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    The Rose-Jar
    The Rose-Jar
    The Rose-Jar
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    The Rose-Jar

    By Thomas S. Jones

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Rose-Jar" by Thomas S. Jones. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateAug 1, 2022
    ISBN8596547141273
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      The Rose-Jar - Thomas S. Jones

      Thomas S. Jones

      The Rose-Jar

      EAN 8596547141273

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      As in a Rose-Jar

      The Island

      You and I

      A Ballade of Old Romance

      A Voice From the Far Away

      April

      A Yesterday

      Violets

      A Song of Life

      As a Still Brook

      At the Window

      A Sea Spell

      The Silent Country

      The Sport of a God

      Remembrance

      In Days of Old

      We Once Built a House o’ Dreams

      A Song of the Way

      In Trinity Church-Yard at Sunset

      Where Cross-Roads Part

      Saida

      In Arcady

      The Summer Rain

      Impression

      Derelicts

      The End of the Day

      Tristesse

      Interlude

      To You, Dear Heart

      Twilight

      The Poet

      The Hunchback

      The Little Ghosts

      I Know a Quiet Vale

      Song

      Immutability

      In the Fall o’ Year

      Love’s Song

      The Golden Hour

      The Dream-Way

      The Spirit of Autumn

      On The Long Road

      A Postlude

      An Old Song

      Old Roses

      As in a Rose-Jar

      Table of Contents

      As in a rose-jar filled with petals sweet

      Blown long ago in some old garden place,

      Mayhap, where you and I, a little space,

      Drank deep of love and knew that love was fleet—

      Or leaves once gathered from a lost retreat

      By one who never will again retrace

      Her silent footsteps—one, whose gentle face

      Was fairer than the roses at

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