A Voice from the Nile, and Other Poems
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| A Voice from the Nile, and Other Poems (1884) |
James Thomson by Bertram Dobell→ |
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A VOICE FROM THE NILE
AND OTHER POEMS.
Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
James Thomson.
A
VOICE FROM THE NILE
AND OTHER POEMS.
BY THE LATE
AUTHOR OF "THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT," "VANE'S STORY," AND
"ESSAYS AND PHANTASIES."
WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR
BY
LONDON:
REEVES AND TURNER, 196 STRAND,
1884.
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CONTENTS.
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| LAST POEMS. | |
| PAGE | |
| A Voice from the Nile | 1 |
| Richard Forest's Midsummer Night | 10 |
| Insomnia | 28 |
| He Heard her Sing | 41 |
| The Poet and his Muse | 55 |
| The Sleeper | 62 |
| Modern Penelope | 66 |
| At Belvoir | 70 |
| A Stranger | 75 |
| Law v. Gospel | 81 |
| The Old Story and the New Storey | 86 |
| Despotism tempered by Dynamite | 89 |
| EARLY POEMS. | |
| The Doom of a City | 92 |
| The Deliverer | 160 |
| A Festival of Life | 169 |
| Tasso to Leonora | 186 |
| A Happy Poet | 202 |
| Suggested by Matthew Arnold's "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" | 214 |
| By the Sea | 228 |
| Prologue to the Pilgrimage to St. Nicotine. | 233 |
| Arch Archery | 239 |
| Low Life | 243 |
| The Dreamer | 247 |
| Robert Burns | 250 |
| William Blake | 252 |
| Song | 253 |
| A Chant | 255 |
| On a Broken Pipe | 256 |
| A Proem | 257 |
| Notes | 259 |
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This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. |
