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New Poems

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Title
New Poems, and Variant Readings
Credits
Transcribed from the 1918 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Didactic poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
441
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/441
Release Date
February 1, 1996
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.New Poems AND VARIANT READINGS
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.PRAYER
  5. 5.LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ
  6. 6.THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE
  7. 7.MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS
  8. 8.I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR — I. — II. — III. — IV.
  9. 9.ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER
  10. 10.DEDICATION
  11. 11.THE OLD CHIMÆRAS, OLD RECEIPTS
  12. 12.PRELUDE
  13. 13.THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT
  14. 14.TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS
  15. 15.THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?
  16. 16.ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND
  17. 17.AFTER READING “ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA”
  18. 18.I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT
  19. 19.SPRING SONG
  20. 20.THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME
  21. 21.YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEW
  22. 22.LOVE’S VICISSITUDES
  23. 23.DUDDINGSTONE
  24. 24.STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS
  25. 25.AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC
  26. 26.TO SYDNEY
  27. 27.HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILL
  28. 28.O DULL COLD NORTHERN SKY
  29. 29.APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER
  30. 30.TO MARCUS
  31. 31.TO OTTILIE
  32. 32.THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY
  33. 33.THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES
  34. 34.A VALENTINE’S SONG
  35. 35.HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES
  36. 36.SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND FRO
  37. 37.TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE
  38. 38.TO MADAME GARSCHINE
  39. 39.MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA
  40. 40.FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS
  41. 41.LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE WILL
  42. 42.I DO NOT FEAR TO OWN ME KIN
  43. 43.I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE
  44. 44.VOLUNTARY
  45. 45.ON NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE DONE
  46. 46.IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING
  47. 47.DEATH, TO THE DEAD FOR EVERMORE
  48. 48.TO CHARLES BAXTER
  49. 49.I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH
  50. 50.LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?
  51. 51.SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH
  52. 52.AS ONE WHO HAVING WANDERED ALL NIGHT LONG
  53. 53.STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MEN
  54. 54.THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND SMART
  55. 55.MAN SAILS THE DEEP AWHILE
  56. 56.THE COCK’S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR
  57. 57.NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY YEARS
  58. 58.WHAT MAN MAY LEARN, WHAT MAN MAY DO
  59. 59.SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS GREEN
  60. 60.KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ
  61. 61.IT’S FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM
  62. 62.AN ENGLISH BREEZE
  63. 63.AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG
  64. 64.THE PIPER
  65. 65.TO MRS. MACMARLAND
  66. 66.TO MISS CORNISH
  67. 67.TALES OF ARABIA
  68. 68.BEHOLD, AS GOBLINS DARK OF MIEN
  69. 69.STILL I LOVE TO RHYME
  70. 70.LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE
  71. 71.FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING
  72. 72.COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME
  73. 73.SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE
  74. 74.ENVOY FOR “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES”
  75. 75.FOR RICHMOND’S GARDEN WALL
  76. 76.HAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER FREELY!
  77. 77.LO, NOW, MY GUEST
  78. 78.SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT FRAGILE HOUR
  79. 79.AD SE IPSUM
  80. 80.BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS COME
  81. 81.GO, LITTLE BOOK—THE ANCIENT PHRASE
  82. 82.MY LOVE WAS WARM
  83. 83.DEDICATORY POEM FOR “UNDERWOODS”
  84. 84.FAREWELL
  85. 85.THE FAR-FARERS
  86. 86.COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU
  87. 87.HOME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS
  88. 88.EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR PIANO
  89. 89.FAIR ISLE AT SEA
  90. 90.LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY
  91. 91.I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE
  92. 92.AT LAST SHE COMES
  93. 93.MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE
  94. 94.FIXED IS THE DOOM
  95. 95.MEN ARE HEAVEN’S PIERS
  96. 96.THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD
  97. 97.SPRING CAROL
  98. 98.TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER?
  99. 99.WHEN THE SUN COMES AFTER RAIN
  100. 100.LATE, O MILLER
  101. 101.TO FRIENDS AT HOME
  102. 102.I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED
  103. 103.TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE AFFLICTED
  104. 104.VARIANT FORM OF THE PRECEDING POEM
  105. 105.I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS
  106. 106.SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD
  107. 107.GOD GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN PART
  108. 108.OVER THE LAND IS APRIL
  109. 109.LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START
  110. 110.COME, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY
  111. 111.IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE
  112. 112.NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR PUDOR
  113. 113.TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE
  114. 114.THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN
  115. 115.TO ROSABELLE
  116. 116.NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S EYE
  117. 117.THE BOUR-TREE DEN
  118. 118.SONNETS — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII.
  119. 119.AIR OF DIABELLI’S
  120. 120.EPITAPHIUM EROTII
  121. 121.DE M. ANTONIO
  122. 122.AD MAGISTRUM LUDI
  123. 123.AD NEPOTEM
  124. 124.IN CHARIDEMUM
  125. 125.DE LIGURRA
  126. 126.IN LUPUM
  127. 127.AD QUINTILIANUM
  128. 128.DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS
  129. 129.AD MARTIALEM
  130. 130.IN MAXIMUM
  131. 131.AD OLUM
  132. 132.DE CŒNATIONE MICÆ
  133. 133.DE EROTIO PUELLA
  134. 134.AD PISCATOREM

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