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Francis William Bourdillon's Poetry, by title

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  • Watchman, watchman, what of the night,
        What of the night to tell?
    39 lines
  • Across the Glory of the glowing skies,
    A veil is drawn of shadowed mists that rise
    6 lines
  • THE LARK above our heads doth know
    A heaven we see not here below;
    10 lines
  • White-faced Winter Roses,
    O'er the grave I plant you
    8 lines
  • For rain, for rain the parched lands cry,
    Reproachful to the cloudless sky.
    19 lines
  • HE came to call me back from death
    To the bright world above.
    24 lines
  • If one should strive to reach a star,
    He would not build a ladder high,
    19 lines
  • 'HERE'
    Soft benediction of September sun;
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • LONG ago, on a bright spring day,
    I passed a little child at play;
    19 lines
  • Light falls the rain
    On link and laine,
    24 lines
  • Only to live! There nothing is more sweet.
    Only to live! There nothing is more bitter.
    8 lines
  • Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
    Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
    14 lines
  • As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea,
    Though by the wind made restless as the wind,
    14 lines
  • An acorn swung
    On an oak-tree bough;
    35 lines
  • Hark! 'tis the rush of the horses,
    The crash of the galloping gun!
    18 lines
  • O CHANTRY of the Cherubim,
    Down-looking on the stream!
    48 lines
  • What have I given,
    Bold sailor on the sea?
    18 lines
  • She turned the page of wounds and death
    With trembling fingers. In a breath
    8 lines
  • Not here in the populous town,
    In the playhouse or mart,
    35 lines
  • The night has a thousand eyes,
        And the day but one;
    8 lines, 3 comments
  • The dews were on the hedges,
    The mist was on the mead,
    26 lines
  • Who knows the deeps, where the water sleeps
    Leagues from the light away?
    9 lines
  • When Death from some fair face
    Is stealing life away,
    18 lines
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