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And all the motley play of lives - Richard Le Gallienne "Ad Cimmerios"

That win their colour from the day - Richard Le Gallienne "Ad Cimmerios"

Fame blows his silver trumpet o'er thy sleep - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

So pure the fire God gave this clay to keep - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

Faithful servant of his golden tongue - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

Holds the hoarded lights of earth and sky - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

The mouth still full of sleeping song - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

So vast the theme on which his song was fed - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

Screens from the world a corner choice and small - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

Little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

Do you dream to be mistaken great - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

The surging wake of full-sailed summer - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"

Throats of music filled with sand - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"

Great flower that opens but at night - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

Great City of the Midnight Sun - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

Whose day begins when day is done - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

The iron lilies of the Strand - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

A world of weeping trodden things - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

Since Time hath gathered Babylon, and withered Rome - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

And no man sails to Babylon - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

The eternal night, and Circe Paris - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

No charm to stay Time's unrelenting arm - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

Time and his moths shall eat up all - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

Lonely sobbing from the thorn - Richard Le Gallienne "Beatrice"

Unmindful of his debt - Richard Le Gallienne "Beauty Accurst"

On the straight lists of broken-hearted dead - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Black narrow lists no tears can wash away - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

In the old woods leave the mistletoe - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Who ran to a wild death with laughing feet - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Undazzled with its glorious infamy - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Love whose blood is thinned with tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Come, My Celia"

Dipped in Stygian waves of pain - Richard Le Gallienne "Come, My Celia"

Time may hurl his deadliest darts - Richard Le Gallienne "Come, My Celia"

To climb forbidden walls - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Follow where his Juliet calls - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Starry souls untainted of the clay - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Its dear perilous honey - Richard Le Gallienne "Corydon's Farewell to His Pipe"

A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

We have learned the lesson of Time - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

Is given over to the cruel sons of Cain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

The hand that would break us is strong - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

The octave 'twixt the dream and deed - Richard Le Gallienne "The Decadent to His Soul"

As bitters over dulcet sins - Richard Le Gallienne "The Decadent to His Soul"

And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"

No transitory wrong or wrath - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"

Gazing forever in immortal eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"

Our Lady of the fire - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"

A toad eternally prisoned in stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"

Beyond all glass's mirroring - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"

The gold of his burning dreams - Richard Le Gallienne "Faery Gold (To Mrs. Percy Dearmer)"

Three golden tulips spouting flame - Richard Le Gallienne "Faery Gold (To Mrs. Percy Dearmer)"

Hid the deadly hunger in my eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "Home ..."

A little cosy feast to crown the day - Richard Le Gallienne "Home ..."

Its empty rooms still haunt me - Richard Le Gallienne "Home ..."

A lovely laughter worse to bear - Richard Le Gallienne "Home ..."

Beats on with foolish and elastic beat - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"

This dreadful trial of my love - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"

This silence and this blank that makes me mad - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"

Nor fled to low nepenthes for your pain - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"

To live as though still guarded by her eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"

Walked on together undivided - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"

Now a thousand flaming years must pass - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"

The whole dark butchery without a soul - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"

This bright drink of heady music, sweet as hell - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"

A queen that in a garden of glory walks - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"

The mirror of her moments - Richard Le Gallienne "In Her Diary"

Within the hollow arch of night - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"

Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"

Such a whisper as hidden in a shell - Richard Le Gallienne "A Love-Letter"

The profit must be always mine - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Exchange"

And gorge his fill on mead and winding country lane - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Landmarks"

Sometimes my idle heart would roam - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"

Sometimes my idle heart would fly - Richard Le Gallienne "Love's Wisdom"

Rather grind me down into the dust - Richard Le Gallienne "Mammon"

The dark muttering of the forest maze - Richard Le Gallienne "Matthew Arnold (Died, April 15, 1888)"

All day at her secret looms - Richard Le Gallienne "May Is Building Her House"

The thresholds of the four winds - Richard Le Gallienne "May Is Building Her House"

Became no tricksters of the petty aim - Richard Le Gallienne "My Maiden Vote"

Expert in all those turns and tricks - Richard Le Gallienne "My Maiden Vote"

But took the mighty problem whole - Richard Le Gallienne "My Maiden Vote"

Unselfish laws for selfish men - Richard Le Gallienne "My Maiden Vote"

Tips down the gloomy grid of time - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

And not a year that's taken flight - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

At Time's eternal passion play - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

All you bought with that spent year - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

Could not buy another half so precious toy - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

Wine upon its threshold stone - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

And horse-shoes on the lintel - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

Within the World-Tree's mighty arms - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

A spell that charms eternal safety from the storm - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

In minstrel galleries of the long deep wood - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"

Epiphanies of bloom and bud - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"

This sweet boundless overarching waste - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"

From its deeps draw out the hidden flower - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"

Ours still to read in life's enchanted scroll - Richard Le Gallienne "Omar Khayyam"

