Forty-Two Poems
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In those good days when we were young and wise, You spake to music, you with the thoughtful eyes, And God looked down from heaven, pleased to hear A young man's song arise so firm and clear. Has Fancy died? The Morning Star gone cold? Why are you silent? Have we grown so old?
Chapters (37)
- TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE
- RIOUPEROUX
- THE TOWN WITHOUT A MARKET
- THE BALLAD OF CAMDEN TOWN
- MIGNON
- FELO DE SE
- TENEBRIS INTERLUCENTEM
- INVITATION TO A YOUNG BUT LEARNED FRIEND TO ABANDON ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE MOMENT, AND PLAY ONCE MORE WITH HIS NEGLECTED MUSE.
- BALLAD OF THE LONDONER
- THE FIRST SONNET OF BATHROLAIRE
- THE SECOND SONNET OF BATHROLAIRE
- THE MASQUE OF THE MAGI
- THE BALLAD OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH
- PRAYER
- THE TRANSLATOR AND THE CHILDREN
- DESTROYER OF SHIPS, MEN, CITIES
- WAR SONG OF THE SARACENS
- JOSEPH AND MARY JOSEPH
- NO COWARD'S SONG
- A WESTERN VOYAGE
- FOUNTAINS
- THE WELSH SEA
- OXFORD CANAL
- THE BALLAD OF THE STUDENT IN THE SOUTH
- THE QUEEN'S SONG
- WE THAT WERE FRIENDS
- MY FRIEND
- IDEAL
- MARY MAGDALEN
- I ROSE FROM DREAMLESS HOURS
- PRAYER
- A MIRACLE OF BETHLEHEM SCENE: A street of that village. Three men with ropes, accosted by a stranger.
- GRAVIS DULCIS IMMUTABILIS
- PILLAGE
- PAVLOVNA IN LONDON
- THE SENTIMENTALIST
- THE BALLAD OF ISKANDER
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