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Title: The Pier-Glass

Author: Robert Graves

Release Date: December 31, 2014 [eBook #47824]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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THE PIER-GLASS

ROBERT GRAVES

(From a Painting by Benjamin Nicholson).

THE LONDON AND NORWICH PRESS, LIMITED, LONDON AND NORWICH, ENGLAND

TO

NANCY NICHOLSON

NOTE

Most of the pieces here included have appeared serially in The London Mercury, The Athenæum, The Spectator, The Nation, The New Statesman, To-day, The Century Magazine and other periodicals, English and American.

Robert Graves.

Boar's Hill,
Oxford.

CONTENTS

• The Stake, 11
• The Troll's Nosegay, 12
• The Pier-glass, 13
• The Finding of Love, 15
• Reproach, 17
• The Magical Picture, 18
• Distant Smoke, 21
• Morning Phœnix, 23
• Catherine Drury, 24
• Raising the Stone, 25
• The Treasure Box, 26
• The Kiss, 28
• Lost Love, 29
• Fox's Dingle, 30
• The Gnat, 31
• The Patchwork Bonnet, 34
• Kit Logan and Lady Helen, 35
• Down, 36
• Saul of Tarsus, 38
• Storm: at the Farm Window, 39
• Black Horse Lane, 40
• Return, 42
• Incubus, 44
• The Hills of May, 45
• The Coronation Murder, 49

THE STAKE