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LEGENDS AND LYRICS


A BOOK OF VERSES.


BY ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.


FIRST SERIES.



LONDON :
GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1890.

_______________

 

DEDICATED

TO

MATILDA M. HAYS.

        "Our tokens of love are for the most part barbarous.  Cold and lifeless, because they do not represent our life.  The only gift is a portion of thyself.  Therefore let the farmer give his corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; and the poet, his poems."—Emerson's Essays.

A.A.P.

May, 1858.

 

CONTENTS.

 

PAGE

DEDICATION

 

The Angel's Story

1.

Echoes

5.

A False Genius

5.

My Picture

6.

Judge Not

7.

Friend Sorrow

8.

One by One

8.

True Honours

9.

A Woman's Question

14.

The Three Rulers

15.

A Dead Past

15.

A Doubting Heart

16.

A Student

17.

A Knight Errant

18.

Linger, oh, Gentle Time

21.

Homeward Bound

21.

Life and Death

27.

Now

28.

Cleansing Fires

28.

The Voice of the Wind

31.

Treasures

32.

Shining Stars

33.

Waiting

34.

The Cradle Song of the Poor

35.

Be Strong

36.

God's Gifts

36.

A Tomb in Ghent

37.

The Angel of Death

43.

A Dream

44.

The Present

45.

Changes

45.

Strive, Wait, and Pray

46.

A Lament for the Summer

46.

The Unknown Grave

47.

Give me thy Heart

48.

The Wayside Inn

49.

Voices of the Past

55.

The dark Side

55.

A First Sorrow

56.

Murmurs

57.

Give

58.

My Journal

59.

A Chain

60.

The Pilgrims

61.

Incompleteness

62.

A Legend of Bregenz

63.

A Farewell

68.

Sowing and Reaping

71.

The Strom

71.

Words

72.

A Love Token

73.

A Tryst with Death

73.

Fidelis

74.

A Shadow

75.

The Sailor Boy

75.

A Crown of Sorrow

83.

The Lesson of the War

83.

The two Spirits

84.

A Little Longer

87.

Grief

88.

The Triumph of Time

90.

A Parting

91.

The Golden Gate

92.

Phantoms

92.

Thankfulness

93.

Home-Sickness

94.

Wishes

95.

The Peace of God

96.

Life in Death and Death in Life

96.

Recollections

98.

Illusion

100.

A Vision

100.

Pictures in the Fire

104.

The Settlers

107.

Hush!

108.

Hours

108.

The Two Interpreters

112.

Comfort

113.

Home at Last

114.

Unexpressed

114.

Because

115.

Rest at Evening

116.

A Retrospect

117.

True or False

118.

Golden Words

119.

Some of the Poems have appeared in "Household Words," and are here republished with corrections.

 



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