POEMS
VOL. I

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CHILLIANWALLAH,

Chillianwallah, Chillianwallah!

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THE DOE: A FRAGMENT,

And—‘Yonder look! yoho! yoho!

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BEAUTY ROHTRAUT,

What is the name of King Ringang’s daughter?

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THE OLIVE BRANCH,

A dove flew with an Olive Branch;

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SONG,

Love within the lover’s breast

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THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP,

The Snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers;

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THE DEATH OF WINTER,

When April with her wild blue eye

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SONG,

The moon is alone in the sky

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JOHN LACKLAND,

A wicked man is bad enough on earth;

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THE SLEEPING CITY,

A Princess in the eastern tale

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THE POETRY OF CHAUCER,

Grey with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy

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THE POETRY OF SPENSER,

Lakes where the sunsheen is mystic with splendour and softness;

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THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE,

Picture some Isle smiling green ’mid the white-foaming ocean;—

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THE POETRY OF MILTON,

Like to some deep-chested organ whose grand inspiration,

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THE POETRY OF SOUTHEY,

Keen as an eagle whose flight towards the dim empyréan

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THE POETRY OF COLERIDGE,

A brook glancing under green leaves, self-delighting, exulting,

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THE POETRY OF SHELLEY,

See’st thou a Skylark whose glistening winglets ascending

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THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH,

A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic,

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THE POETRY OF KEATS,

The song of a nightingale sent thro’ a slumbrous valley,

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VIOLETS,

Violets, shy violets!

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ANGELIC LOVE,

Angelic love that stoops with