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    English Poems
    English Poems
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    English Poems

    By Richard le Gallienne

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    "English Poems" by Richard Le Gallienne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 12, 2019
    ISBN4064066213206

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      English Poems - Richard le Gallienne

      Richard Le Gallienne

      English Poems

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066213206

      Table of Contents

      ENGLISH POEMS

      PAOLO AND FRANCESCA

      YOUNG LOVE

      COR CORDIUM

      PARABLES

      MISCELLANEOUS

      OF POETS AND POETRY

      INSCRIPTIONS

      I. PAOLO AND FRANCESCA,

      II. YOUNG LOVE—

      i. Preludes,

      ii. Prelude—'I make this rhyme,'

      iii. 'But, Song, arise thee on a greater wing,'

      iv. Once,

      v. The Two Daffodils,

      vi. 'Why did she marry him?'

      vii. The Lamp and the Star,

      viii. Orbits,

      ix. Never—Ever,

      x. Love's Poor,

      xi. Comfort of Dante,

      xii. A Lost Hour,

      xiii. Met once more,

      xiv. A June Lily,

      xv. Regret

      xvi. Love Afar

      xvii. Canst thou be true across so many miles?

      Postscript

      III. COR CORDIUM—

      To my Wife, Mildred

      The Destined Maid: a Prayer

      With some old Love Verses

      In a copy of Mr. Swinburne's Tristram

      Comfort at Parting

      Happy Letter

      Primrose and Violet

      'Juliet and her Romeo,'

      In her Diary

      Two Parables

      A Love Letter

      In the Night

      The Constant Lover

      The Wonder-Child

      IV. MISCELLANEOUS—

      The House of Venus

      Satiety

      What of the Darkness?

      Ad Cimmerios

      Old Love Letters

      Death in a London Lodging

      Time Flies

      So soon Tired

      Autumn

      A Frost Fancy

      The World is Wide

      Saint Charles!

      Good-Night

      Beatrice

      A Child's Evensong

      An Epitaph on a Goldfish

      Beauty Accurst

      To a Dead Friend

      Sunset in the City

      The City in Moonlight

      V. OF POETS AND POETRY—

      Inscriptions

      The Décadent to his Soul

      To a Poet

      The Passionate Reader to his Poet

      Matthew Arnold

      'Tennyson' at the Farm

      'The Desk's Dry Wood,'

      A Library in a Garden

      On the Morals of Poets

      Faery Gold

      All Sung

      Corydon's Farewell to his Pipe

      ENGLISH POEMS

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      TO THE READER

      Art was a palace once, things great and fair,

      And strong and holy, found a temple there:

      Now 'tis a lazar-house of leprous men.

      O shall me hear an English song again!

      Still English larks mount in the merry morn,

      An English May still brings an English thorn,

      Still English daisies up and down the grass,

      Still English love for English lad and lass—

      Yet youngsters blush to sing an English song!

      Thou nightingale that for six hundred years

      Sang to the world—O art thou husht at last!

      For, not of thee this new voice in our ears,

      Music of France that once was of the spheres;

      And not of thee these strange green flowers that spring

      From daisy roots and seemed to bear a sting.

      Thou Helicon of numbers 'undefiled,'

      Forgive that 'neath the shadow of thy name,

      England, I bring a song of little fame;

      Not as one worthy but as loving thee,

      Not as a singer, only as a child.

      PAOLO AND FRANCESCA

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      To R.K. Leather

      (July 16th, 1892.)

      PAOLO AND FRANCESCA

      It happened in that great Italian land

      Where every bosom heateth with a star—

      At Rimini, anigh that crumbling strand

      The Adriatic filcheth near and far—

      In that same past where Dante's dream-days are,

      That one Francesca gave her youthful gold

      Unto an aged carle to bolt and bar;

      Though all the love which great young hearts can hold,

      How could she give that love unto a miser old?

      Nay! but young Paolo was the happy lad,

      A youth of dreaming eye yet dauntless foot,

      Who all Francesca's wealth of loving had;

      One brave to scale a wall and steal the fruit,

      Nor fear because some dotard owned the root;

      Yea! one who wore his love like sword on thigh

      And kept not all his valour for his lute;

      One who could dare as well as sing and sigh.

      Ah! then were hearts to love, but they are long gone by.

      Ye lily-wives so happy in the nest,

      Whose joy within the gates of duty springs,

      Blame not Love's poor, who, if they would be blest,

      Must steal what comes to you with marriage rings:

      Ye pity the poor lark whose scarce-tried wings

      Faint in the net, while still the morning

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