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Notes
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Epigraphs: 'But we have this treasure in Earthern Vessels.'
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'It is a cause for laughter, But saddening withal, That though our hearts be loving, Our heads are sceptical.' - Heine.
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Poems are untitled, but numbered: number of sonnets in the sequence varies between publications.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Specialty Press
, 1913 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Untitledi"Youth's vigour, throbbing till these pulses sing,", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Untitledi"I bring to mind the time when she was starred", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Untitledi"Old poets and new were dear to many a nook", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Untitledi"Or, at my feet as if she were a child,", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Untitledi"So if I have - when she her candid eyes", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Untitledi"See here who will the body of a ghost", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Untitledi"Let lovely things be emblems of all love.", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Untitledi"Dawny-snow cheeks, and lips like precious wine", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Untitledi"Such thoughts can conscience gender of its pride,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Untitledi"'Ah, love, my love! be holy to me still;", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Untitledi"Steeled to the purpose, though with some demur -", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Untitledi"Though power exultant in me is a god", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Untitledi"O! I have left her weeping, and the fiend,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Untitledi"Should it be said, 'She was but this to him,", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Untitledi"All good tales to innocuous nuptials wend,", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Untitledi"Hate of the harlot city drives me far", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Untitledi"Faint from cold vigil wanes the morning moon", single work poetry (p. 25)
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Absolutioni"As one, hid in a cloister's columned shade,",
single work
poetry
(p. 26)
Note: Untitled. Appears as poem '18'.
- Untitledi"Glib months glide over like the cloudling drift", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Untitledi"Almost I knew the arrowy light that leaps", single work poetry (p. 28)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Three Spring Poets
1913
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 October vol. 34 no. 1758 1913; (p. 2)
— Review of Earthen Vessels : A Theme in Sonnets. 1913 selected work sequence poetry -
Untitled
1913
single work
— Appears in: The Bookfellow , 15 November 1913;
— Review of Earthen Vessels : A Theme in Sonnets. 1913 selected work sequence poetry
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Untitled
1913
single work
— Appears in: The Bookfellow , 15 November 1913;
— Review of Earthen Vessels : A Theme in Sonnets. 1913 selected work sequence poetry -
Three Spring Poets
1913
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 October vol. 34 no. 1758 1913; (p. 2)
— Review of Earthen Vessels : A Theme in Sonnets. 1913 selected work sequence poetry
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