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    England and Yesterday: A Book of Short Poems
    England and Yesterday: A Book of Short Poems
    England and Yesterday: A Book of Short Poems
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    England and Yesterday: A Book of Short Poems

    By Louise Imogen Guiney

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    LONDON: SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889.
    On First Entering Westminster Abbey
    Fog
    Saint Peter-ad-Vincula
    Strikers in Hyde Park
    Changes in the Temple
    The Lights of London
    Doves
    In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
    Sunday Chimes in the City
    A Porch in Belgravia
    York Stairs
    In the Docks

    OXFORD: SONNETS WRITTEN THERE BETWEEN 1890 AND 1895.
    The Tow-Path
    The Old Dial of Corpus
    Ad Antiquarium
    Rooks in New College Gardens
    On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford
    On the Same (continued)
    A December Walk
    Undertones at Magdalen
    Port Meadow
    Martyrs' Memorial
    A Last View
    Retrieval

    LYRICS.
    A Ballad of Kenelm
    Two Irish Peasant Songs
    In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm
    To a Child
    In a Perpendicular Church
    A Seventeenth-Century Song
    Columba and the Stork
    The Chantry
    April in Govilon
    On Leaving Winchester
    On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George's Chapel
    Of Joan's Youth
    Passing the Minster
    The Yew-Tree
    Shropshire Landscape
    The Graham Tartan to a Graham
    In a London Street
    Athassel Abbey
    Romans in Dorset

    LINES ON VARIOUS FLY-LEAVES.
    To Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
    [vii]For Izaak Walton
    A Footnote to a Famous Lyric
    A Memory of a Breconshire Valley
    Writ in my Lord Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion"
    A Last Word on Shelley
    An Epitaph for William Hazlitt
    Emily Brontë
    Pax Paganica
    Valediction: R. L. S., 1894
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9783736415645
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      England and Yesterday - Louise Imogen Guiney

      OXFORD: SONNETS WRITTEN THERE IN 1890 AND 1895. TO LIONEL JOHNSON.

      A BALLAD OF KENELM.

      TWO IRISH PEASANT SONGS.

      I. IN LEINSTER.

      II. IN ULSTER.

      IN A RUIN, AFTER A THUNDERSTORM.

      TO A CHILD.

      IN A PERPENDICULAR CHURCH.

      A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SONG.

      COLUMBA AND THE STORK.

      THE CHANTRY.

      APRIL IN GOVILON.

      ON LEAVING WINCHESTER.

      ON THE CENOTAPH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL IN SAINT GEORGE’S CHAPEL.

      OF JOAN’S YOUTH.

      PASSING THE MINSTER.

      THE YEW-TREE.

      SHROPSHIRE LANDSCAPE.

      THE GRAHAM TARTAN TO A GRAHAM.

      IN A LONDON STREET.

      ATHASSEL ABBEY.

      ROMANS IN DORSET. (TO A. B.)

      LINES ON VARIOUS FLY-LEAVES. TO GWENLLIAN E. F. MORGAN.

      TO HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.

      FOR IZAAK WALTON.

      A FOOT-NOTE TO A FAMOUS LYRIC.

      A MEMORY OF A BRECONSHIRE VALLEY.

      I.

      II.

      WRIT IN MY LORD CLARENDON’S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION.

      A LAST WORD ON SHELLEY.

      AN EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM HAZLITT.

      EMILY BRONTË.

      PAX PAGANICA.

      VALEDICTION (R. L. S., 1894).

      ENGLAND AND YESTERDAY

      England and Yesterday

      A BOOK OF SHORT POEMS

      BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY

      I. ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

      Holy of England! since my light is short

      And faint, O rather by the sun anew

      Of timeless passion set my dial true,

      That with thy saints and thee I may consort;

      And wafted in the cool enshadowed port

      Of poets, seem a little sail long due,

      And be as one the call of memory drew

      Unto the saddle void since Agincourt!

      Not now for secular love’s unquiet lease,

      Receive my soul, who, rapt in thee erewhile,

      Hath broken tryst with transitory things;

      But seal with her a marriage and a peace

      Eternal, on thine Edward’s altar-isle,

      Above the stormless sea of ended kings.

      II. FOG.

      Like bodiless water passing in a sigh,

      Through palsied streets the fatal shadows flow,

      And in their sharp disastrous undertow

      Suck in the morning sun, and all the sky.

      The towery vista sinks upon the eye,

      As if it heard the horns of Jericho,

      Black and dissolved; nor

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