Book: A Century of Roundels

• Dedication To Christina G. Rossetti

  Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strong
  The heart spake through them, scarce should hope to please

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• In Harbour

  Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us
  As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;

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• Three Faces

  The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:
  Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free,

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• The Way Of The Wind

  The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow
  None may measure, as none can say

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• In Guernsey - To Theodore Watts

  The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors,
  Storm-stained ravines, and crags that lawns inlay,

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• Had I Wist

  Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing
  Light and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright trust,

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• Dead Love

  Dead love, by treason slain, lies stark,
  White as a dead stark-stricken dove:

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• Recollections

  Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken
  Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers,

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• Before Sunset

  Love's twilight wanes in heaven above,
  On earth ere twilight reigns:

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• Time And Life

  Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken
  Heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame

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• A Landscape By Courbet

  Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still
  And glad of silence: down the wood sweeps clear

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• Plus Ultra

  Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises
  Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond:

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• Aperotos Eros

  Strong as death, and cruel as the grave,
  Clothed with cloud and tempest's blackening breath,

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• A Dead Friend

  Gone, O gentle heart and true,
  Friend of hopes foregone,

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• At Sea

  'Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing
  Long since in the chant of a home-faring crew;

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• Past Days

  Dead and gone, the days we had together,
  Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone

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• Love Lies Bleeding

  Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover
  Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading:

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• Autumn And Winter

  Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon
  Between two dates of death, while men were fain

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• Sleep

  Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover
  Wails that sorrow should always keep

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• The Death Of Richard Wagner

  Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend,
  Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth

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• A Night-Piece By Millet

  Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking
  Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free

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• Prelude - Lohengrin

  Love, out of the depth of things,
  As a dewfall felt from above,

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• Concord

  Reconciled by death's mild hand, that giving
  Peace gives wisdom, not more strong than mild,

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• Prelude - Tristan And Isolde

  Fate, out of the deep sea's gloom,
  When a man's heart's pride grows great,

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• Insularum Ocelle

  Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover,
  Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark

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• The Lute And The Lyre

  Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root,
  Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire,

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• To Dora Dorian

  Child of two strong nations, heir
  Born of high-souled hope that smiled,

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• Plus Intra

  Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure,
  Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense

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• Wasted Love

  What shall be done for sorrow
  With love whose race is run?

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• Change

  But now life's face beholden
  Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow

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• A Singing Lesson

  Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses,
  Is good, or was held so, for ladies: but nought

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• A Baby's Death

  A little soul scarce fledged for earth
  Takes wing with heaven again for goal

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• Love In A Mist

  Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided,
  Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,

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• One Of Twain

  One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken,
  Now hath passed from sense of sun and rain:

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• Eros

  Eros, from rest in isles far-famed,
  With rising Anthesterion rose,

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• Death And Birth

  Death and birth should dwell not near together:
  Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:

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• On An Old Roundel

  Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed,
  And men still hear what the sweet cry saith,

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• Birth And Death

  Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother,
  Night and day, on all things that draw breath,

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• A Flower-Piece By Fantin

  Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,
  Which would the picture give us of these?

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• Benediction

  Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing
  Little children live and die, possest

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• Marzo Pazzo

  Mad March, with the wind in his wings wide-spread,
  Leaps from heaven, and the deep dawn's arch

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• Etude Realiste

  A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink,
  Might tempt, should heaven see meet,

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• Discord

  Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled
  With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild,

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• Babyhood

  A baby shines as bright
  If winter or if May be

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• Mourning

  Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old
  That cried on each other,

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• First Footsteps

  A little way, more soft and sweet
  Than fields aflower with May,

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• To Catullus

  My brother, my Valerius, dearest head
  Of all whose crowning bay-leaves crown their mother

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• A Ninth Birthday

  Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing
  Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice

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• In Sark

  Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder
  With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds whence terror is

  14 lines
• Not A Child

  'Not a child: I call myself a boy,'
  Says my king, with accent stern yet mild,

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• Envoi

  Fly, white butterflies, out to sea,
  Frail pale wings for the winds to try,

  11 lines, 1 comment

• By me, right now

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