ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN (1841 - 1901) |
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BALLADS OF LIFE, LOVE, AND HUMOUR |
BALLADS OF LIFE, LOVE, AND HUMOUR
BY ROBERT BUCHANAN
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY ARTHUR HUGHES
London CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1882 [All Rights reserved]
vii CLOWN. What hast here? Ballads?
ix TO HARRIETT Here at the Half-way House of Life I linger, My fear falls from me like a garment; slowly
xi PAGE DEDICATION, . . . . . . . . . . . ix DRAMATIC BALLADS AND ROMANCES— The Lights of Leith, . . . . . . . . . 3 The Wedding of Shon Maclean, . . . . . . . 20 Hans Vogel, . . . . . . . . . . 31 Fra Giacomo, . . . . . . . . . . 37 Phil Blood’s Leap, . . . . . . . . . 42 The Green Gnome, . . . . . . . . . 56 The Faëry Fostermother, . . . . . . . . 60 April Rain, . . . . . . . . . . 63 Cuckoo Song, . . . . . . . . . . 64 The Faëry Reaper, . . . . . . . . . 67 The Midian-Mara, . . . . . . . . . 76 O’Connor’s Wake, . . . . . . . . . 85 The White Deer, . . . . . . . . . 95 Convent Robbing, . . . . . . . . . 99 Highland Lament, . . . . . . . . . 104 The Minister and the Elfin, . . . . . . . . 107 The Ballad of the Wayfarer, . . . . . . . . 111 James Avery, . . . . . . . . . . 114 The Devil’s Peepshow, . . . . . . . . 121 The Asrai: Prologue to the Changeling, . . . . . . 131 The Changeling: a Legend of the Moonlight, . . . . . 134 To Clari: with the Preceding Poem, . . . . . . . 154 LYRICAL BALLADS— Euphrosyne; or, the Prospect, . . . . . . . 159 Serenades, . . . . . . . . . . 165 In the Garden, . . . . . . . . . . 168 Love and Time, . . . . . . . . . 176 Stanley Farm, . . . . . . . . . 179 Earth and the Soul, . . . . . . . . . 184 On a Young Poetess’s Grave, . . . . . . . 187 A Curl, . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Love in Winter, . . . . . . . . . 196 Will o’ the Wisp, . . . . . . . . . 203 In Springtime, . . . . . . . . . . 215 The Fisherman, . . . . . . . . . . 216 The Churchyard, . . . . . . . . . . 218 Sea-Wash, . . . . . . . . . . . 221 The Swallows, . . . . . . . . . . 223 Giant Despair, . . . . . . . . . . 226 The Mountain Well, . . . . . . . . . 232 The Song of the Shealing, . . . . . . . . 236 The Secret of the Mere, . . . . . . . . 238 Mnemosyne; or, the Retrospect, . . . . . . . 246 L’Envoi: Vanity Fair, . . . . . . . . . 250
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