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Issue Details: First known date: 1964... 1964 We Gods in Masquerade : Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Brisbane, Queensland,:Jacaranda Press , 1964 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
We are the Gods Prologue : 1 : Exordiumi"Our everlasting hunger for mortality", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 1)
Prologue : 2 : Nowi"This one Unending Moment Unbegun,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 1)
Prologue : 3 : Timei"In every particle, Spirit through and through,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 2)
Prologue : 4 : Desirei"Think of Your huge, huge hunger when, conceived,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 2)
Prologue : 5 : Nihilismi"As on a stockstill train it wrongly seems,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 3)
Prologue : 6 : Ontologyi"Though all at enmity theories philosophic,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 3)
Prologue : 7 : Nomogenyi"Our comprehension proves we know already", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 4)
Prologue : 8 : A Dirge for Deathi"All matter is unreal for, though material,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 4)
Prologue : 9 : Pantheismi"Our never-satisfied hunger which has made us", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 5)
Prologue : 10 : A Footnote to Materialismi"On one can separate stretched in far diffusion", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 5)
Prologue : 11 : Astronomyi"By Our desire Eternity, which is stationary,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 6)
Prologue : 12 : Inductioni"We are as old as Times Is, and Our blood", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 6)
Prologue : 13 : Names and Voicesi"Your skeleton plumped with hoarded time ingested", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 7)
Prologue : 14 : Preludei"Dead We can only rise to what We are", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 7)
It is Now Forever : Everyonei"He having died, His thirst for life surviving", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 8)
It is Now Forever : Osirisi"From dusk to dusk athwart three thousand years", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 8)
It is Now Forever : Shakespearei"His microcosmic mind as if prismatic", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 9)
It is Now Forever : Francois Villoni"His old-world choice, and Yours, can let You see him;", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 9)
It is Now Forever : Homeri"In this Day, only by Itself outgrown,", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 10)
It is Now Forever : George Du Maurieri"In death We can but dread what is not true;", E. J. Rupert Atkinson , single work poetry (p. 10)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Of Life and Love ... S. E. Lee , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , February no. 2 1965; (p. 25-27)

— Review of We Gods in Masquerade : Poems E. J. Rupert Atkinson , 1964 selected work poetry
Of Life and Love ... S. E. Lee , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , February no. 2 1965; (p. 25-27)

— Review of We Gods in Masquerade : Poems E. J. Rupert Atkinson , 1964 selected work poetry
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