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Grass of Parnassus
Contents:
Grass of Parnassus
Deeds of men:
Seekers for a city
The white Pacha
Midnight, January 25, 1886
Advance, Australia
Colonel Burnaby
Melville and Coghill
Rhodocleia:
To Rhodocleia—on her melancholy singing
Ave:
Clevedon church
Twilight on Tweed *
Metempsychosis *
Lost in Hades *
A star in the night *
A sunset on yarrow *
Another way
Hesperothen:
The seekers for Phæacia
A song of Phæacia
The departure from Phæacia
A ballad of departure
They hear the sirens for the second time
Circe’s Isle revisited
The limit of lands
Verses:
Martial in town
April on Tweed
Tired of towns
Scythe song
Pen and ink
A dream
The singing rose
A review in rhyme
Colinette *
A sunset of Watteau *
Nightingale weather *
Love and wisdom *
Good-bye *
An old prayer *
À la belle Hélène *
Sylvie et Aurélie *
A lost path *
The shade of Helen *
Sonnets:
She
Herodotus in Egypt
Gérard de Nerval *
Ronsard *
Love’s miracle *
Dreams *
Two sonnets of the sirens *
Translations:
Hymn to the winds *
Moonlight *
The grave and the rose *
A vow to heavenly Venus *
Of his lady’s old age *
Shadows of his lady *
April *
An old tune *
Old loves *
A lady of high degree *
Iannoula *
The milk-white doe *
Heliodore
The prophet
Lais
Clearista
The fisherman’s tomb
Of his death
Rhodope
To a girl
To the ships
A late convert
The limit of life
To Daniel Elzevir
The Last Chance
To E. M. S.
Primâ dicta mihi, summâ dicenda Camenâ.
The years will pass, and hearts will range,
You conquer Time, and Care, and Change.
Though Time doth still delight to shed
The dust on many a younger head;
Though Care, oft coming, hath the guile
From younger lips to steal the smile;
Though Change makes younger hearts wax cold,
And sells new loves for loves of old,
Time, Change, nor Care, hath learned the art
To fleck your hair, to chill your heart,
To touch your tresses with the snow,
To mar your mirth of long ago.
Change, Care, nor Time, while life endure,
Shall spoil our ancient friendship sure,
The love which flows from sacred springs,
In ‘old unhappy far-off things,’
From sympathies in grief and joy,
Through all the years of man and boy.
Therefore, to you, the rhymes I strung
When even this ‘brindled’ head was young
I bring, and later rhymes I bring
That flit upon as weak a wing,
But still for you, for yours, they sing!
Many of the verses and translations in this volume were published first in Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872). Though very sensible that they have the demerits of imitative and even of undergraduate rhyme, I print them again because people I like have liked them. The rest are of different dates, and lack (though doubtless they need) the excuse of having been written, like some of the earlier pieces, during College Lectures. I would gladly have added to this volume what other more or less serious rhymes I have written, but circumstances over which I have no control have bound them up with Ballades, and other toys of that sort.
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