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BY
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• Fantasies.
♦ Adeimantus:p. 41.
♦ Pygmalion:p. 44.
♦ Alexis:p. 53.
♦ The King's Cloak:p. 56.
♦ The Knight and the Witch:p. 59.
♦ The Dreamer:p. 66.
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• Dialogues.
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♦ The Wind and the Hills:p. 107.
♦ The Happy Ones:p. 110.
♦ A Question:p. 112.
♦ The Earth:p. 113.
♦ Aspirations:p. 114.
♦ Romance:p. 115.
Of the poems in this volume "Adeimantus" and "The Hermit and the Faun" first appeared in The
Contemporary Review, and "The Song of Snorro" in The Spectator. They are republished here by kind
permission of the Editors.
FANTASIES.
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Underneath a cedar-tree
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Staring—staring—simply staring
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My little queen?"
My fairy child?"
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To be his serving-man.
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The Tramp.
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It trembled as it stood.
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My argosies return.
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In a phantasy of dreams,
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A lustrous diadem,
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To an Elephant.
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SONGS.
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Or upwards—mere relics
Has taken.
Ah! me—forsaken.
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Ah! madness—
Just shadows—
Ill token.
Or else unspoken.
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Or moonlight in a wood.
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The Island.
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The sand ... and the palms ... and the headland....
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Fair Filamelle.
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STORIES IN VERSE.
Adeimantus.
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Beautiful as before,
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Pygmalion.
II
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III
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IV
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Marvelling in my workshop
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VII
Her, my Galatea,
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VIII
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Broadening in a streamer
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Alexis.
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Straight-fashioned as a sword,
As water in a fiord
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In flower-drenched ecstasy;
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And naught could save him now, when once the spell
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Naught could remind him what his life's fair grant meant,
The Dreamer.
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Of a sage, a mountain-dweller,
To an undiscovered day,
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In kaleidoscopic changes.
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III
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IV
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DIALOGUES.
(Mallory paraphrased.)
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Luxuriantly crowned.
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Love's Defiance.
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The Playmates.
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DRAMAS.
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How the wind was soft, how the sun was warm,)—
A Foolish Tragedy.
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My honour sped."
Alone!
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II
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Alone,
Alone,
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VI
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Alone
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VIII
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Were borne, and the air was filled with the roar
An afternoon of blue,
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The Wraith.
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Murder!—excuse my laughing!...
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REFLECTIONS.
Of thorn-blossom flaking.
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No articulate voice.
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A Question.
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The Earth.
Aspirations.
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Romance.
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