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Book: A Roadside Harp

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  • In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
    Praised be the moon of books! that doth above
    A world of men, the fallen Past behold,
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  • A Friend's Song for Simoisius
    The breath of dew, and twilight's grace,
    Be on the lonely battle-place;
    42 lines
  • A Song of the Lilac
    Above the wall that's broken,
    And from the coppice thinned,
    16 lines
  • Summum Bonum
    Waiting on Him who knows us and our need,
    Most need have we to dare not, nor desire,
    14 lines
  • Nocturne
    The sun that hurt his lovers from on high
    Is fallen; she more merciful is nigh,
    12 lines
  • Open, Time
    Open, Time, and let him pass
    Shortly where his feet would be!
    28 lines
  • The Lights of London
    The evenfall, so slow on hills, hath shot
    Far down into the valley's cold extreme,
    14 lines
  • On First Entering Westminster Abbey
    Thabor of England! since my light is short
    And faint, O rather by the sun anew
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  • Peter Rugg the Bostonian
    I
    The mare is pawing by the oak,
    199 lines
  • A Seventeenth-Century Song
    She alone of Shepherdesses
    With her blue disdayning eyes,
    28 lines
  • The Vigil-at-Arms
    Keep holy watch with silence, prayer, and fasting
    Till morning break, and all the bugles play;
    8 lines
  • Saint Florent-le-Vieil
    The spacious open vale, the vale of doom,
    Is full of autumn sunset; blue and strong
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  • Friendship Broken
    I
    We chose the faint chill morning, friend and friend,
    30 lines
  • Fog
    Like bodiless water passing in a sigh,
    Thro' palsied streets the fatal shadows flow,
    14 lines
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