME CONTEMPORARY.
 LXVI. 
LXVI. DARWINISM UPSIDE-DOWN.
 LXVII. 
LXVII. MERLIN.
 LXVIII. 
LXVIII.
 LXIX. 
LXIX.
 LXX. 
LXX. BYRON'S “DON JUAN.”
 LXXI. 
LXXI. A HINT TO THE SHADE OF LAMB.
 LXXII. 
LXXII.
 LXXIII. 
LXXIII.
 LXXIV. 
LXXIV. ART.
 LXXV. 
LXXV. ON LONGFELLOW'S DEATH.
 LXXVI. 
LXXVI.
 LXXVII. 
LXXVII.
 LXXVIII. 
LXXVIII. SHAKSPERE'S POURTRAYAL OF CÆSAR.
 LXXIX. 
LXXIX. TO MR. GLADSTONE (1882).
 LXXXI. 
LXXXI.
 LXXXII. 
LXXXII. TO WALT WHITMAN.
 LXXXIII. 
LXXXIII. TO GOETHE.
 LXXXV. 
LXXXV.
 LXXXVI. 
LXXXVI. BROWNING.
 LXXXVII. 
LXXXVII. TO A SEABIRD.
 LXXXVIII. 
LXXXVIII. “MANY THINGS ARE GROWING PLAIN AND CLEAR TO ME.”
 LXXXIX. 
LXXXIX. TANTALUS.
 XC. 
XC.
 XCI. 
XCI.
 XCII. 
XCII.
 XCIII. 
XCIII.
 XCIV. 
XCIV. TO A FOOLISH WISE MAN.
 XCV. 
XCV. “SUBJECTIVITY” IN ART.
 XCVII. 
XCVII.
 XCVIII. 
XCVIII.
 XCIX. 
XCIX.
 C. 
C.

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XXIX. TO ROSSETTI DEAD.

Rich spirit escap'd these mortal hindrances
And dense impediments of crumbling clay,
To join thy kin thou journeyest: thou from these
Time-sunder'd wast; Keats, Dante, Tintoret they.
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