Ardours and Endurances; Also, A Faun's Holiday & Poems and Phantasies
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1918]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
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- ARDOURS AND ENDURANCES
- ALSO A FAUN'S HOLIDAY & POEMS AND PHANTASIES BY
- ROBERT NICHOLS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I
- ARDOURS AND ENDURANCES
- To THE Memory of my Trusty and Gallant Friends: HAROLD STUART GOUGH (King's Royal Rifle Corps) and RICHARD PINSENT (the Worcester Regiment)
- THE SUMMONS
- I.—TO——
- II.—THE PAST
- III.—THE RECKONING
- FAREWELL TO PLACE OF COMFORT
- FAREWELL TO PLACE OF COMFORT
- THE APPROACH
- I.—IN THE GRASS: HALT BY ROADSIDE
- II.—THE DAY'S MARCH
- III.—NEARER
- BATTLE
- I.—NOON
- II.—NIGHT BOMBARDMENT
- III.—COMRADES: AN EPISODE
- IV.—BEHIND THE LINES: NIGHT, FRANCE
- V.—AT THE WARS
- VI.—OUT OF TRENCHES: THE BARN, TWILIGHT
- VII.—BATTERY MOVING UP TO A NEW POSITION FROM REST CAMP: DAWN
- VIII.—EVE OF ASSAULT: INFANTRY GOING DOWN TO TRENCHES
- IX.—THE ASSAULT
- X.—THE LAST MORNING
- XI.—FULFILMENT
- THE DEAD
- I.—THE BURIAL IN FLANDERS
- (H. S. G., Ypres, 1916)
- II.—BOY
- III.—PLAINT OF FRIENDSHIP BY DEATH BROKEN
- (R. P., Loos, 1915)
- IV.—BY THE WOOD
- THE AFTERMATH
- I.—AT THE EBB
- II.—ALONE
- III.—THANKSGIVING
- IV.—ANNIHILATED
- V.—SHUT OF NIGHT
- VI.—THE FULL HEART
- VII.—SONNET: OUR DEAD
- VIII.—DELIVERANCE
- BOOK II
- A FAUN'S HOLIDAY
- To my Brother PHILIP NICHOLS
- A FAUN'S HOLIDAY
- The End.
- BOOK III
- POEMS AND PHANTASIES
- To MR. and MRS. MOISEIWITSCH
- A TRIPTYCH
- I.—FIRST PANEL: THE HILL
- II.—SECOND AND CENTRE PANEL: THE TOWER
- III.—THIRD PANEL: THE TREE
- FOUR SONGS FROM "THE PRINCE OF ORMUZ"
- I.—THE PRINCE OF ORMUZ SINGS TO BADOURA
- II.—THE SONG OF THE PRINCESS BESIDE THE FOUNTAIN
- III.—THE SONG OF THE PRINCE IN DISGUISE
- IV.—THE PRINCESS BADOURA'S LAST SONG TO HER LOVER
- THE GIFT OF SONG
- THE GIFT OF SONG
- FRAGMENTS FROM A DRAMA ON THE SUBJECT OF ORESTES
- I.—WARNING UNHEEDED
- II.—ORESTES TO THE FURIES
- BLACK SONG
- I.—AT BRAYDON
- II.—MIDDAY ON THE EDGE OF THE DOWNS
- III.—IN DORSETSHIRE
- MAN'S ANACREONTIC AND OTHER POEMS
- MAN'S ANACREONTIC
- THE BLACKBIRD
- CHANGE
- TRANSFIGURATION
- PLAINT OF PIERROT ILL-USED
- GIRL'S SONG FROM "THE TAILOR"[2]
- LAST SONG IN AN OPERA
- DANAË
- MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS
- DANAË: MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS
- THE ECSTASY
- THE WATER-LILY
- DEEM YOU THE ROSES....
- THE PASSION
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