Phantasmagoria
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Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well
Rest on the friendly knee, intent to ask
The tale one loves to tell.
Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!
Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy
Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguilded.
Ah, happy he who owns the tenderest joy,
The heart-love of a child!
Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!
Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days,
Albeit bright memories of the sunlit shore
Yet haunt my dreaming gaze.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) is the pseudonym of English author, mathematician, logician, and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, but he is also well known for his poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky,” which, like his novels, are examples of literary nonsense. A beloved children’s author, he is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.
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Phantasmagoria - Lewis Carroll
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria
CANTO I The Trystyng
CANTO II Hys Fyve Rules
CANTO III Scarmoges
CANTO IV Hys Nouryture
CANTO V Byckerment
CANTO VI Dyscomfyture
CANTO VII Sad Souvenaunce
ECHOES
A SEA DIRGE
HIAWATHA’S PHOTOGRAPHING
MELANCHOLETTA
A VALENTINE
THE THREE VOICES
TÈMA CON VARIAZIÒNI
A GAME OF FIVES
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR
SIZE AND TEARS
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN
THE LANG COORTIN’
FOUR RIDDLES
FAME’S PENNY-TRUMPET
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Phantasmagoria
Lewis Carroll
CANTO I The Trystyng
One winter night, at half-past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine,
And supper, with cigars and wine,
Was waiting in the study.
There was a strangeness in the room,
And Something white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom—
I took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.
But presently the Thing began
To shiver and to sneeze:
On which I said "Come, come, my man!
That’s a most inconsiderate plan.
Less noise there, if you please!"
I’ve caught a cold,
the Thing replies,
Out there upon the landing.
I turned to look in some surprise,
And there, before my very eyes,
A little Ghost was standing!
He trembled when he caught my eye,
And got behind a chair.
How came you here,
I said, "and why?
I never saw a thing so shy.
Come out! Don’t shiver there!"
He said "I’d gladly tell you how,
And also tell you why;
But" (here he gave a little bow)
"You’re in so bad a temper now,
You’d think it all a lie.
"And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark."
No plea,
said I, "can well excuse
Such cowardice in you:
For Ghosts can visit when they choose,
Whereas we Humans ca’n’t refuse
To grant the interview."
He said "A flutter of alarm
Is not unnatural, is it?
I really feared you meant some harm:
But, now I see that you are calm,
Let me explain my visit.
"Houses are classed, I beg to state,
According to the number
Of Ghosts that they accommodate:
(The Tenant merely counts as weight ,
With Coals and other lumber).
"This is a ‘one-ghost’ house, and you
When you arrived last summer,
May have remarked a Spectre who
Was doing all that Ghosts can do
To welcome the new-comer.
"In Villas this is always done—
However cheaply rented:
For, though of course there’s less of fun
When there is only room for one,
Ghosts have to be contented.
"That Spectre left you on the Third—
Since then you’ve not been haunted:
For, as he never sent us word,
’Twas quite by accident we heard
That any one was wanted.
"A Spectre has first choice, by right,
In filling up a vacancy;
Then Phantom, Goblin, Elf, and Sprite—
If all these fail them, they invite
The nicest Ghoul that they can see.
"The Spectres said the place was low,
And that you kept bad wine:
So, as a Phantom had to go,
And I was first, of course, you know,
I couldn’t well decline."
No doubt,
said I, "they settled who
Was fittest to be sent
Yet still to choose a brat like you,
To haunt a man of forty-two,
Was no great compliment!"
I’m not so young, Sir,
he replied,
"As you might think. The fact is,
In caverns by the water-side,
And other places that I’ve tried,
I’ve had a lot of practice:
"But I have never taken yet
A strict domestic part,
And in my flurry I forget
The Five Good Rules of Etiquette
We have to know by heart."
My sympathies were warming fast
Towards the little fellow:
He was so utterly aghast
At having found a Man at last,
And looked so scared and yellow.