We too turn the glass and take our way - Richard Le Gallienne "Omar Khayyam"

Yet not one penny wiser we than you - Richard Le Gallienne "Omar Khayyam"

All too fast asleep in Death's intoxication - Richard Le Gallienne "Omar Khayyam"

To know the solemn revels that we keep - Richard Le Gallienne "Omar Khayyam"

From our own lives to pluck one golden hour - Richard Le Gallienne "Omar Khayyam"

Those great fames that we have yes to build - Richard Le Gallienne "Omar Khayyam"

Fragments and fractions of the old divine - Richard Le Gallienne "On Mr. Gladstone's Retirement"

Alchemic tongue that turned poor themes - Richard Le Gallienne "On Mr. Gladstone's Retirement"

Where Dante's dream-days are - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

Joy within the gates of duty - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

Though the sun calls and gentle zephyrs plead - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

Sweet saint of sin - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

From a thousand trees vague hints of the Hesperides - Richard Le Gallienne "Paris Day by Day: a Familiar Epistle"

With dreamy hints of speech between - Richard Le Gallienne "Paris Day by Day: a Familiar Epistle"

And talks like music set on fire - Richard Le Gallienne "Paris Day by Day: a Familiar Epistle"

Slips by glittering and glancing to the eye - Richard Le Gallienne "Paris Day by Day: a Familiar Epistle"

Who once of old guarded with song the trees of gold - Richard Le Gallienne "Paris Day by Day: a Familiar Epistle"

Black and mighty shapes of iron and stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

A thing made all of rattling bone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

With leaping fire and boiling roar of rain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

The rainbow bridge eternal that is Hope - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

No phantom born of desperate dreams - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Still shall the blackest hell look up and see - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Maddened winds and waters, reefs unknown - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Beseech and win no answering word - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Mocking echoes of our lonely pain - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

No kind voice make answer to our cry - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Give to our aching hearts some little trust - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

How gladly would we spread impatient sail - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Who set the whole wide world in flames - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Who sang their passion to the skies - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Make live those golden looks in golden books - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Memories that guard like sacred gold - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

As builds in stars and flowers the Eternal mind - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Nature's own mighty and mysterious art - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

To pack the whole within the part - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

The cosmic rhythm in microcosmic things - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

The motley that his sorrow wore - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles"

And watch with dilettante eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles

She loved the Autumn, I the Spring - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"

Strangely set some great inherited regret - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"

Rising stars shone strange and cold - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"

Is there an end of mortal tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"

Eyes that look of lonely hills and skies - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"

A monstrous wheel is turning - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

With glowing spokes of red - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

The lamps of sin are flaring - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

And still time's horses gallop - Richard Le Gallienne "Time Flies"

Death is his web, and Love his lure - Richard Le Gallienne "Time's Monotone"

Climb the mountainous knees of Eternity - Richard Le Gallienne "Time's Monotone"

A daisied counterpane weave - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Dead Friend"

Towards the steep Parnassian way - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Poet"

A dream-fed band that scorn the vales below - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Poet"

Till in rosy fire the White Apollo came - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Poet"

On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"

Lifted high on our victorious shields - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"

Fled me like a hunted fawn - Richard Le Gallienne "To My Wife, Mildred"

Moon of the wild wild honey - Richard Le Gallienne "To My Wife, Mildred"

Vast and mysterious brother - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

May poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Shielding so soft a heart - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Through the sleeping dryad dreams - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

When the moon bends low - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Dreams again until the rising moon - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

For a brief enchanted space - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Haunted palace of the bat and owl - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Lost murdered spirits of the world - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Mournful, rattling bones and chains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Harp fingered of winds and rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

With zodiac-spangled zone - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

The mandrake root that fattens in the gloom - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Larks and sunlit dreams - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Owl and gibbering ghost - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

A sponge of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Great hands open towards the west - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

To catch the sweetheart wind - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

That brings the sister rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

As men may poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Weary with million miles, the sore-spent star-beams come - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

And moths and bats hold witches' sabbath - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Dread haunted palace of the bat and owl - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Poor Rizpah comes to reap each newly-fallen bone - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

From maiden morn to haunted night - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

A catacomb of dark, a maze of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

To clasp this earth with feeding roots - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Fill full with sap and buds this shrunken life - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

The sweetheart winds that bring the sister rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Gleaming spears of great Apollo's host - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"

A bough of song above a sea of sleep - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"

Pluck from the tree of the years - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 2"

While gnats keep up a dizzy reel - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love II"

His fairy threshing-wheel - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love II"

The hidden tongue of an ambiguous song - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love IV: Once"

A little space of fiery wedding - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love V: The Day of the Two Daffodils"

Through purple mists of riddled speech - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love V: The Day of the Two Daffodils"

An hour for our tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XII: A Lost Hour"

Feast richly on a little bread - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XIII: Met Once More"

An ivory cup of years - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XIV: A June Lily"

In the land of forbidden sweet - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"

The wand of old smiles - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"


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