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    Silhouettes
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    Silhouettes

    By Arthur Symons

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateDec 30, 1993
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      Silhouettes - Arthur Symons

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Silhouettes, by Arthur Symons

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Silhouettes

      Author: Arthur Symons

      Release Date: July 28, 2009 [EBook #29531]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SILHOUETTES ***

      Produced by Ruth Hart

      Home

      SILHOUETTES.

      BY

      ARTHUR SYMONS

      SECOND EDITION

      REVISED AND ENLARGED

      LONDON: LEONARD SMITHERS

      EFFINGHAM HOUSE: ARUNDEL STREET

      STRAND: MDCCCXCVI

      TO

      KATHERINE WILLARD,

      NOW

      KATHERINE BALDWIN.

      Paris: May, 1892.

      London: February, 1896.

      CONTENTS.

      * The Preface, and the nineteen Poems marked with an asterisk, were not contained in the first edition. One Poem has been omitted, and many completely rewritten.

      PREFACE:

      BEING A WORD ON BEHALF OF PATCHOULI.

      AN ingenuous reviewer once described some verses of mine as unwholesome, because, he said, they had a faint smell of Patchouli about them. I am a little sorry he chose Patchouli, for that is not a particularly favourite scent with me. If he had only chosen Peau d'Espagne, which has a subtle meaning, or Lily of the Valley, with which I have associations! But Patchouli will serve. Let me ask, then, in republishing, with additions, a collection of little pieces, many of which have been objected to, at one time or another, as being somewhat deliberately frivolous, why

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