The Happier Eden

By Elliott Troop

A collection of poems by the young poet Elliott Troop, touching on various themes from love and youthful innocence to the rampant development of a materialistic culture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477242353

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© 2012 by Elliott Troop. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse  10/24/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-4234-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-4235-3 (e)

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Contents

Part One—A Game of Two Halves

•   And On My Deathbed

•   The Sirens

•   She Dwells Amongst Shadows In A Maze

•   The Temptation of Roses Part One

•   Lovers At The Beach

•   Grave Digging

•   What Will Become Of You and I, My Love?

•   Never Love Longer Than The Day

•   Cronus

•   She Remembers Only Roses

•   Yesterday

•   The Deep Sea

•   Seasons

•   Oh, Time, where are you now?

•   Cloud Sitting

•   Tomorrow

•   The Temptation Of Roses Part Two

Part Two—An End

•   The Rocks

•   Eve’s Law

•   Dreamless Islands

•   A Young Boy Tells Of His Dreams

•   Sunny Days Of July

•   Photographs

•   A Small Boy Sees Death

•   A Young Boy Witnesses a Thunderstorm

•   Space Age

•   Mount Olympus

•   Maybe

•   Luck

•   Fish Hook

•   Age

•   Let Chaos be Restored

•   Nowhere to Run

Part Three—The Adventures of an Hapless Adam and Hollow Eve

•   Shall I Climb These Stairs

•   Hades

•   Profit and Loss

•   White Woods

•   And Like Nature We Are Helpless

•   St. Nazaire Cathedral, Beziers

•   The Ballad of a Lost Boy

•   Women Of Hunger, Men Of Clay

•   Land Of No Direction

•   The Man That Forgot His Name

•   Number 30 Bus

•   The Happier Eden

•   A Game of Chance

•   Sunsets

•   A Broken Compass

•   Consequences

Part One

A Game of Two Halves

And On My Deathbed

And on my deathbed where I am certain to lay

I hope to say I have not lived the lie

To have tried the fruits of joy and despair

Tasting both with relish as though