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  • A Basket of Flowers
    On skies still and starlit
    White lustres take hold,
    114 lines, 1 comment
  • A Dedication
    They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less
    Of sound than of words,
    48 lines
  • A Fragment
    They say that poison-sprinkled flowers
    Are sweeter in perfume
    16 lines, 7 comments
  • A Hunting Rhyme
    THERE'S lots of refusing and falls and mishaps.
    Who 's down on the Chestnut ? He 's hurt himself p'raps.
    3 lines
  • A Hunting Song
    Here's a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord,
    If his heart be true, I care not what his pocket may afford;
    19 lines
  • A Legend Of Madrid
    Francesca.
    Crush'd and throng'd are all the places
    178 lines
  • A Song Of Autumn
    ‘WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad 
      At the falling of the year, 
    16 lines
  • A Translation
    Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes
    Emolht mores, nee sinit esseferos,
    6 lines
  • An Exile's Farewell
    The ocean heaves around us still
    With long and measured swell,
    61 lines, 1 comment
  • An Unfinished Poem
    All night I've heard the marsh-frog's croak,
    The jay's rude matins now prevail,
    87 lines
  • Argemone
    The terrible night-watch is over,
    I turn where I lie,
    152 lines
  • Ars Longa
    Ars Longa
    [A Song of Pilgrimage]
    74 lines
  • Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric
    Dramatis Personae:
    HUGO, a Norman Baron and a Scholar.
    3713 lines, 1 comment
  • Bellona
    Thou art moulded in marble impassive,
    False goddess, fair statue of strife,
    78 lines
  • Borrow'd Plumes
    Borrow'd Plumes
    [A Preface and a Piracy]
    29 lines
  • Confiteor
    The shore-boat lies in the morning light,
    98 lines
  • Cui Bono
    Oh! wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles,
    48 lines
  • De Te
    A burning glass of burnished brass,
    The calm sea caught the noontide rays,
    90 lines
  • Delilah
    Delilah
    [From a Picture]
    66 lines
  • Doubtful Dreams
    Aye, snows are rife in December,
    And sheaves are in August yet,
    152 lines
  • Early Adieux
    Adieu to kindred hearts and home,
    To pleasure, joy, and mirth,
    64 lines
  • Fauconshawe
    Fauconshawe
    [A Ballad]
    190 lines
  • Fragmentary Scenes From The Road To Avernus
    Scene I
    "Discontent"
    316 lines
  • From Lightning And Tempest
    The spring-wind pass'd through the forest, and whispered low in the leaves,
    And the cedar toss'd her head, and the oak stood firm in
    21 lines
  • From The Wreck
    "Turn out, boys!" — "What's up with our super. to-night?
    The man's mad — Two hours to daybreak I'd swear —
    136 lines
  • Gone
    IN Collins Street standeth a statute tall,
    A statue tall, on a pillar of stone,
    72 lines
  • Hippodromania; Or, Whiffs From The Pipe
    Part I
    Visions in the Smoke
    742 lines
  • How We Beat The Favourite
    A Lay of the Loamshire Hunt Cup
    "Aye, squire," said Stevens, "they back him at evens;
    124 lines, 5 comments
  • Laudamus
    The Lord shall slay or the Lord shall save!
    He is righteous whether He save or slay --
    45 lines
  • No Name
    'Tis a nameless stone that stands at your head --
    The gusts in the gloomy gorges whirl
    52 lines, 1 comment
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