ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN (1841 - 1901) |
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THE NEW ROME POEMS AND BALLADS OF OUR EMPIRE |
THE NEW ROME : POEMS AND BALLADS OF OUR EMPIRE.
BY ROBERT BUCHANAN.
LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
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I. “THE LORD GOES MARCHING ON” 35 II. “WHERE IS THE GLORY THAT ONCE WAS ROME?” 36 III. “HOW LONG, MY LOVE? SHE WHISPER’D” 38 V. “IF I WERE A GOD LIKE YOU” 39 VI. “A VOICE WAS HEARD IN THE NIGHT” 40 THE AUGURS 43 BE PITIFUL 72 GOD EVOLVING 79 “PATRIOTISM” 81 “THE UNION” 90 “HARK NOW, WHAT FRETFUL VOICES” 96 VICTORY 105 VOX POPULI 108 VOX DEI 111 OLD ROME 113 THE LAST BIVOUAC 115
THE FAIRY QUEEN 119 LAST NIGHT 124 vii THE SPHINX: ON THE THAMES EMBANKMENT 126 “THESE VOICES” 132 THE CRY FOR LIFE 134 THE LOST WOMEN 147 TO JUVENAL 150 BICYCLE SONG 155 THE SHOWER 157 SERAPHINA SNOWE 160 MAETERLINCK 169 I. STORM IN THE NIGHT, BUCHANAN! 182 II. I SAW ON THE BRIDGE OF SORROW 185 IV. ANNIE; OR, THE WAIF’S JUBILEE 201 THE TRUE SONG OF FAIRYLAND 209
JUSTINIAN; OR, THE NEW CREED 221 THE NEW BUDDHA 244 NIETSZCHE 258 THE LAST FAITH 259
LAND AND SEA SONGS: viii ON THE SHORE 270 THE MERMAID 273 THE LEAD-MELTING 280
THE GNOME 288 THE WHITE ROBE 297 CARLYLE 303 “MARK NOW, HOW CLOSE THEY ARE AKIN” 308 “ATYS” 309 DOCTOR B. 310 THE STORMY ONES 322 BURNS 333 THE SAD SHEPHERD 340 CORUISKEN SONNETS (LOCH CORUISK, ISLE OF SKYE) 345 L’ENVOI: “I END AS I BEGAN” 381 PROSE NOTE 385 _____
[Notes: The New Rome was Buchanan’s final volume of poetry, published in 1898. In the 1901 edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan, the various sections are published under their separate titles and are not grouped together as ‘The New Rome’. ‘Pan At Hampton Court’ is not included since it was originally published as part of The Earthquake (1885), and the second poem in ‘The Last Christians’ - ‘I Saw on the Bridge of Sorrow’ (renamed ‘The Ballad of the Magdalen’ in the text) is also omitted, since it appears in its earlier incarnation as ‘Mary Magdalen’ from The City of Dream (1888). A section of ‘Miscellaneous Poems’ is also inserted between ‘The Devil’s Sabbath’ and ‘I End As I Began’, and the Prose Note is omitted.]
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